Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(4)

Beauty Capital: The Role of Attractiveness in the Labour Market

Petr Matějů, Petra Anýžová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(4): 503-532 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.4.356  

The main objective of the paper is threefold: first, to examine the role of physical attractiveness in the labour market in the broader context of economic and sociological theory; second, to assess gender differences in returns to beauty; and third, to show that the empirical evidence on gender differences in returns to beauty that has to date prevailingly come from North America cannot be applied to Europe without further examination. We use data from the first large-scale sociological survey focusing on physical attractiveness carried out in Europe and in particular from the follow-up to the Czech national survey of adult competencies (PIAAC). First,...

Between Tactics and Affect, Non-place and Place: A Visual Analysis of the Everyday Geography of Homeless People

Petr Vašát, Petr Gibas, Markéta Poláková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(4): 533-564 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.4.357  

The article uses photovoice to explore the everyday geography of homelessness and its affective dimension. We focus on two aspects of the everyday geography captured by photovoice: (1) movement in space and (2) the performativity of heterotopic places. The aim is to understand how the research partners as actors (re)present and (re)construct their everyday geography by visual means and how they relate to it affectively (or otherwise). Photovoice is a suitable method for this type of research as it has been used across the social sciences and especially in action research as a productive tool that allows people to document and reflect on their everyday...

Partnership Trajectories of Mothers without a Co-residential Partner

Hana Morávková, Martin Kreidl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(4): 565-592 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.4.358  

We investigate partnership transitions of mothers who had no coresidential partner at the time of birth of their first child ('solo mothers'). Using retrospective partnership and co-residence histories from the Czech 2005 GGS, we investigate mothers' entry into the first subsequent co-residential partnership using event history methods. We test several hypotheses derived from the individualisation theory. While approximately one half of 'solo mothers' had no co-residential partner at the time they had their first child, almost 50% of them did enter a co-residential partnership subsequently. The probability of transitioning into a co-residential partnership...

The Transformation of a Categorical Variable into a Continuous Variable: The Example of Church Attendance

Antonín Paleček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(4): 593-616 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.4.359  

Many surveys include variables on the frequency of respondents' church attendance. Usually these are a categorical, ordinal type of variable. However, in a quantitative analysis of the inter- and intragenerational reproduction of church attendance categorical variables may have some disadvantages and limitations. This article discusses and tests the possibilities of a different methodological approach, where ordinal variables indicating the frequency of church attendance are transformed into numerical-type variables. More simply put, respondents are asked how many times a year they attend church and this information is expressed in a new variable....

Sršatý sociolog na forbíně. Petr Matějů 22. 7. 1950 - 16. 6. 2017

Jiří Večerník

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(4): 617-622  

Za Petrem Matějů

Hynek Jeřábek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(4): 623-626  

Émile Durkheim a česká sociologie: ke 100. výročí úmrtí významného francouzského sociologa

Jiří Šubrt

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(4): 627-634  

Michal Kohout, David Tichý, Filip Tittl, Jana Kubánková, Šárka Doležalová: Sídliště, jak dál?

Ondřej Špaček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(4): 635-637  

Jan Kysela, Pavel Ondřejek a kol.: Kolos na hliněných nohou? K proměnám státu a jeho rolí

Robert Zbíral

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(4): 638-639  

Dana Moree: Základy interkulturního soužití

Kateřina Sidiropulu Janků

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(4): 640-644  

Tomáš Samek: Tahle země je naše: Český a německý veřejný prostor v deiktické perspektivě

Zuzana Terry

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(4): 645-646  

Helena Kubátová a kol.: Mezigenerační proměny způsobu života na Hlučínsku

Josef Kawulok

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(4): 647-649  

Jiřina Šiklová: Omlouvám se za svou nepřítomnost. Dopisy z Ruzyně 1981-1982

Petr Juříček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(4): 650