This chapter focuses primarily on standards of data documentation and archiving. The authors also describe the development of standards for data storage and provision of data. The text includes an analysis of the advantages and shortcomings of an international standard called DDI (Data Documentation Initiative).
Topic: methodology, sociological data
The chapter focuses on the special role of social science data archives in the domain of social science research. Authors describe which data and metadata are archived and under what conditions they are provided to users for secondary data analysis. The description of archiving system Nesstar is presented.
Topic: methodology, sociological data
Chapter introduces the problem of data comparability with a special focus on international surveys. The issue of standardization is regarded primarily as a standardization of variables in resulting data files. The authors discuss the principles and techniques of variable standardization and present several examples of how some of the most commonly used variables in the social sciences, i.e. demographic and socioeconomic indicators, are standardised.
Topic: methodology, sociological data
Chapter is devoted to the analysis of the problem of standardization in international surveys using the example of educational achievement. Author focuses on international classification of education (ISCED a CASMIN), discusses the methodological problems related to measurement of education, and the difficulties of comparing the educational systems in different countries, including the examples of solutions used in international social survey research projects (ESS, EVS, ISSP, PISA).
Topic: methodology, sociological data, education
The text presents an overview of the importance of comparative research with special reference to databases containing information on the most important international research projects where there has been Czech participation. This chapter provides some basic information about the survey data and their availability. As an aid to providing the reader with a convenient overview of these data sources a series of summary tables are presented.
Topic: methodology, sociological data
Chapter provides information about national survey data for the Czech Republic. A summary of producers of empirical sociological research and associated survey data files are presented. Discussion of these data files are presented thematically.
Topic: sociological data
Topic: sociological data
The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the problems associated with the fielding of questions of a socially sensitive nature typically dealing with crime, health, and sexual activity in nationally representative sample surveys.
Topic: methodology, sexuality, sociological data
In the past few decades ITC technologies have begun to penetrate various areas of social life. One of these areas is education. New forms of teaching and learning have appeared – for example, e-learning or virtual learning; this term refers to the specificity of the relationship between teacher and student. The work Authority in virtual education tries to uncover the characteristics of this relationship, which are substantially influenced by communication that excludes face-to-face contact.
Topic: human relations
Article reports on research of a little known process how the "documents of memory", biographical narratives of socialism in this case, are received by members of the community of memory. The research was based on the experiment, in which members of three generations (two generations of witnesses of socialism and one post-socialist generation) inferred the political identity of the narrators from very short fragments of biographical narratives concerning socialist era.
Topic: sociological data
Topic: social inequalities
Abstract
Topic: migration and mobility, sociology of law
The report presents the main findings of a project funded by the Czech Statistical Office whose principal goal was to gather quantitative data in order to improve the methodology employed to estimate the remittances made by migrants. The primary task of the project implemented by the
Topic: economics, migration and mobility, wages and incomes
Článek se věnuje problematice sdílení výzkumných dat v sociálních vědách a současným nástrojům a standardům, které archivům pomáhají plnit jejich úlohu. Představen je mezinárodní dokumentační standard DDI, specializovaný software NESSTAR a hlavní koncepce, které stojí za vývojem standardů archivace a dlouhodobého uchovávání digitálních dat v sociálněvědních archivech.
Topic: methodology
Topic: historical sociology
The article presents and discusses the results a national survey of migrant workers. The key issue addressed in the text is the educational level and qualification skills of labour immigrants and their position of the Czech labour market.
Topic: migration and mobility, work, education
Chapter briefly presents the basic terminology, i.e. terms like tolerance, ethnic minority and a foreigner, and focuses on relevant research findings from the Institute of Sociology AS CR. In addition to reporting the survey results, the authors monitor the long-term trends in attitudes Czech society has towards ethnic minorities and foreigners, and try to answer the question whether the Czech society is tolerant.
Topic: migration and mobility, sociological data
Text summarizes projects and other research activities of the Institute of Sociology AS CR in the field of migration and discusses the importance of scientific research for migration policy making.
Topic: migration and mobility
The article deals with relationship of religiosity and psycho-social phenomena (powerlessness, normlessness, social isolation, self-estrangement and cultural estrangement) which are inhibiting factor in relation to quality of life of individuals. Theoretically this article (besides general theory of subjective quality of life) is supported by Melvinem Seeman´s concept of alienation. Personal religiosity is not measured here by individual indicator only but by plurality of indicators.
Topic: religion and religiosity
Topic: methodology
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