Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(4)
Articles
Sociology Behind Bars? Penitentiary Sociology in the Czech Republic
Lukáš Dirga
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(4): 411-432 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2021.022 
The aim of this paper is to introduce discipline of penitentiary sociology, discuss its forms in the context of the Czech Republic, and answer the question of why sociologists do not participate in everyday practice behind bars of Czech prisons even though they have formal ties with this environment. The findings presented in this paper are based on qualitative research conducted in Czech prisons. The data corpus includes qualitative interviews with selected actors in the prison world and an analysis of relevant documents relating to the research topic. Sociology and the prison system meet on two basic levels in the Czech Republic. As an external partnership...
True to Their Name? Activities of Niche Political Parties in the Legislative Process
Jaroslav Bílek, Jakub Lysek, Robert Zbíral
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(4): 433-454 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2021.010
Compared to mainstream parties, niche parties represent a category of political parties that are said to be different in how they approach to their programme and voters. As the term 'niche' suggests, the programmes of these parties tend to be focused on issues that are either overlooked or insufficiently addressed by other political parties. The rich contemporary theoretical discussion on niche parties has noted that they focus more on defending their programme than exercising political power. This assumption, however, has not been tested on empirical data on the real activity of niche parties in the political arena. The goal of this study is to fill...
Factor Analysis as a Known Unknown – Principal Component Analysis with a Varimax Rotation Is Not Always the Ideal Approach
Petr Soukup
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(4): 455-484 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2021.021
This article seeks to show that, although factor analysis (mostly in its exploratory version) is a method frequently applied by social-science researchers (it is often also discussed in basic data analysis textbooks), only a very basic version of it is used, with settings that are far from optimal. However, what settings are used can have major implications, primarily in the form of conceptual problems, where the exploratory version is often used instead of the confirmatory version. Other settings used can also have an impact on the results. These are mainly partial options, which are used mainly in the exploratory version, in particular the choice...
Jubilees
Oto Sedláček se dožívá devadesátky
Zdeněk R. Nešpor
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(4): 485-486
Obituary
Zemřel Michal Illner, bývalý ředitel Sociologického ústavu AV ČR
Tomáš Kostelecký, Alena Vodáková, Oto Sedláček, Jan Kára, Marie Čermáková, Zdenka Vajdová, Věra Majerová, Josef Bernard, Ľubomír Falťan, Akihiro Ishikawa
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(4): 487-498
Vzpomínka na socioložku a „tichou disidentku“ Jiřinu Šiklovou
Hynek Jeřábek
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(4): 499-501
Jiřina Šiklová: Když na něco mám kapacitu, tak to udělám
Eva Dragomirecká, Helena Válková, Pavla Kodymová
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(4): 502-503
O genderu a sociální práci – vzpomínka na Jiřinu Šiklovou
Josef Vošmik
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(4): 504-507
Ronald Franklin Inglehart (1934–2021)
Ladislav Rabušic
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(4): 509-513
Book reviews
Yvona Kostelecká, Andrea Beláňová, David Hána, Irena Kašparová, Jakub Pivarč, Zuzana Svobodová: Domácí vzdělávání
Marta Kolářová
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(4): 515-517
Barbora Půtová: Antropologie turismu
Ivan Chorvát
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(4): 517-522
Karolína Pauknerová: Krajina mezi pamětí a zapomínáním: Studie z Čech
Tereza Blažková
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(4): 522-524
Michal Pavlásek: Z Moravy do Velikého Srediště: Etnografické podobenství o zapomenuté náboženské komunitě
Luděk Jirka
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(4): 524-526