The article is dedicated to reflecting the links between the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic crisis in the context of Czech social media, specifically on several blogging platforms. The processes leading to the climate and pandemic crises are highly intertwined, based in the way humans interact with the environment on a global scale. However, the circumstances and consequences of both crises, as well as the ways they are dealt with, also share common features.
Topic: internet, klimatická změna, media
Topic: value orientations, intergenerational relations, human relations, sociologická teorie
This chapter proposes the morphogenetic approach, as elaborated within the confines of Margaret Archer’s critical realism, as a suitable starting point for theoretically grounded research into social aspects of energy. It demonstrates in outline the suitability of this approach in the special case of coal, the mining and combustion of which epitomize the ambiguity of the industrial era.
Topic: gender, klimatická změna, sociologická teorie, technology/technique
Social interaction as the middle phase of the morphogenetic sequence described by Margaret Archer presupposes that interpretative activities go on between individuals and collectivities. Novel meanings emerge in social interaction and spur the processes of structural elaboration. The hermeneutics of actors (or agents) should be part of the morphogenetic explanatory framework.
Topic: sociologická teorie, transformation
The paper presents a general theoretical argument about narrating futures and demonstrates its validity on the topic of energy transitions. It goes beyond the perspective of social constructionism and analyzes the temporal relationship between narratives, as employed in social interactions, and the reality of structural conditions in societies.
Topic: sociologická teorie, technology/technique, transformation
Trust is considered an essential part of a democratic society. That is why it is important to pay attention to it, especially in times of crisis. Some recent studies have introduced a new approach to examining attitudes and trust using social network analysis. The aim of our study is to examine the relationship between different types of trust during the coronavirus crisis.
Topic: trust/social cohesion
The SQWLi questionnaire was developed for the long-term measurement of subjectively perceived quality of working life. The aim of this study is to test the instrument's measurement invariance between 2009 and 2019 and determine whether - despite the modifications made to the instrument over the years - the results remain comparable.
Topic: methodology, work
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 was to investigate the cross-country comparability of the 5-item subjective well-being scales used in the International Social Survey Programme (2011, 2017).
Topic: methodology
A research report with main outputs of the survey conducted under the project Parallels and Differences of Social Situations with Panic Potential - an example of RMU and a coronavirus pandemic in Czech society.www.cvvm.soc.cas.cz
Topic: health
In recent decades, voters have been postponing their decisions about what party to vote for to a time closer to the elections. One factor in this delay is when people are considering more than one political party. Drawing on two data sets from the general elections in the Czech Republic, we present an approach that assigns a person’s vote to multiple considered parties.
Topic: sociology of science
This final report is the first of seven research reports produced within the project Public(s), education and education policy: values, attitudes, reasoning, and experience (short title Public opinion on education). The project aims to map the views of different publics (actors) on education policy measures, assuming that these views are linked to broader attitudes towards education and the values held by actors in relation to education.
Topic: public opinion, education
Trust is considered an essential part of a democratic society. That is why it is important to pay attention to it, especially in times of crisis. Some recent studies have introduced a new approach to examining attitudes and trust using social network analysis. The aim of our study is to examine the relationship between different types of trust during the coronavirus crisis.
Topic: trust/social cohesion
Energy production and energy facilities and projects are based on scientific knowledge and they require employment of various kinds of technologies. This links energy development with a more general view of natural sciences and technologies and their function in contemporary advanced societies. The impact of technologies on everyday lives of individuals, groups and communities has been growing unprecedentedly in recent decades.
Topic: civil society, sociologická teorie, technology/technique
As people living in the EU states we take it for granted that a source of electricity will be there whenever we need it. It is a considerably less self-evident matter, how the electricity we rely on is supposed to be produced and distributed. The energy sector stands at a crossroads today and newly emerging options of energy strategies challenge the old ways of doing the business.
Topic: civil society, technology/technique, public opinion
Schutz’s concept of intersubjectivity departs from radical, philosophical analyses of the constitution of the other (alter ego) in my consciousness. Instead, he takes the existence of the other and his or her subjectivity for granted and investigates the intersubjective relations of understanding and action among individuals. The shifting of phenomenological lifeworld theory from philosophy to sociology enables Schütz to study social interaction and order.
Topic: sociologická teorie
Internet se v posledních třech desetiletích stal integrální součástí soudobých společností a jeho obsah postupně ohromně narůstá a velmi dynamicky se proměňuje. I tak však společenské vědy a společenští vědci nevěnují přílišnou pozornost tomu, jaké svědectví může web nabídnout ohledně společenských změn. Tento článek se věnuje úvodu do problematiky webových archivů, které mohou sloužit jako zdroj dat částečně vypovídající o dynamické proměně současné společnosti a komunikace.
Topic: methodology
The paper deals with the analysis of various aspects used to assess the quality of working life. It draws on the data from the representative survey of economically active population of the Czech Republic conducted in 2019. On an empirical basis, it shows that the impact of working-life circumstances on workers is not always universal or unambiguous, that there are at least four basic patterns of effect.
Topic: work
The article presents basic results of monitoring the development of subjectively perceived quality of working life in the Czech Republic. It uses data from representative surveys of workers since 2011, which implemented the SQWLi (Subjective Quality of Life Life Index) questionnaire. Firstly, the results show that changes in specific aspects as well as in wider domains of working life occur over time, both in terms of importance and evaluation.
Topic: work
This book is a contribution to general social theory. The arguments herein are guided by two interests. On the one hand is the interest in the topic of intersubjectivity in sociology. Research on the intersubjectivity of understanding, which is the precondition for the coordination of action among individuals, offers an alternative to the frequently discussed dilemma of individualism versus holism. On the other hand, there is the interest in hermeneutics as studied in philosophy.
Topic: sociologická teorie, sociology of science
Tento článek se věnuje úvodu do problematiky webových archivů, které mohou sloužit jako zdroj dat částečně vypovídající o dynamické proměně současné společnosti a komunikace. V první části článku je představen smysl webových archivů a jejich současné institucionální zakotvení jak v České republice, tak v zahraničí. V druhé části je diskutována otázka přístupu k datům z webových archivů.
Topic: trust/social cohesion
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