The Institute of History of the ASCR celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2011. The Institute, re-established in 1990, is the successor of the Czechoslovak State Historical Publishing Institute founded in 1920 and incorporated in 1953 into the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences as the Academy´s Institute of History. In 1970, this Institute was abolished and reorganized to form the Institute of Czechoslovak and World History within the Academy, which was dissolved in 1989. In 1990, the reestablished Institute of History was merged with part of the former Institute of Central and East European History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. The research scope of the Institute covers Bohemian, Czechoslovak and general (especially Central and East European) history from the Early Middle Ages to World War II, including the theory and methods of historical research, with long-term projects on encyclopaedic and biographical studies and historical geography. and Pavla Vošahlíková.
The idea of conceputal scheme is clearly present in the classical and modern sociological theory. However, contemporary sociological thinking is highly critical of it and in its radical versions this idea is dismissed altogether. This articele taces various historically formed insights into the nature of concept formation in sociology and tries to demonstrate that without the attempts at creating a coherent conceptual scheme, sociology would be deprived of any possibility to push through a specifically sociological perspecitve on the social world. Talcott Parsons´conceptual level of theory is examined in detail and taken as an example of a viable theoretical approach based on the transformation of sociological concepts. The account of the sociological dilemma of scheme and reality is brought together with Donald Davidson´s argument against the dogma of scheme and reality. The idea of a conceptual scheme has been discredited on contemporary thinking together with the idea and the project of (grand) general theory of society. It is argued that from the generalizing critique of the idea of general theory it does not follow that sociology does not need sound concepts. If it were so then no sociological knowledge that would not refer only to itself would be possible., Jan Baloun., and Obsahuje seznam literatury