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The electronic version of the first number of the eighteen edition of the review Our Society (Naše společnost). Our Society issues Center for Public Opinion Research, Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of…
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Public Opinion Research before 1989: at the Request of Science, State Apparatus and Public
The article deals with the public opinion research before 1989 in then Czechoslovakia. The most important public opinion re- search institution of its time is the subject of discussed analysis, i.e. The Institute for…
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Who Will Go to the Polls? Predictors of Turnout in Terms of the Reasoned Action Approach
Turnout probability measurement is one of the fundamen- tal methodological questions of pre-election polls. Accurate pre-election polls are important not only for polling agencies and politicians but also for social…
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The electronic version of the first number of the seventeenth edition of the review Our Society (Naše společnost). Our Society issues Center for Public Opinion Research, Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences…
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Settlement Demolition in the Context of Contemporary Discourse: Kralupy u Chomutova
Brown coal mining was and continues to be the main source of fuel for electricity and heat generation in the Czech Republic. Located in the territories of the Karlovy Vary and Ústí nad Labem Regions, the North Bohemian…
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Attitudes of Children and Youth to Railway Trespassing
Unauthorised entry of railway premises accounts for approximately 200 casualties per year in the Czech Republic. Although the phenomenon is highly pertinent to children and youth, it does not receive sufficient…
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Web Archives and Social Sciences: Opportunities, Problems and Solutions
Over the past three decades, the internet has become an integral part of contemporary societies. Online content is growing at a tremendous scale and changing dynamically. In spite of that, social sciences and social…
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The electronic version of the second number of the sixteenth edition of the review Our Society (Naše společnost). Our Society issues Center for Public Opinion Research, Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences…
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Public Support for Policies: Public Opinion and Policy Making
Increasing policy feasibility is a frequent argument for policyIncreasing policy feasibility is a frequent argument for policyrelevance of research on public attitudes to policies. Therefore,this text discusses the…
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United by Faith? The Significance of Religion for Assortative Mating in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Based on empirical data, contemporary Czech Republic is considered to be more secular than Slovakia. The differences between these countries have been described by the way of rates of traditional forms of religiosity in…
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Intergroup Contacts and Attitudes to the Roma in the Czech Republic: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
The paper presents an application of a mixed-methods designThe paper presents an application of a mixed-methods designin the study of interethnic attitudes (prejudice). Its goal is toanalyze the relationship between…
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The electronic version of the first number of the sixteenth edition of the review Our Society (Naše společnost). Our Society issues Center for Public Opinion Research, Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences…
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Three Generations of Methods for Measuring Corruption in Europe
This article focuses on methods for measuring corruption, first describing three generations of corruption indicators and then comparing them qualitatively and quantitatively. Corruption is a clandestine activity…
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Homogamy and the Internet: Can Online Dating Sites Help Us Understand Assortative Mating?
Non-random selection of reproductive partners in the human population, i.e. assortative mating, has been a stable occurrence for decades and across societies, including the Czech Republic. Social sciences have paid…
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Big Data as an Alternative to Surveys in Quantitative Social Research
The goal of this article is to inform social scientists, especially those of a quantitative orientation, about the basic characteristics of Big Data and to present the opportunities and limitations of using such…
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The electronic version of the second number of the fourteenth edition of the review Our Society (Naše společnost). Our Society issues Center for Public Opinion Research, Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences…
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