Completed project

The History and Present of Czech Sociology

Project duration: 
2010 - 2013

Czech sociology has been through enormous development since 1989, when it was freed from the constraints of ideology, and it is now gradually returning to the international stage. Persecuted and exiled scholars were able to rejoin the academic community, a new generation of researchers has emerged, and new research institutions have been established. However, further qualitative development and wider social applicability of sociological findings are prevented by the insufficient "self-knowledge" and knowledge of the history of Czech sociology, its fragmentation and little public awareness, leading at times to overly academic and/or the duplication of studies. This project aims to present the full picture of contemporary Czech sociology and related social sciences to the academic and lay public, to elaborate a modern history of Czech sociology in an international and interdisciplinary context (and with special attention devoted to sociologists working in exile in 1948-1989), and to prepare a reference edition of the most important, but today hard to find, sociological journals, which will serve as a source of historical and comparative material for contemporary researchers. The outcome of the project will be a CD-ROM, two dictionary publications, and two monographs.

Principal investigator: 
Topics: 
historical sociology
Grant agency: 
Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
Department: 

Project publications (total 19, displaying 1 - 10)

Nešpor, Zdeněk R.

The book analyses evolution of Czech sociology from it very beginnings in the late 19th century to its temporary extinction after the communist coup d’état in 1948. Particular chapters describes roots and origins of Czech sociology, impact of T. G. Masaryk and his followers, three main interwar sociological schools, role of Czech sociologists in founding of Slovakian sociology and the situation of Czech sociology during the WWII and shortly after.

Topic:
history of sociology
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Monograph
Nešpor, Zdeněk R. a kol.

Comprehensive biographical, bibliographical and analytical dictionary on 178 key figures of Czech sociology from its beginnings in the 19th century until the present.

Topic:
history of sociology, historical sociology
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Monograph
Nešpor, Zdeněk R., Anna Kopecká (eds.)

Scholarly elboreted biographical and thematical encycloppaedia of 213 contemporary Czech sociologists and academics in related disciplines and 28 sociological departments/institutes in the Czech Republic.

Topic:
history of sociology
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Monograph
Hesová, Nela, Lumír Gatnar, Eva Mikolášová, Radka Taucová

The bibliography summarises full sociological production in the Czech lands since the 19th century untill 2009; it is dividend into three time periods and accompanied with a foreword and personal index.
 

Topic:
history of sociology
Department:
Library
Type of publication:
Monograph
Hesová, Nela

The bibliography summarises full sociological production in the Czech lands since the 19th century untill 2009; it is dividend into three time periods and accompanied with a foreword and personal index.

Topic:
history of sociology
Department:
Library
Type of publication:
Chapter in monograph
Večerník, Jiří

This article deals with empirical research on poverty in Czechoslovakia in terms of three distinct phases. Between 1918 and 1948, considerable attention was devoted to poverty, but research possibilities modest. During the 1948 to 1989 period, the communist regime allowed “examinations” of poverty for the purpose of depicting pre-war capitalist Czechoslovakia as an impoverished, class-divided society.

Topic:
social inequalities, social policy
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Peer-reviewed journal article
Večerník, Jiří

In the article, fates of the middle class in Czech society and its reflection in Czech sociology are briefly overviewed. The first part is devoted to the interwar Czechoslovakia which was reflected as a middle-class society. The second part depicts suppression of the entrepreneurial middle class by the communist regime and its resurrection since early 1990s.

Topic:
social inequalities, transformation
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Peer-reviewed journal article
Nešpor, Zdeněk R.

Czech Sociologists in the Beginnings of Slovak Sociology. The author analyses institutional beginning of Slovak sociology, which was very much influenced by Czech scholars.

Topic:
history of sociology
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Article with impact factor
Nešpor, Zdeněk R.

The chapter analyses support of (part of) interwar Czech sociology provided by the Agrarian Party and its results, including ideological and political deformations of academic research.

Topic:
history of sociology
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Chapter in monograph
Nešpor, Zdeněk R.

The article analyses in detail the various processes involved in the establishment of sociology at particular Czech universities and colleges, describes the forms and content of sociological education available and deals with prosopographical analysis of students of the subject.

 

Topic:
history of sociology, education
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Article with impact factor

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