Topic: gender, work
Science policies and science studies largely share an understanding of scientific knowledge and objects as immutable mobiles. This article shows how the analysis of research assessment in a non-Anglophone country and its effects on social sciences can shed new light on this shared notion.
Topic: value orientations, sociology of science
Recently there have been pleas for STS to make a difference in how science policies are constructed and enacted. Much less remarked upon is the possibility that there may be troubling alignments between science studies and research policies in the form of shared conceptual, epistemological and methodological assumptions. Both have come to emphasise material outputsand visible activity, obscuring other processes, relationships and orderings involved in science work.
Topic: sociology of science
Topic: politics (and political attitudes)
Topic: human relations
Homelessness in the Czech Republic is a relatively new phenomenon. Because of ideological background before 1989, as a result of loos of employment, it could not show up. For that reason, it fully emerged in early 1990s. Under this condition, it has been also unresearched for long time. Moreover, most of the written papers have ignored key studies from abroad, especially from the USA. Therefore, this paper offers an overview of studying the homelessness in USA.
Topic: history of sociology, methodology, social inequalities
Topic: crime, public policy
Topic: migration and mobility, work, social capital
Topic: regions, public administration
The study compares the potential effects of a university admission exam model based on program-specific knowledge and an alternative model relying on general study aptitude (GSA) in the context of a strongly stratified educational system with considerable excess of demand over supply of university education.
Topic: education
Topic: media
Topic: gender
2012, Maříková Hana (ed.), Křížková Alena a Vohlídalová MartaŽivitelé a živitelky: reflexe (a) praxe
The publication is focused on understanding the construction of lay knowledge as concerns the phenomenon of breadwinning. Authors attempt to uncover the formation of breadwinning according to its various types and models so that it would be possible to observe the mechanisms behind the re/production, and legitimisation of social and gender inequalities in the family and the associated power relations. Authors use an analysis of 61 semi-structured interviews with parents from 26 families.
Topic: gender, wages and incomes, care, work, social inequalities
The article focuses on analyzing the institution of hired domestic care in the context of global connections of social relations and changing social forms of care. In the first part, the author introduces the social context in which the market model of care and transnational care practices partake in forming the process of distorted emancipation.
Topic: gender, globalisation, migration and mobility, care, family
The author develops a critical diagnosis of the changing interpretations of the concept of emancipation of women due to broader socio-economic transformations and expansion of the market into most domains of social life. In the first part she briefly outlines the historical context in which the feminist emancipation claims were put into practice.
Topic: gender, globalisation, care
Topic: gender, work, sociology of science, education
Topic: gender, education
Topic: methodology, social inequalities
Topic: sociological data
This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions in explaining the development of shadow economies in European countries. The analysis uses several alternative measures of the shadow sector, and examines the effects of labor institutions on the shadow sector in two specific regions: new and old European Union member countries, as their respective shadow sectors exhibited a different development in the past decade.
Topic: economics
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