Topic: religion and religiosity
In the past few decades ITC technologies have begun to penetrate various areas of social life. One of these areas is education. New forms of teaching and learning have appeared – for example, e-learning or virtual learning; this term refers to the specificity of the relationship between teacher and student. The work Authority in virtual education tries to uncover the characteristics of this relationship, which are substantially influenced by communication that excludes face-to-face contact.
Topic: human relations
Article reports on research of a little known process how the "documents of memory", biographical narratives of socialism in this case, are received by members of the community of memory. The research was based on the experiment, in which members of three generations (two generations of witnesses of socialism and one post-socialist generation) inferred the political identity of the narrators from very short fragments of biographical narratives concerning socialist era.
Topic: sociological data
Topic: social inequalities
The focus of this research paper is on women in managerial positions within organisations in the Czech Republic. The paper draws on theories of gendered power relations in organisations and their management, an intersectional approach to gender inequalities, and, methodologically, a biographical approach to gender sociology. As a case study, its data was gathered through biographical interviews with female managers within the same company.
Topic: gender, work
The paper traces the contexts and processes of gender inequality and gender discrimination in the Czech labour market. The primary innovation of the research is the use of qualitative sociological methodology. Quantitative sociological research alone has thus far been unable to uncover the factors, contexts and actors´ understandings of gender inequality and discrimination.
Topic: gender, work, social inequalities
Discussion paper on recent investigation of Michal Pavlásek, who interprets the socio-economic and religious origins of (part of) the Czech settlement in Banat and Bulharia.
Topic: religion and religiosity
The paper analyses development of Czech sociology of religion in the period of communist rule.
Topic: history of sociology, religion and religiosity
Topic: religion and religiosity
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Topic: religion and religiosity
The article analyse the development of cremation movement in the Czech lands in connection with sociology of cremation and cremation insurance provided by the Crematorium Association and its followers.
Topic: history of sociology, care
The chapter analyses history of cremation movement and related waves of construction of crematoria in highly secularized and modernistic society in the Czech lands throughout the 20th century.
Topic: religion and religiosity
The chapter analyses early sociological work of Czech politician Jan Šrámek in a context of Roman Catholic Christian sociology of his time.
Topic: history of sociology
This study analyses the liquidation process of the German Protestant Church in Bohemia, Moravia and in Silesia, the fourth largest Czech church, in the era after World War II. The analysis examines the fates of the religious buildings of the church.
Topic: value orientations, religion and religiosity
The e-book (CD-ROM) is a critical edition of sources. It presents a full-text edition of influential Czech sociological journals from the past (Parlament, Sociální problémy, Sociologická revue, and Sociologický obzor), as well as an introductory study by Zdeněk R. Nešpor of the full range of sociological and related journals published in the history of Czech sociology.
Topic: history of sociology
The article analyses the life story and works of a significant Czech sociologist, Jaroslav Šíma (1914–1955), as a case study in the context of the evolution of Czech sociology in the 20th century and relations between sociology and political power.
Topic: history of sociology
The study compares the similarities and differences in young peopleĺs transition to housing independence from their parents in three European countries - Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands ľ in the context of west European societies (EU15). The purpose was to find whether the Czech and Bulgarian societies are closer to the northern or southern type and whether the differences grounded in the historical and demographic division of west and east Europe persist to this day.
Topic: housing, family, lifestyle
Contemporary Czech Burial Practices are strongly influenced by the experience communist régime during which the religious funerals were replaced by secular rituals. The study uses two surveys that document this fact.
Topic: religion and religiosity, care
Death and dying is one of the overlooked areas in the Czech Republic. The prolonging of dying in neo-modern/ late-modern societies requires not just medical care but also very important social care that is a major factor in maintaining high quality of life right to the end. Czech social policy has so far only dealt with death as a marginal topic and it would be good if it learnt from experiences abroad.
Topic: social policy, age and ageing, public policy
The authors analyse the following mutually reliant but, at least as far as Czech society is concerned, not always directly dependent aspects of the cremation movement in the 20th century: the growth in and impact of pro-cremation propaganda, the establishment of new crematoria, the spread in the popularity of cremation as a method of disposal throughout society and changes in the rituals associated with it.
Topic: religion and religiosity
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