After the breakdown of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, the role of education
systems in preparing students for the" real world" changed. Though young people were …

Objectives. To investigate whether the positive relation between socioeconomic position
(SEP) across the life course and later life cognitive function observed in Western populations …

The second half of the twentieth century has been a period of educational expansion in
western societies (Schofer and Meyer 2005). Germany, a country with a comparatively …

The article focuses on the changes in the determination of educational aspirations that took
place in the Czech Republic during its social, political and economic transformation. The aim …

This chapter offers a systematic review of sociological research in the Czech Republic on
ethnicity and educational inequality between 1990 and 2015. We identify three research …

This article compares the changes in the determination of educational aspirations from the
end of the communist period in 1989 to 2003, focusing on a single postcommunist country …

The aim of this article is to explain educational reproduction in the Czech Lands between
1906 and 2003 from the perspective of educational mobility. Mobility trends in the …

The study demonstrates that the definition and meaning of education, and by extension of
educational inequality, are embedded in countries' historical, political and social …

The main objective of this paper is to show to what extent and why students with the same
academic aptitude but different social backgrounds have different odds of entering …

We investigate the evolution of intergenerational educational mobility in Poland since 1920.
We use a novel empirical method allowing for the measurement of mobility at a constant …