Completed project

Educational Mobility and Educational Inequalities in the Czech Republic between 1936 and 2004

Project duration: 
2006 - 2008

Current sociological approach to educational inequalities increasingly focuses on relative chances to educational transitions. Thus, the impact of structural contexts, establishing these chances, is completely eliminated. International comparison and the understanding of “mobility regimes” is facilitated, but mobility development as such remains on the margins of interpretational interest. However, periods of deep social changes give rise to more or less massive mobility movements, which give a realistic meaning to “mobility regimes”. In the Czech Republic (or Czechoslovakia), periods before 1948, between 1948 and 1989 and after 1989 can be justifiably expected to feature typical mobility trajectories and differing mobility patterns. The missing knowledge about the development of educational mobility prevents the understanding of why, despite the changing social situation, the measured relative inequalities in the long-term perspective in the Czech Republic remain stable. Without the knowledge of structural contexts, we will hardly understand inequalities in access to education. The mobility point of view actually means to go against the current relativising trend and to deal with specific local structural contexts.

Principal investigator: 
Grant agency: 
Czech science foundation (GACR)

Project publications (total 21, displaying 1 - 10)

Simonová, Natalie

Text je odpovědí na diskusní příspěvek Rudolfa Pomazala s knihou České vysoké školství na křižovatce (Sociologický ústav 2005). Ukazuje, že R. Pomazal má na problematiku řešení a zvyšování konkurenceschopnosti vysokoškolského vzdělání v ČR stejný (nebo alespoň velmi podobný) názor, stejně jako na to, jakým směrem by se mělo české vysoké školství ubírat. Replika ukazuje, že jde z jeho strany převážně o doplnění a nazření tvrzení autorů knihy z jiného úhlu, nikoli o jejich popření.

Topic:
education
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Other publication
Simonová, Natalie
Topic:
intergenerational relations, migration and mobility, social inequalities, education
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Public event or educational activity
Simonová, Natalie
Topic:
methodology
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Other publication
Simonová, Natalie, Petr Soukup

This article shows the trends in the influence of socio-economic, cultural and gender factors in the reproduction of educational inequality in access to tertiary education in five countries: Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany and Poland. The analysis follows on previous research, but it also adds two new dimensions: 1) an international comparison, and 2) the most recent data on the trends in the inequality in all the aforementioned countries.

Topic:
social inequalities, education
Department:
Economic Department
Type of publication:
Public event or educational activity
Simonová, Natalie

Editorial popisuje obsah devátého čísla Sociowebu 2008, zabývajícího se tématem sociologie vzdělání a jeho zpracováním v rámci různých vědních oborů. Příspěvky představují pohled filosofický, ekonomický, pedagogický a sociologický.

Topic:
social inequalities, education
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Public event or educational activity
Simonová, Natalie, Petr Soukup

The article traces the effect of socio-economic, cultural, and gender factors on the reproduction of educational inequalities in access to tertiary education in the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, and Sweden. The results revealed that the access to tertiary education is determined most by the cultural component of social background (the father’s education) in the Czech Republic. The country closest to the Czech Republic in this regard is Switzerland.

Topic:
intergenerational relations, social inequalities, education
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Article with impact factor
Simonová, Natalie, Petr Soukup

This article traces the effect of socio-economic, cultural, and gender factors on the reproduction of educational inequalities in access to tertiary education in the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, and Sweden. While this text follows up on previous analyses, the authors also pursue two new directions of inquiry: 1) an international comparison, and 2) an update of the development of inequalities in all the mentioned countries since 2002.

Topic:
intergenerational relations, social inequalities, education
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Chapter in monograph
Simonová, Natalie

Zpráva pojednává o prvním ročníku mezinárodní letní školy věnované longitudinálnímu empirickému výzkumu v oblasti vzdělávání, která se konala ve dnech 24. až 28. 7. 2006 na německé Otto-Friedrich-Universität v Bambergu. Tento ročník byl zaměřen na předškolní a primární stupeň vzdělávání a byl organizován v rámci longitudinálního projektu BiKS (Vzdělávací procesy, rozvoj kompetencí a selekce v předškolním a mladším školním věku), který řeší tým psychologů, sociologů a dalších odborníků.

Topic:
education
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Other publication
Simonová, Natalie

The article explains educational reproduction in the Czech Lands between 1906 and 2003 from the perspective of educational mobility. The analysis is based on observations of the intergenerational transmission of educational status in two educational transitions between three educational levels (lower secondary, upper secondary, and higher education).

Topic:
intergenerational relations, social inequalities, education
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Article with impact factor
Basl, Josef, Simonová, Natalie

The text gives information about the research visits within “Access to Research Infrastructures Programme“, in the European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences (ECASS) at University of Essex in Great Britain. The research visits are supported by European Community and they are devoted to the work with data files which are not being worked with in the Czech Republic and are accessible only at University of Essex.

Topic:
sociological data
Department:
Economic Sociology
Type of publication:
Other publication

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