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• * Czechs and Work

  (2004/1)

  Work, considering mainly work in the form of a paid job, places an important position in the life of every man. Work has its importance not only for the individual, who spends more than one quarter of every day of his productive life working, but also...

• * Occupational reputation as viewed by public opinion

  (2005/1)

  Occupational reputation as viewed by the general public is among interesting topics immediately related to labour issues and, indirectly, to other problem areas such as value orientation or modernization. At the end of last year, occupational...

• * The ‘pub‘ institution in Czech society

  (2005/1)

  The pub is a notion under which anybody who spent at least some time in the Czech Republic is able to imagine something specific. Of course, it actually covers diverse types of catering facilities. Other facilities, on the other hand, do not...

• * The General Public’s View of Public Finance Reform

  (2004/1)

  Over the past two years, the public finance reform has turned into a dominant topic in Czech politics. Shortly after having been instituted to power, the cabinet of the Prime Minister Špidla announced the reform as a core element on its government...

• * Dimensions of antipartyism in the Czech population

  (2003/3-4)

  Czech political parties have existed for more than one decade. Their position in the political system seems to be stable and is seldom put to doubt. When this occurs after all, a solution only seemingly dissimilar to political parties is offered. This...

• * Who is a ´leftist´ and who is a ´rightist´?

  (2003/1-2)

  Left and right – two notions used very frequently by politicians, journalists, and common people. Notions the content of which everybody intuitively knows clearly but which only a few are able to explain without ambiguities. Historians would definitely...

• * Death penalty – res publica?

  (2005/2)

  From time to time all European countries, including the Czech Republic, experience debates about legitimacy of death penalty. Such debates are not incidental. The most serious crimes – violent crimes including the most serious ones - murders – have...

• * Public opinion and unemployment in the Czech Republic

  (2003/1-2)

  Unemployment undoubtedly belongs among the most significant phenomena as well as the problems of the modern world. First of all, it has a number of negative socio-economic consequences, both for directly affected individuals, their families,...

• * Oh, these preferences!

  (2003/1-2)

  So the SC&C agency has measured, supposedly most accurately, the election preferences. At least that’s what Irena Bártová, the company’s manager, claimed in her letter published in the column „From the editorial post“. In short, there is nothing better...

• * Public Support to the KSČM after 1989: Historical Grounds, Political and Social Context, Perspectives

  (2004/1)

  In the region of Central Europe, the KSČM (the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia) represents a certain unique phenomenon – in none of the post-communist countries does a communist (communist-party based) and only little reformed party play an...

• * Foreign Policy and Global Role of the USA As Seen by the General Public

  (2004/2)

  Issues from global politics do not appear in sociological investigations or public opinion polls very frequently although their results tend to be relatively interesting and, oftentimes, they meet with extensive interest and response from media as well...

• Czech citizens’ opinions on marriage and the family – February 2017

  (Relations, Attitudes)

  In February 2017 Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions connected to family. Respondents commented on specific set of statements connected to cohesion of partners, marriage, divorces and parenthood in general. Celá tisková zpráva...

• Happiness with the state of selected areas of public life – January 2017

  (Political Situation)

  In January 2017, citizens of the Czech Republic evaluated how satisfied they are with the situation in 29 selected areas of public life. The best evaluated areas are the selection of goods and services (74% satisfied) and culture (62%). The worst...

• Czech citizens on the Czech Republic’s membership in NATO – January 2017

  (International Relations)

  In January 2017 Public Opinion Research Centre carried out a survey about NATO. Within the project were examined satisfaction with membership in NATO. Celá tisková zpráva ke stažení zde: pm170216a_ENG.pdf Všechny zprávy z tohoto výzkumu: NS_1701 In...

• Editorial

  (2016/1)

  The electronic version of the first 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 of the Czech Republic. Celá...

• Identity, Activism and Hatred: Hate Speech against Migrants on Facebook in the Czech Republic in 2015

  (2016/1)

  The increased influx of refugees and migrants to the EU in 2015 has been followed by a noticeable presence of online hate speech against migrants in many countries across Europe. The article presents the results of a study of hate speech proliferation...

• Trends in Unpartnered Childbearing

  (2016/1)

  Single motherhood is known to have negative consequences on the wellbeing and life chances of mothers and their children. It appears as a consequence of parental dissolution or birth to an unpartnered woman. There are studies of divorce and union...

• * Editorial

  (2014/1)

  The electronic version of the first number of the twelfth edition of the review Czech Society (Naše společnost). Czech Society issues Center for Public Opinion Research, Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The...

• * Editorial

  (2008/1)

  The electronic version of the first number of the sixth edition of the review Czech Society (Naše společnost). Czech Society issues Center for Public Opinion Research, Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. >> Full...

• * Attitudes to loanwords in contemporary Czech

  (2008/1)

  This article uses empirical data to evaluate Czech perceptions of lexical borrowing, based on a nationwide poll conducted in November 2005 by the Public Opinion Research Centre of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy ofSciences of the Czech...