Soudobá sociologie IV.

The subtitle to volume IV of the Contemporary Sociology textbooks was inspired by the French sociologist, Michel Maffesoli. The expression “Current and Day-to-Day” suggests a rather heterogeneous character, consisting of papers concerning the themes, which currently attract attention and mostly concern exploring everyday life. Volume IV is heterogeneous as to the themes treated (socio-biology, sustainable development, cultural studies, feminism, distributive justice, religion, social networks, grounded theory) as well as the figures representing sociological thinking covered (R. Sennett, M. Maffesoli, B. Latour, M. Juergensmeyer). As in the previous volumes, this publication is not conceived as a structured textbook, but rather as a collection, whose main goal is the presentation of those contemporary sociology themes and scholars who are not very well know or spread in the Czech Republic. The editor, who surrounded himself with young co-authors with varying experience in publication, hopes that their group succeeded in compiling a collection of texts appealing to sociology students as well as the wider public interested in this discipline.