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V souladu s přírodou: politika životního stylu, udržitelnost a soběstačnost

This book examines collective and individual forms of lifestyle politics and political consumerism in the environmental sphere. Lifestyle politics is about how citizens become involved in politics through their everyday decision-making and it includes the ethically, morally, and politically motivated choices they make about consumption, transport, energy use, and other lifestyle habits. It involves activities that seek social change by choosing a lifestyle that is based on the values of an individual or …

Themes: Gender, Identity, City and Village, Civil Society, Environment, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Sociální stát, nerovnosti, politika. Postoje české veřejnosti k sociálnímu státu v letech 1996 až 2016

Welfare State, Inequalities, Politics: The Czech Public’s Attitudes towards the Welfare State between 1996 and 2016This book examines the broad expectations and perceptions residents of the Czech Republic have had of the welfare state from the 1990s to the present (most of the analyses cover the period up to 2016 and some up to 2018). More specifically, it looks at what the Czech public thinks about the scope of the welfare state (i.e. what services should the welfare state provide), the amount of social spe…

Themes: Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Vyprávění a rozhovor. Teorie sociální intersubjektivity

This book is a contribution to general social theory. The arguments herein are guided by two interests. On the one hand is the interest in the topic of intersubjectivity in sociology. Research on the intersubjectivity of understanding, which is the precondition for the coordination of action among individuals, offers an alternative to the frequently discussed dilemma of individualism versus holism. On the other hand, there is the interest in hermeneutics as studied in philosophy. In research on intersubjectivi…

Themes: Sociological Theory, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Gender and Neoliberalism in Czech Academia

Other Authors:Blanka Nyklová, Kateřina Cidlinská, Hana Tenglerová, Karel Šima, Petr Pabian, Kateřina Zábrodská, Jiří Mudrák, Petr Květon, Kateřina Machovcová, Marek Blatný, Iva ŠolcováThis is a valuable, important and welcome contribution to international research and policy debate on gender and science which is largely dominated by research conducted in global “centres” rather than smaller country settings, and which is especially lacking research from Central and Eastern European develop…

Themes: Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Vlastní cestou? Životní dráhy v pozdně moderní společnosti

The book is innovative in applying both, quantitative and qualitative life-course research methodology. The authors analyse the transformation of partner and family arrangements and identify problems connected with achieving a work-life balance in Czech society. The book explains how the processes of individualisation, gender-conventional refamilialisation, and globalisation (including the socially stratified effects of the economic crisis) contribute to the increasing social stratification of life courses.…

Themes: Intergenerational Relations, Interpersonal Relations, Care, Parenting, Family, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Rodina a zdraví - jejich vzájemné souvislosti

The goal of the book is to explore the link between individual’s family situation and health. The book is divided into 8 chapters. They focus on the data description, definition of health, and link between health and healthy life style and partnership status, parenthood, or quality of partnership. The final chapter is devoted to the caring function of the family.Permalink: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0239866…

Themes: Care, Family, Health

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Value Orientations in Society

Koho volí Vaši sousedé? Prostorové vzorce volebního chování na území Česka od roku 1920 do roku 2006, jejich změny a možné příčiny

The main goal of the book is to study spatial patterns of voting behaviour in parliamentary elections in Czechia between 1920 and 2006. The book seeks to analyse voting behaviour through studying political preferences expressed by the elections of political parties in the general elections. The four types of questions have been asked: 1. How large are regional differences in electoral results on the territory of Czechia? How the voting patterns look like? 2. Do voting patterns tend to be stable over time or th…

Themes: City and Village, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Za rudou oponou. Komunisté a jejich voliči po roce 1989

Book in broad historical, social and political context analyzes the main characteristics and the position of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia in the Czech political system after 1989. It examines the nature and dynamics in time the anti-system identity, the historical development of conditional party, its program and policy objectives, as well as group interests and shared values that it represents. The empirical framework of this study presents an extensive survey of voters, which charted values and…

Themes: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Živitelé a živitelky: reflexe (a) praxe

The publication is focused on understanding the construction of lay knowledge as concerns the phenomenon of breadwinning. Authors attempt to uncover the formation of breadwinning according to its various types and models so that it would be possible to observe the mechanisms behind the re/production, and legitimisation of social and gender inequalities in the family and the associated power relations. Authors use an analysis of 61 semi-structured interviews with parents from 26 families.…

Themes: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Care, Work, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Adjectives of Democracy. Citizenship and Political Attitudes under Socialist and Liberal Democracy in the Czech Republic

The central empirical puzzle addressed in this book is why are Czech citizens’ attitudes towards key facets of democracy so similar under socialist democracy in 1968 and liberal democracy in 2008? Examining unique survey datasets from the late 1960s and 2008 this book reveals that Czech and Slovak citizens’ political attitudes can justifiably be characterised in terms of stability. This stability may be understood as a general feature of citizens’ relationship with democratic values and their implementat…

Themes: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Proměny současné české rodiny. Rodina - gender - stratifikace

The study combined a socio-economic perspective of the Czech family with a gender perspective, and this made it possible to capture some of the internal transformations of the Czech family that took place over the last decade from a new point of view. The analysis concentrated on the predominant type of family households - two-parent families. Changes in their economic position were studied, and the social position of economically active men and women living in families was compared according to their aggregat…

Themes: Gender, Family

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.…

Themes: History of 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 …

Themes: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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…

Themes: Gender, Care, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Bytová politika: teorie a inovace pro praxi

The objective of the book is to inform social sector practitioners, policy makers, government officials and analysts about the specific features of housing market operation and discuss the role of housing policy in general and in the Czech Republic in particular. In the second section, the book offers three best practices (innovations) that are suitable for application in the Czech housing policy context. The book is framed by economic and sociological theories and includes mathematical proofs relating to hous…

Themes: Housing, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Revolta stylem. Hudební subkultury mládeže v České republice

The monography studies youth music subcultures in a contemporary Czech republic. It focuses on issues of values, political aspects of subcultures, relation to mainstream culture, inner differentation of subcultures and alternative lifestyles. Four popular music subcultures (punk, skinheads, techno and hip hop) were analysed by qualitative research approach and by insider perspective which understands subcultures through inner meanings and interpretations of members of these groups.…

Themes: Value Orientations, Culture, Politics and Political Attitudes, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Samospráva venkovských obcí a místní rozvoj

The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision making processes. At the same time, they deal with the problem of local development potentials and development opportunities and deficiencies of rural communities.…

Themes: City and Village, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Public Administration

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Důvěra a demokracie. Přehled sociologických teorií důvěry od Tocquevilla po transformaci v postkomunistických zemích

The book treats the problem of functioning of democracy from the perspective of trust. Three main types of trust are defined in the democratic system: systemic trust (legitimacy of the regime), trust in institutions and general trust in other people. The work analyzes the role of these different types of trust as well as consequences of distrust on different levels of democratic system. This concept of trust is used also to analyze the transformation process in the Czech Republic after 1989. …

Themes: Value Orientations, Legitimacy, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Value Orientations in Society

Pracovní dráhy žen v České republice

In the background of the historical development of Czech society in the context of theoretical approaches to the study of feminist sociology of work and family we analyze biographical interviews with women of different age groups in different stages of family cycle and in different situations on the labor market. The book also specifically focuses on cross-cutting theme of the continuing practice of discrimination against women in the labor market, along with the theme of different options for combining work a…

Themes: Gender, Identity, Work

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Péče o nejmenší. Boření mýtů

Authors of the book reveal and deconstruct seven myths that block open discussion and reforms in the area of childcare policy in the Czech Republic, and formulate the principles of non-discriminatory childcare policy.…

Themes: Gender, Care, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Spolupráce, partnerství a participace v místní veřejné správě: význam, praxe, příslib

The main objective of this book is to analyse the processes of cooperation, partnership and participation in local public administration. The authors ask: How local actors understand to these processes, what are main assets and shortcomings of mentioned processes? The book contains both theoretical framework and practical examples in studied area of partnership and participation in municipalities and regions. …

Themes: Civil Society, Regions, Public Administration

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Cesty k datům. Zdroje a management sociálněvědních dat v České republice

The main aim of this book is to provide researchers on Czech society, politics and economy with two key resources: (1) a useful tool for working with data sources available for the study of Czech society and (2) a ready source of information and advice for processing their own research data. This book is divided into two parts where there is a progression in the first part from general features of data archiving and methods for searching data repositories toward consideration in part two of data resources in a…

Themes: Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Nejisté vyhlídky. Proměny vědecké profese z genderové perspektivy

The publication explores gender aspects of researchers’ career plans, academic mobility, combination of research and parenthood, image of science in the media and gender equality policies in science. The introductory chapter discusses current changes in research and position of women in Czech science. The concluding chapter summarises main findings and explores the impact of the changes in the research profession on gender equality and professional outlook of women and men in Czech science.…

Themes: Gender, Work, Family, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Vzdělanostní nerovnosti v české společnosti. Vývoj od počátku 20. století do současnosti

The monograph describes the major turning points in the research of educational inequalities, presents basic quantitative data regarding transition to higher education in the Czech Republic, and summarizes the development of educational inequalities in access to secondary and tertiary education. It also provides a new analysis of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment from the parents to their children, using mobility tables and log-linear models.…

Themes: Social Inequalities, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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