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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...

This study focuses on the manifestations of ethnic identity of the Ruthenian population living in today’s Slovakia. This identity was (and still is) characterised by a relatively low divergence from the separate ethnic...

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 study deals with the changes within Czech and Slovak hardcore-punk fanzines from the beginning of 90s up to the present time. It’s based on research into youth subculture and also on the interpretation of “indep...

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 ...

There has been an assumption in the scholarly literature about Emperor Hadrian’s meeting with a Parthian king in about 123 CE. This assumption, based on a single passage in a source whose veracity and reliability has r...

Drahomír Jančík – Barbora Štolleová (ed.): Pivo, zbraně i tvarůžky. Podnikatelé meziválečného Československa ve víru konjunktur a krizí. Praha: Maxdorf, 2014, 368 s.

Recenze: Helena Kubátová: Životní svět a sociální světy. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci, 2008, 255 stran.

The text examines the works of the representatives of the institutional critique, in particular the works of Hans Haacke, Marcel Broodthaers, Michael Asher and Daniel Buren. It starts with the discussion on the instituti...

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...

The article deals with Levinas’s philosophy as an inspiration and challenge for Christian theology. The inspiration can be found in the phenomenology of the idea of infinite God, in the emphasis on the radical transcen...

The article begins by giving the reasons why the number of languages spoken in the world today cannot be ascertained with any precision. It then continues with a survey of the viability of contemporary North American Ind...

Jiří Šubrt: Individualismus a holismus v sociologii: Jak překonat teoretické dilema? Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2015, 154 s.

Recenze: Jóhann P. Árnason: Civilizační analýza. Evropa a Asie opět na rozcestí. Praha: Filosofia, 2009, 148 stran.

This paper is concerned with the transformations of the understanding of documentary photography in the historical and social context. Every photograph, as a recording, is by its nature documentary in the original meanin...

The following text deals with the sociology of I. A. Bláha in the context of two contemporary discussions about values in social science: the first is a dispute about so called public sociology and the second represents...

Recenze: Littel, Jonathan: Laskavé bohyně. Praha: Odeon 2008 (z francouzského originálu Les Bienveillantes vydaného v roce 2006 nakladatelstvím Gallimard přeložila Michala Marková), 868 stran.

Recenze: Michael Mann: The Sources of Social Power. Volume I: A History of Power from Beginning to A. D. 1760. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986/2007, 15th edition, 549 pp.

V hlavních proudech teorie sekularizace, jež jsou přímými následovníky osvícenecké filozofie, je náboženství považováno za přechodnou fázi evoluce lidstva, která není kompatibilní s racionálním myšl...

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....

Recenze: Peter Ondrejkovič: Porozumenie a vysvetlenie v spoločenskovednom výskume. Brno: Paido, 2016, 122 s.

Recenze: Petruška Šustrová – Josef Mlejnek jr.: Zaostřeno na komunismus. Praha: Euroslavica, 2014, 294 s.

The essay is dedicated to the Pieta of Všeměřice, important sculpture of high quality from the beginnings of the Late Gothic art in the Czech lands. On the basis of the formal analysis of the works of Master of Týn C...