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Biotechnologizace: legitimita, materialita a možnosti odporu
The book follows the controversy over the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture. I look at the production and use of scientific expert knowledges and other knowledges and at the processes of globalization and localization, or political geography, as enacted in the case of GMOs. I also follow and analyse the processes whereby the legitimacy of agricultural GMOs is constructed or subverted and the strategies for the de/materialization of GMOs. I show that representations in the regimes of s…
Topics: European Union, Legitimacy, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociology of Sciences
Životní strategie žen a mužů v řízení (a) podnikání
In this study the author examined the motivations for starting up a business and the life strategies for work and family balance in small and mid-sized entrepreneurship by men and women who started up independent businesses in the Czech Republic in the 1990s, and I situated the research in the context of the gender structure of Czech society. …
Topics: Gender, Work, Family
Otcovství po rozchodu rodičovského páru
The book presents a theoretical study and an original qualitative empirical study of fatherhood after divorce or separation. A total of 35 interviews were conducted with men with various social and educational backgrounds. It shows how contemporary fathers select between different repertoires of fatherhood and how they interpret them, and in this way they construct their own personal paternal role.…
Topics: Gender, Interpersonal Relations, Parenting
Kritická rekonstrukce diskuse: evropská versus česká politika péče
The final chapter systematically summarizes the debate about the politics of care, respectively family policy in the Czech Republic with the references to the context of European Union. With the references to the up-to-date analysis of contemporary paradoxical societal development and to feminist analysis it critically examines negative moments of contemporary arrangement which serve as a point of departure for the outline of possible way of theorizing and thinking about the societal organization of care. …
Topics: European Union, Gender, Care, Parenting, Public Policy
Kdo se bojí zaměstnané matky?
The paper focus on the position of women with children on the Czech labour market and the role of social policy. It deals with their working conditions, discriminations and the conditions for work and family reconciliation. The first part of the paper concerns the basic indicators of gender inequalities. The aim of the second part of the paper is to answer the question about who is afraid of working mother. …
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting
Rodičovská (je) pro oba rodiče!
The chapter deals with the degradation of parental leave if taken as „vacation“ and the neglected role of fathers in upbringing and caring for young children. …
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting
Kam směřuje česká společnost v oblasti denní péče o předškolní děti?
Czech Republic has abandoned its previous childcare policy after 1989. It is currently among the countries with the lowest percentage of children under the age of three in formal childcare while percentages of older children are rather average or high in European comparison. The chapter analyzes causes of the decline in the formal childcare and answers several questions: Who cares for children in current Czech society? What is the future of pre-school childcare in Czech society? Does Czech society need a new p…
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting
Promarněná šance na změnu: zhodnocení reformy rodičovského příspěvku
The article analyses the shape and the impacts of the reform of parental allowance in the CR in 2008. It shows that the reform will lead to increasing of social inequalities and will disadvantage certain groups of population, for. ex. lone mothers. …
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting, Public Policy
Práce a péče. Proměny "rodičovské" v České republice a kontext rodinné politiky Evropské unie
The book examines legislative and institutional framings of childcare and its gendered impacts in the Czech Republic in the context of current policies of care in other European countries. The aim is to introduce results of analyses of empirical data on childcare to public debates and to point on several conceptual mistakes in current policy of care in the Czech Republic. …
Topics: Gender, Care, Work, Parenting, Public Policy
Nebezpečné známosti. O vztahu sociálních věd a společnosti
This book is about different forms of societal impact of the social sciences. It presents a polemic with a narrow understanding of societal impact of research as practiced by science policy in the Czech Republic (and elsewhere). Three basic theses are proposed and argued. 1. Social sciences’ operation in society is multiple and more significant than usually assumed in public and policy debate, and by the academic community. It entails not only intentional and controlled but also unintentional and collateral …
Topics: Sociology of Sciences
The Development of Czech Childcare Policies
The area that comprises today’s Czech Republic has a long and rich history of providing childcare facilities to preschool children. Kindergartens continue to be popular to this day and at present almost all Czech children attend these facilities. On the other hand, nurseries nearly vanished in the Czech Republic. The question remains why a country that used to belong to the world leaders in providing access to childcare has so suddenly become one of the greatest laggards concerning care for children under th…
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting, Family
Pracovní dráhy žen v České republice
In the background of the historical development of Czech society in the context of theoretical approaches to the study of feminist sociology of work and family we analyze biographical interviews with women of different age groups in different stages of family cycle and in different situations on the labor market. The book also specifically focuses on cross-cutting theme of the continuing practice of discrimination against women in the labor market, along with the theme of different options for combining work a…
Topics: Gender, Identity, Work
Fenomén bezdětnosti
The book focuses on the phenomenon of childlessness in the Czech society. Specifically, the aim of the book was to identify the factors contributing to childlessness and the increase in the percentage of the childless in young adult population, and to explore the understanding (definitions) of childlessness by the childless. …
Topics: Gender, Parenting
Politické implikace a shrnutí
This chapter summarizes results of previous analysis that led the authors to identifying and deconstructing seven myths on childcare that prevail in the Czech Republic. Based on arguments introduced in previous chapters this chapter offers also authors´ recommendations to Czech childcare policy.…
Topics: Care, Politics and Political Attitudes, Parenting, Public Policy
Mýtus sedmý: Česká rodinná politika vychází z odborných poznatků
This chapter presents a short overview of childcare policies implemented in Scandinavian countries, France and Germany, and shows that these policies stem from different ideologies. Based on an institutional analysis the authors then discuss the ways in which Czech conservatives have managed to gain great influence over Czech childcare policy.…
Topics: Care, Parenting, Public Policy
Mýtus pátý: Češi a Češky jesle nechtějí
Public opinion research shows that most Czechs think children should stay at home the first three years. But the situation is more complicated and filled with contradictions.…
Topics: Care, Parenting
Mýtus čtvrtý: Pro děti je přirozené, aby se svou matkou zůstavaly doma až do věku třílet
The chapter reveals that the myth that children below the age of three do not benefit from quality daycare is not based on current scientific knowledge and that the myth does not exist in all countries.…
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting
Mýtus třetí: Jesle jsou vynálezem komunistů
Based on analysis of historical documents the author deconstructs the myth strongly held in the Czech Republic that nurseries are communist invention, and analyzes their operation in Czechoslovakia before 1989.…
Topics: Care, Parenting
Sedm mýtů o péči o nejmenší
In this chapter the authors name seven myths that they have identified in Czech society, which block development of Czech childcare policy.…
Topics: Care, Parenting, Family, Public Policy
Péče o nejmenší. Boření mýtů
Authors of the book reveal and deconstruct seven myths that block open discussion and reforms in the area of childcare policy in the Czech Republic, and formulate the principles of non-discriminatory childcare policy.…
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting, Family
Závěrem: Napříč sociálněvědní a přírodovědnou institucí
It is a concluding chapter of the book which compares the social science and natural science institutions under study regarding four themes: the degree and modes of competitiveness, publication infrastructure and strategies, epistemic texture of the institutions and enactment of gender.…
Topics: Gender, Sociology of Sciences
Ne každý úspěch se počítá: Excelence a genderování vědecké dráhy v přírodních vědách
The chapter concentrates on how researchers in a natural science institution define success. It analyses differences in their notions of success depending on their position. The author argues that the normativity of excellence has an impact on which notion of success leads to visible career progress and that such a notion is not interesting or acceptable for some. In conclusion the text explores whether the concept of excellence is gendered, and what impact this may have on science and society.…
Topics: Gender, Sociology of Sciences
Politická a morální ekonomie vědy
The chapter deals with the moral and political economy of science while using the concept of "modes of ordering" developed by John Law. On the basis of an ethnographic research in a social scientific academic institution it discusses modes of ordering as they are deployed in the current transforming Czech science and analyses power strategies enacted through specific definition of the modes and shifting between them.…
Topics: Economy, Politics and Political Attitudes, Sociology of Sciences, Transformation
Uvedení k výzkumu: Problematizace vědy a genderu
The goal of this chapter is to introduce the basic methodological approaches used in the research (science and technology studies, gender studies), research methods and the basic parameters of the Czech R&D transformation and science policy. The chapter continues to introduce the research institutions in which the research was carried out, and the structure of the book.…
Topics: Gender, Research Methodology, Transformation
Akademické poznávání, vykazování a podnikání. Etnografie měnící se české vědy
The goal of the book is to contribute to current debates of the research and development transformation in the Czech Republic based on qualitative research and theoretical and conceptual approaches in STS and gender studies. The book offers a sociological reflection of the transformations of everyday research practices, career paths, science policies and their effects, usage and reshaping in research institutions in social and natural sciences. The concluding chapter offers their comparison.…
Topics: Sociology of Sciences
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