Hlasistická sociológia národa

Year, pages: 2006, 327 - 352

Hlasists’ Sociology of Nation. The article deals with the liberal youth movement „Hlasisti“ (Hlasists), associated with and named after the journal „Hlas“, at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries. The movement emergence and ideas were markedly influenced by the Czech philosopher and sociologist Tomáš G. Masaryk. Under his influence, Hlasists declared their affiliation to positivism, rationalism, evolutionism and scientism. Hlasists primarily attempted to modernise and emancipate Slovak nation, which was under threat of assimilation in the Hungarian empire. Hlasists’ sociology fulfilled an instrumental function in Slovak national socio-political program. Hlasists sociological thought eclectically adopted sociological concepts developed by acclaimed foreign scholars, granting sociology the status of well-respected though not distinctively profiled scientific discipline. Hlasists sociology focused on social groups among which particular attention was paid to the nation and its formation. Hlasists adopted contemporary psychologising sociological concepts (later turning to voluntarist approach) in order to define on one hand Slovak nation against „the Others“ – Jewish and Hungarian nations, and on the other hand bringing closer together Slovak and Czech nations through highlighting their common features. Hlasists analysis of social structure of Slovak nation ascertained the inevitability to build a strong Slovak middle class. This could be accomplished through national economic development, which in Hlasists conception of agrarianism was to take place in Slovak countryside.

Klobucký, R. 2006. Hlasistická sociológia národa. In Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, vol. 38, no.4, pp. 327-352. 0049-1225.

Klobucký, R. (2006). Hlasistická sociológia národa. Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, 38(4), 327-352. 0049-1225.