Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3)

Anti-Polish Migrant Moral Panic in the UK: Rethinking Employment Insecurities and Moral Regulation

Ian Fitzgerald, Rafal Smoczynski

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 339-361 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.180  

This article examines British societal reactions to Polish migrant workers using a framework that combines recent developments of the moral panic concept informed by the sociology of moral regulation and risk governance studies. Given the multi-mediated nature of contemporary moral panics and in contrast to conventional analysis focusing on newspaper coverage this article is based on Polish migrants' self-reported experiences. Moral panic claims making about Polish workers 'taking British jobs' and 'abusing British social benefits' are perceived by the respondents themselves. Our analysis is in line with Sean Hier's conceptualisations of the interplay...

The Cultural Politics of Contemporary Moral Panic Studies: Reflections on a Changing Research Agenda

Sean P. Hier

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 362-372 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.181  

The Thieves of Happiness, the Thieves of Reason

Ondřej Slačálek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 373-379 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.182  

Anti-Polish Migrant Moral Panic in the UK: A Response

Ian Fitzgerald, Rafal Smoczynski

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 380-386 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.183  

The Notion of Social Class in Czech Political Discourse

Karel Musílek, Tomáš Katrňák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 387-416 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.184  

The article studies the discourse on social class that emerged around the Czech parliamentary election of 2010. The authors look at Czech discourse from the perspective of the wider discussion about the role that the notion of class plays in post-communist societies. While some researchers argue that social class is absent as a category within post-communist political discourse, other researchers report the existence of derogatory discourse on the lower classes and even consistent symbolic boundaries between classes. This analysis contributes to the discussion by offering recent evidence of both the rejection and the use of class-based classification...

The Sociologist from Marienbad: Werner Stark between Catholicism and Social Science

Robin R. Das, Hermann Strasser

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 417-444 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.185  

This paper examines the life and career of the prominent sociologist Werner Stark (1909-1985), born and raised in Marienbad, Bohemia, and after 1918 in the multi-ethnic state of Czechoslovakia. As a prolific and wide-ranging scholar whose many works failed to find an enduring place in American sociology, Stark is a prime example of academic marginalisation. The authors analyse Stark's major contributions from the standpoint of the sociology of knowledge. They argue that his ideas regarding human nature, the need for social discipline, and the desirability of community were rooted in a pervasive biographical marginality that found resolution in his...

Money, Love, and Sacredness: Generalised Symbolic Media and the Production of Instrumental, Affectual, and Moral Reality

Seth Abrutyn

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 445-472 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.186  

A central and long-standing theoretical problem in sociology concerns how differentiated social units are integrated. This problem, however, has been peripheralised since the decline of functionalism, while legitimation and regulation/power-differentials have moved to the forefront. This article argues that by reconceptualising the concept, generalised symbolic media, a robust theory of integration can be posited that does not sacrifice the importance of regulation (control) or legitimation (meaning). This paper extends both the Simmelian and functionalist versions of media by: (1) precisely defining the concept; (2) examining its two forms-a specialised...

Introducing the Symposium on Interpretation and Social Knowledge by Isaac Ariail Reed

Marek Skovajsa

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 473-474 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.187  

The Central Arguments of Isaac Ariail Reed's Interpretation and Social Knowledge

Leslie MacColman

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 475-486 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.188  

Hands in the Peat, or on the Metaphors of Meaning

Eeva Luhtakallio

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 487-492 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.189  

The Landscape of Meaning, a Metaphor in Process

Nelson Arteaga Botello

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 493-498 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.190  

Being and Knowledge: On Some Liabilities of Reed's Interpretivism

Dominik Bartmański, Werner Binder

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 499-511 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.191  

Meaning, Commensuration, and General Theory

Hendrik Vollmer

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 512-517 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.192  

Deflation and Construction: Rendering Social Causes Meaningful

Steven Lukes

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 518-523 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.193  

Meanings as Mechanisms

Stephen Welch

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 524-531 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.194  

Interpretive Explanation and Its Discontents: Author's Reply to Commentaries

Isaac Ariail Reed

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 532-546 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.3.195  

Anthony Giddens: Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe?

Max Haller

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 547-549  

Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, Daniele Checchi, Ive Marx, Abigail McKnight, István György Tóth and Herman van de Werfhorst (eds.): Changing Inequalities in Rich Countries Analytical and Comparative Perspectives

Richard Wilkinson

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 550-555  

Milton Lodge and Charles Taber: The Rationalizing Voter

Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 556-558  

Cas Mudde (ed.): Youth and the Extreme Right

Erin Marie Saltman

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 559-561  

Dennis McKerlie: Justice Between the Young and the Old

Ben Davies

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 562-565  

Zenonas Norkus: On Baltic Slovenia and Adriatic Lithuania: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Patterns in Post-communist Europe

Sergiu Delcea

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 566-568  

Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva: Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries

Donncha Marron

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 569-571  

Igor Guardiancich: Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe from Post-socialist Transition to the Global Financial Crisis

Stefan Domonkos

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 572-574  

Adam Kożuchowski: The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary: The Image of the Habsburg Monarchy in Interwar Europe

Thomas Winkelbauer

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 575-577  

Alan Ryan: The Making of Modern Liberalism

Umut Korkut

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(3): 578