Abstract
The following text offers a comparison of Czech and Polish sociological journals of the interwar era related to the problems of the nation and the nation state. A combination of quantitative and qualitative content analysis is used for comparing formal characteristics (institutionalization, periodicity, types, number and size of articles), and thematic structure. Czech sociology had a closer relationship to nation-state politics, which was shown at the level of institutional (in)stability of the journals, at the level of personal involvement of journals‘ leading figures in politics as well as at the level of discourse, where different relevance and content were attached to the subject of nation in each country. Regarding this issue Czech sociology (represented in journals in the 1930s) was closer to public sociology while the Polish discourse to policy sociology.
Highlights
The purpose of the following text is to present a part of the results of a content analysis of Czech and Polish sociological journals between the world wars focused on the problems of the nation and the nation state
We may ask about nature of the relation of the discipline towards the nation state structures? Were the nation-related issues topical among interwar sociologists? What kind of sensitivity did they have towards the problem which was essential for the new states in which they were newly institutionalized? Our comparison in this paper focuses on the problems of nation represented in the journals in two ways
Our research focused on how the nation and the nation state shaped the first sociological journals in interwar Poland and Czechoslovakia
Summary
The purpose of the following text is to present a part of the results of a content analysis of Czech and Polish sociological journals between the world wars focused on the problems of the nation and the nation state. The Czech journals Sociologická revue [Sociological review], Sociální problémy [Social problems] and the Polish journals Przegląd Socjologiczny [Sociological review] and Roczniki Socjologii Wsi [Yearbook of rural sociology] were examined. These periodicals were not the only platform for the exchange of opinion within a specific academic community, but in the 1930s, they undoubtedly provided the most representative one. The second approach focuses on the discursive level in the interwar era, and is based on the content analysis in sensu stricto Analysis of these two aspects of the journals should contribute to a better understanding of both sociological traditions as well as to the broader problem of the relationship between sociology and the nation state
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