Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(4)

The #Scicomm Phenomenon: Using and Analysing Big Data to Track Science Communication on Czech Research Institutional Websites

Petra Raudenská, Renáta Topinková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(4): 387-415 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.004  

This study focused on science communication on the websites of Czech research institutions. Particularly, we inquired to what extent Czech science is shared with the public on the Internet and what differences can be found between the websites of social and natural science institutions. Textual analysis revealed that on the scientific websites, terms like ‘science’ and ‘popularization’ occurred together with references to scientific institutions, study, and research. In the case of natural sciences, the term ‘popularization’ was more often linked to receiving science awards for science popularization and promotion....

The Selection of the Chair of the Whistleblowers Protection Office in Slovakia as the Creation of State-Institutionalised Ethical-Political Agency

Petr Mezihorák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(4): 417-439 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2022.035  

This article analyses the public hearing of candidates for the position of Chair of the Whistleblowers Protection Office in Slovakia in order to examine the hitherto overlooked issue of ethical-political agency that seeks to create an institution for the common good. Ethical political agency is the type of agency that transcends both the conception of institutions as dominant, taken-for-granted structures whose rules individuals tacitly follow, whereby they are deprived of agency, and the understanding of agency as a strategic activity that uses institutions to promote the specific interests of individuals. An analysis of the interactions between the...

Conceptualisations of Legal Otherness in Asylum Evidentiary Practices: From Formal to Anthropological Interpretations of Unconventional Legal Authorities

Tomáš Ledvinka

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(4): 441-465 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2023.005  

This article presents an analytical study of several asylum cases on which Czech courts issued rulings between 2007 and 2022. It focuses on exposing the ways in which asylum authorities/courts conceptually treat legal otherness on the basis of incomplete information in the practical context of asylum proceedings. It demonstrates how the judgments of Czech asylum courts deal with the legal differences of countries of origin in evidentiary interpretations of documents, such as transcripts of asylum interviews or country-of-origin information (COI), by reconstructing the conceptual frameworks in which the alterity of the origin countries’ state...

Daniel Gerbery: Podoby práce: Sociologický pohľad

Jan Meyer

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(4): 467-469  

Paul Collier: Budoucnost kapitalismu: Tváří v tvář novým úzkostem

Karolína Hájková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(4): 469-472  

Ivan Leudar and Jiří Nekvapil: Dialogical Networks

Ondřej Klíma

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(4): 472-474  

„Umelá inteligencia: sociálne a etické problémy“. Správa o seminári Slovenskej sociologickej spoločnosti pri SAV

Silvia Capíková, Miroslav Tížik

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(4): 475-479  

16. mezinárodní konference etnologů a folkloristů v Brně: SIEF – Žít v nejistotě (Living Uncertainty)

Olga Nešporová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2023, 59(4): 479-482