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Sexuální obtěžování: výzkumný, legislativní a kulturně-historický kontext

Sexuální obtěžování: výzkumný, legislativní a kulturně-historický kontext

The paper sums up the findings based on a research on sexual harassment at university conducted as a part of a research project "Equal opportunities in the science: Analysis of gender barriers and development of talents" kindly supported by the Ministry of Youth and Education CR. The research report has 3 parts. The 1st part presents a findings based on a quantitative survey on a faculty of a Prague University. The 2nd part summarizes the findings based on qualitative survey of in-depth interviews. The 3rd par…

Topics: Gender, Sexuality, Education

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Veřejná agenda

Veřejná agenda

The publication presents more than just theoretical approaches, it puts forth a complex and very well-grounded overview of several dimensions and conceptualizations of the given phenomenon, collectively ordered according to the concept of agenda-setting. Despite the usually delimitation of this concept an attempt is made at a more three-dimensional thematic discussion and alongside covering the historical background to the various dimensions of the given phenomenon the publication tries to deal with it in both…

Topics: Media, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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První a druhý stupeň nastolování agendy (agenda-setting), rámcování (framing) a vypíchnutí (priming)

První a druhý stupeň nastolování agendy (agenda-setting), rámcování (framing) a vypíchnutí (priming)

The publication presents more than just theoretical approaches, it puts forth a complex and very well-grounded overview of several dimensions and conceptualizations of the given phenomenon, collectively ordered according to the concept of agenda-setting. Despite the usually delimitation of this concept an attempt is made at a more three-dimensional thematic discussion and alongside covering the historical background to the various dimensions of the given phenomenon the publication tries to deal with it in both…

Topics: Media, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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Sexuální obtěžování ve vysokoškolském prostředí: analýza, souvislosti, řešení

Sexuální obtěžování ve vysokoškolském prostředí: analýza, souvislosti, řešení

The paper sums up the findings based on a research on sexual harassment at university conducted as a part of a research project "Equal opportunities in the science: Analysis of gender barriers and development of talents" kindly supported by the Ministry of Youth and Education CR. The research report has 3 parts. The 1st part presents a findings based on a quantitative survey on a faculty of a Prague University. The 2nd part summarizes the findings based on qualitative survey of in-depth interviews. The 3rd par…

Topics: Gender, Sexuality, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Tradice výzkumů agenda-setting

Tradice výzkumů agenda-setting

Publikace představuje komplexní a současně velmi fundovaný přehled několika rovin a konceptualizací jevu, souhrnně řazeného pod pojem agenda-setting. Navzdory obvyklým vymezením pojmu se pokouší o plastičtější tematizaci a kromě nastínění historického pozadí různých rovin uvedeného jevu se je pokouší uchopit jak teoreticky, tak metodologicky. V tomto smyslu jednoznačně překračuje většinu standardních publikací věnovaných této problematice. Práce je koncipována jako lo…

Topics: Media, Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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Zasazení konceptu agenda-setting do uvažování o médiích

Zasazení konceptu agenda-setting do uvažování o médiích

The publication presents more than just theoretical approaches, it puts forth a complex and very well-grounded overview of several dimensions and conceptualizations of the given phenomenon, collectively ordered according to the concept of agenda-setting. Despite the usually delimitation of this concept an attempt is made at a more three-dimensional thematic discussion and alongside covering the historical background to the various dimensions of the given phenomenon the publication tries to deal with it in both…

Topics: Media, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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Spolupráce - rozvojová strategie Orlicka

Spolupráce - rozvojová strategie Orlicka

This study focuses on social capital and the network of links between the organisations involved in activities geared towards the development of tourism in the Pardubice Region. The analysis of their network displays interconnectedness, the trust they show each other in their cooperation and that they place in the process of decision-making on supporting projects to advance tourism. A part of the study focuses on the micro-region of Králicko, the territory at the heart of the Králický Sněžník Tourism Zon…

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Social Capital

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Sociální distance a prolínání nerovností (třída, gender, rasa/etnicita)

Sociální distance a prolínání nerovností (třída, gender, rasa/etnicita)

The monograph presents review of theoretical frameworks of studying of sociocultural and symbolical inequalities. It pursues relational aspect of inequalities and their cultural dimension (social identity, symbolical placement, cultural praxis). According culturalistic approach inequalities arise in relations among people. Alternative approaches have in common comprehension of particular relations and their spring in interactions: communication and association in mutual ties (social networks).…

Topics: Gender, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Přímá demokracie v praxi: politika místních referend v České republice

Přímá demokracie v praxi: politika místních referend v České republice

Not only do citizens in most Central European countries have the right to initiate referendums that are binding on local government, this book also shows that citizens in this region are also making greaer use of this possibility. The book focuses on the indentification of factors that lead to the ability of citizens to successfully initiate referendums on locally controversial questions, even in cases when local representatives are hostile to direct democracy.…

Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Studium sociální struktury jako konstruovaného prostoru. Sociální kategorizace a sociální identita

Studium sociální struktury jako konstruovaného prostoru. Sociální kategorizace a sociální identita

The monograph presents review of theoretical frameworks of studying of sociocultural and symbolical inequalities. It pursues relational aspect of inequalities and their cultural dimension (social identity, symbolical placement, cultural praxis). According culturalistic approach inequalities arise in relations among people. Alternative approaches have in common comprehension of particular relations and their spring in interactions: communication and association in mutual ties (social networks).…

Topics: Identity, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Sociální distance a interakce: relační přístup ke studiu stratifikace

Sociální distance a interakce: relační přístup ke studiu stratifikace

The monograph presents review of theoretical frameworks of studying of sociocultural and symbolical inequalities. It pursues relational aspect of inequalities and their cultural dimension (social identity, symbolical placement, cultural praxis). According culturalistic approach inequalities arise in relations among people. Alternative approaches have in common comprehension of particular relations and their spring in interactions: communication and association in mutual ties (social networks).…

Topics: Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Interrupce v České republice: zápas o ženská těla

Interrupce v České republice: zápas o ženská těla

The book deals with the development of politics of abortion in the Czech Republic since 1957. Based on the research of discourses and institutions of abortion it develops the aproach of discursive institutionalism. The politics of abortion are analysed as specific socialist governmentalities, existing during the communist regime.…

Topics: Gender, Family, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Sociální distance, interakce, relace a kategorizace: alternativní teoretické perspektivy studia sociální stratifikace

Sociální distance, interakce, relace a kategorizace: alternativní teoretické perspektivy studia sociální stratifikace

The monograph presents review of theoretical frameworks of studying of sociocultural and symbolical inequalities. It pursues relational aspect of inequalities and their cultural dimension (social identity, symbolical placement, cultural praxis). According culturalistic approach inequalities arise in relations among people. Alternative approaches have in common comprehension of particular relations and their spring in interactions: communication and association in mutual ties (social networks).…

Topics: Identity, Interpersonal Relations, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Finanční podpora rodin s dětmi v České republice v evropském kontextu

Finanční podpora rodin s dětmi v České republice v evropském kontextu

The book explores the structure and level of financial support addressed to families with children in the Czech Republic and 16 other European countries as of January 2004. Through analysis of tax-benefit system it examines where the Czech Republic stands in respect of family support within the European context and assesses which European policy is most similar to the Czech model of financial family support.…

Topics: Care, Family, Social Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Agenda-setting: teoretické přístupy

Agenda-setting: teoretické přístupy

The publication presents more than just theoretical approaches, it puts forth a complex and very well-grounded overview of several dimensions and conceptualizations of the given phenomenon, collectively ordered according to the concept of agenda-setting. Despite the usually delimitation of this concept an attempt is made at a more three-dimensional thematic discussion and alongside covering the historical background to the various dimensions of the given phenomenon the publication tries to deal with it in both…

Topics: Media, Public Opinion, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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Občanská společnost v regionech České republiky

Občanská společnost v regionech České republiky

Book focuses on regional and local aspects of civil society in the Czech Republic. The theoretical section contains a summary of the development of knowledge in the field of civil society and civic participation from two partly opposing perspectives – the institutional and the socio-cultural. The results of empirical study of two selected regions indicate that both institutional and socio-cultural factors play a role in the development of civil society.…

Topics: Civil Society, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Biotechnologizace: legitimita, materialita a možnosti odporu

Biotechnologizace: legitimita, materialita a možnosti odporu

The book follows the controversy over the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture. I look at the production and use of scientific expert knowledges and other knowledges and at the processes of globalization and localization, or political geography, as enacted in the case of GMOs. I also follow and analyse the processes whereby the legitimacy of agricultural GMOs is constructed or subverted and the strategies for the de/materialization of GMOs. I show that representations in the regimes of s…

Topics: European Union, Legitimacy, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Životní strategie žen a mužů v řízení (a) podnikání

Životní strategie žen a mužů v řízení (a) podnikání

In this study the author examined the motivations for starting up a business and the life strategies for work and family balance in small and mid-sized entrepreneurship by men and women who started up independent businesses in the Czech Republic in the 1990s, and I situated the research in the context of the gender structure of Czech society. …

Topics: Gender, Work, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Kognitivní přístupy v metodologii výzkumných šetření: metoda okamžité validizace

Kognitivní přístupy v metodologii výzkumných šetření: metoda okamžité validizace

The study maps the situation of standardized interviewing at interactional level ad at the level of cognitive processes in respondents` minds. The presentation of methodological area of Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology offers compact overview of theoretical conceptions and knowledge about the aspects of interviewing situation, introduces major cognitive methods used for the construction of questions and questionnaires and primarily describes original authors` method of immediate validation that concerns…

Topics: Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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Otcovství po rozchodu rodičovského páru

Otcovství po rozchodu rodičovského páru

The book presents a theoretical study and an original qualitative empirical study of fatherhood after divorce or separation. A total of 35 interviews were conducted with men with various social and educational backgrounds. It shows how contemporary fathers select between different repertoires of fatherhood and how they interpret them, and in this way they construct their own personal paternal role.…

Topics: Gender, Interpersonal Relations, Parenting

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Povaha občanské společnosti v České republice v kontextu střední Evropy

Povaha občanské společnosti v České republice v kontextu střední Evropy

The core objective of this dissertation is to answer a question: What is the character of civil society in the Czech Republic in the context of Central Europe?. The author analyzes the role, character, financing and classification of Czech civil society, including a description of the barriers which the nongovernmental sector in the Czech Republic faces in the context of complex social processes such as transformation, Europeanization and globalization. …

Topics: Globalization, Civil Society, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Životní styl a sociální třídy: vytváření symbolické kulturní hranice diferenciací vkusu a spotřeby

Životní styl a sociální třídy: vytváření symbolické kulturní hranice diferenciací vkusu a spotřeby

Šafr, Jiří. 2008. Lifestyle and Social Class in the Czech Republic: The Formation of Symbolic Cultural Boundaries by Differentiated Taste and Consumption. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i.The study pursues differentiation of lifestyle, cultural capital (taste, consumption) and social stratification. Analyses of MML 2004 data examine: class homology hypothesis, social background of cultural omnivorousness and hypothesis of homology bolstering after 1989. Most of six pursued lifestyle spheres is stru…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

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Sociálněvědní výzkum z metodologického pohledu

Sociálněvědní výzkum z metodologického pohledu

The chapter deals with classical topics of social research methodology in tight connection with separate surveys conducted within the project Politic-legal institutional frame of the Czech republic and its transformations in the context of European Union accession. …

Topics: European Union, Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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Co občané České republiky vědí o politice a proč je to důležité?

Co občané České republiky vědí o politice a proč je to důležité?

This chapter shows that (1) Czech citizens know most about local and national politics (2) the distribution of political knowledge in the Czech Republic is biased leading to political inequality (3) in contrast to other citizens in the EU-25 member states, Czechs have lower than average levels of general knowledge of the Union (4) level of political knowledge is most strongly determined by citizen motivation followed by access to information, and ability to make sense of politics. …

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

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Imigrace v České republice v kontextu evropské integrace

Imigrace v České republice v kontextu evropské integrace

The process of the Europeanisation of Czech alien and asylum laws seems to be rather inconsistent. The integration into the EU has brought some changes, which have not yet had a profound affect on the actual nature of immigration. Today immigration to the Czech Republic is often described as a short-term labour migration. Nevertheless, the potential for migrants’ permanent settlement in the Czech Republic seems to be increasing thus there is a substantial need for effective integration policies. …

Topics: European Union, Migration and Mobility, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

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