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New Phenomenon: Roadside Memorials

Roadside memorials have become a common feature in the Czech landscape over the last couple of decades. Such memorials are usually erected as permanent structures intended to remind travellers of both the accident and the deceased, the majority of whom are young men. Roadside memorials provide a relatively new and personalised form of expressing grief that extends private mourning into the public domain. However, this approach to coping with the death of a friend or family member is in sharp contrast with th…

Topics: Value Orientations, Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Jak náboženství ovlivňuje rodinný život? Rozdíly v chování a postojích k rodině mezi českými věřícími a nevěřícími

Religion forms society in a significant way and provides the basic norms of social behaviour. Even if in present-day Czech society almost two-thirds of the population does not belong to any religious denomination, one cannot deny that this society still relates to Christian norms and value. This can be distinctly observed in the family sphere. Attitudes on families and familial behaviour have, however, changed in this secular society. The article observes, on the basis of data from Generations and Gender Surve…

Topics: Value Orientations, Religion and religiosity, Family

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Everprivate Grief in Public Space: Roadside Memorials in the Czech Republic

Roadside memorials provide a relatively new, personalised expression of grief that expands private mourning into the public domain. Czech roadside memorials generally take the form of permanent constructions to remind travellers of both the accident and the deceased most often young men. Almost all of the one hundred memorials in the research sample featured flowers and candles two-thirds of the sample featured the symbol of the cross.…

Topics: Value Orientations

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

"V žáru lásky se život započal - v žáru ohně se končí." Čtyři pohledy na vývoj kremačního hnutí v české společnosti

The authors analyse the following mutually reliant but, at least as far as Czech society is concerned, not always directly dependent aspects of the cremation movement in the 20th century: the growth in and impact of pro-cremation propaganda, the establishment of new crematoria, the spread in the popularity of cremation as a method of disposal throughout society and changes in the rituals associated with it. Contemporary Czech society has (one of) the highest cremation rates in Europe, a fact which is connected…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Smrt a umírání: opomíjené téma veřejných politik

Death and dying is one of the overlooked areas in the Czech Republic. The prolonging of dying in neo-modern/ late-modern societies requires not just medical care but also very important social care that is a major factor in maintaining high quality of life right to the end. Czech social policy has so far only dealt with death as a marginal topic and it would be good if it learnt from experiences abroad.…

Topics: Social Policy, Age and Aging, Public Policy

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Obřady loučení se zemřelými: Sekulární, náboženské nebo raději žádné pohřby?

Contemporary Czech Burial Practices are strongly influenced by the experience communist régime during which the religious funerals were replaced by secular rituals. The study uses two surveys that document this fact.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity, Care

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Samostatné bydlení mladých - mezinárodní komparace (Bulharsko, Česko a Nizozemsko)

The study compares the similarities and differences in young peopleĺs transition to housing independence from their parents in three European countries - Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands ľ in the context of west European societies (EU15). The purpose was to find whether the Czech and Bulgarian societies are closer to the northern or southern type and whether the differences grounded in the historical and demographic division of west and east Europe persist to this day. The timing of leaving h…

Topics: Housing, Family, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Mateřství a otcovství v současnosti s přihlédnutím k historickému kontextu

The institution of parenthood has undergone dramatic changes in the past decades. The policies of many European countries attempted to aid mothers in combining their parental and professional roles and to strenghten the position of fathers through their active involvement in the upbringing and care of their children. In the past decades, there has also been a shift from parenthood as a natural state of things to parenthood as a chosen state. Linked to this is e decrease in the esteem held for parenthood as an …

Topics: Gender, Parenting, Public Policy

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Corruption in the Czech Republic: Politicians and Managers' Perceptions

The study on corruption perceptions in the Cyech Republic was the result of a survey in which 548 politicians and 646 businesspeople participated. The study found that politicians perceive corruption as the most extensive in offices of central administration and in statutory cities, in construction and public procurement, etc. The study also mapped out the views of politicians about the measures that should limit corruption in the Czech Republic.…

Topics: Corruption

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

The Changing Face of Czech Environmentalism

Topics: Lifestyle

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Hranice, spravedlnost a životní prostředí: Vývoz odpadu za hranice jakožto problém environmentální spravedlnosti

The article analyzes the problem of the illegal importing of waste into the Czech Republic from the pojnt of view of environmental justice, point sout the komplex cause of the phenomenon and offers answers to the question of why it will not be easy to solve.…

Topics: Lifestyle

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

To Each According to His Birth

Topics: Social Inequalities, Education

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Greens Take Root

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Is Corruption a Strategy for Life Success in the Czech Republic?

Topics: Economy, Corruption, Work

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Scandal in Bohemia

Topics: Public Policy, Education

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Petr Matějů, Jana Straková: Unequal Chances in Education: Educational Inequalities in the Czech Republic

An extended book review that overviews the arguments, data and analysis of the book Nerovné šance na vzdělaní (Unequal Chances in Education), edited by Petr Mateju and Jana Strakova.…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Education

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Cesty k efektivní přímé demokracii: česká místní referenda v regionálním srovnání

The paper presents initial results of a research project on the politics of local referendums in the Czech Republic, situating the Czech experience in the context of other Visegrad states. Data on Czech local referendums from 2000-2005 have been compiled from multiple sources – local and national newspapers, data from municipal, district and regional authorities, interviews, and statistical indicators – to ensure the completeness and comprehensiveness of the dataset.…

Topics: Civil Society, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

The RC28 Spring Meeting in Brno, 24-27 May 2007

The article overviewed the international conference of the ISA association (International Sociological Association) International - RC28 Spring Meeting "Social Inequality and Mobility in the Process of Social Transformation," co-organized by the Institute of Sociology, ASCR, v.vand the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University in Brno, May 24-27 2007…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Transformation

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Determination of College Expectations in OECD Countries: The Role of Individual and Structural Factors

The aim of the paper is to assess the effect of education system stratification, its vocational specificity and permeability on the formation of educational aspirations in OECD countries participating in PISA 2003. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of ability, gender, and socioeconomic background…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Education

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Rozdílné mechanismy – stejné nerovnosti. Změny v determinaci vzdělanostních aspirací mezi roky 1989 a 2003

The paper addresses the changes in the role of social background in the formation of educational aspirations of adolescents during the social transformation in the Czech Republic. Using the data from surveys carried out in 1989 a 2003, the authors test the hypothesis that in 1989 the social origin had a strong direct effect on aspirations, while in 2003 its effect was primarily indirect. However, the overall effect remained very strong.…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Transformation, Education

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Macro-Micro Linkages and the Role of Mechanisms in Social Stratification Research

This article proposes a new conceptual framework based on social mechanisms and the multileveled nature of the stratification process. The authors argue that the identification of social mechanisms should be a core aspect of sociological explanation. They apply their conceptual framework to stratification research, where the authors observe that the micro-to-macro linkage is one of the least explored, but also one of the most promising, areas of future research.…

Topics: Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

The Perceived Value of Education and Educational Aspirations in the Czech Republic: Changes in the Determination of Educational Aspirations between 1989 and 2003

This article analyzes changes in the determination of Czech educational aspirations from 1989 to 2003, on the basis of social origin, ability, gender and other factors. The empirical research is based on a comparison of Czech data from the "Rodina ’89" and the 2003 PISA-L surveys. The article hypothesizes that social origin had a stronger direct impact on educational aspirations in 1989, while in 2003 it had a much stronger indirect influence. The empirical results confirm this hypothesis.…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Education

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

The Inequality of Participation: Re-examining the Role of Social Stratification and Post-Communism on Political Participation in Europe

This article compares the determinants of political participation, across 23 European countries, posing the question whether and to what degree social inequalities in political participation differ between post-communist and Western countries. The data for the analysis is from the second round of the ESS survey, conducted in 2004-2005. The article’a analysis demonstrates that the effect of social stauts variables, and mainly gender, on political participaiton are larger across post-communist countries than t…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Inequalities, Transformation

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Perceived Corruption, Distributive Justice, and the Legitimacy of the System of Social Stratification in the Czech Republic

This article examines the relationship between social justice norms and the perceived legitimacy of the social stratification system in the Czech Republic. Despite the fact that meritocratic values have remained the dominant part of ideology in the Czech Republic throughout the transformation process, those values have played only a very minor role in fostering evaluations of system legitimacy, such as perceptions of system closure and widespread inequality. This article argues that perceived corruption is the…

Topics: Corruption, Legitimacy, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Restratifikace české politiky. Vývoj třídně podmíněného volebního chování v České republice v letech 1992–2010

This article focused on the transformation of class voting in the Cyech Republic with the use of the best data available and analytical methods used in the international literature. Contrarz to that literature, we found that there has been a strengthening of the role of class membership on voting behavior. While in the Western countries studied in the literature this trend is decling or fluctuating, in the Cyech Republic it is the opposite.…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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