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Sociology in the Czech Republic

Part of the Sociology Transformed Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-45027-2

ISBN: 978-1-137-45026-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Aug 11, 2017

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Chapter 1Introduction: An Institutional History of Sociology in the Czech Republic

Skovajsa, Marek; Balon, Jan

Pages: 1 –11

[The history of sociology in the Czech Republic presented in this book is primarily focused on its institutional development. Institutionalized sociology in what today is the Czech Republic, a state created only recently (1993), has been to a large extent coterminous with Czech sociology. Whereas...
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Chapter 2Sociology in Service to Nation-Building: The Legacy of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Skovajsa, Marek; Balon, Jan

Pages: 13 –25

[The beginnings of Czech sociology from 1880 onward are intertwined with the academic and political career of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, who for 40 years was the only professor to teach the discipline at the Czech University in Prague. In Masaryk’s thought, sociology was closely tied to the...
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Chapter 3A False Beginning? The Growth and Destruction of Czech Sociology 1918–1950

Skovajsa, Marek; Balon, Jan

Pages: 27 –47

[The institutionalization of sociology made big steps forward in the newly independent Czechoslovak state after 1918. The first professors were appointed, sociology became a recognized academic discipline, and a national association was founded. Two antagonistic centers crystalized at the...
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Chapter 41950–1969: Becoming a Counselor to the Socialist Prince

Skovajsa, Marek; Balon, Jan

Pages: 49 –71

[Following the virulent communist campaign against it, sociology was almost nonexistent in Czechoslovakia between 1950 and 1956. Once a moderate de-Stalinization process started in 1956, sociology reappeared as a subject of some Marxist-Leninist intellectual debates. By 1964, sociology gained a...
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Chapter 51969–1989: The Long Hour of Party Ideologists

Skovajsa, Marek; Balon, Jan

Pages: 73 –95

[The neo-Stalinist regime installed in Czechoslovakia after 1968 reintroduced severe ideological control over the social sciences. Most leading figures of 1960s Czech sociology were expelled from the discipline or pushed to the margins. The Communist Party bureaucrats and ideologists who formed...
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Chapter 6The 1990s: Reconstruction and the Turn to the West

Skovajsa, Marek; Balon, Jan

Pages: 97 –117

[After the regime change in 1989, it seemed that Czech society had become an internationally relevant ‘social laboratory’ and sociologists would attain public recognition as producers of expert knowledge indispensable for the successful outcome of the transformation process. In the end, this role...
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Chapter 7After 2000: Plugging into the European Context

Skovajsa, Marek; Balon, Jan

Pages: 119 –142

[After 2000, sociology in the Czech Republic expanded rapidly, especially in university settings. With the European Union accession process, new administrative regimes were introduced into the spheres of research and higher education. This chapter concentrates on the impact of external...

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