The individual in the system of (real) capitalism: corpus analysis of the social imaginary of the relation between individuals and the social system Cover Image

Jednostka w systemie (realnego) kapitalizmu: analiza korpusowa społecznych wyobrażeń o relacji łączącej jednostki i system społeczny
The individual in the system of (real) capitalism: corpus analysis of the social imaginary of the relation between individuals and the social system

Author(s): Agnieszka Karlińska, Maja Sawicka
Subject(s): Politics, Social Sciences, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Civil Society, Sociology, Political behavior, Political psychology, Politics and society, Social Informatics, Sociology of Culture, Social Norms / Social Control, Sociology of Politics, Politics and Identity, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Wydział Socjologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: social system; social consciousness; systemic transformation; collocations; corpus linguistics

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to identify and reconstruct social imaginary connected with the category of „social system”, and to answer the question how, thirty years after the systemic transformation in Poland, the relation between the individual and the system is conceptualized. The analysis stems from the research into psycho-social consequences of the transformation. However, it is innovative since it employs the methods and tools ofcorpus linguistics. The corpus encompasses the content of 12 focus group interviews (FGI) and of 29 in-depth interviews (IDI) carried out in different Polish cities duringthe project „Values in the times of (global) crisis” financed by National Science Centre(NCN grant no. 2016/21//B/HS6/03199). The results indicate the tendency to locate the individual in an antagonistic opposition towards the social system. A feeling that individuals’ claims towards the system are unsatisfied, and a sense that system blocks and limits individual opportunities, are manifestations of this antagonism.

  • Issue Year: 11/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 57-77
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish
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