Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1)

The Identification and Social Practices of Homosexuals and Transsexuals in Eastern Slovakian Roma Settlements

Tomáš Kobes

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 3-28 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.1.01  

This article focuses on the use of critical discourse analysis in ethnographic research on homosexual and transsexual identity in eastern Slovakian Roma settlements. Critical Discourse Analysis offers a methodological and analytical system for handling the identifi cation process of these actors. Using some premises of Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis, the author attempts to demonstrate how homosexual and transsexual individuals (labelled using native categories such as homosexaulis, gayos, buzerantos, kerado, or tato) are identified, and how this process of identifi cation is linked to existing social practices. In the analysis the...

Factors of the Successful Reintegration of the Homeless and Housing Policy Instruments for Addressing Homelessness in the Czech Republic

Martina Mikeszová, Martin Lux

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 29-52 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.1.02  

The aim of this article is to identify the main factors that lead to the successful reintegration of the homeless into long-term housing in the postsocialist Czech Republic, identify the barriers to successful reintegration, and, in the light of these factors and barriers, assess the effectiveness of existing and potentially new state housing policies. Homelessness is a fact that has various causes, and the article tries to link the factors behind and barriers to the successful reintegration of the homeless with potential state interventions in the area of housing and housing policy to reinforce the success of reintegration. Although effective housing...

Environmentally-Oriented Motivations and Potential of Disappointment

Hana Librová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 53-74 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.1.03  

Outside institutionalised environmental activities, we find that individual efforts to combat environmental damage are at risk of succumbing to resignation. For her reflections on 'green fatigue' the author borrowed economist Alberta O. Hirschman's psychological concept of the potential for disappointment. Whether and to what extent an individual is able to withstand failure depends on one's mental fitness, the degree of support received from one's social group, and historical and other circumstances. This article considers the proposition that the potential for disappointment largely hinges on what a person's motivation is to engage in environmentally-oriented...

The Urban Public Space: An Interpretative Approach

Pavel Pospěch

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 75-100 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.1.04  

This article presents a theoretical discussion of the concept of public space with respect to its multidimensional nature, its normativity and historicity, and its relationship to private space. Based on de Certeau's distinction between place and space, public space is analysed as a phenomenon transcending the material reality of a city. It is argued that public space is established in the process of interaction between the social reality of the city on the one hand and its regulative processes on the other. The former refers in particular to the phenomenological duality of urban public places, which are perceived as attractive and threatening at the...

Pierre Bourdieu and the Kabyles: Idealisation, Identification, Instrumentalisation?

Tereza Hyánková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 101-122 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.1.05  

Pierre Bourdieu's social scientific concepts and theories are very popular among social scientists today. However, his early writings based on fieldwork in Algeria are far less well known, despite the fact that in was in these texts that his famous concepts and theories originated. This article sets out to examine the mutual relationship between Bourdieu and the Kabyle people from several perspectives. The author focuses on Bourdieu's relationship to the fieldwork, his relations with Kabyle intellectuals, and at the role they played as his key informants and 'experts' on Kabyle culture. The article investigates to what extent and how in France Bourdieu...

Pierre Bourdieu: Sociologické hledání sebe sama

Adela Kvasničková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 163-164  

Radka Dudová: Interrupce v České republice: zápas o ženská těla

Marcel Tomášek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 165-169  

Petr Sak, Karolína Kolesárová: Sociologie stáří a seniorů

Radomír Havlík

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 170-173  

Konrad Paul Liessmann: Univerzum věcí. K estetice každodennosti

Karel Hlaváček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 174-178  

William Julius Wilson: More than just Race. Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

Michaela Stejskalová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 179-181  

Georg Simmel: Filosofi e peněz

Vít Horák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 182-184  

Konference "Urban Marginality and the State: The Production of Precarity in the City", Paříž, Francie 20.-21. 6. 2012

Kateřina Sidiropulu Janků

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 185-186  

Upozornění redakce

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 187  

The Public Revelance of Sociology: An Introduction to Two Remembrances

Ondřej Císař, Jan Balon

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 123-125  

Bourdieu 1993: A Case Study in Scientific Consecration

Loïc Wacquant

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 126-140  

In Praise of Sociology

Pierre Bourdieu

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 141-148  

Mosca and Michels - 'Outsiders' in Political Sociology? Political Formula and the Iron Law of Oligarchy

Miloslav Petrusek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(1): 149-162