Abstract
This chapter offers a history of Czech sociology in the period between the two world wars. The institutionalization of sociology made big steps forward in the newly independent Czechoslovak state after 1918.
The first professors were appointed, sociology became a recognized academic discipline, and a national association was founded. Two antagonistic centers crystalized at the universities in Prague and Brno, each of which launched its own sociological journal.
The most consequential tension in the interwar years, however, was that between the philosophical sociology of the adherents of Masaryk and the empirical sociology promoted by the younger cohort born around 1900. Sociology experienced another expansion after Liberation in 1945.
Yet, despite having socialist inclinations, the discipline was crushed by the communist power holders after 1948. The chapter is a translation into Romanian of chapter 3 from Skovajsa, Marek - Jan Balon.
Sociology in the Czech Republic: Between East and West. Palgrave / Springer 2017.