Finished projects
226 Projects
ADAPT2DC - Adaptation to demographic change
ADAPT2DC partnership aims to develop transferable strategies for the provision of innovative solutions to restructure the management of services and infrastructure in shrinking regions and cities from Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ital…
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From Destratification to Stratification? The Development of the Social Stratification System in the Czech Republic, 1991 - 2009
The project aims at corroborating the “value lag hypothesis,” according which further consolidation of the social stratification system in the Czech Republic will depend more on the crystallization of its normative background (value…
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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Women’s Professional and Family Cohabitation – Differences in the Opinions of Czech Man and Women of Two Age Categories
The research aim is to detect opinions concerning role of women working outside home within the group of present students in the last year of university studies (people at the beginning of their professional career) and their parents´ gene…
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
Mass higher education in institutional settings: ethnography of academic departments in the Czech Republic
Higher education is becoming increasingly important in knowledge societies and, simultaneously, undergoing a rapid and profound change. The present project explores contemporary transformations of higher education from below through ethno…
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Public Policy, Education
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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Political and Legal Institutional Framework of the Czech Republic and its Changes in the Context of the Accession the the EU
The project examines the legal and institutional environment in the Czech Republic, the effect of the most prominent collective actors prior to its accession to the European Union, and changes that are occuring due to the process of Europea…
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Ministry Project
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Knowledge, Institutions and Gender: an East-West comparative study – KNOWING
Building on scholarship in feminist philosophy and social studies of science, the project will examine the role of gender in the production of knowledge contexts and cultures in an East-West perspective in two scientific fields (sociology a…
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Gender, Sociology of Sciences
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International Project
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The phenomenon of childlessness in the context of social changes in Czech society
The subject matter of the project was a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of childlessness in Czech society, focusing on involuntary childlessness as well as the choice of life without children. An emphasis was on researching life st…
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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Discursive framing and day-to-day experience of elderly care in the Czech Republic
Demographic transformations currently taking place in European societies, including the Czech Republic, lead to a de cit of available care for the elderly. Eldercare is currently provided mainly in the informal sector, and more often by wom…
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Gender, Intergenerational Relations, Age and Aging
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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Tracing knowledges between science and society
In this project I focus on the study of production, use and translation of social science knowledge on its travels between science and society. I aim at understanding the differences between knowledge regimes in areas of natural and technic…
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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The Influence of Territorially Specific Factors on the Formation of Political Orientations of Voters
Research concentrates on the underlying factors that influence political orientations and attides of individuals. Are political orientations and attitudes influenced rather by individual's position in the social structure or by territorial …
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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Parental Choice and Caring for Children in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
The study will contribute to the long-standing social scientific debate over the role of culture and institutions in influencing behaviour by looking at the case of family policies. We will conduct interviews with families in the Czech and …
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Czech Academy of Sciences
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The Civic Dimension of Czech-German Relations in the Phase of the Accession of the CR to the European Union with an Emphasis on the Border Areas
Starting in 2003, the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic – Department of Czech Border Regions has launched a three year research project entitled The Civic Dimension of Czech-German Relations in the Ph…
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- Doc. PhDr. Václav Houžvička, Ph.D.
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Internal Project
Public and Media: Comparative Analysis of Public Agenda-setting
The proposed project aims to map out, analyse and describe agenda-setting and agenda-linking processes in the Czech public and in the Czech mass media agenda. To get the necessary empirical data, in an empirical survey, the bidding team ai…
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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Support for the Social Acceptance and Effective Enforcement of Gender Equality in Public Sphere
The subject of this sociological project is support for the social acceptance of the institutional mechanisms designed for the enforcement of the principle of egual opportunities for men and women in the public sphere. The project provides …
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Czech Academy of Sciences
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Individuals and Households in the Czech Republic: Transformation Changes and Cross-National Comparison
Individuals and Households in the Czech Republic: Transformation Changes and Cross-National Comparison Researcher: Jiří VečerníkIssued by: Grant Agency of the Czech RepublicTime of researching the project: 2008 - 2010 The proposed p…
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The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment of EU based Companies on the Labour Relations in EU Candidate Countries - Taking the Examples of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Project of the University of Bremen, Institute Labour and Economy, Coordinator Dr. Jochen Tholen. Project was sponsored by Hans-Böckler-Foundation Düsseldorf and Otto Brenner Foundation Frankfurt/M – Berlin. The objective of the study a…
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Educational Mobility and Educational Inequalities in the Czech Republic between 1936 and 2004
Current sociological approach to educational inequalities increasingly focuses on relative chances to educational transitions. Thus, the impact of structural contexts, establishing these chances, is completely eliminated. International comp…
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
Social and Institutional Conditionality of Culture Development and Cultural Heritage Maintaining in the Regional Setting and its Exploitation for Effective Organisation of the Regional Cultural Activities
The aim of the project was a discovering of how culture development, cultural activities organization and exploitation are conditioned by social and institutional setting of a region and how to employ this knowledge in the activities of the…
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Culture, Regions
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Ministry Project
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RECON - Reconstituting Democracy in Europe
RECON seeks to clarify whether democracy is possible under conditions of pluralism, diversity and complex multilevel governance. This includes taking proper heed of the challenges to democracy at EU and national levels.RECON spells out thre…
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Constructing Supranational Political Spaces: The European Union, Eastern Enlargement, and Women’s Agency
This international comparative research project involving researchers from two accession countries – the Czech Republic and Poland – and American researchers focuses on studying the process of European Union enlargement. The project put…
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