Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(2)

Who Fears Crime and How Does This Fear Influence Trust in Selected Social Institutions in the Czech Republic?

Eva Krulichová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(2): 131-156 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.2.244  

Over the years both scientists and scholars have been interested in fear of crime because it ranks among the most important indicators of the effectiveness of the fight against crime. Although this phenomenon is widely studied abroad, there are only a handful of Czech studies that discuss it in depth. The aim of this article is to broaden the scope of research in this area. The article maps the possible causes and consequences of fear of crime in reference to the literature and the specific milieu of the Czech Republic. The author draws on a representative sample of 2836 respondents from the fifth wave of the European Social Survey. Consistent with...

Ethnic Homogamy in Slovakia between 1992 and 2012

Laura Fónadová, Tomáš Katrňák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(2): 157-178 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.2.245  

This article is concerned with ethnic homogamy in Slovakia. The authors set out from the assumption that ethnic homogamy is an indicator of the degree of ethnic tolerance and multiculturalism in society. Greater ethnic homogamy indicates larger social distances between ethnic groups, and vice versa. The authors analyse data from the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. The data include all marriages between 1992 and 2012 in Slovakia categorised by the ethnicity of the spouses. The authors test hypotheses about the trends in both absolute and relative ethnic homogamy and find that marriages in Slovakia are strongly structured by ethnic homogamy....

Everything within the Market, Nothing against the Market, Nothing outside the Market: Neoliberal Deviants and Welfare Surveillance

Jiří Mertl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(2): 179-208 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.2.246  

This article focuses on welfare surveillance as a sociological sub-discipline and a specific issue that has emerged in the past two decades in relation to the neoliberal revolution and the transformation of social systems in the West. The paper has three main goals: (1) a theoretical conceptualisation of welfare surveillance based on an analysis of existing empirical research; (2) an analysis of socio-practical manifestations and impacts of welfare surveillance; and (3) a contextualisation of the implementation of welfare surveillance within the Czech social milieu during recent social reforms. Within the scope of the first two goals, the author shows...

The Commodification of the Rural and the Construction of Regional Identity

Miloš Delín, Pavel Pospěch

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(2): 209-236 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2016.52.2.247  

This paper focuses on the commodification and marketisation of Czech rural areas and on the consequences these processes have for regional identities. Through a case study of a Local Action Group (LAG), the paper traces the construction of rurality and the ways in which rurality is employed as an identity tool and a market commodity. The study is grounded in a constructivist approach in rural sociology, emphasising the multiplicity of meanings ascribed to the rural by stakeholders. The study highlights the identity politics produced by rural development programmes and the implications these have for defining regional borders and for the very notion...

Lucie Jarkovská: Gender před tabulí. Etnografický výzkum genderové reprodukce v každodennosti školní třídy

Ema Hrešanová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(2): 237-239  

Stanislav Balík, Petr Gongala, Kamil Gregor: Dvacet let komunálních voleb v ČR

Petr Jüptner

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(2): 240-243  

Ulrich Beck: Německá Evropa. Nové mocenské krajiny ve znamení krize

Michal Trčka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(2): 244-247  

T. H. Eriksen: Odpady. Odpad ve světě netušených vedlejších účinků

Lenka Brunclíková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(2): 248-250  

Thomas A. DiPrete, Claudia Buchmann: The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What It Means for American Schools

Tomáš Doseděl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(2): 251-254  

Zpráva z 12. konference Evropské sociologické asociace "Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination", Praha, 25.-28. 8. 2015

Marta Vohlídalová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(2): 255-257  

Správa z konferencie "Občianske aktivity a angažovaný výskum", Bratislava, Slovensko, 3.-4. 11. 2015

Radoslava Semanová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2016, 52(2): 258