Jan Balon 
head of department
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Jan Balon specializes in the study of formative periods in the history of social science. He is the author of 5 books including Sociological Theory (2007), The Society of Our Age (2011), Contemporary Sociological Theory (2011), Sociology in the USA (2011), History of Sociology in the Czech Republic (2017); and the editor of 6 collections. He took part in a number of research projects that looked into various aspects of the institutional development in the academic field. Recently, he is involved in a project which seeks to pick up on sociological legacies in relation to the topic of domination.
Research interests: Philosophy and History of Science, Social Studies of Science, Science Policy, Social Theory, Sociology in the US
Curriculum vitae (January 2020)
Recent publications
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The Routledge International Handbook of Talcott Parsons Studies
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Balon, Jan
Evolutionary Universals in Czechoslovak Society. Talcott Parsons, the Prague Spring, and structures of interest.- Immigration, Domination, and ‘Proportional Patriotism’. Recovering the Sociology of Herbert Adolphus Miller
...- Afterword: Writing (and righting) the ‘classics’, a response
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Bhambra, G. K. - Holmwood, John
Afterword: Writing (and righting) the ‘classics’, a response.
Journal of Classical- Editorial: Writing (and righting) the ‘classics’. A symposium on Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood’s .i.Colonialism and Modern Social Theory./i., Polity 2021
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Bhambra, G. K. - Holmwood, John
Editorial: Writing (and righting) the ‘classics’. A symposium on Gurminder K. Bhambra and John- Stephen Turner and the Philosophy of the Social
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Holmwood, John
Sociology, expertise and civility.
Stephen Turner and the Philosophy of the Social. Leiden: Brill,Fore more, see the ASEP database of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
- Immigration, Domination, and ‘Proportional Patriotism’. Recovering the Sociology of Herbert Adolphus Miller