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Crime count and crime harm in a post-socialist city: How does the law of crime concentration at places apply?
This article reports on a new empirical study evaluating crime concentration at places in a postsocialist city. We use principles of the law of crime concentration at places and the Cambridge Crime Harm Index to measure crime count and crime harm concentration at the level of street segments. The research found differences between crime concentration in a post-socialist city and crime concentration reported by recent studies from US or UK cities. Both crime and harm concentration are consistently less spa…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Criminality, City and Village, Social Inequalities, Public Administration
Stabilita kriminality v místech: Případová studie českého města.
The Stability of Crime at Places: A Case Study of a Czech CityResearch into the concentration of crime at places is a long-standing research area in environmental criminology. Studies demonstrate the practical potential of geo-localised data for criminological and security research. Knowledge about crime concentration at places makes it possible to focus repressive and preventive activities in localities where the most effective results can be achieved. In Czech criminology, limited use has as yet been made of…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Criminality, City and Village, Regions, Public Policy
The politics of the makeshift city: materiality, symbolic boundaries, and social relations in squatter settlements in Latin America (Interview with María José Álvarez Rivadulla)
Petr Vašát (PV): Maria, first of all, thank you for meeting with me. For our interview, I have prepared questions spanning from informal urbanism to building techniques to politics. Some of these questions are more related to research, while some are more about urban development. However, let’s start with your beginnings. I have discovered that you started to study informal urbanism in Montevideo in the 90s, 1997 to be exact, which is a pretty long time ago. So, how did it all begin? Why did you start stud…
Topics: Housing, Economy, Globalization, City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Regions, Social Inequalities
Disentangling the link between having one child and partnership trajectories: a mixed-methods life-course research
This article explores the relationships between partnership trajectories and having an only child. Few studies have focused on one-child families, even though in many countries having just one child is the main factor driving sub-replacement fertility levels. Little is known especially about how non-progression to a second child relates to partnership trajectories. This article contributes to filling these gaps by using a mixed-methods life-course research. We combine sequence and regression analyses of survey…
Topics: Parenting
Disentangling the link between having one child and partnership trajectories: a mixed-methods lifecourse research
This article explores the relationships between partnership trajectories and having an only child. Few studies have focused on one-child families, even though in many countries having just one child is the main factor driving sub-replacement fertility levels. Little is known especially about how non-progression to a second child relates to partnership trajectories. This article contributes to filling these gaps by using a mixed-methods life-course research. We combine sequence and regression analyses of survey…
Topics: Gender, Parenting
Na cestě k inkluzi: proměny pedagogických procesů ve vzdělávání a jejich pojetí učiteli a zástupci vedení ZŠ
Kniha se věnuje tematice inkluze ve vzdělávání. Představuje informovanou a nepředpojatou sondu do procesu, který v odborné i laické veřejnosti začal silněji rezonovat s účinností novely školského zákona (zákon č. 82/2015 Sb.). Tzv. inkluze se ani u nás nezrodila ex nihilo v r. 2015 nebo 2016 a nekončí několika legislativními, organizačními, metodickými a finančními opatřeními. Jádrem dalších kroků na cestě k inkluzi je její akceptace. Na výzkumných datech pak dokumentuj…
Topics: Value Orientations, Education
Systémové řešení bytové nouze rodin a jednotlivců na úrovni obcí Náměty a doporučení pro města a obce s vysokou mírou bytové nouze
Průlomová publikace, ve které organizace Platforma pro sociální bydlení, R-Mosty a Sociologický ústav Akademie věd ČR přináší obcím ucelený návod a podporu, jak řešit bytovou nouzi na svém území.Dokument má být příručkou, sadou nástrojů a pomocníkem pro ty, kdo se vlastní iniciativou, na základě přání kolegů či nadřízených nebo v reakci na poptávku svých klientů dostanou do pozice řešitelů bytové nouze a chtějí využívat odpovědné, humánní a fungujíc…
Topics: Housing, Standard of Living
Publication Type: Other Publication
Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science
Part-Time Employment in Central and Eastern Europe: A Cross-Country Analysis
This chapter explores part-time employment in Central and Eastern European countries (CEE) as compared to Western Europe. The aim is to examine the relationship between part-time work and labour utilisation in CEE, and to evaluate whether a potential expansion of part-time employment may facilitate growth in labour utilisation. The analyses on panel data identify the main determinants of part-time employment and the key factors that limit it in CEE. The results indicate that part-time employment of prime-aged …
Topics: Economy, Work
Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph
Department: Economic and Religious Studies
Perspektiven einer Kulturanalyse des Ländlichen. Eine thematische Hinführung
The chapter gives a thematic introduction into the edited volume “The Rural as a Cultural Category. Contemporary Perspectives of Cultural Studies on Urban-Rural Relations” edited by Manuel Trummer and Anja Decker. It elaborates on the contribution of cultural anthropology to a critical exploration of the cultural categories “rural space” and “rurality” and discusses some of the potentials and challenges arising from the expansion of the fields and formats of cultural anthropological engagements wit…
Topics: City and Village, Regions
Das Ländliche als kulturelle Kategorie: Aktuelle kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Stadt-Land-Beziehungen.
The book explores "rurality" as a cultural category. In 18 chapters, European ethnologists and cultural anthropologists discuss the methodological and conceptual approaches that can be used to capture and describe the ›rural‹ beyond generalizations, causal speculations and dichotomous thinking.…
Topics: City and Village, Regions
Sociální stát, nerovnosti, politika. Postoje české veřejnosti k sociálnímu státu v letech 1996 až 2016
Welfare State, Inequalities, Politics: The Czech Public’s Attitudes towards the Welfare State between 1996 and 2016This book examines the broad expectations and perceptions residents of the Czech Republic have had of the welfare state from the 1990s to the present (most of the analyses cover the period up to 2016 and some up to 2018). More specifically, it looks at what the Czech public thinks about the scope of the welfare state (i.e. what services should the welfare state provide), the amount of social spe…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Policy
Making city-bases: homeless places, poverty management, and urban change in Pilsen, Czechia
The article explores how homeless people make places in the public space, while revealing some of the overlooked effects these places may have on the wider city. The article relies on extensive ethnographic research and media coverage analysis of a place called Eskalátory (the Escalators) in Pilsen, a second-order city in Czechia. Eskalátory is part of an underpass with a four-lane road, a tramway, and four outdoor escalators, altogether, forming a specific urban assemblage. The paper describes three spe…
Topics: Housing, Economy, Globalization, City and Village, Social Inequalities
Structured Agency and Motherhood among Copreneurs in the Czech Republic
We interviewed separately partners in twelve CR copreneurial couples to understand their possibly divergent perspectives on motives for copreneurship. Blenkinsopp and Owens argue that family businesses are a uniquely hybrid organizations that blend economic and caring concerns. Our analysis is guided by a structured-agency approach that focuses on how societal norms, the economy, and government policies influence entrepreneurial decisions. Our findings reveal how women’s caring concerns can converge with tra…
Topics: Gender
The diversity of pathways to childlessness in the Czech Republic: The union histories of childless men and women
Despite the fact that not having a partner is a strong predictor for remaining childless, few studies have explored the heterogeneity of partnership trajectories among childless persons. This article fills the gap in knowledge about the pathways to childlessness in Central Europe by exploring the within-group diversity of partnership trajectories among childless persons between the ages of 18 and 40 under state socialism and during the post-1989 transformation in the Czech Republic. Based on data from the Gend…
Topics: Gender, Family
Věková homofilie na české online seznamce
This article examines age homophily on a Czech online dating site using real user data. With a sample of 10 563 unique users and the aid of negative binomial regression, we test two hypotheses based on previous studies of online dating - namely, that men and women show different partner preferences with respect to age and that women in particular favour age homophily in their contacts. The model results support these hypotheses. Men are observed to prefer younger women, while women prefer men who are the same …
Topics: Family
Estimating subjective poverty lines with discrete information
This paper proposes a novel methodology for the estimation of subjective poverty lines (SPLs) using a discrete information approach that obviates the potential discomfort of asking respondents directly about the value of their individual SPL. To estimate income SPLs, we utilize the Youden index. Using a simulated data-set, we first show that the level of bias between the estimated SPLs and their corresponding actual values is low. Next, we demonstrate an application of the proposed methodology to the EU-SILC 2…
Topics: Social Inequalities, Standard of Living
Minimum wage and youth employment in regions of the Visegrád countries
This paper estimates the youth employment effects of minimum wages in the Visegrád countries: Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. The analyses are based on a regional panel dataset for the period 2003–16. Our results indicate that changes in minimum wages measured as a ratio of regional average wages have not negatively affected youth employment rates in the Visegrád countries at the national level. Detailed analyses indicate that changes in the ratio of minimum to average wages may have dampened regio…
Topics: Wages and Incomes, Work
Irreplaceable Church Welfare in the Least Religious Country: The Case of the Czech Republic
The chapter starts with a brief description of the church-state relationship in the Czech lands / Czech Republic in the last century. As a consequence of the massive turning away from the churches, the country is one of the most secular regions around the world. Despite the low numbers of adherents, the churches attempt to remain powerful players on the political and public scene(s). The chapter describes topics, means and strategies used by various religious institutions to preserve their public standing, whi…
Topics: Religion and religiosity
Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph
Department: Economic and Religious Studies
The diversity of pathways to childlessness in the Czech Republic: The union histories of childless men and women
Despite the fact that not having a partner is a strong predictor for remaining childless, few studies have explored the heterogeneity of partnership trajectories among childless persons. This article fills the gap in knowledge about the pathways to childlessness in Central Europe by exploring the within-group diversity of partnership trajectories among childless persons between the ages of 18 and 40 under state socialism and during the post-1989 transformation in the Czech Republic. Based on data from the Gend…
Topics: Family
Domácí vzdělávání
„Publikace mapuje místa domácího vzdělávání, která byla dosud zkoumána jen málo, nebo vůbec, v tom spočívá její velká zásluha. Autoři využili širokou škálu výzkumných a analytických metod a podařilo se jim vytvořit významný příspěvek k poznání rozsahem sice malého, ale z hlediska vývoje inovativních přístupů velice důležitého segmentu českého vzdělávacího systému.“ (Mgr. Jaroslava Simonová, Ph.D., Ústav výzkumu a rozvoje vzdělávání, Pedagogická …
Topics: Education
Gendered visions of family life and parenthood among Czech young people: restricted or transforming imaginations?
This article explores young people’s imaginations of their future family life. Based on qualitative research among young people in North Bohemia, it considers social reproduction and change within the domain of gendered labour and parenting. This is done on the backdrop of post-1989 transformation of Czech society, where drives towards individualisation and diversification of the life course stand against discourses and policies supporting separate gender roles. Through the analytical lenses of gendered rela…
Topics: Gender, Value Orientations, Parenting, Family, Social Policy
Soběstačně na zahrádce?
The article focuses on self-reliance and DIY in eco-gardens. Self-reliance does not only includes food self-provisioning, but also housing, energy, making objects for everyday use, healing and homeschooling. …
Topics: Housing, Climate Change, City and Village, Consumption, Environment, Lifestyle
Publication Type: Public event or educational activity
Department: Local and regional studies
Základní trendy rozmístění cizinců v Česku 2008–2015: rezidenční segregace perspektivou různě velkých individualizovaných sousedství
Basic trends in the deployment of foreigners in the Czech Republic 2008-2015: Residential segregation from the perspective of individualized neighbourhoods of various size, by Martin Šimon, Ivana Křížková, Adam Klsák, Renáta Mikešová and Yana LeontiyevaThe number of foreigners living in the Czech Republic is on the rise and questions related to their coexistence refer to several domains such as the labour market, housing, social integration and the security policy of the government. Public adminis…
Topics: Housing, Identity, Culture, City and Village, Research Methodology, Migration and Mobility, Regions, Public Administration
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Podíl cizinců v individualizovaných sousedstvích v Česku 2015: multiměřítkový přístup.
The share of foreigners in individualised neighbourhoods in the Czech Republic 2015: a multi-scale approach.This map presents an innovative approach to measuring the residential segregation of the foreign population using the method of individualised neighbourhoods. The method utilise so-called nearest or bespoke neighbourhoods, which take into account the spatial proximity and are not dependent on the administrative division of the territory. The calculation uses individual squares of the population raster an…
Topics: Housing, City and Village, Research Methodology, Migration and Mobility, Public Policy
Migranti ve vybraných městech Česka 2008–2015: analýza změny prostorového rozmístění s využitím populačního rastru
Immigrants in large Czech cities 2008–2015: the analysis of changing residential patterns using population grid data – This article contributes to the discussion of the segregation of immigrants by presenting evidence from a new destination country of international migration. It explores residential patterns of immigrants, defined by citizenship, and their development in selected large Czech cities. The analysis is focused on six main immigrant groups. New register data provided by Alien Police of the…
Topics: Housing, Trust/Social Cohesion, Identity, City and Village, Research Methodology, Regions, Public Administration
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