Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2022, 58(3)

How Empirical Social Research Gained Ascendancy in Post-War France

Hynek Jeřábek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2022, 58(3): 235-255 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2021.044  

Sociology changed significantly in Europe after the Second World War. An interest in research with practical applications began to prevail. This article explains how this transformation came about in France and what contributed to the change. Sociologists at the Sorbonne were the first to actively support the use of an empirical approach in the social sciences. In this connection they invited Paul Lazarsfeld, one of the founders of the Columbia school of sociology, to spend a year at the Sorbonne in 1962. Drawing on archive sources, this article reveals the factors that lay behind the creation of an original three-volume anthology of methodological...

Why Women Leave Earlier: What Is Behind the Earlier Labour Market Exit of Women in the Czech Republic

Radka Dudová, Kristýna Pospíšilová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2022, 58(3): 257-283 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2022.014  

The article examines the factors that intervene in decisions to leave the labour market in the Czech Republic from a gender perspective. It uses binary logistic regression to identify the variables that predict the economic inactivity of men and women at the age of 60 plus and the interactions of variables to examine whether the factors that determine when people exit the labour market are the same for men and women. The analysis uses data from the Labour Force Study (LFS) collected in the fourth quarter of 2017 and focuses on people between the ages of 60 and 69 and five independent variables: gender, education, pension eligibility, marital status,...

'The Core of My Work Is in Being with People Who Do Not Practise Faith in Any Way': The Self-Perception of Czech Hospital Chaplains

Andrea Beláňová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2022, 58(3): 285-308 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2022.013  

The article focuses on the understudied topic of contemporary hospital chaplaincy in the Czech Republic, its development, and the current issues this work is dealing with. Based on a study conducted among Czech hospital chaplains affiliated with the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, the Roman Catholic Church, the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, and the Church of Seventh Day Adventists, the article examines the experiences of Christian providers of spiritual care in the secularised environment of a hospital and sheds light on how they perceive their work and role. Two waves of interviews were conducted among thirteen hospital chaplains, male and female,...

'A Milestone in the History of Slovakia': Two Narratives about the 2015 Referendum on the Family in Slovakia

Alica Synek Rétiová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2022, 58(3): 309-333 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2020.047  

This paper examines a discursive controversy that arose in Slovakia after a conservative civic association initiated a referendum to protect 'traditional families' against the supposed encroachment of LGBTI rights. The 2015 referendum represents a tipping point in the formation of a new Slovak conservative political front. In this article, meaning-making among actors civically engaged in the referendum is brought to light by re-constructing the deep cultural structures in which they are immersed. Drawing upon the strong programme in cultural sociology, I analyse the master narratives woven through the discourse of the referendum organisers and boycotters....

The Lens of Morality, Dignity, and the Common Good

Maarten Wensink

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2022, 58(3): 335-338  

In a World Governed by Merit, All the Poor Are Undeserving

Isa Trifan

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2022, 58(3): 338-341  

What about the Dignity of Unpaid Work?

Ricardo Rodrigues

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2022, 58(3): 341-345  

How Do We Decide What Constitutes the Common Good?

Frederik Pfeiffer

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2022, 58(3): 345-348  

Krisztina Arató, Boglarka Koller and Anita Pelle (eds): The Political Economy of the Eurozone in Central and Eastern Europe: Why In, Why Out?

Sergiu Delcea

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2022, 58(3): 348-352  

Partha Dasgupta: Time and the Generations: Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet

Frederik Pfeiffer, Marijan Šteko

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2022, 58(3): 352-356  

Sander van der Linden and Ragner E. Lofstedt (eds): Risk and Uncertainty in a Post-Truth Society

Leslie Taylor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2022, 58(3): 357-359  

Andrey Makarychev (ed.): Multifaceted Nationalism and Illiberal Momentum at Europe’s Eastern Margins

Sergiu Delcea

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2022, 58(3): 360-363