A14 - Sociology of EconomicsReturn

The theme of the paper is contemporary perception and attitudes of citizens towards the issue of poverty in the micro-region Karvina. The theoretical part describes the current issue of poverty within the European Union with the specification to the Czech Republic. Primarily it is a presentation of the current causes that can lead to poverty in European society. Further space is also devoted to preventive tools of the poverty in the Czech Republic. The content of the second part of the paper is research that has been realized and evaluated in 2017. The aim of the research is the perception and classification an own living standard of the citizens of the Karvina micro-region and the attitudes of citizens towards socially demographic groups that are at risk of poverty and social exclusion. The results of the research are interesting in that they do not always confirmed the theoretical conclusions and hypotheses. In conclusion of the paper are summarized the most important findings from the theoretical and research part.