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Mobilising political intersectionality in Czechia’s climate movement: Opportunities and pitfalls of coalition building in a post-socialist semi-periphery
Political intersectionality is now increasingly mobilised by social movements and their coalitions advocating for climate justice in different contexts around the world. Employing feminist action research, we explore (1) individual, (2) organisational and (3) societal levels of political intersectionality in the Czech climate movement. Our focus on spatiotemporal factors reveals the opportunities and pitfalls of intersectional coalition building in a post-socialist semi-periphery. In a societal context distort…
Topics: Gender, Climate Change, Civil Society, Environment
Gender Inequalities in Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Times of Crisis
The policy brief “Gender Inequalities in Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Times of Crisis” provides an overview of the key barriers faced by women entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic and presents recommendations for creating a more gender-equal business environment. It builds on a participatory workshop organized by the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences within the Gendered Innovation Living Labs (GILL)project, which brought together …
Topics: Gender, Entrepreneurship
The mediating role of financial well-being in the relationship between housing affordability and mental health
This study examines the mediating role of financial well-being in the relationship between housing affordability and mental health across the European Union. Utilizing data from the 2018 EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, the analysis incorporates both objective and subjective measures of housing affordability and financial well-being. The findings reveal that financial well-being acts as a mechanism that links housing pressure to mental health, proxied by the MHI-5 Mental Health Inventory. Notably…
Topics: European Union, Housing, Economy, Standard of Living
Life Satisfaction and Subjective/Objective Socioeconomic Status in European Countries: Does Affluence Matter?
This paper addresses the links between life satisfaction, objective socioeconomic status (SES) (education, occupation, and income), and subjective status (self-perceived standing in a society’s social hierarchy). In particular, it explores cross-national variation according to countries’ wealth. Using 2012 European Social Survey (ESS) data from 28 countries, the study shows that the link between socioeconomic status and well-being is stronger in poorer countries. In the most affluent countries, by contrast…
Česká sociologická společnost před sto lety, před půlstoletím a dnes
Topics: History of Sociology
Mentoring in Medicine
The publication "Mentoring in Medicine (A Guide to Practice and Context for the Introduction and Implementation of Mentoring Programmes in Medicine and Healthcare)", as the title suggests, focuses on introducing mentoring within the fields of medicine and healthcare as a tool for: a) supporting the professional and personal growth and development of (primarily) early-career doctors and physicians, b) cultivating interpersonal relationships and improving working conditions, and c) promoting equity.
The t…
Topics: Education, Public health
Tipping point urbanism: A study of the painting and fading of the macromural La Mariposa in governing self-built settlements in Bogotá
Macropaintings have gained popularity as a tool employed by urban authorities and artists to uplift marginalized communities in cities across the Global South through the painting of their physical environments. However, despite the significant visibility of these paintings and their potential impacts on cities, there is limited knowledge regarding the conditions of their creation as well as the circumstances of their “fading.” Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Bogotá, Colombia, I analyze how urban author…
Topics: Globalization, City and Village, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory, Transformation, Public Policy
Gendered Barriers and Opportunities in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Understanding the gendered barriers and opportunities to entrepreneurship and innovation is crucial to developing effective solutions and strategies to overcome existing barriers. The theory of gendered innovation and the three strategic approaches to gender equality are used to investigate gendered barriers, opportunities and good practices for gender equality in entrepreneurship and innovation in EU countries. A total of 36 semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed in 10 European countries with …
Topics: Gender, Entrepreneurship
Challenges for Women Entrepreneurs in Times of Crisis and Tools for Overcoming Them
Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly impacted women entrepreneurs. Policies designed to support entrepreneurs have often followed a one-size-fits-all approach, overlooking men's and women's unique needs and unequal access to state support. Recognizing these gender disparities, our analysis centres on the perspectives of policy-makers (both during and beyond the pandemic) as well as on the experiences of those the policies aim to support. The study is based on 17 in-depth, semi-structured interv…
Topics: Gender, Entrepreneurship
How Small Municipalities Contribute to Robust Crisis Governance—Experiences From Two Recent Large-scale Crises in Czechia
This article explores how small municipalities in Czechia adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and Ukrainian refugee crisis, and thus contributed to governance robustness. Through 24 semi-structured interviews with mayors, we examine local challenges and responses, revealing how these crises exposed weaknesses in public administration, particularly in decision-making, coordination, and communication at the outset. Mayors played key roles, making swift, independent decisions to meet urgent needs, often bypassing st…
Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article
Public attitudes towards small modular reactors. An emerging research field and evidence from six countries
This deliverable report D1.1 of the HORIZON-EURATOM ECOSENS project, ‘Economic and Social Considerations for the Future of Nuclear Energy in Society,’ presents findings obtained in 2023-2024 by qualitative and quantitative studies of public attitudes regarding new nuclear technology, specifically Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). Compared to the vast literature on large traditional reactors, very little is known about the public's perceptions of this new technology or the willingness of local communities to p…
Topics: Energy, Climate Change, Technology and society, Transformation
Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph
Department: Public Opinion Research Centre
Public resistance to climate policy amid energy crisis and populism: The case of the European Green Deal in the Czech Republic
This paper examines negative opinions on the European Green Deal (EGD) by combining critical discourse analysis of three Czech media and public opinion data analysis based on a representative sample of 821 Czech adults. Against the backdrop of the EGD contestation in the media debate and disagreement among the public, we evaluate the impact of the energy crisis and populism on resistance to this policy in a heavily coal-dependent post-communist Central European country. We found that neither the actors in the …
Topics: Energy, Climate Change, Technology and society, Transformation
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Department: Centrum pro výzkum veřejného mínění
Population-representative study reveals cardiovascular and metabolic disease biomarkers associated with misaligned sleep schedules
Social jetlag manifests as a difference in sleep timing on workdays and free days. Social jetlag is often associated with shorter, lower-quality sleep, so it is unclear how much the chronic circadian misalignment contributes to observed negative health outcomes. We aimed to (1) investigate associations between social jetlag, chronotype (one of its determinants), and the levels of health markers, (2) describe factors associated with social jetlag, and (3) examine whether working from home can reduce social jetl…
Sources of sex-disaggregated data
The collection and analysis of information and data on an area or issue should always be categorized by gender. This is because it allows important inequalities and gender differences to be identified. This document presents several examples of data sources (CSO, MIT, EIGE, Eurostat and OECD) that can be used to map the position of women and men (not only) in the field of entrepreneurship and to identify relevant types of support for women entrepreneurs. For each example data source, the characteristics of the…
Topics: Gender, Sociological Data
Cultural policies of populist governments in central and Eastern Europe: a comparative review
The recent rise of populist and illiberal actors in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the concomitant democratic backsliding has generated notable scholarly interest; however, the implications of populism for cultural policy remain understudied. Since culture defines popular tastes and shapes interpretations of national identity and history, we adopt a comparative perspective to evaluate what impact these actors had on cultural policies between 2010 and 2023, using a combination of qualitative analysis of d…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Policy
Corruption and the social legitimacy of the welfare state: A comparative cross-national analysis
In addition to reducing the effectiveness of welfare policies, a high level of corruption is argued to undermine the social legitimacy of the welfare state. In the current article, we subject this hypothesis to an empirical test by analyzing data from two rounds of the International Social Survey Program. We find that people have a greater preference for an extensive welfare state in countries where corruption is more widespread. Similarly, at the micro level, perceived corruption is associated with more suppo…
Discontent and Disadvantage in Left‐Behind Places: Regional Effects on EU‐Trust and Status Attainment in Europe
Debates on left-behind places, rural resentment and spatial disadvantage posit that political discontent stems from perceived inequalities between regions and on the urban/rural interface. The popularity of this argument is fuelled by frequent mapping of electoral results, which very often demonstrates a spatial correspondence between increased Euroscepticism and Populism on the one hand, and rural peripherality, shrinkage, economic and health issues and other forms of social disadvantage on the other. This pa…
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Pragmatic Socioeconomics: A Way Towards New Findings on Sources of (Housing) Market Instability
In this paper, we aim to define basic principles of pragmatic socioeconomics that may create a more solid interdisciplinary bridge between sociology and mainstream economics in the study of economic behaviour. The merit of this new concept demonstrates itself in the results of our research on the impact of social norms on home-buying behaviour and the consequences that such behaviour has for the operation of the housing market and housing price trends. That research demonstrates that interdisciplinary economic…
Topics: Housing
Strong Gender Contract, Weak Institutions: Gender Pay Gap in Slovenia and Czechia
This article investigates the dynamics of the gender pay gap (GPG) in two post-socialist economies, Czechia and Slovenia, during their capitalist transition and EU membership. Using regression analysis on large samples of linked employer–employee data to estimate the total GPG and within-job GPG and institutional analysis, we find that in both countries women earn significantly less than men for the same work. We interpret this as due to institutions, policies, and practices, including gender inequalities in…
Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes
The Structural Misrecognition of Migrants as a Critical Cosmopolitan Moment.
Transnational migrants and their struggles have become central for rethinking cosmopolitanism from below. This chapter builds on theoretical and empirical arguments of critical cosmopolitan perspective and proposals for methodological cosmopolitanism that shifts the angle from which the social sciences look at social reality. Who is regarded as a relevant social actor to put forth cosmopolitan claims is crucial. Nevertheless, the author suggests that equally important is what struggles are taken into considera…
Distorted Emancipation and the Transnational Political Economy of Social Reproduction.
The chapter elaborates a critical analysis of the role of borders in the marketization of care and a European care border regime, which creates a structural position of the low-paid mobile European guest care worker, who are commonly migrant women from Central and Eastern EU member states. Through an investigation of recent care disputes, highlighted by the pandemic in borderscapes of the Central Europe, it analyses how the political economy of borders maintains an undervaluation of care and works to delay a c…
Transnational migration and the extractivist logic of global capitalism: the EU–Eastern Africa geopolitical space.
The chapter traces the ways in which transnational migration is an inherent part of the evolving modes of value extraction and capital accumulation. It argues that transnational migration is embedded in the political economy of global capitalism in two ways: accelerating extractivist practices coproduce the structural causes of transnational migration and then transnational migration becomes a surface of value extraction through the militarisation, securitisation, and datafication of border management. This ma…
Proč číst Dekoloniální feminismus v českém kontextu?
Text z různých úhlů kontextualizuje knihu Dekoloniální feminismus od Françoise Vergès pro české čtenářstvo. Její analýzy dekoloniálního feminismu a kritiku civilizačního feminismu doslov propojuje se střední a východní Evropou a feminismem zakotveném v tomto regionu, nerovnostmi mezi východem a západem a dalšími. Text také doplňuje historický kontext související se historií kolonialismu, resp. koloniální exepcionalismus.…
Disorganised Collective Citizens’ Interest, Social Transformations and Technopopulism
New ways of doing politics, embodied in the appeal to populism, the appeal to technocracy, or both combined, that is, ‘technopopulism’, are revealing symptoms of crisis in citizens’ representation in democratic societies in the European Union. This type of doing politics indicates ruptures in the organised citizens’ interest, which are leading to the rise of new parties and party leaders promising to solve ‘the people’s’ problem in general, that is, populism, and of unelected technocrats that off…
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