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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

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

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

Kvalita sociálněvědních výběrových šetření v České republice

The book has following major objectives: (1) to provide an overview of the criteria of quality considered desirable in sample surveys (2) to evaluate the survey climate in the Czech Republic and (3) to perform an in-depth analysis of two key topics: the nonresponse problem in sample surveys in the Czech Republic, and the quality of election polls in the Czech case. …

Topics: Research Methodology, Sociological Data, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Fenomén bezdětnosti

The book focuses on the phenomenon of childlessness in the Czech society. Specifically, the aim of the book was to identify the factors contributing to childlessness and the increase in the percentage of the childless in young adult population, and to explore the understanding (definitions) of childlessness by the childless. …

Topics: Gender, Parenting

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Nerovnosti ve vzdělávání. Od měření k řešení

The book follows up on the monograph (Un)equal chances for education (Academia 2006). Authors update findings on inequalities in compulsory education, on multi-year gymnasia, on inequalities in tertiary education, on the impact of the structure of the system of upper secondary education on education aspirations. They also add other important topics: further education, education of Roma children and early school leavers. The publication reflects the current situation in the Czech Republic from the perspective o…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Public Policy, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Zrazení snu? Struktura a dynamika postojů k politickému režimu a jeho institucím a jejich důsledky

The book analyses four main dimensions of attitudes towards political regime and its institutions and describes changes in the attitudes within the Czech society between 1996 and 2006. These attitudinal dimensions are regime legitimacy, institutional disaffection, individual disaffection and political dissatisfaction. The main argument of the book is that the political events between 1997 and 1998 caused incredible increase in the dissatisfaction with politics and political parties and it had never get back to…

Topics: Legitimacy, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Akademické poznávání, vykazování a podnikání. Etnografie měnící se české vědy

The goal of the book is to contribute to current debates of the research and development transformation in the Czech Republic based on qualitative research and theoretical and conceptual approaches in STS and gender studies. The book offers a sociological reflection of the transformations of everyday research practices, career paths, science policies and their effects, usage and reshaping in research institutions in social and natural sciences. The concluding chapter offers their comparison.…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Protest proti globalizaci. Gender a feministická kritika

The books addresses gender aspects of globalization and anti-globalization movement globálky and in the Czech Republic. It focuses on a question where the anti-globalization critique meets the feminist critique of globalization. The text presents feminist critique of globalization and its inclusion in the anti-globalization discourse. The book drala with several aspects of the contemporary anti-globalization movement – its ideological frames, composition and tactics.…

Topics: Gender, Globalization, Identity, Civil Society, Work

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Dynamika české společnosti a osudy lidí na přelomu tisíciletí

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

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

Slovník českých sociologů

Příručka sociologie náboženství

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

Jak dobře investovat do bydlení

Kvalita sociálněvědních výběrových šetření v České republice

Fenomén bezdětnosti

Nerovnosti ve vzdělávání. Od měření k řešení

Zrazení snu? Struktura a dynamika postojů k politickému režimu a jeho institucím a jejich důsledky

Akademické poznávání, vykazování a podnikání. Etnografie měnící se české vědy

Protest proti globalizaci. Gender a feministická kritika

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