Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5)

Sources of Trust in Institutions in the Czech Republic

Daniel Čermák, Jana Stachová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 683-718  

This article sets out to identify the factors that can help explain trust in selected political institutions in the Czech Republic - the Government, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, regional assemblies, and municipal assemblies - and determine what kind of influence certain factors have on the overall level of trust in the population. The life-time learning model devised by the American sociologists Mishler and Rose, who combine cultural and institutional approaches to explain trust in institutions, was used as the theoretical framework for this investigation. Logistic regression models were created for...

Political Party Members, Non-members and Independents in the Czech Municipal Assemblies

Dan Ryšavý, Pavel Šaradín

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 719-744  

In the Czech Republic, associations of independent candidates play an exceptional role in local politics; in fact, members of such associations are the most common type of politician in the country. Even the large political parties do have enough members to put together candidate lists in most municipalities without the help of candidates not affiliated to any political party. This article demonstrates the cogency of distinguishing between two types of non-party politicians. First, there are politicians (candidates, councillors) who are not members of any political party but take advantage of the opportunity to run for them. Second, there are independents...

The Wider Context of Non-clinical Narcissism: Professional Life, Communication, and Self Control

František Bartoš

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 745-770  

The author of this article conducted a representative survey (N=1081) to examine the signs of non-clinical narcissism in professional life, human relations, and self-control. He found that people with narcissistic characteristics more often occupy socio-professional positions that place high demands on self-presentation, which means on appearance and demeanour. People with narcissistic characteristics also tend to seek out such professions more often. The interest in obtaining jobs that place high demands on self-presentation is more strongly associated with non-clinical narcissism than with whether or not the individual currently occupies such a position....

Neoliberal Governmentality in Social Designing of Education

Ondrej Kaščák, Branislav Pupala

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 771-800  

The article examines the application of 'governmentality studies' to the field of education and particularly to the formation of social representations of the goals and needs of contemporary education and current curriculum design. The field of governmentality studies is based on Michel Foucault's analyses of social power and the technologies of power, which in later writings he applied to liberal government and liberal notions of social control. This perspective provides better insight into contemporary neoliberal technologies of social control and the related technology of social control in general, examples of which in various social sectors are...

Zygmunt Bauman: the 'Tropics of Discourse', a Word on Pop Culture and the Consumer Society in the Era of 'Liquid Modernity'

Miloslav Petrusek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 801-820  

Zygmunt Bauman's distinctive language style plays an important role in his works and sets him apart from the 'post-modern sociologists', among whom he does not count himself. After a short overview of the metaphors and metonymies that Bauman uses and that a) distinguish himself from the incomprehensible language of the 'post-modernists' and b) open up new perspectives on both classical and new sociological themes, the author turns to Bauman's concept of 'liquid modernity', the cultural substance that for Bauman is part of the consumer society. While Bauman refrains from entering the debates over 'high' and 'low' culture (he does not use the term 'mass...

Celebrating the 70th Birthday of Gerlinda Šmausová/Smaus

Miroslav Dopita

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 829-832  

For Irena Dubská (1924-2010)

Miloslav Petrusek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 821-822  

The End of Shmuel N. Eisenstadt's Sociological Opus

Jiří Šubrt, Marek Německý

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 823-828  

Philippe Bourgois, Jeff Schonberg: Righteous Dopefiend

Laco Toušek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 833-834  

Dana Hamplová, Blanka Řeháková: Česká religiozita na počátku 3. tisíciletí. Výsledky Mezinárodního programu sociálního výzkumu ISSP 2008 - Náboženství

Dušan Lužný

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 835-837  

Tim Edwards (ed.): Kulturální teorie: Klasické a současné přístupy

Veronika Frantová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 838-840  

Hana Hašková, Zuzana Uhde (eds.): Women and Social Citizenship in Czech Society: Continuity and Change

Blanka Nyklová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 841-844  

Markéta Škodová et al. Agenda-setting: teoretické přístupy

Kateřina Gillárová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 845-846  

Marek Jakoubek (ed.): Cikáni a etnicita

Ondřej Hejnal

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 847-850  

Tomáš Dvořák: Sběrné suroviny: texty, obrazy a zvuky nedávné minulosti

Anna Kopecká

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 851-853  

Stanislav Holubec: Sociologie světových systémů

Přemysl Vlček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 854-858  

Danilo Martuccelli: Sociologie modernity. Itinerář 20. století

Tomáš Dvořák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 859-861  

Oleg Suša: Globalizace v sociálních souvislostech současnosti: Diagnóza a analýza

Petr Lupač

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 862-864  

Petr Szczepanik: Konzervy se slovy. Počátky zvukového filmu a česká mediální kultura 30. let

Jindra Tichá

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 865-867  

Kathleen Gerson: The Unfinished Revolution. How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America

Martina Štípková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 868-870  

XVII. ISA World Congress of Sociology: Sociology on the Move

Petr Lupač

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 871-872  

XIV. kongres Polské sociologické společnosti

Marek Skovajsa

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 873-874  

Konference Desaťročia premien slovenskej spoločnosti

Tomáš Kostelecký, Zdenka Vajdová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(5): 875-877  

Cena Nadace Dagmar a Václava Havlových Vize 97 Konradu Paulu Liessmannovi

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