Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(1)

Politics as a Vocation? The Impact of the Remuneration of Local Representatives on the Electoral Competition

Milan Školník, Michael Haman

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(1): 3-23 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2021.003  

This article examines the impact that the remuneration of municipal representatives has on the political competition in the Czech Republic. Municipal representatives can perform their office either full time (an 'engaged' representative) or part time (a 'disengaged' representative). It is common in some small Czech municipalities for there to be no full-time representatives, and even mayors are disengaged. There is no central database or website in Czech Republic that contains a list of all the municipalities and disengaged representatives and it was thus very difficult to obtain the necessary data. However, the authors discovered an original method...

The Relationship Between Coresidence with Grandparents and Academic Performance of 15-Year-Old Students from Two-Parent and One-Parent Families

Dominika Sladká

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(1): 25-46 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2021.004  

This article investigates the association between coresidence with grandparents in three-generational households and the academic performance of 15-year-old students in the Czech Republic. The conceptual part focuses on intergenerational relationships and multigenerational coresidence in the Czech Republic and summarises past research on the links between coresidence with grandparents, family structure, and academic performance. The aim of this article is to find out if there is an association between coresidence with grandparents and an adolescent's academic performance, and if there is to discover whether the association is different for two-parent...

The Status of Graduates in Post-Mass Higher Education: Are We Still Just Reproducing Elites?

Jan Kohoutek, Vítězslav Lounek, Michaela Šmídová, Jana Korečková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(1): 47-73 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2021.002  

The article examines the influence of the social status of university graduates in the Czech Republic on their situation in post-mass higher education. More specifically, it tests the validity of hypotheses concerning the impact of family background, income level, reselection of the field of study, and the extent of saturation of prestigious fields (medicine, law) with individuals from elite backgrounds by applying the socio-economic status (SES) concept and the theory of maximally maintained inequality. The hypotheses are tested on the Graduate 2018 survey dataset. The research results confirm the persistent importance of parents' education on graduates'...

Changing Motivations for Non-formal Adult Education in the Czech Republic: From Non-Work-Related Self-realisation to the Need for a Job-Oriented Education

Jan Kalenda, Ilona Kočvarová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(1): 75-100 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2021.001  

The study deals with recent changes in the motivation for pursuing non-formal adult education (NFE) in the Czech Republic and the factors behind this. Although the number of people pursuing NFE has been increasing dynamically in recent years, we do not yet have enough knowledge about the reasons adults pursue NFE and the factors that influence it. In this regard, the study aims to identify (1) the main trends in work/non-work, intrinsic, and extrinsic motivations for NFE and (2) the micro- and meso-social determinants that shape these trends. The study is based on a secondary analysis of data from the Adult Education Survey 2011 (N = 2715) and 2016...

Jiří Večerník osmdesátníkem

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(1): 101-102  

Zemřel významný český demograf prof. Zdeněk Pavlík

Tomáš Kostelecký

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(1): 103-104  

Na východ od Česka alebo ako porovnávať náboženstvo v Česku a na Slovensku

Miroslav Tížik

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(1): 105-121 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2021.009  

Petr Vidomus: Oteplí se a bude líp: Česká klimaskepse v čase globálních rizik

Ivan Cuker

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(1): 123-125  

Ivan Krastev: Už je zítra? Aneb jak pandemie mění Evropu

Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(1): 125-128  

Steve Bruce: Secular Beats Spiritual: The Westernization of the Easternization of the West

Magdalena Vytlačilová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2021, 57(1): 128-130