Miloš Kaláb (sociologist)

Miloš Kaláb (born December 14, 1920 in Prague ; † January 2, 1994 ibid) was a Czechoslovak and Czech sociologist and educator.

Life

After studying philosophy, sociology and pedagogy at Charles University (graduated in 1948), Kaláb held lectures at the philosophical and pedagogical faculty of Charles University in Prague from 1948 to 1963. In 1950 he was employed as a lecturer. In 1960 he received the professorship, in 1958 he became deputy dean, 1959–1961 dean of the faculty of philosophy. 1957–1962 he was director of the (renamed several times) Institute Ústav sociálně politických věd UK (Institute of Sociopolitical Sciences of Charles University). After that, Kaláb taught from 1963 at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of November 17 (only accessible to students from the Third World) , where he was also dean from 1963–1965 and from where he stood up for disgraced colleagues. In the 1960s Kaláb was a member of the Scientific College for Philosophy and Sociology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences . In 1965 Kaláb was a founding member of the new Sociologický ústav ČSAV (SÚ ČSAV, Sociological Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences) and in the period 1965–1970 also its director; this institute played an essential role as an important organizational and intellectual basis of the sociology of the time. 1966–1970 he was an editorial member of the journal Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review , in 1970 its editor-in-chief for a short time. Kaláb was also 1964-1970 in the main committee of the Československá sociologická společnost při ČSAV (ČSSS, Czechoslovak Sociological Society [the Academy of Sciences of Czechoslovakia]) and represented them 1966-1970 in the International Sociological Association (ISA). Kaláb lost practically all of his functions and occupations in the field of sociology in 1970. He then worked as a research assistant in a pedagogical research institute in Prague.

Thematically, Kaláb's scientific interest was oriented towards methodological questions of sociology, the theory of social systems and the questions of the development and integration of the personality in educational processes. Although Kaláb's journalistic activities in the field of sociology are relatively straightforward, he is highly valued as a personality who contributed decisive impulses to the development of Czechoslovak sociology, especially in the 1960s, and sometimes later. He contributed significantly to the "development of organizational and administrative-political prerequisites for the establishment of Marxist sociology as an autonomous science". As early as 1956, Kaláb suggested replacing the doctrine of "scientific communism" with Soviet characteristics with the new Marxist sociology, which at the time was only a utopian demand.

Kaláb also presented his basic ideas on Marxist sociology internationally, for example together with Zdeněk Strmiska at the VI. World Congress of Sociology in Evian 1966, which was attended by a large delegation of Czechoslovak sociologists.

Miloš Kaláb that in the time of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the Czech resistance organization Předvoj dedicated, came immediately after the liberation in 1945, the Communist Party at. In 1970 its membership was canceled.

Works

• Augustin Smetana, Rovnost, Brno 1951
• O sborníku prací JV Stalina "Marxism a národnostní a koloniální otázka", Orbis, Prague 1953
• O životě a díle Karla Marxe, Orbis, Prague 1954
• O pravém vlastenectví, Orbis, Prague 1954
• Postavení a úloha odvětví školství ve společenském systému: Nástin obecné Makrospolečenské teorie školství, Prague 1983
• Modernizace cílů a obsahu výchovně vzdělávacího procesu z hlediska rozvoje osobnosti žáka, SPN, Prague 1986

and other.

See also

• Sociological Institutes in Czechoslovakia (review article)

Web links

• Literature and other media by and about Miloš Kaláb (sociologist) in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Voříšek: Kaláb Miloš , keyword in Sociologická encyklopedie (Sociological Encyclopedia), ed. from Sociologický ústav AV ČR (Sociological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), online at: encyklopedie.soc.cas.cz / ...
2. ↑ ^{a b} Miloš Kaláb , short curriculum vitae of the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague, online at: ff.cuni.cz / ...
3. ↑ 6. světový sociologický kongres v Evianu (Report on the 6th World Congress of Sociology in Evian 1966, compiled by P. Machonin and Z. Strmiska), in: Sociologický Časopis / Czech Sociological Review 1967/2, pages 201-213, online on: JSTOR 41128327