Dušan Janák
Biographic Data
| ID | 4153502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dušan Janák |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dušan |
| FAMILY NAME | Janák |
| SIGNATURE | JANÁK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Silesian University in Opava |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8667-2948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Intuitive Interspecies Communicators Relatively Frequently Give Socially Valid, Nondeducible, and Specific, Even if Unsystematic, Information
This study deals with the nature of information that practitioners who refer to themselves as animal communicators ( AC s) can intuitively receive and record about particular animals based on thoughts, feelings, and perceptions evoked by photographic images. Our analysis is grounded in social science (specifically, content analysis). A comparison of 8,660 pieces of information obtained from four groups – advanced AC s, beginners in intuitive comm…
Klasická sociologie Inocence A. Bláhy v kontextu soudobých diskusí
The following text deals with the sociology of I. A. Bláha in the context of two contemporary discussions about values in social science: the first is a dispute about so called public sociology and the second represents feministic epistemological thinking. The author concludes we should distinguish between “public” and “engaged” sociology as two different ways of sociological entering to the public sphere. The public sociology is a wider concept …
What Would We Know about Sociology If We Only Read Sociologický časopis and Sociológia? A Content Analysis of Two Journals of Sociology from the Velvet Revolution to the Present Day
This study stakes stock of the work of the Czech journal SociologickĂ ̋ Ä asopis and the Slovak journal SociolĂłgia in the post-1989 state of development of Czech and Slovak society. It conducts a synchronous and a diachronic comparison for this purpose. It presents the structure of authors and themes in SociologickĂ ̋ Ä asopis and SociolĂłgia both in a temporal perspective, covering the years from 1989 to 2013, and in relation to journals publis…
The Issue of National Identity in the Work of Edvard Beneš
This article examines the sociology of Edvard BeneĹĄ and looks in particular at the questions of whether and how his sociology came to be reflected in his political work, in particular in connection with nationality issues, and whether and how it played a role in the construction of Czechoslovak national identity (based on a synthesis of Czech and Slovak national identities). The article consists of two main parts, the first of which focuses on h…
The Brno versus the Prague School of Sociology: Myth and Reality
This article compares the Brno and Prague schools of sociology, whose existence was among the most important characteristics of Czech interwar sociology. The comparison is performed on three levels: institutional affiliation (affiliation with a university, a learned society, and the publishing platform of a journal); objective conceptual agreement or variance (the degree to which general sociological theories, methodological opinions, evaluative …
Authors and Themes in Sociologická revue: A Contribution to the Sociological Analysis of the History of Czech Sociology
This article summarises the results of a content analysis of SociologickĂĄ revue (The Sociology Review), the main Czech journal of sociology during the interwar and immediate post-war periods (the journal was published in 1930-1940 and 1946-1949). It focuses primarily on the structure of authors and themes published in the journal, studied using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of text analysis. Some of the most productive co…
Social Introspection of I. A. Bláha and Wittgenstein’s’ Argument Counter to Private Language. Anniversary Study on Introspection Approach in Social Sciences
The following text discusses the method of social introspection of the Czech philosopher and sociologist I.A. Bláha. It focuses both on presenting the method and exploring its potentials and limits in order to understand social reality. The application of the Wittgenstein ́s argument against the private language as a critique of the introspective perspective and a brief analysis of the phenomenological approach in sociology will help to assess th…
The Social Introspection of I. A. Blaha and Wittgenstein's Argument against a Private Language. Notes on the Introspective Approach in the Social Sciences
This article deals with the social introspection approach of the Czech sociologist I. A. Blha. Its aim is not only to introduce the method but also to explore the potentials and the limits of this approach in understanding social reality. The author looks at Wittgenstein's argument against a private language as a critique of the introspective method and briefly analyses the phenomenological approach in sociology to asses the boundaries of the int…
The Brno versus the Prague School of Sociology: Myth and Reality
This article compares the Brno and Prague schools of sociology, whose existence was among the most important characteristics of Czech interwar sociology. The comparison is performed on three levels: institutional affiliation (affiliation with a university, a learned society, and the publishing platform of a journal); objective conceptual agreement or variance (the degree to which general sociological theories, methodological opinions, evaluative …
Intuitive Interspecies Communicators Relatively Frequently Give Socially Valid, Nondeducible, and Specific, Even if Unsystematic, Information
This study deals with the nature of information that practitioners who refer to themselves as animal communicators ( AC s) can intuitively receive and record about particular animals based on thoughts, feelings, and perceptions evoked by photographic images. Our analysis is grounded in social science (specifically, content analysis). A comparison of 8,660 pieces of information obtained from four groups – advanced AC s, beginners in intuitive comm…
What Would We Know about Sociology If We Only Read Sociologický časopis and Sociológia? A Content Analysis of Two Journals of Sociology from the Velvet Revolution to the Present Day
This study stakes stock of the work of the Czech journal SociologickĂ ̋ Ä asopis and the Slovak journal SociolĂłgia in the post-1989 state of development of Czech and Slovak society. It conducts a synchronous and a diachronic comparison for this purpose. It presents the structure of authors and themes in SociologickĂ ̋ Ä asopis and SociolĂłgia both in a temporal perspective, covering the years from 1989 to 2013, and in relation to journals publis…
Authors and Themes in Sociologická revue: A Contribution to the Sociological Analysis of the History of Czech Sociology
This article summarises the results of a content analysis of SociologickĂĄ revue (The Sociology Review), the main Czech journal of sociology during the interwar and immediate post-war periods (the journal was published in 1930-1940 and 1946-1949). It focuses primarily on the structure of authors and themes published in the journal, studied using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of text analysis. Some of the most productive co…
The Social Introspection of I. A. Blaha and Wittgenstein's Argument against a Private Language. Notes on the Introspective Approach in the Social Sciences
This article deals with the social introspection approach of the Czech sociologist I. A. Blha. Its aim is not only to introduce the method but also to explore the potentials and the limits of this approach in understanding social reality. The author looks at Wittgenstein's argument against a private language as a critique of the introspective method and briefly analyses the phenomenological approach in sociology to asses the boundaries of the int…
Social Introspection of I. A. Bláha and Wittgenstein’s’ Argument Counter to Private Language. Anniversary Study on Introspection Approach in Social Sciences
The following text discusses the method of social introspection of the Czech philosopher and sociologist I.A. Bláha. It focuses both on presenting the method and exploring its potentials and limits in order to understand social reality. The application of the Wittgenstein ́s argument against the private language as a critique of the introspective perspective and a brief analysis of the phenomenological approach in sociology will help to assess th…
Authors and Themes in Sociologická revue: A Contribution to the Sociological Analysis of the History of Czech Sociology
This article summarises the results of a content analysis of SociologickĂĄ revue (The Sociology Review), the main Czech journal of sociology during the interwar and immediate post-war periods (the journal was published in 1930-1940 and 1946-1949). It focuses primarily on the structure of authors and themes published in the journal, studied using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of text analysis. Some of the most productive co…
The Brno versus the Prague School of Sociology: Myth and Reality
This article compares the Brno and Prague schools of sociology, whose existence was among the most important characteristics of Czech interwar sociology. The comparison is performed on three levels: institutional affiliation (affiliation with a university, a learned society, and the publishing platform of a journal); objective conceptual agreement or variance (the degree to which general sociological theories, methodological opinions, evaluative …
What Would We Know about Sociology If We Only Read Sociologický časopis and Sociológia? A Content Analysis of Two Journals of Sociology from the Velvet Revolution to the Present Day
This study stakes stock of the work of the Czech journal SociologickĂ ̋ Ä asopis and the Slovak journal SociolĂłgia in the post-1989 state of development of Czech and Slovak society. It conducts a synchronous and a diachronic comparison for this purpose. It presents the structure of authors and themes in SociologickĂ ̋ Ä asopis and SociolĂłgia both in a temporal perspective, covering the years from 1989 to 2013, and in relation to journals publis…
The Issue of National Identity in the Work of Edvard Beneš
This article examines the sociology of Edvard BeneĹĄ and looks in particular at the questions of whether and how his sociology came to be reflected in his political work, in particular in connection with nationality issues, and whether and how it played a role in the construction of Czechoslovak national identity (based on a synthesis of Czech and Slovak national identities). The article consists of two main parts, the first of which focuses on h…
Klasická sociologie Inocence A. Bláhy v kontextu soudobých diskusí
The following text deals with the sociology of I. A. Bláha in the context of two contemporary discussions about values in social science: the first is a dispute about so called public sociology and the second represents feministic epistemological thinking. The author concludes we should distinguish between “public” and “engaged” sociology as two different ways of sociological entering to the public sphere. The public sociology is a wider concept …
Intuitive Interspecies Communicators Relatively Frequently Give Socially Valid, Nondeducible, and Specific, Even if Unsystematic, Information
This study deals with the nature of information that practitioners who refer to themselves as animal communicators ( AC s) can intuitively receive and record about particular animals based on thoughts, feelings, and perceptions evoked by photographic images. Our analysis is grounded in social science (specifically, content analysis). A comparison of 8,660 pieces of information obtained from four groups – advanced AC s, beginners in intuitive comm…
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