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Poverty and Social Exclusion in Diversified Rural Contexts
This paper is summarising the state of the art of rural poverty and social exclusion research and the current developments in the field, and it proposes new research agendas. In particular, the importance of further Europeanisation and internationalisation of rural poverty research is emphasised to reduce the bias and oversimplification inherent in the tendency to apply concepts derived from the Anglo-Saxon reality to other European countries. It is recognised that rural poverty not only constitutes a quantita…
Topics: Economy, City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities
The other disadvantaged neighbourhood: income related effects of living in rural peripheries
In this article, we argue that similarly to the literature on urban neighbourhood effects, the idea of disadvantaging residential environment can be used to explain the socio-economic disadvantage of residents in rural peripheries. We present arguments as to why it is appropriate to consider the effects of the residential environment in a micro-regional perspective and outside of metropolitan areas. These effects are empirically analysed using income related data from the Czech Republic. We ask whether income …
Topics: Economy, City and Village, Wages and Incomes, Regions, Social Inequalities
Discourses on Abortion and their Impact on Institutions in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in the Second Half of the 20th Century (1950–2003)
Topics: Gender, Historical Sociology, Parenting, Sexuality, Public health
Setting Social Status in Couples and Partners’ Budgetary Discretion in Central European Countries
The conventional optics of social stratification research—in which the social position of the family unit is seen as being determined by the status of the male head of the household—has been challenged since the early 1970s. Economic research has also questioned the approach that views the household as a single unit. Given the changing circumstances affecting the family and the increasing proportion of couples with female primacy in terms of earnings, education, and socio-economic category, these approache…
Topics: Social Inequalities, Standard of Living
On the Measurement of the Income Poverty Rate: The Equivalence Scale across Europe
The methodology used to determine the at-risk-of-poverty rate commonly applied in the European context is often criticised for arbitrary steps in its construction. This study questions the first step – the equivalence scale applied to transform the disposable income of households of different sizes into comparable units. First, we hypothesise that economies of scale are lower in Central-Eastern European countries than in their Western counterparts. We assess the hypothesis using a simple descriptive analysis…
Topics: Standard of Living
Příspěvek na péči jako „zvláštní peníze“: chápání a užívání příspěvku na péči v blízkých vztazích
The paper presents the comparative results of two qualitative researches on long-term informal family care in the Czech Republic: one researching the life strategies of women caring for their elderly parents and the other researching women caring for a child with a disability. The interviews with the two groups of caregivers make it possible to compare the ways in which people in different caring situations interpret and use the same state benefit intended for people who need personal long-term care. The analy…
Topics: Gender, Intergenerational Relations, Care, Age and Aging
Doing gender and age: The case of informal elderly care in the Czech Republic
This article seeks to describe and explain some of the factors behind the prevalence of women in informal care for seniors. It presents a qualitative study of women who are caring for a frail elderly parent in the Czech Re-public. Care is seen as a space where gender and other intersecting identi-ties are performed and this has specific subjective, structural and material consequences. The author draws on biographical interviews with women caregivers and shows how they “do gender and age” in their narrativ…
Topics: Gender, Intergenerational Relations, Care, Age and Aging
Muži a ženy pečující o seniory v rodině
Current data show that most elderly care in the Czech Republic, as well as worldwide, is provided by family members and in most cases women. Men also provide care, but they are less likely to do so, the intensity of the care they do provide is not as great, and the care activities they engage in are of a different type than those performed by women. This article seeks to answer two questions: What share of Czech women and men are caring for an elderly member in the family? Do the experiences of sons and daught…
Topics: Gender, Intergenerational Relations, Care, Age and Aging
Regional Patterns of Social Differentiation in Visegrád Countries
This paper focuses on a neglected—horizontal—dimension of social stratification. It examines the patterns of social differentiation in the Visegrad countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) and attempts to assess changes in the social structure at the subnational level. Social structure changes are explained within the context of broader socio-economic development. The main analyses performed in this study are based on EU-SILC micro-data covering 2006–2016 and offer a comprehensive pe…
Topics: City and Village, Wages and Incomes, Work, Regions, Social Inequalities, Education
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
Predatory Publishing and the Imperative of International Productivity: Feeding Off and Feeding Up the Dominant
Inspired by Lin and Law’s discussion of “modes of international” (2013, 2014), we argue in this chapter that gaming metrics, predatory publishing, and exploiting the model of gold open access (Beall, 2012) can be partly understood as a logical response to the imperative of internationalization going wild. It enacts a different, yet dubious, alternative mode of internationalization for those researchers and institutions who fail—for better or worse—within the established mode of international, with it…
Topics: Sociology of Sciences
Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph
Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science
Trends in educational fluidity after the fall of socialism in the Czech Republic.
The aim of this paper is to identify the trends in educational fluidity after the fall of socialism in 1989 in the Czech Republic. The data are based on 27 sample surveys carried out from 1990 to 2009, including information on the child’s and his father’s education. The trends in educational fluidity are analysed both in view of the years and with respect to the birth cohorts, i.e. on the grounds of two effects: unequal educational odds (according to the socio-economic origin) and the “differentiation”…
Topics: Social Inequalities, Education
The Czech Republic: From Ethnic Discrimination to Social Inclusion in the Educational System.
This chapter describes the main ethnic minority groups within the Czech education system and shows the main features of Czech social policy development. Then, it presents the method of selecting individual studies focused on ethnicity and ethnic difference in the Czech educational system and justify their organisation into three traditions. The main body of the chapter is dedicated to reviewing the works of each research tradition. Finally, it gives an overview of the authors´ findings as well as formulates r…
Topics: Identity, Social Inequalities, Education
Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph
Department: Economic and Religious Studies
Three Generations of Methods for Measuring Corruption in Europe
This article focuses on methods for measuring corruption, first describing three generations of corruption indicators and then comparing them qualitatively and quantitatively. Corruption is a clandestine activity that is extremely di cult to measure, there are no official statistics on the number of corruption cases. For this reason, corruption can only be measured indirectly, by various proxies, and it is extremely hard to state whether these indicators are reliable and indeed measure the corruption phenomena…
Topics: Corruption
Starostové, starostky a jejich priority / Mayors and their priorities
This article sets out to identify the factors that have an impact on mayoral decisions in terms of priorities for municipal development. Data from a survey conducted among Czech mayors in the years 2015 and 2016 (N = 492) are used. The sample consists of answers of mayors from municipalities of all population sizes and the sample is evenly distributed over the area of the Czech Republic. The main aim is to show the impact of geographical context, sociodemographic characteristics, and characteristics connected …
Topics: Public Administration
Vliv lokálního prostředí na volební chování v Česku
Článek, který je kvalitativní studií příčin volebního chování a dalším příspěvkem do široké diskuse na téma vlivu lokálního prostředí na volební chování jedince, vychází z analýzy 9 skupinových diskusí (focus groups) a 44 rozhovorů provedených v desíti lokalitách v Česku. Výzkum se zaměřil na lokality, pro které je charakteristické určité stabilní volební chování se specifickou politickou orientací voličů, jenž ale svou charakteristikou neodpovídá volebn…
Topics: Elections and Electoral Research
Kutilství: drobná mozaika svépomocné tvorby
Even though the DIY movement is starting to garner more attention from scholars abroad, it has yet to receive much attention from Czech scholars. The book DIY: a fine mosaic of self-led making represents an effort to bridge that gap at least in part, and to offer the first comprehensive view of DIY (kutilství in Czech) as an intriguing phenomenon that is practiced extensively and which has a distinct history and vibrant presence. Thus, this book is the first complex attempt at defining what DIY is in the Czec…
Topics: Housing, Lifestyle
Comparing Citizen Attitudes towards Security and Liberty in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
The article focuses on the relationship between security and privacy from the point of view of a citizen. It examines Czech and Slovak citizen attitudes toward the use of strong prevention security measures in a situation where the government suspects a terrorist attack or security threats in general. The authors focus on the Czech Republic and Slovakia, two countries that do not have much experience with a severe threat to security, so security is more about pre-emptive measures and general consideration. Dat…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
BTI 2018 Country Report — Czech Republic .
Národní zpráva je příspěvkem k Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI) 2018 Report. Zpráva vznikla na základě velmi komplexních národních studií a ve spolupráci s více než 250 významnými národními experty. Podává detailní a strukturovaný obraz o vlivu reformních strategií na rozvoj demokracie, právního státu a tržní ekonomiky založené na principech sociální spravedlnosti a dobrého vládnutí.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Czech Republic: Declining Bipolarity and New Patterns of Conflict
Kapitola je součástí publikace, která vychází v rámci edice komparativní politiky a zabývá se koaliční vládou a koaličním vládnutím v deseti zemích střední a východní Evropy. Kniha přináší studium celého životního cyklu vládních koalic v regionu, který prošel obrovskou politickou transformací, ale problematika tvorby koalic a koaličního vládnutí zde dosud nebyla studována. Kapitola poskytuje informace a analýzy životního cyklu koalic v České republice, od předvoleb…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Democracy in Crisis? The Czech Republic in Post-Accession and Economic Turmoil.
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Fragmented Politics: Divided Opposition and Weak Governments in the Czech Republic.
Kapitola se zaměřuje na rozvoj demokracie a její kvality v České republice během ekonomické krize a krátce po ní (s hlavním zaměřením na období 2009-2014). Autorky se snaží odpovědět na otázku, zda hospodářská krize přispěla k oslabení české demokracie, nebo zda vnější šok z hospodářské krize dále posílil již existující problémy.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Czech Republic: weak governments and divided opposition in times of crisis.
První dvě dekády vývoje demokracie v České republice charakterizuje rychlá stabilizace stranického systému se dvěma dominantními stranami. Tato kapitola ukazuje konec této stability a na analýze hlasování v parlamentu ilustruje komplikované vládnutí v České republice v letech 2003-2013. Slabé a nestabilní vládnoucí koalice se potýkaly s existencí dvou typů opozice - permanentní opozice a mainstreamové opozice. Chování obou bylo často ideologicky podmíněno. V případě úspo…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
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