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The history of sociology in the Czech Republic presented in this book is primarily focused on its institutional development. Institutionalized sociology in what today is the Czech Republic, a state created only recently (1993), has been to a large extent coterminous with Czech sociology. Whereas early Czech sociology was built around a strong sense of a political mission tied to nation- and state-building, this sense has been lost in more recent decades.
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Skovajsa, M., Balon, J. (2017). Introduction: An Institutional History of Sociology in the Czech Republic. In: Sociology in the Czech Republic. Sociology Transformed. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45027-2_1
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