Finished projects

The Application of Sociological Methods to Detect Housing Market Disequilibrium. Critical & Context-Sensitive Housing Research Methodology

A particular goal of the project is to make more effective use of sociological theory and methods in the analysis of housing demand. As the global economic crisis showed, the housing market has the potential to undermine the stability of th…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Mgr. Martin Lux, Ph.D.

Topics:

Housing, Research Methodology

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

SUREURO - NAS

SUREURO (Sustainable Refurbishment Europe) was an acronym for one of the largest research projects supported under the 5th Framework Programme by the European Comission. Its main objective was the development of metodical and operative tool…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Mgr. Martin Lux, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

The analysis of housing policy tools aiming to support the labour flexibility in the Czech Republic

The main goal of the project was to analyze the significance of the relation between housing tenure, existing and potential housing policy tools including rent regulation, on one side, and labour mobility, on the second side, in the Czech R…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Mgr. Martin Lux, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Parliamentary Documentation and Information Centre, Project supported by Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2000-2004). Participant.

Detraditionalization and individualization of religion in the Czech Republic and their socio-political and socio-economic consequences

The project aims to analyze processes of detraditionalization, individualization and privatization of religious values and forms of religious life in contemporary Czech society, including implicit ones and their functional equivalents. Alth…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.

Topics:

Religion and religiosity

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Analysis of Occurrence of Harassment of Women and Men on the Grounds of Sex and Sexual Harassment at Workplace

MPSV ČR, 2004 - 2005…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Alena Křížková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

HELPS - Housing and Home-care for the Elderly and vulnerable people and Local Partnership Strategies in Central European cities

The general objective of theProject is to promote development strategies and practices to improving the quality of life of vulnerable groups,with a strategic focus on elderly and people with disabilities, in urban areas in Central Europe. I…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Mgr. Martin Lux, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Intergenerational Relations, Care, Age and Aging

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Citizens and the State in the Czech Republic:The Impact and Legacy of the Prague Spring 1968-2008

This project examines the nature of citizenship in the Czech Republic and the legacy of the Prague Spring 1968. In early May 1968 a mass survey undertaken for the communist party leadership investigated public attitudes toward democratisati…

Principal Investigator:

Pat Lyons, BA, MA, Ph.D., DSc.

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Local and regional studies

Regional Identity of the Population of the Nisa Euroregion

In the territory, called for working purposes the Nisa Euroregion, there live all together 1.5 mil of Czech, German and Polish citizens. Co-existence of people here was largely affected by the post-war compulsory transfer of Germans from t…

Topics:

Regions

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Environmental Values, Beliefs and Behavior in the Czech Republic in Historical and Cross-National Perspective

This project analyzes environmental values and behavior in the Czech Republic in both historical and comparative perspective. The project seeks to make a major contribution to environmental sociology by focusing on four research themes. Fir…

Principal Investigator:

Michael L. Smith, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Employment Problems and Industrial Relations in Central Europe. After the System Transformation: Focusing on the Czech Republic.

Bilateral Czech-Japanese Project, supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Czech Political Parties after Ten Years”, Projekt supported by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, head of the Project Lubomír Brokl. (2002-2004). participant.

The Role of Economic and Political Elites in Transformation of the Czech Society

According to the knowledge acquired in the research, the genesis of the new elite in the transformation process proceeded in three modes: firstly, as reproduction and more or less fluent adaptation of the old state socialist elite to the …

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Governance in Metropolitan Areas and its Influence on Socio-spatial Inequality - Czech Metropolises in International Comparison

The main goal of the project is to study influence of the governance on socio-spatial inequality in metropolitan areas in the Czech Republic in comparison to North American, West European and other Central European experiences. Partly it is…

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Participation, Democracy and Citizenship in the Czech Republic and International Comparison

An international comparative quantitative survey was conducted as a part of the project. The project also examines legal norms and definitions of the excercise of civil and political rights today and historically, describes the fromation of…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Petra Guasti, Ph.D., Dr. Habil.

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Local and regional studies

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…

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Topics:

Regions

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Natalie Simonová, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

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…

Members of the project team:

PhDr. Alena Křížková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

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…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Tereza Stöckelová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Public Policy, Education

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

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…

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…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

doc. Mgr. Tereza Stöckelová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Hašková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department: