Literackie ślady w socjologii (pomiędzy Królową Śniegu a Don Kichotem)
Literary Traces in Sociology (between The Snow Queen and Don Quijote)

Summary/Abstract: The author puts forward the thesis that belles lettres is one of the potential sources of knowledge about the social world which are still underappreciated by sociologists. Literature furnishes at least inspiration for the description of social phenomena. In a special way it engages the problems associated with the use of metaphors drawn directly from literary works to represent sociologically recognizable regularities. In this case the means of problematization could be associated with a literary figure (the Snow Queen, Don Quijote), metaphor (the world as a theatre) or when the title of a research work may constitute a direct reference to literature (“Wrestling against the world”, “A tournament of humpbacks”). In all of these cases a literary image becomes a starting point, a germ of a sociological analysis or its illustration, and thus a means of familiarizing oneself with the social world.

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