Middle Class at a Crossroads

0522044 - SOÚ 2020 RIV CZ eng, cze B - Monografie kniha jako celek
Zemplinerová, A. - Kudrnáč, Aleš - Drea, E. - Charvát, J. - Šimanová, J. - Poláček, J. - Sojková, L. - Tungul, L. - Škodová, M. - Maškarinec, P. - Dvořák, T.
Middle Class at a Crossroads.
1. - Přerov: TOPAZ, 2019. 98 s. ISBN 978-80-88350-00-2
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378025
Klíčová slova: middle class * Czech republic * social class * media * economy * political party * entrepreneur * EU
Obor OECD: Political science

This book aims to define the concept of the Czech middle class. It also analyses and evaluates its economic, social and political aspects in the local as well as wider European contexts. The class structure of the Czech society was determined based on data obtained in a questionnaire survey followed by a sociological, economic and political analysis of selected phenomena associated with the current Czech middle class. The findings were subsequently placed into the context of the development of the middle class in the European Union. Apart from the introduction and conclusion, the book is divided into four chapters. The first three of them gradually address the sociological, economic and political aspects of the middle class as defined by the above-described survey. The fourth chapter puts these findings into the European context of middle- class research and its impact on the centre-right politics. Our book identifies the common problems but also acknowledges specific national trends that need to be known and respected when designing and implementing individual specific short-term and long- term strategies that would strengthen the political, economic and social stability of Czech society. The presentation of this phenomenon in the European context also provides an opportunity to work together at the EU level looking for appropriate answers and solutions that would support the stability of the national and European political institutions, the economic order and society as a whole without sacrificing individual prosperity and satisfaction.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0306558