The monograph summarizes main explanations of electoral participation and its decline. It presents a systematic own theory of electoral participation which stresses the importance of mobilization by external actors and individual motivations (instrumentál, expressive and normative). This theoretical framework is used to explain the level and decline in electoral participation.
Topic: politics (and political attitudes), elections (and polls)
Topic: religion and religiosity
Recenze je věnována knize Lucie Jarkovské Gender před tabulí: Etnografický výzkum genderové reprodukce v každodennosti školní třídy (2013, Praha: SLON), která je určena výzkumníkům i pedagogům, zejména základních škol - hlavním cílem publikace je přispět k rozvoji genderově citlivé výuky.
Topic: gender, education
The impacts of economic crisis on the Czech housing market were, at least till now, relatively moderate. In comparison to other developed countries (e.g. Ireland, Spain, Greece, USA, Denmark, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia or Bulgaria) was the decrease in residential property prices only gradual and the default rate is lagging behind the average of the developed countries.
Topic: housing
Topic: gender, work, education
This article is focused on gender expectations linked with girl's speech. Stereotypical ideas regarding gender-specific behavior are still prevalent in today's society and preconceptions which define "lady-like" character, as well as what constitutes the appropriate speech of a "po-lite girl", still exist. This article detects the expectations linked with girls' speech as perceived by young people in contemporary society and describes the ways in which girls live up to these expectations.
Topic: gender
Topic: economics, gender, social inequalities
This paper investigates notable examples of sustainable lifestyles in relation to food systems. It explores the surprisingly neglected case of widely practiced and environmentally sustainable food self-provisioning in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. Our argument is rooted in qualitative and quantitative data gathered over a seven-year period (2005–2011). The research considers the extent of and motivations for these practices in Poland and Czechia.
Topic: consumption, životní prostředí, lifestyle
Topic: sociological data
Topic: sociology of science
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Counter-Reformation in the Central European Hapsburg lands led to the full prohibition (Bohemia, Moravia, Alpine lands) or to the wide restriction (Silesia, Hungary) of Protestantism, which included the confiscations of Protestant churches and the imposition of legal restrictions on the construction of new ones.
Topic: religion and religiosity
Czech Sociologists in the Beginnings of Slovak Sociology. The author analyses institutional beginning of Slovak sociology, which was very much influenced by Czech scholars.
Topic: history of sociology
In this article, we analyse initiatives organized by groups outside of formal politics that involve political confrontation with elected officials, and the need for recourse to the courts. We show that a civic initiative submitted by a proposer gives the voter not only the option to constrain the mayor but also the possibility of learning the mayor's type from the signals conveyed in the legal contest over the validity of the initiative.
Topic: civil society
This article draws on income surveys from the last two decades to report on trends in earnings disparities and household income inequality in the Czech Republic. Education has been the main axis of change in this area, having acquired a much greater role in the entire process of collecting and distributing income. First, an increasing influence of education is evident in the personal earnings of employees, returns to education having doubled.
Topic: wages and incomes, social inequalities, education
The aim of the article is to capture the most important hermeneutical aspects of Husserl’s thinking, to display them in their mutual relatedness, and to draw attention to the fact that the development of hermeneutics drew significantly on the work of Husserl and can be seen as a continuation of his endeavour by other means.
Topic: history of sociology
Topic: gender, globalisation, migration and mobility
Topic: gender
Topic: gender, globalisation
Topic: historical sociology
2013, Anýžová, PetraEkvivalence položek v mezinárodních datech: základní vymezení a možnosti analýzy
This article argues that the concept of equivalence is one of the most important methodological aspects of valid and reliable measurement in cross-national survey research. The important topic of survey measure equivalence has not been systematically in Czech social science publications to date and this article hopes to address this gap in the literature.
Topic: methodology, sociological data
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