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Za hranicí povolené víry – evangelíci a ‚náboženští blouznivci‘

A chapter of an extensive new synthesis of Czech history. This chapter is devoted to the Protestants and other religious non-conformists in the 18th and 19th centuries.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Od náboženství k agnosticismu

A chapter of an extensive new synthesis of Czech history. This chapter is devoted to secularization movement, atheism and agnosticism in the 18th and 19th centuries.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Evangelíci v novodobých českých dějinách

A chapter of an extensive new synthesis of Czech history. This chapter is devoted to Protestantism and its social impact in the 19th and early 20th centuries.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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Postarat se ve stáří

Postarat se ve stáří

Kniha poskytuje přehled teorií a dostupného empirického výzkumu, a přehled o situaci a institucionálním uspořádání v oblasti péče o starší v České republice. Představuje výsledky vlastního empirického výzkumu veřejného a politického diskurzu o péči o seniory a biografického výzkumu neformálních pečujících v České republice. Závěrem spojuje výsledky výzkumu každodenních zkušeností a interpretací péče neformálních pečovatelů a výzkumu mediálního a politické…

Topics: Gender, Care, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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The Czech Republic

The chapter analyses the development of political cleavages in post-communist Czech Republic, includes detailed examination of elections, the formation of governments, electoral systems and constitutional arrangements. Special attention is paid to development of party system, and existing and emerging political structures.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Klamná hranice chudoby v Česku

Česká republika se svou desetiprocentní mírou chudoby řadí na nejlepší místo v evropském žebříčku. Jak se ale chudoba měří? Bude si ČR v mezinárodním srovnání stát stejně dobře, podíváme-li se na chudobu jinou optikou?…

Topics: Standard of Living

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Spokojenost se životem a zaměstnáním v České republice

The article deals with life and job satisfaction of the Czech working-age population. First it highlights concepts of happiness and satisfaction within the emerging multidimensional approaches to individual and societal well-being. Then, it resumes the data sources of those measures, with specific attention to the Module on Subjective Well-being of the survey EU-SILC. Using this data, basic characteristics and determinants of life satisfaction are shown first and basic characteristics and determinants of job s…

Topics: Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Publication Type: Published review

Department: Values and Politics

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Regional differences in political trust: Comparing the Vysocina and Usti Regions

Regional differences in political trust: Comparing the Vysocina and Usti Regions

This article deals with the factors influencing the degree of trust in political institutions at three levels of government in the Czech Republic (national, regional and local) in two dissimilar regions in the time of economic crisis in 2009, the year when citizens of the Czech Republic experienced the negative impacts of growing unemployment and a substantial decline in real GDP. Two competitive theories - the cultural and the performance explanantion - were used as a theoretical framework. The results show t…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Facebooková ne/závislost. Identita, interakce a uživatelská kariéra na Facebooku

Facebooková ne/závislost. Identita, interakce a uživatelská kariéra na Facebooku

The Internet has changed the nature of social ties and interactions, giving rise to new ways of making social contact, offering an environment for communication and tools for these interactions. The tools that introduce new methods of communication include social networks. The scholar focused on the most popular of these – Facebook.In mid-2016, there were 1.7 billion of Facebook users worldwide and this number is increasing. This compels us to ask why Facebook is so interesting and attractive, why people sig…

Topics: Identity, Media

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

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Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

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Czech Copreneur Orientations to Business and Family Responsibilities: A Mixed Embeddedness Perspective

PurposeThis paper aims to utilize a mixed-embeddedness approach to examine how state welfare policies, employment conditions and gender norms shape orientations to divisions of business and domestic labor among Czech copreneurs, i.e. romantic couples involved in businesses together.Design/methodology/approachTwelve copreneur couples were interviewed male and female partners were interviewed separately. Women’s narratives are centered in analyzing motivations for business, divisions of labor, orientation to b…

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Sólo pro soprán: O ženách v české politice

Sólo pro soprán: O ženách v české politice

Kniha přispívá k diskusi o podmínkách a okolnostech politické participace žen v ČR. Vychází z aktuálních dat kvantitativní i kvalitativní povahy. Představuje teoretické přístupy k uchopení problematiky žen v politice, zaměřuje se na zastoupení žen v politice v českém kontextu a na jeho vývoj, na názory a postoje české veřejnosti na ženy v politice a nástroje jejich podpory a věnuje se také životním a pracovním drahám vrcholových političek. Analytickou část knih…

Topics: Gender, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Publication Type: Published review

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Publication Type: Published review

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Rural Idyll Without Rural Sociology? Changing Features, Functions and Research of the Czech Countryside

Rural Idyll Without Rural Sociology? Changing Features, Functions and Research of the Czech Countryside

The development of the Czech countryside differs in many ways from trajectories typical for Eastern and Central European rural areas in the last 25 years. In our article, we discuss the nature of the ‘Czech exceptionalism’, with reference to three examples, namely population development, the dynamics of rural/agricultural labour markets and rural governance. Firstly, we describe the major driving forces behind rural development in Czechia over the past 25 years and how these forces are reflected in t…

Topics: City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Regions, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory, Public Administration

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Na vině je celý systém. Se Zuzanou Uhde o strachu z imigrantů

Topics: Globalization, Identity, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

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Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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