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Sociológia (Sociology)
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2013
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vol. 45
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issue 1
27 – 47
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The author analyses institutional beginning of Slovak sociology, which was very much influenced by Czech scholars. Earlier, somewhat amateur attempts at establishing a particular Slovak sociological tradition, associated mainly with Ján Lajčiak, were singularly unsuccessful, while members of the so-called Hlas movement (“Hlasists”), who followed Masaryk in the pre-First World War period, preferred politics to academic sociology in the interwar years. Slovak sociology was thus initially represented by Czech scholars employed in Bratislava (Josef Král, Otakar Machotka and Bedřich Vašek) who taught the first Slovak sociologists Peter Gula and Alexander Hirner until the split of Czechoslovakia in 1939. A new Slovak sociological tradition (sociography) was established by former politician with sociological interests Anton Štefánek in the late 1930s and 1940s at which time he remained the only professor of sociology in the Slovak Republic. Although Gula and Hirner were closer to the Prague sociological school and the older Štefánek to the Brno sociological school, there were no significant clashes between these Slovak sociologists. Eventually they created their own sociological tradition, separate from Czech sociology, during the 1940s. It had two centres, which differed theoretically and methodologically, one in Bratislava (Štefánek and his followers including Ignác Gašparec) and another in Martin (Peter Gula, Alexander Hirner).
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Fortieth anniversaries of renaissance of the Slovak sociology that was destroyed by the commencing communist regime in the 1949 fall in the first decade of the third millennium. This period was marked by the birth of the Slovak Sociological Society (1964), Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava (1964), Institute of Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) (1965) and of a journal of the Institute of Sociology of SAS - 'Sociologia' in 1969. Before, sociological studies and research had been published in the journal 'Otazky marxistickej filozofie' (Issues of Marxist Philosophy). The founding of journal 'Sociologia' was aided by foreign sociologists such as Jan Szczepanski (then the president of International Sociological Association) and Ernest Gellner from London School of Economics. Membership in the editorial board was offered to sociologists from A. Stefanek's (founder of the Slovak sociology) generation, to his students and to a generation that graduated from the renewed Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. Such intergenerational grouping of sociologists succeeded in developing a concept of a Slovak scientific periodical of a very high quality, even though it only lasted from 1969 to 1970. Coming era of normalization of the communist regime in the Czechoslovakia brought about radical changes in the concept pushed through by representatives of the scientific communism.
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The development of sociology in Slovakia underwent several changes similar to other countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Sociologists are continuously confronted with many institutional barriers and mental stereotypes in their work. The authoress emphasizes some traditions and innovations in Slovak sociology, concerning its research areas and professional orientations. This article is aimed to discover which are contemporary discussion fields and possibilities to articulate opinions and knowledge of the Slovak sociologists. Critical function of sociology and its ambivalent aspects are underlined as a very important component of the scientific and public activities of sociologists.
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The author of the article sets out from the assumption that the historical-sociological reconstruction of the development of sociology in Slovakia in 1959-1989 has several specific features. The first is that scholars specialising in the history of sociological thought tend to focus on earlier periods in the evolution of Slovak sociology and on the study and preservation of the intellectual legacy of figures who were sidelined, not only during normalisation (1970-1989) but even before. The second feature is that the personal memories of and contributions to the study of the process of the revival and institutionalisation of Slovak sociology after 1959 are still primarily provided by participant figures. The third is the peripheral position occupied by Slovakia in the Czechoslovak state, far from the centre of political power. The historical-political factor of the relationship between the centre and the periphery, further reinforced by the rivalry between Czechoslovakism and Slovak nationalism, is pervasive, and must be taken into account if an accurate assessment is to be made of the numerous excesses of normalisation, even in the development of Czechoslovak sociology. In this article the author characterises the two stages of institutional development of sociology in Slovakia in the period of really-existing socialism: 1) re-creation and growth between early 1960's and 1968; 2) initial repression and gradual diversification between 1970 and 1989. The second stage is subdivided into three periods: a) normalisation; b) the professionalisation of sociology and the creation of its socio-technical establishment function (1975-1985); and c) the pluralisation of Slovak sociology, i.e. growing polarisation between its pro- and anti-establishment orientations (1985-1989).
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2012
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vol. 44
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issue 1
34 – 61
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This text examines Anton Štefánek´s sociology, one of the first scholars in the field in Slovakia, in the context of the journals of that day. Especially, it examines the topics of Štefánek’s publications in relation to other articles in sociological journals, relying on the overall results of a content analysis of those journals. This presentation of Štefánek’s journal publications brings out some of his lesser-known or more difficult-to-find publications, and places them in the overall context of his sociology. The study shows that Štefánek’s sociological interests, who were dominated by the themes of the rural countryside and the nation, were not unusual either for the period between the wars, or after the Second World War. Nevertheless the breadth of Štefánek’s approach and his focus on Czechoslovak national unity (so-called Czechoslovakism) was somewhat unique in the context of academic journals at the time. Analysis of commentary in the journals on Štefánek’s sociology allows us to evaluate over a limited area his colleagues’ understanding of his importance. It shows that perceptions of his importance were different in the Czech and Slovak parts of sociological discourse (the Czech journals were dominated by attention given to Masaryk, about whom nothing was written in Slovakia, with attention being focused on Štefánek instead), even though he was a prominent figure not only in Slovakia but in the Czech lands as well, and was made even more important by his political involvement during the First Republic.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2011
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vol. 43
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issue 5
584-603
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The following text sums up conclusions of the content analysis of the first Slovak sociological journal called Sociologicky Sbornik. The journal was published during a short period of time between the end of the Second World War and the rise of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1948. The content analysis of the journal focuses in particular on the authors and thematic structure in the context of the production of other contemporary sociological journals in Czechoslovakia. Performed analysis shows that Sociologicky Sbornik created a publication platform for a group of sociologists different from those who published in Czech journals. In addition, the journal became a crucial component in forming the group's own sociological identity.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2022
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vol. 54
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issue 1
53 – 83
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Before 1990 in the history of Slovakia, there were more of workplaces that carried out sample surveys on a representative sample of the Slovak population. From the first post-war years they focused on one of the key components of such research – public opinion research. Almost the entire history of public opinion research in Slovakia is connected with the workplaces belonging to the state authorities. The study is devoted to the description of the existence of the first institution for public opinion research in Slovakia – The Institute for Public Opinion Research, which existed as a department under the Commissionership of Information in Bratislava in 1947 – 1950. In describing the circumstances of its establishment, it also indicates the background of the establishment of the Czechoslovak Institute for Public Opinion Research, operating under the Ministry of Information in Prague between 1946 and 1950.
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