sociology(131)

Zdraví – kultura – společnost

Who is is responsible for our health? Is our health a medial matter or is it a social and political issue? Does better medical care and p...

Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities

This volume deals with the materialization of identity in urban space. Urban spaces played an important role in the formation of national...

Vlastní Bůh

In the contemporary globalized world marked by a mixing of cultures and worldviews, the necessity to seek modes of coexistence, especiall...

Mírotvorný a násilný potenciál náboženství

Inovace – vědění – instituce: k výzvám současné doby

The relationship between innovations and institutions is commonly perceived as contrasting. Innovations tend to follow change and institu...

Public Policy

The publication is primarily intended for international students of public policy. It represents an original contribution to the existing...

A Comprehensive Introduction

Moc krásy

Could attractiveness be understood to be an investment strategy? Does beauty increase one’s chances for attaining ascending social mobili...

Pomáhá krása a atraktivita k životnímu úspěchu?

SOS – Sociologie pro pomáhající profese

Small Towns in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Largely unknown small towns, always in the shadow of famous cities, are mostly overlooked by historical research. English, Spanish, Portu...

Heritage and Development Strategies

Instability in the Middle East

Middle Eastern instability is manifest externally in many ways: by crises afflicting governing regimes, the rise of political Islam, terr...

Structural Changes and Uneven Modernisation 1950–2015

Jak studovat aktéra a sociální změnu z perspektivy historické sociologie

This book focuses on social changes and different research approaches to them. It is a contribution to the development of a historical pe...

Facebooková (ne)závislost

The Internet has changed the nature of social ties and interactions, giving rise to new ways of making social contact, offering an enviro...

Identita, interakce a uživatelská kariéra na Facebooku

Ethics, Life and Institutions

General complaints about moral decay, however frequent, and perhaps even justified they might be, are of little use. This book is not com...

An Attempt at Practical Philosophy