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Encyclopedia of Religion On-Line: A Mean for Understanding Religion

The on-line Encyclopedia of Religion, founded in 2020, aims to be a fundamental guide for all those interested in historical and contemporary forms of religion, both in the Czech society and in the world. It is currently visited by over 10 …

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.

Topics:

Religion and religiosity

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2024 - 2028

The Role of Religion in Shaping Identities – Identity Politics and Security Risks

Part of the AV21 Strategy Programme Identities in a World of Wars and Crises, in which research is conducted on religion of contemporary immigrants from Eastern Europe, especially from Ukraine, and its security risks. The research has stert…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Kateřina Horská, Ph.D.

Topics:

Religion and religiosity

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2024 - 2025

Income poverty: Household expenses and indebtedness in European countries

Complex studies on the theoretical, methodological and empirical issues of income poverty in relation to household expenses and liabilities are generally lacking in European research. The missing dimensions of housing costs, regular expendi…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Martina Mysíková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

European Union, Housing, Debts, Research Methodology, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Consumption, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2023 - 2025

Social stratification in the Czech Republic and Central Europe: 1968-2018

Using historical sources and available datasets of sociological and statistical surveys, the project aims to compare the history of stratification research and the development of social structure in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and S…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Jiří Večerník, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2018 - 2020

Methodology and reality of poverty: Czech Republic in the European context

The economics of poverty has still not been thoroughly researched in the Czech Republic, although it is a highly relevant topic. Similarly, the international comparability of poverty indicators remains rather unexplained in the European con…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Martina Mysíková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Economy, European Union, Research Methodology, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2018 - 2021

Changing work and job values in the Czech Republic

Around the world there are various branches of socio-economic research that make work and jobs their focus object of study. This interest has been heightened by the current economic recession, which has increased the risk of unemployment an…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Jiří Večerník, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Migration and Mobility, Wages and Incomes, Religion and religiosity, Work, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2014 - 2016

Well-being and the satisfaction of households in CEE countries: linking objective and subjective indicators

The project aims to analyse the links between living conditions and their perceptions in Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak households. After the trends in aggregate indicators of socio-economic development are identified, questions will b…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Jiří Večerník, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2011 - 2013

Reducing the security threats of corruption and organized crime in the Czech Republic

This project seeks to prevent serious security threats to the Czech state via organized crime and corruption by addressing the mechanisms by which those crimes take place. The project will design and propose legislative and non-legislative …

Principal Investigator:

Michael L. Smith, Ph.D.

Topics:

Corruption, Criminality

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2010 - 2013

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

Project Duration:

2007 - 2010

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

Project Duration:

2009 - 2012

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:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2006 - 2008

The History and Present of Czech Sociology

Czech sociology has been through enormous development since 1989, when it was freed from the constraints of ideology, and it is now gradually returning to the international stage. Persecuted and exiled scholars were able to rejoin the ac…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.

Topics:

Historical Sociology

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2010 - 2013

Objective and Subjective Assessments of the Financial Affordability of Housing in the Czech Republic during the 1990s

This study looks at assessments of the financial affordability of housing in the Czech Republic over the course of the 1990s, drawn from two mutually complementary perspectives: on the basis of verified data, detailing the levels of househo…

Principal Investigator:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2002 - 2003

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

Project Duration:

2008 - 2010

Projects

Encyclopedia of Religion On-Line: A Mean for Understanding Religion

The Role of Religion in Shaping Identities – Identity Politics and Security Risks

Income poverty: Household expenses and indebtedness in European countries

Social stratification in the Czech Republic and Central Europe: 1968-2018

Methodology and reality of poverty: Czech Republic in the European context

Changing work and job values in the Czech Republic

Well-being and the satisfaction of households in CEE countries: linking objective and subjective indicators

Reducing the security threats of corruption and organized crime in the Czech Republic

From Destratification to Stratification? The Development of the Social Stratification System in the Czech Republic, 1991 - 2009

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

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

The History and Present of Czech Sociology

Objective and Subjective Assessments of the Financial Affordability of Housing in the Czech Republic during the 1990s

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

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