Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2)

Intergenerational Educational Fluidity and Its Trends in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 2009

Tomáš Katrňák, Natalie Simonová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 207-242 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.2.01  

The aim of the article is to identify the trend in educational fluidity in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 2009 and offer an explanation for it. The authors use a series of 28 annual surveys conducted between 1990 and 2009 in the Czech Republic and ascertaining information about the level of education of the respondent and the respondent's father. The authors analyse trends in educational fluidity from a period and birth cohort perspective. The findings show that educational fluidity did not increase in Czech society between 1990 and 2003. From 2004 to 2009 this trend changed and a slight increase in educational fluidity became evident. These changes...

The Impact of the Majority Runoff System on Party Representation in the Czech Senate

Tomáš Lebeda

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 243-272 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.2.02  

The objective of this article is to describe the impact of the majority runoff system on the electoral process and especially on party representation in elections to the Czech Senate. The article addresses the following questions: How are individual political parties represented? How much are electoral decisions influenced by the political party and how much by who the individual candidate is? What is the difference in the success rate of individual parties in the first and runoff election rounds? Which parties benefited from this electoral system and which are disadvantaged by it? Does the majority runoff system have a curbing effect on the representation...

Spatio-temporal and Infrastructural Aspects of the Process of Social Exclusion

Michal Růžička

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 273-296 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.2.03  

Researchers who have studied the living conditions of Roma (Gypsy) communities since the collapse of state socialism in Eastern Europe tend to emphasise two dimensions of the growing degree of social exclusion of the Roma: the economic dimension (the decline in socio-economic status) and the spatial dimension (the growing levels of residential segregation). This article aims to study how spatial exclusion and involuntary residential segregation 'function', that is, how they operate on the social micro level as a 'generator' of social and economic disadvantage. Certain types of objective obstacles arise in the living environment of excluded people and...

Religion and Gender: Why Are Women More Religious Than Men?

Dana Hamplová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 297-324 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.2.04  

This article looks at the differences in the religiosity of men and women. First, it outlines the main sociological theories that explain these differences. Afterwards, it examines the differences in the religiosity of Czech men and women in the ISSP 2008 and the DIN 2006 surveys. The analyses show that Czech women are more religious than Czech men in every measure of religiosity, but do not indicate that these differences can be explained by economic activity or social deprivation measured as a subjective assessment of social status. Some of the differences can, however, be ascribed to differences in religious socialisation in childhood.

Countermovements from the Perspective of the Sociology of Social Movements

Petr Vidomus

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 325-360 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.2.05  

Countermovements and conservative activism have received relatively little attention in Czech and European sociology. This article summarises the discussions concerning the countermovement phenomenon in the last thirty years. The starting point of the interest in countermovements of different kinds in the Western context is generally considered to lie in the 1970s and the 1980s, when the opposition to the reform movements of the preceding period became more intense. In an attempt to define this phenomenon, sociology made use of its theoretical and methodological apparatus available at that time. Therefore, resource mobilization theory, the political...

Sexual Harassment at Universities: Definition, Methodology, Research Results

Irena Smetáčková, Petr Pavlík

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 361-388 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.2.06  

In this article the authors present the main results from one of two existing Czech studies on sexual harassment at Czech universities. The research was carried out in 2008-2009 on a sample of 832 students at 11 public universities and colleges. The results indicate that 78% of students have personally experienced teacher behaviours that can be characterised as sexual harassment. However, only 3% of them said explicitly that they had been sexually harassed. One of the reasons for this contradiction is the relatively low awareness about sexual harassment in Czech society. Even in academic debates, a narrow definition of sexual harassment is often preferred...

The Double Jubilee of Jaroslav Klofáč (1921-1981)

Miloslav Petrusek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 391-394  

Jiří Večerník at 70

Olga Nešporová, Zdeněk Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 389-390  

Collective Memory: A Note on a Legend

Jiří Šubrt

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 395-406 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.2.09  

Liessmann's Nostalgia: Tertiary Education in the Late-Modern Era

Radim Šíp

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 407-414 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2011.47.2.10  

Konrad Paul Liessmann: Hodnota člověka: Filosofi cko-politické eseje

Miloslav Petrusek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 415-417  

Eleonóra Hamar: Vyprávěná židovství. O narativní konstrukci druhogeneračních židovských identit

Marek Skovajsa

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 418-420  

Lukáš Linek: Zrazení snu? Struktura a dynamika postojů k politickému režimu a jeho institucím a jeho důsledky

Eva Lebedová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 421-423  

Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow: Michel Foucault. Za hranicemi strukturalismu a hermeneutiky

Tomáš Profant

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 424-429  

Marlis Pörtner: Na osobu zaměřený přístup v práci s lidmi s mentálním postižením a s klienty vyžadujícími trvalou péči

Ingrid Štegmannová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 430-432  

Miloš Havelka: Ideje - dějiny - společnost. Studie k historické sociologii vědění

Jakub Havlíček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 433-438  

Konference Sociologie náboženství v datech

Dušan Lužný

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2011, 47(2): 439