Mgr. Tomáš Samec

Institute of Sociology, the Czech Academy of Sciences

Jilská 1

110 00  Praha 1

Telefon: +420 210 310 214

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Research topics

•  discourse analysis in the housing context (actor’s modes of justification and valuation, cultural influence on the inequality reproduction);
• housing debt studies (meanings of the mortgages and intergenerational financial transfers);
• qualitative methods and combination of various approaches to analysis of texts: content, narrative and discourse analysis.

Education

• 2014 - present, doctoral program in Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.
• 2014 - Mgr., Master program in Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.
• 2011 - Bc., Bachelor program in Sociology and Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.

Awards

• 2nd runner-up in Bengt Turner Award competition for the best conference papers at European Network for Housing Research 2016 Conference in Belfast, submitted paper: Performance of Social Inequalities in the Housing Market: Meanings of Mortgages and Intergenerational Financial Transfers.
• Josef Hlávka Award for the best students and graduates from Universities in Prague, Brno and for the young scholars in Czech Academy of Sciences in 2015.
• Edvard Beneš Award of the 3th degree in the field of sociology in 2014. Awarded master’s thesis: Crisis and the construction of home: Narrative accounts of the Financial crisis on the Czech housing market.

Publications

Book chapters

• Samec T., M. Lux, P. Sunega, L. Kážmér, I. Boumová 2015. „Kdo rozhoduje na trhu bydlení? Vliv sociálních vazeb na reprodukci preference vlastnického bydlení.“ Pp. 44-60 in Lux M. (ed.) 2015. Standardy bydlení 2014/2015: Sociální normy a rozhodování na trhu bydlení. Praha: Sociologický Ústav AV ČR.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Lux, M., T. Samec, V. Bartos, P. Sunega, J. Palguta, I. Boumová, L. Kážmér 2016. Who actually decides? Parental influence on the housing tenure choice of their children. Urban Studies, published online. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016646665
• Hájek, Martin, Dlouhá, Marie, Samec, Tomáš. 2014. ‘Watch out for politics’: exit, voice and other strategies of discontent in late Czech socialism. Journal of Political Power 7 (3): 393-411.

Projects

Project participant

• 2016 - 2018. Between home and nature: urban political ecology of allotment gardening in post-socialist city and its urban impacts. Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR) 16-06077S.
• 2016 - 2018. Housing Based Welfare: Risks and Implications of Release of Housing Wealth to Support Retirement Income. Czech Science Foundation, reg. number 16-06335S.
• 2012 – 2015. Využití sociologických metod pro analýzu nerovnováhy na trhu bydlení. Kritická a kontextuální metodologie ve výzkumu bydlení. [The Application of Sociological Methods to Detect Housing Market Disequilibrium. Critical & Context-Sensitive Housing Research Methodology] Czech Science Foundation, reg. number P404/12/1446.

 Membership in societies and boards

• 2016 - till now. Coordinator of the working group Housing and Family Dynamics of the European Network for Housing Research.

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