Topic: historical sociology
Topic: religion and religiosity
Topic: lifestyle
The article presents and analyses prosopographical data on the elite of contemporary Czech sociological academia.
Topic: history of sociology, elites
Ethnography is usually defined as a method (or set of methods), or as a research paradigm. The existence of multiple definitions is partly the result of ethnography being used by researchers from different fields of study; sociologists and anthropologists, for example. The purpose of this article is to try and determine whether a “new ethnography” really exists.
Topic: methodology
abstract
Topic: religion and religiosity, sociological data
Author analyses European and North American enlightenment of the 18th century and its impact on churches and religion.
Topic: religion and religiosity
The autor describes and analyses state of religion in the Poland and its development during the 20th century.
Topic: religion and religiosity
The article analyse the life and academic contribution of one of the most prominent interwar Czech sociologists, Jan Mertl (1904-1978), and his fates during and after the WWII influenced by his collaboration with Nazism.
Topic: history of sociology
This study deals with the birth and the consequent development of the so-called Free Evangelical churches, primarily of the re-established Unity of the Brethren, the Free Reformed Church, the Adventist and Baptist churches in the Czech Lands at the end of the 19th century and in the early 20th century.
Topic: religion and religiosity
The chapter analyses support of (part of) interwar Czech sociology provided by the Agrarian Party and its results, including ideological and political deformations of academic research.
Topic: history of sociology
The article analyses in detail the various processes involved in the establishment of sociology at particular Czech universities and colleges, describes the forms and content of sociological education available and deals with prosopographical analysis of students of the subject.
Topic: history of sociology, education
Abstract
Topic: religion and religiosity
The autor describes and analyses state of religion in the Czech Republic and its development during the 20th century.
Topic: religion and religiosity
The institution of parenthood has undergone dramatic changes in the past decades. The policies of many European countries attempted to aid mothers in combining their parental and professional roles and to strenghten the position of fathers through their active involvement in the upbringing and care of their children. In the past decades, there has also been a shift from parenthood as a natural state of things to parenthood as a chosen state.
Topic: gender, parenting, public policy
Two decades ago, scholars predicted that the economic and political transformations underway in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe would be accompanied by fundamental shifts in societal values and norms. Unlike political reforms, changes in societal norms were believed to take place gradually, as individuals became increasingly socialized by new institutions and conditions.
Topic: value orientations, transformation
The article analyzes, on the basis of social surveys conducted in 1991, 1995, 2006 and 2009, the development of beliefs about distributive justice in the Czech Republic and Germany and the rootedness of those values in the stratification system.
Topic: social inequalities
This paper aims to quantify the basic structure of gender wage gaps in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, using the EU-SILC 2008 dataset. The structure of the gender wage gap is analyzed based on the Heckman selection model and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The fi ndings are to a great extent similar for the Czech and Slovak Republics. The observed gender wage gap is relatively high in these two countries, compared to Hungary and Poland.
Topic: gender, wages and incomes
The potential provided by survey data for studying simultaneous changes in earnings disparities, inequality of household income, and the connections between them has thus far been underexploited. This paper presents various data on four Central and East European (CEE) countries, as well as some data on Austria and Germany for the sake of comparison.
Topic: wages and incomes, social inequalities, sociological data
The article drafts problems on the interface of the objective and subjective indicators. In the first section, multi-dimensional approaches are tackled and in the second, concepts of happiness and satisfaction are overviewed. The relationship between economic growth and human happiness is described next. In the fourth section, data on reported happiness in the Czech Republic, ready for analysis and comparison, are described.
Topic: economics, methodology
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