How Sociologists Get "Profiled" -- Life in Sociology and Sociology in Life [L'udovit Turcan]

In an interview, Slovak sociologist Peter Ondrejkovic relates personal experience of living through the "Prague Spring" of 1968 & its aftermath, the persecution of sociologists & abolishment of sociology as a scientific discipline in Czechoslovakia. He also tells about the rehabilitation & apologies received from the government after communism collapsed in 1989. Responding to the interviewer's interest in the history of Czechoslovakian sociology, Ondrejkovic shares his reminiscences of collaborating with Alexander Hirner, & then discusses personal engagement in research of the sociology of youth & education. He mentions his political functions as a councilman & police chief in the city of Bratislava. The issues of social pathology, criminality, & anomy dominate as topics of conversation in the remainder of the interview. Anomy is examined as a social phenomenon & a sociological category, while the discussion of social pathology focuses on the blurred & fluid boundaries between what is normal & what is deviant in societal codes of behavior. Ondrejkovic also mentions his two latest books: Globalizacia a individualizacia mladeze ([Globalization and Individualization of Youth] Bratislava: Veda, 2003) & Socializacia v sociologii vychovy ([Socialization in the Sociology of Education] Bratislava: Veda, 2004). Z. Dubiel