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The paper attempts to study architecture as an esthetic object with the use of mobile methods. I develop the concept of the flâneur view: an act of perception associated with a casual walk, enriched with reflections on the environment. The aim of the text is to describe the intricacies of the process: what makes the flâneur interested in particular architectural object, how one valorizes it, and what role the esthetics plays in the activity. This research walk was carried out by students in the Rzeszów Downtown. It included observation, taking notes, and photography. For the purpose of the paper, I analyze thirteen journals. The main finding is that students value visual and spatial harmony, and look for it in the cityscape. They are positive toward well-maintained, mostly historical buildings. Nature is also important to them. In their descriptions, they use everyday language and their type of esthetic reception can be named non-professional.

W artykule autor podejmuje problem prowadzenia badań dawnego pogranicza Galicji i Królestwa Polskiego na przykładzie projektu zrealizowanego na przełomie 2021 i 2022 roku. Ze względu na złożoność problemu postępowanie wymaga integracji tradycji badań pogranicza z podejściami skoncentrowanymi na eksplorowaniu relacji przeszłości z teraźniejszością. Konieczne jest dotarcie do perspektyw aktorów zewnętrznych i wewnętrznych, gromadzenie danych przestrzennych, materialnych, narracyjnych i ucieleśnionych, odwołanie się do wartości, postaw, wytworów oraz praktyk.
W tekście omówione zostało podejście zainspirowane koncepcją etnografii wielostanowiskowej, uwzględniającej mobilność mieszkanek i mieszkańców badanego obszaru oraz uwikłanie zewnętrznych struktur władzy. Autor wskazał, w jaki sposób perspektywa ta może integrować różnego rodzaju techniki: analizę map i dokumentów, obserwacji, wywiadów oraz spacerów badawczych w celu wytworzenia bogatych, wzajemnie wspierających się danych, umożliwiających jak najlepsze zrozumienie przedmiotu badań.

The paper undertakes the problem of a social circle notion "wandering". The main objective is the description of this process and the extraction of its key fields. My main argument is that as many of terms are borrowed from everyday language, its vagueness makes 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-operationalised notion to an acute one from perspective of different sociological paradigms; from a metaphor of collectivity to an element of network theory.

Museums and art are both phenomena strongly connected with collective identities. During the process of development of modern nations in the 19th and 20th centuries, museums were actors (or tools, depending on the context) of the process of the construction of collective representations. This relates to a certain link between collectivities and objects, in which the latter contribute to the emergence of social roles and the organization of social worlds. Artworks as collective representations, and memory carriers significantly participate in these processes. Since 1989, the importance of local identities has been growing. Local actors undertake organized activities to develop a sense of community and attract the attention of outsiders. Museums also participate in these processes, yet in the changing context the question arises as to whether they play a role similar to the national ones or, perhaps, different situations introduced new ways of museum involvement. The paper examines the practices during which representations of a locality are constructed to be displayed in the museum context. We are interested in how art pieces contribute to this process and how they are used in comparison to non-aesthetic artifacts. The study is based on 50 in-depth interviews collected during two projects conducted in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship in Poland and in the Kosice Region in Slovakia. Concentrating on the practices of collection building, exhibition designing, and interpretation, we discuss different classes of objects used in the process, analyze their effectiveness in representing the original context – the main topic of museum narratives – and indicate some of them as boundary objects around which arenas emerge.

AbstractThe paper analyses practices and representations connected with the state borders by applying categories of resilience resources and the potentials of borderland communities. The analysis focus on three borderlands between Poland and Ukraine, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, located in the former Austrian Galicia, which are divided by different types of state borders. The analysis shows that significant similarities exist between two sides of the borderland independently from the duration of the border presence in the settlement structure. The main feature of the state border which differentiates the resilience capital is the duration of borderline existence. Local communities existing in the vicinity of the new border use their past to build their tradition over the border through informal co‐operation. In the case of the old and internal EU border, between Poland and Slovakia, such co‐operation is more formal and based on the external resources. The common feature of the studied borderlands is the use of cultural resilience capital instead of the cultural capital that these territories lack.

The Ongoing Existence of Partition Borders in Practices, Collections and Landscape: In Search of Common Points of Sociology, Museology and Landscape Architecture The subject of this paper is the phenomenon of the so called phantom borders – former political borders, presently non‑existing, however influencing the social environment. Concentrating on practices, collections and landscape we attempt to integrate three disciplines: sociology, museology and landscape architecture to study today's manifestations of these boundaries separating the territories of Poland for 123 years. Recognizing the perspective of borderscaping we assume (phantom) borders as complex and multilevel phenomena thus requiring holistic approach reflected in the application of aforementioned disciplines during intensive ethnographic studies of former Kingdom of Poland and Kingdom of Galicia borderland communities. We argue that successful integration of methods can be based on the assumption of materiality as a common element of interactions, collections and space, making possible – in the second step – a study of meanings invoked by these tangible components and then a recreation of material‑symbolic systems shaping everyday life and festive times of phantom‑borderlands communities.

In the introduction to this issue of Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej, we undertake an attempt to characterize the contemporary field of the sociology of art in Poland. For the point of departure, we took four generations of the sociology of art as defined by Nathalie Heinich as well as the identification of the following four elements: an artwork and its reception, an artist and a creative process, an audience, and a social-institutional framework. We try to draw the timeline of this sub-discipline by means of indicating works of Stanisław Ossowski (the sociology of art sensu largo) and Florian Znaniecki (the sociology of artist) as its beginning in the country. We also define the unique status of art sociology in Poland as a sub-discipline of the sociology of culture, as well as its mutual relations with different sciences. We analyze the emergence of scientific communities and the appearance and disappearance of research specializations during the period of over 80 years. Additionally, we indicate missing pages as well as thematic fields and perspectives that are still developing. We are aware of the fact that it is difficult to exhaust the problem of the history and status of art sociology in Poland within one article, which is why our objective is, rather, to indicate problems, perspectives, and ideas that can begin the discussion on the topic.

In this introduction to the journal issue, the editors characterize the individual scholarly articles included in the volume. They also briefly recall their research interests in the field of art. The texts in the volume deal with three intertwining dimensions: cultural and art institutions, communities (artistic and aesthetic), and space. Most of the authors presented their research at the academic conference 'Esthetic Communities and Artistic Institutions' (2023), organized by the Art Sociology Section of the Polish Sociological Association. Polish contemporary sociology of art is mainly empirical sociology. Qualitative research in the field of art sociology in Poland has been used since the 1960s. Initially, they had been treated as experimental, gradually transforming into an increasingly common approach. Sociologists most often used various types of qualitative analyses of materials as well as interviews. Researchers still often use these techniques today, but one can also see the use of other methods, e.g., as part of the art-based research approach (this methodological orientation was used in one of the articles).