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Why do Czechs mistrust Their police and courts?

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Criminality

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Hodnoty a politika

Early-Career Women Academics: Between Neoliberalism and Gender Conservatism

The article examines the intersection between the gender culture and the neoliberaltransformation of research and academia. It focuses on the impact of the transformation on theearly-career women academic researchers in the Czech Republic (CR). It examines a sample ofwomen academics to see how their career paths unfold over time and identify the mechanisms,factors, and barriers that affect their academic careers in the early stages. The article looks at14 excellent early-career women academics from different d…

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Přístup k řešení rodičovských konfliktů na odděleních sociálně-právní ochrany dětí v České republice: Volba defenzivní praxe a její faktory

This study focuses on the approaches used by Czech social workers operating in the field of child protection to resolve parental conflicts and looks specifically at their inclination to employ defensive practice. Defensive practice involves prioritising regulations and prescribed rules over the interests of clients, i.e. parents and children. The aim of this study is to verify, with the help of a questionnaire, the theoretical connections between the use of defensive practice and several factors that represent…

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Value Orientations, Research Methodology, Social Policy

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Veřejný prostor v ohrožení? Aktuální problémy městského veřejného prostoru z pohledu společenskovědních disciplín

Kapitola v knize propojuje teoretické debaty o pojmu „veřejného prostoru“ s aktuálním tématem reálných nebo možných vlivů klimatické změny na život a podobu měst. Diskutuje, nakolik se tato nová environmentální situace potenciálně promítá do pojetí veřejného prostoru v politickém rozhodování na úrovni měst, a také do konceptu veřejného prostoru v sociologické teorii města. Kapitola je určena i čtenářům mimo obor sociologie.…

Topics: Climate Change, City and Village

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Komplikace při formulování lokálních reakcí na klimatickou změnu.

This article informs about the results of an ongoing sociological research on local responses to climate change that appear in the Czech context. The argument departs from a qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with experts whose professional work relates to researching or informing about climate change and to formulation of adaptation measures and responses to climate change, or to environmental policy-making in general. The article outlines complications that – in the view of the experts – accompa…

Topics: Climate Change

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Local and regional studies

Selective pronatalism in childcare and reproductive health policies in Czechoslovakia

The paper discusses how selective pronatalism has been incorporated into childcare and reproductive health policies in the socialist state of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989). It answers the question of how pronatalist framing has been used to categorise ‘others’, whose procreation has been deemed undesirable. It pays attention to the ways limitations on women’s bodily and social citizenship were used as a tool of selective pronatalism, as well as how the pronatalist framing was linked to the framing of wome…

Topics: Gender, Parenting, Family, Social Policy

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Česká a slovenská religiozita po rozpadu společného státu. Náboženství Dioskúrů

The final monograph of a research project on "Return of Religion in the Public Space" is the first and only analyse of the divergent post-secularisation development of religion in the Czech Republic and Slovakia since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. In addition to the analysis of the development of church-state relations in the two countries, organisational issues facing the established churches and the various ways in which these churches are active in the public space and the public response thereto, the …

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Velká data jako alternativa výběrových šetření v kvantitativním sociálněvědním výzkumu

Cílem tohoto článku je informovat především kvantitativně zaměřené sociální vědkyně a vědce o základních vlastnostech velkých dat a představit možnosti a omezení využívání těchto dat v sociálně vědním výzkumu. Text postupně zprostředkovává informace o třech základních typech velkých dat, tak jak jsou rozlišovány v současné metodologické literatuře – administrativních datech, transakčních datech a datech ze sociálních sítí – a ilustruje na příkladech, k …

Topics: Research Methodology

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

(Un)expected exception: validating acquiescent response style factor in the Czech Republic

This study explores the acquiescent response style (ARS) among respondents in the Czech Republic. To analyse ARS, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was employed and the response style (RS) was modelled as a latent variable. The RS factor in the CFA model must be validated by its relationship to education and age, i.e. proxies of cognitive ability. The two studies presented in this article use large amount of data as all available balanced batteries of items were analysed. In Study 1, the RS factor showed no c…

Topics: Research Methodology

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Volný čas, společnost, kultura: Česko – Slovensko.

Chorvát, I., J. Šafr (eds.). 2019. Leisure, Society and Culture in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství SLON.SummaryLeisure is often the value to which people attach importance in their lives. This book deals with leisure time at the dawn of the 21st century, particularly with the lifestyle of the inhabitants of the Czech and Slovak Republics. It is based on the perspective of changing society. It seeks to show how changes in a number of spheres, such as the world of work, em…

Topics: Culture, Consumption, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Social Stratification

Choosing an optimal material deprivation indicator threshold

Severe material deprivation, a dimension of the poverty and social exclusion index, one of Europe 2020 Strategy headline indicators, is defined as enforced lack of at least four of nine specific items. Proposals for modifications in the indicator include the Material and Social Deprivation indicator which is based on an updated set of thirteen items, whereas the choice of the threshold was data-driven. This paper proposes a simple, yet a rigorous methodology based on the Youden index to set a threshold to clas…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Returns to bachelor’s and master’s degree in tertiary education: the case of the Czech Republic after the Bologna Process

The primary objective of this study was to analyse the development of the effect of the bachelor’s and master’s tertiary degree on both respondents’ wage and socioeconomic status in the Czech labour market ten years after the Bologna Process. For the purposesof the study, structural modelling was applied using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC, 2010–2017) and Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC, 2011/12) data. The results revealed…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Education

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Political Leadership in Issue Networks: How Mayors Rule Their World?

This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the mayors of cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in 29 European countries carried out between 2014 and 2016. The book compares these results with those of a similar survey conducted ten years ago. From this comparative perspective, the book examines how to become a mayor in Europe today, the attitudes of these politicians towards administrative and territorial reforms, their notions of democracy, their political prior…

Topics: Elites, Public Administration

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Czech and Polish Understanding of Democracy

Topics: Value Orientations, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Hodnoty a politika

Women’s Parliamentary Representation in the Czech Republic: Does Preference Voting Matter?

The U-shaped trajectory of women’s parliamentary representation in Central and Eastern Europe over the post-communist era has generated interest among scholars and non-governmental organizations. One particularly interesting case of the recent increase in women’s parliamentary representation can be found in the Czech Republic. After the initial post-communist drop in representation, the proportion of female members of parliament (MPs) hovered around 15 percent for nearly 15 years. However, in the 2010 parl…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Hodnoty a politika

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…

Topics: Sociological Theory

Publication Type: Peer-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…

Topics: Civil Society, 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 …

Topics: Civil Society, Sociological Theory

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Generative hermeneutics: proposal for an alliance with critical realism

This article deals with the recent interest shown by critical realists in the study of generative mechanisms in sociology and proposes stronger integration of hermeneutics into this theoretical approach. There are important differences between realism and hermeneutics. While realism strives to overcome the extremes of empiricism and interpretivism with a new version of naturalism, hermeneutics bases its explanations of society on research into meanings. The question is whether underlining these differences is …

Topics: Sociological Theory

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Náboženská víra a vztah k historii – analýza existence vzájemného propojení.

The purpose of this text is to attempt to test the connection between people’s religiosity and their relationship to history, and also to provide some new knowledge about this relationship in the Czech Republic. According to theories, it is assumed that religion and history are somehow connected. This is why we are trying to obtain knowledge about the relationship between people’s religiosity and their historical consciousness. This knowledge should shed light on the role of religious memory. We assume tha…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Mají Češi dobrou práci? II.

This text is the second part of the two states, which are trying to disrupt this simplified illustration demonstrating a discrepancy between whether workers evaluate different aspects of working life in their current job as good or bad, and how important are these aspects for them. In the second part, based on original survey instrument SQWL, is mainly shown that almost every Czech worker experiences a sense of discrepancy between needs and their fulfillment in his working life. The study thus points out tha…

Topics: Work

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Mají Češi dobrou práci? I.

Surveys of the quality of working life in the Czech Republic usually reveal the positive image of reality, in which most workers are satisfied with their job or in which the average satisfaction found in positive values of offered scales. This text is the first part of the two states, which are trying to disrupt this simplified illustration demonstrating a discrepancy between whether workers evaluate different aspects of working life in their current job as good or bad, and how important are these aspects for…

Topics: Work

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

The Heritage of Traditional Superior Beers from the Visegrad Group Countries.

Preferences in the consumption of food and drinks can change according to eating habits. A consumer test with total 320 participants held in the countries of the Visegrad Group (Visegrad Four) in April 2016 confirmed, however the popularity of regional beers, particularly those with a medium original wort extract (about 11.5 to 12.0 % wt), with medium to high bitterness, high body-fullness, high carbonation and medium alcohol content. Some groups of participants had different preferences but the beers with low…

Topics: Lifestyle

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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

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