Čeněk Adamec

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Čeněk Adamec 1947 (in the middle, left George Gallup)

Čeněk Adamec (born November 19, 1916 in Ivančice ; † October 12, 1997 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak sociologist and pioneer of opinion research in Czechoslovakia .

Life

After graduating from high school, Adamec studied sociology at the Czech Technical University in Prague and worked there as a research assistant . From the end of 1939 he took part in illegal resistance activities and emigrated. In 1940 he joined the Czechoslovak Army in Exile in France . After the occupation of France, took part in the Battle of Dunquerque and was evacuated to Great Britain, where he served in an artillery unit until the end of the war. He made his first contacts with the British organization for social research Mass-Observation and was very interested in the methods of the Gallup Organization .

Čeněk Adamec as a sociologist

In 1945 Adamec returned to the university, where he defended his dissertation in 1946 and then worked as an assistant at the Sociological Institute. He was active in the association "Sociologický kruh" (Sociological Circle) of Prague students. From 1946, he helped found the establishment of the Czechoslovak Public Opinion Research Institute as a co-founder of the Československý ústav pro výzkum veřejného mínění . He was able to make use of his international contacts and had become a key figure in the institute research Gallup's methods with success.

The institute gained great importance in 1946 when it conducted a poll on the occasion of the National Assembly election. The survey values ​​showed a minimal deviation between 0.5 and 0.9 percent compared to the actual results for the individual parties. The next election to the National Assembly was to take place in May 1948, the institute conducted another poll in January 1948 when it was already suspected that the Communist Party might lose votes compared to 1946. There was no evaluation because the ballot boxes with the ballot papers were confiscated and never found again. In February 1948 the so-called February Revolution occurred .

The institute's activities were marginalized and in 1950 the facility was closed. Adamec could no longer work in the field of sociology and opinion polls. Attempts to re-establish the institute were made in 1967/1968 during the Prague Spring , but the institute was dissolved for the second time as early as 1969 during the so-called normalization .

Works (selection)

  • Nevědomost zabíjí: Úmrtnost kojenců v zrcadle veřejného mínění, Svět v obrazech, Praha 1947 (with co-authors)
  • Veřejnost o Baťovi: Národní podnik Baťa v zrcadle veřejného mínění, Orbis, Praha 1947 (with co-authors)
  • Za hlasem lidu: Rok výzkumu veřejného mínění, Orbis, Praha 1947 (with co-authors)
  • Šarlatáni včera a dnes, SZdN, Praha 1956
  • Vztah Čechů a Slováků k dějinám, ÚVVM, Prague 1968

Čeněk Adamec translated into Czech the standard work by George Gallup: Průvodce po výzkumu veřejného mínění , Orbis, Prague 1948 ( A Guidebook to Public Opinion Polls , Princeton University Press, Princeton 1948)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Keyword Adamec Čeněk , in: Zdeněk R. Nešpor et al., Slovník českých sociologů (Lexicon of Czech Sociologists), Academia, Prague 2013, 469 pages, ISBN 978-80-200-2221-9 , online at: encyklopedie .soc.cas.cz / ...
  2. ↑ a b Jiří Šubrt: Historicko-sociologické reflexe , chapter Čeněk Adamec a počátky výzkumu veřejného mínění v Čechách (Čeněk Adamec and the beginnings of opinion research in Bohemia), Karolinum Publishing House, Univerzita Karlo8va , Prague, 2018 80-246-4027-3 , here pages 32-47, online at: books.google.de / ...
  3. ↑ a b Josef Bečvář: Za Čeňkem Adamcem , obituary in Sociologický časopis 4/1997, online at: sreview.soc.cas.cz / ...
  4. ↑ Keyword Československý ústav pro výzkum veřejného mínění (1946–1950) , in: Zdeněk R. Nešpor et al., Slovník českých sociologů (Lexicon of Czech sociologists), Academia, Prague 2013, 469 pages, ISBN 978-80-22-200 9 , online at: encyklopedie.soc.cas.cz / ...

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personal data
SURNAME Adamec, Čeněk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Ivančice
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1997
Place of death Prague