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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Vývoj empirického sociologického výzkumu na území Československa
0580729 - SOÚ 2024 RIV CZ cze B - Monografie kniha jako celek
Vávra, Martin - Editorství knihy Vývoj empirického sociologického výzkumu na území Československa0580755 - SOÚ 2024 CZ cze O - Ostatní výsledky
Vávra, Martin (ed.) - Race, nation and empire, the forgotten sociology of Herbert Adolphus Miller0564166 - FLÚ 2025 RIV GB eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Balon, Jan - The Routledge International Handbook of Talcott Parsons Studies0563816 - FLÚ 2023 RIV GB eng M - Část monografie knihy...
Balon, Jan
Evolutionary Universals in Czechoslovak Society. Talcott Parsons, the Prague Spring, and structures of interest.
The- Immigration, Domination, and ‘Proportional Patriotism’. Recovering the Sociology of Herbert Adolphus Miller
0563691 - FLÚ 2023 RIV US eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Balon, Jan - ASEP database of the Czech Academy of Sciences. - Immigration, Domination, and ‘Proportional Patriotism’. Recovering the Sociology of Herbert Adolphus Miller