The Nation and the Nation State in the Mirror of Czech and Polish Sociological Journals in the Interwar Era

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.

Problematika národa v počátcích sociologické teorie ve střední Evropě prizmatem tzv. habsburského dilematu Ernesta Gellnera: příspěvek k historické sociologii vědění

“…v Československu nebo Maďarsku ńlo o jedno z nejčastějńích témat dobových sociologických časopisů. (Janák 2016) Důvody těchto rozdílů v národních sociologických diskurzech ponechme stranou (podrobněji jsou rozebrané v citované publikaci Janák 2016) a zaměřme se na hlavní sociology.…”