Problematyczność koncepcji działań pozornych Jana Lutyńskiego – na przykładzie badania organizacji studenckich Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
The problems associated with the application of Jan Lutynski’s concept of apparent actions in the research of student organizations at the University

Summary/Abstract: The following article presents the results of research into student organizations at the University of Lodz. The primary focus of the study was the occurrence of apparent actions inside these organizations. The first phase of the research (Critical Discourse Analysis of the organizations’ websites) enabled the authors to identify the organizations in which the apparent actions occured. Since one of the elements of Jan Lutynski’s definition of apparent actions is that the social actors are aware of the fact that their actions do not realize the assumed goals of an organization, the second phase of the research consisted of interviews carried out with the activists within the organizations. These interviews showed that the activists were not aware of not realizing the assumed goals of their organizations. Moreover, they were making an effort to rationalize and justify their actions. The results of the research induce authors to call the aforementioned element of Jan Lutynski’s definition of apparent actions into question. In conclusion, the authors discuss whether Jan Lutynski’s definition is still valid in a democratic society in the age of late modernity.

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