Sociology in the Czech Republic : between East and West / Marek Skovajsa, Jan Balon.

Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction: An Institutional History of Sociology in the Czech Republic; Abstract ; Sociology in the Czech Republic Remains a Czech Sociology; Institutional Approach; An Outline of the Book; References; Chapter 2 Sociology in Service to Nation-Building: The Legacy of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk; Abstract ; Masaryk's Sociological Work; Masaryk and Beneš: Public Sociologists, or Politicians?; Laying the Institutional Foundations; Conclusion; References

Chapter 3 A False Beginning? The Growth and Destruction of Czech Sociology 1918-1950Abstract ; The Expansion of Sociology at Czech Universities After 1918; The Emergence of Other Disciplinary Institutions; 'Objectivist' Empirical Sociology, Its Proponents and Antagonists; Elimination in Two Stages (1939-1945 and 1945-1950); Conclusion; References; Chapter 4 1950-1969: Becoming a Counselor to the Socialist Prince; Abstract ; 1950-1964: The Existence of a Nonexistent Discipline; The Impossible Happens: Sociology's Second Institutionalization; The Relevance of 1960s Czech Sociology; Conclusion

Chapter 7 After 2000: Plugging into the European ContextAbstract ; The Boom… and Its Limits; Under the Surveillance of Administrative Databases; Internationalized, Finally?; Pluralist and Fragmented; Conclusion; References; Index