Key research question of the chapter is whether and to what extent were social inequalities in housing affordability increasing or decreasing among different social groups of households in the period 1991-2009. Authors used innovative methodological approaches to answer the key research question.
Topic: housing, methodology, social inequalities
Chapter focuses on three research questions: (1) How strong is the relationship between the key aspect of social stratification – socio-economic status of the household head – and housing inequalities in the Czech Republic? (2) If such relationship exists, how it has been evolving during past two decades? (3) What dimension(s) of housing inequalities, if such exists, is most significantly linked to social stratification?
Topic: housing, social inequalities
Chapter answers following research questions: (1) Whether the development of regional disparities in housing affordability accords with the theory of convergence or the theory of divergence or it does not correspond to any of these theories. (2) What was the number of household’s types threatened by housing unaffordability and potential social exclusion in the Czech regions?
Topic: housing, regions, social inequalities
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Topic: housing, social policy, standard of living
As an outcome of a five-year international research project “RECON – Reconstituting democracy in Europe”, this volume presents country case studies of Central and East European countries and comparative findings from research on the transformation of collective identities in Central and Eastern Europe under the conditions of an enlarging Europe.
Topic: EU, value orientations, identity, politics (and political attitudes), transformation
Chapter focus on the following research questions: (1) Are the causes of homelessness in the Czech Republic country-specific or more or less the same as in developed countries? (2) Could be some country-specific features of homelessness following from change in political and economic system of the Czech Republic used for extension of homelessness theories based on experiences of western countries?
Topic: housing, social inequalities, standard of living
The chapter attempts to clarify the concept of collective identity and its intrinsic relationship to democracy. Further on, there arediscussed possible configurations of democracy in the European Union that give expression to different national, supra-national, or post-national identitarian projects (the so-called three RECON models).
Topic: EU, value orientations, identity, politics (and political attitudes)
The monography studies youth music subcultures in a contemporary Czech republic. It focuses on issues of values, political aspects of subcultures, relation to mainstream culture, inner differentation of subcultures and alternative lifestyles. Four popular music subcultures (punk, skinheads, techno and hip hop) were analysed by qualitative research approach and by insider perspective which understands subcultures through inner meanings and interpretations of members of these groups.
Topic: value orientations, kultura, politics (and political attitudes), lifestyle
The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision making processes. At the same time, they deal with the problem of local development potentials and development opportunities and deficiencies of rural communities.
Topic: urban and rural studies, politics (and political attitudes), public administration
Inroduction presents traditional and contemporary theories of subcultures, both in global and Czech, post-socialist context. It defines notios and approaches to studies on subcultures and outlines ways how to examine subcultures in the Czech society.
Topic: value orientations, lifestyle
Scholarly elboreted biographical and thematical encycloppaedia of 213 contemporary Czech sociologists and academics in related disciplines and 28 sociological departments/institutes in the Czech Republic.
Topic: history of sociology
The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision making processes. At the same time, they deal with the problem of local development potentials and development opportunities and deficiencies of rural communities.
Topic: urban and rural studies, politics (and political attitudes), public administration
The conclusion is a comparison of four analysed youth music subcultures regarding values, political aspects of subcultures, relation to mainstream culture, inner differentation of subcultures and alternative lifestyles. It examines traditional and post-subcultural aspects of these subcultures and their specificity in a post-socialist society.
Topic: gender, value orientations, social inequalities, lifestyle
The objective of the book is to inform social sector practitioners, policy makers, government officials and analysts about the specific features of housing market operation and discuss the role of housing policy in general and in the Czech Republic in particular. In the second section, the book offers three best practices (innovations) that are suitable for application in the Czech housing policy context.
Topic: housing, public policy
Chapter describes housing as a specific part of market economy. The basic microeconomic theses are followed by principles and specific features of housing as a good that cause housing market rigidity and inefficiency. The chapter also describes different forms of house prices indices and gives a methodological overview of how changes in house prices (booms and busts) can be explained and how house price bubbles emerge.
Topic: housing, public policy
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Topic: housing, public policy
This study focuses on social capital and the network of links between the organisations involved in activities geared towards the development of tourism in the Pardubice Region. The analysis of their network displays interconnectedness, the trust they show each other in their cooperation and that they place in the process of decision-making on supporting projects to advance tourism.
Topic: civil society, politics (and political attitudes), regions, social capital
The chapter describes a proposal for implementation of social and guaranteed housing in the Czech Republic. Target groups of households are defined. Although they are generally eligible for housing allowances, due to discrimination on the Czech housing market they face social and spatial segregation. New system of social and guaranteed housing should help them to acquire long-term, qualitatively adequate and spatially non-excluded rental housing.
Topic: housing, family, social policy
The book concerns the functioning of local governments in rural municipalities in the Czech Republic and their possibilities to impact local development. The authors describe formal and informal features of local governments in rural municipalities, their agenda and decision making processes. At the same time, they deal with the problem of local development potentials and development opportunities and deficiencies of rural communities.
Topic: urban and rural studies, politics (and political attitudes), regions, public administration
The book analyses evolution of Czech sociology from it very beginnings in the late 19th century to its temporary extinction after the communist coup d’état in 1948. Particular chapters describes roots and origins of Czech sociology, impact of T. G. Masaryk and his followers, three main interwar sociological schools, role of Czech sociologists in founding of Slovakian sociology and the situation of Czech sociology during the WWII and shortly after.
Topic: history of sociology
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