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Food waste occurs throughout the food distribution chain, with households, i.e., consumers, accounting for the largest share of total food waste. Different methods can be used to determine how much food people waste in their households, with widely varying results.

Topic: consumption

Type of publication: Peer-reviewed journal articleDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

This case study focuses on the temporal dynamics of stakeholder interaction to provide a sociological analysis of the deep geological repository siting process in the Czech Republic. By introducing the concept of counter-strategizing, it clarifies the shift in interaction after the state authorities backed out of a dialogue with local communities at pre-selected sites in 2016 but continued to push ahead with their siting mission.

Topic: energetika, sociologická teorie, technology/technique

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

The article is dedicated to reflecting the links between the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic crisis in the context of Czech social media, specifically on several blogging platforms. The processes leading to the climate and pandemic crises are highly intertwined, based in the way humans interact with the environment on a global scale. However, the circumstances and consequences of both crises, as well as the ways they are dealt with, also share common features.

Topic: internet, klimatická změna, media

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre, Local and regional studies

Topic: value orientations, intergenerational relations, human relations, sociologická teorie

Type of publication: Published reviewDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

This chapter proposes the morphogenetic approach, as elaborated within the confines of Margaret Archer’s critical realism, as a suitable starting point for theoretically grounded research into social aspects of energy. It demonstrates in outline the suitability of this approach in the special case of coal, the mining and combustion of which epitomize the ambiguity of the industrial era.

Topic: gender, klimatická změna, sociologická teorie, technology/technique

Type of publication: Chapter in monographDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

Social interaction as the middle phase of the morphogenetic sequence described by Margaret Archer presupposes that interpretative activities go on between individuals and collectivities. Novel meanings emerge in social interaction and spur the processes of structural elaboration. The hermeneutics of actors (or agents) should be part of the morphogenetic explanatory framework.

Topic: sociologická teorie, transformation

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

The paper presents a general theoretical argument about narrating futures and demonstrates its validity on the topic of energy transitions. It goes beyond the perspective of social constructionism and analyzes the temporal relationship between narratives, as employed in social interactions, and the reality of structural conditions in societies.

Topic: sociologická teorie, technology/technique, transformation

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

Trust is considered an essential part of a democratic society. That is why it is important to pay attention to it, especially in times of crisis. Some recent studies have introduced a new approach to examining attitudes and trust using social network analysis. The aim of our study is to examine the relationship between different types of trust during the coronavirus crisis.

Topic: trust/social cohesion

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

The SQWLi questionnaire was developed for the long-term measurement of subjectively perceived quality of working life. The aim of this study is to test the instrument's measurement invariance between 2009 and 2019 and determine whether - despite the modifications made to the instrument over the years - the results remain comparable.

Topic: methodology, work

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre, Gender & Sociology

Survey-based measures of subjective well-being are increasingly often analyzed cross-culturally. However, international comparison of these measures requires measurement invariance. Therefore, the major goal of this study was to investigate the cross-country comparability of the 5-item subjective well-being scales used in the International Social Survey Programme (2011, 2017).

Topic: methodology

Type of publication: Peer-reviewed journal articleDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre, Social Stratification

A research report with main outputs of the survey conducted under the project Parallels and Differences of Social Situations with Panic Potential - an example of RMU and a coronavirus pandemic in Czech society.www.cvvm.soc.cas.cz

Topic: health

Type of publication: Other publicationDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

In recent decades, voters have been postponing their decisions about what party to vote for to a time closer to the elections. One factor in this delay is when people are considering more than one political party. Drawing on two data sets from the general elections in the Czech Republic, we present an approach that assigns a person’s vote to multiple considered parties.

Topic: sociology of science

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

This final report is the first of seven research reports produced within the project Public(s), education and education policy: values, attitudes, reasoning, and experience (short title Public opinion on education). The project aims to map the views of different publics (actors) on education policy measures, assuming that these views are linked to broader attitudes towards education and the values held by actors in relation to education.

Topic: public opinion, education

Type of publication: Other publicationDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

Trust is considered an essential part of a democratic society. That is why it is important to pay attention to it, especially in times of crisis. Some recent studies have introduced a new approach to examining attitudes and trust using social network analysis. The aim of our study is to examine the relationship between different types of trust during the coronavirus crisis.

Topic: trust/social cohesion

Type of publication: Article with impact factorDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

Energy production and energy facilities and projects are based on scientific knowledge and they require employment of various kinds of technologies. This links energy development with a more general view of natural sciences and technologies and their function in contemporary advanced societies. The impact of technologies on everyday lives of individuals, groups and communities has been growing unprecedentedly in recent decades.

Topic: civil society, sociologická teorie, technology/technique

Type of publication: Chapter in monographDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

As people living in the EU states we take it for granted that a source of electricity will be there whenever we need it. It is a considerably less self-evident matter, how the electricity we rely on is supposed to be produced and distributed. The energy sector stands at a crossroads today and newly emerging options of energy strategies challenge the old ways of doing the business.

Topic: civil society, technology/technique, public opinion

Type of publication: Chapter in monographDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

Schutz’s concept of intersubjectivity departs from radical, philosophical analyses of the constitution of the other (alter ego) in my consciousness. Instead, he takes the existence of the other and his or her subjectivity for granted and investigates the intersubjective relations of understanding and action among individuals. The shifting of phenomenological lifeworld theory from philosophy to sociology enables Schütz to study social interaction and order.

Topic: sociologická teorie

Type of publication: Peer-reviewed journal articleDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

Internet se v posledních třech desetiletích stal integrální součástí soudobých společností a jeho obsah postupně ohromně narůstá a velmi dynamicky se proměňuje. I tak však společenské vědy a společenští vědci nevěnují přílišnou pozornost tomu, jaké svědectví může web nabídnout ohledně společenských změn. Tento článek se věnuje úvodu do problematiky webových archivů, které mohou sloužit jako zdroj dat částečně vypovídající o dynamické proměně současné společnosti a komunikace.

Topic: methodology

Type of publication: Peer-reviewed journal articleDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre, Czech Social Science Data Archive

The paper deals with the analysis of various aspects used to assess the quality of working life. It draws on the data from the representative survey of economically active population of the Czech Republic conducted in 2019. On an empirical basis, it shows that the impact of working-life circumstances on workers is not always universal or unambiguous, that there are at least four basic patterns of effect.

Topic: work

Type of publication: Peer-reviewed journal articleDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

The article presents basic results of monitoring the development of subjectively perceived quality of working life in the Czech Republic. It uses data from representative surveys of workers since 2011, which implemented the SQWLi (Subjective Quality of Life Life Index) questionnaire. Firstly, the results show that changes in specific aspects as well as in wider domains of working life occur over time, both in terms of importance and evaluation.

Topic: work

Type of publication: Peer-reviewed journal articleDepartment: Public Opinion Research Centre

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