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227 Projects
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
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
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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The Social Capital and Social Policy Network (SCSPN): Social Cohesion, Trust and Participation: Social Capital, Social Policy and Social Cohesion in the European Union and Candidate Countries
In the first part, we comment issue of social capital and third sector in the Czech Republic with specific focus on NGOs, civic participation and social trust. Public policy in the civic sector is discussed. In the second part, we review li…
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- Ivo Bayer, M.A.
- PhDr. Jiří Šafr, Ph.D.
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International Project
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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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Understanding of Intergroup Differences in the Discursive Processes of Public Opinion
Understanding the public opinion process in conditions of accelerating social changes is of ever greater urgency. We conceive public opinion as a process and thus as the outcome of discursive processes at three levels: the individual, the g…
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Public Opinion
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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Integration, Security, Innovation (INSITO) – European Answers to the Worldwide Financial and Economic Crisis
The "INSITO" Project seeks to contribute to an intensive exchange between knowledge multipliers from academia and the working world (social partners), at the level of the regional players in participating EU Member States. Selected principl…
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International Project
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Housing Standards and their Growth Potentials in Comparison with Situation in the EU Countries
Housing standards, in accordance with research conducted in the European Union (EU) countries, are usually analysed within the context of the overall living conditions of households and include analyses of the development of household consu…
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Housing
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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Czech Political Parties after Ten Years
The aim of the project was to learn and analyse characteristics, structure and functioning of Parliamentary and other relevant political parties in relation to their functioning in the Parliament, at lower levels of an organization structur…
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- doc. PhDr. Lubomír Brokl
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Czech Academy of Sciences
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The Origins, Nature and Impact of Political Knowledge
This project will examine political knowledge among citizens of the advanced democracies in terms of origins, nature and impact.Origins: The question of why there are differences in level of political knowledge across citizens will be exami…
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Politics and Political Attitudes
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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The Analysis of Voting Behaviour in Elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic 1996 – 2008
The project examines voting behaviour in elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The main objective is to analyse patterns of voting behaviour, the causes and consequences of the varying and generally very low voter…
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- doc. PhDr. Tomáš Lebeda, Ph.D.
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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
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The Quality of Survey Research on Electoral Preferences
The objective is to conduct a professional evaluation of electoral surveys in the Czech Republic. The project will assess all aspects of data quality and availability. We intend to create a review of all existing surveys and gather relevant…
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