Krąg społeczny: od klasycznej metafory do współczesnych ujęć analitycznych
A Social Circle: from a Classical Metaphor to Contemporary Analytical Approaches

Summary/Abstract: The paper undertakes the problem of a social circle notion “wandering”. The mainobjective is the description of this process and the extraction of its key fields. My mainargument is that as many of terms are borrowed from everyday language, its vaguenessmakes a social circle a notion differently interpreted in structural and interactionist perspectives,which constitute two main ways of its transfer. The analysis presents three transfers:from everyday life to cultural sciences theoretical framework; from low-operationalisednotion to an acute one from perspective of different sociological paradigms; from a metaphorof collectivity to an element of network theory.

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