Offered Themes of Study (PhD.)

Jan Balon, Ph. D.

• Theoretical research programmes in sociology
• Conceptual and terminological analysis in contemporary sociology
• Classical, modern and contemporary approaches in philosophy of social science, general metodology, sociology of science and sociology of knowledge
• Transformations of social sciences
• Theoretical legacy of American sociology
• Prominent sociological schools, departments, figures, and ideas in history of European and American sociology

Ondřej Císař, Ph. D.

• The Great Recession and Popular Responses to It
• Political Economy of Protest 
• Interactions of Party and Protest Politics in Democratic Regimes 
• Internationalization of Political Mobilization 
• Popular Responses to the European Migrant Crisis
• Political Populism/The End of Liberalism in East-Central Europe

Jakub Grygar, Ph. D.

• State borders in changing world: anthropological perspective
• Recognition, difference and the Other in everyday multiculturalism
• Material objects in social interactions
• Politics and practice of social housing

Martin Hájek, Ph. D.

• Text, discourse, and narrative analyses and their use in the social sciences – qualitative and quantitative approaches
• Sociology of state socialism
• Sources of every-day knowledge about in/justice, morals, and social norms.
• Sociology of collective memory

prof. Hynek Jeřábek, Ph. D.

• Classical inspiration of contemporary social research methodology
• Mixed design in analytical methodology
• Columbia sociological school and contemporary inspirations of its methodology

Dino Numerato, Ph. D.

• Sociology of sport
• Sociology of health and illness
• Sociology of professions

Jiří Remr, Ph. D.

• Evaluation Specific Methodologies
• Innovations of Research Methods
• Methods and Techniques for Impact Assessment
• Advances in Performance Evaluation. Approaches, Techniques and Applications
• Effectiveness of Activation Programs for Senior Citizens
• Evaluating Social Responsibility

Barbora Spalová, Ph. D.

• Anthropology of christianity: regimes of power, religious speech and silence, morality of economy, consecrated life, memory, church and parish as exceptional organisations
• German past in central Europe
• Memory and lived space
• Theatre and cultures of memory