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Kdo musí jít z kola ven? Sociální a prostorové faktory volby střední školy a dokončení středního vzdělání v Karlovarském kraji

The research report focuses on two main topics, on the one hand, on the decision-making of pupils in the Karlovy Vary region regarding their choice of secondary school and field of their study, and on the other hand on the factors that increase the risk of a pupil finishing secondary school studies prematurely in this region. The final part of the report presents also findings from in-depth interviews with pupils and parents from socially excluded localities of the Karlovy Vary region about their educational a…

Topics: City and Village, Regions, Education

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Představy dětí o volném čase a jeho prožívání

The chapter focuses on issues related to the of children's experiencing of leisure. In the first part, ideas of children associated with leisure are presented. The second part focuses on how much leisure children have and how satisfied they are with spending it. Parents and friends have a big influence on what children do in their leisure. Therefore, the third part focuses on how the children themselves evaluate their influence and also the influence of some other people, and how often the children spend their…

Topics: Lifestyle

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Volný čas dětí na prahu třetího desetiletí 21. století

The chapter presents the main results from the representative survey of older school-age children, How children spend and experience their leisure 2021. It first focuses on time spent with digital media, especially with a computer, tablet or mobile phone (ICT), then on sports and physical activities, participation in extracurricular activities, spending leisure time with friends and finally on cultural and social activities (reading books, going to the cinema, etc.).…

Topics: Culture, Media, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Participation in organized leisure among Czech children: sociocultural and ecological contexts and outcomes

Organised leisure activities constitute an important source of experience for school-age children in the Czech Republic. Based on data collected in a longitudinal study, the aim of this paper is to explore two issues. Firstly, to what extent is children’s participation in extracurricular activities (EAs) influenced by individual level factors that are determined by family’s social status (parental education). Our approach extends this question by asking whether and how ecological factors influence EAs part…

Topics: Culture, Social Inequalities, Education, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Individual Determinants of Climate Change Scepticism in the Czech Republic

This article focuses on the issue of climate change scepticism among the inhabitants of the Czech Republic and pursues two objectives: to compare climate change scepticism of Czech citizens with citizens of other European countries and to examine the relationship between individual characteristics of Czech citizens and their opinion on climate change. For this purpose, the concepts of epistemic scepticism and response scepticism are employed. The data from round 8 of the European Social Survey are analysed to …

Topics: Value Orientations, Climate Change

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Volný čas dětí staršího školního věku a jeho prožívání. Výsledky reprezentativního výzkumu v České republice 2021 (monitorovací studie)

The aim of the study is to present results of the own representative survey How children spend and experience their leisure 2021, which monitor the state of children's leisure at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century. In the begging of the study, the main findings are summarized and the parameters of the research are introduced. Then, the results of a more detailed analyses are presented. At first, these focus on how much leisure children have. Then, two more extensive chapters follow that repr…

Topics: Family, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Cultural planning in two cities of the Czech Republic

According to the Committee on culture of the world association of United Cities and local Governments and its document "Agenda 21 for culture" (2004), culture should be considered as one of the four pillars of sustainable development on an equal footing with the others. This paper will focus on the process of developing cultural planning process in two small and medium sized towns (Louny and Děčín) situated in the northwest part of the Czech Republic.…

Topics: Culture, Public Administration, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Local and regional studies

Životní styl po roce 1989 – proměny trávení volného času ve sféře kulturní participace

Trends in selected indicators of leisure activities in the Czech society since beginning 1990´s using results of CVVM surveys and CZO statistics are outlined. Using data from large surveys from 1994 to 2011 (SOÚ), main factors influencing highbrow culture participation are pursued. It is shown that generally socio-demographic characteristics have very slowly weakened. Cultural and social class homology is still present in the Czech society, and convergence of cultural life in rural areas and urban setting ha…

Topics: Culture, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Local and regional studies

„Kulturní plánování: nová výzva v českém kontextu“

Topics: Culture

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Sociální a institucionální podmíněnost rozvoje kultury a uchování kulturního dědictví v regionálním prostředí a její využití v efektivnější organizaci kulturních aktivit regionu. Redakčně upravená závěrečná zpráva projektu.

The report summarizes the results of the research project Social and Institutional Conditionality of Culture Development and Cultural Heritage Maintaining in the Regional Setting and its Exploitation for Effective Organisation of the Regional Cultural Activities. The main of the project was paid to research on relations between social, economic and political characteristics of the inhabitants and regional cultural distinctiveness research on relations between characteristics of the institutions supporting or o…

Topics: Culture

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Obyvatelé Česka —jejich vztah k půdě a jejich znalosti o půdě

Topics: Environment

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Půda - kompetence a zájem veřejnosti 2017

The survey is focused on the relation of population to soil and on their opinions on selected issues related to soil in the context of the Czech Republic.…

Topics: Environment

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Volný čas a práce v české a slovenské společnosti

The chapter presents the development of the position of leisure and work in the value system of the population of the Czech and Slovak Republics between 1991 and 2017, then focuses on the selected characteristics of leisure and work in more detail and shows how many hours the inhabitants of the Czech and Slovak Republics spend at work, how their work affects their personal and family life and whether they have enough time for their hobbies and interests. It is based mainly on the data from international survey…

Topics: Work, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Volný čas a práce v proměnách času

The aim of this article is to show the development of the perception of leisure and work or their ideal in different stages of human history, focusing primarily on the situation in so-called Western culture.…

Topics: Lifestyle

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

„Rozhodovaní o hlubinném úložišti jaderného odpadu v Česku – několik postřehů“

The contribution shows why it is useful to integrate social sciences researchers into negotiation about location of a deep geological repository of nuclear waste.…

Topics: Environment

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Cultural Planning: New Inspiration for Local Governments in the Czech Context

The concept of cultural planning is relatively well-established in many countries as a tool which enables municipalities to use their potential in local development, yet still notwell-known and debated among scholars, practitioners, or the wider public in Central Europe, including in the Czech Republic. The aim of this article is to present the findings fromthe application of cultural planning in two small/mid-size Czech towns where cultural planning was defined as a participative approach to urban planning ba…

Topics: Culture, Public Administration

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Kulturní plánování v kontextu městského a udržitelného rozvoje

Topics: Culture, Civil Society, Public Administration

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

Vztah obyvatel k přírodě a její ochraně. Sociologická perspektiva

The first part of the study is focused on how environmental issues are approached by sociology and social sciences and also deals with nature conservation in the Czech Republic - its developments, institution and actors. The second part presents the results of empirical surveys with the main emphasis on the survey carried out in 2016 focused on opinions, attitudes and behaviour of that part of population that is interested in nature conservation and environment professionally or in their leisure and actively p…

Topics: Environment

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Metodika tvorby koncepčních dokumentů pro rozvoj kultury a podporu cestovního ruchu s využitím participativních přístupů

The methodology describes the process of creation of conceptual document for culture. It deals with culture in the complex way so it enables overlapping with other areas of local development. The process of creation of the document is introduced as a part of broader approach of cultural planning. Involvement of local community and application of participatory approach belong to its key attributes. The methodology is primarily intended for small and mid-size towns.…

Topics: Culture

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Prague Case Study Report

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Topics: Housing, City and Village, Social Inequalities, Public Policy, Public Administration

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Datový soubor Kultura ve vybraných lokalitách Ústeckého kraje 2013 – Děčín, Louny a Žatec

Topics: Culture, Regions, Social Capital, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Datový soubor Kultura ve třech krajích 2012 – Ústecký kraj, Kraj Vysočina, Zlínský kraj

Topics: Culture, Regions, Social Capital, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Datový soubor Kultura v regionech České republiky 2011

Topics: Culture, Regions, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Fungování národních, regionálních a lokálních vlád – problém měření výkonu vlád („government performance“)

This article tries to answer how government performance can be measured. Possible approaches can be dividend into four groups: approaches using indicators of the socio-economic development in the governed area, approaches measuring government performance by means of a subjective evaluation, approaches focused on procedural and institutional effectiveness and the quality of government performance and approaches measuring government performance with the aid of aggregate indexes.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Administration

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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