Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(4)

Articles

From Differentiation to Diversification: Testing MMI and EMI in the Czech Secondary School System in the First Decade of the 21st Century

Tomáš Katrňák, Natalie Simonová, Laura Fónadová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(4): 491-520 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.4.01

The article deals with secondary education in the Czech Republic between 2000 and 2010. The authors analyse the consequences of educational expansion on unequal chances by social origin of attaining a secondary education with a school-leaving certificate ('maturita'). This certificate is a prerequisite for the transition to tertiary education in the Czech educational system. The article is based on the theories of maximally maintained inequality (MMI) and effectively maintained inequality (EMI). The authors analyse data from PISA 2000 and 2009 (Programme for International Student Assessment) in the Czech Republic. They support the theory of EMI over...

The New Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk: Subversion of the State and Cultural Intimacy in the Ukrainian-Polish Borderland

Jakub Grygar

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(4): 521-548 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.4.02

This article sets out to study creative works of collective memory in contrast to state-backed representations of the past. It takes as examples for analysis the erection of statues of the title hero of Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Svejk in the border region of western Ukraine. It looks at the political and social contexts of creative readings of this novel and how such readings interfered with the dominant state-backed representations of the past and upset historical interpretations that had become deeply anchored in the national discourse. The erection of these statues also had the effect of expanding room for the imagination and fostering...

A Comparison of the Determinants of Voting Unity and Legislative Coalition Composition in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies in the Czech Republic in 1998-2010

Kamil Gregor, Vlastimil Havlík

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(4): 549-576 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.4.03

This article aims to perform a first exploratory analysis of the legislative voting structure in the Czech Senate compared to the Chamber of Deputies in 1998-2010. It focuses on the determinants of voting unity of parliamentary party groups measured using the Rice index and on the determinants of the composition of legislative coalitions measured as the relative frequency of majorities formed by two parliamentary party groups voting together. The authors find that patterns of government coalitions are present in both the Senate as and the Chamber of Deputies: senatorial groups of government parties vote more uniformly and more often together than do...

The Brno versus the Prague School of Sociology: Myth and Reality

Dušan Janák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(4): 577-602 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.4.04

This article compares the Brno and Prague schools of sociology, whose existence was among the most important characteristics of Czech interwar sociology. The comparison is performed on three levels: institutional affiliation (affiliation with a university, a learned society, and the publishing platform of a journal); objective conceptual agreement or variance (the degree to which general sociological theories, methodological opinions, evaluative judgements in science are shared); and subjective affiliation with a certain school (the existence of declared support for one school over the other, the antagonism of 'us' versus 'them' in reviews and debates,...

On the Reconstruction of 'Capitalism' in the Work of Open Marxists

Martin Nový

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(4): 603-624

Focusing on the Open Marxism school, this article explores the conceptualisation of capitalism in the work of the school's main proponents: Werner Bonefeld, John Holloway and Richard Gunn. While it criticises Pavlinek's initial interpretation, it argues for a reconstruction that is sensitive to Open Marxism's crucial notion of mediation of the central capitalist abstraction, which is a self-valorising value. Mediation analysis reveals the contradictory existence of capitalist social forms and consequently has the capacity to identify the source of their internal negativity. It grasps the existence of manifold elements of the capitalist totality on...

Interview

Rozhovor s Johannem P. Arnasonem

Karel Černý

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(4): 625-644

Review essays

O paměti holocaustu

Hana Kubátová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(4): 645-652 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2013.49.4.07

Metrosexuálové, kyborgové, stařenky a jiné oběti "Sociologie stáří a seniorů" P. Saka a K. Kolesárové aneb o pět let a sedm miliónů korun později

Lucie Vidovićová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(4): 653-656

Book reviews

Kateřina Nedbálková: Matky kuráže: Lesbické rodiny v pozdně moderní společnosti

Barbora Kubicová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(4): 657-658

Jan Váně: Komunita jako nová naděje? Náboženské (ne)institucionalizované komunity z pohledu sociologie náboženství

Jiří Poslt

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2013, 49(4): 659-660