Publications

Abstract

Topic: work, transformation, public opinion

The paper presents data related to the 2002 elections to the Chamber of Deputies from a research realized within the program of The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems.

Topic: politics (and political attitudes), elections (and polls)

The paper contains a brief analysis of economic and social development in the Czech Republic after 1989 in relation to living standard.

Topic: economics, transformation, standard of living

Political, demographic, social geographic, branch, proffession, economic and cultural changes in the Czech Republic and its mutual relations. Class organisation, stratification, egalitarian levelling of Czech Society after more than ten years of transformation. Life trajectories of individuals and social groups, changes in life strategies. Jakými životními dráhami prošli jednotlivci a sociální skupiny, změny životní strategie? Relationships of modernisation, EU, social cohesion.

Topic: value orientations, transformation, lifestyle

Political, demographic, social geographic, branch, proffession, economic and cultural changes in the Czech Republic and its mutual relations. Class organisation, stratification, egalitarian levelling of Czech Society after more than ten years of transformation. Life trajectories of individuals and social groups, changes in life strategies. Jakými životními dráhami prošli jednotlivci a sociální skupiny, změny životní strategie? Relationships of modernisation, EU, social cohesion.

Topic: social inequalities, transformation

Political, demographic, social geographic, branch, proffession, economic and cultural changes in the Czech Republic and its mutual relations. Class organisation, stratification, egalitarian levelling of Czech Society after more than ten years of transformation. Life trajectories of individuals and social groups, changes in life strategies. Jakými životními dráhami prošli jednotlivci a sociální skupiny, změny životní strategie? Relationships of modernisation, EU, social cohesion.

Topic: intergenerational relations, migration and mobility, work, transformation

Political, demographic, social geographic, branch, proffession, economic and cultural changes in the Czech Republic and its mutual relations. Class organisation, stratification, egalitarian levelling of Czech Society after more than ten years of transformation. Life trajectories of individuals and social groups, changes in life strategies. Jakými životními dráhami prošli jednotlivci a sociální skupiny, změny životní strategie? Relationships of modernisation, EU, social cohesion.

Topic: value orientations, transformation

The study summarizes the results of the authors’ nearly decade-long effort (related to thestudy of the post-socialist transformation of Czech society) to gain an empirical and theoreticalknowledge of the process of how social elites are created and consolidated. Socialelites are understood primarily as the foremost stratification groupings, which enter intocomplicated interactions with the social system, its economic and political institutional

Topic: elites, transformation

Using empirical data drawn for the most part from research in the project of the Institute of Sociology AV ČR entitled 'Ten Years of Societal Transformation in the Czech and Slovak Republics', this essay attempts to trace the priorities of public opinion and identify potential buttresses of key aspects in the process of modernisation within Czech society.

Topic: transformation, public opinion