A new collection that analyses how exactly comparison -- as a particular type of social scientific practice -- is done, while assessing some of its opportunities and limitations. It features case studies of comparative practices that range from colonial architecture, to hacking communities, to ranking practices in hospitals and academia, while also examining the practical challenges of achieving comparison.
Topic: methodology
Topic: gender
This chapter examines the relationship between public opinion and public policy. The first part of the chapter is devoted to the relationship of public opinion and public policy at the theoretical level and presents different concepts and empirical ways of exploring this relationship. The second part is devoted to the history of the public opinion research in the Czech Republic and on several examples analyses the relationship between public opinion and public policy.
Topic: trust/social cohesion
This chapter examines the relationship between public opinion and public policy. The first part of the chapter is devoted to the relationship of public opinion and public policy at the theoretical level and presents different concepts and empirical ways of exploring this relationship. The second part is devoted to the history of the public opinion research in the Czech Republic and on several examples analyses the relationship between public opinion and public policy.
Topic: trust/social cohesion
Topic: sociology of science, public policy
This paper uses the national EU-SILC 2013 data to analyse the impact of the distribution of personal income between partners on reported financial well-being of couples in the Czech Republic. It focuses on partners in two life stages: couples raising children and couples with empty nests. On average, women contribute substantially less to the household budget than men and their financial satisfaction is slightly lower.
Topic: economics, gender, wages and incomes, standard of living
Topic: kultura, civil society, public administration
The chapter analyzes the relations of religion(s) and churches to the state and civil society in the present Czech Republic.
Topic: religion and religiosity
Topic: gender, urban and rural studies
Topic: gender
This article deals with the factors influencing the degree of trust in political institutions at three levels of government in the Czech Republic (national, regional and local) in two dissimilar regions in the time of economic crisis in 2009, the year when citizens of the Czech Republic experienced the negative impacts of growing unemployment and a substantial decline in real GDP. Two competitive theories - the cultural and the performance explanation - were used as a theoretical framework.
Topic: trust/social cohesion, regions, public opinion
Topic: politics (and political attitudes)
Topic: urban and rural studies
Topic: corruption
The aim of this paper is to identify the trends in educational fluidity after the fall of socialism in 1989 in the Czech Republic. The data are based on 27 sample surveys carried out from 1990 to 2009, including information on the child’s and his father’s education. The trends in educational fluidity are analysed both in view of the years and with respect to the birth cohorts, i.e.
Topic: social inequalities, education
Topic: trust/social cohesion, crime
Contemporary Czech religiosity is undergoing a dynamic development and the religious scene is so diversified that it is difficult to understand. The Encyclopaedia of smaller Christian churches in the Czech Republic is approaching one of its fastest growing and at the same time the least known segments.
Topic: religion and religiosity
Topic: social inequalities, education
Topic: health
Topic: parenting
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