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Dopady hospodářské krize na finanční dostupnost bydlení - analýza a možné nástroje státu

The policy paper deals with impacts of economic crisis and identifies households endangered by financial inaffordability, mainly due to unemployment reasons. After reviewing various international policies dealing with this problem, the authors propose two policies – the programme for the support of work related migration and a an interest-free loan for homeowners facing the risk of losing their homes.…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Reforma bytové politiky ČR: návrh a výsledky simulací

The policy paper contains the proposal for structural changes of several housing policy measures in the Czech Republic. The goal of the reform is to increase policy effectiveness, efficiency, tenure neutrality and anticyclicity. The second section of paper describes the results of large-scale simulations of the reform and its impact on public expenditures and income distribution.…

Topics: Housing, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Podpora dostupnosti bydlení pro lidi akutně ohrožené sociálním vyloučením - mezinárodní perspektiva a návrhy opatření v ČR

Policy paper deals with an analysis of housing affordability and availability for social excluded in the Czech Republic based on the case studies and the experiences of non-profit organisations. Good practices and possible strategies to combat housing exclusion using in foreign countries are discussed in the paper. The objective of the paper is to propose tools directed to increase availability and affordability of housing for people at risk of social exclusion in the Czech republic.…

Topics: Housing, Social Inequalities, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Trans/formace: gender, věda a společnost

The publication Trans/formation: gender, science and society explores the issue of women in science in the CR from the 19th century to the present. It builds on the findings of EC’s Enwise expert group from 2004. The publication documents changes related to the influx of women to the research profession, analyses the specificities of the gender contract in post-communist countries, examines changes related to the accession to the European Research Area and equal opportunities measures adopted in the CR. …

Topics: European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Bibliografie české knižní sociologické literatury (do roku 2009)

The bibliography summarises full sociological production in the Czech lands since the 19th century untill 2009 it is dividend into three time periods and accompanied with a foreword and personal index. …

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Library

Česko-slovenské sociologické dny. Sborník z konference

The volume contains papers presented at the international Czecho-Slovak Sociology Days, a conference held 10-12 May 2004 in Prague and jointly organised by the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the Institute of Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and the Masaryk Society of Czech Sociology. The volume is focused on Czech and Slovak sociological research on public opinion, political sociology, local issues, family, housing, and methodology.…

Topics: Housing, Research Methodology, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Family, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Organizovaná občanská společnost v České republice

This study explores why the third sector is an important agent for promoting civic participation and interest representation. The empirical evidence presented in a first part of the study is organized using an analytical typology based on two key criteria: (a) type of organizational structure evident within specific non-governmental actors and (b) the organisational composition of the entire third sector in the Czech Republic. By using this methodological approach this research maps organisational structures w…

Topics: Civil Society, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Veřejná a mediální agenda: komparativní analýza tematizace veřejné sféry

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Topics: Media, Public Policy, Public Administration

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Cesty labyrintem. O vědecké profesi, soukromém životě a jejich propojování

Publication Paths through the Labyrinth. On the Scientific Profession, Private Life and Their Inter-connections discusses the concept of work and life balance in relation to scientific career of women and men. 5 authors discuss discourses, framings and situations that arise around the WLB issues in science.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Děti na psí knížku? Mimomanželská plodnost v ČR

The book concentrates on the non-marital fertility in the Czech Republic since 1989. After the description of demographic development, chapters ask following questions. What are attitudes towards out-of-wedlock childbearing? To what extend live unmarried mothers alone? What is their motivation to get married or to stay unmarried? Who can profit from being unmarried mother? Do single mothers have enough incentives to work? How spending patterns of two-parent and single-parent families differ? How are married an…

Topics: Gender, Parenting, Family, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Trvalá nebo dočasná změna? Uspořádání genderových rolí v rodinách s pečujícími otci

The study therefore aims to answer the question of whether in families where the father is involved in caring for children in the early stage of their lives there is an erosion of gender inequalities in the family, or whether what occurs is just a modification of the given status quo. The study also looks at the question of at what point gender equality is (or can be) established in the family and what is the connection between gender equality in the family and gender inequality in the society at large. The st…

Topics: Gender, Care, Work, Parenting

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Participace a partnerství v místní veřejné správě

The objective of this study is to describe the basic discourse of cooperation, participation, and partnership in terms of how it is defined in the process of democratic administration in the Czech Republic and its regions. This basic discourse is determined from a legislative perspective by the laws in effect within the country, but it is also shaped by the results of current research in the Czech social sciences and studies in public administration, and even by the media.…

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Public Administration

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Hierarchy as the Strength and Weakness of Communist Rule. The Legacy of Communist Rule IV: A Volume of Papers from the Seminar Held in Prague on September 11-12, 2003

This volume is comprised of the papers that were presented at the seminar “Hierarchy as a Strength and Weakness of Communist Rule”, which was held on 11-12 September 2003 at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague. The general purpose of the seminar was to reveal and interpret, in so far as possible without misrepresentation or bias, the procedures on which communist rule of society was based at the end of the 1980s.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Administration

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Podmínky rodičovství v podnikovém prostředí v mezinárodním srovnání

This study looks at the problem of work-life balance at the employee level and at the mechanisms for negotiating policies for working parents directly at the workplace. The research was based on three case studies of engineering companies, comparing the parent companies in Germany, France, and Sweden with their branches in the Czech Republic.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Zdroje utváření skupinových mentalit v České republice po roce 1989

The objective of this volume of studies is to attain a deeper understanding of the processes behind the formation of group mentalities in the Czech Republic after 1989. This involves identifying the group stereotypes in thought and behaviour that take shape among these groups owing to the growing differentiation of life experiences.…

Topics: Value Orientations

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Politické důsledky suburbanizace. Analýza případových studií proměn politického chování a občanské participace ve vybraných suburbánních lokalitách Prahy a Brna

This study examines the political impact of suburbanisation in five selected localities: three suburban neighbourhoods around the City of Prague and the City of Brno, and two municipalities on the outskirts of Prague. The study discusses some of the political consequences of suburbanisation that are not captured in quantitative analysis, which specifically means the study of political behaviour and civic participation, especially the participation of people who have newly moved into the neighbourhood.…

Topics: City and Village, Civil Society, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Česká národní identita po zániku Československa a před vstupem do Evropské unie

The study is dedicated to the Czech national identity in 1995 and 2003. We analyse four elements of national identity ů an image of the nation (culture-nation, state-nation), a territorial identity (local, regional, state and European), a national pride (in performance of a culture and state), and a love for the nation (patriotism, chauvinism). Czech national identity is compared with national identities in eleven European countries and is also used as an explanatory element of the support of the EU governanc…

Topics: European Union, Value Orientations, Identity

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Životní strategie podnikatelek a podnikatelů na přelomu tisíciletí

Study is based on the sociology of family, the sociology of work and the sociology of organisation and management, combining these fields from the perspective of the sociology of gender. It focuses on the motivations for going into business, the structure of company management, from the perspective of gender and of the particular line of business, and its influence on distribution of work and responsibilities between partners and on methods whereby this distribution is reasoned and arranged.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Family, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Postoje k manželství, rodičovství a k rolím v rodině v České republice a v Evropě

This study focuses on attitudes towards marriage, unmarried cohabitation, parenthood, and the roles of men and women in the family in Czech society in the past decade. Using data drawn from the ISSP Family and Gender Roles survey conducted in 1994 and 2002, the authors analyse how these attitudes have developed over the past decade and their differentiation according to social group and, especially, age, education, gender, and marital status.…

Topics: Gender, Value Orientations, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Životní spokojenost: rodina, práce a další faktory

Text studies life satisfaction and happiness of Czech men and women. It works with ISSP 2002 data. Basic socio-demographic factors are analyzed (sex, age, education, marital status and cohabitation). Satisfaction with family life and satisfaction with work is also included in the analyses. Married people are happier than others. Satisfaction with family life affects happiness more strongly than satisfaction with work.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Interpersonal Relations, Work, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Otcové, matky a porozvodová péče o děti

The objective of this publication is to contrast different ways of looking at the reality of parenting and child care after divorce or separation and show how multifaceted this important social phenomenon truly is. The study begins by introducing readers to the subject of post-divorce motherhood and fatherhood, the main problems that men and women are faced with as parents after divorce, and the ways in which divorce, post-divorce parenting, and incomplete families are discussed in public discourse.…

Topics: Care, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Zahraniční migrace vědců a výzkumníků a nástroje k jejímu ovlivnění

The study provides systematic overview of the policy tools that are used in various countries to encourage return of scientist and researchers working abroad back to their home country or at least to facilitate the transfer of information, know-how and experience from host countries. The overview of policy tools is supplemented by an attempt to quantify potential target group for such policy – the scientists and researchers of the Czech origin working in abroad.…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Sociology of Sciences, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Reprezentace různých forem rodinného a pracovního života v ženských a mužských časopisech

The study presents a qualitative analysis of texts on family, partnership, and working life published in men’s and women’s magazines. The objective of the analysis is to examine how family, partnership, and working life are represented in these media.…

Topics: Gender, Media, Interpersonal Relations, Work, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Jaká víra? Současná česká religiozita/spiritualita v pohledu kvalitativní sociologie náboženství

This volume offers a summary of the most important knowledge in the field of contemporaryqualitative sociology of religion in the Czech Republic, and it describes the state of religiosity/spiritualityin the country after 1989 up to the present in a European context. The majority of Czech sociologistsof religion, based at various academic institutions, contributed to the preparation of the volume.In six independent studies the authors draw attention to the most important developmentaltrends in Czech religiosity…

Topics: Value Orientations, Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Structural Tensions in the Interface between the Labour Market and Social Policy in the Czech Republic

This study tries to demonstrate the links between the social structure and social policies. Using a socio-economic approach it exhibits four types of socio-economic friction that develop between the middle class and other groups, between the new and the old middle class, between pensioners and the economically active, and between people with employment and the non-working poor. …

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Social Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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