Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(2)

Between Self-Identification and Expert Evaluation of Ideological Preferences: The Method of Latent Ideological Types

Vladimír Krivý, Miloslav Bahna

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(2): 191-220 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.2.01  

The aim of this article is to present the method of latent ideological types and its possible uses. Two dominant approaches to measuring the ideological orientations of the public are self-identification and expert evaluation of attitudes and value orientations. Both approaches are also a common ingredient in international comparative research. In this article the authors first focus on the strengths and methodological weaknesses of those approaches. They then introduce their method of latent ideological types as a different approach. They present the principles of the method, the necessary sequence of steps, and conclude with its concrete application...

Secularisation, Disenchantment, and the 'Pluralisation of Religiosity'

Miloš Havelka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(2): 221-240 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.2.02  

This article applies the perspective of historical-sociological semantics to examine the changing meanings of secularisation and pluralisation in relation to changing realities. This approach here makes it possible to analyse and distinguish several other concepts of the sociology of religion that can be used to take a more differentiated look to the often all-encompassing application of the concept of secularisation, which both embraces and diminishes Weber's multidimensional concept of 'disenchantment' (Entzauberung). Drawing on Niklas Luhmann's concepts of 'segmentary differentiation' and the 'surplus effect', the author attempts to formulate a...

The 'Hilton' as a Fecal Court: The Socio-spatial Aspects of Homelessness

Ondřej Hejnal

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(2): 241-268 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.2.03  

This article sets out to analyse the social (re)production of an object inhabited by homeless people that is located on the periphery of a mid-sized Czech city. Drawing on Edward Soja's model of the trialectics of spatiality and Petr Vašát's empirically based concept of heterotopia, the author describes three spheres (or space-types) of the object: (1) a historical and physical description of the object; (2) the dominant actors' representations of the object (including politicians, municipal police, public authorities, and the local media); and (3) the object as a heterotopic 'Hilton' (the emic name of the object). He focuses mainly on the differences...

The Demise of Tradition and Its Salvation through Sex: The Discursive Strategies of Opponents of Sex Education

Lucie Jarkovská, Kateřina Lišková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(2): 269-290 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.2.04  

In 2010 sex education became a surprising target of criticism in the secular Czech Republic. The voices of social conservatives were raised and were answered by the Minister of Education, who launched a reform of educational curricula to exclude sex education. This article analyses the discursive strategies employed by conservative opponents of sex education and highlights the interpretive repertoires of sexuality and gender. The authors argue that Czech conservatives deploy both a moral panic strategy and a discursive strategy of empowerment that uses positive sanctions to support 'good sex', defined exclusively as marital, procreative heterosex....

'Development' and Power: A Sociological Analysis of Power in 'Development' Cooperation

Tomáš Profant

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(2): 291-318 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.2.05  

The social sciences offer a variety of theoretical approaches to grasping the issue of power. 'Development' represents a good field for such analysis. Power tends to be a neglected issue and does not figure in governmental, non-governmental, or international discourse. In the academic field it is less overlooked, but in the Czech-Slovak environment there is as yet no theoretical overview of the various approaches to studying power and 'development'. This article sets out to answer the question of how best to examine power in 'development' and replies with a multidisciplinary approach. It begins by focusing on the understanding of power within the context...

Miroslav Novák et al.: Úvod do studia politiky

Petr Bláha

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(2): 319-320  

Petra Guasti, Jessie Hronešová, Zdenka Mansfeldová (eds.): The Nexus between Democracy, Collective Identity Formation, and EU Enlargement

Daniela Gawrecká

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(2): 321-324  

Miroslav Tížik: Náboženstvo vo verejnom živote na Slovensku. Zápasy o ideový charakter štátu a spoločnosti

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(2): 325-327  

Hana Horáková: Kultura jako všelék? Kritika soudobých přístupů

Petr Krčál

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(2): 328-330  

John S. Dryzek: Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance

Kateřina Ptáčková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(2): 331-334  

Deborah H. Drake: Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security, Critical Criminological Perspectives

Lukáš Dirga

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(2): 335-337  

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Vivienne SM. Angeles (eds.): Gender, Religion, and Migration: Pathways of Integration

Denisa Sedláčková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(2): 338