Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5)

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...

Milan Petrusek at 75

Ivo Možný

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1035-1040  

From the City to Friendship - Raymond E. Pahl (1935-2011)

Jiří Musil

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(5): 1041-1044  

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  

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  

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