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DOSAH PANDÉMIE COVID-19 NA ZMENY V NÁKUPNOM SPRÁVANÍ SPOTREBITEĽOV NA SLOVENSKU

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Čuláková K., Bilková K., Križan F., Danielová K., Hencelová P.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2022
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vol. 54
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issue 5
385 – 411
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Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted daily activities, which led to a change in consumer shopping behaviour as well. The aim of this paper is to analyse how shopping behaviour of consumers has changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia. Two phases of an omnibus survey of shopping behaviour were realized (before COVID-19, January 2018 and during COVID-19 pandemic, November 2020, June 2021). The research indicates that consumption patterns changed before and during the pandemic. The majority of Slovak consumers purchased their food at large stores before and during the pandemic. The pandemic resulted in panic shopping among a third of consumers in Slovakia. About more than tenth of Slovak consumers used online shopping more often than before pandemic.
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COVID-19 AND THE STOCK MARKETS: A GLANCE AT THE INITIAL EFFECTS OF THE PANDEMIC

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Sorić P.
Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
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2021
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vol. 69
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issue 5
472 – 493
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The COVID-19 pandemic and consequent economic lockdown have triggered unprecedented economic uncertainty. The financial markets responded instantly, pricing in the uncertainty boom. This paper assesses the impact of anti-COVID social distancing measures on stock markets across the globe. Analysing 60 world economies in a panel vector auto-regression framework, we find that the stringency of social distancing interventions has a negative effect on market returns, but its character is strictly transitory and it fades away within 7 days. The magnitude of the pandemic in terms of recorded disease cases and deaths reveal a very similar pattern, causing a significant, but short-lived decline of stock prices. Our estimates reveal a considerable asymmetry in the identified interrelationships. Less developed markets seem to respond to the economic lockdown more intensively than highly developed economies.
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ANALYSIS OF THE EUROPEANS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS VACCINATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC – IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY

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Dimian G. C., Vasilescu M. D., Apostu S. A., Aceleanu M. I., Jablonský J.
Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
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2021
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vol. 69
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issue 10
997 – 101
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In the current context of the Covid-19 pandemic, health systems worldwide have been subjected to hitherto unknown challenges. Public health policy makers are urged to find the best solutions to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. Vaccination is seen, more than ever, as the main medical solution to save lives, although in recent times many countries have seen an increase in their citizens’ hesitation to get vaccinated. The aim of our research is to analyse Europeans’ attitudes towards vaccination and the factors that influence this attitude, both in terms of individual profile and differences between groups of people and between countries. The results confirmed that a positive attitude towards vaccination increases an individual's chances of getting vaccinated and that the vaccination depends on the socio-demographic characteristics of the individual.
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REMOTE HOME-BASED EDUCATION AS A NEW PHENOMENON IN THE TIME OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC – THE EXPERIENCE OF CZECH FAMILIES

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Kostelecká Y., Komárková T., Novotná V.
Pedagogický časopis (Journal of Pedagogy)
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2021
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vol. 12
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issue 1
141 - 164
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In March 2020 a state of emergency was declared in the Czech Republic in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which that resulted in the closures of schools. The provision of education continued through mandatory remote home-based education. The aim of this study is to use in-depth interviews to show how Czech families with children at the primary levels of education have coped with this situation. Based on a qualitative analysis, it is possible to state that the families who participated in the research were coping well with the situation and had come up with effective arrangements both for providing education and for fulfilling other responsibilities. The research also revealed that many families consider this to be very demanding time. At the same time, we identified that the way how families tackled the situation of home-based education depended on several factors. The key role was played by the school factor, namely the quality of remote education offered by school and the communication between the school and the parents. The analysis showed that although the quality of communication and remote education offered by school improved between spring 2020 and autumn 2020, schools still have much room to improve the education provided.
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HITTING THE BREAKS WHILE WORKING FROM HOME. CHANGES IN TAKING-BREAKS BEHAVIOURS DURING PANDEMIC LOCKDOWNS

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Voicu B., Țălnar-Naghi D., Neguț A., Glăvan E., Tufă L., Florea A.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2023
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vol. 55
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issue 6
607 - 631
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During the 2020 spring lockdown, here was an increase in working from home incidence. For many it was a premiere, others have had previous experience with the phenomena, but all needed to manage post/during pandemic work recovery and micro-breaks. The latter were particularly important, as typical communication points that increase permeability of work-life boundaries. We inspect changes in taking within-day work-breaks while working from home, by comparing web surveys collected in 2018 and during 2020 lockdowns in Romania. We argue that frequency of taking breaks was dependent on work-related constraints including total working time, and life-related agents, such as the presence of children. The findings indicate moderating effects of number of children, time spent working, and education. The main changes refer to the type of breaks, not their frequency.
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CEZHRANIČNÁ CIRKULÁCIA SLOVENSKÝCH OPATROVATELIEK V RAKÚSKU POČAS PANDÉMIE NA POZADÍ KRÍZY STAROSTLIVOSTI

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Wilsch M.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2023
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vol. 71
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issue 1
42 - 60
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The paper focuses on the cross-border care circulation of Slovak care workers who work in Austria, with the care crisis and the pandemic in the background. Slovak care workers often work in short-term two-week work rotas, allowing them to balance work and private life. They remain primarily responsible for the social reproduction and care of their households. The pandemic and imposed measures have fundamentally affected this transnational circulation of care. Caregivers faced the challenge of mobilizing capacities and resources to cope with emerging situations, developing new strategies, and modifying existing ones. Based on interviews with care workers, employment agencies, and a non-governmental organization focusing on the rights of care workers, the study presents how care workers coped with the measures introduced during the pandemic period, describes selected strategies of care workers to ensure social reproduction in their families despite the pandemic, and also discuss selected changes in the individual life trajectories of women, to which the pandemic period contributed. The paper argues that although women contributed to addressing the emerging care deficit reinforced by the pandemic crisis, they had to rely on their capacities for the care needs of their families.
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FEATURES OF THE INTERNET`S USE IN THE DAILY LIFE OF UKRAINIAN STUDENTS

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Khmil Y., Benchak O.
Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied
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2022
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vol. 25
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issue 3
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The Internet as a source of information, a means of communication, a platform for self-presentation is every year becoming more and more part of a person's everyday life. This process is most active and relevant for young people, especially students. It is this social group that not only adapts to new conditions more easily than others, but also promotes them among other layers of the population. The epidemic of COVID-19, and then the war in Ukraine, made the Internet an indispensable element of the daily life of users all over the world, and in our country in particular. There is a lack of sociological research on the use of the Internet by students as a social group and in terms of the combination of Internet awareness and Internet practices of users in Ukraine, so the findings once again emphasizes its relevance. The main tasks that the authors set themselves were to find out for what purpose Ukrainian students use the network and how much time they spend there. The results of the study showed that according to the results of the comparison of the respondents' stories about their own Internet practices and the content analysis data of their screenshots, the declarations of 16 of the 24 interviewed respondents were not confirmed. The article presents the empirical results of a sociological study aimed at identifying the peculiarities of the dynamics of the use of the Internet by Ukrainian students in everyday life, in particular, in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic and related quarantine restrictions. The main practices of the Internet among students were studied and analysed, and the interpretation of the obtained results was described in the article.
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KORONA NEEXISTUJE!“ HUMOR AKO KOMUNIKAČNÁ STRATÉGIA V ČASE KRÍZY

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Kállayová V., Tužinská Helena (0000-0003-1135-3007 H.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2023
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vol. 71
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issue 1
11 - 28
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The study provides an ethnographic probe into the lives of the members of the PCR test team during the pandemic of COVID-19. The aim is to show the use of humour as a communication strategy in times of crisis from the perspective of symbolic anthropology and ethnography of communication, especially theories of danger and joke. The approach of state health institutions have often failed to meet the needs of society, affecting patients’ access to information, the treatment of diseases or the identification of positive patients. Humour helped to prevent the conflicts, signalled forgiveness and influenced attitudes towards adherence to the rules. We focus on interpersonal and interactional aspects of communication, social identification of the respondents, as well as the influence of political culture. Coping strategies are followed through: (1) representations of dirt and the boundaries of the body, (2) the re-contextualization of the statements and acts, (3) the boundaries of the joke in relation to feelings of safety, and (4) the subversive effect of humour and flirtation in a time of the disciplining of bodies. The study demonstrates how laughter bridges the gap resulting from the conflicting informational inputs. The re-contextualisation of the teams’ motto: Corona does not exist! is interpreted in its socio-pragmatic dimension.
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“GAMES” USING OLD PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE TIME OF THE PANDEMIC: ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAPHS IN MUSEUM EDUCATION

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Szalbot M.
Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo
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2022
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vol. 10
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issue 3
61 - 79
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The purpose of the article is to show what knowledge on the ludic culture of Cieszyn Silesian residents at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries can be obtained through the resources of the Photography Section of the Museum of Cieszyn Silesia. The project required both preliminary research and an analysis of archival photographs. The research questions regarded the usefulness of old photographs depicting past games in the preparation of both online and offline museum classes on the local cultural heritage. In the article, the author discusses photographs documenting past toys and pastimes, divided into 10 thematic groups, and presents outlines of lesson scripts as well as other museum activities prepared on their basis. The research conducted during the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic required netnographic methods and the analysis of historical sources, while the application of methods of design thinking made it possible to prepare scripts of museum classes.
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FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DECREASE IN DEPRESSION AMONG ADOLESCENTS DURING THE FIRST COVID-19 LOCKDOWN, A NATURAL EXPERIMENT

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Janovská A., Bačíková M.
Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied
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2022
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vol. 25
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issue 3
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The COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions have caused unprecedented interruptions to the daily lives of children and adolescents. This unusual situation has brought stress, fear, economic problems, and limited access to health services, leisure time or sport opportunities as well as a lack of social support from important people. The main aim of this natural experiment was to find out the degree in which of family factors, peer factors and adolescent neuroticism played in changes in depression after the first COVID-19 lockdown. The data for T1 were collected in February 2020 and a follow-up (T2) was conducted in May 2020. In total, 155 adolescents participated in both waves (mean age 14.5 years, 60.4% girls). We used the abbreviated Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale, Psychological Control Scale - Youth Self-Report, Feelings of Being Overly Controlled scale. One question was aimed towards satisfaction with the relationship with the mother and one question was aimed towards relationship with friends. Supportive relationships at home was measured by a subscale from the Resilience and Youth Development Module, and neuroticism was measured by a highly shortened version of the Big Five Inventory.
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#COVIDEASTER – HUMOUR IN THE DIGITAL SHARING OF EASTER FESTIVE MATERIAL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

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Predojević Ž.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2023
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vol. 71
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issue 4
365 – 383
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media usage increased due to limitations on physical gatherings. As a result, social media platforms also became important outlets for celebrating holidays. This study therefore analyses the role of humour in the digital sharing of Easter festive material during the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of digital folklore. The research was conducted on the social media platform Instagram using Easter-related hashtags (#covideaster) to collect a digital corpus consisting of various visual-verbal internet genres, mainly internet memes and their subgenres. The corpus was divided into six thematic-motif groups and analysed in relation to topical cycle jokes, newslore, political humour, and disaster humour. Two group present typical Easter symbols incorporated into pandemic-related memes, reflecting a modified typical image of Easter before and after the pandemic. They deliver humorous messages through incongruity resolution using familiar Easter-related imagery and news-inspired pandemic verbal messages. The remaining four groups present Easter in atypical ways, incorporating elements from popular culture, politics, classic jokes, and a parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. It was concluded that the role of humour in the digital sharing of Easter festive material during the pandemic served various purposes. It provided a means of coping with the situation, acted as a communication tool for conveying important safety messages, and fostered a sense of community and connection among Instagram users.
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ANGELS IN WHITE COATS OR ANGELS OF DEATH? RUMOURS AND CONSPIRACY NARRATIVES ABOUT MEDICAL SPECIALISTS IN BULGARIA DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

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Ilieva A.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2022
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vol. 70
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issue 3
328 – 348
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The article discusses a thematic group of rumours and conspiracy narratives, propagated mainly through Facebook, according to which the real culprits for the spread of the coronavirus infection and the growing number of deaths in Bulgaria are medical specialists. Since the very beginning of the pandemic, rumours about false COVID-19 diagnoses and particularly about falsified death acts have been intensively circulating on social media. In Facebook groups of COVID sceptics, a conspiracy theory has been constructed by stories, opinions, and ideas of monstrous corruption, fabrications of data, and deliberate contaminations during COVID-19 testing procedures, and putting to death through hospital treatment protocols. Following the approval of COVID-19 vaccines and their administration, pre-existing mistrust in medicine and pharmaceutics has escalated into open hostility and aggression towards medical specialists. The interpretation of these narrative forms unfolds in two directions. On the one hand, the peculiar logic and cultural practice of constructing a “medical conspiracy theory” are discussed. On the other hand, attention is drawn to its broad socio-cultural context and the longstanding problems of the Bulgarian healthcare system.
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