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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:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2011 - 2014

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

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

Project Duration:

2001 - 2002

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:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2011 - 2013

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:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

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:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2006 - 2008

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

Project Duration:

2003 - 2006

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

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

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

Project Duration:

2009 - 2011

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

Project Duration:

2003 - 2004

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

Project Duration:

2010 - 2011

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

Project Duration:

2002 - 2004

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.

Projects

ADAPT2DC - Adaptation to demographic change

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

Women’s Professional and Family Cohabitation – Differences in the Opinions of Czech Man and Women of Two Age Categories

Mass higher education in institutional settings: ethnography of academic departments in the Czech Republic

Political and Legal Institutional Framework of the Czech Republic and its Changes in the Context of the Accession the the EU

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

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.

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