Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3)

Place Belonging in a Mobile World. A Case Study of Migrant Professionals

Agnieszka Bielewska, Krzysztof Jaskułowski

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 343-368 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.3.335  

The aim of this paper is to discuss the impact of spatial mobility on international professionals' experience of place belonging. Drawing on qualitative research carried out in the Wroclaw subzone of the Walbrzych Special Economic Zone in Poland, the article explores the question of the identity of migrant professionals in the context of their connection with places. It analyses how migrant professionals perceive both their place of origin and the place they currently inhabit and considers the specific practices migrants engage in to strengthen old bonds and establish new ones. Despite their high mobility, migrant professionals cannot always be described...

Resilience as a Factor of Longevity and Gender Differences in Its Effects

Martin Lakomý, Marcela Petrová Kafková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 369-392 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.3.336  

Various explanations for longevity and mortality differences have been repeatedly tested and discussed in the context of worldwide population ageing. This study contributes to this field of research by testing the potential of resilience as a capacity to adapt in the face of adversity through individual and social resources and is the first European study to investigate how resilience predicts survival in later life. Panel data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe are used to determine the predictors of survival among people over the age of 75 between waves 1, 2, 4, and 5. The results of a multilevel logistic regression show that...

The Social-Psychological Context of Human Values: The Reciprocal Relationship between Personality Traits and Value Orientations

Petra Anýžová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 393-426 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.3.337  

This article investigates and tests the relationship between values (PVQ scale) and personality traits (NEO-FFI) using non-recursive structural modelling while controlling for other potentially significant variables (e.g. age, gender, attractiveness, cognitive skills), an approach that is proposed as an alternative to correlation and regression analyses, which are more common in this type of psychological research. Structural modelling, based on representative data from the Czech follow-up to the PIAAC international research project (2015), reveals the validity of the links between values and personality traits, which is still sometimes overlooked...

Interdisciplinarity or Paradisciplinarity? A Reflection on Possible Collaboration between Scientific Disciplines

Tomáš Urbánek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 427-432  

A Response to Tomáš Urbánek

Petra Anýžová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 433-436  

Confrontations and Controversies in the Theory of Talcott Parsons

Uta Gerhardt

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 437-462 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2017.53.3.338  

Since the turn of the 1960s, Talcott Parsons' social thought has met with criticism that his image of society is conservative inasmuch as he places consensus and systematic concept formation over and above conflict and 'sociological imagination'. The hidden agenda in this criticism is political: the charges are that Parsons supposedly disavows democracy in his implicit or explicit knowledge aim, and that his sociology presumably makes society function even at the expense of freedom of the individual. Here the author argues that these accusations cannot stand if archival materials such as lecture notes, correspondence, and unpublished memoranda are...

In Memoriam, Petr Matějů

Michael L. Smith

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 463-468  

Memories from International Colleagues

Robert M. Hauser, Iván Szelényi, Donald J. Treiman, Jonathan Kelley, Mariah Evans, Péter Róbert, Hans-Peter Blossfeld

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 469-476  

Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee: The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

Achim Kemmerling

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 477-478  

Colin Crouch: Governing Social Risks in a Post Crisis Europe

Paul Marx

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 479-480  

Rogers Brubaker: Grounds for Difference

Sergiu Delcea

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 481-483  

Steffen Mau: Inequality, Marketization and the Majority Class: Why Did the European Middle Classes Accept Neo-Liberalism?

Christoph Nguyen

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 484-486  

Kati Kuitto: Post-Communist Welfare States in European Context: Patterns of Welfare Policies in Central and Eastern Europe

Igor Guardiancich

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 487-489  

Bernhard Weicht: The Meaning of Care: The Social Construction of Care for Elderly People

Ricardo Rodrigues

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 490-492  

Jonathan Wistow, Tim Blackman, David Byrne and Gerald Wistow: Studying Health Inequalities: An Applied Approach

Alexandru Daniel Moise

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 493-495  

Kyle McGee: Bruno Latour: The Normativity of Networks

Tomáš Ledvinka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2017, 53(3): 496