Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2014, 50(1)

Articles

The Spatial Context of Voter Behaviour: How Do Local and Regional Factors Impact Voter Decisions

Josef Bernard, Tomáš Kostelecký

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2014, 50(1): 3-28 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2014.50.1.30

Among the many factors that influence the voting behaviour of individual voters, various spatial characteristics have repeatedly been cited as important factors. The diverse impacts of spatial characteristics are collectively referred to as contextual effects. Contextual effects impact voters in different ways: through differences in the local geographical and socio-economic conditions, the varying influence of local communication interactions, observational influences, differences in local political socialisation and local campaigning, or through the effect of candidate residency. This article presents an overview of the most frequently discussed...

The Problem of Relevance in Thematically Oriented Biographical Interview: The Case of Oral History Interviews

Martin Hájek, Martin Havlík, Jiří Nekvapil

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2014, 50(1): 29-56 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2014.50.1.32

The thematically oriented biographical interview (TOBI) is a research tool used frequently in contemporary qualitative research. Compared to other interviewing techniques, its main advantage is its combination of a thematic focus and sensitivity to the perspective of the interviewee. The authors demonstrate that TOBI is made up of several constituents: first, it is a speech infrastructure (comprising a conversational and a narrative component), and second, it encompasses three kinds of relevance (biographical relevance, identity relevance and specific thematic relevance). The main part of the article is devoted to an analysis of the types and forms...

'Yesterday, or when was it?' - The Temporality Practices of the Poorest Class

Petr Vašát

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2014, 50(1): 57-82 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2014.50.1.34

The article seeks to describe the poorest class's notion of time and through this critically address the prevailingly one-dimensional and unproblematised conception of time in the Czech social sciences. The relational concept of the poorest class here refers to individuals united by specific social practices and strategies that are determined by their position and mutual proximity within a social space. The article's theoretical framework is anthropologist Nancy Munn's practice-based or agent-oriented approach to time and space, according to which socio-cultural practices do not just occur in time and space but also create or produce that time and...

Prison as a Place of Ambiguous Power Relations: The Perspectives of Czech Prison Guards

Lukáš Dirga, Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2014, 50(1): 83-106 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2014.50.1.31

The analysis of various forms of punishment has traditionally been a prominent subject of sociological study. However, most research on the prison system and its impact on individuals has focused on various aspects of inmates' lives. This article focuses on other important subjects in the prison system, ones whose perspective has been largely ignored - prison guards. The first part of this article introduces prison as a medium through which to analyse modern mechanisms of power and the changing conceptualisation of risks. The second part of the article examines the subjective views of prison guards. The authors conducted 17 in-depth interviews with...

The House of Technology in Pardubice: The 'Grey Zone' between Official and Dissident Sociology in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2014, 50(1): 107-130 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2014.50.1.33

The Marxist-Leninist 'ideological supervision' of Czech sociology in the 1970s and 1980s led to the de facto academic impotence of 'official' institutions at universities and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. However, sociological inquiry and discussion found a home, at least temporarily, in various less regulated departmental, regional and technical institutes, which came to represent the 'grey zone' of contemporary Czech sociology, i.e. the space between official, state-sanctioned sociological work and prohibited, dissident sociology (and where a significant number of persecuted sociologists were able to retain their jobs). One such institute,...

Book reviews

Jiří Šubrt, Jiří Vinopal a kol.: Historické vědomí obyvatel České republiky perspektivou sociologického výzkumu

Stanislav Holubec

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2014, 50(1): 131-133

Markéta Braun Kohlová: Cesty městem

Jiří Dobrylovský

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2014, 50(1): 134-135

Marek Jakoubek: Vojvodovo: historie, obyvatelstvo, migrace

Jiří Woitsch

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2014, 50(1): 136-138

Petra Košťálová: Stereotypní obrazy a etnické mýty. Kulturní identita Arménie

Jiří Zákravský

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2014, 50(1): 139-140

Jakub Havlíček: Cesty božstev. Otázky interpretace náboženství a nacionalismu v moderním Japonsku

Markéta Vlčková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2014, 50(1): 141-144

Conference reports and information

Česko-slovenská sociologická konference "Dvě společnosti - dvě sociologie?", Olomouc, Česká republika, 17.-19. 10. 2013

Klára Čapková, Dušan Janák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2014, 50(1): 145-147

42. konference Britské společnosti pro gerontologii "Global Ageing: Implications for Individuals and Society", Oxford, Velká Británie, 11.-13. 9. 2013

Lucie Vidovićová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2014, 50(1): 148-150

XXV ESRS Congress "Rural Resilience and Vulnerability: The Rural as Locus of Solidarity and Conflict in Time of Crisis", Florencie, Itálie, 29. 7. - 1. 8. 2013