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Czech Social Attitudes in the European Context

Czech Social Attitudes in the European Context: In the Heart of Europe reflects the political, welfare, and general social attitudes in the Czech Republic, which has 30 years of existence, in European comparison. In nine chapters, the team of contributors address understanding and evaluations of democracy, discriminated group identity, satisfaction with democracy, distributive justice beliefs, support for income redistribution, pay fairness, equity norms, life satisfaction, job satisfaction, subjective well-b…

Themes: Trust/Social Cohesion, European Union, Interpersonal Relations, Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Value Orientations in Society

Social Stratification in Central Europe

his book provides a comparative and contemporary account of social stratification in the Central European states of Czechia, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia (the Visegrad Four – V4 group), and also by contrast with Austria. It looks at the shared history of these countries as part of the erstwhile Austro-Hungarian Empire. While the V4 states experienced, for decades, the regressive authoritarian Soviet rule, Austria escaped this fate. The question is how some common historical roots, impact of the communist re…

Themes: European Union, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Cultures of Authenticity

Authenticity has become a buzzword for our times. Much of the travel industry is built around the provision of ‘authentic’ experiences, global brands fight to be seen as ‘authentic’ and social media platforms are awash with arguments about the authenticity of this post or that vlogger. But what do we mean by authenticity? And why have these debates grown so dramatically in the last two decades?This collection explores the complex and at times controversial idea of authenticity. Addressing the concept f…

Themes: Gender, Culture, Media

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Das Ländliche als kulturelle Kategorie: Aktuelle kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Stadt-Land-Beziehungen.

The book explores "rurality" as a cultural category. In 18 chapters, European ethnologists and cultural anthropologists discuss the methodological and conceptual approaches that can be used to capture and describe the ›rural‹ beyond generalizations, causal speculations and dichotomous thinking.…

Themes: City and Village, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Volný čas, společnost, kultura: Česko – Slovensko.

Chorvát, I., J. Šafr (eds.). 2019. Leisure, Society and Culture in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství SLON.SummaryLeisure is often the value to which people attach importance in their lives. This book deals with leisure time at the dawn of the 21st century, particularly with the lifestyle of the inhabitants of the Czech and Slovak Republics. It is based on the perspective of changing society. It seeks to show how changes in a number of spheres, such as the world of work, em…

Themes: Culture, Consumption, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Social Stratification

Population Trends and Policies in the UNECE Region

Commissioned by UNFPA’s Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia this report aims to supplement the information gathered from governments and civil society with academic research. The report, prepared by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Wittgenstein Center for Demography and Human Capital, analyses recent population trends related to the International Conference on Population Development (ICPD) agenda, looks at existing policy responses and makes re…

Themes: Migration and Mobility, Family, Social Policy, Age and Aging, Public Policy, Health

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Facebooková ne/závislost. Identita, interakce a uživatelská kariéra na Facebooku

The Internet has changed the nature of social ties and interactions, giving rise to new ways of making social contact, offering an environment for communication and tools for these interactions. The tools that introduce new methods of communication include social networks. The scholar focused on the most popular of these – Facebook.In mid-2016, there were 1.7 billion of Facebook users worldwide and this number is increasing. This compels us to ask why Facebook is so interesting and attractive, why people sig…

Themes: Identity, Media

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Politika a každodennost na českých vysokých školách: Etnografické pohledy na vzdělávání a výzkum [Politics and everyday life in Czech universities: Ethnographic perspectives on teaching, learning and research]

This publication is the result of a three-year, team-based, ethnographic study of academic and student life in Czech higher education. Five case studies were chosen to reflect a diversity of situations, including elite and peripheral positions, metropolitan and regional locations, public and private legal status, humanities, applied social science, technical and natural science subjects, professional and academic curricula and basic and applied research. Although we collected several types of data (e.g. semi-s…

Themes: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Demographic Avant-Garde: Jews in Bohemia between the Enlightenment and the Shoah

This book studies the unique demographic behavior of Jews in Bohemia, starting from a moment in history when industrialization in Central Europe was far away in the future and when Jews were still living legally restricted lives in ghettos. Under conditions not stipulated by conventional demographic theories, Bohemian Jews started recording marked decreases in mortality and fertility that signaled an early onset of their demographic transition.Demographic Avant-Garde examines what made Jews in Bohemia true for…

Themes: Elites, Historical Sociology, Transformation, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Popular opposition and support for different types of the EU integration

Popular opposition and support for different types of the EU integrationLumíLumír Gatnar and David Lane (Editors)Selected papers from the third international conference Elites and EU Enlargement, Popular Opposition to, and Support for, Different Types of Integration into the European Union among the New Member States of Central and Eastern Europe, Prague 17-18 February 2006.…

Themes: Elites, European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Library

Social Housing in Transition Countries

This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about the past two decades of developments in selected countries’ social housing sectors, and showing what conditions have decisively impacted these processes.Contributors depict the different paths the countries have taken by reviewing the policy changes, the conditions institutions work within, and the solutions that w…

Themes: Housing, European Union, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Kam se ztratili voliči? Vysvětlení vývoje volební účasti v České republice v letech 1990-2010

The monograph summarizes main explanations of electoral participation and its decline. It presents a systematic own theory of electoral participation which stresses the importance of mobilization by external actors and individual motivations (instrumentál, expressive and normative). This theoretical framework is used to explain the level and decline in electoral participation. This decline was caused mainly by the decreasing engagement of people in social networks, growing critical evaluation of political par…

Themes: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Víra bez církve? Východočeské toleranční sektářství v 18. a 19. století

The monograph represents synthetic of Eastern Bohemian sectarian movement of the Tolerance period (1791-1861) from the point of view of cultural history and sociology of religion. The author also analyses both an origin and resources of the movement, and its later development and transformations. Book is accompanied with a wide pictural and cartographic apendix.…

Themes: Historical Sociology, COM_CCK_nabozenstvi_a_religiozita

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Sociokulturní kapitál a socioekonomické instituce v zemědělství

Economico-sociological research of Czech transformation after 1989 presented in the monograph was centred to the agricultural sector, due to importace ou outer impacts (structural changes, subsidies) and the presumption of its conservativeness. The research contains five field studies as well as analyses of historical, social and institutional development of the sector, which include the critical review of relevant Czech literature.…

Themes: Economy, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Mezi náboženstvím a politikou: lidová kultura raného novověku

The proceedings contains nine papers, that concern with the various issues of Czech and European popular culture of the early modern era. Papers by J. Horsky and D. Tinkova covers the issue theoreticaly, why those by Z. R. Nespor, I. Kusnirakova, H. Sobotkova, J. Wolf, I. Cermanova, J. Randak and E. Novotna are grounded in the empirical research.…

Themes: Historical Sociology, COM_CCK_nabozenstvi_a_religiozita

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Neco Petkov Necov - Dějiny Vojvodova. Vesnice Čechů a Slováků v Bulharsku

The monograph desribes religious and ethnic particularities of a village Vojvodovo in north Bulgary, which was dwelled by Czech and Slovak religious emigrants in the first half of the 20th century. It contains also an edition of N. P. Necov´s history of the village and other documents of the period.…

Themes: Migration and Mobility, COM_CCK_nabozenstvi_a_religiozita

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Náboženství na prahu nové doby. Česká lidová zbožnost 18. a 19. století

Monograph on Czech popular religiosity in the 18th and 19th centuries, which pays attention to its relations with intellectual/elite religion, inner variance, and development.…

Themes: COM_CCK_nabozenstvi_a_religiozita

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Děkuji za bolest… Náboženské prvky v české folkové hudbě 60.-80. let

The author analyses the golden years of Czech folk music from the point of view of sociology of religion. He understands the essence of Czech folk music in its politico-religious message, and pays attention to development of the genre in general and important singers and songwriters in particular.…

Themes: COM_CCK_nabozenstvi_a_religiozita

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Management genderových vztahů. Postavení žen a mužů v organizaci

This book is the first Czech attempt at a comprehensive understanding of gender relations within organisations. The book aims to clarify and describe the issues that the management of gender relations deals with, and to stimulate and advance gender awareness and sensitivity among readers. Experiences outside the Czech Republic and even studies within the country show that solutions to issues associated with the positions, functions and mutual relations of men and women are of fundamental strategic significan…

Themes: Gender, Work, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Sociologie náboženství

Introduction to the sociology of religion, which describes development, key problems and current state of the discipline. The authors deal, among others, with the issues of „invisible religion“, religious deprivatization and desecularization, ethnic religions, and other contemporary religious phenomena.…

Themes: COM_CCK_nabozenstvi_a_religiozita

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Čeští nekatolíci v 18. století. Mezi pronásledováním a náboženskou tolerancí

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Themes: COM_CCK_nabozenstvi_a_religiozita

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Rodiny přistěhovalců I.

The problems associated with migration gain more significance in nowadays globalized world. The study introduces theoretical views and general information on migrant processes as well as description of the main life conditions of the immigrants and their families. The first part of the study summarises main trends and knowledge of European and American studies on migration and general review of European immigration policies. The second part is focused on current situation of immigrants in the Czech Republic (C…

Themes: Migration and Mobility, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Náboženství v menšině. Religiozita a spiritualita v současné české společnosti.

The book resumes qualitative research on religion in two medium-szided Czech towns - Ceska Lipa and Mikulov - that took place in 2007-08 within the framework of a project on Detraditionalization and Individualization of Religion in the Czech Republic the research was inspired by a study of Kendal made by the University of Lancaster.…

Themes: COM_CCK_nabozenstvi_a_religiozita

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Encyklopedie moderních evangelických (a starokatolických) kostelů Čech, Moravy a českého Slezska

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Themes: COM_CCK_nabozenstvi_a_religiozita

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Století evangelických časopisů 1849–1948. Časopisy v dějinách „lidových“ protestantských církví v Čechách a na Moravě

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Themes: Media, COM_CCK_nabozenstvi_a_religiozita

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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