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Gender balance power map

The qualitative study is focused on the issue of equal access of women (and men) into managerial and decision-making positions in a social enterprise and conventional one in the Czech Republic. The results of the study reflect a lack of focus on gender equality, low sensitivity to gender based discrimination, recurrence of gender stereotypes and the lack of internal policies (formal procedures) to promote women in leadership positions in the surveyed firms.…

Themes: Gender

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Gender a rovnováha moci

The qualitative study is focused on the issue of equal access of women (and men) into managerial and decision-making positions in a social enterprise and conventional one in the Czech Republic. The results of the study reflect a lack of focus on gender equality, low sensitivity to gender based discrimination, recurrence of gender stereotypes and the lack of internal policies (formal procedures) to promote women in leadership positions in the surveyed firms.…

Themes: Gender

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Postoje československých občanů k demokracii v roce 1968

A research work "Attitudes of citizens towards the politics" was carried out in May1968 for an "Interdisciplinary research team "Development of Democracy andPolitican System...". Its task was to identify political orientation of citizens (sample of 3600 respondents) in favour of a demcratic reform. Following the Occupation ofCzechoslovakia the data were not processed any more and tezy were lost. A third of them were found in 1998. The publication presents these data and theirfactor analysis. The results dispro…

Themes: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Relations and Changes of Gender Differences in the Czech Society in the 90´s

Themes: Gender

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Názorové diference k současným změnám v českém porodnictví

Childbirth, its risks and management of labor are viewed through the social constructivist lens. Manners in which differing childbirth management practices are negotiated are analyzed based on quantitative and qualitative data. The work focuses on the analysis of the argumentation of proponents of the two competing concepts of childbirth management practices in contemporary obstetrics and an analysis of factors that influence the actual practices of medical professionals in Czech society. …

Themes: Gender, Parenting

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Občanská společnost v regionech České republiky

Themes: Civil Society, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Rozdíly v chování regionálních populací a jejich příčiny

Themes: Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Local and regional studies

Sociální kontext života žen pracujících v řídících pozicích

This sociological study focuses on the situation of women in the Czech Republic with a view to their employment position. The text is based on a secondary analysis of three data sets that were compiled over the course of the 1990s as part of a project at the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and it provides a recapitulation of information gathered earlier on the attitudes and opinions towards the role of women in society and the role of a career in womenŽs lives, and als…

Themes: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Životní strategie manažerek: Případová studie

The sociological study is a qualitative analysis of life conditions and strategies of women in mangerial positions based on a case study of a group of managers at one workplace. the subject of study was the study of strategies aimend at harmonising work and family responsibilities and the values related to these two spheres expressed by these women. …

Themes: Gender, Work, Family, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Adresný příspěvek na nájemné v prostředí České republiky: komparace vybraných modelů

The first part of the study forms the description of housing allowance systems in selected EU countries. A greater burden of rent expenditure by households and higher regional differentiation in rent prices could be expected in the Czech Republic since 1.1.2002. The present system of housing subsidy in the Czech Republic is not able to respect this differentiation, therefore the attention is paid to the comparison of two selected models of rent allowances, which could be applicable in the Czech conditins.…

Themes: Housing, Regions, Social Policy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Dráhy bydlení v ČR 1960-2001. Minulá, současná a budoucí stěhování občanů ČR ve výzkumu postojů k bydlení

The theoretical part of the study explains basic approaches from the field of housing careers. The analytic part of the study is based on an observation of the personal housing histories, in the period between 1960 and 2001, of Czech citizens, who were respondents in the Housing Attitudes in the Czech Republic 2001 survey. A comparison of the behaviour in the age 14 - 24 age cohort of respondents from various age categories made it possible to formulate a hypothesis on the homogeneity of the early phases of th…

Themes: Housing, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Objektivní a subjektivní hodnocení finanční dostupnosti bydlení v ČR v průběhu 90. let

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Themes: Housing, Wages and Incomes, Public Opinion

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Value Orientations in Society

Konzervatismus a liberalismus a percepce sociálního státu

The main topic of this study is the research of perception of social and generally any active role of the state in attitudes of the Czech adult population. The role of the state is analyzed in context of political thinking of respondents. The importance of the traditional dichotomy between liberal and conservative politics is stressed, primary attention being paid to conservatism. Theoretical reflection in the first part of the study is generalizing the conflict of conservative and liberal ideology into a…

Themes: Value Orientations, Politics and Political Attitudes, Social Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

The Housing Policy Changes and Housing Expenditures in the Czech Republic

The paper provides brief list of changes in rental and ownership housingsector during the transition in the Czech Republic. The complete analysisof housing expenditures of all Czech households as well as analysis of housingexpenditures of different social categories of households is provided.…

Themes: Housing, Wages and Incomes, Family, Transformation, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Spokojenost českých občanů s bydlením

The paper analyses the main factors underlying housing satisfaction in the Czech Republic. The data from the Housing Attitudes 2001 survey are used and the author apply linear, ordinal and logistic regression models.…

Themes: Housing, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

Poslanci prvního českého parlamentu (1992-1996)

The study presents the results of a survey of parliamentary deputies which is part of an anticipatedwider analysis of the place and role of Parliament in the transformation of the political system from anauthoritarian regime to a democracy, in the individual stages of this transformation. The survey wasconducted at the beginning and end of the term of office and a comparison of data allowed somedevelopment tendencies to be discerned. The results acquired provided comprehensive observationson, and a general dep…

Themes: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Česká republika v roce 1993. Politická ročenka

Themes: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Česká republika v roce 1994. Politická ročenka

Themes: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Mzdová a příjmová diferenciace v České republice v transformačním období

Wage and income surveys covering the period 1989-1999 are used to display inequality of earnings and main factors of disparities. Increasing differences in the Czech Republic and the decreasing weight of demographic characteristics in wage structure are observed. Introduction of a market economy has led to earnings disparities more similar to those in the West. The "communist" demographic determination of earnings is being replaced to a great extent by "capitalist" market characteristics and ownership disparit…

Themes: Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Parties in the Parliament. Why, When and How do Parties Act in Unity? Parliamentary Party Groups in the Chamber of Deputies in the years 1998–2002

The main objective of the work is to answer the question of how Czech MPs and PPGs makedecisions. Thus main concerns of the authors are issues of PPG unity, the adopted mechanismsof internal control and negotiation and, primarily, the factors that influence, structureand restrict the behaviour of individual MPs and PPGs. The work focuses on the 3rd electoralterm of the Chamber of Deputies (1998–2002) in some cases a comparison with previousterms is provided.In the first chapter the authors briefly outline th…

Themes: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Vývoj sociální struktury v české společnosti 1988-1999

The study provides the first basic information about the results of the representativesociological survey „Ten Years of Transformation in the Czech Republic“ related to theeconomically active population. It compares social stratification data from 1993 and the end of1999, showing that the social differentiation deepened and that the status consistency did notincrease any more. This was caused by the problems that slowed down the economic growth inthe second half of the 1990s. The intrageneration social mob…

Themes: Social Inequalities, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Zrod a další vývoj nových elit v České republice (od konce osmdesátých let 20. století do jara 2002)

The study summarizes the results of the authors’ nearly decade-long effort (related to thestudy of the post-socialist transformation of Czech society) to gain an empirical and theoreticalknowledge of the process of how social elites are created and consolidated. Socialelites are understood primarily as the foremost stratification groupings, which enter intocomplicated interactions with the social system, its economic and political institutionalstructures, as well as the sphere of culture and its structures. …

Themes: Elites, Transformation

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Náboženství a nadpřirozeno ve společnosti. Mezinárodní srovnání na základě empirického výzkumu ISSP

The paper is based on an empirical survey of religion and religious valuesin the society. It analyses a religious orientation, church attendance,values closely connected with Christianity and a proportion of people whodeclare any religious affiliation. The study pays attention to the religiousrevival in the end of the 20th century and poins out different types of religiosity (occultism, evangelicalism) and their spread in modern societies.…

Themes: Value Orientations, COM_CCK_nabozenstvi_a_religiozita

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Value Orientations in Society

Vstup do manželství a nesezdaného soužití v České republice po roce 1989 v souvislosti se vzděláním

Study deals with relationship between marriage, cohabitation and education. The first part presents a summary of the sociological theories. The second part verifies hypotheses based on these theories with ISSP 2002 data. The connection between education and entry into marriage canbe fully explained by longer school attendance. More educated people study longer. However, as soon as they complete their schooling, they have the same probability to enter marriage as people with lower education.…

Themes: Interpersonal Relations, Education

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Value Orientations in Society

Trvalá nebo dočasná změna? Uspořádání genderových rolí v rodinách s pečujícími otci

The study therefore aims to answer the question of whether in families where the father is involved in caring for children in the early stage of their lives there is an erosion of gender inequalities in the family, or whether what occurs is just a modification of the given status quo. The study also looks at the question of at what point gender equality is (or can be) established in the family and what is the connection between gender equality in the family and gender inequality in the society at large. The st…

Themes: Gender, Care, Work, Parenting

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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