Abstract
Technologies in the practices of daily life: introduction
Highlights
Research on the domestication of technology was conducted in 2018–2019 by a team of sociologists from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the Academy of Special Education in Warsaw under the guidance of one of the writers of this introduction (Joanna Zalewska), as part of a grant entitled The Consumer Revolution in Poland
According to Hanna Świda-Ziemba’s (2010) concept of historical generations, a generation is linked by similar socio-cultural experiences and the worldview that these produce
From time to time a clear historical generation emerges and may include people born in several successive years, it happens that people born in certain years may not belong unequivocally to one such generation
Summary
Research on the domestication of technology was conducted in 2018–2019 by a team of sociologists from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the Academy of Special Education in Warsaw under the guidance of one of the writers of this introduction (Joanna Zalewska), as part of a grant entitled The Consumer Revolution in Poland. They were differentiated mainly on the basis of their historical generation and occupation. The generation of the Thaw, that is, people who were born just before the war, in the years 1937–1939, and who entered adulthood during the period of waning terror following Stalin’s death (Szatur-Jaworska 2000).
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