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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
The article witnesses about fast development of consumption in the Czech Republic after 1989. First, basic features of consumption under the communism are exposed. Second, the likely impact of transition on the economic situation of households is discussed. Third, changes in patt...
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Authors: Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
Analysis of the socio-economic values, mainly with respect to work, time, collective entities and governance, in the contemporary Czech society and their comparison with Western Europe. The authors maintains strong historic and socio-cultural embeddedness of these categories.
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
A large documentation of statistical and sociological surveys is used in this book to present a plastic picture of the transition in the Czech Republic “from below” i.e. as experienced by individuals and households. Other East-Central European and the EU countries serve as a comp...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
Statistical income surveys are used to document systemic changes in distribution of household income and its determinants in the period 1988-1996: 1. the growing difficulties of income surveys under the democratic regime are reflected; 2. the substantive meaning of various income...
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Authors: Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
The paper concerns with the results of sociological research on Czech entrepreneurs in the 1990s, with special respect to socio-economic values and cognitive categories of influence to the economic sphere.
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Authors: Tholen, Jochen, Ludovít Czíria, Eike Hemmer, Wieslawa Kozek, Zdenka Mansfeldová
Ausländische Direktinvestitionen haben in Ostmitteleuropa seit 1990 einen erheblichen Modernisierungsschub der Wirtschaften bewirkt. Neue Managementkonzepte, Unternehmensorganisationen und Technik wurden vielfach mit implementiert. Die Arbeitsbeziehungen waren am Anfang entweder...
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Authors: Hraba, Joseph, Rehan Mullick, Frederick O. Lorenz, Jiří Večerník, Sangmoon Lee
The post-communist transitions in Europe are both economic and political reforms. Experiences with the economic reforms and attitudes about them might undermine support for the democratic reforms, a possible contradiction embedded in post-communist transitions. We examined first...
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Authors: Lux, Martin, Petr Sunega, Tomáš Katrňák
Housing conditions form an important part of social stratification in many advanced industrial economies. The objective of this article is to determine the extent to which social stratification is linked to housing inequalities in the post-socialist Czech Republic; and how this r...
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Authors: Stöckelová, Tereza
The chapter deals with the moral and political economy of science while using the concept of "modes of ordering" developed by John Law. On the basis of an ethnographic research in a social scientific academic institution it discusses modes of ordering as they are deploy...
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Authors: Mansfeldová, Zdenka
The book deals with employment problems and labour relations in Czech Republic in System Transition and covers macro-, mezzo- and micro-level. Besides economic development, employment problems, interest representation of employers and employees the attention is paid also to the c...
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Authors: Hraba, Joseph, Allan McCutcheon, Jiří Večerník
The economic experiences and economic anxiety of rural and urban residents of the Czech and Slovak Republics during the postcommunist reforms are compared and related to their support for the reforms. The analysis is based on five national surveys, 1992–1996, collected by t...
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Authors: Nešpor, Zdeněk R., Petr Holub
Analysis of the socio-economic values, mainly with respect to work, time, collective entities and governance, in the contemporary Czech society and their comparison with Western Europe. The authors maintains strong historic and socio-cultural embeddedness of these categories.
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Authors: Tuček, Milan a kol.
The first part of the study looks at various theoretical approaches encompassed with the concept of elites in sociology and at various techniques used to study elites. The second part presents a factual analysis of the development of political and economic elites over the past fi...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
First, the author examines European and world lessons for the study of Czech transformation. Then, he describes legacies of the (mostly communist) past and the risks of transformation: atomisation, demoralisation and materialisation. The main topic is the failure of the social sc...
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Authors: Kroupa, Aleš, Mansfeldová Zdenka
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Authors: Nešpor, Zdeněk R.
Analysis of the socio-economic values, mainly with respect to work, time, collective entities and governance, in the contemporary Czech society and their comparison with Western Europe. The authors maintains strong historic and socio-cultural embeddedness of these categories.
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Authors: Machonin, Pavel, Milan Tuček, Petr Hartoš, Martin Nekola
The first part of the study looks at various theoretical approaches encompassed with the concept of elites in sociology and at various techniques used to study elites. The second part presents a factual analysis of the development of political and economic elites over the past fi...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
Following the assumption that the middle classes are important in the transition from Communism to a democratic market society as its leading actor and guarantor of social integration, this paper presents evidence of the benefits they have gained from the economic and social refo...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
Following the assumption that the middle class is important in the transition from communism to a democratic market society as its leading actor and guarantor of social integration, this paper presents evidence of the benefits it has gained from economic and social reforms. As th...

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