■ This article is concerned with the way people understood socialist modernity in different regio... more ■ This article is concerned with the way people understood socialist modernity in different regions of Poland, and with their responses to the collapse of socialism and with it the unsettling of employment, work and economy generally. The article focuses on stories told in central and southern Poland about technologies and progress associated with socialist industrialization and infrastructure development, and on later stories of technologies and danger associated with the demise of socialism and the advent of capitalism. It considers the way that trains and other technologies may become heavily weighted symbols for both development and unsettlement, in stories which refer obliquely to the fragility of kinship and the state, and to anxiety connected to change.
Most works on the roles and status of women in society emphasize family structure and a kinship-b... more Most works on the roles and status of women in society emphasize family structure and a kinship-based division of labor. The reasons for this are self-evident: in the eyes of both social scientists and the social actors themselves, there is generally a strong association among women, the domestic sphere, and the organization of family and kinship activities. Age and gender serve, on either a formal or informal basis, as major organizational mechanisms in all known societies, and in preindustrial society often provide the primary differentiating principles in the division of labor.1 A significant aspect of the process of economic development is the separation of certain types of economic activities from the kin-or family-based production unit, or the allocation of economic tasks on the basis of criteria other than age, gender, or kinship. Never-theless, in both “developing” economies and in “developed” societies, gender remains a crucial element, in real if not in jural terms, in the division of labor. Equally, while the structure and function of the family inevitably change with economic development, and specifically with the process of urbanization, its significance in social and economic organization, in socialization, and in reproduction may alter but not necessarily diminish.
... harshness of the rich, which allows them to beat small children, and the social distance that... more ... harshness of the rich, which allows them to beat small children, and the social distance that can ... about change – change in their own lives, and more general economic and social change ... In her personal, emotional interior, and in her own aesthetic, the mountains repre-sented a ...
■ This article is concerned with the way people understood socialist modernity in different regio... more ■ This article is concerned with the way people understood socialist modernity in different regions of Poland, and with their responses to the collapse of socialism and with it the unsettling of employment, work and economy generally. The article focuses on stories told in central and southern Poland about technologies and progress associated with socialist industrialization and infrastructure development, and on later stories of technologies and danger associated with the demise of socialism and the advent of capitalism. It considers the way that trains and other technologies may become heavily weighted symbols for both development and unsettlement, in stories which refer obliquely to the fragility of kinship and the state, and to anxiety connected to change.
Most works on the roles and status of women in society emphasize family structure and a kinship-b... more Most works on the roles and status of women in society emphasize family structure and a kinship-based division of labor. The reasons for this are self-evident: in the eyes of both social scientists and the social actors themselves, there is generally a strong association among women, the domestic sphere, and the organization of family and kinship activities. Age and gender serve, on either a formal or informal basis, as major organizational mechanisms in all known societies, and in preindustrial society often provide the primary differentiating principles in the division of labor.1 A significant aspect of the process of economic development is the separation of certain types of economic activities from the kin-or family-based production unit, or the allocation of economic tasks on the basis of criteria other than age, gender, or kinship. Never-theless, in both “developing” economies and in “developed” societies, gender remains a crucial element, in real if not in jural terms, in the division of labor. Equally, while the structure and function of the family inevitably change with economic development, and specifically with the process of urbanization, its significance in social and economic organization, in socialization, and in reproduction may alter but not necessarily diminish.
... harshness of the rich, which allows them to beat small children, and the social distance that... more ... harshness of the rich, which allows them to beat small children, and the social distance that can ... about change – change in their own lives, and more general economic and social change ... In her personal, emotional interior, and in her own aesthetic, the mountains repre-sented a ...
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