Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6)
Social Stratification in Central Europe: New Developments and Issues

Introduction to the Thematic Issue

Jiří Večerník

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 693-696  

Social Stratification and Its Perception in Austria and Its Central-East European Neighbouring Countries from 1960 to 2015: Historical Legacies, Socialist Pasts and Recent Developments

Marcus Hadler, Max Haller

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 697-733 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2020.55.6.490  

This article compares Austria with three of its former state-socialist neighbouring countries: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. The authors are guided by the assumption that it is necessary to analyse changes in both the structure and the perception of inequality and that the two are interconnected. They assume that some general differences exist as a result of the legacy of state socialism in the three post-communist countries, but also that significant differences exist between those three countries themselves that stem from their different paths of development in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the first part of this article, differences...

Regional Patterns of Social Differentiation in Visegrád Countries

Kamila Fialová, Tomáš Želinský

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 735-789 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2020.55.6.491  

This paper focuses on a neglected—horizontal—dimension of social stratification. It examines the patterns of social differentiation in the Visegrád countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) and attempts to assess changes in the social structure at the subnational level. Social structure changes are explained within the context of broader socio-economic development. The main analyses performed in this study are based on EUSILC micro-data covering 2006–2016 and offer a comprehensive perspective on the patterns of social-stratification development at the regional level utilising three dimensions: social class (proxied...

Setting Social Status in Couples and Partners' Budgetary Discretion in Central European Countries

Jiří Večerník, Martina Mysíková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 791-820 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2020.55.6.492  

The conventional optics of social stratification research—in which the social position of the family unit is seen as being determined by the status of the male head of the household—have been challenged since the early 1970s. Similarly, economic research which views the household as a single unit has been questioned. Changing family circumstances and the increased share of couples in which the woman has higher earnings, education, and socioeconomic status mean that both these perspectives needs reformulating. The authors illustrate these issues using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey (EU-SILC) for five...

Is Education Becoming a Weaker Determinant of Occupation? Educational Expansion and Occupational Returns to Education in 30 European Countries

Tomáš Katrňák, Tomáš Doseděl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 821-851 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2020.55.6.493  

This article examines the relationship between education and occupation over the course of educational expansion. The authors analyse European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) data from 2014, 2015, and 2016 from 30 European countries and work with 12 graduated cohorts defined by the year in which they left the education system (2003–2014). They use a multilevel model approach and measure education in both absolute and relative terms. The results show that during the time of educational expansion there was no change in the relationship between education and occupation if education is conceptualised in absolute terms. However, a change in this...

Educational Pathways and their Role in Occupational and Class Attainment in Czech Society

Michael L. Smith

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 853-878 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2020.55.6.494  

This article introduces a new approach to the study of the association between education and socio-economic outcomes in the Czech Republic: educational pathways, which are the primary channels of study involving at least two educational transitions with qualitatively different tracks. Based on Czech Household Panel Study data, I operationalise Czech educational pathways between secondary and tertiary education and examine the role of eight different educational paths on ESeC-derived social classes, contrasted by parental education, gender, and birth cohort. Based on the ordered logit model, I compute the predicted probability that specific educational...

The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath: Some Personal Reflections

Claus Offe

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 879-881  

Big Steps and Blind Spots: Herbert Gintis's Take-Over of Sociology Is Economic Imperialism

Hartmut Esser

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 883-889  

Decision and Game Theory as the Analytical Core of All Behavioral Sciences

Andreas Tutić

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 889-893  

Man, the Game Player: A Plea for Interdisciplinary Research

Jan Sauermann

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 893-896  

Entanglement in Concrete Interactions

Paul Marx

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 896-899  

Waltraud Schelkle: The Political Economy of Monetary Solidarity: Understanding the Euro Experiment

Jasper P. Simons

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 900-903  

Ivan Krastev: After Europe

Cecilia Bruzelius

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 903-906  

Atif Mian and Amir Sufi: House of Debt and Adair Turner: Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit and Fixing the Global Finance

Martino Comelli

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 906-909  

Reviewers of Articles Decided in 2019

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2019, 55(6): 911-915