Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(4)
A Classic Sociologist for Our Time: Pierre Bourdieu’s General TheoryMarek SkovajsaSociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(4): 345-374 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.022 This paper draws attention to one possible intellectual factor that has contributed to Pierre Bourdieu’s undeniable status as a contemporary classic. Despite his frequent sorties against general theorising, Bourdieu has produced his own kind of general sociological theory that, in a crowd of competitors, is better suited than most to meeting the demand that is present across the field of sociology and other social sciences for a general but non-universalist theory. It is possible to distinguish four relevant properties of theories, which are correlated but mutually irreducible one to the other: conceptual generality, generality of application... |
‘I Know There Are Smart People There’ – Private Schools as an Investment in Children’s Social CapitalKateřina Lojdová, Betarice-Elena Chromková ManeaSociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(4): 375-399 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.017 The rapid growth of private schools in the Czech Republic raises the issue of equal access to education. Czech research on external differentiation in education has mainly focused on multi-year gymnasiums, while private schools have not yet received the same attention. Private schools in the Czech Republic tend to appeal to middle-class parents with liberal views and an orientation towards personal development. Our research focuses on the choice of a private school from the perspective of students’ parents. The research question was: How are the advantages of private school for their child constructed in the narratives of students’ parents?... |
Electoral Coalitions in the Shadow of the Pandemic: Factors of Electoral Support and Changes to Them in the Czech Parliamentary Elections in 2017 and 2021Michael DrašarSociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(4): 401-422 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.018 This article maps the changes in the factors of electoral support and their importance for Czech political parties united in electoral coalitions in the elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 2017 and 2021. The analysis also includes the factor of mortality, which played a key role in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research is designed as a quantitative analysis of the election results in 205 municipalities with extended powers and in Prague in relation to six socio-economic and demographic factors. The analysis found that the influence of individual factors often changes in the case of separate and joint candidacies. If a variable appears... |
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