The project aims at corroborating the “value lag hypothesis,” according which further consolidation of the social stratification system in the Czech Republic will depend more on the crystallization of its normative background (values and norms) rather than on development in its objective dimension (inequality). Prior research carried out by the principal investigator and his team shows that the social stratification system in the Czech Republic has gone through three key phases, with each phase involving different dynamics in its objective and subjective dimensions. Both the secondary data analysis and new comparative survey planned to be carried out in 2009 will be used to assess the validity of the assumption that while the economic transition has almost reached completion, the ‘value transition’ towards a system of meritocratic beliefs has not. This tension in the stratification system may be the underlying cause of a wide range of significant social and political phenomena, such as widespread negative attitudes towards economic elites, the continued strong role of reciprocity networks, rampant corruption, and eroded patterns of beliefs about life-success among both the adult population and adolescents.
Publikace vydané v rámci projektu (celkem 19, zobrazeno 11 - 19)
The study compares the potential effects of a university admission exam model based on program-specific knowledge and an alternative model relying on general study aptitude (GSA) in the context of a strongly stratified educational system with considerable excess of demand over supply of university education.
The paper provides a survey of the key thematic and methodological milestones in research into educational inequalities. It focuses on authors and concepts that introduced major innovations and contributed to significant advancements in the analysis and knowledge of educational inequalities. We have distinguished three periods, focusing on two key concepts in each. Three of the concepts are presented as breakthrough methodological innovations and three are viewed as thematic innovations.
This online interview in an internet edition of the Respekt journal was run on the theme of an unequal access to education in the Czech Republic, parents´ investments to their children’s education, after-school activities etc.
The article analyzes, on the basis of social surveys conducted in 1991, 1995, 2006 and 2009, the development of beliefs about distributive justice in the Czech Republic and Germany and the rootedness of those values in the stratification system.
This article focused on the transformation of class voting in the Cyech Republic with the use of the best data available and analytical methods used in the international literature. Contrarz to that literature, we found that there has been a strengthening of the role of class membership on voting behavior. While in the Western countries studied in the literature this trend is decling or fluctuating, in the Cyech Republic it is the opposite.
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 the second round of the ESS survey, conducted in 2004-2005.
This article analyzes changes in the determination of Czech educational aspirations from 1989 to 2003, on the basis of social origin, ability, gender and other factors. The empirical research is based on a comparison of Czech data from the "Rodina ’89" and the 2003 PISA-L surveys. The article hypothesizes that social origin had a stronger direct impact on educational aspirations in 1989, while in 2003 it had a much stronger indirect influence.
This article proposes a new conceptual framework based on social mechanisms and the multileveled nature of the stratification process. The authors argue that the identification of social mechanisms should be a core aspect of sociological explanation. They apply their conceptual framework to stratification research, where the authors observe that the micro-to-macro linkage is one of the least explored, but also one of the most promising, areas of future research.
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 the social origin had a strong direct effect on aspirations, while in 2003 its effect was primarily indirect. However, the overall effect remained very strong.
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