Abstract
The submitted study organizes the heterogeneous sociological production devoted to the issue of (not only) the industrial working class until 1948. The purpose of such organization of sociological reflection of that period is to show the position of the issue in Czech sociology, to ascertain the main pieces of knowledge on Czech working class before 1948 and to try to assess what from the production of that period can be used also in the current historical-sociological research. The text identifies and classifies the main thematic areas in which the issue of the working class was analysed: the largest consisted in life style research, followed by working class in context of social policy, political context of workers’ issue, issue of work as such and business sociology. We see analytical potential in the sociology of social types, developed by I.A. Blaha, sociologist, particularly in the interwar period.
Highlights
The submitted study tries to organize the heterogeneous sociological production devoted to the issue of () the industrial working class until 1948. The purpose of such organization of sociological reflection of that period is to show the position of the issue in Czech sociology, to ascertain the main pieces of knowledge on Czech working class before 1948 and to try to assess what from the production of that period can be used in the current historical-sociological research
The issue of periodization of the history of the Czech sociology is not related to much dispute, the detailed periodization differs slightly in different authors’ works
To understand the sociological production related to the issue of Czech industrial working class before 1948, it is necessary to embrace a relatively extensive book and journal sociological production
Summary
The issue of periodization of the history of the Czech sociology is not related to much dispute, the detailed periodization differs slightly in different authors’ works. The text of the lecture was printed in the subsequent year on the pages of the main branch periodical, “Sociologická revue” Its text shows both Bláha’s simple analytical scheme used to analyse the workers’ way of life and the absence of more creditable analyses of the Czech working class, or of Czech analyses of the workers’ issue that would particularize the very concept of working class as a tool of sociological analysis. The Czech pre-Marxist sociology of working class owes for example contributions of the second generation of the Czech sociologists to Bláha’s organizational and founder effort Thanks to his scientific and teacher performance and to considerable level thanks to his personal charisma, Bláha became head of so called Brno Sociological School, often called Bláha’s Sociological School. We will deal with their texts in the following analysis of the Czech book production
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