Lubomír Brokl

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Lubomír Brokl (born October 27, 1937 in Polička ) is a Czechoslovak and Czech sociologist. In the 1960s, he took part in the work of the teams of Zdeněk Mlynář and Pavel Machonin , who did theoretical preparatory work in the run-up to the Prague Spring . During the " normalization " after 1968 Brokl was de facto banned from working.

Life

Lubomír Brokl graduated from the applied arts secondary school and studied philosophy and history at Charles University in Prague. He finished his studies in 1961. He then taught at the chair for dialectical and historical materialism at the Faculty of General Medicine at Charles University and in 1966 received the title of “ Candidate of Sciences ” (CSc). Brokl was journalistic in the 1960s in magazines such as Literární noviny (temporarily renamed Literární Listy or Listy after being banned ) and other socially engaged magazines.

From October 1967 to January 1968 Lubomír Brokl worked at the Institute for State and Law of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (ČSAV) in the political science department, headed by Zdeněk Mlynář. From 1968 he worked at the Sociological Institute of the ČSAV and was temporarily a member of the editorial board of the journal Sociologický časopis (Sociological Journal). However, the institute was dissolved in 1970 and the staff dismissed. During the period of normalization after 1968 Brokl worked at the Research Institute of Machine Technology and Economics (1975–1990), but was not allowed to publish officially (he published in illegal Czechoslovak samizdat ) of the time, had salary restrictions, was not allowed to give lectures, etc.

After the regime change in 1989, Lubomír Brokl returned to the newly approved Sociological Institute of the Academy, where he was head of the Department of Sociology of Politics from 1990 to 2003 and deputy director from 1992 to 1997. In 2000 he completed his habilitation at the Charles University and was appointed professor at the University of Economics in Prague . Since 2005 he has been working as a sociologist at the University of Hradec Králové.

Lubomír Brokl is married to Eva Broklová (* 1939).

Lubomír Brokl as a sociologist

Brokl's theoretical contribution to Czechoslovak sociology is not as highly valued as his work in the 1960s, when he was engaged in preparing the foundations for the systemic changes that would go down in history later than the Prague Spring . Brokl took part in the following teams:

  • 1965–1968 member of the management of the interdisciplinary research team for the reform of the political system in Czechoslovakia (at the Institute for State and Law of the ČSAV Academy) under the direction of Zdeněk Mlynář
  • 1965–1968 member of the scientific team for the study of the social structure of Czechoslovakia (at the Institute of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague) under the direction of Pavel Machonin
  • 1967–1968 member of the team for the Czech question (at the Institute for State and Law of the ČSAV Academy and at the Law Faculty of Charles University) under the direction of Foreign Minister (1968) Jiří Hájek

In Mlynář's team, Brokl dealt with the issue of politics and the stratification within the power structure in society. This was also the reason why he was invited to participate in Machonin's team in order to help interpret the empirical research results. The extensive data collected by the Static Office were evaluated in the study Československá společnost [1967] (Czechoslovak Society [1967]). Brokl's contribution dealt with the relationship between political power on the one hand and social stratification on the other, specifically using the example of social profile of the members of the communist party. He supported the thesis that power in Czechoslovakia was asymmetrically distributed and supported the main thesis of Machonin's project that the society of Czechoslovakia in the 1960s was no longer based on the Stalinist model of class antagonisms even under the conditions of socialism.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Czech version of the study with the results of Machonin's research project entitled Československá společnost [1967] (619 pages), which was published by Epocha in Bratislava in 1969, was immediately banned and crushed; Lubomír Brokl's chapter from this collector's book, in which he interpreted the results of his independent sub-project (Chap. VI, Sociální stratifikace a politická moc , pages 235-264), was smuggled abroad and appeared under the title Power and Social Stratification in International Journal of Sociology , 1/1971, USA (November 1971; print ISSN  0020-7659 , online ISSN  1557-9336 ; pages 203-283), online at: www.tandfonline.com/ (paid access only)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Zdeněk R. Nešpor: Brokl Lubomír , curriculum vitae of the Sociologická encyklopedie (Sociological Encyclopedia), published by Sociologický ústav AV ČR (Sociological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), online at: encyklopedie.soc.cas .cz /.../ Brokl_Lubomír
  2. ↑ a b c d Curriculum vitae Prof. PhDr. Lubomír Brokl (1937) , (tabular) self- résumé on the server of Ústav filosofie a společenských věd, Filozofická fakulta UHK (University of Hradec Králové), online (archived) at: fhs.uhk.cz / ...
  3. ↑ Michael Voříšek: Machonin Pavel , curriculum vitae of the Sociologická encyklopedie (Sociological Encyclopedia) with a brief description of the research project 1965–1968, edited by the Sociologický ústav AV ČR (Sociological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), online at: encyklopedie. cas.cz/.../Machonin_Pavel

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personal data
SURNAME Brokl, Lubomír
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak and Czech sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Polička