Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6)

Editorial

Marek Skovajsa

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 887-888  

Trade Union Influence in the Czech Republic since 1989

Martin Myant

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 889-912 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.6.02  

Trade unions in the Czech Republic have experienced a steady decline in membership and, albeit less markedly, in bargaining coverage since the early 1990s, but much less decline in political influence. An assessment of the extent of their overall ability to influence society's development requires a division into three spheres: business, employment relations, and the state budget. Strength in one sphere is found to influence strength in others. The development of collective bargaining in workplaces and at the sectoral level took shape relatively early. Forms of political influence developed more gradually, by a learning process, to include a combination...

Between the Spillover and the Spillout: Tracing the Evolution of the Czech Global Justice Movement

Jiří Navrátil

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 913-944 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.6.03  

This article conceptually and empirically focuses on various dimensions of the Czech Global Justice Movement (GJM) dynamics. In discussions on the Western GJM it is possible to distinguish two main perspectives on the movement's evolution, which were formulated in different contexts. One view claims that no such single movement exists anymore; it has already declined (or 'spilled out' into different field of activism). The other view argues that the movement is undergoing profound changes but its major principles and identity - at least latently - have survived. The aim of this article is twofold. First, it strives to re-introduce the concepts of 'spillover'...

The Framing of Abortion in the Czech Republic: How the Continuity of Discourse Prevents Institutional Change

Radka Dudová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 945-976 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.6.04  

Abortion was first legalised in Czechoslovakia at a relatively early date - in 1957. However, unlike in Western Europe, this did not occur as a result of pressure from civil society and the feminist movement. While attempting to explain the continuity and change of abortion institutions in the former Czechoslovakia /Czech Republic, the article focuses on the framing of the debates that preceded the changes in abortion legislation in the Czech Republic since the 1950s. Discourse analysis of media and expert articles, parliamentary debates, and other documents shows that abortion in the Czech Republic was framed as a medical issue since the 1950s, not...

Proselyting in First-contact Situations as an Instructed Action

Tamah Sherman

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 977-1010 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.6.05  

Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this study examines the phenomenon of proselyting in first-contact public situations as conducted, learned, continually developed, and reflected by American Mormon missionaries from the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) in the Czech Republic, with a focus on first-contact public proselyting (FCPP) encounters. Proselyting is analysed as an instructed action and as a situation in which one party is initially aware of the category of encounter which is to take place, while the other party (or parties) is not, and it is necessary to create the particular type of encounter and then to execute it in...

Approaching Quality in Survey Research: Towards a Comprehensive Perspective

Jindřich Krejčí

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 1011-1034 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.6.06  

The article has two goals: (1) bring attention to the problem of inappropriate treatment of survey data quality issues in the social sciences, and (2) introduce the basic principles of contemporary approaches to survey quality. If quality evaluation focuses solely on sampling error, most aspects of data quality are ignored and surveys are assumed to have 'ideal' statistical characteristics that are rarely attainable in the pragmatic world of survey fieldwork. A complex overview of the entire process of data collection provides a more solid foundation for evaluating data quality. Under this approach, quality is ensured by controlling the whole survey...

Zygmunt Bauman and Czech Sociology (1964-2010)

Miloslav Petrusek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 1035-1046  

Peter A. Hall and Michèle Lamont (eds.): Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health

Marek Skovajsa

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 1047-1051  

Agnieszka Paczyńska: State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy: Egypt, Poland, Mexico and the Czech Republic

Stephen Crowley

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 1052-1054  

James Gustave Speth: The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

Benjamin J. Vail

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 1055-1057  

Gerda Falkner, Oliver Treib and Elisabeth Holzleithner: Compliance in the Enlarged European Union: Living Rights or Dead Letters?

Tomáš Sirovátka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 1058-1061  

Paul Blokker and Bruno Dallago (eds.): Regional Diversity and Local Development in the New Member States

Vera Scepanovic

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 1062-1063  

Hana Hašková and Zuzana Uhde (eds.): Women and Social Citizenship in Czech Society: Continuity and Change

JoLynn Henke

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 1064-1067  

Jiří Večerník: Czech Society in the 2000s: A Report on Socio-economic Policies and Structures

Petr Mareš

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 1068-1069  

Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl, Jacek Moskalewicz and Betsy Thom (eds.): Two Worlds of Drug Consumption in Late Modern Societies

Jane Casey

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 1070-1072  

Migrations 2010

Lenka Šafránková Pavlíčková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(6): 1073-1074  

Reviewers of Articles in 2010

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