Topic: gender
Over the past thirty years there has been a substantial change in how home is understood in the social sciences. While it is still possible to discern the influence of phenomenology on contemporary thinking about home, the studies presently at the forefront of the geography, anthropology, and sociology of home largely reflect the impact of critical social theory and the cultural and spatial turn in the social sciences, and they have also made the lines between these disciplines blurrier.
Topic: housing
This article develops a critical analysis of transformations of the idea and practice of women’s emancipation in late-modern Western society under the influence of globalizing advanced capitalism. It builds on analyses of feminist critical theory and critical globalization studies and argues that global capitalism initiates processes in which the practice of emancipation is distorted.
Topic: gender, globalisation, care
Topic: gender, globalisation, care
Cílem článku je aplikovat pojem hermeneutického kruhu na pozici sociologa. Hermeneutický problém v sociologii je analyzován na oblasti výzkumu sociálního jednání a s ohledem na otázku, jak může sociologické rozumění postihovat význam přisuzovaný jednání samotnými aktéry. Ačkoli existuje několik významných teoretiků, kteří ideu hermeneutiky přenesli do sociologie, žádný z nich se detailně nezabýval tématem hermeneutického kruhu.
Topic: historical sociology, sociologická teorie
This article examines secondary education in the Czech Republic between 2000 and 2010. We analyzed the consequences of educational expansion on odds to achieve secondary education with a school-leaving certificate (SLC) by social origin. We utilize the theories of maximally maintained inequality – MMI (Raftery & Hout, 1993) and effectively maintained inequality – EMI (Lucas, 2001). We analyzed data from PISA 2000 to 2009 for the Czech Republic. We support EMI theory against MMI.
Topic: social inequalities, sociologická teorie, education
The main objective of this paper is to show to what extent and why students with the same academic aptitude but different social backgrounds have different odds of entering university. For our analysis, we separated primary and secondary factors of social origin in the formation of educational inequalities (Boudon 1974). The results show that the primary and secondary factors have approximately the same influence on the transition to university.
Topic: social inequalities, sociologická teorie, education
One of the most important professional contributions of historian J. Kalousek was to refute the hypothesis of the "hidden presence" of the Orthodox in Czech history from the 9th century to the present. The study analyzes the genesis and content of Kalousek's argumentation as well as the opposite alternatives.
Topic: historical sociology
This paper is pursuing two main objectives. Firstly, to map the impact of higher education on shaping literacy and numeracy cognitive competencies. And secondly, to compare the financial returns to tertiary bachelor and master education and cognitive skills acquired at this level of education among 17 countries participating in the international survey of adult skills PIAAC (2011 – 2012). Particular emphasis is placed on assessing the returns to various fields of study.
Topic: economics, wages and incomes, education
Národní studie je součástí mezinárodního komparativního projektu Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) koncipovaného za účelem identifikace a podpory efektivní tvorby politiky a vládnutí. Projekt je podporován nadací Bertelsmann Stiftung. SGI zkoumá, jak se vládám daří dosahovat cíle, kterým je udržitelný rozvoj. Studie hodnotí období od listopadu 2015 do listopadu 2016.
Topic: politics (and political attitudes)
The country study is a part of a cross-national comparative survey Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) designed to identify and foster successes in effective policymaking. The project is supported by Bertelsmann Stiftung. The SGI explores how governments target sustainable development in a time period from November 2015 until November 2016.
Topic: politics (and political attitudes)
Housing systems are mainly defined by the housing tenure structure in a particular society. We assume that choice of housing tenure is determined by economic factors, the life course and social interactions that reproduce and/or weaken the social norm that deems one housing tenure – homeownership – is superior to another housing tenure – renting.
Topic: housing
Topic: gender, parenting, sociology of science
Do Czechs want equality? Are Czechs a nation of grumblers? Are Czechs prejudiced? How do Czechs spend their time? Czexit? What do Czechs think about migrants and do Czechs fear foreigners? Price of the book 350 CZK or US$14 (552 pages)
Topic: economics, intergenerational relations, migration and mobility, civil society, politics (and political attitudes), social inequalities, elections (and polls)
In the Czech Republic, the context for starting a family has changed dramatically since the fall of communism in late 1989. Fewer Czechs are getting married, and if they do, they do so at a later age. Cohabitation has become a long-term household arrangement in which children are raised. Today, marriage is not the only socially acceptable form of a shared life among Czech couples.
Topic: value orientations, family
The chapter analyzes the attempt to establish the Section of Integral Anthropology in the 1960s as one of the (unsuccessful) attempts to establish social anthropology (or an even wider anthropological perspective) within Czech academia.
Topic: history of sociology
The study analyzes the changes of contemporary Czech religiosity in relation of town-and-the-countryside, from the empirical point of view and in relation to sociological theory.
Topic: religion and religiosity
Preferences in the consumption of food and drinks can change according to eating habits. A consumer test with total 320 participants held in the countries of the Visegrad Group (Visegrad Four) in April 2016 confirmed, however the popularity of regional beers, particularly those with a medium original wort extract (about 11.5 to 12.0 % wt), with medium to high bitterness, high body-fullness, high carbonation and medium alcohol content.
Topic: lifestyle
Gender hierarchies in the scientific workforce reflect and reinforce relations of status and power in societies.
Topic: gender, sociology of science, public policy
This paper analyses the Control of corruption as measured by the World Bank and the possible causes for the level of corruption on a European level.
Topic: value orientations, corruption, religion and religiosity
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