Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1)

Framing and Agenda-Setting: Two Parallel Processes in Interaction

František Kalvas, Jan Váně, Martina Štípková, Martin Kreidl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 3-38 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2012.48.1.01  

In this article the authors interconnect the framing and agenda-setting theories of mass-communication effects. They postulate that the framing process creates conditions for the agenda-setting process and argue that differently framed news have different effects in the agenda-setting process. They hypothesise that issue-specific frames, episodic frames, and value frames have a stronger agenda-setting effect than generic frames, thematic frames, and strategy frames and suggest explaining the role of frames in the agenda-setting process through the theory of cognitive dissonance. The hypotheses are tested using matched panel survey data on respondents'...

Problem Residential Neighbourhoods and Policies Aimed at Their Regeneration in the Post-socialist City: A Case Study of Prague

Tomáš Kostelecký, Věra Patočková, Michal Illner

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 39-64 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2012.48.1.02  

This article sets out to examine regeneration policies in Prague. After introducing the concept of regeneration and regeneration theories and reviewing foreign cases of regeneration of problem neighbourhoods, the authors analyse the situation in Prague and attempt to answer three basic questions: How do the authorities in Prague approach social-spatial inequalities and urban regeneration in the city? What are the objectives of the city's regeneration policies and what tools are used? Who are the main actors involved in regeneration policies and how do they relate to each other? The study of documents and interviews with the people who are the actors...

Continuity and Change in Beliefs about Distributive Justice: the Czech Republic between 1991 and 2009

Petr Matějů, Michael L. Smith

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 65-84 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2012.48.1.03  

The article analyses changes in beliefs about distributive justice in the Czech Republic from 1991 to 2009 in an international comparative perspective. Based on previous analyses and published work, the article formulates the hypothesis that the process of crystallisation of the two main ideologies or norms of distributive justice, namely meritocratic and egalitarian ideologies, which was confirmed in analyses carried out from 1991 to 1995, continued in later years. The article draws on the fundamental theories of distributive justice and utilises data from surveys carried out in 1991, 1995, 2006 and 2009, which the authors analyse in terms of measurement...

Biopower and Reproductive Biomedicine: a Conceptual Inspiration for Czech Sociology of Medicine

Lenka Slepičková, Eva Šlesingerová, Iva Šmídová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 85-106 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2012.48.1.04  

The article examines the concept of biopower as it relates to contemporary reproductive medicine. It puts forth analytical frames for understanding the ways in which the power and hegemony of modern Western medicine (biomedicine) are applied and negotiated in the field of human reproduction, and it proposes possible uses for such frames in the sociological study of Czech reproductive medicine. It deals mainly with biopower and biopolitics as analytical concepts pertaining to the control and administration of the modern population, governmentality, medicalisation, and authoritative knowledge. The article conceives biomedicine as a sign of the normalisation...

Seniors in the City: On the Periphery of a Big Issue

Dana Sýkorová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 107-130 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2012.48.1.05  

In this article the author presents the outcome of the first 'qualitative' stage of the project 'Old Age in Space: Regeneration, Gentrification and Social Exclusion as New Issues of Environmental Gerontology'. She responds to research questions on how seniors residing in urban centres interpret the town environment, contemporary urban processes, ageing and old age, and how they maintain control over their situation given their state of health, physical performance, financial resources, and the specific spatial resources of urban neighbourhoods (personal strategies). In the article the author briefly sums up the theoretical starting points of the issue,...

Age as a Source of Social Identity

Romana Trusinová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 131-152 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2012.48.1.06  

The article examines age as a possible group identity. It sets out to determine which age groups in society today have a stronger sense of identity and the source of that identity, while drawing on the tenets of social psychology and the theories of social identity and optimal distinctiveness. The latter two theories provide insight into the motives for identification with social groups, but see different needs at the heart of this identification, and thus offer alternative hypotheses of age as a source of status and positive self-image versus age as a source of distinctiveness and a 'substitute' source of identity. The analysis is based on representative...

What Do We Owe Václav Havel?

Miloslav Petrusek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 153-158  

Václav Havel and Sociology

Jiří Musil

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 159-164  

Marek Jakoubek: Vojvodovo - etnologie krajanské obce v Bulharsku

Jiří Woitsch

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 165  

Martin Bútora, Zora Bútorová, Miroslav Kollár, Grigorij Mesežnikov (eds.): Kde sme? Mentálne mapy Slovenska

Michal Kotík

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 166-168  

Maxwell T. Boykoff: Who Speaks for the Climate? Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change

Petr Vidomus

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 169-173  

Jean-Paul Gabilliet: Of Comics and Men. A Cultural History of American Comic Books

Pavel Kořínek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 174-176  

John Gerring, Strom C. Thacker: A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance

Milan Hrubeš

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 177-180  

Konference Company Towns of the Baťa Concern

Lucie Galčanová, Barbora Vacková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 181-182  

Konference Změny způsobu života a jejich sociokulturní souvislosti

Helena Kubátová, František Znebejánek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 183-186  

Konference Třetí město

Michal Illner

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 187-188  

Program krátkých návštěv v centrech výzkumné kompetence projektu European Social Survey - zkušenost a výzva k podávání přihlášek

Romana Trusinová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 189-191  

Zdeněk R. Nešpor, Anna Kopecká (eds.): Edice českých sociologických časopisů

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2012, 48(1): 192