Rurální sociologie v období totality. Příspěvek do diskuse

• Authors: Patek Z.

Title variants

EN

RURAL SOCIOLOGY IN THE TOTALITARIAN POLAND

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

After the communist coup in 1948 rural sociology in Czechoslovakia was regarded by the new totalitarian regime as an element of bourgeois ideology which had to be destroyed. Empirical research in agriculture and the countryside was deemed unnecessary and incapable of providing any new and useful knowledge. But despite being rejected by party ideologists, the Czech rural sociology survived and in 1960s partook of the general revival of Czech sociology and other social sciences. The most important contributions to its new development came, respectively, from the activities of leading Czech rural sociologist Jan Tauber, from the Institute of social and political sciences directed by Pavel Machonin, and from a group of teachers from agricultural universities in Prague and Brno. In August 1968 the progress of rural sociology was interrupted by the invasion of Warsaw Pact Troops, and a considerable number of sociologists were thereafter prevented from working in their field. Although even during this period some limited activities in the domain of rural sociology continued, they were distorted by dogmatism and interference from the state and Communist Party leaders. Despite this a new generation of rural sociologists nonetheless managed to emerge. The democratic revolution in November 1989 established new conditions that enabled the resumption of activities in the field of rural sociology, allowing them to evolve freely.

Keywords

EN

RURAL SOCIOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 665-671
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Patek Z.

• Z. Patek, Ceská zemedelská univerzita, Kamýcká 129, 165 21 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07CZAAAA03086348