Justyna Kajta
Biographic Data
| ID | 4174943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justyna Kajta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justyna |
| FAMILY NAME | Kajta |
| SIGNATURE | KAJTA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uniwersytet SWPS |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2428-8876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Stranger
Class Ruptures and Openings
In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class-particularly its subjective dimensions-has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region. It emphasizes the role of historical context and family histories in shaping processes of class mobility and class reproduction, and examines these processes from a biographical perspect…
Socjologia refleksyjna w praktyce - znaczenie klasy w badaniach biograficznych
Artykuł zawiera opis doświadczeń zebranych podczas realizacji projektu badawczego poświęconego biograficznym doświadczeniom awansu i reprodukcji klasowej. W ramach projektu realizowane były wywiady biograficzno-narracyjne z naukowcami, artystami i menedżerami biznesu, którzy w toku życia doświadczyli międzypokoleniowego awansu klasowego lub podążają ścieżkami zawodowymi co najmniej jednego z rodziców. Autorzy koncentrują się na aspektach metodolo…
To jest w ogóle jakiś dramat”. Sytuacja mieszkaniowa młodych ludzi w Polsce
Artykuł analizuje wyzwania młodych Polek i Polaków w obszarze mieszkalnictwa. Ramę teoretyczną budują: pojęcie autonomii mieszkaniowej, a także koncepcje słabego państwa i solwatacji społecznej, które odzwierciedlają kryzysową rzeczywistość życia publicznego w Polsce, w której młodzi ludzie wchodzą w dorosłość. Prezentowane dane zostały zebrane wśród osób w wieku 18–35 lat techniką CAWI na reprezentatywnej próbie 2104 osób w 2023 roku oraz w jako…
Social media solidarity in times of polycrisis. The case of Twitter
Planning for the future in the shadow of the polycrisis
This paper explores the complexities of young women's gendered orientations to the future, contextualised within the realities of a ‘polycrisis’ era of compounded global uncertainties, constituting a formative generational experience. Through an investigation of 31 qualitative interviews with young women living in Poland (ages 18–35), analytically represented by four biographical cases, we explore individual experiences and biographical futures w…
Adulthood sucks’
Becoming a young radical right activist
With the increasing popularity of the radical right, much research has tried to explain the motives of voters. Less attention has been paid to the motives of people to become radical right activists - specifically young people, a group with a high tendency to join right-wing parties. Within the context of the internationalisation of the radical right, this article draws on 28 narrative interviews conducted between 2019 and 2021 with young radical…
Od zawsze chciałam coś robić” – ścieżki i motywacje młodych aktywistek i aktywistów w Polsce
Artykuł podejmuje tematykę społeczno-politycznego zaangażowania młodych ludzi w Polsce. Przyjmując za punkty wyjścia teoretyczne rozważania dotyczące takich pojęć, jak polityczne i obywatelskie zaangażowanie, oraz stan badań na temat motywacji do zaangażowania, autorzy koncentrują się na ścieżkach aktywistycznych młodych dorosłych: (1) w jakich okolicznościach rozpoczyna się i rozwija ich zaangażowanie; (2) co ich do niego motywuje – zarówno w pi…
Biograficzny problem czy normalizacja? Narracje o międzypokoleniowym awansie klasowym
Wpisując się w zwrot kulturowy w analizach klas społecznych, artykuł koncentruje się na biograficznym doświadczaniu międzypokoleniowego awansu klasowego. Opierając się na analizie 30 wywiadów biograficzno-narracyjnych z osobami, które pochodzą z klas ludowych, a obecnie są akademikami/akademiczkami, artystami/artystkami, menadże-rami/menadżerkami biznesu, tekst poszukuje odpowiedzi na pytanie o to, jak obiektywny awans klasowy jest subiektywnie p…
Casual, customized and contemptuous relationships with education
This paper focuses on individual responses to education in crisis, with the strategies of students contextualised and examined within a wider multi‐crisis reality. Offering a conceptual framework of social solvation, the proposed model explains how failures in the education system at the macro (state) and meso (institutional) levels translate into young people's behaviours at the individual (micro) level. Based on the analysis of 26 in‐depth inte…
In the Name of “Endangered Nations” and “Unsovereign States”? Official Discourses of Radical Right Movement Parties and Social Movement Organizations in Poland and Germany
The political landscape of the radical right has long been a major discussion point in the political and social sciences. By considering the variety of radical right organizations (movement parties and non-parliamentary organizations) and the particular national and transnational political and discursive opportunity structures, the paper aims at a comparative analysis of the main discursive frames present in political programs and manifestoes of …
Dobre życie jako służba narodowi? Narracje uczestników ruchu nacjonalistycznego (na tle innych młodych dorosłych)
W ostatnich latach zauważalne jest rosnące zainteresowanie tematem dobrego życia i tym, jak można je definiować i realizować. Wśród pojawiających się alternatyw znajdziemy takie postulaty, jak slow life, spowolnienie społeczne, poszukiwanie rezonansu czy powrót do wspólnot. Przyjmując założenia socjologii interpretatywnej, artykuł koncentruje się na dobrym życiu, jakie opowiadane jest przez młodych uczestników i uczestniczki ruchu nacjonalistyczn…
Go back to your class, please
Divided Towns, Integration and Cross-border Cooperation. The Cases of Cieszyn/Český Těšín and Słubice/Frankfurt (Oder)
Divided towns are specific urban units that were once single cities before their subsequent division through the drawing of new state borders based on arbitrary political decisions. The specific nature of such towns thus originates primarily from their common history and their location on a border. This article focuses on two examples from Central and Eastern Europe, one situated on the Polish-Czech border (Cieszyn and Český Těšín) and the other …
Settling into uncertainty and risk amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine
This study explores the process of navigating instability arising from sudden, co-occurring crises in the 2020s. We focus on the combined impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine on growing material and relational uncertainty and risk among Polish citizens, accumulating in the loss of ontological security. To showcase the practical and narrative presence of risk at the micro-level, we operationalize the broad theorization of risk so…
Young people and housing transitions during Covid-19
Research on housing transitions consistently points out the significance of housing autonomy and stability in young adults’ lives. While the pandemic has arguably exacerbated the already unfavorable conditions in the housing market (in terms of unaffordability and inaccessibility of quality dwellings), it is important to see how young people navigate the challenges of co-residing with parents, leaving home, and establishing housing autonomy, espe…
Community Response to Rebordering Politics
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has once again brought borders to the center of attention, as journalists, authorities, and scholars have grappled with the pandemic. The coronavirus outbreak, which began in late 2019 and early 2020 has caused tremendous personal, economic, and social upheaval. As many states decided to pursue the national interests and to close their borders to prevent the spread of the virus, this decision had m…
Calling for an alternative emancipation? Female discourses in the Polish radical-nationalist movement
Despite the preponderance of men within radical-nationalist circles, an increase in women's participation has recently been observed. Considering the general anti-feminist statements voiced in nationalist milieus, it is crucial to find out how women, in particular, frame their nationalist involvement and, more generally, their role in society. Based on an analysis of articles published by female nationalists, this article explores the discursive …
The Impact of Covid-19 on Structure and Agency in a Borderland. The Case of Two Twin Towns in Central Europe
The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked numerous unintended social and political consequences, especially for border regions as many European states decided to temporarily close their borders. This decision had a tremendous effect not only on the work of various actors in border towns, but also on the lives of borderlanders, whose daily practices are embedded in cross-border spaces. By applying a strategic-relational approach (Jessop [2001]. Institutio…
Young People, Precarious Employment and Nationalism in Poland
This article explores the relevance of economic and cultural (identity-based) factors in the emergence of nationalist sentiments among young people in Poland. It discusses the changing labour market situation of young workers, involving their precarisation and critically reviews existing accounts of new nationalism in Poland. In the body of the article, based on the analysis of biographical narrative interviews with young nationalist activists an…
Who Is a Right-Wing Supporter? On the Biographical Experiences of Young Right-Wing Voters in Poland and Germany
This article explores the selected cases of the biographies of right-wing supporters from a larger sample of narrative interviews with young (18-35 years old) people in Poland and Germany. In the existing literature, we can find the socio-economic explanations of the sources of the right-wing turn (related to economic deprivation, precarisation, social exclusion, labor market competition with immigrants and others), as well as cultural explanatio…
The Impact of Covid-19 on Structure and Agency in a Borderland. The Case of Two Twin Towns in Central Europe
The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked numerous unintended social and political consequences, especially for border regions as many European states decided to temporarily close their borders. This decision had a tremendous effect not only on the work of various actors in border towns, but also on the lives of borderlanders, whose daily practices are embedded in cross-border spaces. By applying a strategic-relational approach (Jessop [2001]. Institutio…
Who Is a Right-Wing Supporter? On the Biographical Experiences of Young Right-Wing Voters in Poland and Germany
This article explores the selected cases of the biographies of right-wing supporters from a larger sample of narrative interviews with young (18-35 years old) people in Poland and Germany. In the existing literature, we can find the socio-economic explanations of the sources of the right-wing turn (related to economic deprivation, precarisation, social exclusion, labor market competition with immigrants and others), as well as cultural explanatio…
Settling into uncertainty and risk amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine
This study explores the process of navigating instability arising from sudden, co-occurring crises in the 2020s. We focus on the combined impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine on growing material and relational uncertainty and risk among Polish citizens, accumulating in the loss of ontological security. To showcase the practical and narrative presence of risk at the micro-level, we operationalize the broad theorization of risk so…
Young people and housing transitions during Covid-19
Research on housing transitions consistently points out the significance of housing autonomy and stability in young adults’ lives. While the pandemic has arguably exacerbated the already unfavorable conditions in the housing market (in terms of unaffordability and inaccessibility of quality dwellings), it is important to see how young people navigate the challenges of co-residing with parents, leaving home, and establishing housing autonomy, espe…
In the Name of “Endangered Nations” and “Unsovereign States”? Official Discourses of Radical Right Movement Parties and Social Movement Organizations in Poland and Germany
The political landscape of the radical right has long been a major discussion point in the political and social sciences. By considering the variety of radical right organizations (movement parties and non-parliamentary organizations) and the particular national and transnational political and discursive opportunity structures, the paper aims at a comparative analysis of the main discursive frames present in political programs and manifestoes of …
Community Response to Rebordering Politics
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has once again brought borders to the center of attention, as journalists, authorities, and scholars have grappled with the pandemic. The coronavirus outbreak, which began in late 2019 and early 2020 has caused tremendous personal, economic, and social upheaval. As many states decided to pursue the national interests and to close their borders to prevent the spread of the virus, this decision had m…
Calling for an alternative emancipation? Female discourses in the Polish radical-nationalist movement
Despite the preponderance of men within radical-nationalist circles, an increase in women's participation has recently been observed. Considering the general anti-feminist statements voiced in nationalist milieus, it is crucial to find out how women, in particular, frame their nationalist involvement and, more generally, their role in society. Based on an analysis of articles published by female nationalists, this article explores the discursive …
Young People, Precarious Employment and Nationalism in Poland
This article explores the relevance of economic and cultural (identity-based) factors in the emergence of nationalist sentiments among young people in Poland. It discusses the changing labour market situation of young workers, involving their precarisation and critically reviews existing accounts of new nationalism in Poland. In the body of the article, based on the analysis of biographical narrative interviews with young nationalist activists an…
Who Is a Right-Wing Supporter? On the Biographical Experiences of Young Right-Wing Voters in Poland and Germany
This article explores the selected cases of the biographies of right-wing supporters from a larger sample of narrative interviews with young (18-35 years old) people in Poland and Germany. In the existing literature, we can find the socio-economic explanations of the sources of the right-wing turn (related to economic deprivation, precarisation, social exclusion, labor market competition with immigrants and others), as well as cultural explanatio…
Young People, Precarious Employment and Nationalism in Poland
This article explores the relevance of economic and cultural (identity-based) factors in the emergence of nationalist sentiments among young people in Poland. It discusses the changing labour market situation of young workers, involving their precarisation and critically reviews existing accounts of new nationalism in Poland. In the body of the article, based on the analysis of biographical narrative interviews with young nationalist activists an…
The Impact of Covid-19 on Structure and Agency in a Borderland. The Case of Two Twin Towns in Central Europe
The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked numerous unintended social and political consequences, especially for border regions as many European states decided to temporarily close their borders. This decision had a tremendous effect not only on the work of various actors in border towns, but also on the lives of borderlanders, whose daily practices are embedded in cross-border spaces. By applying a strategic-relational approach (Jessop [2001]. Institutio…
Calling for an alternative emancipation? Female discourses in the Polish radical-nationalist movement
Despite the preponderance of men within radical-nationalist circles, an increase in women's participation has recently been observed. Considering the general anti-feminist statements voiced in nationalist milieus, it is crucial to find out how women, in particular, frame their nationalist involvement and, more generally, their role in society. Based on an analysis of articles published by female nationalists, this article explores the discursive …
Dobre życie jako służba narodowi? Narracje uczestników ruchu nacjonalistycznego (na tle innych młodych dorosłych)
W ostatnich latach zauważalne jest rosnące zainteresowanie tematem dobrego życia i tym, jak można je definiować i realizować. Wśród pojawiających się alternatyw znajdziemy takie postulaty, jak slow life, spowolnienie społeczne, poszukiwanie rezonansu czy powrót do wspólnot. Przyjmując założenia socjologii interpretatywnej, artykuł koncentruje się na dobrym życiu, jakie opowiadane jest przez młodych uczestników i uczestniczki ruchu nacjonalistyczn…
Go back to your class, please
Divided Towns, Integration and Cross-border Cooperation. The Cases of Cieszyn/Český Těšín and Słubice/Frankfurt (Oder)
Divided towns are specific urban units that were once single cities before their subsequent division through the drawing of new state borders based on arbitrary political decisions. The specific nature of such towns thus originates primarily from their common history and their location on a border. This article focuses on two examples from Central and Eastern Europe, one situated on the Polish-Czech border (Cieszyn and Český Těšín) and the other …
Settling into uncertainty and risk amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine
This study explores the process of navigating instability arising from sudden, co-occurring crises in the 2020s. We focus on the combined impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine on growing material and relational uncertainty and risk among Polish citizens, accumulating in the loss of ontological security. To showcase the practical and narrative presence of risk at the micro-level, we operationalize the broad theorization of risk so…
Young people and housing transitions during Covid-19
Research on housing transitions consistently points out the significance of housing autonomy and stability in young adults’ lives. While the pandemic has arguably exacerbated the already unfavorable conditions in the housing market (in terms of unaffordability and inaccessibility of quality dwellings), it is important to see how young people navigate the challenges of co-residing with parents, leaving home, and establishing housing autonomy, espe…
Community Response to Rebordering Politics
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has once again brought borders to the center of attention, as journalists, authorities, and scholars have grappled with the pandemic. The coronavirus outbreak, which began in late 2019 and early 2020 has caused tremendous personal, economic, and social upheaval. As many states decided to pursue the national interests and to close their borders to prevent the spread of the virus, this decision had m…
Od zawsze chciałam coś robić” – ścieżki i motywacje młodych aktywistek i aktywistów w Polsce
Artykuł podejmuje tematykę społeczno-politycznego zaangażowania młodych ludzi w Polsce. Przyjmując za punkty wyjścia teoretyczne rozważania dotyczące takich pojęć, jak polityczne i obywatelskie zaangażowanie, oraz stan badań na temat motywacji do zaangażowania, autorzy koncentrują się na ścieżkach aktywistycznych młodych dorosłych: (1) w jakich okolicznościach rozpoczyna się i rozwija ich zaangażowanie; (2) co ich do niego motywuje – zarówno w pi…
Biograficzny problem czy normalizacja? Narracje o międzypokoleniowym awansie klasowym
Wpisując się w zwrot kulturowy w analizach klas społecznych, artykuł koncentruje się na biograficznym doświadczaniu międzypokoleniowego awansu klasowego. Opierając się na analizie 30 wywiadów biograficzno-narracyjnych z osobami, które pochodzą z klas ludowych, a obecnie są akademikami/akademiczkami, artystami/artystkami, menadże-rami/menadżerkami biznesu, tekst poszukuje odpowiedzi na pytanie o to, jak obiektywny awans klasowy jest subiektywnie p…
Casual, customized and contemptuous relationships with education
This paper focuses on individual responses to education in crisis, with the strategies of students contextualised and examined within a wider multi‐crisis reality. Offering a conceptual framework of social solvation, the proposed model explains how failures in the education system at the macro (state) and meso (institutional) levels translate into young people's behaviours at the individual (micro) level. Based on the analysis of 26 in‐depth inte…
In the Name of “Endangered Nations” and “Unsovereign States”? Official Discourses of Radical Right Movement Parties and Social Movement Organizations in Poland and Germany
The political landscape of the radical right has long been a major discussion point in the political and social sciences. By considering the variety of radical right organizations (movement parties and non-parliamentary organizations) and the particular national and transnational political and discursive opportunity structures, the paper aims at a comparative analysis of the main discursive frames present in political programs and manifestoes of …
To jest w ogóle jakiś dramat”. Sytuacja mieszkaniowa młodych ludzi w Polsce
Artykuł analizuje wyzwania młodych Polek i Polaków w obszarze mieszkalnictwa. Ramę teoretyczną budują: pojęcie autonomii mieszkaniowej, a także koncepcje słabego państwa i solwatacji społecznej, które odzwierciedlają kryzysową rzeczywistość życia publicznego w Polsce, w której młodzi ludzie wchodzą w dorosłość. Prezentowane dane zostały zebrane wśród osób w wieku 18–35 lat techniką CAWI na reprezentatywnej próbie 2104 osób w 2023 roku oraz w jako…
Social media solidarity in times of polycrisis. The case of Twitter
Planning for the future in the shadow of the polycrisis
This paper explores the complexities of young women's gendered orientations to the future, contextualised within the realities of a ‘polycrisis’ era of compounded global uncertainties, constituting a formative generational experience. Through an investigation of 31 qualitative interviews with young women living in Poland (ages 18–35), analytically represented by four biographical cases, we explore individual experiences and biographical futures w…
Adulthood sucks’
Becoming a young radical right activist
With the increasing popularity of the radical right, much research has tried to explain the motives of voters. Less attention has been paid to the motives of people to become radical right activists - specifically young people, a group with a high tendency to join right-wing parties. Within the context of the internationalisation of the radical right, this article draws on 28 narrative interviews conducted between 2019 and 2021 with young radical…
Stranger
Class Ruptures and Openings
In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class-particularly its subjective dimensions-has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region. It emphasizes the role of historical context and family histories in shaping processes of class mobility and class reproduction, and examines these processes from a biographical perspect…
Socjologia refleksyjna w praktyce - znaczenie klasy w badaniach biograficznych
Artykuł zawiera opis doświadczeń zebranych podczas realizacji projektu badawczego poświęconego biograficznym doświadczeniom awansu i reprodukcji klasowej. W ramach projektu realizowane były wywiady biograficzno-narracyjne z naukowcami, artystami i menedżerami biznesu, którzy w toku życia doświadczyli międzypokoleniowego awansu klasowego lub podążają ścieżkami zawodowymi co najmniej jednego z rodziców. Autorzy koncentrują się na aspektach metodolo…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · German legal, social, and political studies (4 works)