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James Mahoney – Kathleen Thelen (ed.): Explaining Institutional Change. Ambiguity, Agency, and Power. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 236 s.

The article analyses a selected text of the travelogue of Czech nobleman and humanist Christopher Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice (1564–1621). Harant’s information on the ancient Roman custom of punishing debtors ...

Stále více a častěji se fotografie objevují v expozicích galerií výtvarného umění, pořádají se autorské výstavy, fotografické festivaly, autoři fotografií spolupracují s významnými deníky a časopi...

This text aims to trace the thematisation of death and dying in Sociology, which in the 1990’ evolves into constituion of independent sociological sub-discipline: “sociology of dying and death”. The main intention ...

The present study explores sources which cast light on the usage of Latin in everyday communication within communities of religious orders, observing the particular choice of Latin rather than vernacular languages for ce...

A proper theological perspective on technical media is not possible without a thorough consideration of the role of language in Christianity. Christian theology can gain this perspective in view of the fact that the sphe...

The article is a discussion of the relationship between interpretation and extra-textual reality. The first part focuses on the concepts of unlimited semiosis and intertextuality, which poststructuralist theorists believ...

Profesor Jóhann Páll Árnason letos oslavil své sedmdesáté narozeniny, což poskytuje příležitost popřát mu na stránkách časopisu Historická sociologie vše nejlepší a hodně zdraví, mnoho pedagogických...

The paper deals with social technology of the Communists period. There existed professional applied social science in Communist Poland, and Polish social scientists sometimes cooperated with the regime. Such activities s...

In the fall of 2010 Prague Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON) published the Czech translation of Maurice Halbwachs’s book La mémoire collective [2010]. The French sociologist is considered the founder of social memo...

This study confronts the conceptualization and development of the economic transformation of the 1990s, with long-term targeted sociological research mapping the mental state of Czech society and the views on this issue....

The so-called “normalization period” (1969–1989) is one of the most tragic chapters in the development of Czechoslovak sociology. The study reconstructs the process in which all the important positions in the struc...

The author argues that intellectuals in semiperipheral countries are liable to interpret the fate of their nations more pathetically than intellectuals in core countries. This thinking has its roots in the Christian anta...

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...

The article reports on the findings of an empirical study of the use of repeats – as one of the markers of disfluency – in advanced learner English and contributes to the study of L2 fluency. An analysis of 13 hours ...

Vasily III and to a greater extent Ivan the Terrible based their policies on a historical work known as Сказание о князьях владимирских (The Tale of the Princes of Vladimir). Its author attemp...

This essay is a study of self-appointed Czars, which is closely related to Russian political and historical traditions. In Russia, unique traditions of government existed, specific due to their use of historical referenc...

This text focuses on the role of the brushstroke in Vincent van Gogh’s work. Van Gogh’s brushstroke technique draws on the tradition of European painting, spanning from Titian to Delacroix and the Impressionists, a t...

The article presents a basic characteristic of Latin-Greek didactic texts called the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana and, in particular, their colloquia. It offers several examples of the colloquia with a brief commentary ...

This article examined objective and subjective speaking rate and their relation. Read speech of 22 Czech radio newsreaders (13 male and 9 female) constituted the material for the study. The objective rate was measured as...

As an experienced teacher of advanced learners of English I am deeply aware of recurrent problems which these learners experience as regards grammatical accuracy. In this paper, I focus on researching inaccuracies in the...

The following annex presents a_selection of documentary photography by Karel Cudlín, born in Prague, quarter Žižkov, in 1960. He can also be considered as a_representative of Street Photography and a_photographer of E...

Attenuating devices are frequently employed in both spoken and written language to weaken the illocutionary force of utterances as well as their directness. In this way, they are associated with expressing linguistic pol...