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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...

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 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...

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 ...

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....

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...

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 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 ...

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Recenze: Eduardo P. Archetti. Masculinities. Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina. New York: Berg, 1999, 212 stran.

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

The study focuses on the work of the Jesuit historian Maximilianus Wietrowsky Historia S. Joannis Nepomuceni (1729) and its Czech translation Zpráva historická o životě sv. Jana Nepomuckého [Historical report on the...

Max Weber is an elusive classic, and competing traditions claim his legacy. As in other cases, the interpretation of this classic should take into account formative experiences, historical context and links to older trad...

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...

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...

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

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

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...