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Public / private funding of higher education: a social balance

Public / private funding of higher education: a social balance

The aim of this project was to provide reliable data and information on the real and effective distribution of (teaching-related) costs of higher education. The shares of public and private costs were calculated for students of different socio-economic origin, reflecting social disparity and social exclusion. Thus, a twofold task was achieved: On the one hand, a comparison between countries on macroeconomic level has taken place to explore the sharing of the costs of higher education provision between the stat…

Topics: Social Inequalities, Public Policy, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Veřejné mínění a soužití mezi Rómy a nerómskou populací v ČR

Topics: Value Orientations, Interpersonal Relations, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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Pracující matky a genderové role ve výsledcích mezinárodního longitudinálního výzkumu

Pracující matky a genderové role ve výsledcích mezinárodního longitudinálního výzkumu

The article is based on comparative analysis of data from the international longitudinal survey ISSP 1994 and 2002 focused on gender roles and family. Based on the analysis European countries were divided according to their inhabitants´ opinions on gender roles and working mothers. Even though employment rate of women in Eastern Europe was higher during the state socialist regime than in Western Europe, countries of the former Eastern European block formed a group with traditional (conservative) attitudes t…

Topics: Gender, Work, Social Policy

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Co to je životní úroveň?

Topics: Standard of Living

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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Times and Trajectories in Academic Knowledge Production

Times and Trajectories in Academic Knowledge Production

Chapter is concerned with times and timings at work in epistemic life-spaces. We divide our attention between trajectories and everyday time. The notion of trajectories draws attention to narrated time – the stories that collective and individual actors tell themselves about their linear movements through time, involving the ongoing production and reproduction of pasts, presents and futures. In researching every day time we pay attention to the time(s) of practice and the specific rhytms and routines generat…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences, Education

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Gender a demokracie ve střední a východní Evropě

Gender a demokracie ve střední a východní Evropě

Author informs about the international conference Gendering Democracy in an Enlarged Europe and about international research project Enlargement, gender and governance that was closed by the conference in 2005 in Prague. …

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Modes of Ordering and Boundaries that Matter in Academic Knowledge Production

Modes of Ordering and Boundaries that Matter in Academic Knowledge Production

The chapter maps key modes of orderings and boundaries in current scientific practice in life sciences and social sciences, namely epistemic geography, disciplinarity, excellence, the relation between basic and applied research, modes of orderings within academic institutions, and the relations between science and society.…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Jak změřit životní úroveň?

Topics: Research Methodology, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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Pracovní a rodinné role žen z pohledu dvou generací

Klíčová slova: genderové role, kombinace práce a rodiny, vysokoškoláci …

Topics: Gender, Work, Family

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Vliv evropské integrace na ženské občanské organizace v ČR

Vliv evropské integrace na ženské občanské organizace v ČR

The article consists of an analysis of the influence of the EU enlargement on women's NGOs and women's groups in the Czech Republic. Mainly, processes of professionalization, project-orientation and reform-orientation of women's NGOs are analyzed as consequences of Czech Republic's accession to the EU. …

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Knowing and Living in Academic Research. Convergence and Heterogeneity in Research Cultures in the European Context

Knowing and Living in Academic Research. Convergence and Heterogeneity in Research Cultures in the European Context

Ulrike Felt is professor of social studies of science since 1999 and head of Vienna STS department. After having finished her PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Vienna in 1983, she worked for nearly five years in an interdisciplinary research team of science historians at the European Center for High Energy Physics (CERN) in Geneva studying social, political and scientific aspects in the foundation period of this first big European research institution. During this period her research interests mo…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Životní úroveň a veřejné mínění v ČR

Topics: Public Opinion, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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Postavení žen  v české vědě a aktivity na jejich podporu. Monitorovací zpráva za rok 2009

Postavení žen v české vědě a aktivity na jejich podporu. Monitorovací zpráva za rok 2009

The publication aims to highlight the position of women in Czech science and the importance of addressing gender equality on the policy level in general. The first part of the report provides an statistical overview, then summarizes the activities of science and state institutions in the field of gender equality in 2009, continues with analyzing of discursive strategies of institutions, that results in the persistent unactivity at the level of science policy, and shows how are male and female scientist represe…

Topics: Gender, Media, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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Moderní nástroje sociálního bydlení pro mladé rodiny jako nepřímá podpora růstu porodnosti

Moderní nástroje sociálního bydlení pro mladé rodiny jako nepřímá podpora růstu porodnosti

The policy paper offers theoretical framework of the relations between housing and population policy and reviews current housing policies accross european countries. The paper focuses predominanty on the rental housing sector and on young families searching for housing. The authors summarize both state-level and municipality-level policies aimed at this group. Two policies are proposed: novelization of current housing benefit and local houisng guarantee.…

Topics: Housing, Family, Social Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Dopady hospodářské krize na finanční dostupnost bydlení - analýza a možné nástroje státu

Dopady hospodářské krize na finanční dostupnost bydlení - analýza a možné nástroje státu

The policy paper deals with impacts of economic crisis and identifies households endangered by financial inaffordability, mainly due to unemployment reasons. After reviewing various international policies dealing with this problem, the authors propose two policies – the programme for the support of work related migration and a an interest-free loan for homeowners facing the risk of losing their homes.…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Statistický přehled: financování výzkumu a vývoje a ženy v AV ČR

Statistický přehled: financování výzkumu a vývoje a ženy v AV ČR

The publication Trans/formation: gender, science and society explores the issue of women in science in the CR from the 19th century to the present. It builds on the findings of EC’s Enwise expert group from 2004. The publication documents changes related to the influx of women to the research profession, analyses the specificities of the gender contract in post-communist countries, examines changes related to the accession to the European Research Area and equal opportunities measures adopted in the CR.…

Topics: Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Rovné příležitosti žen a mužů v české vědě a výzkumu

Rovné příležitosti žen a mužů v české vědě a výzkumu

The publication Trans/formation: gender, science and society explores the issue of women in science in the CR from the 19th century to the present. It builds on the findings of EC’s Enwise expert group from 2004. The publication documents changes related to the influx of women to the research profession, analyses the specificities of the gender contract in post-communist countries, examines changes related to the accession to the European Research Area and equal opportunities measures adopted in the CR. …

Topics: Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Reforma bytové politiky ČR: návrh a výsledky simulací

Reforma bytové politiky ČR: návrh a výsledky simulací

The policy paper contains the proposal for structural changes of several housing policy measures in the Czech Republic. The goal of the reform is to increase policy effectiveness, efficiency, tenure neutrality and anticyclicity. The second section of paper describes the results of large-scale simulations of the reform and its impact on public expenditures and income distribution.…

Topics: Housing, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Ženy ve vědě po roce 1989: český aktivismus a evropské debaty

Ženy ve vědě po roce 1989: český aktivismus a evropské debaty

The chapter looks into the development of the issue of women in science in the Czech Republic after 1989 in relation and in the light of European policies aimed at supporting women in science.…

Topics: European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences, Transformation, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Hodnocení dělby práce v domácnosti

Author analyzes opinions of Czech men and women on division of housework. She finds out that the division is not equal and the inequality is perceived as unjust by majority of Czech men and women. She also finds out that this perception strengthen number of conflicts about the division of housework. She concludes with data based strategies of reaching agreement on division of housework in Czech families. …

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Podpora dostupnosti bydlení pro lidi akutně ohrožené sociálním vyloučením - mezinárodní perspektiva a návrhy opatření v ČR

Podpora dostupnosti bydlení pro lidi akutně ohrožené sociálním vyloučením - mezinárodní perspektiva a návrhy opatření v ČR

Policy paper deals with an analysis of housing affordability and availability for social excluded in the Czech Republic based on the case studies and the experiences of non-profit organisations. Good practices and possible strategies to combat housing exclusion using in foreign countries are discussed in the paper. The objective of the paper is to propose tools directed to increase availability and affordability of housing for people at risk of social exclusion in the Czech republic.…

Topics: Housing, Social Inequalities, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Diskurz spravedlnosti mezi aktivismem a vědou

Diskurz spravedlnosti mezi aktivismem a vědou

The authors of the article argue against the article by Martin Hájek, Jiří Kabele a Kateřina Vojtíšková „Zázemí“ a „bojiště“ v usilování o spravedlnost: textová analýza odborářské, feministické a lidskoprávní mediální komunikace. The contestation concerns mainly the construction of the feminist justice discourse for purposes of quantitative text analysis and its one-sided interpretation. …

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Trans/formace: gender, věda a společnost

Trans/formace: gender, věda a společnost

The publication Trans/formation: gender, science and society explores the issue of women in science in the CR from the 19th century to the present. It builds on the findings of EC’s Enwise expert group from 2004. The publication documents changes related to the influx of women to the research profession, analyses the specificities of the gender contract in post-communist countries, examines changes related to the accession to the European Research Area and equal opportunities measures adopted in the CR. …

Topics: European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Agenda setting v sociologické perspektivě

Agenda setting v sociologické perspektivě

In this paper the author attempts to put forth a new theoretical explanation of how the phenomenon known as “agenda setting” functions. The paper begins with a summary of current knowledge about this phenomenon, including the two theoretical explanations given to date: the psychological explanation and the explanation based on trust in the information media.…

Topics: Media, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Values and Politics

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Konstrukce kvótních znaků

Konstrukce kvótních znaků 'region' a 'velikostní skupina obce'

The paper addresses the problem of quota sampling design and specifically that of “region” and “settlement size” variables. For practical purposes the Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM) needs to improve its quota sampling process and reconstruct its interviewer network, and this has led to the development of a new structure for both.…

Topics: Research Methodology, Regions

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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