Traces of the social inequalities in the field of sport are one of the key topics of sociology of sport. However, the brief review of sport policy shows that despite general proclamation only little attention is paid to leisure sport, if ever than mostly in the context of non-competitive sport participation of the young, in the lesser extent also of the elderly. The empirical evidence shows wide differentiation of sport participation along age, gender, socioeconomic status and the place of residence. The upper middle class, male and inhabitants from bigger cities are more likely to sport than others. The international comparison reveals that the level of inequalities in sport activity in Czech Republic is rather average in the European context. The evidence indicates that the infrastructural barriers could be more important especially for the inhabitants of rural municipalities, and also that habitus of lower classes disregards sport activities in general. More complex research using qualitative methodology should further develop this question to be more able to specify the importance and the nature of existing barriers to sport participation in Czech Republic. ÚvodRekreační sport či pohybové aktivity 2 patří v současné době k významným způsobům trávení volného času. Přestože pozornost, která je jim obecně věnována, je zastíněna fascinací vrcholovým sportem, reálně se jedná o činnost, které se věnuje značná část populace. Podpora sportovních aktivit bývá zdůvodňována nejen pozitivním dopadem na zdravotní stav populace, ale též osobnostním rozvojem, integračním potenciálem i ekonomickým přínosem (Evropská komise 2007). Sociální studia. Katedra sociologie FSS MU, 1/2011. S. 53-78. ISSN 1214-813X. 1 Stať vznikla s podporou grantu MŠMT ČR (identifi kační kód 2D06014). Oběma anonymním recenzentům a především také editorům tohoto čísla patří poděkování za kritické a podnětné připomínky k původní verzi textu. 2 Sport je v tomto textu chápán v širším pojetí, tedy nejen ve smyslu soutěživých her, ale též dalších pohybových aktivit spojených s rekreací, zábavou či udržováním kondice. Na druhou stranu hlavním záměrem zde není zkoumat pohybový režim obecně, tedy včetně pohybových aktivit vykonávaných z pracovních, přepravních či jiných důvodů.

Housing estates are one of the most important legacies of the socialist regime and continue to infl uence the shape of Czech towns even today.Despite pessimistic predictions about their future in the early 1990s, they are still a widespread and valued type of housing. This article, unlike other primarily economically oriented studies, analyses the situation and possible future development of Czech housing states by combining three theoretical perspectives from urban sociology: social ecology, the political economy of place, and a culturalist perspective. A contributing factor to the stable situation of housing estates is the ambivalent relationship that exists towards this type of construction, which ultimately never became convincingly stigmatised. Many of the inhabitants of such estates have moreover established fi rm roots in there and their interest in their place of residence is often sustained by a proprietarial relationship towards the fl at they live in. However, some important factors that could cause this to change in the future include the concentration of ethnic minorities in some locations and the risk of the collapse of collective negotiation among occupant-owners. A deep, empirically grounded prognosis of the future of Czech housing estates requires systematic research focused on a specifi c location and designed to capture the overlooked political-economic and cultural dimensions of this issue.

Cultural capital is an important part of the conceptual apparatus of research on inequalities and social reproduction. The putative transformation of cultural hierarchies in contemporary society, however, opens up the question of whether it still makes any sense to speak of 'legitimate taste' and eventually of what the nature this legitimate taste might be. This article examines what constitutes legitimate culture in the context of university-level study. It focuses on the differentiation of taste and the way in which the space of cultural consumption is structured by academic disciplines and university faculties. The article draws on data from a questionnaire survey of first-and second-year students at Charles University in 2017 (n = 5127) and conducts a multiple correspondence analysis. It shows that the first dimension of the cultural space of students can be interpreted as the axis of overall cultural capital without any specific differentiation. The third dimension of cultural space, by contrast, convincingly captures a cleavage between traditional cultural capital and a new form of cultural capital. The amount of cultural capital accumulated depends on the kind of academic disciplines studied, but another significant structuring element of cultural capital is the environment of individual university faculties itself.

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The concept of legitimate culture plays a crucial role in the study of the relationship between the differentiation of tastes and the reproduction of social inequalities. Nevertheless, the actual role of legitimate culture in present society is often disputed in light of a supposed crumbling of the privileged structure of the fine arts. Meanwhile, the existing practice of survey research often neglects this institutional dimension of the legitimisation of taste and researchers often withdraw from attempts to develop an empirically-based scale to measure the legitimacy of taste. The aim of this paper is to develop a method of measurement of cultural capital which is based on empirical evaluation of the legitimacy of respondents' taste. Specifically, this measurement links responses to open-ended questions about favourite cultural goods with institutionalized critical ratings. The particular focus is to answer how this methodologically innovative approach relates to prevalent instruments for measurement of cultural capital (highbrow culture attendance, educational credentials) and how it could inform the study of the change of legitimate culture. The study uses data from a survey of Czech youth cultural consumption (N=524). The results show close ties between the institutional measurement of cultural capital and the Bourdieusian application of Multiple Correspondence Analysis as a mean to identify significant cultural differences. While the feasibility of institutional measurement of cultural capital in survey data could be disputed, it is a useful tool to advance our understanding of how legitimate culture operates in present society.