Physical activities in Czech sociological perspective

The Sociological Perspective Revisited

Abortion- Sociological Perspective

The debate on abortion gets heated because some people feel that abortion should be abolished while others argue that is should be legalized. Those who against abortion reason that life begins at conception, and hence the unborn child has equal human rights with any other living person. This makes them state that abortion is murder and that those involved should be charged with murder in a cour...

Gender Roles: A Sociological Perspective

est of the reader, he or she should consult the outside texts provided at the end of each chapter for more detailed information. With the arrival of the third edition comes the addition of current issues facing gender equality activists. The reader may find many of these fiercely debated topics familiar, thus establishing a connection between current events and the underlying theory discussed i...

“Blended Reality” in a psycho-sociological perspective

In contrast to virtual reality that diverts attention to artificial “second worlds” and robotics that substitutes human beings by artificial agents, AR aims to reinstate the human being as the very center of all digital activities: not only as an abstract “subject”, but as an embodied actor interacting with the physical environment by using his sensomotoric skills. Especially when harnessed wit...

Historical Institutionalism in Rationalist and Sociological Perspective

Some of the most fruitful insights generated by social science in recent decades flow from explorations of how institutions, under­ stood as sets of regularized practices with a rule-like quality, struc­ ture the behavior of political and economic actors. I It is not surpris­ ing that attention has now turned to the second-order problem of explaining when and how institutions change. 2 In conce...