Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(5)

The Role of Foreign Migration in the Changing Socio-Spatial Differentiation of Prague

Ivana Přidalová, Martin Ouředníček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(5): 659-692 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.5.360  

Investigating the spatial differentiation of foreign populations in cities, especially the level of ethnic segregation, has a long tradition in Western European and American social geography. Owing to increased international mobility since the 1990s, it has also become relevant for some post-socialist cities. This article examines how the growing ethnic heterogeneity of the urban population is reflected in the spatial distribution of foreign citizens in Prague, which is now a unique example of a newly multicultural post-socialist capital. The analysis uses the migration register and census data based on citizenship. The results suggest that foreign...

Economic and Non-economic Returns to Higher Education during a Period of Educational Expansion in the Czech Republic

Tomáš Doseděl, Tomáš Katrňák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(5): 693-718 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.5.361  

The article explores returns to education during a period of educational expansion in the Czech Republic. The authors analyse the consequences of the educational expansion that occurred between 2000 and 2014 and its effect on economic and non-economic returns to education. The number of people with a university degree almost doubled between 2000 and 2014 in the Czech Republic. It is analysed whether this caused an inflation of education at the Czech labour market, or whether highly educated people are still employable in prestigious and well-paid jobs due to technological changes. The data used in the analysis are drawn from the Czech Labour Force...

The Fourth Age as a Specific Field for the Expression of Agency

Marcela Petrová Kafková, Tatiana Sedláková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(5): 719-736 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.5.362  

The concept of the fourth age has until recently been an overlooked topic in social gerontology, which in past decades has focused more closely on the third age. This article provides an overview of commonly applied definitions of the fourth age. It focuses on concepts that do not view the fourth age as an unavoidable stage in life but rather as a stage in which the shared vulnerabilities and responsibilities for care that some older adults may experience need to be recognised. The article devotes a more in-depth discussion to the issue of agency in the fourth age, the possibilities for the existence of agency, and forms of agency. It challenges the...

'If You Leave Me, You Will Die…' The Academic Trajectories of Otakar Machotka and other Émigré Czech Sociologists after February 1948

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(5): 737-764 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.5.363  

This article focuses on Czech sociologists who left Czechoslovakia immediately after the communist coup in February 1948 and their subsequent academic and personal fates in exile. Attention is devoted principally to Otakar Machotka (1899-1970), a prominent figure in both Czech political life and pre-Marxist Czech sociology with strong personal and methodological ties to the Chicago School; this article's research draws on his correspondence and on other archived sources. Machotka's special circustances worked to his favour in the United States where he was offered excellent academic positions. However, Machotka was opposed to the sociological mainstream(s)...

Sociologie v Rakousku: spletitý příběh s dobrým koncem

Marek Skovajsa

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(5): 765-780 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.5.05  

Jan Keller: Evropské rozpory ve světle migrace

Jan Maršálek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(5): 781-783  

Jiří Večerník (ed.): Práce, hodnoty, blahobyt. České reálie v evropském kontextu

Tomáš Doseděl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(5): 784-785  

Pavel Pospěch a kol.: Vynalézání venkova v ČR po roce 1989

Eliška Hudcová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(5): 786-789  

Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň, Tomáš Profant a kol.: Mimo Sever a Jih. Rozumět globálním nerovnostem a rozmanitosti

Marek Mikuš

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(5): 790-791  

Erazim Kohák: Oheň a hvězdy. Filosofická zamýšlení nad morálním smyslem přírody

Jiří Podhajský

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(5): 792