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Sociology on the Czech Internet

Topics: Media, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Values and Politics

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Parliamentary Bodies: Committees

The topic of this book is analyse of activity of the Czech Parliament in first and second electoral period of the House of Deputies (1993-1996 and 1996-1998) and first electoral period of the Senate (1996-1998). The publication is distributed into parts, four chapters and one attachment.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Female Parliamentarians in the Czech Republic

Topics: Gender, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Values and Politics

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Bertelsmann Transformation Index Czech Republic 2006

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociological Data, Transformation

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Values and Politics

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Občanská společnost

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Values and Politics

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Ženy v politickém a veřejném životě

Topics: Gender, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Values and Politics

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Publication Type: Working Paper

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Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

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Regionálna identita obyvateľova Liptova

Topics: Value Orientations, Identity, Regions

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

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Lucie Vidovićová: Stárnutí, věk a diskriminace – nové souvislosti

The article introduces book „Ageing, age and discrimination – new implications“ which was written on the bases of quantitative research of Czech society managed by Lucie Vidovićová from the Masaryk University Brno. The book was published in 2008. It is the first monograph that compactly presents the theme of age and ageism in Czech Republic.…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Age and Aging

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Values and Politics

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Do young people measure happiness by the number of kilometres logged?

This article examines travel as a form of consumption behaviour. It begins by presenting some of the ideas outlined in Gilles Lipovetsky’s Le bonheur paradoxal. Then, using tourism statistics and statements of young people recorded in a qualitative study, it looks at how much Lipovetsky’s ideas can be inspirational for interpreting the attitudes of young Czechs towards travel.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

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Ageismus

The article deals with three basic questions: what is and what is not the ageism, how serious is ageism in Czech Republic based on the research European Social Survey Round 4 and what are the ways of reducing ageism.…

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Intergenerational Relations, Social Inequalities, Age and Aging

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

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Data z mezinárodního sociologického projektu SHARE

The article informs about possibilities of using the data from international survey SHARE.…

Topics: Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

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Ekonomická odpovědnost – postoje k placení daní

Based on the Czech quantitative data from European Social Survey Round 2 the author presents a typology of people based on their a) opinion of not paying taxes and b) their own experiences with not paying taxes. The article illustrates that attitudes always do not reflect the real behavior. The text also highlights how one’s position in the paying taxes typology correlates with his other characteristics and attitudes.…

Topics: Value Orientations

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

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Data z mezinárodního projektu SHARE

The article informs about possibilities of using the data from international survey SHARE.…

Topics: Sociological Data

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Values and Politics

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Program krátkých návštěv v centrech výzkumné kompetence projektu European Social Survey – zkušenost a výzva k podání přihlášek

Information about the possibility to apply for a short visits programme of competence centers of the ESS.…

Topics: Research Methodology

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Values and Politics

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Věk jako zdroj sociální identity

The article examines age as a possible group identity. It sets out to determine which age groups in society today have a stronger sense of identity and the source of that identity, while drawing on the tenets of social psychology and the theories of social identity and optimal distinctiveness. The analysis is based on representative data for the Czech population over the age of 20 drawn from the European Social Survey Round 4 and the International Social Survey Programme 2003.…

Topics: Identity, Age and Aging

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

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Kdo je mladý/střední/starý?

The aim of this study is to find out which characteristics affect the age identity of individuals. The main question is: What determines whether the people in the Czech Republic find themselves young, middle aged or old? Two alternative hypotheses were tested: a) the age identity is mainly influenced by person’s family and working roles b) the age identity is primarily a function of person’s chronological age and his health. While the second hypothesis understands the age identity as an ordinal variable, t…

Topics: Identity, Age and Aging

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

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Slaďování rodinného a pracovního života v nadnárodních podnicích. [Alena Křížková: Podmínky rodičovství v podnikovém prostředí v mezinárodním srovnaní.]

By comparing the Czech and foreign experience, the reviewed work offers a unique insight into the measures and processes aimed to facilitate balancing the work and family responsibilities in multinational corporations. The work is of interest not only for experts and academics but also for wider public.…

Topics: Work, Family

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Values and Politics

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Srovnání vlivu procesu evropeizace na národní legislativu v zemích střední a východní Evropy

Srovnání vlivu procesu evropeizace na národní legislativu v zemích střední a východní Evropy

It aims to answer the question, whether the national Parliaments loose their democratic functions and are becoming rubber-stampers in the executive-driven process of Europeanization. The institutional level analysis analyzes changes of the formal structures of CEE legislatures and their functioning (changes in committee structure, changes international cooperation, etc.).…

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Values and Politics

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Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

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Czech Politics and Society: The View from Within and Afar

Topics: Gender, Family, Transformation, Public Policy

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

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