The findings reveal the ambivalent nature of part-time work in the Czech Republic. On one hand, part-time contracts are used in terms of positive flexibility – as a tool for women to combine working life with care for small children. On the other hand, the results show, that part-time work is predominant among groups marginalized in the labour and these jobs are therefore associated with lower level of security and higher risk of poverty.
Topic: gender, wages and incomes, work
Der Band umfasst systematische Analysen der Verbändelandschaften und der Interessengruppen in 27 europäischen Ländern sowie der Europäischen Union.
Topic: EU, civil society, politics (and political attitudes)
The chapter compares the development in four Central European parliaments in the second decade after the fall of communism. At the end of the first decade, the four parliaments could be considered as rather stabilised, functional, independent and internally organised institutions. Attention is paid particularly to the changing institutional context and pressure of ‘Europeanisation’, the changing party strengths, and the functional and political consequences of these changes.
Topic: EU, politics (and political attitudes)
The article examines age as a possible group identity. It sets out to determine which age groups in society today have a stronger sense of identity and the source of that identity, while drawing on the tenets of social psychology and the theories of social identity and optimal distinctiveness. The analysis is based on representative data for the Czech population over the age of 20 drawn from the European Social Survey Round 4 and the International Social Survey Programme 2003.
Topic: identity, age and ageing
Information about the possibility to apply for a short visits programme of competence centers of the ESS.
Topic: methodology
Topic: methodology
The Discussion of Subjective Quality of Working Life Indicators. This article discusses the main types of methodological approaches to the examination of subjective working life quality. In particular, it points out their common traits and differences and therefore shows their potentials as well as weaknesses in different survey purposes. Analysis of Czech worker survey data is based on the dual concept of the quality of working life, which is addressed in the first parts of the study.
Topic: work, public opinion
This paper systematically maps and analyses the opinions of the Czech public on the Velvet Revolution and the social situation in the periods before and after the revolution. It first focuses attention on the image of the Velvet Revolution within the context of Czech modern history, and it explores the opinions of the public on this event. It takes a special look at how the Czech public evaluates the periods before and after 1989 and their perceptions of the entire period since 1989.
Topic: politics (and political attitudes), public opinion
Topic: public opinion
The book focussed its attention on the fusion of the two phenomena: community and volunteering. The Authors based their concept of community volunteering on the historical survey of community development. They analyse community volunteering in three lines characterised as 1. informal help, 2. organised work and 3. virtual activism.
Topic: human relations
The publication focuses on the personal experience of men and women researchers with academic mobility, how they experience migration, translocations, separations and new beginnings. The book presents fifteen researchers from various scientific disciplines who talked about their academic mobility which usually occurred in the phase of their doctoral and postdoctoral studies.
Topic: migration and mobility, sociology of science
The monograph deals with intergenerational transmition of social inequalities during family socialization employing data from the survey "Distinction and Values" (2008) which surveyed cohorts ages 30–34 along with their parents. The results show: 1. strong reproduction of social status/class position and also partly lifestyle (leisure activities) in adulthood – it is determined by class position of parents jointly with family’s accessible resources (social and cultural capital); 2.
Topic: value orientations, family, social inequalities, sociological data
The first part of the book brings the description of the concept of culture, the overview of legislation, analyses of conceptual and strategic documents related to culture, analyses of available data about the culture infrastructure and an overview of available financial sources for the area of non-industrial sectors of culture. The second part deals with the results of own survey Culture in the regions of the ČR 2011.
Topic: regions, lifestyle
The monograph deals with intergenerational transmition of social inequalities during family socialization employing data from the survey "Distinction and Values" (2008) which surveyed cohorts ages 30–34 along with their parents. The results show: 1. strong reproduction of social status/class position and also partly lifestyle (leisure activities) in adulthood – it is determined by class position of parents jointly with family’s accessible resources (social and cultural capital); 2.
Topic: value orientations, work, family
The first part of the book brings the description of the concept of culture, the overview of legislation, analyses of conceptual and strategic documents related to culture, analyses of available data about the culture infrastructure and an overview of available financial sources for the area of non-industrial sectors of culture. The second part deals with the results of own survey Culture in the regions of the ČR 2011.
Topic: economics, regions, public administration, lifestyle
The first part of the book brings the description of the concept of culture, the overview of legislation, analyses of conceptual and strategic documents related to culture, analyses of available data about the culture infrastructure and an overview of available financial sources for the area of non-industrial sectors of culture. The second part deals with the results of own survey Culture in the regions of the ČR 2011.
Topic: value orientations, lifestyle
The monograph deals with intergenerational transmition of social inequalities during family socialization employing data from the survey "Distinction and Values" (2008) which surveyed cohorts ages 30–34 along with their parents. The results show: 1. strong reproduction of social status/class position and also partly lifestyle (leisure activities) in adulthood – it is determined by class position of parents jointly with family’s accessible resources (social and cultural capital); 2.
Topic: value orientations, work, social capital
The first part of the book brings the description of the concept of culture, the overview of legislation, analyses of conceptual and strategic documents related to culture, analyses of available data about the culture infrastructure and an overview of available financial sources for the area of non-industrial sectors of culture. The second part deals with the results of own survey Culture in the regions of the ČR 2011.
Topic: kultura, regions, public policy, public administration
The monograph deals with intergenerational transmition of social inequalities during family socialization employing data from the survey "Distinction and Values" (2008) which surveyed cohorts ages 30–34 along with their parents. The results show: 1. strong reproduction of social status/class position and also partly lifestyle (leisure activities) in adulthood – it is determined by class position of parents jointly with family’s accessible resources (social and cultural capital); 2.
Topic: value orientations, family, social inequalities
The first part of the book brings the description of the concept of culture, the overview of legislation, analyses of conceptual and strategic documents related to culture, analyses of available data about the culture infrastructure and an overview of available financial sources for the area of non-industrial sectors of culture. The second part deals with the results of own survey Culture in the regions of the ČR 2011.
Topic: transformation, lifestyle
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