Projects

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.

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.

Themes:

Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

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

CCK_ODDELENI:

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:

Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences

CCK_ODDELENI:

Economic and Religious Studies

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

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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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Kontraurbanizace v České republice: migrace na venkov, životní styl a proměny rezidenčních preferencí

Grantová agentura University Karlovy v Praze, projekt č. 104810. Web projektu: http://www.urrlab.cz/?kontraurbanizace=…

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

ISSP 2013 - National identity III

After 1989, national identity became a major research topic in the social sciences. In the first half of the 1990´s, Europe experienced a series of events that brought attention of scientists to the issue of national identity - disintegrat…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. et Mgr. Klára Plecitá, Ph.D.

Themes:

Trust/Social Cohesion, Identity, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Public Opinion Research Centre

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

CCK_ODDELENI:

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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Marie Čermáková

Contracting authority:

Other

CCK_ODDELENI:

Public Opinion Research Centre

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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jiří Vinopal, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

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…

Principal Investigator:

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

Themes:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Economic and Religious Studies

The Migratory Patterns of Foreigners (and Natives) in the Czechia: Concentration or Diusion Processes?

The presented project fills some gaps in research on international migration, especially the secondary migration of immigrants. The explanation of the features of internal mobility of immigrants and its impact on socio-spatial differentiati…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Themes:

Migration and Mobility

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

Information Needs Analysis: What Do You Want to Know about the European Union? Centre of European Studies, University of Economics, Prague (1998 - 1999). Participant

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…

Principal Investigator:

Ivo Bayer, M.A.
PhDr. Jiří Šafr, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

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…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Tomáš Lebeda, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

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…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Health & Family - ISSP 2011 and 2012

The association between the family and psychological and physical health has become a major theme in the sociological, demographic, and epidemiological literatures. On the one hand, significant attention has been devoted to the consequences…

Principal Investigator:

prof. PhDr. Dana Hamplová, PhD.

Themes:

Family, Health

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Denki Rengo Survey III: Quality of working life

International joint research on workers´ perception of their working life in the electrical and electronic machine industry. This research was conducted reciprocally three times: 1984-85, 1994-96 and 1999-2001. Denki Rengo III. covers the …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

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