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Project GA409/97/0661 - Technocraric tendencies in the Czech intellectual and political history, 1900-1950 (1997-1999, GA0/GA)

Project data
Identification codeGA409/97/0661
Data classificationS - Full and true data that is not subject to any restrictions
Title in EnglishTechnocraric tendencies in the Czech intellectual and political history, 1900-1950
State funding providerGA0 - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
ProgrammeGA - Standard projects (1993-)
Primary branchAB - History
Secondary branchAD - Politology & Political Sciences
Tertiary branchAO - Sociology, Demography
Project startJan 1997
Project endDec 1999
Last known project statusU - Data from the first year after the project ended as planned
Project finance
Period199719981999throughout the full lifespan
Total state budget subsidy423 thousand CZK532 thousand CZK730 thousand CZK1,670 thousand CZK
Total project cost423 thousand CZK545 thousand CZK732 thousand CZK1,685 thousand CZK
Modeactually spentactually spentactually spentactually spent
Project objectives in EnglishThe proposal is auggesting to study technocratic features in the Czech history in the 1at half of the 20th century /Masaryk a Academy , of Labour, agricultural planning and research, eugenic trends, Bata a concept/ including their social rooting and their contribution to the legitimation of social engineering. The study will be focused on the ways how during the First Czechoslovak Republic these trends interacted with scientism, how influenced the mentalities and cognitive platforms of the intellectual circles, how responded to the development in the arts and how were supporting the diffusion of the totalitarian ideologies in the following periods/ dirigistic economy during Protectorate, planned economy and sovietization of Czech science and technologyduring the period of People ´s Democracy/ The project combines the approach of historical, politological and sociological sciences. The projected research will result into monograph dealing with technocratic tendencies in the intellectual history of th
Results evaluationSucceeded,
Data collection year2000
Data packageCEP/2000/GA0/GA00GA/U/6:2
Participants on the project
Number of recipients1
Number of subrecipients0
ContractorUniverzita Karlova v Praze
Principal investigatorJan Janko (nationality: CZ - Czech Republic)
Participant - a subject or a personMasarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, v. v. i.
Project results in RIV
Number of results in RIV13
Result of type DRIV/67985921:_____/99:42990101 - On the therm of technocracy. (1999)
Result of type DRIV/67985921:_____/99:42990106 - New intellectual and art trends in Europe and in the Czech lands (end of the 19th and the 1st half of the 20th century). (1999)
Result of type DRIV/67985921:_____/99:42990102 - Psychotechnical Institute. (1999)
Result of type DRIV/67985921:_____/99:42990099 - Publications of the Masaryk Academy of Work: selective bibliography. (1999)
Result of type DRIV/67985921:_____/99:42990104 - Probing into resources to the subject 'Technocratic tendencies in the Czech intellectual and political history (1900-1950)'. (1999)
Result of type CRIV/67985955:_____/99:36990226 - Technical World and Values. (1999)
Result of type DRIV/67985921:_____/99:42990103 - Technocracy in Czechoslovakia: several models. (1999)
Result of type DRIV/67985921:_____/99:42990098 - Technocracy in the Czech lands (1900-1950). (1999)
Result of type DRIV/67985921:_____/99:42990105 - Technocratic tendencies in living styles in the 1920s and 1930s. (1999)
Result of type DRIV/67985921:_____/99:42990100 - Foundation of the Masaryk Academy of Work: technocratic tendencies and participation of scientists. (1999)
Result of type JRIV/67985921:_____/98:42990005 - The eugenic movement in Czechoslovakia. (1998)
Result of type CRIV/67985921:_____/98:42980016 - German University in Prague in Years 1918-1939. (1998)
Result of type JRIV/67985921:_____/97:42970034 - N/A (1997)