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Public attitudes towards small modular reactors. An emerging research field and evidence from six countries
This deliverable report D1.1 of the HORIZON-EURATOM ECOSENS project, ‘Economic and Social Considerations for the Future of Nuclear Energy in Society,’ presents findings obtained in 2023-2024 by qualitative and quantitative studies of public attitudes regarding new nuclear technology, specifically Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). Compared to the vast literature on large traditional reactors, very little is known about the public's perceptions of this new technology or the willingness of local communities to p…
Topics: Energy, Climate Change, Technology and society, Transformation
Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph
Department: Public Opinion Research Centre
Public(s), education and education policy: values, attitudes, reasoning and experience.
The report contains findings from quantitative and qualitative research on the views of the general population, the population of parents of children aged 6 to 20, and the professional community, teachers and principals, on education and education policies. The main themes are inequalities in education, the content of education, parental participation and response, and the teaching profession.…
Mental health conditions and help-seeking among Ukrainian war refugees in Czechia: A cross-sectional study.
We aimed to screen Ukrainian war refugees (UWR) in Czechia for depression and anxiety, and to assess their recognition of personal mental health problems and related help-seeking.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional study on a sample of UWR in Czechia. We used PHQ-8 and GAD-7 to screen for depression and anxiety, SELF-I to assess the recognition of respondents' own mental health problems, and a set of questions regarding mental health-related help-seeking.FindingsOur sample consisted of 1,347 UWR. More than 4…
Motivation for households’ investment in photovoltaics in Czechia: An exploratory factor analysis.
Photovoltaics (PV) are an integral part of the climate neutrality transition, aside from reducing fossil fuel consumption, they provide additional and impactful private and societal benefits. When purchasing PV, the decision-making of small investors is a complex process. We investigate how households decide to invest in PV on rooftops. From a sample of over 2500 respondents, we found that while personal financial benefits are the primary motivation for acquiring PV plants, other variables, such as production …
The outlooks of nuclear energy in society: Unraveling public attitudes in the context of climate and energy security challenges
This article presents the results of a systematic literature review following the PRISMA protocol and answering the research question of how climate change or energy security considerations affect public attitudes towards nuclear energy. 82 articles published in English since 2011 and indexed in scientific databases were selected for the review. After providing quantitative bibliometric information, we conduct thematic analysis to describe qualitatively the main research themes traceable in the literature, usi…
Topics: Energy, Climate Change
Psychometric properties and measurement invariance of the Czech version of the Temporal Satisfaction with Life Scale
The aim of this study was to validate the Temporal Satisfaction with Life Scale (TSWLS Pavot et al., 1998) in the Czech language, including the examination of its psychometric properties and measurement invariance by gender and age. The TSWLS is a 15-item instrument for measuring life satisfaction (LS) from a temporal perspective allowing the comparison of the level of life satisfaction in the past, present, and future. The analysis was based on a representative research sample (N = 427) of Czech people older …
Topics: Research Methodology, Public health
Counter-strategizing after a dialogue failure: Stakeholder involvement and nuclear waste disposal in the Czech Republic
This case study focuses on the temporal dynamics of stakeholder interaction to provide a sociological analysis of the deep geological repository siting process in the Czech Republic. By introducing the concept of counter-strategizing, it clarifies the shift in interaction after the state authorities backed out of a dialogue with local communities at pre-selected sites in 2016 but continued to push ahead with their siting mission. The study triangulates complementary data sources (interviews, focus groups, cont…
Topics: Energy, Sociological Theory
Amount and Causes of Food Waste in Households from Perspective of Consumers – the Case Study of the Czech Republic
Food waste occurs throughout the food distribution chain, with households, i.e., consumers, accounting for the largest share of total food waste. Different methods can be used to determine how much food people waste in their households, with widely varying results. Direct measurement methods prove to be the most accurate, but due to their financial, logistical, and time-consuming nature, they are not very common, and therefore questionnaires based on subjective estimates of respondents are very often used. Thi…
Topics: Consumption
Perception of the Connection between the Covid-19 Pandemic and Climate Change in the Czech blogosphere
The article is dedicated to reflecting the links between the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic crisis in the context of Czech social media, specifically on several blogging platforms. The processes leading to the climate and pandemic crises are highly intertwined, based in the way humans interact with the environment on a global scale. However, the circumstances and consequences of both crises, as well as the ways they are dealt with, also share common features. The authors identify such contexts as ref…
Topics: Internet, Climate Change, Media
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Traversing: Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech Republic, by Susanna Trnka
Topics: Value Orientations, Intergenerational Relations, Interpersonal Relations, Sociological Theory
Emergent Consequences of Narrating Futures in Energy Transitions
The paper presents a general theoretical argument about narrating futures and demonstrates its validity on the topic of energy transitions. It goes beyond the perspective of social constructionism and analyzes the temporal relationship between narratives, as employed in social interactions, and the reality of structural conditions in societies. The first part combines the morphogenetic approach of Margaret Archer and the narrative hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur to conceptualize emergent consequences, clarifying …
Topics: Sociological Theory, Transformation
The Transformation of Order in Narrative as Discordant Concord: Using Paul Ricoeur to Explore Narrative Realism as Part of Social Morphogenesis
Social interaction as the middle phase of the morphogenetic sequence described by Margaret Archer presupposes that interpretative activities go on between individuals and collectivities. Novel meanings emerge in social interaction and spur the processes of structural elaboration. The hermeneutics of actors (or agents) should be part of the morphogenetic explanatory framework. Narratives as a distinctive species of interpretation will then become more susceptible to a mode of analysis based in realism. By adopt…
Topics: Sociological Theory, Transformation
A Morphogenetic Approach to Social Aspects of Energy: The Case of Coal
This chapter proposes the morphogenetic approach, as elaborated within the confines of Margaret Archer’s critical realism, as a suitable starting point for theoretically grounded research into social aspects of energy. It demonstrates in outline the suitability of this approach in the special case of coal, the mining and combustion of which epitomize the ambiguity of the industrial era. The chapter applies the morphogenetic approach in a way, which is both comprehensive and responsive to empirical data. The …
Topics: Gender, Climate Change, Sociological Theory
Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph
Department: Public Opinion Research Centre
25 Years of Czech Democracy through the Eyes of the Public
Publikace představuje vývoj veřejného mínění ve vztahu k politickému systému a jeho aktérům, a to jak v dimenzi vnitřní, tak i zahraniční politiky. Její ambicí je komplexně a v širokých dobových souvislostech zmapovat procesy, které byly a dosud jsou charakteristické pro občanské vnímání a hodnocení transformace po roce 1989. Všechny prezentované interpretace se opírají o výsledky šetření, která byla realizována Centrem pro výzkum veřejného mínění Sociologického ú…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion
Česká a slovenská národní identita v percepci Československa
Rozdělení Československa je významná dějinná událost, která zásadně formovala a stále formuje národní identity Čechů a Slováků. Zároveň se tyto identity promítly v této dějinné události. Ačkoliv si oba národy byly velmi blízké a tento vztah jim zůstal i nadále, odlišný demografický vývoj a hodnotové orientace se odrážely i v jejich novém směřování po Sametové revoluci v roce 1989. Tato kapitola nejen dokládá tyto rozdíly, ale také mapuje veřejné mínění v kri…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion
Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph
Department: Public Opinion Research Centre
Public opinion and public policy in the Czech Republic
This chapter examines the relationship between public opinion and public policy. The first part of the chapter is devoted to the relationship of public opinion and public policy at the theoretical level and presents different concepts and empirical ways of exploring this relationship. The second part is devoted to the history of the public opinion research in the Czech Republic and on several examples analyses the relationship between public opinion and public policy.…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion
Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph
Department: Public Opinion Research Centre
Public opinion and public policy in the Czech Republic
This chapter examines the relationship between public opinion and public policy. The first part of the chapter is devoted to the relationship of public opinion and public policy at the theoretical level and presents different concepts and empirical ways of exploring this relationship. The second part is devoted to the history of the public opinion research in the Czech Republic and on several examples analyses the relationship between public opinion and public policy.…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion
Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph
Department: Public Opinion Research Centre
Webové archivy a sociální vědy: příležitosti, problémy a řešení
Tento článek se věnuje úvodu do problematiky webových archivů, které mohou sloužit jako zdroj dat částečně vypovídající o dynamické proměně současné společnosti a komunikace. V první části článku je představen smysl webových archivů a jejich současné institucionální zakotvení jak v České republice, tak v zahraničí. V druhé části je diskutována otázka přístupu k datům z webových archivů. Omezení v přístupu jsou na jedné straně technická, kdy se musí výzkum…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion
The network structure of trust in the COVID-19 pandemic
Trust is considered an essential part of a democratic society. That is why it is important to pay attention to it, especially in times of crisis. Some recent studies have introduced a new approach to examining attitudes and trust using social network analysis. The aim of our study is to examine the relationship between different types of trust during the coronavirus crisis. Using a sample representative of the adult population of the Czech Republic, our text discusses what the network structure of trust is lik…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion
Apportioning Uncertain Voters in Pre-Election Polls in a Multi-Party System
In recent decades, voters have been postponing their decisions about what party to vote for to a time closer to the elections. One factor in this delay is when people are considering more than one political party. Drawing on two data sets from the general elections in the Czech Republic, we present an approach that assigns a person’s vote to multiple considered parties. We test the impact of the different apportioning of probabilities on the overall accuracy of poll estimates and on the estimates for each po…
Topics: Sociology of Sciences
Paralely a odlišnosti sociálních situací s panickým potenciálem - příklad RMU a pandemie koronaviru v české společnosti
A research report with main outputs of the survey conducted under the project Parallels and Differences of Social Situations with Panic Potential - an example of RMU and a coronavirus pandemic in Czech society.www.cvvm.soc.cas.cz…
Topics: Public health
Veřejné mínění o vzdělávání – Sekundární analýza
This final report is the first of seven research reports produced within the project Public(s), education and education policy: values, attitudes, reasoning, and experience (short title Public opinion on education). The project aims to map the views of different publics (actors) on education policy measures, assuming that these views are linked to broader attitudes towards education and the values held by actors in relation to education. The present report first introduces its objectives, followed by a review …
Topics: Public Opinion, Education
Measurement Invariance of the SQWLi Instrument Over Time
The SQWLi questionnaire was developed for the long-term measurement of subjectively perceived quality of working life. The aim of this study is to test the instrument's measurement invariance between 2009 and 2019 and determine whether - despite the modifications made to the instrument over the years - the results remain comparable. Data from eight representative surveys of the economically active population in the Czech Republic were analysed (total N = 6909) using the MG CFA method (configural, metric, and s…
Topics: Research Methodology, Work
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Nový přístup v testování ekvivalence na příkladu měření subjektivního blahobytu
Survey-based measures of subjective well-being are increasingly often analyzed cross-culturally. However, international comparison of these measures requires measurement invariance. Therefore, the major goal of this study was to investigate the cross-country comparability of the 5-item subjective well-being scales used in the International Social Survey Programme (2011, 2017). This study applied both the traditional exact and the more recent Bayesian approximate approach to assessed whether the subjective well…
Topics: Research Methodology
Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article
Webové archivy a sociální vědy: příležitosti, problémy a řešení
Internet se v posledních třech desetiletích stal integrální součástí soudobých společností a jeho obsah postupně ohromně narůstá a velmi dynamicky se proměňuje. I tak však společenské vědy a společenští vědci nevěnují přílišnou pozornost tomu, jaké svědectví může web nabídnout ohledně společenských změn. Tento článek se věnuje úvodu do problematiky webových archivů, které mohou sloužit jako zdroj dat částečně vypovídající o dynamické proměně současné…
Topics: Research Methodology
Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article
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