The Center of Global Studies (joint project of the Institute of Philosophy of the AS CR and the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague) organized a two-day seminar entitled Social Aspects of Globalization. This seminar featured an overview of various activities in the field of globalization. Foreign guest Prof. Jerry Harris of Chicago read his essay Global Capitalism. An interview with Professor Harris is included in this issue. and Martin Brabec.
The present study focuses on the vertical social mobility in the cities of the Early Modern Era. On the example of the city Slaný it demonstrates the mechanism through which the burghers tried to gain entrance to the elite stratum. On chosen individuals also tries to capture their personal motivations. It also outlines the changes brought by the development after the battle on the White Mountain. and Josef Kadeřábek.
The unity of the sociology now termed classical was not that of a theory or discourse about social organization, social actors or the ways in which social wholes change; it was the study of society defined as a set of interdependent mechanisms ensuring the integration or combination of mutually opposed elements: the individualism of the actors and the internalization of institutional norms in the service of collective integration. The primary historical reason for the decline of this classical sociology is that its most stable foundation, the opposition between haves and have-nots along with that between men and women, was slowly undermined by a series of great social movements based at once on a quest for liberation and on the idea of equality It was the crisis in the earlier representations of social life which provoked, beyond the decline of the earlier sociology, the creation of a new intellectual space in which a constellation of forms of thought arose which constitute today what may be called contemporary sociology, and which is a sociology of ultramodernity. It is no longer in terms of objective situations or evaluations, economic or otherwise, that the social actor is explained. It is the cultural actor, his image of himself and his demands that govern a rapidly increasing part of social life. Throughout the world and in all sectors of social life, actors are making a comeback. Reversal of the conception and role of institutions leads us to see them as instruments for the defence of individuals against norms. Today’s sociology is better explained by its future than by its past. The new sociology is already constituted as a set of questions and sensibilities, more widespread across the planet than any other previous form of social thought. But this de facto existence of the new sociology is not - not yet - accompanied by sufficient self-reflection., Alain Touraine, z angličtiny přeložila Jana Kupková., Tento text byl poprvé uveřejněn v European Journal of Social Theory 2007: 10 (2), str. 184-193, and Obsahuje bibliografii
Autorka v této přehledové stati představuje relativně nový společenskovědní obor Human-Animal Studies se zaměřením na jeho sociologickou dimenzi. Cílem článku není podrobná kompilace existujících publikací na toto téma, ale syntéza klíčových myšlenek, které stojí v základu sociologického chápání Human-Animal Studies, včetně odkazů na zásadní díla a vybrané webové portály, kde mohou zájemci najít podrobnější informace. Autorka představuje základní východiska a teoretické předpoklady tohoto oboru a zasazuje jej do širšího interdisciplinárního rámce. Poukazuje na různorodost přístupů jak z hlediska teoretického, tak metodologického. Poskytuje základní přehled historického vývoje tohoto oboru a jeho postupného etablování v rámci odborných center, univerzit i vědeckých časopisů. Autorka rovněž přibližuje vybraná témata, kterými se tento komplexní obor dnes zabývá, a v závěru nastiňuje jeho možnou budoucí perspektivu., The author of this review article introduces the relatively new social science field of human-animal studies, focusing on its sociological dimension. Her aim is not a particularized compilation of existing publications on the topic, but a synthesis of the key ideas behind the sociological perspective on human-animal studies. The author includes references to crucial works and selected web portals where one can find more detailed information. She introduces the fundamental premises and theoretic assumptions of the field and contextualizes it in a wider interdisciplinary framework. She presents a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. She provides an elementary outline of the historical development of this field and its successive establishment within academic centres, universities and scientific journals. The author also introduces selected topics which this complex field examines today and, finally, outlines its possible future prospects., Tereza Vandrovcová., and Seznam literatury