Despite a long and rich history of fear of crime research, studies which focus on the importance of local specifics are rather limited. This study fills this gap by analyzing fear of crime—measured as concerns about crime and feeling of safety—among residents of disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Topic: crime
Zpráva dostupná na vyžádání na e-mailové adrese: eva.krulichova@soc.cas.cz.
Topic: crime
The topic of safeguarding against sickness grew in importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. People’s health was more at risk, yet not all had the same capacity and options to deal with it. Therefore, this article focuses on the under-researched topic of choice of strategies and individual practices for safeguarding against one’s sickness among micro-entrepreneurs (with 1–10 employees) before and during the pandemic, namely on the example of Czechia.
Topic: gender, social policy, health
Topic: životní prostředí, lifestyle
Kteří podnikající jsou ve svém podnikání nejvíce znevýhodněni a v jakých oblastech? Co je největším úskalím při hledání informací o vlastním podnikání? Existuje vůbec nějaká regulace platformové ekonomiky na českém trhu práce? Může práce v coworkingovém centru zmírnit aspekty prekarity v podnikání? Jak se podnikající zabezpečují pro případ vlastní nemoci?
Topic: gender, work
The monitoring report on the position of women in Czech science provides up-to-date statistical data on the position of women in Czech research. The publication aims to inform about the representation of women and men across scientific fields, academic sectors and sectors of the economy, including the position of the Czech Republic in an international comparison. In addition, the report alco contains a section on incomes of researchers and the gender pay gap.
Topic: gender, sociology of science
Topic: historical sociology
Topic: religion and religiosity, social inequalities
Topic: history of sociology
Topic: religion and religiosity
The Covid-19 pandemic revealed a dramatic need for modes of solidarity and responsibility that take into account welfare of others and simultaneously stem from the recognition of global co-dependency and shared vulnerabilities.
Topic: health
V západní Evropě sice volební volatilita za posledních třicet až čtyřicet let významně narostla, skutečnou explozi voličské nestability ovšem spojujeme se zeměmi bývalého komunistického bloku ve východní Evropě. Tato publikace se proto zaměřuje na výzkum volební volatility v 11 postkomunistických státech střední a východní Evropy od roku 1990 do roku 2020. Volební volatilitu studie chápe jako změnu voličské preference ve volbách jdoucích po sobě.
Topic: civil society, elections (and polls)
Single-item measures of general well-being are increasingly being analysed cross-culturally but without clear evidence of comparability level attainment. The primary objective of this study is to examine the cross-country measurement invariance of the two most common single-item measures—general life satisfaction and happiness—across a large number of countries. For this purpose, 45 data sources from large-scale sample surveys conducted between 1976 and 2018 were used.
Topic: methodology, health
Topic: crime, human relations
Objectives: The growing popularity of diets that restrict the consumption of animal-based foods is an important new challenge for the public healthcare system in Czechia. While the environmental and health-related benefits of plant-based diets are widely discussed in the media, people who follow these diets may lack professional support in terms of nutritional advice and even access to healthcare.
Topic: health, životní prostředí, lifestyle
Pojištění zvyšuje blahobyt domácností tím, že přenáší nejistotu z jednotlivců, kteří se vyhýbají riziku, na instituce, které jsou vůči riziku neutrální. Hlavním motivem pro nákup pojištění je tedy averze k riziku s cílem vyhnout se ztrátě. Pojištění může zlepšovat finanční odolnost a celkovou finanční stabilitu domácností s obzvláště velkým významem pro domácnosti s nižšími příjmy.
Topic: economics, wages and incomes
Topic: gender
The primary objective of this study was to analyse the development of the effect of the bachelor’s and master’s tertiary degree on both respondents’ wage and socioeconomic status in the Czech labour market ten years after the Bologna Process. For the purposes
Topic: wages and incomes, education
Topic: migration and mobility
Employing 2018 European Social Survey data in a multilevel framework, the paper aims to estimate the effect of working for low pay on a wide range of political attitudes and to explain the attitudinal differences between the Central and Eastern European (CEE) and Western European regions based on their differing socioeconomic and political background.
Topic: economics, value orientations, wages and incomes, politics (and political attitudes)
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