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Authors: Křížková, Alena, Nagy, B., Mrčela Kanjuo, A.
In this article we compare the models of economic transition that have influenced changes in legislation and employment andsocial policies and have an impact on gender equality in the labour markets of three post-sociali...
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Authors: Fernández, Alejandra, Petr Vašát
Macro-paintings have become a popular tool used by various actors to uplift marginalized communities in cities of the global South by transforming their physical environments. These actors operate under the assumption that improving the material conditions of these communities wi...
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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: Sunega, Petr, Martin Lux
First, the article sets out to determine whether significant differentiation of housing consumption occurred and social stratification became linked to stratification by housing consumption. Second, in relation to these findings on stratification, Czech households were segmented...
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Authors: Machonin, Pavel, Milan Tuček (eds.)
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
Transformation cannot be completed unless markets hit not only the formal, but also the substantive aspect of economy. It involves economic institutions (first of all private ownership), economic behaviour (based on „cash nexus“ as well as confidence and other traditi...
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Authors: Matějů, Petr, Blanka Řeháková, Natalie Simonová
Tato stať si klade za cíl popsat současný trend ve vývoji nerovností v přístupu k terciárnímu vzdělání v České republice. Na základě znalostí o současných i předlistopadových politických a institucionálních reformách jsme nastolili hypotézu, podle které období stabilních nerovnos...
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Authors: Machonin, Pavel, Lumír Gatnar, Milan Tuček
The study based on the results of the 1999 representative survey on "Decade of the Czech Tranformation" states that in connection with the accomplished institutional and social changes in the political and economic system a hybrid social structure emerged in which three...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
Under the transformation period, economic inequality is assuming new meanings and accents, and its importance growing. We show recent changes and various facets of inequality as displayed in distributions of earning, household incomes and wealth. In earnings, instead of the syste...
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Authors: Matějů, Petr, Blanka Řeháková, Natalie Simonová
The primary aim of the paper is to compare the development of inequality in access to higher education during the communist and post-communist regimes by testing hypotheses about the effects of economic and cultural dimensions of socio-economic background and gender on the odds o...
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Authors: Machonin, Pavel, Lumír Gatnar, Milan Tuček
The study provides the first basic information about the results of the representativesociological survey „Ten Years of Transformation in the Czech Republic“ related to theeconomically active population. It compares social stratification data from 1993 and the end of1...
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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: Smith, Michael L.
This article compares the determinants of political participation, across 23 European countries, posing the question whether and to what degree social inequalities in political participation differ between post-communist and Western countries. The data for the analysis is from th...
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Authors: Machonin, Pavel, Milan Tuček
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
In the article, fates of the middle class in Czech society and its reflection in Czech sociology are briefly overviewed. The first part is devoted to the interwar Czechoslovakia which was reflected as a middle-class society. The second part depicts suppression of the entrepreneur...
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Authors: Matějů, Petr, Michael L. Smith, Josef Basl
The paper addresses the changes in the role of social background in the formation of educational aspirations of adolescents during the social transformation in the Czech Republic. Using the data from surveys carried out in 1989 a 2003, the authors test the hypothesis that in 1989...
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Authors: Machonin, Pavel, Milan Tuček
The article represents a continuation of the study Social Stratification in Czechoslovakia 1991 published in Sociologický časopis No. 5/1992. It is also based on the social transformation survey from October, 1991. In the first part, some cross-tabulations are presented. They dem...
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
The changing social status of pensioners is structured according to stylized periods. The communist regime shifted pensioners to the margins of society. The democratic transition empowered pensioners as voters. Debate about pension reform is reported then and the possible impact...
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Authors: Smith, Michael L.
The article overviewed the international conference of the ISA association (International Sociological Association) International - RC28 Spring Meeting "Social Inequality and Mobility in the Process of Social Transformation," co-organized by the Institute of Sociology,...

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