Abstract
This book offers a comprehensive overview in English of the history of sociology in what is today the Czech Republic. Divided into six chapters, it traces the institutional development of the discipline from the late 19th century until the present, with an emphasis on the periods most favorable for sociology's institutionalization: the interwar years, the 1960s and the post-1989 era. The narrative places the institutions, persons and ideas that have been central to the discipline into the broader social and political context. The authors show that sociology in the Czech Republic has been wedded to the dominant political projects of each successive historical period: nation- and state-building until after WWII, the communist experiment in 1948-1989, liberal democratic reconstruction after 1989, and internationalization after 2000. This work will appeal to social scientists and to a general readership interested in Czech culture and society.
This German edition is a translation from English of the book: Skovajsa, Marek - Jan Balon. 2017. Sociology in the Czech Republic: Between East and West. Palgrave Pivot. The translation was made with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation). Subsequent revisions of the content took place in typesetting.