Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5)

Political Participation and Its Determinants in Post-Communist Countries

Kateřina Vráblíková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 867-898 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.5.01  

The article focuses on the differences in political participation among post-communist countries. First, it explores the variation in the level of political participation among post-communist states. Second, it deals with the differences in the determinants that account for political participation in individual countries. The second objective is met by introducing a three-dimensional explanatory model of political participation: individual resources, motivations, and social networks. In an empirical analysis political participation in nine post-communist countries is examined using data from the International Social Survey Programme 2004. Results show...

Why We Want Children: The Value of Children and the Preferred Number of Children in the Czech Republic

Petr Pakosta

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 899-934 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.5.02  

Surveys often reveal that the number of children people would like to have is greater than the number they actually have. This article examines the question of why people actually want children and bases its answers on data from the 2006 Value of Children Survey, which reintroduces the value of children concept from the 1970s. The battery of survey questions used identified six dimensions of the value of children (The positives of parenthood; Natural drives and goals; Tradition and social status; Social pressure; Limitations and losses; and Decision inhibitors). The respondents, young people between the ages of 28 and 34, see the main reasons for deciding...

The Reproduction of Educational Inequalities in the Czech Republic since the Velvet Revolution in a European Context

Natalie Simonová, Petr Soukup

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 935-966 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.5.03  

This article traces the effect of socio-economic, cultural, and gender factors on the reproduction of educational inequalities in access to tertiary education in the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, and Sweden. Single-country analyses conducted to date on the Czech Republic have reached conflicting results both on the development of educational inequalities since the fall of socialism and on the weight of the factors behind those inequalities. Also, no international comparison has been conducted. Thus, the authors pursue two new directions of inquiry: 1) an international comparison, and 2) an update of the development of inequalities in...

Factors behind High House Prices in Prague

Martin Lux, Tomáš Kostelecký, Martina Mikeszová, Petr Sunega

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 967-992 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.5.04  

This article deals first with the relative affordability of owner-occupied housing in Prague compared to the situation in the Czech Republic in general. The relative position of Prague in this region is then assessed in a cross-national comparison and determined to be specific. The article's main objective is to uncover the main demand factors behind the high prices and the low affordability of owner-occupied housing in Prague. The authors focus on factors that derive from the specific economic position of Prague and the specific culturally-rooted preferences of Czech citizens for owner-occupied housing. Findings from numerous sociological studies...

Student Financial Aid and Inequalities in Access to Higher Education in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands

Petr Matějů, Tomáš Konečný, Simona Weidnerová, Hans Vossensteyn

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 993-1032 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.5.05  

This article focuses on the connection between financial aid systems in higher education and the development of inequalities in access to higher education. Although the student financial aid system is just one of a number of factors that influence a person's chances of studying in higher education, its role in a person's decision to pursue higher education may be of fundamental significance for those with lower socio-economic status. Therefore, the authors of this article focus on the effect of the financial conditions of study on the chances that individuals from families with low socio-economic status have obtained higher education. The analysis...

The Ambivalent Legacy of Charles Wright Mills' The Sociological Imagination

Jan Balon

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1055-1072 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.5.09  

Charles Wright Mills wrote his renowned and bestselling The Sociological Imagination fifty years ago with the ambition of providing an alternative to the theoretically unsubstantial and methodologically inhibiting approaches that predominated at that time. His battle against the idea of a politically and morally neutral understanding of social inquiry was rhetorically compelling and anticipated the radical voices that would be heard in the late 1960s. It is argued in this article that probably the best lesson we can get from Mills has to do with his understanding of 'sociology as a profession'. His argument addresses crucially important questions about...

What Is the Mechanism for Reducing Social Inequalities in Access to Education?

Tomáš Katrňák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1033-1037  

Is It Possible to Demonstrate the Effect of One Variable on Another with an Analysis of Two Cases? Comparative Methodology Using a Small Number of Cases

Martin Kreidl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1038-1044  

Can Sociology Contribute to Shortfalls in Public Policy? A Response to Tomáš Katrňák and Martin Kreidl

Petr Matějů, Tomáš Konečný

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1045-1054  

Forgotten and Neglected Sociologists (Twenty Years after the Death of Professor Vojtěch Tlustý)

Miloslav Petrusek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1077-1080  

Looking Back on Inocenc Arnošt Bláha's Sociology

Dušan Janák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1081-1090  

Michal Illner at 75

Jiří Musil

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1073-1076  

A Typical Representative of British Sociology: Peter Townsend

Jiří Musil

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1091-1092  

Ralf Dahrendorf (1929-2009)

Lukáš Novotný

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1093-1098  

Trends in Assortative Mating in the Past Two Decades Indicate a Closing Social Structure in the Czech Republic

Martin Kreidl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1099-1106 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.5.15  

Dušan Lužný, Zdeněk R. Nešpor et al.: Náboženství v menšině. Religiozita a spiritualita v současné české společnosti

Miroslav Tížik

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1107-1110  

Marek Jakoubek, Lenka Budilová (eds.): Romové a Cikáni - neznámí i známí. Interdisciplinární pohled

Ondřej Hejnal

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1111-1113  

Robert Klobucký: Hlasistické hnutie: národ a sociológia. Začiatky sociologického myslenia na Slovensku

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1114-1116  

Lenka Strnadová: Současné podoby občanské společnosti: kritická perspektiva

Stanislav Myšička

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1117-1120  

Zdeněk R. Nešpor: Ne/náboženské naděje intelektuálů. Vývoj české sociologie náboženství v mezinárodním a interdisciplinárním kontextu

Dušan Janák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1121-1122  

Aleš Sekot: Sociologické problémy sportu

Arnošt Svoboda

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1123-1125  

Dana Sýkorová: Autonomie ve stáří

Lucie Vidovićová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1126-1127  

Nico Stehr: Die Moralisierung der Märkte, Eine Gesellschaftstheorie

Karel Müller

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1128-1131  

Edward W. Said: Orientalismus. Západní koncepce Orientu

Karel Černý

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1132-1135  

Peter J. Jacques: Environmental Skepticism - Ecology, Power and Public Life

Petr Vidomus

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1136-1140  

Mezinárodní konference ENHR 09 - Prague Changing Housing Markets: Integration and Segmentation

Martin Lux, Michaela Vojtková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1141-1142  

Letní škola kvantitativních metod v sociálních vědách (École d'été de Lille en Méthodes Quantitatives des Sciences Sociales). Modul metod kvantitativní analýzy biografických dat (Le traitement quantitatif des données biographiques)

Jana Chaloupková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1143  

Konference VALDOR a projekt ARGONA

Zdenka Vajdová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1144-1146  

Konference Les Défis du Pluralisme Religieux / The Challenges of Religious Pluralism

Roman Vido

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(5): 1147