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Reemigrace českých západních emigrantů v 90. letech 20. století z hlediska ekonomické sociologie

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Nespor Z. R.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2005
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vol. 41
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issue 1
31-55
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In this article the author discusses qualitative economic sociology and its connections to social-constructionist sociology of knowledge, cultural institutions and economic culture, and he applies this theoretical background to his survey on Czech Western re-emigrants in the 1990s and their perceptions of contemporary Czech society, economic-cultural institutions, and business/entrepreneurial behaviour. He concludes that fundamental differences between Czech and Western societies remain owing to the strong historical and socio-cultural embeddedness of the patterns of economic culture, especially value-based attitudes to the categories of time, supra-individual entities, different forms of capital, and managerial and other business activities. While the (ideal type of) Western socio-economic behaviour can be understood in terms of 'fundamental individualism', the Czech 'individualism of (material) consumption' seems essentially different. The latter originated in the disintegration of the socialist way of living, though it also incorporates some older cognitive and behavioural patterns, and thus it understands capitalism in a somewhat Marxian way, implying '(economic) liberalism without liberals'.
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THE ROLE OF CONSENSUS AND SOCIAL HEMOGENEITY IN THE PROCESS OF BUILDING CAPITALISM IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES

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Bielinski J.
Studia Socjologiczne
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2006
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issue 1(180)
89-118
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The focus of this article is on interpretation of progress of post-communist transformations. Classical approaches, particularly those of Max Weber and Karl Polanyi, rather than modern ones are used as basis for the empirical analysis.The author argues that the success of capitalist project, both now and in the past, stems from the ability to work out a general consensus about the preceding economic order. He also claims that ethnic homogeneity can be a favorable factor for the post-communist transformation, especially in its initial phase. Moreover, unlike in fully developed market systems which are more stable and socially diverse, the success of market reforms in post-communist countries negatively correlates with their diversification.One of the main goals of this analysis is to describe empirically what this consensus refers to. Survey research shows that market reforms in former socialist block run more smoothly if the level of social consensus about key values, not necessarily liberal, is high. The author analyzed values and attitudes defining the consensus and also the degree of their popularity among economic elites and non-elites. Data used in the analysis comes from the first edition of European Social Survey.
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SOCIOLOGY IN THE NEW AREA: SOCIOLOGICAL VIEW OF THE FINANCIAL MARKETS

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Hofreiter R.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2007
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vol. 39
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issue 5
409-431
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The main aim of the article is to introduce a contemporary sociological interpretation of financial markets. Financial markets became the subject of sociological analysis due to their increasing importance for the economy as well as a consequence of significant changes that are linked with their quick growth. One result of these changes is growing influence of the institutions of collective investment leading to the transformation of management's responsibility, processes of financial collectivization and creation of a new, invisible source of power. One of the analytical tools to examine the nature and dynamics of these changes is Michel Foucault's conception of formation of disciplinary society. The article also pays attention to some of the factors that participate in financial markets functioning but are not sufficiently reflected in the sociological research such as the social and political impact of economics and significance of the social networks.
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ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM

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Kozminski A. K.
Kultura i Społeczeństwo
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2008
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vol. 52
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issue 4
3-18
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The article discusses a special type of expectations addressed to the economic actors. These expectations either directly or indirectly refer to the idea of 'national interest' and the common national weal. The author starts his deliberations with the connections between economy and patriotism in the Polish economic and political thought of the 19th and 20th centuries. He also presents some sociological conditions of contemporary views and attitudes concerning the connections between economy and national interests. They have been confronted with the mechanisms of gaining supremacy in the increasingly globalized economic competition.
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THE ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY OF JOSEPH A. SCHUMPETER

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Louzek M.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2007
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vol. 39
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issue 1
29-48
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The paper is concerned with the economic sociology of Joseph Alois Schumpeter. First section introduces the life and works of Joseph Schumpeter. Second section analyses Schumpeter's relation to sociology. Third part discusses his early sociological works. Forth section examines the famous book 'Capitalism, Socialism, and Democrac'. Fifth part is concerned with the sociological receptions of Schumpeter. Sixth part sets Schumpeter in context of the world sociological theory, particularly the social stratification theory. The paper shows that Schumpeter's sociology is original and thought-provoking up to these days.
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'THE SON HAS PLOUGHED', BUT A FOREIGN SON. FIVE CASE STUDIES ON TRANSFORMATION STRATEGIES IN CZECH AGRICULTURE AFTER 1989

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Nespor Z. R.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2006
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vol. 42
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issue 6
1171-1194
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European agriculture has recently undergone important changes connected with the reorientation of EU policy towards regional, recreational, and land-use subsidies, and owing to the internal divergence in agriculture itself, which has led to large 'industrial' farming companies on the one hand and small, ecological farms on the other. During the period of transformation, the Czech agricultural sector has been forced to confront these changes and full stability remains a long way in the future. Transformation has thus brought both advantages and disadvantages to all the players involved. The former include the existence of large-scale farms, relatively highly skilled workers, and a cheap labour force, which make Czech agriculture competitive on a European scale. On the other hand, Czech attitudes towards work and respect for the property of others are inadequate; production efficiency and quality are low, whereas the expectations of farmers are high. Czech entrepreneurs have opted for relatively strict, unsocial, win-win strategies and understand their business simply in terms of material profit. Conversely, Western businessmen active in the Czech Republic more highly value the long-term profit, social ties and the symbolic functions of agriculture, though that does not mean they would not prefer 'industrial' forms of farming. The main problem of Czech agriculture is thus the absence of family-type farms rooted in their local, social environment, and there is only limited potential for this to develop. Unfortunately, this fact creates the threat of a 'two-speed' European agriculture: the Western model, combining both small and 'industrial' farms, and the Eastern model, focusing solely on extensive large-scale farming.
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Corporate culture in Hungary seen through two daily newspapers

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Szerb A., Kocsis-Kisantal O.
Kozgazdasagi Szemle (Economic Review)
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2008
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vol. 33
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issue 3
243-261
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Although the economic and institutional-regulation concept of the success of companies is widely accepted, ground is being gained by theories that emphasize the effects of the social and welfare environment and cultural milieu. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey shows that Hungary comes near the bottom in an international comparison of corporate culture. The article draws on the 2005 articles in two daily newspapers and on frequency statistics and content analyses to examine the image that has developed of Hungarian entrepreneurs and businesses. Negative news presenting entrepreneurs in a bad light were in a majority, so that the press was mirroring the popular belief that entrepreneurs are criminals and tax evaders getting rich on the backs of others, rather than promoting them as key figures in job creation and development, whose efforts are successful and exemplary, even without state support.
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Blurred borders. Entrepreneurial activity of Poles in Germany in the eyes of experts

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Nawojczyk M., Synowiec-Jaje L.
Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
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2018
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vol. 44
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issue 3 (169)
41–58
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The inspiration for this article is the increasing number of businesses being established by Poles in Germany, especially in the eastern part of the country. The authors’ aim is to research the strategies of Polish entrepreneurs behind the western border and to point out the forms of their participation in the German labor market. We base our narrative on individual interviews with the experts in the field of transnational entrepreneurship, and we discuss the motivations and the competitive advantages of Polish entrepreneurs. We describe their barriers and reflect on the future of Polish entrepreneurship in Germany. As the context, we employ sociological theories relevant in the field of migrations and entrepreneurship and look at statistical data illustrating the activity of Polish entrepreneurs in the Polish-German cross-border area. We answer questions about their ways of functioning there from the viewpoint of representatives of companies, institutions and organizations supporting them. In the article, we base our findings on the knowledge, opinions and predictions of our experts.
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THE NEW ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY AND THE STRUCTURAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF THE MARKET (Nova ekonomicka sociologia a strukturny kontext trhu)

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Hofreiter R.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2011
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vol. 43
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issue 5
528-549
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The main aim of this article is to present contemporary theoretical developments in the economic sociology, especially an explanation of the structural context of the market. Since we have realized that current developments in economic sociology have not been fully reflected in Slovak sociology, we have adapted the structure of the text to this circumstance. The first part of article presents short characteristics of two economic theories because the current movement in the economic sociology is built on their critical reflection: the first is neoclassical economic theory used in the analysis of noneconomic phenomena (family, crime, education) and the second is the new institutional economy (the efficiency of institutions). The criticism of sociologists has led to their interest in objects of economic discipline (markets and firms). Their goal was a 'defence' of sociology through a sociological explanation of economic phenomena, and this idea is in the centre of the new economic sociology. The second part of the article presents the two main approaches of the new economic sociology: institutional embeddedness and network embeddedness. However, each of these approaches present just one part of the structural embeddedness of the market. The main challenge for economic sociology is to integrate their different conceptualizations of embeddedness. Therefore, in the third part of article, we present the integration potential of a field approach.
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TEORETICKÝ KONCEPT AKTÍVNEJ POLITIKY TRHU PRÁCE Z POHĽADU EKONOMICKEJ SOCIOLÓGIE

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Brutovská G., Bucher S.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2016
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vol. 48
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issue 4
340 – 356
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One prerequisite for the effective functioning of the active labour market policy is a systematic evaluation (monitoring and audit is not enough), which is, in Slovakia, implemented in a very limited way. The problem is not only a lack of knowledge of theoretical approaches (evaluation strategies), but especially the lack of methodological approaches that could be applied to the evaluation of active labour market policy in Slovak conditions. The intention of this paper is the definition of active labour market policy in the context of labour market policy and of its institutional framework. It will be defined with respect to particular theories of the labour market (orthodox, dual and segmentation). The gradual development involving a change in the nature of unemployment has also changed strategies that have been under active labour market policies implemented for the unemployed to enter the labour market. Our intention was to create a theoretical basis for the processing of labour market analysis from the viewpoint of economic sociology. Then we will deal with the ALMP’s instrumental framework and examine particular tools’ effectiveness in reducing long-term unemployment.
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SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ECONOMY IN THEORIES OF TALCOTT PARSONS, NIKLAS LUHMANN AND PIERRE BOURDIEU

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Lompart A.
Studia Socjologiczne
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2007
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issue 1(184)
51-73
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Research crossing boundaries between sociology and economics result in new subdisciplines. The most significant ones are economic sociology, institutional economics and rational choice theory. Scholars from these areas strive to justify distinctiveness of their approaches, they stress theoretical advantages of economics as a science, while sociology is regarded mainly as a field of empirical research. Contesting such an approach, the authoress focuses on theories of Talcott Parsons, Niklas Luhmann and Pierre Bourdieu as examples of a 'sociological approach' to economic phenomena. .
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