Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6)
Discourses of Economic Behaviour in Times of Instability

Thematic articles

Introduction to the Special Section: Discourses of Economic Behaviour in Times of Instability

Zsuzsa Gille, Martin Hájek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 799-804

Discourses of Thrift and Consumer Reasonability in Czech State-Socialist Society

Martin Hájek, Tomáš Samec

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 805-832 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.6.376

The article examines how notions of thrift, saving, and frugality were present and active in the state-socialist discourses of economic behaviour and what meaning these notions carried. The research is based on three kinds of data: the official state-socialist public discourse of economic behaviour as presented in transcripts of parliamentary speeches, household guides and manuals, and eyewitness accounts of the state-socialist era recollected in oral history interviews. Such a multi-faceted corpus of discourse data made it possible to examine factual and normative aspects of thrift in state-socialist discourses and compare them with the accounts of...

Narratives and Practices of Voluntary Simplicity in the Czech Post-Socialist Context

Lukáš Kala, Lucie Galčanová, Vojtěch Pelikán

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 833-856 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.6.377

Voluntary simplicity is usually seen as an alternative social movement that is responding to the current social and environmental crisis within affluent societies. Many scholars draw on Inglehart's concept of post-materialism and consider voluntary simplicity to be a way of limiting one's consumption in order to free oneself and seek satisfaction in the non-material aspects of life. These scholars assume that the values associated with simplicity emerge out of over-saturation with consumption. This article discusses the results of research conducted among Czech households who voluntarily reduce consumption and who do so in a post-socialist context,...

The Domestication of Financial Objects: Narrativisation, Appropriation and Affectivation

Karel Čada, Kateřina Ptáčková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 857-880 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.6.378

The article explores the general question of how family members articulate the rational and moral dimensions of the economy and the role in this played by language and family discourse-how families do the economy with words. It examines the resources family members employ family discourse to interpret and justify their economic behaviour, and puts forth the hypothesis that economic terms are re-articulated through everyday practices in the family world and that conversations inoculate expert terms with specific meanings. The article introduces the moral economy as a crucial principle of sense-making in family economic discourse and highlights the perception...

Articles

Standing in Public Places: An Ethno-Zenic Experiment Aimed at Developing the Sociological Imagination and More Besides …

Krzysztof Konecki

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 881-902 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.6.379

This article describes and analyses an ethno-Zenic experiment consisting of standing motionless in public places (for example, at the entrance to a shopping mall, in front of a petrol station, a bank or a shop, or on a street corner). The research was inspired by an ethnomethodological approach to lived order and psychological knowledge-derived from Buddhism-on how the mind works. Some inspiration was also drawn from symbolic interactionism. The experiment was aimed first at discovering the basic assumptions underlying our everyday activities. A second and more important goal was to deconstruct the work of the mind, especially with respect to the process...

Emigration from the Perspective of the School-to-Work Transition in Bulgaria

Rumiana Stoilova, Elitsa Dimitrova

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 903-934 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.6.380

The aim of this article is to analyse the extent to which differences between young people's education, employment status, and social background can explain the differences in their emigration intentions and actual experience with emigration. The goal is to create a profile of youth with emigration experience and examine the interrelation between two transitions, from education to work and from youth into adulthood, as measured by the degree of independence from parents, and also to investigate social inequalities among people with emigration experience in the transition from education to finding a first job. The analysis is based on theories of the...

Discussion

Happy Together? On Satisfaction in Czech Academia-A Response to Zábrodská et al.

Filip Vostal

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 935-944

A Few Comments on the Methodological Aspects of Zábrodská et al.'s Study

Johana Chylíková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 945-946

Analysing HEism

Roger Dale

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 947-956

Book reviews

Arjun Appadurai: Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance

Karel Čada

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 957-958

Graham Murdock and Jostein Gripsrud (eds): Money Talks: Media, Markets, Crisis

Petr Kaderka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 959-962

Louise Ryan, Umut Erel and Alessio D'Angelo (eds): Migrant Capital: Networks, Identities and Strategies

Romana Careja

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 963-965

Paul Marx: The Political Behaviour of Temporary Workers

Kim Bosmans

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 966-968

Morten Knudsen and Werner Vogd (eds): Systems Theory and the Sociology of Health and Illness: Observing Healthcare

Erika Palmer

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 969-971

Vic Satzewich: Points of Entry

Lenka Kissová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6): 972-973

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(6)Discourses of Economic Behaviour in Times of Instability