Topic: globalisation, migration and mobility
Topic: gender, globalisation, migration and mobility
Topic: globalisation, migration and mobility
Topic: sociology of science, technology/technique, health
The foundation of research institutes, departments, journals and other academic bodies providing an institutional background was an important part of the re-establishment of Czech (Czechoslovak) sociology in the mid-1960s.
Topic: history of sociology
Comparing Citizen Attitudes towards Security and Liberty in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. One of the key problems of our time is how much security we want, what price we are willing to pay to feel safe and whether safety leads to satisfaction. Security has a financial and political cost. The article focuses on the relationship between security and privacy from the point of view of a citizen.
Topic: politics (and political attitudes)
Topic: gender
Topic: gender, education
Topic: gender, education
Topic: gender, globalisation
Topic: gender, politics (and political attitudes)
Czech Republic, a post-communist country in East-Central Europe, is oftentimes presented as one of the most secularized countries in the world. Albeit constituting no more than 15% of population, members of Christian churches develop extensive activities in many spheres of public life. Chaplaincy is an example of ecumenical initiatives reinstated after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989.
Topic: crime, religion and religiosity
The paper deals with the analysis of various aspects used to assess the quality of working life. It draws on the data from the representative survey of economically active population of the Czech Republic conducted in 2019. On an empirical basis, it shows that the impact of working-life circumstances on workers is not always universal or unambiguous, that there are at least four basic patterns of effect.
Topic: work
The article presents basic results of monitoring the development of subjectively perceived quality of working life in the Czech Republic. It uses data from representative surveys of workers since 2011, which implemented the SQWLi (Subjective Quality of Life Life Index) questionnaire. Firstly, the results show that changes in specific aspects as well as in wider domains of working life occur over time, both in terms of importance and evaluation.
Topic: work
Over the past few years, the topic of social housing has dominated the Czech professional and non-professional debate on homelessness. All experts agree that social housing in the Czech Republic is a necessity. However, one dangerous theme circulates in the discussion: homelessness is reduced to housing, and the debate evokes it can be simply resolve by the existence of social housing.
Topic: housing, economics, globalisation, wages and incomes, work, social inequalities, sociologická teorie, transformation
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 is to investigate the cross-country and cross-time comparability of the 4-item positive and 7-item negative affect scales used in European Social Survey Round 3 (2006) and Round 6 (2012).
Topic: methodology
Migration theory and international policy recognises that migrant remittances play significant roles in shaping economic, social, and political transformations in origins and destinations. However, nobody deals with how migrants experience and use values. To contribute to the development of migration theory, we integrate insights from modernization, social remittance, and cleavage frameworks.
Topic: value orientations, migration and mobility
This article presents the concept of social capital and highlights its use in the economic performance of Ukrainian entrepreneurs in Czechia. The social capital stands as one of the important resources, which can be used by migrant entrepreneurs in creating their own businesses and ethnic economies.
Topic: migration and mobility, social capital
Topic: sociological data
Topic: gender, identity, social inequalities
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