Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5)
Articles
Volunteering in the Czech Republic before 1989: Discourses, Definitions, Cross-references
Tereza Pospíšilová
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 887-910 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.5.01
This article investigates volunteering as a specific interdisciplinary topic connected with civil society studies. It shows that the main body of literature treats volunteering in postcommunist countries as nonexistent or inauthentic. The year 1989 is viewed as a major turning point, after which volunteering developed anew from scratch. This article is based on twelve interviews with current volunteers that focused on their interpretation of the volunteering experience before and after 1989. The article shows that volunteering pre- and post-1989 may be framed as part of a continuous story. Interpreting the year 1989 as a break in development and a...
Academic Success and the Intergenerational Reproduction of Academic Performance at Basic School
Kateřina Vojtíšková
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 911-936 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.5.02
This article presents the preliminary results of an ethnographic study focusing on eighth- and ninth-year students at two basic schools in Prague. The study conceives academic success and failure as categories that need to be explained; it is necessary to demonstrate how they are produced and ascribed with meaning in the everyday practice of student evaluation, especially by school authorities. Student evaluations are generally based on a complex assessment of a student's aptitude and diligence, and they also reflect a student's conduct at school conduct and attitude towards school discipline, education, and authority, i.e. towards accepted values,...
Subjective Quality of Working Life Indicator
Jiří Vinopal
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 937-966 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.5.03
The methodological focus of this article is the empirical study of the quality of working life and a description of a population survey instrument developed by the author called the 'subjective quality of working life indicator' (SQWLI). The introduction contains a summary of the theoretical and empirical principles that SQWLI is based on. It describes the basic (micro-, mezzo-, and macro-) levels on which quality of working life can be measured and discusses the problem of the duality of social phenomena consisting in objective conditions and actors' subjective perception of them. Based on this concept, it identifies what the SQWLI is intended to...
Sociologist/s between the Clerical Collar, the Swastika and the Red Star: Jaroslav Šíma in the History of Czech Sociology
Zdeněk R. Nešpor
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 967-990 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.5.04
The article analyses the life story and works of a significant, but today sadly almost unknown, Czech sociologist, Jaroslav Šíma (1914-1955). It draws on all the published sources available on him as well as a large number of to date unknown and unexploited archive materials. Šíma became a member of the somewhat "thin on the ground" national sociological academia of the interwar period and specialised in the sociology of sexuality, religion, and education. However, his research was often the result of his own religious and church positions, which were connected with the so-called free Christianity movement and which cannot be accurately judged according...
Authors and Themes in Sociologická revue: A Contribution to the Sociological Analysis of the History of Czech Sociology
Dušan Janák
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 991-1016 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.5.05
This article summarises the results of a content analysis of Sociologická revue (The Sociology Review), the main Czech journal of sociology during the interwar and immediate post-war periods (the journal was published in 1930-1940 and 1946-1949). It focuses primarily on the structure of authors and themes published in the journal, studied using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of text analysis. Some of the most productive contributors to Sociologická revue were the important Czech sociologists I. A. Bláha, E. Chalupný and J. L. Fischer and from abroad P. Sorokin. In terms of thematic structure, the majority of texts published in...
The Return of (Sociological) Theory to the Czech Republic? Principles, Perspectives, and Current Status
Miloslav Petrusek
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1017-1034 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.5.06
This article concentrates on the development and interests of theoretical (general) sociology in the Czech Republic during the period 1990-2010. It examines the consequences of the postmodern influence and attempts to establish a 'critical sociology'. Its main focus is summarising the key books and texts on the relevant theoretical areas (historical sociology, theoretical foundations of qualitative sociology, grounded theory, feminism, gender studies, and sociology of politics, etc.) The author sees the possible advancement of theoretical sociology in the growing interest of young scholars in general sociology and in critical sociology (often inspired...
Jubilees
Milan Petrusek at 75
Ivo Možný
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1035-1040
Obituary
From the City to Friendship - Raymond E. Pahl (1935-2011)
Jiří Musil
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1041-1044
Review essays
Czech Developmental Cooperation Held Hostage to 'Growth'
Tomáš Profant
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1045-1054 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.5.09
Book reviews
Kateřina Lišková: Hodné holky se dívají jinam: Feminismus a pornografie
Tereza Stöckelová
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1055-1056
Martin Strouhal: Emile Durkheim - Sociolog a pedagog
Jan Maršálek
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1057-1060
Pavel Dufek: Úrovně spravedlnosti: Liberalismus, kosmopolitismus a lidská práva
Jan Váně
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1061-1065
Peter Dinuš: Vyrovnávanie sa s minulosťou?
Tomáš Bezák
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1066-1068
Hana Maříková, Tomáš Kostelecký, Tomáš Lebeda, Markéta Škodová (eds.): Jaká je naše společnost? Otázky, které si často klademe...
Michal Kotík
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1069-1071
Pierre Bourdieu: Pravidla umění: Vznik a struktura literárního pole
Michal Růžička
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1072-1074
Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari: Tisíc plošin
Petr Sič
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1075-1077
Cameron Lynne Macdonald: Shadow Mothers. Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering
Adéla Souralová
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1078-1082
Conference reports and information
Pracovní seminář Česká a slovenská sociologie náboženství po roce 1989 - hodnocení, aktuální stav a budoucnost
Roman Vido
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1083