Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(4)

Living Together in an Urban Neighbourhood: The Majority and Vietnamese Immigrants in Prague-Libuš

Luděk Sýkora, Klára Fiedlerová, Tereza Freidingerová, Andrea Svobodová, Dita Čermáková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(4): 475-504 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.4.269  

This article contributes to the discussion of everyday interactions between a settled majority population and new immigrants in an urban neighbourhood with recent experience of immigration. It analyses daily interactions between the majority population and Vietnamese immigrants in one Prague neighbourhood in an effort to identify both tensions and conflicts and conviviality in everyday life, while distinguishing between the stereotypes prevalent in popular discourse and in representations of the Vietnamese and the real practices of economic, social, and cultural interaction. The study seeks to identify the issues and places around which tensions emerge...

Transitions between Employment and Unemployment among Older Workers in the Czech Republic

Lada Železná, Martin Kreidl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(4): 505-534 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.4.270  

There is a sharp discrepancy between the emphasis being placed on active ageing and labour market participation in older age and the high unemployment rates observed among older workers. Cross-sectional data in the Czech Republic consistently present evidence of job insecurity and employment vulnerability in older age groups. Aggregated data and statistical indices do not, however, offer a sufficiently detailed picture of the social processes (e.g. exit from the labour market, duration of unemployment, and exit from unemployment) behind the numbers. This article takes a dynamic look at the position of older workers in the labour market by investigating...

Sports Stars as Accumulations of Sporting Capital

Arnošt Svoboda

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(4): 535-556 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.4.271  

The article describes how exceptional athletes become sports stars. Unlike most sociological papers, its target is the locally situated sporting subculture, only partly professionalised and medialised, examined in the example of a top-level swimming club in Brno. It draws on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of symbolic capital to present a case study of a specific sporting sub-culture based on qualitative methods, most notably in-depth interviews, unobtrusive observation, and document analysis. The sports star is here envisioned as the product of an accumulation of the sporting capital of members of a sporting club, the basic factors of which are the various...

Gender Aspects of Divorce: How the Study of Divorce Can Contribute to Theoretical Approaches to the Sociology of the Family

Petr Fučík

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(4): 557-580 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.4.272  

This review article maps a specific area of divorce research, which is important, but almost uncited in Czech sociology of the family: the connection between divorce and gender. It shows that although the concept of gender is implicitly embedded in the social phenomenon of divorce, the majority of empirical research on divorce conceptualises gender only as differences in the behaviour of men and women. This approach can be useful for explaining the gender structure of the causes and consequences of divorce. Here more attention is given to studies that explicitly mention the concept of gender at the structural, institutional, and interactional levels....

Sociální a komunikativní konstrukce reality - vzpomínka na Thomase Luckmanna

Lukáš Novotný

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(4): 581-590  

Martin Koubek: Zápas o uvozovky: interpretační rámce a repertoár jednání pro-romského hnutí v letech 1989-2007

Jan Kozubík

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(4): 591-593  

Dan Ryšavý, Daniel Čermák a kol.: Na/O kraji: Kraje a jejich představitelé 2000-2013

Josef Kawulok

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(4): 594-596  

Lucie Jarkovská, Kateřina Lišková, Jana Obrovská, Adéla Souralová: Etnická rozmanitost ve škole. Stejnost v různosti

Kateřina Machovcová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(4): 597-600  

Jiří Šubrt: Individualismus a holismus v sociologii. Jak překonat teoretické dilema?

Tereza Čepilová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(4): 601-603  

Daniel Zamora, Michael C. Behrent (eds.): Foucault and Neoliberalism

Petr Kubala

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(4): 604-607  

Kirstin Drenkhahn, Manuela Dudeck, Frieder Dünkel: Long-Term Imprisonment and Human Rights

Lukáš Dirga

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(4): 608-609  

Helga Nowotny: The Cunning of Uncertainty

Anna Durnová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(4): 610-614  

European Workshop on "Prison Life and the Effects of Imprisonment: Multiple Perspectives on Imprisonment", Dánsko, Odense, 20.-21. 4. 2016

Lukáš Dirga

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(4): 615