Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5)
City in Social Sciences: Cultural Approach

Město v sociálních vědách: kulturální přístup

Slavomíra Ferenčuhová, Lucie Galčanová, Barbora Vacková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 677-680  

A Probe into the Culture of a Town: Zlín - A Model Town of Modernity

Petr Mareš

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 681-702 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.5.7  

In the 1920s and 1930s the Czech town of Zlín was shaped by a plan of the Baťa shoe company to build a model company town exemplifying the perfect organisation of physical and social space (structuring society through the structure of space and vice versa), in which there is an order to everything and everyone has a distinct position within that order. This intention was tied to the needs of a society of mass production and was based on the standardisation and normalisation not only of production and industry facilities, but also of settlements and dwellings and even of the individual activities of people and their lives as a whole. In this society,...

Separate and Unite: The Architecture of Social Inequalities in the Republic of Venice

Michal Růžička, Magda Stanová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 703-728 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.5.8  

The urban space in the Republic of Venice (circa 800-1797) seems to have had a more malleable and variable quality than other towns situated on dry land: its physical space was not merely an 'infrastructure', the precondition for the existence of social space, but rather something that was actively produced and reconstructed by society itself. This is one reason why the authors decided to use the Republic of Venice to study the relationship between the social and physical space and chart the ways in which social inequalities at the dawn of the modern era were reflected in the organisation of the urban space. They present Venice as 'two cities in one':...

Collective Memory, Space and Meanings: Liberty Square in Budapest

Gábor Oláh

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 729-750 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.5.9  

When refl ecting on the relationship between urban space and collective memory, sociological discourses are challenged by cultural material objects like statues and memorials that, instead of consensus and unity, create conflict and a plurality of arguments. In this article the author examines the process of the formation of hidden cultural meanings and their influence on the action of carrier groups and the practices of remembering. He interprets the relationship between collective memory and urban space not as a constant one but as a dynamic process. A space is defined by the carrier group that uses it and the group is formed by a collective memory...

Exclusion from Urban Privatised Space: A Case Study of a Shopping Centre

Pavel Pospěch

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 751-780 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.5.05  

This paper contributes to the current debate about the privatisation of urban space. It presents a detailed discussion of the privatisation thesis in relation to the perceived 'loss of public space' and in relation to social exclusion, which many authors see as one of the key distinguishing features of privatised spaces. Many scholars regard shopping centres as the exemplification of privatised space. Therefore, this paper presents an empirical study of Czech shopping centres and focuses on the process of exclusion therein. Two kinds of exclusion are identified in the research. One is formal exclusion and it derives from the shopping centres' house...

The Imagination and Representation of Space in Everyday Experience

Ondřej Mulíček, Robert Osman, Daniel Saidenglanz

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 781-810 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.5.06  

This article examines the imagination and representation of space in everyday life from the perspective of social geography. Drawing on cultural theory, the article presents space as a multifaceted entity that is perceived, constructed, and reproduced through everyday praxis. It stresses on the situatedness and contextuality of the perception, construction, and representation of spatial categories and relations. To this end, three dimensions of space are discussed: (i) the representation of space in map form, one possible version of which is the concept of the route, founded on a topological representation of space; (ii) the scalar dimension of space,...

Urbánní sociologie se drží vcelku slušně… Rozhovor s Jiřím Musilem

Slavomíra Ferenčuhová, Lucie Galčanová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 811-820  

Odpověď na recenzi Hany Kubátové

Pavel Barša

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 841-844  

Lewis A. Coser, sociolog, který "rehabilitoval" konflikt (Ke stému výročí narození významného amerického sociologa)

Jiří Šubrt

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 835-838  

Vzpomínka na Bohumila Jungmanna

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 839-840  

Robert Neelly Bellah (1927-2013)

Marek Skovajsa

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 821-828  

Pocta Juanu Linzovi

Guy Hermet

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 829-834  

Sharon Zukin: Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

Adriana Holland

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 845-847  

David Harvey: Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to The Urban Revolution

Terezie Lokšová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 848-850  

Costas Spirou: Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy

Tomáš Doseděl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 851-853  

Tereza Stöckelová: Nebezpečné známosti: O vztahu sociálních věd a společnosti

Libor Benda

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 854-857  

Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, T. L. Taylor: Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Petr Kalinič

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(5): 858