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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…

Themes: Energy, Climate Change, Technology

Publication Type: Impactful Article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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 …

Themes: Research Methodology, Health

Publication Type: Impactful Article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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…

Themes: Energy, Sociological Theory, Technology

Publication Type: Impactful Article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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…

Themes: Consumption

Publication Type: Reviewed Article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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…

Themes: Internet, Climate Change, Media

Publication Type: Impactful Article

Traversing: Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech Republic, by Susanna Trnka

Themes: Value Orientations, Intergenerational Relations, Interpersonal Relations, Sociological Theory

Publication Type: Publication Review

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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 …

Themes: Sociological Theory, Technology, Transformation

Publication Type: Impactful Article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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…

Themes: Sociological Theory, Transformation

Publication Type: Impactful Article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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 …

Themes: Gender, Climate Change, Sociological Theory, Technology

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…

Themes: Trust/Social Cohesion

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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…

Themes: 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.…

Themes: 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.…

Themes: 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…

Themes: Trust/Social Cohesion

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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…

Themes: Trust/Social Cohesion

Publication Type: Impactful Article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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…

Themes: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Impactful Article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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…

Themes: Health

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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 …

Themes: Public Opinion, Education

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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…

Themes: Research Methodology, Work

Publication Type: Impactful Article

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…

Themes: Research Methodology

Publication Type: 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…

Themes: Research Methodology

Publication Type: Reviewed Article

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…

Themes: Trust/Social Cohesion

Publication Type: Impactful Article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Schützova koncepce sociální intersubjektivity

Schutz’s concept of intersubjectivity departs from radical, philosophical analyses of the constitution of the other (alter ego) in my consciousness. Instead, he takes the existence of the other and his or her subjectivity for granted and investigates the intersubjective relations of understanding and action among individuals. The shifting of phenomenological lifeworld theory from philosophy to sociology enables Schütz to study social interaction and order. The article identifies the premises of this concept…

Themes: Sociological Theory

Publication Type: Reviewed Article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Energy and the public. How societies communicate and decide about energy issues?

As people living in the EU states we take it for granted that a source of electricity will be there whenever we need it. It is a considerably less self-evident matter, how the electricity we rely on is supposed to be produced and distributed. The energy sector stands at a crossroads today and newly emerging options of energy strategies challenge the old ways of doing the business. This module approaches technical students as potential future energy experts, who will need to integrate social or societal aspects…

Themes: Civil Society, Technology, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Philosophy and Ethics of Energy Development. What are the most general questions concerning our attitudes to energy technologies?

Energy production and energy facilities and projects are based on scientific knowledge and they require employment of various kinds of technologies. This links energy development with a more general view of natural sciences and technologies and their function in contemporary advanced societies. The impact of technologies on everyday lives of individuals, groups and communities has been growing unprecedentedly in recent decades. It does not matter whether we like it or not, whether we are techno-enthusiasts or …

Themes: Civil Society, Sociological Theory, Technology

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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