Podłączeni pod społeczeństwo mody: udomawianie telewizora a kształtowanie się mody w Polsce Ludowej. Analiza materiałów z badań nad stylami życia Andrzeja Sicińskiego (1978-82)
Wired to Fashion Society: The Domestication of Television Set and the Emergence of Fashion in People’s Poland. Analysis of the Research Materials on Ways of Life (1978-82)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to answer the question how domestication of television set has influenced the emergence of fashion regulating social practices in People’s Poland. The qualitative secondary data on ways of life have been analysed. The materials were gathered by Andrzej Siciński and his team in the years 1978-82 in four cities. It occurs that television set was the channel through which the patterns of fashion were transmitted. The families were wired to the fashion society, because the television set was on constantly nevertheless it was watched or not. The TV was watched by communities not by individuals: if the content was watched with awareness, it was discussed and negotiated within families and friends. Due to the domestication of the television set, watching TV has become the dominant social practice in the home. This domination was resisted by customary norm according to which the home is the place of the housework and the habits of women.

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