Finished projects

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:

Gender & Sociology

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:

Gender & Sociology

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…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Radka Dudová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender, Intergenerational Relations, Age and Aging

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Tereza Stöckelová, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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 …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Vajdová

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

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 …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Maříková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Václav Houžvička, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Internal Project

Influence of Labour world changes on the quality of life. Project supported within the program Modern Society by the Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic (2005-2008). Sub-coordinator.

Integrated and United: A Quest for Citizenship in an “ever closer Europe” (INTUN), 6FP, No. CIT3-CT-2005-513421, September 2005 – August 2009. Project partner No. 6.

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…

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

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 …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Marie Čermáková

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Europäisierung der Gewerkschaften aus den Staaten der Osterweiterung. Entwicklungsperspektiven von gewerkschaftlicher Interessenvertretung und Solidarität in der EU/ The Europeanization of Trade Unions in the Countries of the Eastern Enlargement. …

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…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Jiří Večerník, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Grant Research Programme No 2301 GA CR: "Institutionalisation of Interests: the Origin of the Czech Civil Society", 1992-1995. Participant

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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Natalie Simonová, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Knowledge, Institutions and Gender: an East-West comparative study – KNOWING

The phenomenon of childlessness in the context of social changes in Czech society

Discursive framing and day-to-day experience of elderly care in the Czech Republic

Tracing knowledges between science and society

The Influence of Territorially Specific Factors on the Formation of Political Orientations of Voters

Parental Choice and Caring for Children in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

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

Influence of Labour world changes on the quality of life. Project supported within the program Modern Society by the Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic (2005-2008). Sub-coordinator.

Integrated and United: A Quest for Citizenship in an “ever closer Europe” (INTUN), 6FP, No. CIT3-CT-2005-513421, September 2005 – August 2009. Project partner No. 6.

Public and Media: Comparative Analysis of Public Agenda-setting

Support for the Social Acceptance and Effective Enforcement of Gender Equality in Public Sphere

Europäisierung der Gewerkschaften aus den Staaten der Osterweiterung. Entwicklungsperspektiven von gewerkschaftlicher Interessenvertretung und Solidarität in der EU/ The Europeanization of Trade Unions in the Countries of the Eastern Enlargement. …

Individuals and Households in the Czech Republic: Transformation Changes and Cross-National Comparison

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

Grant Research Programme No 2301 GA CR: "Institutionalisation of Interests: the Origin of the Czech Civil Society", 1992-1995. Participant

Educational Mobility and Educational Inequalities in the Czech Republic between 1936 and 2004

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