Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3)

Impact of Salience on Differential Trust across Political Institutions in the Czech Republic

Pat Lyons

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 347-374 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.3.01  

This article explores why citizens express varying levels of trust across six institutions of political representation within the Czech Republic using a set of rival models. In addressing this question, this study argues that systematic differences in institutional trust are related to salience. Institutions with high visibility or salience to the public, i.e. government, lower chambre and president, will be trusted on the basis of their perceived political and economic performance. In contrast, institutions that are less salient to citizens are not evaluated on the basis of performance but on more diffuse criteria. Competing models of trust are divided...

Geographical and Temporal Dimensions of Bulgarian Attitudes towards the Rural Environment

Chad Staddon, Stefan Genchev

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 375-402 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.3.02  

This paper explores certain dimensions of the transformation since 1989 in attitudes towards the environment in one largely rural locality of southwest Bulgaria. There is something of a paradox apparent in rural attitudes and behaviours to the environment: nakedly expropriative on the one hand whilst simultaneously deeply concerned and celebratory on the other. Exploration of this apparent paradox is the primary objective of this paper. The authors present fi ndings from a decennial survey initiative focusing on environmental attitudes and behaviours in a mountainous Bulgarian locality. Results from 1999 and 2011 are presented side by side with a view...

The National Religious Environment and the Orthodoxy of Christian Beliefs: A Comparison of Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Jan Váně, Martina Štípková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 403-426 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.3.03  

The authors analyse the relationship between primary religious socialisation and the preservation of religious orthodoxy expressed by attitudes and practices in adulthood. They aim to test the effect of socialisation and the effect of religious practices in adulthood on the orthodoxy of people's beliefs in three countries (Austria, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic), which are similar in terms of their cultural context, but have different religious environments. The authors see the different religious environment of each of the studied countries as the main explanatory factor. They also try to demonstrate that in an era of pluralism, orthodox...

Revisiting Deterrence: Legal Knowledge, Use Context and Arrest Perception for Cannabis

Patricia G. Erickson, Mark van der Maas, Andrew D. Hathaway

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 427-448 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.3.04  

Deterrence research has evolved considerably since the 1970s when a favourite offence for study was the emerging phenomenon of widespread cannabis use among mainstream populations. The deterrent model of crime prevention has expanded far beyond the study of objective and subjective indicators of certainty and severity to encompass social support, moral evaluations, peer involvement and, most recently, risk sensitivity and situational factors. Most earlier research found no evidence of deterrence of cannabis use, a fi nding attributed to its low actual and perceived risk of arrest and changes in public attitudes. This interview study with adult experienced...

In Memoriam Jiří Musil

Wendelin Strubelt

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 449-454  

Barbara Vis: Politics of Risk-Taking: Welfare State Reform in Advanced Democracies

Marek Naczyk

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 455-457  

Richard Rose, William Mishler and Neil Munro: Popular Support for an Undemocratic Regime: The Changing Views of Russians

Linda L. Cook

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 458-460  

Leonardo Morlino: Changes for Democracy: Actors, Structures, Processes

Seán Hanley

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 461-463  

Robbyn R. Wacker and Karen A.Roberto: Aging Social Policies: An International Perspective

Eszter Zolyomi

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 464-466  

Guglielmo Meardi: Social Failures of EU Enlargement: A Case of Workers Voting with Their Feet

Marta Kahancová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 467-470  

Roman David: Lustration and Transitional Justice: Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland

Peter Rožič

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 471-474  

Irena Kogan, Clemens Noelke and Michael Gebel (eds.): Making the Transition. Education and Labor Market Entry in Central and Eastern Europe

Vera Scepanovic

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 475-477  

Gareth Dale (ed.): First the Transition, Then the Crash. Eastern Europe in the 2000s

Umut Korkut

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 478-481  

Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg (eds.): Regulating the Risk of Unemployment: National Adaptations to Postindustrial Labor Markets in Europe

J. Timo Weishaupt

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 482-484  

Alison Pilnick, Jon Hindmarsh and Virginia Teas Gill (eds.): Communication in Healthcare Settings. Policy, Participation and New Technologies

Francesco Barbabella

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(3): 485