The project aims at corroborating the “value lag hypothesis,” according which further consolidation of the social stratification system in the Czech Republic will depend more on the crystallization of its normative background (values and norms) rather than on development in its objective dimension (inequality). Prior research carried out by the principal investigator and his team shows that the social stratification system in the Czech Republic has gone through three key phases, with each phase involving different dynamics in its objective and subjective dimensions. Both the secondary data analysis and new comparative survey planned to be carried out in 2009 will be used to assess the validity of the assumption that while the economic transition has almost reached completion, the ‘value transition’ towards a system of meritocratic beliefs has not. This tension in the stratification system may be the underlying cause of a wide range of significant social and political phenomena, such as widespread negative attitudes towards economic elites, the continued strong role of reciprocity networks, rampant corruption, and eroded patterns of beliefs about life-success among both the adult population and adolescents.
Project publications (total 19, displaying 1 - 10)
Editorial describes the contents of the sixth number of a sociological webzin SOCIOWeb (2009), which is devoted to the theme of unequal access to education. The contributions aim to show, that the structure of educational system can mean either the lift to a better life, either the brake for his acquirement. This number of Socioweb focuses on the transition between secondary and university education in the Czech Republic.
The monograph describes the major turning points in the research of educational inequalities, presents basic quantitative data regarding transition to higher education in the Czech Republic, and summarizes the development of educational inequalities in access to secondary and tertiary education. It also provides a new analysis of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment from the parents to their children, using mobility tables and log-linear models.
Zpráva se zabývá výzkumem SIALS (Second International Adult Literacy Survey) 1998, který byl druhou vlnou Mezinárodního výzkumu gramotnosti dospělých (IALS) z roku 1994. Ukazuje základní výsledky funkční gramotnosti dospělých (literární, dokumentové a numerické) v České republice v mezinárodním srovnání.
This article analyzes changes in the determination of Czech educational aspirations from 1989 to 2003, on the basis of social origin, ability, gender and other factors. The empirical research is based on a comparison of Czech data from the "Rodina ’89" and the 2003 PISA-L surveys. The article hypothesizes that social origin had a stronger direct impact on educational aspirations in 1989, while in 2003 it had a much stronger indirect influence.
This article compares the determinants of political participation, across 23 European countries, posing the question whether and to what degree social inequalities in political participation differ between post-communist and Western countries. The data for the analysis is from the second round of the ESS survey, conducted in 2004-2005.
Editorial describes the contents of the forth number of sociological webzin SOCIOWeb (2010), which is devoted to the theme of sociology of education. The contributions aim to show e.g.
This online interview in an internet edition of the Respekt journal was run on the theme of an unequal access to education in the Czech Republic, parents´ investments to their children’s education, after-school activities etc.
The paper addresses the changes in the role of social background in the formation of educational aspirations of adolescents during the social transformation in the Czech Republic. Using the data from surveys carried out in 1989 a 2003, the authors test the hypothesis that in 1989 the social origin had a strong direct effect on aspirations, while in 2003 its effect was primarily indirect. However, the overall effect remained very strong.
This article focused on the transformation of class voting in the Cyech Republic with the use of the best data available and analytical methods used in the international literature. Contrarz to that literature, we found that there has been a strengthening of the role of class membership on voting behavior. While in the Western countries studied in the literature this trend is decling or fluctuating, in the Cyech Republic it is the opposite.
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.
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