Topic: methodology
Topic: value orientations, identity, regions
Topic: identity, regions
Topic: identity, media, regions
Food systems are of increasing interest in both research and policy communities. Surveys of post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) show high rates of food self-provisioning. These practices have been explained in terms of being ‘coping strategies of the poor’. Alber and Kohler’s ‘Informal Food Production in the Enlarged European Union’ (2008) offers a prominent account of this argument, supported by quantitative data.
Topic: EU, politics (and political attitudes)
The chapter describes and evaluates the rent setting and rent regulation in post-socialist transition countries; and development of new demand-side subsidies.
Topic: housing, transformation, public policy
The chapter describes and evaluates the history and recent state-of-art of social housing in the Czech Republic.
Topic: housing, social policy
The chapter compares the different strategies in social housing in 12 post-socialist transition states, evaluates their overall efficiency and effectiveness, and list the main factors behind the success of different strategies. Read more...
Topic: housing, social policy, transformation
Housing conditions form an important part of social stratification in many advanced industrial economies. The objective of this article is to determine the extent to which social stratification is linked to housing inequalities in the post-socialist Czech Republic; and how this relationship has evolved during the course of the economic transformation process.
Topic: housing, economics, social inequalities, transformation
Topic: religion and religiosity
The paper aims to show the most common paths to homelessness in the Czech Republic. The theoretical approach applied in this paper attempts to move beyond the structure–agency debate by focusing on the characteristics that most homeless people share on their paths to homelessness. The paper reveals that the pervasiveness of consumer credit has often been a critical juncture on the pathway to homelessness, despite the assistance available from a strong welfare state.
Topic: housing, standard of living
The aim of this article is to identify the main factors that lead to the successful reintegration of the homeless into long-term housing in the postsocialist Czech Republic, identify the barriers to successful reintegration, and, in the light of these factors and barriers, assess the effectiveness of existing and potentially new state housing policies. The authors also assess innovative changes that could be made to this assistance in the form of ‘guaranteed housing’.
Topic: housing, public policy, standard of living
This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about the past two decades of developments in selected countries’ social housing sectors, and showing what conditions have decisively impacted these processes.
Topic: housing, EU, transformation
In the paper is presented the development of migration studies with special focus on the interests of social antropology. There are also summerised applications of these theories in Czech academic space. Further on the author presents possible goals and priorities of Czech migration studies for the close future.
Topic: value orientations, migration and mobility
The chapter describes and evaluates the development of both market-based housing finance and social housing finance in post-socialist transition countries.
Topic: housing, social policy, transformation
Despite various changes in academic institutions and the academic profession in last two decades (Shore 2008; Dunn 2003; Power 2003), the academic environment is still organized around the notion of a linear, uninterrupted career path (Murray 2000; Smithon and Stokoe 2005) culminating with the launch of one’s own lab.
Topic: gender, sociology of science
Academic excellence is allegedly a universal and gender neutral standard of merit. This article examines exactly what is constructed as academic excellence at the micro-level, how evaluators operationalize this construct in the criteria they apply in academic evaluation, and how gender inequalities are imbued in the construction and evaluation of excellence.
Topic: gender, sociology of science
Topic: historical sociology
Topic: religion and religiosity
Topic: religion and religiosity
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