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Spolupráce - rozvojová strategie Orlicka

This study focuses on social capital and the network of links between the organisations involved in activities geared towards the development of tourism in the Pardubice Region. The analysis of their network displays interconnectedness, the trust they show each other in their cooperation and that they place in the process of decision-making on supporting projects to advance tourism. A part of the study focuses on the micro-region of Králicko, the territory at the heart of the Králický Sněžník Tourism Zon…

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Social Capital

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Přímá demokracie v praxi: politika místních referend v České republice

Not only do citizens in most Central European countries have the right to initiate referendums that are binding on local government, this book also shows that citizens in this region are also making greaer use of this possibility. The book focuses on the indentification of factors that lead to the ability of citizens to successfully initiate referendums on locally controversial questions, even in cases when local representatives are hostile to direct democracy.…

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Interrupce v České republice: zápas o ženská těla

The book deals with the development of politics of abortion in the Czech Republic since 1957. Based on the research of discourses and institutions of abortion it develops the aproach of discursive institutionalism. The politics of abortion are analysed as specific socialist governmentalities, existing during the communist regime.…

Topics: Gender, Family, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Sociální distance, interakce, relace a kategorizace: alternativní teoretické perspektivy studia sociální stratifikace

The monograph presents review of theoretical frameworks of studying of sociocultural and symbolical inequalities. It pursues relational aspect of inequalities and their cultural dimension (social identity, symbolical placement, cultural praxis). According culturalistic approach inequalities arise in relations among people. Alternative approaches have in common comprehension of particular relations and their spring in interactions: communication and association in mutual ties (social networks).…

Topics: Identity, Interpersonal Relations, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Finanční podpora rodin s dětmi v České republice v evropském kontextu

The book explores the structure and level of financial support addressed to families with children in the Czech Republic and 16 other European countries as of January 2004. Through analysis of tax-benefit system it examines where the Czech Republic stands in respect of family support within the European context and assesses which European policy is most similar to the Czech model of financial family support.…

Topics: Care, Family, Social Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Agenda-setting: teoretické přístupy

The publication presents more than just theoretical approaches, it puts forth a complex and very well-grounded overview of several dimensions and conceptualizations of the given phenomenon, collectively ordered according to the concept of agenda-setting. Despite the usually delimitation of this concept an attempt is made at a more three-dimensional thematic discussion and alongside covering the historical background to the various dimensions of the given phenomenon the publication tries to deal with it in both…

Topics: Media, Public Opinion, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Občanská společnost v regionech České republiky

Book focuses on regional and local aspects of civil society in the Czech Republic. The theoretical section contains a summary of the development of knowledge in the field of civil society and civic participation from two partly opposing perspectives – the institutional and the socio-cultural. The results of empirical study of two selected regions indicate that both institutional and socio-cultural factors play a role in the development of civil society.…

Topics: Civil Society, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Biotechnologizace: legitimita, materialita a možnosti odporu

The book follows the controversy over the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture. I look at the production and use of scientific expert knowledges and other knowledges and at the processes of globalization and localization, or political geography, as enacted in the case of GMOs. I also follow and analyse the processes whereby the legitimacy of agricultural GMOs is constructed or subverted and the strategies for the de/materialization of GMOs. I show that representations in the regimes of s…

Topics: European Union, Legitimacy, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Životní strategie žen a mužů v řízení (a) podnikání

In this study the author examined the motivations for starting up a business and the life strategies for work and family balance in small and mid-sized entrepreneurship by men and women who started up independent businesses in the Czech Republic in the 1990s, and I situated the research in the context of the gender structure of Czech society. …

Topics: Gender, Work, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Kognitivní přístupy v metodologii výzkumných šetření: metoda okamžité validizace

The study maps the situation of standardized interviewing at interactional level ad at the level of cognitive processes in respondents` minds. The presentation of methodological area of Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology offers compact overview of theoretical conceptions and knowledge about the aspects of interviewing situation, introduces major cognitive methods used for the construction of questions and questionnaires and primarily describes original authors` method of immediate validation that concerns…

Topics: Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Otcovství po rozchodu rodičovského páru

The book presents a theoretical study and an original qualitative empirical study of fatherhood after divorce or separation. A total of 35 interviews were conducted with men with various social and educational backgrounds. It shows how contemporary fathers select between different repertoires of fatherhood and how they interpret them, and in this way they construct their own personal paternal role.…

Topics: Gender, Interpersonal Relations, Parenting

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Povaha občanské společnosti v České republice v kontextu střední Evropy

The core objective of this dissertation is to answer a question: What is the character of civil society in the Czech Republic in the context of Central Europe?. The author analyzes the role, character, financing and classification of Czech civil society, including a description of the barriers which the nongovernmental sector in the Czech Republic faces in the context of complex social processes such as transformation, Europeanization and globalization. …

Topics: Globalization, Civil Society, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Životní styl a sociální třídy: vytváření symbolické kulturní hranice diferenciací vkusu a spotřeby

Šafr, Jiří. 2008. Lifestyle and Social Class in the Czech Republic: The Formation of Symbolic Cultural Boundaries by Differentiated Taste and Consumption. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i.The study pursues differentiation of lifestyle, cultural capital (taste, consumption) and social stratification. Analyses of MML 2004 data examine: class homology hypothesis, social background of cultural omnivorousness and hypothesis of homology bolstering after 1989. Most of six pursued lifestyle spheres is stru…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Proměny reprezentace zájmů po vstupu do Evropské unie

The book gives empirically well-founded study of changes of political and legal framework of the Czech Republic, analysis of existing institutional structures for interest representation. It describes the situation at the moment of joining the European Union and changes which happed after it. …

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

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Participace a zájmové organizace v České republice

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

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Dynamika české společnosti a osudy lidí na přelomu tisíciletí

Political, demographic, social geographic, branch, proffession, economic and cultural changes in the Czech Republic and its mutual relations. Class organisation, stratification, egalitarian levelling of Czech Society after more than ten years of transformation. Life trajectories of individuals and social groups, changes in life strategies. Jakými životními dráhami prošli jednotlivci a sociální skupiny, změny životní strategie? Relationships of modernisation, EU, social cohesion.…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Práce a péče. Proměny "rodičovské" v České republice a kontext rodinné politiky Evropské unie

The book examines legislative and institutional framings of childcare and its gendered impacts in the Czech Republic in the context of current policies of care in other European countries. The aim is to introduce results of analyses of empirical data on childcare to public debates and to point on several conceptual mistakes in current policy of care in the Czech Republic. …

Topics: Gender, Care, Work, Parenting, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Kdo je kdo v české sociologii a příbuzných oborech

Scholarly elboreted biographical and thematical encycloppaedia of 213 contemporary Czech sociologists and academics in related disciplines and 28 sociological departments/institutes in the Czech Republic.…

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Bydlení - věc veřejná. Sociální aspekty bydlení v České republice a zemích Evropské unie

The authors of the book „Housing – Res Publica“ describe the development of housing policies in selected developed and transitional societies and they especially provide the description and comparison of different systems of social housing and housing allowances. The authors evaluate the current housing policy tools in the Czech Republic from the point of view of efficiency and effectiveness. Based on international comparison and the conclusions from analyses of state inteventions to housing market in th…

Topics: Housing, European Union, Public Policy, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Slovník českých sociologů

Comprehensive biographical, bibliographical and analytical dictionary on 178 key figures of Czech sociology from its beginnings in the 19th century until the present.…

Topics: History of Sociology, Historical Sociology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Nebezpečné známosti. O vztahu sociálních věd a společnosti

This book is about different forms of societal impact of the social sciences. It presents a polemic with a narrow understanding of societal impact of research as practiced by science policy in the Czech Republic (and elsewhere). Three basic theses are proposed and argued. 1. Social sciences’ operation in society is multiple and more significant than usually assumed in public and policy debate, and by the academic community. It entails not only intentional and controlled but also unintentional and collateral …

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Příručka sociologie náboženství

The encyclopedia of sociology of religion, which oulines all the fundamentals historic and contemporary debates within the discipline, its development, method(s) and contribution of seminal scholars.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Republika sociologů. Zlatá éra české sociologie v meziválečném období a krátce po druhé světové válce

The book analyses evolution of Czech sociology from it very beginnings in the late 19th century to its temporary extinction after the communist coup d’état in 1948. Particular chapters describes roots and origins of Czech sociology, impact of T. G. Masaryk and his followers, three main interwar sociological schools, role of Czech sociologists in founding of Slovakian sociology and the situation of Czech sociology during the WWII and shortly after. The author emprasise relative wide extent and plurality of t…

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Jak dobře investovat do bydlení

The book aims to provide analysis of residential housing market and discover possible regularities, risks, and traps stemming from home-ownership. The goal of the publication is to convince both current and future homeowners in the Czech Republic that buying a home should be considered also as an investment. The book offers some instructions how to minimize possible risks in housing investment.…

Topics: Housing

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

The Development of Czech Childcare Policies

The area that comprises today’s Czech Republic has a long and rich history of providing childcare facilities to preschool children. Kindergartens continue to be popular to this day and at present almost all Czech children attend these facilities. On the other hand, nurseries nearly vanished in the Czech Republic. The question remains why a country that used to belong to the world leaders in providing access to childcare has so suddenly become one of the greatest laggards concerning care for children under th…

Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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