Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4)

The Personal Characteristics of Candidates in Municipal Elections and Their Effect on Election Results

Josef Bernard

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 613-640 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2012.48.4.05  

Workplace Bullying in Czech Universities: Prevalence, Forms and Organisational Context

Kateřina Zábrodská, Petr Květon

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 641-668 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2012.48.4.06  

Workplace bullying (or mobbing) refers to a destructive form of behaviour that occurs within organisations and that inflicts psychological and social harm on targeted employees, creates a hostile work environment, and affects organisations negatively. This article presents findings from the first Czech study into workplace bullying and other forms of negative workplace behaviour in Czech universities. The aim of the study was to analyse the incidence of bullying among university employees and to examine the organisational contexts that promote bullying. Data from three Czech public universities (N = 1533; F = 58.0%) were collected using a questionnaire...

Sociological Education and Students of Sociology in Czechoslovakia before the Rise of the Communist Regime

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 669-696  

Czechoslovak sociology was among the first European national sociological traditions to become established institutionally. Lectures in sociology commenced at Charles University in the 1880s, the first professorships and departments of sociology were established in 1919, and sociology was fully established as a doctoral discipline twelve years later. All the other universities in Czechoslovakia (with the notable exception of the German University in Prague) followed suit (usually after five or so 'test' years), as did polytechnics and independent colleges specialising in social studies, where, admittedly, attempts to establish departments of sociology...

The Effect of Sibship Size on School Achievement in Mathematics, Reading and Science in the Czech Republic

Marta Hirschová, Martin Kreidl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 697-736 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2012.48.4.08  

This paper investigates the effect of family size on educational achievement of 15-year-old students in the Czech Republic in 2003. The authors find that a continuous measure of the number of co-residing siblings has a negative effect on school achievement and that this effect persists (somewhat reduced in size) even when controlling for family structure, parental education, type of school, and year at school. They find no interactions between family size and other variables in the analysis. The main finding is consistent across various methods of dealing with missing data. The authors conclude that given contemporary population trends, stratification...

Health and Marital Status: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Dana Hamplová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 737-756 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2012.48.4.09  

This article focuses on the link between marital status and health and presents an overview of the theories and empirical studies that are devoted to this issue. The article examines the issues of selection and causality, the importance of the quality of a union, gender differences, marital and partnership histories, and social context. It shows that, while the link between marital status and mortality or physical and mental health is well documented in the literature, the relative significance of causality and selection is still under discussion. The contemporary literature does not even have a clear answer yet for the question of how much the link...

The Institutionalisation of Non-responsibility - Efficiency or Conformity? Organisational Reform of Public Services Based on Accountability Theory

Arnošt Veselý

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 757-784 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2012.48.4.10  

The article examines several aspects of the organisational reform of public services in EU-10 countries based on accountability theory. First, it briefly summarises what reforms have been introduced and describes their internal contradictions. The author argues that these internal tensions stem not just from the introduction of 'new public management' ideas into a completely different context, but also from the fact that the conceptual bases of one of the key objectives of these reforms - greater accountability - are internally contradictory. To understand these inconsistencies, the author analyses the various meanings of 'accountability' and shows...

Ivo Možný's 80th Birthday

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Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 785  

Ivo Možný's 80th Birthday

Stein Ringen

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 786-787  

Ivo Možný and His Five Contributions

Petr Mareš

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 788-791  

A Salute to the Margrave of Moravia!

Jiří Večerník

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 792-793  

My Portrait of Ivo Možný among the Three M's

Miloslav Petrusek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 794-796  

Zemřel Miloslav Petrusek

Ondřej Císař

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 607  

The Passing of Miloslav Petrusek

Michal Illner

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 608  

The Death of a Great Sociologist

Jiří Večerník

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 609  

The Place of Miloslav Petrusek in the History of Czech Sociology

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 610-612  

The Last Letter of Ladislav Čerych (1925-2012)

Miloslav Petrusek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 797-798  

Masaryk among His Contemporaries in Sociology (on the 75th Anniversary of His Death)

Miloslav Petrusek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 799-802  

Hynek Jůn: Moc, pomoc a bezmoc

Pavel Říčan

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 803-804  

Michal Kubát: Politická opozice v teorii a středoevropské praxi (vybrané otázky)

Vladimír Naxera

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 805-807  

Roman Vido: Konec velkého vyprávění. Sekularizace v sociologické perspektivě

Jakub Havlíček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 808-810  

Małgorzata Jacyno: Kultura individualismu

Lenka Hanovská

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 811-813  

Hendrik Wagenaar: Meaning in action: interpretation and dialogue in policy analysis

Milan Hrubeš

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 814-818  

Marek Hrubec: Od zneuznání ke spravedlnosti: Kritická teorie globální společnosti a politiky

Michal Pullman

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(4): 819