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The foundation of research institutes, departments, journals and other academic bodies providing an institutional background was an important part of the re-establishment of Czech (Czechoslovak) sociology in the mid-1960s. This article describes and analyses the specific case of the Czechoslovak Sociological Society, formally the first established branch organisation, and its relations to the Scholarly Collegium of Philosophy (and Sociology), the official managing and controlling body of socialist science. As …

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Income inequality and level of corruption in post-communist European countries between 1995 and 2014

This paper analyses the relationships between income inequality and corruption in Europe and looks specifically at post-communist European countries. The scientific community agrees that there is important relationship between income inequality and corruption and many authors believe that low income inequality is connected to low corruption. According to empirical papers, this is true not only on the European scale, but also on aglobal scale. In this paper, I test this claim by conducting a multilevel analysis…

Topics: Value Orientations, Corruption

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Hodnoty a politika

Challenging Gender Equality in the Czech Republic

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Research on the Semi-Periphery? Beyond Geopolitics.

Topics: Gender, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Gender Studies in the Czech Republic: Institutionalisation Meets Neo-liberalism Contingent on Geopolitics.

Topics: Gender, Globalization

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Obchodování s odlišností: dvě pedagogické příležitosti na křižovatce neoliberální univerzity a geopolitiky.

Topics: Gender, Education

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Marketing Difference: Two Teachable Moments at the Intersection of the Neoliberal University and Geopolitics.

Topics: Gender, Education

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Staying in a fallout shelter: exploring ostalgia through post-socialist heterotopia.

This article details our attempts at making sense of an ostalgic heterotopic space. We relay here our analysis of staying in and exploring a disused air raid shelter built during WWII, converted into a fallout shelter at the beginning of the Cold War and recently repurposed in an anti-communist museum/tourist hotel/ostalgic canteen called 10Z Bunker. As we enter the subterranean tunnels packed with memorabilia from an indistinct ‘past’, we strive to shed some light on the dim heterotopic space we found. We…

Topics: City and Village, Transformation

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Jak úspěšně chránit krajinu na místní úrovni

Topics: Climate Change, Civil Society, Environment

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Local and regional studies

BEING A PRISON CHAPLAIN IN A GODLESS COUNTRY: AN EXPLORATION OF THE C ZECH CORRECTIONAL CHAPLAINCY

Czech Republic, a post-communist country in East-Central Europe, is oftentimes presented as one of the most secularized countries in the world. Albeit constituting no more than 15% of population, members of Christian churches develop extensive activities in many spheres of public life. Chaplaincy is an example of ecumenical initiatives reinstated after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. Prison chaplains have been gaining respect from both prisoners and prison staff in the past several decades, but their pos…

Topics: Criminality, Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Genderová rovnost ve vědě, výzkumu a vysokém školství: příklady praxe

The publication presents a selection of current measures to promote gender equality in Europe and the Czech Republic. It focuses on activities of ministries, research funding organizations and research performing organizations in areas such as the work-life balance, gender in research and teaching content, women's participationdecision-making and recognition.…

Topics: Gender, Sociology of Sciences, Public Policy

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Gender & Sociology

Climate Change and the Transition Movement in Eastern Europe: The Case of Czech Permaculture

This paper focuses on a grassroots community movement address-ing climate change: the transnational Transition (Towns) movement. While this movement has mainly spread to Anglophone countries, it is almost en-tirely absent from Eastern Europe and the Czech Republic in particular. The aim of this paper is to explain why the Transition movement—a grassroots community initiative—has not been successfully adopted in the post-social-ist Czech Republic, and why the issue of climate change has not become an import…

Topics: Climate Change, Civil Society, Environment

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

The cross-country and cross-time measurement invariance of positive and negative affect scales: Evidence from European Social Survey

Survey-based measures of subjective well-being are increasingly often analyzed cross-culturally. However, international comparison of these measures requires measurement invariance. Therefore, the major goal of this study is to investigate the cross-country and cross-time comparability of the 4-item positive and 7-item negative affect scales used in European Social Survey Round 3 (2006) and Round 6 (2012). This study applies both the traditional exact and the more recent Bayesian approximate approach to assess…

Topics: Research Methodology

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Hodnoty a politika

Co nám slumy mohou říct o bezdomovectví? Urbánní chudoba v době nové globální ekonomiky

Over the past few years, the topic of social housing has dominated the Czech professional and non-professional debate on homelessness. All experts agree that social housing in the Czech Republic is a necessity. However, one dangerous theme circulates in the discussion: homelessness is reduced to housing, and the debate evokes it can be simply resolve by the existence of social housing. But as sociologist Saskia Sassen points out, today's cities, including their public spaces, are new strategic sites and fronti…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Globalization, Wages and Incomes, Work, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

The role of social capital in economic life of the Ukrainian entrepreneurs in Czechia

This article presents the concept of social capital and highlights its use in the economic performance of Ukrainian entrepreneurs in Czechia. The social capital stands as one of the important resources, which can be used by migrant entrepreneurs in creating their own businesses and ethnic economies. The concept of social capital with its different approaches, roles and impact on society is a frequent topic of current scientific debate, particularly in connection with mass immigration to the Western countries. …

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Social Capital

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Hodnoty a politika

Migrant values and social remittances across the contemporary migration-development nexus: the case of Moldovans in Czechia

Migration theory and international policy recognises that migrant remittances play significant roles in shaping economic, social, and political transformations in origins and destinations. However, nobody deals with how migrants experience and use values. To contribute to the development of migration theory, we integrate insights from modernization, social remittance, and cleavage frameworks. We test three propositions, that values are experienced in comparative and relational ways, that values are…

Topics: Value Orientations, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Hodnoty a politika

Analýza existujících výzkumů v ČR v oblasti partnerského násilí

Topics: Sociological Data

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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Income inequality and level of corruption in post-communist European countries between 1995 and 2014

Challenging Gender Equality in the Czech Republic

Research on the Semi-Periphery? Beyond Geopolitics.

Gender Studies in the Czech Republic: Institutionalisation Meets Neo-liberalism Contingent on Geopolitics.

Obchodování s odlišností: dvě pedagogické příležitosti na křižovatce neoliberální univerzity a geopolitiky.

Marketing Difference: Two Teachable Moments at the Intersection of the Neoliberal University and Geopolitics.

Staying in a fallout shelter: exploring ostalgia through post-socialist heterotopia.

Jak úspěšně chránit krajinu na místní úrovni

BEING A PRISON CHAPLAIN IN A GODLESS COUNTRY: AN EXPLORATION OF THE C ZECH CORRECTIONAL CHAPLAINCY

Genderová rovnost ve vědě, výzkumu a vysokém školství: příklady praxe

Climate Change and the Transition Movement in Eastern Europe: The Case of Czech Permaculture

The cross-country and cross-time measurement invariance of positive and negative affect scales: Evidence from European Social Survey

Co nám slumy mohou říct o bezdomovectví? Urbánní chudoba v době nové globální ekonomiky

The role of social capital in economic life of the Ukrainian entrepreneurs in Czechia

Migrant values and social remittances across the contemporary migration-development nexus: the case of Moldovans in Czechia

Analýza existujících výzkumů v ČR v oblasti partnerského násilí

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