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The paper freely follows up on the paper “Alice: Overcoming the Border”, which presents the story of emancipation of a Roma woman, who works as a social outreach worker. It presents the narrative construction of Alice, as she interprets her journey to becoming a social worker (Bruner 1991, Chrz 2007).
The aim of the paper is to show the tension arising between the actions and expectations of Alice and the actions and expectations of those who are the important others in relation to her. There are two planes present in the personal story of Alice’s emancipation: the plane of Alice’s agency, which is represented by actions, decisions, self-determined will, versus the plane of cultural models, schemata, roles, status positions, images that are in some way offered to Alice or even forced upon her or with which she herself identifies. We will follow the contradictory process of establishment of personal identity of a woman who takes endeavours in several social fields (in the meaning of P. Bourdieu) constantly trying to maintain the permeability of these fields and their meanings, which is not an entirely trivial matter. These social fields are represented by her family, by the non-profit organization, for which she works, and by the world of majority institutions. It is significant that one of the key categories through which she strives to achieve this is a self-confident development of her personality within the frameworks of both formal education and informal socialization. In our theoretical approach, we have been influenced mainly by cognitive anthropology (Strauss, Quinn 2003) and by Freud's (1962) theory of psychoanalysis, as well as by philosopher L. Wittgenstein (1993) and linguist G. Lakoff (1990).
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