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Authors: Simonová, Natalie, Tomáš Katrňák
The paper provides a survey of the key thematic and methodological milestones in research into educational inequalities. It focuses on authors and concepts that introduced major innovations and contributed to significant advancements in the analysis and knowledge of educational i...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
‘Homeless’ people are usually considered as citizens without property. The absence of ownership, especially in terms of housing, co-creates the very idea of homelessness in current societies. Despite this fact, ‘homeless’ citizens negotiate and experience their property, things,...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Vašát, Petr, Poláková, Markéta, Gibas, Petr, Daňková, Hana
The aim of this article is to investigate the factors that influence the size of activity spaces of homeless men and women in cities. Vulnerable population groups such as the homeless face the risk of mobility challenges that can exacerbate their social exclusion even more t...
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Authors: Křížková, Ivana, Šimon, Martin
Comparative research aiming to explain differences in segregation on national level is highly desirable for public policy in increasingly diverse countries including new immigrant destinations. This study explores residential segregation of non-European migrants in Czechia using...
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Authors: Simonová, Natalie, Tomáš Katrňák
This article provides a look at the main turning points in research on educational inequalities, both at the level of the field’s subject matter and its methodology. The text focuses on authors and concepts that in their time constituted a major innovation, significantly ad...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin
Studium mechanismů, které mohou narušovat sociální soudržnost společnosti, patří mezi základní témata sociologického výzkumu. Riziko sociálního znevýhodnění je ovlivněno dominantně individuálními faktory, ale síla působení těchto faktorů závisí na prostředí, kde obyvatelé žijí. V...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin
Předchozí výzkum periferních území umožnil identifikovat některá problémová území a zacílit pozornost na jejich studium. Nicméně se jednalo většinou o vymezení jednoho typu periferního území. Uživatel výzkumu tak nemohl identifikovat, zdali je perifernost území způsobována nedost...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
Homelessness in the Czech Republic is a relatively new phenomenon. Because of ideological background before 1989, as a result of loos of employment, it could not show up. For that reason, it fully emerged in early 1990s. Under this condition, it has been also unresearched for lon...
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Authors: Bernard, Josef, Hana Daňková, Petr Vašát
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a survey method for hidden populations and, as such, it offers a suitable approach for sampling the homeless. Surprisingly, the practical use of RDS in surveying homeless populations has only sporadically been described in the professional lite...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr, Petr Gibas
Časoprostor bývá základní konceptuální optikou, jakou je v sociálních vědách na bezdomovectví nahlíženo. Většina studií věnovaných vztahu bezdomovectví a časoprostoru ale chápe tento vztah nediferencovaně, tzn., dle našeho názoru dostatečně neproblematizuje jeho individuální...
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Authors: Šafr, Jiří, Dalibor Holý
Authors discuss the problem of standardization of measures of social status and social class in international comparative surveys. Apart from presenting occupational scales: occupational prestige SIOPS and socioeconomic status ISEI-08, the authors also discuss in detail the princ...
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Authors: Vašát, Petr
The article seeks to describe the poorest class’s notion of time and through this critically address the prevailingly one-dimensional and unproblematised conception of time in the Czech social sciences. The relational concept of the poorest class here refers to individuals...
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Authors: Dvořák, Tomáš, Jan Sládek, Petr Sunega, Tomáš Katrňák
Key research question of the chapter is whether and to what extent were social inequalities in housing affordability increasing or decreasing among different social groups of households in the period 1991-2009. Authors used innovative methodological approaches to answer the key r...
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Authors: Tagai, Gergely, Bernard, Josef, Šimon, Martin, Koós, Bálint
This study investigates socioeconomic peripherality in Hungary and Czechia. Despite the current attention devoted to peripheries in post-communist societies, the authors argue that there is a lack of data-driven international comparisons of the socio-spatial outcomes of periphera...
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Authors: Daňková, Hana, Josef Bernard, Petr Vašát
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a survey method used to create samples of populations that are hidden and hard to reach. Even though the method has been used since the 1990s in studies internationally, it has not yet been used in Czech research. The RDS methodology tends to b...
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Authors: Kolářová, Marta, Kateřina Vojtíšková
This text focuses on how Czech people re-construct the divisions and inequalities, how they define social categories and classes in the Czech society, and how people distinguish and distance themselves from or identify with these categories/classes. The qualitative analysis is ba...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Vašát, Petr, Daňková, Hana, Gibas, Petr, Poláková, Markéta
The aim of this study was to examine the spatial mobility of homeless people in urban areas, exploring homeless mobility, its drivers, limits and links to personal attributes, and whether there is an association between the extent of spatial activity and an...
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Authors: Šimon, Martin
A key issue in socio-economic geography is to understand how regional and social polarisation shapes the territorial organisation of society. We argue that effects of polarisation are not translated simply and straightforwardly in a whole region, but vary to a large extent with r...