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Living and Dealing with Limited Opportunities: Social Disadvantage and Coping Strategies in Rural Peripheries
In the article, manifestations of social disadvantage in peripheral rural settings in the Czech Republic are investigated. Based on the theory of local opportunity structures, the authors identify various aspects of the spatial context that intersect with individual handicaps of people and their households and contribute to poverty and social exclusion. Moreover, coping strategies of vulnerable rural inhabitants are investigated.…
Topics: City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities, Standard of Living
Rural Quality of Life – Poverty, Satisfaction and Opportunity Deprivation in Different Types of Rural Territories
This article contributes to the rural-urban quality of life comparison issue by investigating territorial differences in quality of life using indices of poverty, satisfaction and opportunity deprivation. The article introduces three innovative elements. First, rural-urban differences are analysed alongside with the within-rural differentiation, second, two distinct spatial patterns of different forms of rural territorial disadvantage are introduced, third, the net-effect of the residential environment is asse…
Topics: Housing, City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities, Standard of Living
Families and local opportunities in rural peripheries: Intersections between resources, ambitions and the residential environment
The article focuses on arrangements of family life in rural peripheries and deals with the specific constraints faced by families with children in peripheral localities. The impact of the peripheral residential environment in terms of locally embodied opportunities on the parental choices and its interactions with familial ambitions and resources is highlighted, particularly in three domains: elementary school choice, extracurricular activities, care-work reconciliation. Based on semi-structured interviews wit…
Topics: Housing, City and Village, Regions, Parenting, Family
Where Have All the Rural Poor Gone? Explaining the Rural–Urban Poverty Gap in European Countries
This article contributes to explanations of rural poverty and deprivation by focusing on the rural–urban poverty and deprivation gap in European countries. Using European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data, it confirms, convincingly, the limited validity of the argument for universally increased poverty and deprivation levels in rural areas in Europe, and demonstrates that the disparities are related to four theoretically elaborated factors: increased rural poverty can be observed in count…
Topics: Economy, City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities
Poverty and Social Exclusion in Diversified Rural Contexts
This paper is summarising the state of the art of rural poverty and social exclusion research and the current developments in the field, and it proposes new research agendas. In particular, the importance of further Europeanisation and internationalisation of rural poverty research is emphasised to reduce the bias and oversimplification inherent in the tendency to apply concepts derived from the Anglo-Saxon reality to other European countries. It is recognised that rural poverty not only constitutes a quantita…
Topics: Economy, City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities
The other disadvantaged neighbourhood: income related effects of living in rural peripheries
In this article, we argue that similarly to the literature on urban neighbourhood effects, the idea of disadvantaging residential environment can be used to explain the socio-economic disadvantage of residents in rural peripheries. We present arguments as to why it is appropriate to consider the effects of the residential environment in a micro-regional perspective and outside of metropolitan areas. These effects are empirically analysed using income related data from the Czech Republic. We ask whether income …
Topics: Economy, City and Village, Wages and Incomes, Regions, Social Inequalities
Využití metody Respondent-Driven Sampling u populace lidí bez domova: základní principy, aplikace a praktická doporučení
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a survey method used to create samples of populations that are hidden and hard to reach. Even though the method has been used since the 1990s in studies internationally, it has not yet been used in Czech research. The RDS methodology tends to be described presented as a statistical tool that makes it possible to produce unbiased estimates of hidden or hard-to-reach populations, and at the same as a tool with which to effectively recruit respondents from the given populations…
Topics: Housing, Research Methodology, Social Inequalities, Sociological Data
Two faces of peripherality: labour markets, poverty, and population dynamics in Hungary and Czechia
This study investigates socioeconomic peripherality in Hungary and Czechia. Despite the current attention devoted to peripheries in post-communist societies, the authors argue that there is a lack of data-driven international comparisons of the socio-spatial outcomes of peripheralisation processes. In the study, the situations in Hungary and Czechia are compared to assess the validity of peripheralisation as a mutually reinforcing economic, social and demographic decline specifically affecting rural areas. Fi…
Topics: City and Village, Research Methodology, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities
Nothing Happens Here…Living Conditions in Rural Peripheries
The book focuses on spatialised forms of social inequalities. In particular, it explores the various forms of disadvantage associated with living in rural peripheries. Rural peripheries are relatively sparsely populated places, with poor transport connections to large cities, which don’t profit from the population growth typical of the suburban and peri-urban countryside. At the same time, rural peripheries are affected by a range of social problems. The individual chapters of this book try from different pe…
Topics: Housing, City and Village, Lifestyle, Standard of Living
Ties, sites and irregularities: pitfalls and benefits in using respondent-driven sampling for surveying a homeless population
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a survey method for hidden populations and, as such, it offers a suitable approach for sampling the homeless. Surprisingly, the practical use of RDS in surveying homeless populations has only sporadically been described in the professional literature so far, and the specifics of using RDS for sampling this group have not been reflected in depth. The goal of the article is to investigate how three specific concerns, namely the transitional character of social ties among the h…
Topics: City and Village, Research Methodology, Social Inequalities, Sociological Data
Vnitřní periferie v Česku: Multidimenzionalita sociálního vyloučení ve venkovských oblastech.
The spatial concentration of social disadvantage in rural areas not only poses a risk to social cohesion but also represents a challenge for public policy. This article draws on a multidimensional concept of disadvantage to study spatial aspects of disadvantage in Czech rural areas. Current studies aimed at identifying ‘inner peripheries’ as areas with an increased risk of social exclusion fail to distinguish between different forms of disadvantage. Their methodological approach blends regions struggling w…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Wages and Incomes, Age and Aging, Public Policy, Standard of Living
Rural Idyll Without Rural Sociology? Changing Features, Functions and Research of the Czech Countryside
The development of the Czech countryside differs in many ways from trajectories typical for Eastern and Central European rural areas in the last 25 years. In our article, we discuss the nature of the ‘Czech exceptionalism’, with reference to three examples, namely population development, the dynamics of rural/agricultural labour markets and rural governance. Firstly, we describe the major driving forces behind rural development in Czechia over the past 25 years and how these forces are reflected in t…
Topics: City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Regions, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory, Public Administration
Geografie výsledků parlamentních voleb: prostorové vzorce volebního chování v Česku 1992-2013
Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu České republiky jsou většinou voličů považovány za nejdůležitější z voleb, protože se při nich rozhoduje o budoucím složení vlády. Bývá v nich proto také vyšší volební účast než v jiných volbách. Protože poskytují detailní informace o volebním chování v každé z více než 6000 českých, moravských a slezských obcí, jsou volební data zvláště vhodná ke zkoumání regionálních rozdílů volebního chování a jejich prom…
Topics: City and Village, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research
Formování komunit, nebo sociální integrace? Analýza personálních sítí ukrajinských imigrantů v Plzni
Nejpočetnější cizineckou minoritou současné České republiky jsou Ukrajinci. Dle Českého statistického úřadu jich na území ČR pobývá 105 239 (ČSÚ k 31. 12. 2013). Tradičně se koncentrují do velkých měst a jsou zaměstnáváni v manuálních profesích. Od příjezdu prvních pracovníků se ovšem řada aspektů jejich migrace změnila. Například vedle původní cirkulační, resp. podvojné životní strategie, lze stále více zaznamenat zájem o usazení v ČR. Cílem tohoto textu …
Topics: Migration and Mobility, Work, Social Capital, Social Inequalities
Demokratie im Dorf - Demokratiequalität in kleinen Schweizer Gemeinden
The scholarly debate on size-specific features of local democratic systems is inconclusive. Contradictory arguments concerning size effects have been formulated for three normative qualities of democracy – participation, accountability and representation and for system capacity. It has been argued that increasing municipal size has the potential to improve the democratic process, but also that municipal fragmentation is the basis for quality of democracy at the local level. The relations between size, system…
Topics: City and Village, Politics and Political Attitudes
Cizinci jako obtížně dosažitelná populace
Migration research is an emerging field in the Czech Republic and data collection poses many methodological challenges. Some of the problems are universal for the research of other hard-to-reach populations. Other problems are, on the contrary, unique, applying only for theresearch of immigrants and could be country specific. This article focusses mainly on the quantitative research of immigrants where the issue of sampling problem is of major concern. The aim of the article is to address the issue of sampling…
Topics: Research Methodology, Migration and Mobility
The Innovative Regions in the Czech Republic and their Position in the International Labour Market of Highly Skilled Workers
This paper analyses the possibilities and potential barriers of development of an Island of Innovation in the most innovative regions in a post-Communist country – the Czech Republic. The analysis concludes that the most innovative Czech regions are able to attract highly qualified labour from other locations and do not suffer from a quantitatively important brain drain. On the other hand, mutual interconnections with the most developed Islands of Innovation are weak.…
Topics: Migration and Mobility, Regions, Education
Sociální integrace imigrantů na rozhraní mezi dočasnou migrací a trvalým usazením
The article examines the integration process of Ukrainians and Vietnamese in the Czech Republic. The authors focus on socio-cultural integration, the pre- and post-migration factors integration depends on, and the differences in the integration process of the two communities. Using survey data they show that the integration process of each group follows a different trajectory and depends on different factors. Ukrainians tend to be more integrated than Vietnamese. The primary factor influencing the level of int…
Topics: Migration and Mobility
Datový soubor Kultura ve třech krajích 2012 – Ústecký kraj, Kraj Vysočina, Zlínský kraj
Topics: Culture, Regions, Social Capital, Sociological Data
Datový soubor Kultura v regionech České republiky 2011
Topics: Culture, Regions, Sociological Data
Existují prostorové kontextové vlivy na volební chování i v relativně nacionalizovaném stranickém systému? Příklad Česka
Článek se věnuje problematice kontextových vlivů na volební chování. V části českéodborné literatury bylo konstatováno, že vliv prostorového kontextu na volební chování v Česku je nevýrazný a že převážnou část teritoriální diferenciace volebních výsledků lze vysvětlit jako důsledek teritoriálních odlišností sociální skladby, tedy kompozičně. Tato studie zkoumá existenci kontextových efektů v detailním územním členění. Ukazuje, že pomocí metod prostorov…
Topics: Value Orientations, City and Village, Religion and religiosity, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research
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…
Topics: City and Village, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research
Prostorový kontext volebního chování – jak působí lokální a regionální prostředí na rozhodování voličů
Volební chování individuálních voličů je ovlivňováno různými prostorově definovanými faktory. Zpravidla se vliv takových faktorů obecně označuje jako kontextuální efekty. Kontextuální faktory ovlivňují voliče různými způsoby: skrze působení rozdílných lokálních geografických a sociálně-ekonomických podmínek na život a rozhodování voličů, prostřednictvím vlivu lokálně specifických komunikačních interakcí mezi voliči a lokálně specifických pozorování, skrz…
Topics: Research Methodology, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research
Endogenní rozvojové potenciály malých venkovských obcí – obtížné hledání a měření jejich vlivu
Topics: City and Village, Social Capital, Public Administration
Prostorové vzorce rozvinutosti venkovských obcí Česka
Topics: City and Village, Regions
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