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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
This study tries to demonstrate the links between the social structure and social policies. Using a socio-economic approach it exhibits four types of socio-economic friction that develop between the middle class and other groups, between the new and the old middle class, between...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
Following the assumption that the middle class is important in the transition from communism to a democratic market society as its leading actor and guarantor of social integration, this paper presents evidence of the benefits it has gained from economic and social reforms. As th...
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Authors: Jelínková, Marie, Valenta Ondřej
Perspectives on migrant integration differ by time and place. This article examines this vague concept to shed light on how its evolution over time has shaped the current conceptions of migrant integration in the EU and the Czech Republic. It describes the situation in the Czech...
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Authors: Křížková, Alena, Nagy, B., Mrčela Kanjuo, A.
Für diese Kapitel haben wir Tschechien, Ungarn und Slowenien als Vergleichsgrundlage ausgewählt, um Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede in postsozialistischen Ländern (nach dem Umbruch und dem EU-Beitritt; 2000 - 2005) näher zu untersuchen. Während und nach der Umstellung auf die Mark...
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Authors: Šafr, Jiří, Julia Häuberer
The monograph deals with stratification by means of interaction distances: analyses of Bogardus scale for occupational categories / friendship patterns and in-depth interviews. We pursue 1. homophily (like-me) hypothesis, 2. existence of subjective social class boundaries, 3. ima...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
This paper compares the standard economic and a complementary socio-economic approach to the transition. While the economic approach looks at social problems from the outside and views them as costs of transition, the socio-economic approach looks at these problems from the...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
Social report which informs about the development during the two decades in the fields of employment and social policies, earnings and income inequalities, social structures with attention to the situation of the middle class, pensioners and the poor, and socio-economic values wi...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
This article deals with empirical research on poverty in Czechoslovakia in terms of three distinct phases. Between 1918 and 1948, considerable attention was devoted to poverty, but research possibilities modest. During the 1948 to 1989 period, the communist regime allowed “...
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Authors: Lux, Martin
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Authors: Šimon, Martin, Vašát, Petr, Poláková, Markéta, Gibas, Petr, Daňková, Hana
The aim of this article is to investigate the factors that influence the size of activity spaces of homeless men and women in cities. Vulnerable population groups such as the homeless face the risk of mobility challenges that can exacerbate their social exclusion even more t...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
Following the assumption that the middle classes are important in the transition from Communism to a democratic market society as its leading actor and guarantor of social integration, this paper presents evidence of the benefits they have gained from the economic and social refo...
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Authors: Křížková, Alena
This review of the book of Barbara Havelkova is positively evaluating the complexity and exactness of the approach used to explain the issue of gender pay inequalities between women and men in the context of absence of the anti-discrimination law in the Czech Republic. Barbara Ha...
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Authors: Lux, Martin
The authors of the book „Housing – Res Publica“ describe the development of housing policies in selected developed and transitional societies and they especially provide the description and comparison of different systems of social housing and housing allowances...
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Authors: Šafr, Jiří, Häuberer, Julia
We deal with subjective interaction distances in stratification: concepts in sociology; analysis of Bogardus scale (22 occupational categories). Hierarchy is correlated with prestige and ISEI with minor divergences. Gender differences can be explained by popular stereotypes....

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