The goal of this paper is to predict, by using microsimulation modelling under alternative market scenarios, housing wealth inequality in Czech society up to the year 2050. These predictions can be useful for assessing the rationale for attempts to use housing assets as a way of supplementing state pensions; and thus add to existing studies on asset-based welfare (ABW) that focused only on the recent and past situation.
Topic: housing
The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the usefulness of path dependence theory to explain the convergence of housing regimes among post-socialist countries, both at the beginning and in the later phases of housing-regime transformation.
Topic: housing
This book recapitulates the methodology of income poverty measurement applied in the EU and provides statistics and characteristics of the poor in Visegrád countries, supplemented by appendices with results for EU countries.
Topic: economics, wages and incomes, social inequalities, standard of living
The text deals with the experience of Czech hospital chaplains in 2020. Specifically, it concerns the period during the spring and autumn waves of the pandemic caused by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which leads to a viral disease known as covid-19. The article builds on data obtained through an online questionnaire and subsequent ten interviews with hospital chaplains.
Topic: religion and religiosity, health
The COVID-19 pandemics highlighted the role of social media influencers as political communicators and drew attention to the question of accountability of influencers and their overall role in the media ecosystem.
Topic: gender
On Czech elections and the new logic of doing politics: technopopulism
Topic: EU, politics (and political attitudes)
Topic: gender, work
When developing anti-poverty policies, policymakers need accurate data on the prevalence of poverty. In this paper, we focus on subjective poverty, a concept which has been largely neglected in the literature, though it remains a conceptually appealing way to define poverty. The primary goal of this study is to re-examine the concept of subjective poverty measurement and to estimate trends in subjective income poverty rates in the European Union.
Topic: EU, wages and incomes, standard of living
Following recent literature, this study focused on the mediating mechanisms through which cultural capital leads to students’ higher grades and academic ability.
Topic: gender, kultura, education
The aim of this Working Paper is to introduce a conceptual model and study design forresearching social disadvantage in rural peripheries, focusing on the interplay of socialdisadvantage and spatial disadvantage. The paper presents the theoretical concepts,understandings, and definitions, as well as the research design we draw on in the internationalresearch project ‘Social disadvantage in rural peripheries in Czechia and eastern Germany:
Topic: urban and rural studies, regions, social inequalities
Období těžby černého uhlí se definitivně chýlí ke konci. Krajina ostravsko-karvinské uhelné pánve hledá cesty pro nové využití. Poddolování s sebou ale do budoucna nese potenciální riziko v podobě nových pohybů povrchu země, například poklesů nebo záchvěvů povrchu. Regenerace poddolovaného území, včetně uvažovaného zatápění dolů a vytvoření rozsáhlých obytných, rekreačních a také průmyslových zón, proto musí následovat až po pečlivém a zodpovědném vymezení všech georizik.
Topic: životní prostředí
The SQWLi questionnaire was developed for the long-term measurement of subjectively perceived quality of working life. The aim of this study is to test the instrument's measurement invariance between 2009 and 2019 and determine whether - despite the modifications made to the instrument over the years - the results remain comparable.
Topic: methodology, work
We introduce 9 guiding principles to integrate Participatory Design (PD) methods in the development of Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems. The adoption of PD methods by NLP will help to alleviate issues concerning the development of more democratic, fairer, less-biased technologies to process natural language data.
Topic: technology/technique
Survey-based measures of subjective well-being are increasingly often analyzed cross-culturally. However, international comparison of these measures requires measurement invariance. Therefore, the major goal of this study was to investigate the cross-country comparability of the 5-item subjective well-being scales used in the International Social Survey Programme (2011, 2017).
Topic: methodology
Topic: politics (and political attitudes), elections (and polls)
A research report with main outputs of the survey conducted under the project Parallels and Differences of Social Situations with Panic Potential - an example of RMU and a coronavirus pandemic in Czech society.www.cvvm.soc.cas.cz
Topic: health
In recent decades, voters have been postponing their decisions about what party to vote for to a time closer to the elections. One factor in this delay is when people are considering more than one political party. Drawing on two data sets from the general elections in the Czech Republic, we present an approach that assigns a person’s vote to multiple considered parties.
Topic: sociology of science
Topic: religion and religiosity
Recent HCI scholarship has critiqued anthropocentrism in design as contributing to the ecological crisis. The current paper contributes theoretically and empirically to this area, adopting the lens of Socio-Ecological Relations, inspired by Environmental History and STS. We argue that a socio-ecological lens can offer practical tools to HCI and Interaction Design to overcome the separation between humanity and nature-as-a-resource.
Topic: media, urban and rural studies, technology/technique
Kniha je interdisciplinární a multimetodologickou studií bezdomovectví v Česku. Autor v ní čtenáři ukazuje, jak se bezdomovectví zhmotňuje na průsečíku politickoekonomických faktorů, jako jsou demokratizace společnosti nebo integrace do globální ekonomiky, a specifických doprovodných logik vznikajících na pomezí kultury ulice a určitých podmínek charakteristických pro českou společnost.
Topic: housing, economics, globalisation, urban and rural studies, human relations, regions, social inequalities, sociologická teorie, public policy, standard of living
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