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
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)
Online prostředí je plné různých forem marketingové komunikace, přičemž řadu z nich není na první pohled snadné rozeznat od běžného obsahu. Kvůli své nezkušenosti právě děti, o nichž je tato kniha, snáze podléhají marketingovým sdělením, která pak ovlivňují jejich nákupní preference. Respondenty našeho výzkumu byly děti ve věku 10–13 let, které jsou spotřebiteli i zákazníky a zároveň hrají významnou roli při nákupním rozhodování v rodině.
Topic: media, education
Topic: family
Topic: care, parenting, family, social policy
Background: Middle and late adolescence is the period in a person’s life that is most vulnerable to mental health problems. To enable an evidence base that can support policies to prevent such problems, it is crucial to have good quality, reliable, and accurate measurement tools for mental well-being. One of them is the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS).
Topic: methodology, health
‘Homeless’ people are usually considered as citizens without property. The absence of ownership, especially in terms of housing, co-creates the very idea of homelessness in current societies. Despite this fact, ‘homeless’ citizens negotiate and experience their property, things, or the shelter in which they dwell. This paper sheds light on how this property is negotiated and experienced and how it influences home-making.
Topic: housing, urban and rural studies, methodology, human relations, social inequalities, sociologická teorie
The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) is one of the most commonly used instruments for measuring life satisfaction.
Topic: methodology, health
V čem můžou být půjčky a úvěry prospěšné a jaká jsou jejich rizika?
Topic: dluhy, economics, wages and incomes
This article analyses the determinants of worker satisfaction in Central and Eastern European countries, focusing on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, the latest European Social Survey data were utilised in a multilevel framework, covering 5681 workers from eight countries.
Topic: economics, work
The pandemic highlighted the importance of both formal and informal care and magnified gender inequalities in this area. Women were more represented in care-related frontline professions (including nurses), but they were also more often responsible for providing childcare when institutions (especially schools and nurseries) were closed.
Topic: gender, care, parenting, health
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
Various research studies suggest that women and other vulnerable groups are the ones who were impacted most and who continue to suffer from the economic and social effects of the pandemic. However, these groups have often been omitted from the measures mitigating the pandemic impact due to their invisibility in the policy-knowledge nexus.
Topic: gender
Various research studies suggest that women and other vulnerable groups are the ones who were impacted most and who continue to suffer from the economic and social effects of the pandemic. However, these groups have often been omitted from the measures mitigating the pandemic impact due to their invisibility in the policy-knowledge nexus.
Topic: gender
Introduction: Sleep is especially important to overall well-being. Some aspects of sleep have been well documented, for example sleep quantity and its effect on well-being, but the value of a consistent sleep routine remains poorly studied. University students are a population group especially susceptible to stress, mental health problems and poor sleep quality and experience changing daily schedules.
Topic: sociological data, health
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
Cílem publikace je najít cestu k tomu, jak inovovat ISPV (Informační systém o průměrném výdělku), aby na jeho základě šlo analyzovat data o vlivu rodičovství na mzdy a genderové mzdové rozdíly přímo z těchto dat. Jde přitom o unikátní data propojující zaměstnané osoby s jejich zaměstnavateli (tzv. linked employer-employee data), která jsou v současnosti nejkvalitnějším datovým zdrojem pro analýzu rozdílů v odměňování v ČR.
Topic: gender, work
There is a significant amount of evidence highlighting the health, wellbeing and social benefits of gardening during previous periods of crises. These benefits were also evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper presents a narrative review exploring gardening during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic to understand the different forms of gardening that took place during this crisis and key elements of this activity.
Topic: urban and rural studies, health, životní prostředí, lifestyle
Topic: gender, historical sociology, care, parenting, family, social policy
The aim of the present study is to thoroughly examine the relationship between adolescent fear of crime and a wide variety of offences which commonly affect children. The analysed data comes from the Urban Youth Victimization Survey conducted among 9th grade students in the Czech Republic. The results unequivocally demonstrate that victimization experience, when measured properly, substantially affects adolescent fear of crime.
Topic: crime
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