Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(1)

Adult Education in the Czech Republic: Who Pursues It and What Are the Outcomes?

Natalie Simonová, Dana Hamplová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(1): 3-26 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.1.240  

The article focuses on adult education in the Czech Republic. It begins by defining the institutional context of adult education in the country. Three institutional characteristics are of particular interest in this respect: returns to education, the current level of education of the adult population (and the related demand for adult education), and institutions offering adult education. Using the LFS and AES surveys, the authors find that it is primarily young and educated persons who pursue adult education. With respect to the returns to adult education, the results show that adult education does not protect against downward mobility but does increase...

The Social Role(s) of Poor Seniors

Dana Sýkorová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(1): 27-52 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.1.241  

The article deals with poverty in old age, which the author studies through the concept of social roles or social status. She analyses data from a qualitative empirical study in order to understand how various aspects of poverty in old age and the status of being poor impact seniors' performance of social roles. The author approaches poverty and old age as stigmas and looks at the ways in which seniors living in poverty defend their identity against inferior status. The article explains how the role of a poor senior is performed, whether and how poverty affects the roles that poor seniors share with other seniors, and whether the ascriptive status...

Cool Kids, Rappers and Drop-Outs: The Ethnography of Ethnicity and Ethnicisation in the Desegregated Classroom

Jana Obrovská

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(1): 53-78 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.1.242  

This article focuses on the dynamics of ethnicity in the desegregated classroom. The author examines the role of ethnicity in peer culture and finds that it is usually mediated and intersects with other categories (gender, age) and social identities of students (e.g. the friend identity). She also seeks to determine in what contexts and what directions these intersections occur and what kind of integrative or exclusionary effects ethnicity has in the classroom. She argues that ethnicity primarily becomes visible during ritualised symbolic performances in which the significance of different identities is accentuated. Against the backdrop of an ethnographic...

Estimating the Reliability of Selected Items in Czech EU-SILC Data Using the Quasi Simplex Model Method

Johana Chylíková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(1): 79-106 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.1.243  

The article presents estimates of the reliability of measurement in the Czech surveys carried out in the EU-SILC international longitudinal research project. The reliability estimates were obtained using the Quasi Simplex Model (QSM), which has never before been used in Czech research. An analysis was carried out on all the items in the EU-SILC questionnaire that fulfilled the criteria for the QSM analysis: PH010, the item that asks respondents about their subjective health, HS120, the item that asks about the household's financial situation, and HS130, which asks what the minimum sufficient income of a household is. The analysis drew on all available...

Dušan Janák a kolektiv: Počátky sociologie ve střední Evropě. Studie o formování sociologie jako vědy v Polsku, českých zemích, na Slovensku a v Maďarsku

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(1): 107-108  

Michal Klíma: Od totality k defektní demokracii. Privatizace a kolonizace politických stran netransparentním byznysem

Jaroslav Bílek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(1): 109-110  

Zygmunt Bauman, Carlo Bordoni: Stát v krizi

Petra A. Beránková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(1): 111-113  

Gianni Vattimo: Transparentní společnost

Lenka Hanovská

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(1): 114-116  

Simonetta Longhi, Alita Nandi: A Practical Guide to Using Panel Data

Petr Soukup

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(1): 117-118  

Kerstin Jacobsson (ed.): Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe

Michaela Pixová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(1): 119-124  

5. olomoucká sociologická podzimní konference "Hodnoty a normy v pozdně moderní společnosti", Olomouc, 22.-23. 10. 2015

František Znebejánek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(1): 125