Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: H. Hudečková Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: M. Lošťák Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Social capital in the change of the Czech agriculture Abstract: The paper continues the debate over the nature and the role of social capital in the Czech agriculture. This issue is not marginal because social capital is also emphasized in the Czech SAPARD Plan. The paper develops the thoughts of J. Chloupková and C. Bjřrnskov published in this journal in their paper "Could social capital help Czech agriculture?" (No. 6 in 2002). Differing form mentioned authors, this paper coins dual nature of understanding social capital. This understanding forms the background of the concept of social capital in the works of French sociologist P. Bourdieu. Dual concept of social capital interconnects the most often use of understanding social capital as coined by such authors like R. Putnam or J. Coleman (social capital is understood as supra-personal collective element enabling the co-ordination of activities of free individuals with equal rights thus enabling the effective operation of certain system as a collective entity) with understanding of social capital related to social status of an individual which creates the hierarchies related to power thus enabling an individual to achieve his/her goals. Using empirical data and the case study, the paper outlines the application of dual understanding of social capital in the analysis of some processes in the Czech farming. Dual concept of social capital enables to explain some circumstances, which might be in the case of one-way orientation of understanding social capital presented in rather simplified way (e.g. if and what form of social capital was weak or destroyed in the Czech agriculture and which continues to exist). This fact is documented through the case study of the changes inside large-scale farms and outside these farms (in the field of their external relations). This study documents the presence of both forms (dual concept) of social capital. Similarly, the dual concept of social capital is used in the analysis of social structure of the Czech agriculture. It is done in the comparison with the model of agriculture in European Union and in the projections into the questions of the action of actors in agriculture. Keywords: social capital, agriculture, social change, social structure, social action Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 301-309 Volume: 49 Issue: 7 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5402-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5402-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200307-0001.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:7:id:5402-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: S. Buchta Author-Workplace-Name: National Labour Office, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Title: The possibilities of solving unemployment of workers in agriculture and construction Abstract: The paper deals on theoretical level with the potential solution of unemployment of seasonal labour in agriculture and construction industry, i.e. in the sectors where the work is typically seasonal. It proposes compensation for salary and insurance premiums paid from the National Labour Office resources (so-called maintenance wage could be based on minimal wage or minimum subsistence income) during winter season. Recipients of those wage compensations would be employers who could employ these employees during winter season. The maintenance wage could substitute for unemployment benefit which is paid during their unemployment. This solution would not be applied nation-wide, only in regions where it would be economically efficient and socially required. Keywords: seasonal labour, minimum wage, subsistence minimum, unemployment, unemployment benefit Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 310-316 Volume: 49 Issue: 7 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5403-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5403-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200307-0002.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:7:id:5403-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: T. Hájek Author-Workplace-Name: Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic and Czech Committee for UNESCO Title: Care for monuments in Central Europe regarding the revitalisation of the countryside Abstract: The cultural landscape and rural areas are considered to be a key component of the European cultural heritage. The European Landscape Convention, which the Czech Republic signed in the autumn of 2002, was also formulated in this sense. Consequently, the reform of care of monuments cannot be left entirely to official workers, but is becoming an important subject from the standpoint of maintenance of the functional and demographic stability of rural areas. It is necessary to point out that the care for monuments in Central Europe is at a crucial point, that could be described as a crisis. The reasons are as follows. 1) Time extension of care for monuments as well as the spatial extension of care for monuments. 2) Care for monuments has somewhat neglected to explain and defend its significance - consequently, a great many private owners of cultural monuments are not fully aware of the ideas, on the basis of which limitations are placed on their rights to manage their property, for the good of the cultural heritage. 3) Aesthetic conclusions are increasingly important in deciding what is and what is not a cultural monument. However, this can readily be influenced by the influx of very attractive, but worthless "popular" architecture, currently being introduced by a great many development companies. 4) Care for monuments represents the execution of a particular activity rather than a fixed formulated intellectual system of canons. 5) Even under the best economic conditions, the state as such does not have the means to provide appropriate care for the cultural heritage in state ownership (including state land in the poorer areas) and is certainly not capable of creating a motivation system within its framework for searching for new ways of using this property without abusing it. 6) In general, it can be stated that condition of democratisation within the care for monuments certainly does not attain the level of participation in environmental protection. 7) Care for monuments, especially in Central Europe, tends to continue to emphasise simple conservation of monuments and is minimally concerned with reanimation of the monument fund. This is why the care for the cultural heritage must again formulate its purpose, especially in relation to the decrease in the importance of national states, globalisation and, simultaneously, regionalisation of the world. Keywords: cultural heritage, countryside, state ownership, democratisation, reanimation Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 317-322 Volume: 49 Issue: 7 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5404-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5404-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200307-0003.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:7:id:5404-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: S. Buchta Author-Workplace-Name: Národný úrad práce, Bratislava, Slovenská republika Title: Changes in professions and wages in the farms Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 323-328 Volume: 49 Issue: 7 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5405-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5405-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:7:id:5405-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: L. Kříž Author-Workplace-Name: Èeská zemìdìlská univerzita, Praha, Èeská republika Title: To-and-fro migration of rural population Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 329-333 Volume: 49 Issue: 7 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5406-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5406-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200307-0005.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:7:id:5406-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: M. Dvořáková Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture in Prague, Czech Republic Title: EU membership - problems of communication of integration processes in the frame of European structures in agrarian sector Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 334-337 Volume: 49 Issue: 7 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5407-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5407-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200307-0006.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:7:id:5407-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: E. Kučerová Author-Workplace-Name: Před vlastní informací o činnosti Evropské společnosti pro rurální sociologii je nutné vysvětlit pozici této společnosti v mezinárodním rámci... 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Herová Author-Workplace-Name: Podzimní školu organizuje Katedra humanitních vìd a Sociologická laboratoř při České zemědělské univerzitě v Praze, ve spolupráci s Finským centrem ruských a východoevropských studií při Univerzitě v Helsinkách a Katedrou sociologie venkova a města při Univerzitě v Lodži.... Title: Information of the Autumn School of Rural Sociology taking place Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 341-342 Volume: 49 Issue: 7 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5409-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5409-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:7:id:5409-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: H. Hudečková Title: Remember of Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 343-346 Volume: 49 Issue: 7 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5410-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5410-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:7:id:5410-AGRICECON