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Role sankcí v přímé práci s uchazeči o zaměstnáníStati

Miroslava Rákoczyová, Robert Trbola, Ondřej Hora

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(2): 147-169 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.049  

Active labour market policy emphasises applying an individual approach to the unemployed and understanding and acknowledging their individual needs. However, the staff at the Labour Office of the Czech Republic (PES), who are in direct contact with the clients, are also in charge of the administration of sanctions. Their agenda therefore combines both supportive and disciplinary roles. In this article, we examine how much discretion these frontline workers have in the area of sanctioning clients and how they exercise it. We analyse qualitative data from semi-structured interviews conducted at two contact local offices of the PES. The interviews revealed...

Michael Burawoy (1947–2025): The Man of Dialogue and Path to Objective KnowledgeNekrology

Rostislav Gramskopf

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(1): 127-131  

Eva Jánská (eds.): Transnational Trajectories and Diaspora Policies. The Case of Czechia in Comparison to Poland, Hungary and SlovakiaRecenze

Adéla Chvílová Kolářová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(1): 136-140  

Sociologický ústav Akademie věd oslaví šedesátinyVýročí

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(1): 119-126  

Společnost a sociologie nejen sociologickou optikou, třináctý ročník Olomoucké podzimní sociologické konference KSA FF UPOLZprávy a informace

Viktorie Hegedüšová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(1): 141-143  

Andrea Svobodová: Vietnam vzdálený i blízký. Potomci Vietnamců v ČeskuRecenze

Vladimír Vokál

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(1): 133-136  

Resilience a zranitelnost: zdánlivě protichůdné reakce na migrační „polykrize“Editorial

Marie Jelínková, Tereza Freidingerová, Michal Pavlásek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(1): 5-12  

Jednou jsi dole, jednou nahoře: copingové strategie českých žen s egyptskou migrační zkušenostíStati

Daniel Topinka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(1): 87-118 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2025.007  

The text focuses on the formation of coping strategies in the biographies of Czech women who left the Czech Republic, especially after 1989, for Egypt, some of whom, with the passage of time, began to return. The text also illustrates how vulnerability is situational and the ways in which, through constructive and adaptive strategies, the women manage challenging life situations and develop adaptability and flexibility at a level that where they acquire a greater ability to successfully withstand adverse circumstances. Using multi-sited research inspired by the biographical narrative interpretative method we (re)constructed chronologies of life stories...

‘The Plan Is No Plan’: Ontological Security and Resilience of Ukrainian Refugees in the Czech Labour MarketStati

Lucie Macková, Nikola Medová, Barbora Frličková, Luděk Jirka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(1): 65-86 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.024  

After 24 February 2022, tens of thousands of refugees from Ukraine fled to the Czech Republic. The war disrupted their lives, and their future status remains unclear. This article utilises 19 semistructured interviews with highly skilled Ukrainian refugees in different parts of the Czech Republic. It focuses on their ontological security and migration aspirations and, according to these theoretical implications, identifies the key elements that make participants’ lives insecure and limit their position in the Czech labour market. This study explores the uncertainties and resilience associated with temporary protection status and other obstacles,...

Vzájemná podpora, vzory a důvěra: role etnických sdružení při budování kapacit Vietnamců druhé generaceStati

Tomáš Knor, Tereza Freidingerová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(1): 43-63 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.025  

In this article, we examine the collective response to the challenges second-generation Vietnamese in the Czech Republic face. Second-generation migrants are generally expected to integrate easily. In the case of the Vietnamese, this assumption is reinforced by the stereotype of them as a model minority that adapts smoothly and achieves intergenerational upward social mobility. However, we argue that the life trajectories of second-generation Vietnamese are not so straightforward. On the contrary, they have to overcome various obstacles stemming from their hybrid identity and external and intra-group pressures. As a result, they experience various...

Resilience českého zdravotnického systému v reakci na příchod válečných uprchlíků z UkrajinyStati

Karolína Dobiášová, Olga Angelovská, Jolana Kopsa Těšinová, Elena Tulupova

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2025, 61(1): 13-41 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.026  

The arrival of war refugees from Ukraine has tested the functionality of a number of Czech public and social policy systems. In this article, we focus on the healthcare system and its response to the new situation. We use the concept of health system resilience, which is the ability of a health system to maintain or improve access to health services while ensuring its long-term sustainability. We focus specifically on the absorptive capacity dimension. This refers to the ability of a healthcare system to continue to function well and provide the same level of basic health services (i.e. quantity, quality, and equity of access) and population protection...

Is There Really Unequal Pay for Equal Work Between Men and Women in the Czech Republic? Problems with the Decomposition of Wage DeterminantsStati

Petr Kužel

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(6): 577-601 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.032  

This study focuses on issues of the adjusted gender pay gap (AGPG) and problematises existing approaches to calculating this indicator, especially Eurostat’s methodology. It analyses the different factors and variables with which Eurostat and other authors work, noting flaws in their measurement methods. The unadjusted gender pay gap (GPG) is typically divided into explained and unexplained parts, with the latter interpreted as the effect of unequal pay for equal work. This study demonstrates why the unexplained part might be considerably smaller than reported by existing studies (typically at 14%–15% and 17% in the case of Eurostat). What...

The Role of Educational Choices in Support of Gender Equality in Unpaid Domestic Work: A Case Study of Psychology and STEM Students in SlovakiaStati

Magdalena Adamus, Denisa Fedáková, Vladimíra Čavojová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(6): 603-621 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.034  

The present paper investigates female and male students’ perceptions of descriptive and prescriptive gender norms in Slovakia and their expectations of and preferences for unpaid domestic work in the students’ future family lives. We explore the Slovak subset of the ‘Understanding Communal Orientation in Men’ (UCOM) project, which aims to better understand the social‒psychological factors associated with students’ interest in taking care-oriented roles and occupations. Data were collected at several universities across Slovakia in 2018 at psychology (as an example of the HEED field of study) and STEM departments...

The Gender-gap Reversal in Tertiary Education and Its Implications for Inequality of Educational Opportunity in European CountriesStati

Tomáš Katrňák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(6): 551-576 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.008  

Tertiary education has expanded in European countries since 2000. One consequence of this expansion is the growth of the gender-gap reversal (GGR), in which proportion of women in tertiary education is increasing faster than that of men. This article deals with the historically new gender arrangement of tertiary education. It answers the question of whether GGR, as part of educational expansion, means different gender trends in inequality of educational opportunity (IEO) by educational origin in the tertiary education transition. The author analyzed European Social Survey (ESS) data on the 25–34 age group from 20 European countries over five...

Gender Differences in Intergenerational Occupational Persistence and Mobility in Central EuropeStati

Michael L. Smith

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(6): 623-663 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.041  

This article investigates intergenerational occupational persistence and mobility across Central Europe (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) on the basis of EU-SILC survey data from 2005, 2011, and 2019. Social Stratification in Eastern Europe survey data from 1993 is also used as a historical comparison. These surveys are uniquely suited for the analysis of occupational mobility due to their large sample sizes and inclusion of detailed parental occupation data. I report gender differences in total and net mobility rates based on the analysis of 7x7 occupational mobility tables, as well as predicted probabilities (derived from log...

Gender Gap Closure and ReversalEditorial

Tomáš Katrňák, Tomáš Doseděl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(6): 549-550 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.040  

Robert Žanony: Dopaminová past. Politický mozek, digitální veřejnost, nefunkční dialogRecenze

Tereza Picková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(5): 538-541  

Jiří Skála, Johana Chylíková: Hranice příležitostíRecenze

Barbora Procházková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(5): 535-538  

Dorte Jagetic Andersen, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola (eds.): Borderlands Resilience: Transitions, Adaptation and Resistance at BordersRecenze

Michal Pavlásek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(5): 541-543  

Život se sudetskou otázkou: Václav Houžvička oslavil 75 letJubilea

Lukáš Novotný

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(5): 531-533  

Migrační trajektorie mladých dospělých v pražském zázemíStati

Otakar Bursa

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(5): 507-530 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2024.006  

There is a generation of young adults, ignored to date by research, who have grown up in their parents’ suburban homes in Prague’s hinterland and are now on the brink of making the important life decision of choosing where they want to live. They are attracted to the rich and dynamic life of the city and repelled by the notion of making a daily commute to the remote and boring suburbs. But the rapid rise in prices in Prague’s housing market and the related housing affordability crisis are preventing young adults from pursuing the suburb-to-city migration trajectory they largely favour. This article analyses statistical data on population...

K čemu je raná výchova a péče? Jak se v ČR ne/diskutuje o rané výchově a péči o děti ve věku do tří letStati

Martina Kampichler

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(5): 481-505 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.048  

Institutional day care for children up to the age of three (early childhood education and care - ECEC) is a topic that has repeatedly provoked emotional debates in the Czech Republic (CR). However, reflection on the conceptual-content aspect of ECEC is largely missing. The article therefore focuses on this neglected area. Following Foucault’s concept of governmentality, the article analyses ECEC debates from the perspective of ECEC regimes of practices as re/producing thematically specific and historically constituted assemblages of how ECEC is or ought to be done in the CR. In doing so, it answers the following questions: What ECEC regimes of...

Asexuál, kdo? Konstrukce identity asexuálních lidí v české společnostiStati

Nela Andresová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2024, 60(5): 459-479 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.038  

This article deals with the construction of the identity of asexuals in Czech society. The author focuses on coming out and feelings of stigmatisation, relationships and intimacy, the the perceived existence of a separate asexual community, and the visibility of asexuals in society. In this research, a qualitative study was carried out among among people who identify as asexuals. The aim of the analysis was to determine how asexual people construct their social identity. People often do not know the meaning of the term ‘asexuality’ and this can result in the social stigmatisation of asexuals. In some respects, asexual people are similar...

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

Filip Byrtus

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

Studenti studentům, devátý ročník Studentské konference KSA FF UPOLZprávy a informace

Vendula Středová

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

Anthony Elliott: Algorithmic Intimacy. The Digital Revolution in Personal RelationshipsRecenze

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 AdulthoodRecenze

Zuzana Talašová

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

Nejdříve celá třída, až potom jednotlivci? Etnografie profesního učení studentů učitelství na praxi zaměřeného na žákovskou diverzituStati

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...

Příspěvek různých středoškolských programů ke kognitivním a nekognitivním výsledkům vzdělávání – aplikace metody propensity score matching na longitudinální dataStati

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,...

Mezigenerační přenos kulturního kapitálu: sociální determinanty velikosti domácí knihovnyStati

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....