Using empirical data drawn for the most part from research in the project of the Institute of Sociology AV ČR entitled 'Ten Years of Societal Transformation in the Czech and Slovak Republics', this essay attempts to trace the priorities of public opinion and identify potential buttresses of key aspects in the process of modernisation within Czech society.
Topic: transformation, public opinion
Paper tests the existence and development of the leftright and the libertarianismauthoritarianism cleavages in the voter space in the CR. Analyses are based on H. Kitschelts hypotheses. Items from British Social Attitude Survey, etc. have been used to test the cleavages.
Topic: politics (and political attitudes), elections (and polls)
Topic: methodology, sociological data, public opinion
The study summarizes the results of the authors’ nearly decade-long effort (related to thestudy of the post-socialist transformation of Czech society) to gain an empirical and theoreticalknowledge of the process of how social elites are created and consolidated. Socialelites are understood primarily as the foremost stratification groupings, which enter intocomplicated interactions with the social system, its economic and political institutional
Topic: elites, transformation
Topic: sociological data
Topic: human relations
The article investigates the differences between marriage and non-marital cohabitation. The main perspective stems from the theory of the social exchange. The author concentrates on the narrow question of financial transfers between partners and presents the hypothesis that cohabitation should represent a lesser bond union because it does not protect investments into partnerships, and it should therefore be more egalitarian. However, this hypothesis is not confirmed by the data.
Topic: human relations, family
The report analyses a survey of religious attitudes of the Czechs. Analyses have disclosed two fundamental types of a religious orientation: Christianity and occultism. Christianity was typical for older people with lower education, occultism was spread in population more evenly. The relationship between occultism and pessimism and the denial of a higher personal authority was proven.
Topic: value orientations, religion and religiosity
Topic: value orientations
Topic: family
Topic: politics (and political attitudes), public opinion
Topic: politics (and political attitudes), public opinion
Topic: public opinion, standard of living
Topic: housing, politics (and political attitudes)
Topic: public opinion, standard of living
Topic: economics, public policy, public opinion
Topic: public opinion
The article presents practical information on the sources of Czech social survey data for both researchers interested in data on Czech society and data professionals interested in the state of the art of data services. Czech survey research was deeply affected by the communist regime, but underwent intense development in 1960s and after the revolution in 1989. In the field of official statistics, data services are provided by the Czech Statistical Office.
Topic: sociological data
Article concerns the benefits of social data services and secondary data analysis and the past and current situation in data archiving in the Czech Republic. The Sociological Data Archive (SDA) provides data files from quantitative surveys, promotes secondary data analysis and co-operates in research project (ISSP, ESS). Qualitative archives are the Czech Archive of Qualitative Data and Documents and MEDARD.
Topic: sociological data
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