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From a European point of view, one of the most puzzling aspects of the contemporary USA is the large proportion of its citizens who assent to belief in the supernatural. In sociology, that has given rise to a debate abou...

Jan Čermák: Kalevala Eliase Lönnrota a Josefa Holečka v moderní kritické perspektivě. Prague: Academia, 2014, 1116 pages

Recent historical works dealing with the changing role of emotions in social and private life over centuries present a challenge to any philosophical or scientific theory aiming to grasp the essence of emotions. The pape...

The preoccupation with the processes of globalization, which has become a key concept in the analysis of the sociocultural condition of postmodernity, has led to a decreased interest in the theory of civilization. The id...

This paper focuses on the concept of figuration, which was an innovation of Norbert Elias, from the standpoint of sociological theory. Among today’s followers of this approach to sociology, considerable emphasis is pla...

This study examines the development of civil law at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno during the socialist period (1948–1989). It reflects on the ideological and political influences that shaped both t...