Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review - Latest articles

Dan Ryšavý, David Fiedor (eds.): Fakta a trendy v současné české společnosti: jak se neztratit v datechBook reviews

Filip Byrtus

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(4): 445-448  

Studenti studentům, devátý ročník Studentské konference KSA FF UPOLConference reports and information

Vendula Středová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(4): 451-453  

Anthony Elliott: Algorithmic Intimacy. The Digital Revolution in Personal RelationshipsBook reviews

Dalibor Stehno

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(4): 448-450  

Dana Sýkorová, Hana Šlechtová, Michaela Kvapilová Bartošová: Graying Siblinghood: A Sociological Study of Siblinghood in Late AdulthoodBook reviews

Zuzana Talašová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(4): 441-445  

The Whole Class First and Individuals Second? The Ethnography of Pre-Service Teachers’ Learning to Address Student Diversity during Their PracticumArticles

Jana Obrovská, Petr Svojanovský

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(4): 415-439 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.035  

Social inequalities can be reproduced or levelled through education. Czech schools tend to increase social inequalities, which is why discussion has increasingly turned to approaches that address the individual educational needs of every student. Such approaches include the concept of differentiated instruction. However, differentiation in teaching can be a professional challenge, especially for pre-service teachers, who during their practicum in lower-secondary schools need the support of mentors when learning to address student diversity. The aim of this study is to discover how pre-service teachers learn to work with student diversity during their...

The Effect of Different Secondary School Tracks on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Learning Outcomes – the Application of the Propensity Score Matching Method to Longitudinal DataArticles

Jana Straková, Jaroslava Simonová, Petr Soukup

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(4): 381-413 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.044  

Available statistics and research show that there are large differences in the content and conditions of education and the socio-economic composition of students between the tracks offered in the Czech secondary school system (the vocational track, technical track, and academic track). The graduates of these different tracks show large differences in educational outcomes, including non-cognitive outcomes such as motivation to study, self-concept, and civic attitudes. There is no consensus on whether differences in outcomes are primarily due to differences in the knowledge and attitudes that young people already have upon entering the different tracks,...

The Intergenerational Transmission of Cultural Capital: The Social Determinants of the Size of a Home LibraryArticles

Petra Raudenská

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(4): 355-380 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.034  

This study focused on the social determinants of the objectified state of cultural capital in adulthood. It examined whether intergenerational transmission is still the dominant determinant of the size of a person’s home library in post-communist Czech society. We applied structural equation modelling to data (N = 1958) from the Czech Household Panel Survey (CHPS) and found that while the size of a person’s home library was significantly affected by the size of the parents’ library, the parents’ educational attainment had only an indirect effect that was manifested through the respondent’s education and reading preferences....

Evaluating Egg Donor Recruitment Strategies in Czech ART Clinics: A Critical Analysis of Informed Consent and Ethical ConsiderationsArticles

Anna De Bayas Sanchez, Jitka Fialová, Hana Konečná, Francisco Güell

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(3): 321-346 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.019  

There is a high demand for egg donors in the Czech Republic, driven by international couples’ interest in assisted reproductive procedures due to affordable treatment, no waiting list, and an extended age limit for recipients up to 49 years. For a population of 10.5 million, the country has 48 reproductive clinics. This study aims to evaluate Czech egg donor recruitment campaigns through the lens of free, informed, and specific consent requirements. A quantitative-qualitative analysis of recruitment strategies from 29 unique clinic websites in Czechia was conducted, with 12 sites specifically designed for marketing purposes. The analysis was...

What Differentiates the Ethnic Tolerance of Czech University Students? The Role of Field of Study, Family Background, Gender and FriendshipArticles

Dan Ryšavý, Pavlína Hrabalová, Patrik Polášek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(3): 295-320 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.021  

Working in the context of a rather ethnically homogeneous country, this study examines what differentiates the social distance of university students towards Arab, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Roma populations. The hitherto neglected effect of the field of study is also of special concern. The authors analysed the results of a large online survey of 3,912 Palacký University students in the Czech Republic. Inspired by Bogardus’s social distance scale, we ascertained a significantly greater acceptability of Ukrainians and Vietnamese, on the one hand, and a higher distance towards Arabs and the Roma, on the other hand. Neither the liberalising influence...

The Well-Informed Critique of the Economy: A Study of Lay Economic Reasoning in UkraineArticles

Maksym Kolomoiets, Martin Hájek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(3): 267-294 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.020  

This article provides insight into the lay economic reasoning process through a qualitative gamification-method study conducted in Ukraine. Rather than economically naive individuals, laypeople in the study present themselves as Schützean well-informed citizens who are aware of expert knowledge and capable of using a metapragmatic register of critique in the discussion of the economic reality at hand. The doxic elements of lay economic knowledge, as an obstacle for metapragmatic reasoning, were also revealed in the study. The Ukrainian context of the research ensured that the respondents’ economic claims were, on the one hand, largely separated...

A Crusade for Social Anthropology: An Analysis of Politics in Post-Socialist DebatesArticles

Nikola Balaš

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(3): 239-266 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.054  

This article aims to apply critical scrutiny to post-socialist discourse, an ongoing series of debates concerning the relationship between sociocultural anthropology and ethnology in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). To achieve my goal, I single out Petr Skalník’s writings and subject them to twofold scrutiny. In the first part of my article, I offer factual criticism and point out the factual shortcomings of his work. The second part of the article puts the writings under sociological scrutiny, based on what I call a ‘political reading’, and proceeding from the sociology of science of Pierre Bourdieu. This perspective...

Sabrina P. Ramet: East Central Europe and Communism: Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943–1991Book reviews

Vladimir Đorđević

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(3): 350-352  

Dennis C. Grube: Why Governments Get It Wrong: And How They Can Get It RightBook reviews

Camilla Lund

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(3): 348-350  

Jamie Susskind: Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by TechBook reviews

Selina Dzafic

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(3): 347-348  

Sto let Václava LamseraPortraits of sociologists

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

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

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

Jana Rosenfeldová

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

Přemysl Houda: Nohavica a (jeho) naše malá válkaBook reviews

Stanislav Holubec

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

Neobyčejně krásná koncepce demokracie: polská aktualizace Masarykova politického myšleníReview essays

Marek Skovajsa

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

Why Are Democracy and Oligarchy the Most Important ‘Constitutions’ in Aristotle’s View and How Do They Fundamentally Differ?Articles

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...

Violence, Bias and People with Disabilities: An Introduction to Disablist Hate Crime ResearchArticles

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...

Proportionality, Integration Effect, and Legitimacy of the Electoral System to the Czech Chamber of Representatives: A Simulation Study of the Impacts of D0146Hondt divisor, Imperiali Quota and Hare QuotaArticles

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 reportyReview essays

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 využítBook reviews

Vít Beneš

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

Dashun Wang, Albert-László Barabási: The Science of ScienceBook reviews

David Janků

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

Jan Keller: Současná francouzská sociologieBook reviews

Miroslav Tížik

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

The Use of Multilevel Models in Analysing Contextual Effects of Labour Force Participation Rate on Redistribution Support with Comparative Longitudinal Survey DataArticles

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...

Exponential Random Graph Models: Modelling Relational Mechanisms in the Inter-organisational Network of the Czech Coal SubsystemArticles

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)...

Testing the Psychometric Properties and Equivalence of the Czech Version of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) using Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Item Response Theory, and Bayesian ModellingArticles

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...