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Demographic Avant-Garde: Jews in Bohemia between the Enlightenment and the Shoah

Demographic Avant-Garde: Jews in Bohemia between the Enlightenment and the Shoah

This book studies the unique demographic behavior of Jews in Bohemia, starting from a moment in history when industrialization in Central Europe was far away in the future and when Jews were still living legally restricted lives in ghettos. Under conditions not stipulated by conventional demographic theories, Bohemian Jews started recording marked decreases in mortality and fertility that signaled an early onset of their demographic transition.Demographic Avant-Garde examines what made Jews in Bohemia true for…

Topics: Elites, Historical Sociology, Transformation, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Fertility, natural growth and migration in the Czech Republic: an urban-suburban-rural gradient analysis of long-term trends and recent reversals

This paper examines long-term trends in fertility and recent reversals in natural increase, net migration, and general fertility across residential contexts in the post-communist Czech Republic. Long-term differentials are analysed on the cumulative fertility of cohorts whose fertility was completed before and after the change in political regime in 1989. The results show important effects education and residential context (urban–suburban–rural gradient) have on the cohorts with (almost) completed fertilit…

Topics: City and Village, Research Methodology, Migration and Mobility, Regions, Transformation, Education

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Children’s union status and contact with mothers: A cross-national study

Topics: Intergenerational Relations, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

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Department: Values and Politics

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Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

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Are Parental Leaves Considered as Work Interruptions by Survey Respondents? A Methodological Note

Parental leaves and family-related work interruptions are linked to a variety of issues, such as children’s well-being or women’s work trajectories. Yet, the measurement of periods of absence fromthe labour market might be imprecise, especially in retrospective surveys. To evaluate the quality of the collected information, we examine whether women who reported taking a parental leave longerthan six months also mentioned a corresponding work interruption, using the 2008 Living in Canada Survey (LCS) – Pil…

Topics: Work, Family

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

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Zdraví a rodinný stav

This article focuses on the link between marital status and health and presents an overview of the theories and empirical studies that are devoted to this issue. The article examines the issues of selection and causality, the importance of the quality of a union, gender differences, marital and partnership histories, and social context. It shows that, while the link between marital status and mortality or physical and mental health is well documented in the literature, the relative signifi cance of causality a…

Topics: Family, Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

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Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

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Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

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Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

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Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

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BRIC(S) - od skratky k medzinárodnému zoskupeniu

Topics: Economy, Globalization, Regions

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

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Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

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Za rudou oponou. Komunisté a jejich voliči po roce 1989

Za rudou oponou. Komunisté a jejich voliči po roce 1989

Book in broad historical, social and political context analyzes the main characteristics and the position of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia in the Czech political system after 1989. It examines the nature and dynamics in time the anti-system identity, the historical development of conditional party, its program and policy objectives, as well as group interests and shared values that it represents. The empirical framework of this study presents an extensive survey of voters, which charted values and…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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Dočasná stabilita? Volební podpora politických stran v České republicev letech 1990 - 2010

Dočasná stabilita? Volební podpora politických stran v České republicev letech 1990 - 2010

This book explains why Czech voters choose specific parties. The focus is on the long-term determinants of electoral behaviour (cleavages, left-right orientation, and party identification) and on four parties with long-term representation in the Czech parliament: ČSSD, KDU-ČSL, KSČM and ODS. Moreover, the authors focused on changes in the determinants of electoral stability over time. This helped them to identify any important variations in the structural determinants of electoral behaviour over time.339,- …

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Devadesát let Eriky Kadlecové

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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De-standardization of family trajectories: Childbearing in unmarried cohabitation not only as an alternative but also as a pathway to marriage

Based on a secondary analysis of data from qualitative research of unmarried parental couples, this article explores childbearing in unmarried cohabitation from the perspective of de-standardisation and individualization of family trajectories. Drawing upon a differentiation of their situation at the moment around childbirth and their actual attitudes, it distinguishes heterogeneity of views of unmarried parents on the position of an unmarried cohabitation with child in their family trajectories. Overall, the …

Topics: Value Orientations, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

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Vztah mezi pracovním a soukromým životem

Topics: Care, Work, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Postoje k roli státu při zajištění péče o děti

Topics: Value Orientations, Care, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

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Publication Type: Published review

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Archivace sociálněvědních dat: principy, technologie, standardy [Archving Social Science Data: Principles, Technologies, Standards]

Článek se věnuje problematice sdílení výzkumných dat v sociálních vědách a současným nástrojům a standardům, které archivům pomáhají plnit jejich úlohu. Představen je mezinárodní dokumentační standard DDI, specializovaný software NESSTAR a hlavní koncepce, které stojí za vývojem standardů archivace a dlouhodobého uchovávání digitálních dat v sociálněvědních archivech.…

Topics: Research Methodology

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

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Český sociálněvědní datový archiv

Topics: Research Methodology

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

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Otevřený přístup k datům

Topics: Research Methodology

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

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