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Proměny kvality pracovního života

Autoři v publikaci předkládají veřejnosti poznatky a informace o stavu a trendech proměn vnímání práce a pracovních hodnot u pracujících v České republice. Tyto poznatky ve formě „tvrdých“ i „měkkých“ dat jsou nejen v historickém kontextu let 1989–2014, ale také obsahují výsledky posledního empirického výzkumu kvality pracovního života v ČR z roku 2014.…

Topics: Work

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Železná opona v Československu. Usmrcení na československých státních hranicích v letech 1948-1989

Kniha zevrubně popisuje fenomén „železné opony“ v Československu a soustřeďuje se na jeho nejextrémnější projev – usmrcení související se snahou„železnou oponu“ překonat. Kniha není zajímavá jen svým tématem, ale i použitou metodologií. Jde o zkoumání historie, jehož důležitou součástí je práce se strukturovanou databází. Autoři převedli data o jednotlivých případech usmrcení z „papírových“ archivů do podoby zpracovatelné statistickými programy, a kde …

Topics: Research Methodology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

25 let české demokracie očima veřejnosti

Publikace 25 let české demokracie očima veřejnosti představuje vývoj veřejného mínění ve vztahu k politickému systému a jeho aktérům, a to v dimenzi jak vnitřní, tak i zahraniční politiky. Její ambicí je pokud možno komplexně a v širokých dobových souvislostech zmapovat procesy, které byly a dosud jsou charakteristické pro občanské vnímání a hodnocení „příběhu“ hluboké společenské transformace po roce 1989.Všechny prezentované interpretace se opírají o výsledky …

Topics: Public Opinion, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Proč potřebujeme rodinu, práci a přátele

The book explores the issues of happiness and life satisfaction in the contemporary Czech society. Chapters focus on the concept of happines, work, money, family, and social capital.…

Topics: Intergenerational Relations, Care, Work, Family, Public health

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Czech Religion at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Etnografie: Improvizace v teorii a terénní praxi [Ethnography: Improvisation in theory and fieldwork practice]

Kniha představuje etnografii jako komplexní metodologicko-teoretický přístup ke skutečnosti. Na rozdíl od většiny sociálně-vědních metodologií, nepovažuje etnografie problémy, s nimiž se výzkumníci a výzkumnice v terénu setkávají, za překážky, ale naopak za možný zdroj a prostředek poznávání. Nesourodost a mnohoznačnost skutečnosti, její neurčitosti, paradoxy a protiklady tvoří nedílnou součást pole zkoumání a žádají si tvůrčí přístupy k psaní a žánrový…

Topics: Research Methodology

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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…

Topics: Elites, Historical Sociology, Transformation, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Sociální kapitál a rozvoj regionu. Příklad Kraje Vysočina.

Rozvoj a kvalita života v obcích, městech, regionech i státech jsou úzce spojeny se vztahy mezi lidmi, vzájemnou důvěrou nebo důvěrou v instituce, tedy s prvky souhrnně označovanými jako sociální kapitál. Kniha obsahuje jak dílčí analýzy různých aspektů sociálního kapitálu v Kraji Vysočina, tak syntetizující pohled na sociální kapitál v tomto regionu a jeho přínos pro regionální rozvoj. Interdisciplinární kolektiv autorů představuje rozvoj Vysočiny v geografickém, demo…

Topics: Social Capital

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.…

Topics: 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…

Topics: 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…

Topics: 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.…

Topics: Historical Sociology, Religion and religiosity

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.…

Topics: 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.…

Topics: Historical Sociology, Religion and religiosity

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.…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Religion and religiosity

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.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

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.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

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…

Topics: 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.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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

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Topics: Religion and religiosity

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…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Ne/náboženské naděje intelektuálů. Vývoj české sociologie náboženství v mezinárodním a interdisciplinárním kontextu

Zajímá vás moderní religiozita? Ptáte se, proč je česká společnost jednou z nejméně náboženských na světě? Chcete porozumět sociologickým, historickým a antropologickým výzkumům náboženství? I jejich omezením? Chcete se dozvědět něco víc z dějin české sociologie? Proniknout do diskusí o náboženství od druhé poloviny 19. století do současnosti? Pak je právě vám určena nová kniha Zdeňka R. Nešpora!Z obsahu: Masarykova „angažovaná sociologie“, křesťanská soc…

Topics: History of Sociology, Religion and religiosity

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.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

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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Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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