Vývoj empirického sociologického výzkumu na území Československa
Review of the book „The development of empirical sociological research in Czechoslovakia“

Summary/Abstract: Review of: Vávra, Martin – Čížek, Tomáš (eds.): Vývoj empirického sociologického výzkumu na území Československa. Karolinum a Sociologický ústav AV ČR, Praha, 2023, 298 pages, ISBN 978-80-246-5422-5 This team-based study describes and analyses the history of empirical sociological research in the Czech lands and Slovakia up to 1989, and highlights both its importance and the historical context required to understand its variousaspects. With respect to less recent time periods and the eastern part of Czechoslovakia, the book provides a high-quality summary of existing knowledge and a number of new findings. However, the reviewer paradoxically rates thetreatment of the period that produced the most fundamentally important research, i.e. from the 1960s to the 1980s, as the weakest part of the study: the authors failed to mention a number of important themes, and even the contextual and ethodological reflection of the themes analysed is not always up to the required standard.

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