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Metropolitan Areas in the Czech Republic - Definitions, Basic Characteristics, Patterns of Suburbanisation and Their Impact on Political Behaviour

This study is based on the first stage of research on political change in metropolitan areas in the Czech Republic, conducted within the framework of the International Metropolitan Observatory Project (IMO). In the first part of the study the authors examine how metropolitan areas are defined. Given that there is currently no official definition of metropolitan areas in the Czech Republic, the criteria for their delineation were developed on the basis of existing definitions of metropolitan areas in other coun…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

The Czech Labour Market: Changing Structures and Work Orientations

The project The Adjustment of the Czech Labour Force: Changing Job Structures, Wage Disparities and Work Orientations aimed to use various data sources to describe changes in the field in the last decade. Studies on various topics are collected to provide a multidimensional picture of the changing Czech labour force and its "state of mind", together with identification of some key problems.…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Work, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Mezinárodní výzkum násilí na ženách - Česká republika / 2003: příspěvek k sociologickému zkoumání násilí v rodině

This study examines the results of the International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS) in theCzech Republic and addresses the wider issues of domestic violence in partner relationships. The firstpart of the study deals with aspects of domestic violence from a sociological perspective: definitions,methodology, data sources, and international survey experience to date. It provides a summary of thesociological theories that attempt to explain the rise and development of domestic violence and devotesspace in p…

Topics: Gender, Criminality, Interpersonal Relations, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Volby do Evropského parlamentu 2004 - analýza volební účasti a stranické podpory v České republice

This study analyses the reasons behind the low electoral participation and behind voter mobility, and looks at the consequences these changes hold for the electoral gains of individual parties. Using data for the Czech Republic the author indicates some socio-demographic factors and some political attitudes that can be linked to electoral participation and highlights some of the factors that cause voters to participate less in elections. The study also focuses on voter mobility and explains these shifts on the…

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Civil Society and Civic Participation in the Czech Republic

Based on differentiation between the terms civil society and the third sector the text defines the space of civic participation. The establishment of terminology and theoretical framework appears to be a key component, as the terms civil society and third (non-governmental) sector are often confound. Notwithstanding its long tradition the term, civil society is rather abstract and is today used mainly in theoretical and conceptual context. Whereas the term third sector is more practical and concrete, as it off…

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Souvislosti proměn pracovního trhu a soukromého, rodinného a partnerského života

This volume looks at the risks affecting the private life of individuals, risks that have been ushered in by changes in the labour market, and it examines whether the shape of the family is changing in the Czech Republic and what groups are most affected by and who most at risk from these changes. The authors also examine the ways in which work life and the private or intimate sphere interact and how individuals cope with the effects of one sphere on the other.…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Work, Parenting, Family, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Kombinace pracovního a rodinného života v ČR: politiky, čas, peníze a individuální, rodinné a firemní strategie

The new labour market model that evolved in the Czech Republic after 1989 and the family strategiesof women and men are two spheres that interact and overlap at various levels of society and in theindividual strategies of those involved. The changes to the circumstances surrounding labour marketparticipation that resulted from the economic, political and cultural changes in Czech society andthe effects of a global labour market have created a dynamic foundation, which has altered the entireatmosphere of societ…

Topics: Gender, Work, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Regionální elity 2004

This study presents an analysis of the characteristics, opinions and attitudes of regional elites in the Czech Republic. It is based on an empirical survey conducted in the autumn of 2004, just before the elections to the regional assemblies were held. The study looks at political, administrative, economic and cultural elites, focusing especially on how regional elites evaluate the functioning and the developmental potential of the regions, and on their willingness to cooperate with other actors. The study als…

Topics: Elites, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Public Administration

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Political Behavior in Metropolitan Areas in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 2002 - Patterns, Trends, and the Relation to Suburbanization and its Socio-Spatial Patterns

The presented study deals with the political consequences of the suburbanization process in the four largest metropolitan areas in the Czech Republic after 1989. The aggregate socio-economic data on the level of municipalities are used first for the creation of typology of suburban communes. Then the electoral turnout in suburban municipalities is studied in relations to their socio-economic, cultural and geographical features. Finally, the effects of the suburban development for the voting behavior are analyz…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Measuring Value Orientations with the Use of S.H. Schwartz‘s Value Portraits

The study acquaints readers with two methods of measuring value orientations developed by S.H.Schwartz. Attention is focused especially on the Portrait Values Questionnaire that was used in the European Social Survey in 2002 and 2004. The analysis in the study uses ESS 2002 data sets from ten selected countries (the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland,Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland) and creates four higher order value types (conservation, openness to change, self-transcenden…

Topics: Value Orientations, Research Methodology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Institucionální zázemí české sociologie před nástupem marxismu

The study traces the development of Czech sociology to 1948, broken down into several periods: the period during which sociology established itself as an independent academic discipline (G. A. Lindner, T. G. Masaryk, the Catholic sociologists), the period of Masaryk’s students, who while they established departments of sociology only partly engaged in empirical sociology (I. A. Bláha, E. Chalupný, J. Král), and finally the period of the third pre-Marxist sociological generation, genuine practitioners in t…

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Educational Aspirations in a Comparative Perspective. The role of individual, contextual and stuctual factors in the formation of educational aspirations in OECD countries

The aim of the paper is to assess the effect of education system stratification, its vocational specificity and permeability on the formation of educational aspirations in OECD countries participating in PISA 2003. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of ability, gender, and socioeconomic background.…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Vnímání a utváření sociálních distancí a třídních nerovností v české společnosti

This text focuses on how Czech people re-construct the divisions and inequalities, how they define social categories and classes in the Czech society, and how people distinguish and distance themselves from or identify with these categories/classes. The qualitative analysis is based on 30 in-depth interviews with men and women with various educational backgrounds and social statuses and on qualitative analysis of the concept of social class in Czech media discourse.…

Topics: Media, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Pracovní a rodinné role a jejich kombinace v životě českých rodičů: plány versus realita

This study is the outcome of an analysis of a questionnaire survey that focused on the degree to which Czech parents develop individual and family strategies for combining work and family life, and the objective was to examine the situation and strategies of parents currently living with dependent children.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Rodičovství a bezdětnost ve vybraných časopisech pro ženy a pro muže

This study examines whether and in what way parenthood and childlessness are reflected in the gender-specific media targeting men and women in Czech society. The study presents the results of a qualitative and a quantitative analysis of selected women’s magazines and a qualitative study of selected men’s lifestyle magazines published in the Czech Republic after 1989, that is, during a period when important changes in reproductive behaviour have been under way in the population.…

Topics: Gender, Media, Parenting

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Social Distances and Stratification: Social Space in the Czech Republic

The monograph deals with stratification by means of interaction distances: analyses of Bogardus scale for occupational categories / friendship patterns and in-depth interviews. We pursue 1. homophily (like-me) hypothesis, 2. existence of subjective social class boundaries, 3. images of occupations and the society and using qualitative analysis 4. the perception of social classes and 5. how people distinguish and distance themselves from or identify with these categories/classes.…

Topics: Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Evolution and Determination of Educational Inequalities in the Czech Republic between 1955 and 2002 in the European Context

The aim of this work was to identify the trends in the influence of socio-economic, cultural and gender factors in the reproduction of educational inequality in access to tertiary education in the five chosen countries (CR, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany and Poland) between 1955 and 2002. We were eminently interested in seeing whether educational inequality has increased or decreased since 1989, which factor drives the trend and which of the other countries is closest to the Czech context.…

Topics: Gender, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Aktéři rozvoje regionu - Orlicko

The objective of the study is to describe two factors that have a significant impact on regional development. One is the level of civil society development and the other is a nature of social network of local development actors. The focus of this study is Orlicko in the Pardubice region. Indicators of political and civic participation, and partnership between sectors are examined on the basis of publicly available sources. The social network of the most important actors is approximated on the basis of 35 insti…

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Soudržnost společnosti z pohledu české veřejnosti

This publication is based on the results of project research and is aimed at being more than just a volume of studies by individual authors. The introductory, theoretical chapter, devoted to a discussion of concepts of research on social solidarity (J. Šafr, M. Sedláčková, (with a supplement by P. Machonin)), is followed by a series of empirically based studies that deal successively with how social solidarity is interpreted by the Czech public (J. Šafr), values (O. Špaček) and norms (L. Gatnar and M. T…

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Social Capital, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Věda jako věc veřejná: vědní politiky a média

Based on expert interviews conducted in autumn 2004 we discuss in this publication processes which are currently shaping science and research – the emphasis on economic aspects of knowledge production and commercialization of research results efforts to preserve the traditional perceptions of science as a sphere of its own controlled only by research communities the functioning of journalists as mere translators of science to society but not as a critical voice translating or presenting or confronting scienc…

Topics: Media, Civil Society, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Politická informovanost občanů: teorie, měření a role při zkoumání politických postojů

This study explores political awareness of Czech citizens from the point of view of both its distribution within the society, its dimensionality and sources, and its effect on political attitudes and their constraints. The study shows that Czech citizens know most about local and national politics and political players, and are least informed about international affairs. Moreover, the distribution of political knowledge is systematically biased and this results in specific forms of political inequality. These …

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Menšinová problematika v ČR: komunitní život a reprezentace kolektivních zájmů (Slováci, Ukrajinci, Vietnamci a Romové)

The study focuses on minority ethnic groups and populations that have become a recognisable presence in the Czech Republic: Slovaks, Ukrainians, Vietnamese, and Roma. The main objective of the study is to map the situation of these communities or populations in the Czech Republic. Chapters devoted to Slovaks, Ukrainians, and Vietnamese concentrate mainly on the current community life and various activities of individual groups associated in ethnic and expatriate organisations and groups claiming to represent t…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Civil Society

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Social Standing and Lifestyle in Czech Society

The author address two associated issues concerning culture consumption and stratification: hypothesis social classes in the Czech Republic are intensively associated with distinct lifestyles and social sources of cultural omnivorousness. In the introductory part cultural consumption and lifestyle theories along with research agenda related to social stratification are introduced. Using data Market & Media & Lifestyle TGI 2004 (MEDIAN s.r.o.) the autor deals with three dimensions of cultural consumptio…

Topics: Consumption, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Obraz vědy v českém veřejném mínění

This study reports on the results of the study “The Image of Science in Czech Public Opinion”, which was conducted by the Public Opinion Research Centre at the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in February 2006 as a part of “Our Society”, a continuous public opinion research project. The study aims to show what kind of image contemporary Czech society has of science, how it views science, what science and scientific research represent in the public’s view, and how they…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Sociální kapitál. Koncepty, teorie a metody měření

This study reports on the results of the study “The Image of Science in Czech Public Opinion”, which was conducted by the Public Opinion Research Centre at the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in February 2006 as a part of “Our Society”, a continuous public opinion research project. The study aims to show what kind of image contemporary Czech society has of science, how it views science, what science and scientific research represent in the public’s view, and how they…

Topics: Social Capital

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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