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Applications for Part-Time Research Position (Ph.D./MA student level)
This three year project will examine the reversal of the gender gap in education and its implications for marriage markets and family relationships.…
Ph.D. position on EU post-crisis legitimacy (Ph.D. network PLATO – ESR8)
Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences (IS CAS) in cooperation with Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University invites applications for one PhD fellowship on Legitimacy Crisis and Anti-Corruption (post-crisis strengthening of accountability to rule-of-law standards) as part of the PhD network ‘The Post-Crisis Legitimacy of the European Union’ (PLATO).…
Applications for Research Position at the project Dynamics of Change in Czech Society
This five year project will examine the Czech Society using a household panel survey research design. This study will focus on five themes: Family life, health, time use and income management Education and the labour market Social stratification Housing choices and inequalities and Political participation and civil society.…
Pat Lyons: "Being able to recall facts is only one aspect of having political knowledge"
Czech Academy of Sciences recently announced, that nine exceptional scientists obtained a DSc. degree. One of them was Pat Lyons ffrom the Institute of Sociology CAS for his outstanding work Political Knowledge in the Czech Republic. Read the interview with Pat Lyons, done by the head of Press and Publications Department Filip Lachmann.…
Fialová: "Long-term persistence of low wages can have negative effects on individuals and society"
Economist Kamila Fialová is the author of a new European Commission study on low wages in Central and Eastern European Member States of the European Union. The document Low-wage employment in Central and Eastern European Member States is published within the framework of the long-term project Social Situation Monitor, in which the Institute of Sociology of the CAS cooperates.…
New issue Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 3/2015
All articles are available online.…