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Comprehension of the Czechoslovak nomenklatura elite in the historical consciousness or in the national memory can be advanced by showing the examples of the impact of the political regimes on the interpretation of the symbolic role of the individual elite members. The contribution draws on those concepts and methodological approaches that have been employed by the number of historians and historical sociologists such as historical consciousness, collective (social) memory and national memory; a major incentive fo...

The role of the interwar Czechoslovak elites in the historical consciousness or in the national memory can be advanced by showing the examples of the impact of the political regimes on the interpretation of the symbolic role of the individual elite members. The contribution draws on those concepts and methodological approaches that have been employed by the number of historians and historical sociologists such as historical consciousness, collective (social) memory and national memory; a major incentive for choice...

The contributions have taken into account positive and negative effects of globalization and have drawn on current knowledge in the academic field of intercultural awareness and intercultural communication. They have been theoretically rooted in the specific definition of culture which has been compared to an iceberg: (1) one part of culture (values and assumption) is beneath the surface; (2) another part of culture (observable behaviors) of the culture is visible. The first part of the paper has highlighted Germa...

The contributions have taken into consideration positive and negative effects of globalization and have drawn on current knowledge in the academic field of intercultural awareness and intercultural communication. They have been theoretically rooted in the definition of culture which has been compared to an iceberg: (1) one part of culture (values and assumption) is beneath the surface; (2) another part of culture (observable behaviours) of the culture is visible. The first part of the contribution has highlighted ...

When analyzing three theoretical frameworks of public spaces, the contributions have highlighted relevant aspects of the course of the Velvet Revolution in the former Czechoslovakia in 1989. The collection of empirical information from interviews with former striking students focused on the activities of students and teachers at the Faculty of Arts at Charles university, as well as the sudden renewal of various parallel public spaces, characteristic to liberal societies. These unique forms of public action, and th...

In its analysis of various legal regulations and data from the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic concerning harassment, and namely sexual harassment, the article highlights how sociological discourses and legal decisions have reflected upon this specific form of discrimination, which is regulated by international, European as well as national means. The article first considers two major principles of sexual harassment ? 'quid pro quo' and a 'hostile working environment'; later, international, European as well ...

While distancing themselves from Eurosceptic views, major findings have been critical in their assessment of certain theoretical approaches that have focused on various scenarios of the reconstruction of the European institutional framework through modification of the economic, political and social subsystems. To put it more specifically, individual perspectives proposed by European intellectual opinion leaders, such as Ulrich Beck and JГјrgen Habermas, have offered different solutions for their improvement. When ...

While also examining procedures related to a direct vote for the president in various European countries, findings in the present paper have been based on an interdisciplinary approach to implementing the system through a constitutional amendment in the Czech political system. With occasional references to other European countries, the new legislation on presidential elections in the Czech Republic is presented with a focus on several issues; firstly, the extraordinary importance of the arrangement for the Constit...

Through employing a comparative perspective, major components of the intellectual contribution of Barrington Moore and Max Weber are presented; both of them made a unique contribution to the explanation of the formation of modern nations under capitalist conditions resulting from the interdependence of culture, industrialization and the transformation of social structures. First, Moore's and Weber's reasoning about the emergence of modern capitalism is clarified; while Moore ascribes crucial importance to social d...