People

List of people working on our department and their research orientation.

 Department management

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Prof. PhDr. Jan Váně, Ph.D.

Jan Váně (Associate Professor), is a Chairman of the Department of Sociology, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. He concentrates on comparative research in the field of sociology of religion (individualization, intergenerational transmission of religiosity, religious cultural memory, transformation of religious communities); sociology of education (creation and choice of educational strategies on the part of the actor and the system) and problems of homelessness and social services provided to socially disadvantaged groups. He also focuses on social theories emphasizing the issue of justice and methodological innovation in research.

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Mgr. Alena Pařízková, Ph.D.

Alena Pařízková is interested in the issues of international migration, life course, health, inequality and gender. In the past, she has participated in the project analysing changes intimate and family relations in the Czech society. She conducted qualitative research of Czech economic migrants in the UK and examined their family relations, working trajectories and gender aspects of their experiences. She also led a small research project on football fans analysing processes of identity and neo-tribes processes. Currently, she is focusing on health and migration or travel. First she focuses on migrant women and their maternal health. Phenomenon of women who travel for preferred services for long distance or abroad is another research focus. In the area of social work and inequality, she is focusing on intersection of violence, marginalisation and sex-work.

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Representative of the

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parizkov@kss.zcu.cz
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Mgr. Veronika Hásová

Veronika Hásová graduated with a degree (MA) in Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic in 2014. She is interested in topics such as religion and community. In her own research she uses both quantitative and qualitative methods. In dissertation she focuses on redefinition of community on the background of modern phenomenon especially individualization.

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Secretary of the

Department of Sociology

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E-mail:

hasova@kss.zcu.cz
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Nikol Kubátová

Nikol Kubátová works at the Department of Sociology as a secretary and is also a second year student of the Master’s programme in Sociology. She is interested in social exclusion and the status of the elderly with a focus on the role of grandparenthood.

 

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Secretary of the

Department of Sociology

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nkubatov@kss.zcu.cz
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Mgr. Lukáš Dirga, Ph.D.

Lukáš Dirga graduated with a degree (MA) in Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. His main research interests lie in penitentiary sociology (sociology of prison life), criminology, criminal justice, penal policy and sociology of deviance. Lukáš Dirga has conducted qualitative empirical research projects focused on different topics related to prison environment. He is particularly interested in the process of humanization of Czech prison system and the role of religion in prison environment. In his last ethnographic research project, Lukáš Dirga analyzed the relationship inmates have to their bodies during imprisonment.

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Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

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E-mail:

dirga@kss.zcu.cz
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Mgr. Alena Glajchová, Ph.D.

Alena Glajchová completed a master’s degree in Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen in 2014. In her master’s thesis, called A point of view of doctors on patients and perception of their position in the current health care system, she have focused on how do doctors perceive their role and relationship with patients in the context of public health. Based on findings from in-depth interviews, she have delineated changes in medical profession and in doctor-patient relationship in current Czech society. She have pointed also how do doctors consider the functioning of the Czech health care system with regard to ongoing transformation of society since 1989. 

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Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

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alenag@kss.zcu.cz
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prof. PhDr. Dana Hamplová, Ph.D.

Dana Hamplová absolvovala doktorské studium na Katedře sociologie Filozofické fakulty Karlovy univerzity v Praze. V letech 2002-2004 působila na Otto-Friedrich Univerzitě v Bambergu na projektu Globalife zaměřeného na multidisciplinární komparativní výzkum životních drah. Mezi roky 2006-2010 působila na McGill University v kanadském Montrealu. V letech 2014-2017 byla členem Board of Directors pan-evropské výzkumné infrastruktury CESSDA, od roku 2018 je členem Boardu ECSR – European Consortium for Sociological Research. Tématicky se zaměřuje na oblasti na kvantitativní sociologie, a to především na témata rodiny, kvality života, zdraví, sociálních nerovností a náboženství. Byla řešitelem řady grantů udělených Grantovou agenturou ČR nebo Technologickou agenturou.

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Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

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hamplova@kss.zcu.cz
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prof. PhDr. Hynek Jeřábek, CSc.

Prof. Hynek Jeřábek pursues his research career in the field of empirical social research history and methodology, emphasizing the fact that classical research represents a great source of inspiration for scientists today. He specializes in the study of election and media communication methods and the methodology of social research. He has been working, on a long-term basis, on inter-generational solidarity and elderly care research – see for example his Family Cohesion in Elderly Care project.

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Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

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E-mail:

jerabek@kss.zcu.cz
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PhDr. František Kalvas, Ph.D.

František Kalvas works as assistant professor at Department of Socialogy at University of West Bohemia. He studies the public opinion formation processes (mainly spiral of silence, agenda-setting, and framing), religious collective memory, and cooperative behaviour. He is methodologically focused on agent-based modelling, survey data analysis (including panel data), and Q-methodology. In the field of applied reserch, he is specialised on quality assurance of university education, and social services evaluation.

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Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

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E-mail:

kalvas@kss.zcu.cz
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Mgr. Bc. jan kaňák, Ph.D.

Jan Kaňák focuses on spirituality within the helping professions, especially in social work, and also on the area of mourning. In his exploration of spirituality, he focuses on the diversity of individual constructions of spirituality, their form in specific life stories, and the intersection of spiritual and professional discourse in the approaches and interventions of helping professionals. In the area of grief / bereavement / mourning, he focuses primarily on rethinking the concept of a comprehensive network of grief and possible support for the bereaved.

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Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

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E-mail:

honzaka@kss.zcu.cz

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PhDr. Tomáš Kobes, Ph.D.

Tomáš Kobes is social anthropologist. His main field research is in Slovakia, where he focuses on regional development and social exclusion, kinship, gender and building of identity in its broad term. Having completed in 2004 his doctoral research on the role of regional development project in the integration of local Roma people, his research since has focused on such topics as kinship, homosexuality and transsexuality, the infrastructural implementation in Eastern Slovakian Roma settlements, or building the social memory in relation to materiality and infrastructure. These ethnographic interests formed his theoretical concerns with such areas as new kinship studies, critical discourse analysis, actor-network theory and more generally the ontological turn in social sciences.

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Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

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kobes@kss.zcu.cz
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prof. PhDr. dušan lužný, dr.

Dušan Lužný has long been studying various forms of modernity, especially in a cross-cultural and global context. His research has been conducted in European and North American environments (e.g. Czech Republic, Ireland, USA) as well as in Asia (e.g. India, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam). His research focuses on the transformation of local religious traditions and the maintenance of cultural memory.

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Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

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E-mail:

luzny@kss.zcu.cz

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Mgr. Karel Řezáč, PH.D.

Karel Řezáč completed a PhD in Social Policy and Social Work at the Faculty of Social Studies of the Masaryk University. He is a lecturer in social work at the Department of Sociology of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Since his undergraduate studies, his research interests have included boundaries of professional performance of social work, deinstitutionalization, foster care, human development, and well-being. He defended his Ph.D. thesis on The Potentiality of Children in Foster Care. He worked as a social worker in an NGO responsible for children’s social and legal protection.

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Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

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rezack@kss.zcu.cz
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Mgr. Martina Štípková, Ph.D.

Martina Štípková studied sociology and demography. She does quantitative research on family, health, and social stratification. In her Ph.D. research she studied causes of the spread on non-marital childbearing in the Czech Republic and consequences of this trend on health of newborns. Her current project focuses on the dynamic of partnership among the elderly. Her research interests also include socioeconomic inequality in health, impact of parental breakdown on children, or grandparenting.

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Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

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E-mail:

marsti@kss.zcu.cz
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External staff

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Mgr. Martin Švantner, Ph.D.

Martin Švantner, PhD is an assistant professor at the Charles University in Prague (Department of Electronic Culture and Semiotics) and is a lecturer at the West Bohemian University in Pilsen (Department of Sociology). He is also a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences (Charles University; HYDRA project, focused on interrogation of “hybrid revolutionary actors” in global politics). His general interest is focused on semiotics, cognitive semiotics, social semiotics, history of semiotics, history of rhetorics, social philosophy, theory of argumentation and critical theory. He is a member of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Semiotic Society of America, Central European Pragmatist forum. He is also a member of scientific comitte of the The International Association for Cognitive Semiotics and a member of an editorial board of The American Journal of Semiotics. His latest publication is co-edited volume on Peirce´s theory of sign (How to Make our Signs Clear, Leiden: Brill, 2018).

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Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

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svantm@kfi.zcu.cz
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Ing. Mgr. Jiří Remr, Ph.D., MBA

Jiří Remr absolvoval Fakultu sociálních věd Univerzity Karlovy, kde získal doktorát v oboru evaluací. Působí jednak jako odborný asistent na FSV UK, je dále je výzkumným ředitelem v Institutu evaluací a sociálních analýz, kde se věnuje rozvoji evaluačních metod a metaevaluacemi. Je šéfredaktorem odborného časopisu Evaluační teorie a praxe. Vykonává rovněž činnost externího evaluátora. Členem ČES je od roku 2010 a v letech 2012 – 2016 zastával funkci Prezidenta (resp. Předsedy Správní rady).

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Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

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remr@centrum.cz
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Mgr. Patrik Galeta, Ph.D.

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Assistant Professor

Department of Anthropology

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galeta@ksa.zcu.cz
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