Krąg społeczny: od klasycznej metafory do współczesnych ujęć analitycznych

Abstract

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.