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České veřejné mínění: výzkum a teoretické souvislosti

České veřejné mínění: výzkum a teoretické souvislosti

The publication is collection of articles and its main aim is to offer complex overview of results of continual surveys made by CVVM SOÚ AV ČR where words such public, public opinion or media are in the centre of theoretical diskursus. Wide social and historical context together with data analyse of concrete survey results create unigue contribution to current topics and questions of public opinion research. The book is especially for proffesional users of survey results, mainly for journalists, social and p…

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

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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Three Roads to Comparative Research: Analytical, Visual and Morphological

Three Roads to Comparative Research: Analytical, Visual and Morphological

The aim of the book is twofold, (1) to provide a comparative summaries on Central and Eastern Europe focused on a variety of topics, ranging from work flexibility to the role of women, (2) to present new ways for comparative research, one with help of new visualisation tools and the other with new forms of analyses, which are able to process large quantities of currently unused but available data sets.…

Topics: Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

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Sociální kapitál a dopady ekonomické krize v regionech. Kraj Vysočina a Ústecký kraj

Sociální kapitál a dopady ekonomické krize v regionech. Kraj Vysočina a Ústecký kraj

A role of social capital and of its individual dimensions working at overcoming the impacts of economic crises is analysed. Study focuses on a detailed analysis of the inhabitants of the Kraj Vysočina with a supposed high level of social capital, and of Ustecky kraj with a supposed low level of social capital. Multidimensional statistical methods are used to analyse data collected by survey in these regions in 2010. The aspects of social capital are identified that play an important role to overcome the impac…

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Economy, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Social Capital, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Otisky historie v regionálních identitách obyvatel pohraničí. Sebedefinice a vzájemné vnímání Čechů a Němců v přímém sousedství

Otisky historie v regionálních identitách obyvatel pohraničí. Sebedefinice a vzájemné vnímání Čechů a Němců v přímém sousedství

This study refers to the research perception of inhabitants of border regions of Bavaria and western Bohemia. The analysis of the impacts of historical consciousness on the creation of regional identity is based on empirical survey of biographical identities, which was carried out in the regions of the Cyech Republic and Bavaria closed to the border, during the summer 2004.…

Topics: Identity, Interpersonal Relations, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Mnohohlasem. Vyjednávání ženských prostorů po roce 1989

Mnohohlasem. Vyjednávání ženských prostorů po roce 1989

For its strong informative value and its description of the multifarious activities of pro-women and feminist groups the publication In Multiple Voices (Mnohohlasem) will certainly be welcome reading among the academic, political and activist communities. The book shows that what lies behind the apparent lack of interest among Czech women in feminism is their rejection of the discriminatory “label” from its opponents. “One who names is in a position of superiority to what is named” (I. Noble), and ther…

Topics: European Union, Gender, Media, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny 2002

Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny 2002

Eighteen scholars analysed elections into the Chamber of Deputies from different points of view. The first part of the publication is dedicated to the events that preceded the elections (primary elections within the parties, election campaign, and programmes of the parties). In the following part electoral behaviour is analysed on the basis of results from the questionnaire surveys and the results of the elections are studied from the views of the influence of electoral reform, system of preferential voting an…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Místní společenství Orlicka

Místní společenství Orlicka

The Orlicko region comprises the municipalities in the Association of Municipalities Orlicko in the Pardubice Region. It is presented in a wider spatial and temporal context as a border region experiencing the problems of a periphery. Development opportunities have thus far been seen to lie in the expansion of tourism. Sociological surveys revealed the heterogeneity of the Orlicko region: differences between rural and urban areas and the impact of the outsider symptom in the region.…

Topics: Regions, Public Policy, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Women and Social Citizenship in Czech Society: Continuity and Change

Women and Social Citizenship in Czech Society: Continuity and Change

The critical attention feminists have paid to the concept of citizenship has significantly contributed to the con¬temporary political imagination of citizenship. In this book the authors from the Czech Republic follow up on the feminist debate on citizenship and examine the insti¬tutional contexts, ideologies and practices that have sha¬ped opportunities for and barriers to the full citizenship of women in various socio-economic, ethnic and national groups in the communist and post-communist contexts and sp…

Topics: Gender, Work, Family, Social Policy, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Proměny rodinných a profesních startů

Proměny rodinných a profesních startů

This book examines the changes in the early stages in work and family trajectories in recent decades in the Czech Republic. The individual chapters focus on changes to job mobility among, the increased diversity of family trajectories, the motives for parenthood in consensual unions, and the financial support for young families. The book compares the situation of transition into adulthood in the Czech Republic to other European countries and contributes to the discussion on the de-standardisation life courses.…

Topics: Gender, Value Orientations, Migration and Mobility, Work, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Postoje k imigrantům

Postoje k imigrantům

This study examines attitudes towards migrants. The authors focus on the attitudes in Czech society, but they also use data from international surveys in order to situate the attitudes of respondents from the Czech Republic in a wider context. The theme of the relationship between the ‘domestic population’ and foreigners is very current today. The inter-year increase in the size of the foreign population in the Czech Republic is one of the largest in Europe. The Czech Republic is attractive to foreign…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

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Nové šance a rizika. Flexibilita práce, marginalizace a soukromý život u vybraných povolání a sociálních skupin

Nové šance a rizika. Flexibilita práce, marginalizace a soukromý život u vybraných povolání a sociálních skupin

The book presents the findings of ten qualitative studies of specific occupations and social groups. It concentrates mainly on two phenomena that characterise contemporary labour markets: the increasing flexibility of work conditions and labour markets, and the marginalisation of specific groups on the labour market. On the studied cases it shows their forms and prevalence in the Czech Republic.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Czech society in the 2000s: a report on socio-economic policies and structures

Czech society in the 2000s: a report on socio-economic policies and structures

Social report which informs about the development during the two decades in the fields of employment and social policies, earnings and income inequalities, social structures with attention to the situation of the middle class, pensioners and the poor, and socio-economic values with regard to work and consumer values. The aim is to provide a documented picture of Czech society using statistical and sociological surveys and other sources, seeking also systemic changes behind quantitative shifts. …

Topics: Economy, Wages and Incomes, Work, Social Inequalities, Social Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Voliči a volby 2006

Voliči a volby 2006

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

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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České elity po patnácti letech transformace

České elity po patnácti letech transformace

The first part of the study looks at various theoretical approaches encompassed with the concept of elites in sociology and at various techniques used to study elites. The second part presents a factual analysis of the development of political and economic elites over the past fifteen years of post-socialist transformation in Czech society, and the third part focuses on the everyday features of contemporary economic elites.…

Topics: Economy, Elites, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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Mechanismy mezigenerační reprodukce nerovností

Mechanismy mezigenerační reprodukce nerovností

Šafr. J. (ed). 2012. Mechanisms of Intergenerational Reproduction of Inequalities. Praha: SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i.This study deals with intergenerational transmition of social inequalities during family socialization employing data from the survey “Distinction and Values” (2008) which surveyed cohorts ages 30–34 along with their parents. The results show strong reproduction of social status/class position and also partly lifestyle (leisure activities) in adulthood – it is determined by class position o…

Topics: Value Orientations, Family, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Sexualizovaná realita pracovních vztahů. Analýza sexuálního obtěžování v České republice

Sexualizovaná realita pracovních vztahů. Analýza sexuálního obtěžování v České republice

The book The Sexualised Reality of Labour Relations (Sexualizovaná realita pracovních vztahů) is the outcome of a sociological study of gender harassment and sexual harassment that was conducted by the Gender & Sociology Department at the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The authors present both the theoretical foundations of the study and the analyses that were made within the framework of individual studies aimed at specific types of actors: male and female employers as a…

Topics: Gender, Work, Sexuality

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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The Nexus between Democracy, Collective Identity Formation, and EU Enlargement

The Nexus between Democracy, Collective Identity Formation, and EU Enlargement

As an outcome of a five-year international research project “RECON – Reconstituting democracy in Europe”, this volume presents country case studies of Central and East European countries and comparative findings from research on the transformation of collective identities in Central and Eastern Europe under the conditions of an enlarging Europe. The main aim of the present publication is to show how the emerging collective European identity is correlated with the processes of democratization and European…

Topics: European Union, Value Orientations, Identity, Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Regionální rozdíly v dostupnosti bydlení v České republice

Regionální rozdíly v dostupnosti bydlení v České republice

The book presents the results of analyses of trends in regional differences both in affordability and availability of housing and their causes in between 2000 and 2006 in the Czech Republic. The housing affordability analysis uses new original methodology of measurement. In the field of housing availability the authors recommend the radical change of perspective used for its evaluation and methodological changes for the next census.…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Regions, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Životní cyklus. Sociologické a demografické perspektivy

Životní cyklus. Sociologické a demografické perspektivy

The book is devoted to the life-course research. It focuses on the developments in the Czech Republic after 1989. Changes in family life and standard life course as well as non-standard life courses are target. The book covers the life-cycle from the assortative mating, leaving parental home, friendship, marriage and family formation, parenthood and divorces to situation of seniors and their mortality. Althogether 19 authors contributed to the book.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Family, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Individuals and Households in the Czech Republic and CEE countries

Individuals and Households in the Czech Republic and CEE countries

The study aims to analytically interlink the optics of individuals and households and focus on their demographic and socio-economic behaviour since 1989 in the Czech Republic, and compare these observations with other EU countries, primarily those of Central Eastern Europe (CEE). The fields covered are family formation and life trajectories, earnings disparities and income inequality, the situation of self-employed and family businesses, and religion affiliation of individuals and households.Price: 204 CZK…

Topics: European Union, Wages and Incomes, Religion and religiosity, Family, Social Inequalities, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious 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: Culture, Regions, Public Policy, Public Administration

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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How to Turn Brain Drain into Brain Gain. Policies to Support Return of Researchers and Scientists to their Home Countries

How to Turn Brain Drain into Brain Gain. Policies to Support Return of Researchers and Scientists to their Home Countries

In order to compete in the global labor market of top-qualified workers, many states introduce various types of targeted policies to improve the migration balance of highly qualified workers. The book offers a systematic review of the policies used by different countries in an attempt to encourage scientists and researchers working abroad to return to their home country or in an effort at least to make it easier for information, know-how, and experiences acquired abroad to be passed on back home. This study is…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Volby do Evropského parlamentu 2004

Volby do Evropského parlamentu 2004

The publication analyses the 2004 European Parliament elections from different angles and contains 15 studies. The book is divided into four parts. The first one is devoted to the analysis of positions of voters and parties, the second one to electoral behaviour, mainly the electoral participation and party choice, and the third one to party system. The last part contains studies of European parliament elections in the Czech and Slovak Republics.…

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

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Soudržnost v diferencující se společnosti

Soudržnost v diferencující se společnosti

The monograph discusses following social cohesion issues in the Czech society: social inequalities, social tension, social justice, trust and legitimacy, cohesion in spatial dimension, and influence of bridging social capital on social cohesion. Though the widely held agreement exists which factors strengthen or weaken the social cohesion and in which area of social life we can affect it by social or public policy, it seems not to be a mechanical dependency but complicated and mutual mediate influence of vario…

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Value Orientations, Legitimacy, Social Capital, Social Inequalities, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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České vysoké školství na křižovatce. Investiční přístup k financování studia na vysoké škole v sociologické reflexi

České vysoké školství na křižovatce. Investiční přístup k financování studia na vysoké škole v sociologické reflexi

This monography shows, to what extent do exist in the Czech Republic the conditions for transition from public model of financing the higher education to the share-costs principle and what are the barriers which block this transition. The team of the authors tried to link up the discussion which takes place on an economic field with the analysis of the development of efforts to reform financing of the Czech higher education in the context of his whole transformation in the post-communist époque.…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Transformation, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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