Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(2)

Forming Communities or Social Integration? A Personal Network Analysis of Ukrainian Immigrants in Pilsen

Petr Vašát, Josef Bernard

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(2): 199-226 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.2.159  

The aim of this article is to describe the personal networks of Ukrainian immigrants residing in an urban centre in the Czech Republic and to identify patterns that can help to elucidate some aspects of their integration. Social support networks in this study were created using the multiple name generator method. Here the generator was made up of six questions asking whom respondents might turn to for money, employment, housing, leisure, to discuss intimate things, or might simply be important to the respondent in some other way. Data-collecting was conducted in Pilsen, an industrial city with a large number of immigrants, and data were obtained from...

Why Does the Number of Voters and Invalid Ballots Decrease in the Second Rounds of Czech Senate Elections?

Karel Kouba

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(2): 227-260 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.2.160  

The second rounds of elections to the Czech Senate consistently suffer from the lowest voter turnout among all types of elections in the Czech Republic. Moreover, voter turnout and the share of invalid votes decrease substantially between the first and the second rounds of the Senate elections. This article enquires into the causes of the decrease. It builds on theories that emphasise the salience of elections and the decisiveness of voting and using data from all Senate electoral races between 1996 and 2012 tests several theoretical predictions drawn from these theories. Two types of regression models are employed to test these hypotheses. Surprisingly,...

Cohabitation - Joint Living without a Joint Purse?

Dana Hamplová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(2): 261-278 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.2.161  

The article uses ISSP 2012 data to investigate money allocation practices in Czech households. It examines the extent to which married and cohabiting couples differ with respect to money pooling and whether the observed differences can be attributed to the socio-demographic composition of married and unmarried couples or different value orientations. The empirical part uses a sequential logistic analysis. First, the odds of pooling (versus non-pooling) are explored; second, the odds of using fully independent money management (versus partial pooling) are estimated. The results show that cohabiting couples are more likely not to pool money and are more...

Batov 1940 - The First Empirically-Grounded Czech Research in the Sociology of Work

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(2): 279-298 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.2.162  

There is a forgotten chapter in (history of) the Czech sociology of work. In the early 1940s, an empirical study was conducted by Otakar Machotka among employees of the Bata company in Batov (today Otrokovice). One of the leading figures of early Czech sociology, Machotka saw the closure of Czech universities during the Second World War as an opportunity to carry out original empirical research devoted to the sociological analysis of the workforce and consisting of a study of the social determination of work efficiency. This was the first Czech, and one of only a very few European, empirically-grounded research projects in the sociology of work and...

Ohlédnutí za Jitkou Ortovou

Zdenka Sokolíčková, Jan Vávra, Miloslav Lapka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(2): 299-300  

Jak porozumět kultuře v kontextu soudobé sociální teorie?

Jiří Šubrt

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(2): 301-316 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.2.06  

Yvona Kostelecká et al.: Žáci-cizinci v základních školách. Fakta, analýzy, diagnostika

Magdaléna Gorčíková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(2): 317-320  

Alexander Hirner (ed. Juraj Schenk): Česká a slovenská sociológia do roku 1948

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(2): 321-323  

Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková: Aktivita jako projekt. Diskurz aktivního stárnutí a jeho odezvy v životech českých seniorů a seniorek

Soňa Tichá

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(2): 324-326  

Jana Španková: Resocializácia odsúdených

Petr Juříček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(2): 327-329  

Yanis Varoufakis: Globální Minotaurus: Amerika, Evropa, krize a budoucnost globální ekonomiky

Tomáš Bek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(2): 330-332  

William Milberg, Deborah Winkler: Outsourcing Economics. Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development

Petr Mezihorák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(2): 333