Property restitution is the process in which property expropriated by communist regime was returned to the previous owners or their descendants. This chapter seeks to explain the differences between the housing restitution strategies adopted by post-socialist countries, to present in-depth case studies in four countries, and to discuss the impact of property restitution on the development of the private rental sector in these countries.
Topic: housing
The book presents an overview of private rented housing in selected new EU member states and other transition countries – a topic scarcely researched to date. Part I presents the private rental sector in Western and Northern European countries, the history of private renting under socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, and thematic issues such as property restitution and marginalized groups depending on privately rented housing. Part II provides a series of country case studies.
Topic: housing
Stať je věnována problematice majetkových nerovností jako doposud v České republice spíše opomíjené ose sociálních nerovností. Majetkové nerovnosti a jejich vývoj v čase jsou v tomto textu měřeny na základě hodnoty nemovitého majetku (bytu či domu), v němž domácnost žije. Hodnota nemovitého majetku domácností v ČR v uplynulých desetiletích významně vzrostla, kromě toho Češi stále více upřednostňují vlastnické bydlení na úkor jiných forem právního důvodu užívání bydlení.
Topic: housing, social inequalities
Topic: gender, work, social inequalities
The article analyzes position of established churches in the Czech society through the concept of vicarious religion (Davie).
Topic: religion and religiosity
Topic: životní prostředí
This article sets out to identify the factors that have an impact on mayoral decisions in terms of priorities for municipal development. Data from a survey conducted among Czech mayors in the years 2015 and 2016 (N = 492) are used. The sample consists of answers of mayors from municipalities of all population sizes and the sample is evenly distributed over the area of the Czech Republic.
Topic: public administration
Feminist sociological research is well institutionalised in the Czech Republic with two major departments at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. However, it would be wrong to believe that the knowledge produced by them goes uncontested. In the article, we analyse the de-legitimizing strategies used to discredit and denounce such knowledge in two particular cases that entered the media in 2015 and 2017.
Topic: gender, media
Topic: politics (and political attitudes)
The study discusses the image of the city of Ostrava in photographic publications issued in the period of state socialism and aimed to capture and present the daily life of an exemplary industrial socialist city.
Topic: gender, kultura, životní prostředí
Stabilita demokracie nezáleží jen na fungujících institucích, ale také na občanech, kteří se v její prospěch nebojí veřejně angažovat. Demokracie tak není v ohrožení jen tehdy, když se hroutí její instituce, ale i tehdy, když se vytrácí její podpora mezi členy společnosti. Druhé často předchází to první. Bez občanů, kteří podporují principy demokracie a v souladu s nimi jednají, se demokratický režim vyprazdňuje.
Topic: civil society, politics (and political attitudes)
A key issue in socio-economic geography is to understand how regional and social polarisation shapes the territorial organisation of society. We argue that effects of polarisation are not translated simply and straightforwardly in a whole region, but vary to a large extent with respect to different types of accessibility areas. We applied the time-accessibility framework to classify a territory into urban, peri-urban, rural, and remote rural areas at a national and regional scale.
Topic: urban and rural studies, methodology, regions, social inequalities, transformation, education
The spatial concentration of social disadvantage in rural areas not only poses a risk to social cohesion but also represents a challenge for public policy. This article draws on a multidimensional concept of disadvantage to study spatial aspects of disadvantage in Czech rural areas. Current studies aimed at identifying ‘inner peripheries’ as areas with an increased risk of social exclusion fail to distinguish between different forms of disadvantage.
Topic: trust/social cohesion, urban and rural studies, migration and mobility, wages and incomes, age and ageing, public policy, standard of living
Using the European Social Survey data we studied migration attitudes in 19 European countries, including Czechia. We introduced and tested the assumption about the bi-dimensional nature of migration attitudes, where personalized attitudes towards immigrants as individuals might differ from the generalised attitudes toward immigration as a phenomenon.
Topic: value orientations, migration and mobility
Topic: sociological data
Topic: sociological data
Výzkum uskutečnilo oddělení Gender a sociologie Sociologického ústavu AV ČR, v.v.i., v rámci projektu „Jak na rovnost v odměňování... aneb Pozor na nezamýšlené důsledky!“ financovaného Evropskou unií z Evropského sociálního fondu, operačního programu Zaměstnanost č. CZ.03.1.51/0.0/0.0/16_061/0003501. Dotazníkové šetření bylo provedeno ve spolupráci s Centrem pro výzkum veřejného mínění (CVVM) Sociologického ústavu AV ČR, v.v.i.
Topic: gender, wages and incomes, work, family
Topic: politics (and political attitudes)
The publication focuses on the impact of formal mentoring on the start of professional paths of early career researchers at doctoral and postdoctoral stages. The book of interviews with alumni of the mentoring programme of the Centre for Gender and Science at the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, gives an insight into the situation of early career researchers in the Czech Republic working and studying in various disciplines and various types of institutions.
Topic: gender
The concept of cultural planning is relatively well-established in many countries as a tool which enables municipalities to use their potential in local development, yet still notwell-known and debated among scholars, practitioners, or the wider public in Central Europe, including in the Czech Republic.
Topic: kultura, public administration
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