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Introduction to the Management of Social Survey Data

Introduction to the Management of Social Survey Data

Although the construction of databases, data processing, documentation and other operations with data may have a fundamental influence on research results, the management of data rarely receives attention as a separate subject in the methodology and practice of survey research. More often it gains attention only in the form of individual and isolated tasks during different stages of the research process. This, however, might pose a problem, because there are ample good reasons for paying attention to data mana…

Topics: Sociological Data

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

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Politika a každodennost na českých vysokých školách: Etnografické pohledy na vzdělávání a výzkum [Politics and everyday life in Czech universities: Ethnographic perspectives on teaching, learning and research]

Politika a každodennost na českých vysokých školách: Etnografické pohledy na vzdělávání a výzkum [Politics and everyday life in Czech universities: Ethnographic perspectives on teaching, learning and research]

This publication is the result of a three-year, team-based, ethnographic study of academic and student life in Czech higher education. Five case studies were chosen to reflect a diversity of situations, including elite and peripheral positions, metropolitan and regional locations, public and private legal status, humanities, applied social science, technical and natural science subjects, professional and academic curricula and basic and applied research. Although we collected several types of data (e.g. semi-s…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

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Rozehraná partie: talentky sedm let poté

Rozehraná partie: talentky sedm let poté

The publication „Chess Middlegame: Women Talents Seven Years After“ focuses on the work and life paths of zouny women researchers. It is a follow-up project to a 2007 publication, which introduced young female scientists from different disciplines at the beginning of their scientific career, and returns back to these female scientists after seven years. The author describes progress of their work and careers, but also changes in their professional and private plans, objectives and expectations.…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Rodina a zdraví - jejich vzájemné souvislosti

Rodina a zdraví - jejich vzájemné souvislosti

The goal of the book is to explore the link between individual’s family situation and health. The book is divided into 8 chapters. They focus on the data description, definition of health, and link between health and healthy life style and partnership status, parenthood, or quality of partnership. The final chapter is devoted to the caring function of the family. Permalink: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0239866…

Topics: Care, Family, Public health

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Population Development and Policy in Shrinking Regions: the Case of Central Europe

Population Development and Policy in Shrinking Regions: the Case of Central Europe

The book presents an introductory information about demographic change in Central Europe. It is particularly targeted at practicioners and policy makers at local and regional level who deal with impacts of changing populations in their work. It presents an overview of population and policy development in Central Europe and provides a deeper insight into selected regions dealing with population shrinkage and population ageing. Demographic change is seen as an important challenge for sustainable development and…

Topics: Regions, Consumption, Transformation, Age and Aging, Public Policy, Public Administration

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Voliči a volby 2010

Voters and the 2010 Elections book presents descriptions, analyses, and interpretations of voter behaviour in the Czech general election of 2010, when serious fractures emerged in the long-term stability of the Czech party system (at least in the post-socialist context). The two main parties lost more than one-third of their support, two small government parties failed to get re-elected into the Chamber of Deputies, and they were replaced by two new parties, not only in the Chamber but also in government. The …

Topics: Value Orientations, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Economics and Strategic Management of Local Public Services in Central Europe: Towards multidisciplinary analysis of infrastructure and service costs

Economics and Strategic Management of Local Public Services in Central Europe: Towards multidisciplinary analysis of infrastructure and service costs

The study challenges cost analysis of local public service across countries of Central Europe. The relations of economic features and demographic change characteristics have been investigated. Central Europe Programme co-financed the initiative as its strategic project for 2007-2013. The ADAPT2DC project (New innovative solutions to adapt governance and management of public infrastructures to demographic change) reflects a need for: …better transnational strategies to stabilize or reduce infrastructure …

Topics: Economy, Regions, Consumption, Age and Aging, Public Administration

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Koho volí Vaši sousedé? Prostorové vzorce volebního chování na území Česka od roku 1920 do roku 2006, jejich změny a možné příčiny

Koho volí Vaši sousedé? Prostorové vzorce volebního chování na území Česka od roku 1920 do roku 2006, jejich změny a možné příčiny

The main goal of the book is to study spatial patterns of voting behaviour in parliamentary elections in Czechia between 1920 and 2006. The book seeks to analyse voting behaviour through studying political preferences expressed by the elections of political parties in the general elections. The four types of questions have been asked: 1. How large are regional differences in electoral results on the territory of Czechia? How the voting patterns look like? 2. Do voting patterns tend to be stable over time or th…

Topics: City and Village, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Etnografie: Improvizace v teorii a terénní praxi [Ethnography: Improvisation in theory and fieldwork practice]

Kniha představuje etnografii jako komplexní metodologicko-teoretický přístup ke skutečnosti. Na rozdíl od většiny sociálně-vědních metodologií, nepovažuje etnografie problémy, s nimiž se výzkumníci a výzkumnice v terénu setkávají, za překážky, ale naopak za možný zdroj a prostředek poznávání. Nesourodost a mnohoznačnost skutečnosti, její neurčitosti, paradoxy a protiklady tvoří nedílnou součást pole zkoumání a žádají si tvůrčí přístupy k psaní a žánrový…

Topics: Research Methodology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Demographic Avant-Garde: Jews in Bohemia between the Enlightenment and the Shoah

Demographic Avant-Garde: Jews in Bohemia between the Enlightenment and the Shoah

This book studies the unique demographic behavior of Jews in Bohemia, starting from a moment in history when industrialization in Central Europe was far away in the future and when Jews were still living legally restricted lives in ghettos. Under conditions not stipulated by conventional demographic theories, Bohemian Jews started recording marked decreases in mortality and fertility that signaled an early onset of their demographic transition.Demographic Avant-Garde examines what made Jews in Bohemia true for…

Topics: Elites, Historical Sociology, Transformation, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Za rudou oponou. Komunisté a jejich voliči po roce 1989

Za rudou oponou. Komunisté a jejich voliči po roce 1989

Book in broad historical, social and political context analyzes the main characteristics and the position of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia in the Czech political system after 1989. It examines the nature and dynamics in time the anti-system identity, the historical development of conditional party, its program and policy objectives, as well as group interests and shared values that it represents. The empirical framework of this study presents an extensive survey of voters, which charted values and…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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Dočasná stabilita? Volební podpora politických stran v České republicev letech 1990 - 2010

Dočasná stabilita? Volební podpora politických stran v České republicev letech 1990 - 2010

This book explains why Czech voters choose specific parties. The focus is on the long-term determinants of electoral behaviour (cleavages, left-right orientation, and party identification) and on four parties with long-term representation in the Czech parliament: ČSSD, KDU-ČSL, KSČM and ODS. Moreover, the authors focused on changes in the determinants of electoral stability over time. This helped them to identify any important variations in the structural determinants of electoral behaviour over time.339,- …

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Česká republika 2002–2012: hodnoty, postoje, chování. Sociální report projektu European Social Survey

Česká republika 2002–2012: hodnoty, postoje, chování. Sociální report projektu European Social Survey

In the years 2002 to 2012, Czech society experienced a series of events and changes. Similar events and changes, however, also took place in other European countries. State and development of attitudes, values and behaviour of populations of European countries in connection with these events and changes is explored by the European Social Survey research project. This book is devoted to the attitudes, values and behaviour and their changes in Czech society in the last decade. Data for the Czech Republic are com…

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Economy, Criminality, Care, Politics and Political Attitudes, Work, Sociological Data, Age and Aging, Public health

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Regulace lobbingu v České republice. Od myšlenky ke konceptu a implementaci

Regulace lobbingu v České republice. Od myšlenky ke konceptu a implementaci

[Regulation of Lobbying in the Czech Republic: From Idea to Concept and Implementation]The Czech Republic does not have any law that defines lobbying, establishes rules of proper conduct between lobbyists and politicians, or provides transparency into those relationships. The purpose of this publication is to bring public attention to the importance of the regulation of lobbying in the fight against corruption in the Czech Republic and to present major legislative recommendations in this area that have been su…

Topics: Corruption

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Kdo se (po)stará? Dítě mezi rodinou, státem a trhem

Kdo se (po)stará? Dítě mezi rodinou, státem a trhem

Based on ESS 2008/2009, this chapter focuses on public attitudes towards state’s role in provision of childcare and its accessibility in CEE countries. In the Czech Republic, where the family policy is familialistic, the public express lower expectations towards state and lower dissatisfaction with childcare accessibility. Women and parents of small children express higher expectations and dissatisfaction. Attitudes are also influenced by level of education and by attitudes to women´s employment.…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Care, Work, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Dějiny české sociologie

Dějiny české sociologie

The book provides the first comprehensive academic history of Czech sociology from its beginnings in the 19th century to the present. It is based on extensive archive and source research conducted over a number of years as part of a research project entitled the History and Present of Czech Sociology.Authors:Tomáš ČížekJan HorskýDušan JanákJindřich KrejčíZdeněk R. NešporOlga NešporováMiloslav PetrusekJakub RákosníkVěra SokolováJiří VečerníkMichael Voříšek695 CZKWhere to buy this book?…

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Public Opinion, Politics and Society in Contemporary Ireland.

This book demonstrates what the polling evidence tells us about changes in Irish opinion since 1970 towards key issues: The economy - has the Celtic tiger economy changed Irish citizens? --- Northern Ireland - have aspirations for a united Ireland disappeared with the peace process? --- The Liberal agenda - has Ireland become less conservative and a more tolerant society on issues such as divorce, abortion, and homosexuality? --- European integration - have Irish attitudes toward the EU changed since accession…

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Žáci-cizinci v základních školách. Fakta, analýzy, diagnostika

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Kultura v krajích České republiky

Kultura v krajích České republiky

Culture is also in the Czech Republic an important factor in the development of territorial units, regions and municipalities (especially large cities), in connection with changes in the economy and the labor market, the growing emphasis on education, creativity and innovation. On the other hand, culture is associated with quality of life, social cohesion and identification with the region. Some of the results of the project Social and Institutional Conditionality of Culture Development and Cultural Heritage M…

Topics: Regions, Public Administration

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Political Parties after Communism: Developments in East-Central Europe

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Region a politika

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Živitelé a živitelky: reflexe (a) praxe

Živitelé a živitelky: reflexe (a) praxe

The publication is focused on understanding the construction of lay knowledge as concerns the phenomenon of breadwinning. Authors attempt to uncover the formation of breadwinning according to its various types and models so that it would be possible to observe the mechanisms behind the re/production, and legitimisation of social and gender inequalities in the family and the associated power relations. Authors use an analysis of 61 semi-structured interviews with parents from 26 families.…

Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Care, Work, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Adjectives of Democracy. Citizenship and Political Attitudes under Socialist and Liberal Democracy in the Czech Republic

Adjectives of Democracy. Citizenship and Political Attitudes under Socialist and Liberal Democracy in the Czech Republic

The central empirical puzzle addressed in this book is why are Czech citizens’ attitudes towards key facets of democracy so similar under socialist democracy in 1968 and liberal democracy in 2008? Examining unique survey datasets from the late 1960s and 2008 this book reveals that Czech and Slovak citizens’ political attitudes can justifiably be characterised in terms of stability. This stability may be understood as a general feature of citizens’ relationship with democratic values and their implementat…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Sociální kapitál a rozvoj regionu. Příklad Kraje Vysočina.

Sociální kapitál a rozvoj regionu. Příklad Kraje Vysočina.

Rozvoj a kvalita života v obcích, městech, regionech i státech jsou úzce spojeny se vztahy mezi lidmi, vzájemnou důvěrou nebo důvěrou v instituce, tedy s prvky souhrnně označovanými jako sociální kapitál. Kniha obsahuje jak dílčí analýzy různých aspektů sociálního kapitálu v Kraji Vysočina, tak syntetizující pohled na sociální kapitál v tomto regionu a jeho přínos pro regionální rozvoj. Interdisciplinární kolektiv autorů představuje rozvoj Vysočiny v geografickém, demo…

Topics: Social Capital

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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