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Sto let Václava LamseraMedailony

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2): 213-216  

Milan Hrubeš: Evropská unie v českém veřejném diskursu: (Re)konstrukce příběhuRecenze

Jana Rosenfeldová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2): 231-234  

Přemysl Houda: Nohavica a (jeho) naše malá válkaRecenze

Stanislav Holubec

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2): 229-231  

Neobyčejně krásná koncepce demokracie: polská aktualizace Masarykova politického myšleníRecenzní eseje

Marek Skovajsa

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2): 217-227 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.014  

Proč jsou podle Aristotela demokracie a oligarchie nejdůležitější „ústavy“ a v čem se zásadně liší?Stati

Miroslav Novák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2): 187-211 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.033  

According to Aristotle, democracy and oligarchy are empirically the most widespread and analytically fundamental ‘constitutions’. I analyse how in different places in his Politics Aristotle ‘positively’ defines and differentiates between democracy and oligarchy. At the same time, I substantiate in detail a new interpretation of Aristotle‘s view that significantly differs from the current interpretation. ‘Combining’ the elements, procedures, and principles of democracy and oligarchy gives rise to mixed 'constitutions', a special place among which is occupied by the politeia or republic, which is the best regime...

Násilí, předsudky a lidé s postižením: Uvedení do výzkumu disablistických trestných činů z nenávistiStati

Václav Walach

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2): 157-185 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.012  

Violence against disabled people has recently been recognised as an important, albeit neglected research topic. Drawing attention to violence motivated by anti-disability bias, this article offers an introduction to research on disablist hate crime. First, it presents a conceptualisation of hate crime and explains such concepts as disablism and ableism. Second, it discusses the concept of disability/disablist hate crime and analyses four areas that reflect the multifaceted nature of disability hate crime research and the social applications of the concept, ranging from conceptual issues to empirical findings, to political implications. These issues...

Proporcionalita, integrační účinek a legitimita volebního systému do Poslanecké sněmovny: Simulační studie dopadů D’Hondtova dělitele, Imperialiho kvóty a Hareovy kvótyStati

Filip Horák, Marek Antoš, Dan Sklenář, David Lacko

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(2): 127-155 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.017  

Although the change in the electoral system used in elections to the Chamber of Deputies has attracted the attention of lawyers, political scientists, and sociologists, we still lack a comprehensive comparative analysis of the new system with the original one or other alternatives. The main reason for this is the lack of empirical data. This article overcomes this problem using a simulation of electoral results that correspond to the real Czech election environment. On the basis of this simulated dataset it is possible to generate generalisable conclusions about the proportionality, integration effect, and legitimacy of three electoral formulas: the...

Některé méně známé postupy otevřené vědy v sociologii: Předregistrace a registrované reportyRecenzní eseje

Jan Urban, Veronika Anna Černá

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(1): 95-109 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.011  

Moderní postupy v modelování kvantitativních sociálněvědních datEditorial

Petr Soukup

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(1): 5-6  

Eva M. Hejzlarová, Magdalena Mouralová a Martina Štěpánková Štýbrová (eds.): Fantastická data ve veřejné politice a jak je využítRecenze

Vít Beneš

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(1): 111-114  

Dashun Wang, Albert-László Barabási: The Science of ScienceRecenze

David Janků

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(1): 118-121  

Jan Keller: Současná francouzská sociologieRecenze

Miroslav Tížik

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(1): 114-118  

Využití víceúrovňových modelů při analýze kontextuálních efektů míry ekonomické aktivity na podporu přerozdělování v komparativních longitudinálních datechStati

Ivan Petrúšek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(1): 67-93 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.001  

This article studies the links between a country’s labour force participation rate and attitudes towards income redistribution. The article also demonstrates how to specify a multilevel model when analysing contextual effects and it presents several types of random effects structures and options for centering explanatory variables in comparative longitudinal survey data. The contextual effect is decomposed into longitudinal and cross-sectional components for time-varying contextual variables, such as the labour force participation rate. The analysis of redistribution support based on ESS data from 27 countries and nine rounds shows how fundamentally...

Exponenciální modely náhodných grafů: modelování relačních mechanismů na případu sítě organizací zapojených v českém uhelném sektoruStati

Tomáš Diviák, Petr Ocelík

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(1): 7-35 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.046  

This study provides the first comprehensive introduction to exponential random graph models (ERGM) in the Czech academic literature. In it we apply ERGM to a network of 68 organisations involved in the Czech coal policy subsystem. First, we summarise the major limitations of the statistical modelling of network data arising from the interdependencies among observations and explain principled solutions to them provided by ERGM. Next, we discuss ERGM’s metatheoretical assumptions and their embeddedness within the broader context of social science research. We then introduce three types of relational mechanisms (endogenous, individual, and dyadic)...

Testování psychometrických vlastností a ekvivalence české verze škály spokojenosti se životem (SWLS) pomocí metod konfirmační faktorové analýzy, teorie odpovědi na položku a bayesovského modelováníStati

Radka Hanzlová, Petra Raudenská

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(1): 37-66 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.047  

The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) is one of the most commonly used instruments for measuring life satisfaction. The aim of this study is to test the psychometric properties of the Czech version of the SWLS using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Item Response Theory (IRT) and to test its invariance between social groups in terms of gender, age, and education using Bayesian modelling on a representative sample of the Czech online population, as the scale has not yet been tested on representative data in the Czech Republic. The research sample consists of 960 respondents aged 18 to 69 years. The results confirmed that the psychometric properties...

Elisabeth Anderson: Agents of Reform. Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare StateRecenze

Sergiu Delcea

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(6): 700-703  

Louisa Allen: Breathing Life into Sexuality EducationRecenze

Barbora Benešovská

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(6): 695-700  

Amanda C. Cote: Gaming Sexism. Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video GamesRecenze

Světlana Nedvědová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(6): 693-695  

Vibrant Civil Society in Slovakia? NGOs Supported by the CEE Trust Are Still Largely Dependent on External Financing After 20 YearsStati

Dalibor Jurášek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(6): 617-643 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.055  

Large-scale funding of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) by states and corporations (external funding) can impact their functioning and diminish their civic character. It is therefore of importance to understand whether and how NGOs can become financially independent of external funding. In Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), many NGOs were kickstarted by large sums from foreign state and corporate sponsors with the hopes of creating an independent civil society reliant on domestic sources: a ‘vibrant civil society’. However, did these NGOs become financially independent? This article examines a sample of 14 NGOs in Slovakia financed...

Between Politicisation and Depoliticisation: Restitution of Church Property in Czech RepublicStati

Veronika Frantová, Petr Haas

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(6): 645-664 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.032  

Elaborating on the process of the restitution of church property in the Czech Republic after the fall of the communist regime, this paper stresses the discursive dimension of this process. To obtain information on the main arguments for and against restitution, we selected two mainstream daily newspapers, the centre-right Lidové noviny and centre-left Právo, and the ‘official’ church media of the two largest churches seeking restitution in the Czech Republic: Katolický týdeník, the official paper of the Roman Catholic Church, and the monthly Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren magazine, Český bratr. All selected sources covered the 1990–2019...

From Neoliberal Restriction to Control of the Roma–Towards Post-Neoliberal Ethnic WelfareStati

Lucie Trlifajová, Filip Pospíšil

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(6): 665-692 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.053  

The article examines how neoliberal reforms can pave the way for welfare racialisation, turning a delegitimised minimum-income scheme into a tool for racial-hierarchy enforcement. We follow the development of Czech minimum-income scheme legislation from 2014 to 2021, after a series of neoliberal (workfarist) reforms reinforced the restrictive and controlling aspects of the system. The analysed period is characterised by the greater involvement of politicians representing the poorest regions of the Czech Republic and by calls for further restrictions. Analysing parliamentary debates from this period, we show that the delegitimised social system is no...

Manoeuvring towards Success: Reconstruction of the State and Its Effective Campaign Countering Corruption and State CaptureStati

Jaromír Mazák, Lucie Němcová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(6): 593-616 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.027  

In the period from 2013 to 2017, the Czech Parliament passed five bills against corruption. A civil initiative called Reconstruction of the State was heavily involved in the process. Before the 2013 elections, the initiative prompted the candidates running for an MP mandate to publicly commit to supporting selected legislation proposals. The initiative used a variety of advocacy and campaign tactics to support passing the bills after the elections. This paper uses process tracing to answer the following research questions: (1) What path led to this success?, (2) Is there sufficient evidence about the actual role of the initiative in seeing the proposals...

Populism and Growing Welfare State Agenda: Elections of 2013 and 2017 in CzechiaStati

Tomáš Sirovátka, Lucie Novotná, Steven Saxonberg

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(6): 567-591 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.026  

Although previous studies show that welfare policies are important for populist voters, few studies have analysed in depth the social policy proposals of different types of populist parties. Since the Czech Republic is one of the few countries with a strong centrist-populist party that has been in power, this article concentrates on the Czech case and compares this centrist-populist party to the largest right-wing populist party and the main non-populist parties. We argue that the centrist and rightist Czech populist parties have developed different types of welfare agendas. The centrist-populist party supports encompassing and universalist policies...

Michal Kaplánek (ed.): Volný čas dětí staršího školního věkuRecenze

Zuzana Velenská

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(5): 559-564 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.050  

Martin Potůček: Anatomie komunismu: Skutečný příběh jedné rodinyRecenze

Lucie Rektorová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(5): 555-559 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.052  

Petr Gibas a kol.: Bydlení mladých v době krizeRecenze

Hana Řičicová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(5): 553-555 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.051  

„Dokážu varovat před všemi statisticky možnými klimatickými extrémy, ale kdo mě bude varovat před sebou samým?“:Prvky klimaskepticismu v expertní prezentaci klimatické změny v médiíchStati

Renáta Mikešová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(5): 535-552 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.031  

The Czech Republic is among the countries in Europe with a relatively more sceptical view of climate change, especially when it comes to opinions about human responsibility for climate change and the need for individual measures to mitigate its impacts. This article focuses on a relatively less noticed aspect of climate-sceptic opinions in the presentation of this issue in the Czech media, namely doubts about the scientific knowledge on climate change expressed by scientists themselves. It is based on two basic observations. First, scientists and experts play a key role in the presentation of climate change. Second, highlighting the inconsistency of...

Percepce souvislostí pandemie covid-19 a klimatické změny v české blogosféřeStati

Daniel Čermák, Jana Stachová, Matouš Pilnáček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(5): 513-534 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2022.038  

The article is dedicated to reflecting the links between the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic crisis in the context of Czech social media, specifically on several blogging platforms. The processes leading to the climate and pandemic crises are highly intertwined, based in the way humans interact with the environment on a global scale. However, the circumstances and consequences of both crises, as well as the ways they are dealt with, also share common features. The authors identify such contexts as reflected on blogging platforms by undertaking a qualitative analysis of texts from an interpretative phenomenological perspective. Climate scepticism...

„Tady prostě umírají lidi a budou umírat“: Příběhy sucha, kulturní kódy a environmentální diskursyStati

Karel Čada

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(5): 487-512 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.016  

This article focuses on narratives of drought in Czech media discourses. Proceeding from the perspective of cultural sociology, it describes drought as a complex cultural field and a collective representation that has given rise to new forms of civic responsibility and subjectivity and a rich tableau of new uncertainties and risks. Based on an analysis of 4632 articles published in the most widely read Czech newspapers (Lidové noviny, Hospodářské noviny, MF Dnes, Právo, Blesk) between 2014 and 2018, the article identifies the key media images of drought and relates them to broader environmental discourses and cultural risk patterns. The main thesis...

16. mezinárodní konference etnologů a folkloristů v Brně: SIEF – Žít v nejistotě (Living Uncertainty)Zprávy a informace

Olga Nešporová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(4): 479-482