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Jak je v Česku vnímána práce

This publication introduces readers to the concept of ´quality of work life´, its relationship to the quality of life in general, and various perspectives on and interpretations of these categories. The main part of the publication is an analysis of the results of an empirical survey on ´The Quality of Work Life´, which presents a picture of how citizens in the Czech Republic perceive work, how they evaluate their work life and how satisfied they are with it.…

Topics: Work, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Představy mladých lidí o manželství a rodičovství

The book is based on an empirical survey "Young Genderation 1997" concerning attitudes towards the family, parenthood and partnership of young single people between 18-30 years of age. Besides the attitudestowards marriage, parenthood and ideal anad expected number of children,the survey was devoted to conditions and motives of concludings marriageand childbearing, to notions about an ideal partner and to attitudestowards divorce, abortions. Attention to other non-family plans of youngpeople was also paid.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Interpersonal Relations, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Náboženství a nadpřirozeno ve společnosti. Mezinárodní srovnání na základě empirického výzkumu ISSP

The paper is based on an empirical survey of religion and religious valuesin the society. It analyses a religious orientation, church attendance,values closely connected with Christianity and a proportion of people whodeclare any religious affiliation. The study pays attention to the religiousrevival in the end of the 20th century and poins out different types of religiosity (occultism, evangelicalism) and their spread in modern societies.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Diferenciace reprodukčního a rodinného chování v evropských populacích

Despite many similarities, family behaviour varies in European countries. Peoples not only take various attitudes but they also differ in real behaviour especially in regards with type of union (marriage and cohabitation) and fertility. The first part of this study offers an overview of demographic development in recent years. The second and third parts are dedicated to Family and Fertility Survey (FFS). The text concentrates on 4 basic questions: leaving parental home, age and type of the first partnership, p…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Mezinárodní marketing a informační technologie: Vybrané kapitoly

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Topics: Globalization

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Vstup do manželství a nesezdaného soužití v České republice po roce 1989 v souvislosti se vzděláním

Study deals with relationship between marriage, cohabitation and education. The first part presents a summary of the sociological theories. The second part verifies hypotheses based on these theories with ISSP 2002 data. The connection between education and entry into marriage canbe fully explained by longer school attendance. More educated people study longer. However, as soon as they complete their schooling, they have the same probability to enter marriage as people with lower education.…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

České ženy: vzdělání, partnerství a rodina

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Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Family, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Evropa na prahu sjednocení: životní úroveň a životní styl ve vybraných zemích východní a západní Evropy

Topics: Lifestyle, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Češi na prahu nového tisíciletí

The publication starts with a description of the demographic and social structureof households followed by the analysis of the income differentiation. This is followed by a chapter on the househods amenities. The next chapter deals with a detailed the behavior of people in the area of consumption. The fifth chapter isdedicated to values and strategies. In the concluding chapter discussed arepeoples expectations in the nearest future.…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Family, Public Opinion, Lifestyle, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Česká společnost v transformaci. K proměnám sociální struktury

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Topics: Social Inequalities, Sociological Data, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Česká soda v evropské unii: scénáře strategického chování ČR v EU

The book contains the structured web of more than one hundred scenarios for the Czech Republic strategic behavior in European Union. The scenarios are deided into four broad fields: politics, cosial cohesion, institutions and globalization. …

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Globalization, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Tři tváře komunitního dobrovolnictví: neformální pomoc, organizovaná práce a virtuální aktivismus

The book focussed its attention on the fusion of the two phenomena: community and volunteering. The Authors based their concept of community volunteering on the historical survey of community development. They analyse community volunteering in three lines characterised as 1. informal help, 2. organised work and 3. virtual activism. Each of these lines represents specific face or perspective on the community volunteering and demonstrates specific effect of informal, organized and virtual community on the struct…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Jaká je naše společnost? Otázky, které si často klademe...

The aim of this book is to present to the general public the work of sociologists, demographers, economists, political scientists and geographers, who work at the Institute of Sociology AS CR. Authors do not want to present a comprehensive report on the Czech society, but rather to answer some frequently asked questions, to verify validity of the different ideas and prejudices, which people living in our society have about themselves.…

Topics: Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Jak se máte Slováci, ako sa máte Česi?: 10 let po rozchodu

Topics: Public Opinion, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Historická reflexe minulosti aneb "ostalgie" v Německu a Česku

Proceedings of essays that compare and reflect ostalgia speeches in the Czech Republic and Germany in many different levels: political, social, including the use of "ostalgia" in commercial areas, educational and cultural. In Proceedings contributed with their views of representatives of various disciplines: political science, sociology, cultural studies, history and media studies.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociological Data, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

A Room of One's Own: 10 Views

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Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Vědci a vědkyně v pohybu: o akademické mobilitě

The publication focuses on the personal experience of men and women researchers with academic mobility, how they experience migration, translocations, separations and new beginnings. The book presents fifteen researchers from various scientific disciplines who talked about their academic mobility which usually occurred in the phase of their doctoral and postdoctoral studies. Their life-stories re framed by an analysis of key aspects and topics related to the issue of academic mobility and migration, such as ho…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Academic duets: On the professional and private life in science

The publication brings fifteen portraits of couples where both partners work in science, research or teach at a higher education institutions. Interviews focused on couples from different academic disciplines and in different life stages. They included young Ph.D. students with children, who stand at the very beginning of their scientific career, postdoctoral scientist as well as established researchers at the height of their careers and couples who are slowly wrapping up their research careers and whose child…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Akademické duety: o profesním a soukromém životě ve vědě

The publication brings fifteen portraits of couples where both partners work in science, research or teach at a higher education institutions. Interviews focused on couples from different academic disciplines and in different life stages. They included young Ph.D. students with children, who stand at the very beginning of their scientific career, postdoctoral scientist as well as established researchers at the height of their careers and couples who are slowly wrapping up their research careers and whose child…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Queen's gambit: the Launch of a Research Career

Ladies´ gambit: beginning of scientific career brings the perspective of ten young Czech women scientists at the beginning of their career. The goal is to show experience of young women scientists, to ask them about their mobility experience, plans for the future and work-life balance.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Dámský gambit: zahájení vědecké dráhy

Ladies´ gambit: beginning of scientific career brings the perspective of ten young Czech women scientists at the beginning of their career. The goal is to show experience of young women scientists, to ask them about their mobility experience, plans for the future and work-life balance.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Central European Parliaments. First Decade of Democratic Experience and Future Prospectives

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Topics: European Union, Civil Society, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Public / private funding of higher education: a social balance

The aim of this project was to provide reliable data and information on the real and effective distribution of (teaching-related) costs of higher education. The shares of public and private costs were calculated for students of different socio-economic origin, reflecting social disparity and social exclusion. Thus, a twofold task was achieved: On the one hand, a comparison between countries on macroeconomic level has taken place to explore the sharing of the costs of higher education provision between the stat…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Public Policy, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Knowing and Living in Academic Research. Convergence and Heterogeneity in Research Cultures in the European Context

Ulrike Felt is professor of social studies of science since 1999 and head of Vienna STS department. After having finished her PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Vienna in 1983, she worked for nearly five years in an interdisciplinary research team of science historians at the European Center for High Energy Physics (CERN) in Geneva studying social, political and scientific aspects in the foundation period of this first big European research institution. During this period her research interests mo…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Moderní nástroje sociálního bydlení pro mladé rodiny jako nepřímá podpora růstu porodnosti

The policy paper offers theoretical framework of the relations between housing and population policy and reviews current housing policies accross european countries. The paper focuses predominanty on the rental housing sector and on young families searching for housing. The authors summarize both state-level and municipality-level policies aimed at this group. Two policies are proposed: novelization of current housing benefit and local houisng guarantee.…

Topics: Housing, Family, Social Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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