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This report on Czech participation in international comparative socio-economic survey research is primarily aimed at providing useful information on the sources of data available for secondary analysis in sociology. Mainly the infrastructural role of international projects is examined in this regard. The author provides a complete list of multinational continuous sample-survey programmes that have public domain databases and include Czech data, and he also presents a selection of projects in other areas (one-time international surveys, comparative official statistics, events data, etc.). A significant proportion of all current social research in the Czech Republic involves participation in international projects. In academic research most of the available survey data that are suitable for monitoring change are from international projects. However, for some topics and types of research - for example, socio-economic household panel research, and research on migration, communication or the ageing of the population - there is little or no comparable data available.
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In this article the problem of survey non-response is examined with special reference to probability sampling in the Czech Republic. Non-response rates among Czech respondents in ISSP surveys between 1995 and 2005 were almost twice the rate recorded between 1991 and 1995 (25%). Such trends point to a decline in the 'survey climate'. While non-contacts and refusals in surveys are a significant problem, issues relating to how fieldwork is undertaken are equally important. The large fluctuations in non-contact rates and the relative success of the Czech Statistical Office in attenuating non-response rates demonstrates that prudent surveying strategies can be effective. An examination of two waves of the European Social Survey (ESS) reveals both the problems and potential strategies available for response rate enhancement. In this respect, all survey designers face the dilemma of balancing the benefits of data accuracy with increasing logistical costs. Improvement in survey quality necessitates consideration of many issues and the ability to make sensible trade-offs between competing research objectives.
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This article considers the function of anamnestic imagery in the collection of verse 'Hledani pritomneho casu' (In Search of Time Present) by Ivan Blatny (1919-1990). The author starts by defining memory as an act of recall of temporal consciousness (while analyzing the concept of temporality in the works of Bergson and Husserl), and focuses on anamnestic imagery in certain collections of verse in relation to their overall structure. Four analytical chapters are of key importance here; at the centre of each is verse by one poet: 'S lodi, jez dovazi caj a kavu' by Konstantin Biebl (1898-1951), 'Praha s prsty deste' by Vitezslav Nezval (1900-1958), 'Hledani pritomneho casu' by Blatny, and 'Davne proso' by Jan Skacel (1922-1989). By comparing the individual studies, which represent two contrasting attitudes to anamnestic imagery in modern Czech lyric verse, the author seeks to come up with a hypothesis about the general nature of lyrical anamnestic images. The attempt to comprehend Blatny's collection begins chiefly with considerations of temporality in the work of Emil Staiger (1908-1987) and also the hermeneutics of understanding of Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002). 'Hledani pritomneho casu' unites two forms of Blatny's verse: on the one hand the collection contains poems of a musical nature, corresponding to Blatny's style before joining 'Skupina 42' (The 42 Group); on the other hand, it contains verse written under the influence of the principles of the group. The article seeks to find what it was that provided the unity of mood of both forms of Blatny's verse at the phonic (euphonic) level, lexical (motivic) level, and syntactic level. The common denominator seems to be Blatny's consideration of temporality, a tendency to articulate the 'fullness of the moment'. That is manifested in the elementary principles of return (repetition) and unification. These principles are most evident at the motif level. Blatny's being 'in search of the present' is understood as being in search of the moment when the everyday merges with the historic. Inspired by Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu', Blatny finds the historic mainly in expressing the banal details that surround him. The personal recollection of everyday life takes on the importance of a testimony of 'big' history. In Blatny's collection the repeated motif of the road, fundamental particularly to the longest poem of the first part, 'Dejiny' (History), becomes a characteristic metaphor for time. The lyric persona in it, much as in many other poems, is stylized as a flâneur. Blatny's second most frequent autostylization is the poet sitting in his room and concentrating on capturing the present moment. Both stylizations are in essence related to anamnestic imagery. The desire to express the total moment, to find the quality of time in its dure, is illustrated by examples of changes in tense, which move towards the gnomic. The monumental concluding poem, 'Terrestris,' reads as a new opportunity to 'find time present,' the expression of the moment. It is the mysterious mythical being that unites all opposites and embodies the order of life in the fleetingness of time.
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