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Děti a štěstí: souvisí spolu?
Topics: Parenting, Family
Výzkum životní dráhy a event-history analýza
Topics: Parenting
Programma Socialnych Issledovanii - 1999
The report analyses a survey of religious attitudes of the Czechs. Analyses have disclosed two fundamental types of a religious orientation: Christianity and occultism. Christianity was typical for older people with lower education, occultism was spread in population more evenly. The relationship between occultism and pessimism and the denial of a higher personal authority was proven. Christianity was connected with confidence in people, accepting of higher personal authority and mild fatalism.…
Topics: Value Orientations, Religion and religiosity
Educational Homogamy among Married and Unmarried Couples in Europe: Does Context Matter?
In this article, educational homogamy among married and cohabiting couples in selected European countries is examined. Using data from two waves (2002 and 2004) of the European Social Survey, this article compares three cultural and institutional contexts that differ in terms of institutionalization of cohabitation. Evidence from log-linear models yields two main conclusions. First, as cohabitation becomes more common in society, marriage and cohabitation become more similar with respect to partner selection. …
Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Family, Education
Educational Homogamy of Married and Unmarried Couples in English and French Canada
This study investigates the relative similarity of educational assortative mating patterns among young married and cohabiting couples using Canadian census data from 2001. It contrasts the patterns observed in Quebec with those observed elsewhere in Canada, as these regions display very different demographic trends, especially with respect to cohabitation. The results show that difference between marriage and cohabitation is rather similar in both regions and cohabitors generally display lower educational homo…
Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Education
One Pot or Two Pot Strategies? Income Pooling in Married and Unmarried Households in Comparative Perspective
This paper investigates money management. It compares married and cohabiting couples across four countries with different levels of institutionalization of cohabitation and different welfare regimes. Using data from the ISSP 2002, this study shows that the legal status of the union is one of the strongest predictors of the money pooling practices in all four countries. Cohabitors tend to choose independent money management more often than married couples. …
Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Wages and Incomes, Family
Invisible Religion in a "Non-believing" Country: The Case of the Czech Republic
The authors analyze contemporary ir/religiosity in the Czech Republic using data from national censuses, international surveys, and a specialized national survey of religion from 2006. They show that the influence of the socio-demographic characteristics on respondents’ religiosity, both traditional and alternative, exists but is weak. Religious socialization in the childhood seems to be a more important factor. They further show that the out-of-church movement was established early in the country’s histor…
Topics: Religion and religiosity
Visible minorities and 'White'-'Non-White' Conjugal Unions in Canadian Large Cities
The study investigates assortative mating patterns with respect to race (visible minority status) in Canada. Using the 2001 Census data, the article analyses the occurrence of White/non-White unions in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Log-linear models indicate that the relative levels of interracial relationships vary across racial groups, immigration status, and place of residence. First, the highest odds of cohabiting or marrying a White person are found among Blacks. Whereas the high level of racial exogam…
Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Migration and Mobility
Institucionalizované a neinstitucionalizované náboženství v českém poválečném vývoji
The Article is devoted to religious development in the Czech Republic in the second half of the 20th century. It distinguishes between organised religion and a general belief in super-natural. During the communist regime there was a rapid decline in declared religious affiliation, church-attendance and in number of children with religious education. However, behind this secularised surface there was a strong religious potential, although it could freely come out only after the fall of communism.…
Topics: Religion and religiosity
Czech Republic: A Rapid Transformation of fertility and family behaviour after the collapse of state Socialism
A profound transformation of family and fertility patterns has taken place in the Czech Republic after 1989. The rapidity of observed changes can be explained as the outcome of a simultaneous occurrence of several factors, especially the emergence of new opportunities competing with family life, increasing job competition, and rising economic uncertainty in young adulthood.…
Topics: Parenting, Family, Transformation, Lifestyle
Je náboženství důležité pro ekonomický rozvoj?
The article focuses on the relationship between religion and economy. The first part summarizes the basic element of sociological debates on this theme with an emphasis on Max Weber. The second part analyses data from two Czech empirical studies and shows how religion influences economic attituedes in the Czech Republic.…
Topics: Religion and religiosity, Standard of Living
Názory na manželství a rodinu mladých svobodných lidí v roce 1997
The article is based on ana empirical survey of zoung single people between18 -30 years of age. It surveys attitudes towards the family, parenthood andpartnership. Most of the zoung people would like to marry their partner, but only after some time of "test cohabitation". Young Czech women did notembrace strongly emancipated attitudes was not affected by education of thewomen. Only minimum of young people plans to stay childless and ideal of thefamily with two children is clearly prevalent in the population.…
Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Parenting, Family
Preferované partnerské uspořádání: sociodemografické a hodnotové rozdíly
The article deals with partnership prferences in context of socio-demographic characteristics and general value orientation.…
Topics: Value Orientations, Interpersonal Relations
Děti bez manželství nebo bez otců?
The article is devoted to the increase in non-marital feritlity in the Czech Republic. It reminds that the current sociology offers two explanations: the theory of the Second demographic transition and the system of social benefits. This article suggest an alternative explanation and points out increase in single motherhood.…
Topics: Parenting
Marriage and Educational Attainment: A Dynamic Approach to First Union Formation
The article looks at the relationship between partnership formationand women’s education in the Czech Republic. Education can serve as a proxyfor cultural capital and earning potential. Therefore, it is expected to play a significant role in partnership formation. Analyses of data from the Family andFertility Survey show that the level of education has an impact on the timing ofthe first union. However, when school enrolment is controlled, education doesnot play a significant role in the tendency to enter in…
Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Family, Education
Česká religiozita – církevní příslušnost a víra ve světle Sčítání lidu a data ISSP 2008
The article focuses on the description of the Czech religiosity. It shows that Czech society is not as secularized as i tis often argued. The main argument of the article is that despite the low levels of church affiliation and attendance, the faith in magic is rather common.…
Topics: Religion and religiosity
Šetření ISSP 1999 - Náboženství
The report analyses an empirical survey of religious attitudes of the Czech population. With regard to Church affiliation and church attendance, the Czech Republic belongs among the most secularised countries in Europe. However, there is a widely spread belief in the supernatural. Analyses have disclosed the existence of two fundamental types of religious orientation: Christianity and occultism. While Christianity is typical for older people with lower education, occultism is spread th…
Topics: Religion and religiosity
Marriage and Cohabitation: Qualitative Differences in Partnership Arrangement
The article investigates the differences between marriage and non-marital cohabitation. The main perspective stems from the theory of the social exchange. The author concentrates on the narrow question of financial transfers between partners and presents the hypothesis that cohabitation should represent a lesser bond union because it does not protect investments into partnerships, and it should therefore be more egalitarian. However, this hypothesis is not confirmed by the data. Even though cohabitation is ind…
Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Family
Životní spokojenost, štěstí a rodinný stav v 21 evropských zemích
The article focuses on the relationship between marital status and life satisfaction in European countries. The first part discusses subjective evaluations of life satisfaction. The second part is devoted to empirical analyses of ESS data. The results show that married people are generally happier than other. This effect is not mediated by divorce rate in the society.…
Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Family
Čemu Češi věří: dimenze soudobé české religiozity
This article analyses the socio-demographic factors that are linked with religious beliefs. There are two dimensions: a "traditional" Christianity and an "alternative" view connected with a belief in the power of magic. Traditional and alternative religious beliefs are connected with numerous socio-demographic characteristics, the most important of which is religious socialisation, measured by the frequency with which a person attended at religious services as a child and by the religious denomination of a per…
Topics: Religion and religiosity
Náboženství a pohlaví: Proč jsou ženy zbožnější než muži?
The article looks at the gender differences in religiosity. It outlines the main sociological theories that explain these differences and it examines the differences in the religiosity of Czech men and women in the ISSP 2008. It shows that Czech women are more religious than Czech men in every measure of religiosity, but does not indicate that these differences can be explained by economic activity or social deprivation measured as a subjective assessment of social status. Some of the differences can, however,…
Topics: Gender, Religion and religiosity
Postoje k manželství a rodičovství
The book is based on an empirical survey "Young Genderation 1997" concerning attitudes towards the family, parenthood and partnership of young single people between 18-30 years of age. Besides the attitudestowards marriage, parenthood and ideal anad expected number of children,the survey was devoted to conditions and motives of concludings marriageand childbearing, to notions about an ideal partner and to attitudestowards divorce, abortions. Attention to other non-family plans of youngpeople was also paid.…
Topics: Value Orientations, Interpersonal Relations, Parenting, Family
Představy mladých lidí o manželství a rodičovství
The book is based on an empirical survey "Young Genderation 1997" concerning attitudes towards the family, parenthood and partnership of young single people between 18-30 years of age. Besides the attitudestowards marriage, parenthood and ideal anad expected number of children,the survey was devoted to conditions and motives of concludings marriageand childbearing, to notions about an ideal partner and to attitudestowards divorce, abortions. Attention to other non-family plans of youngpeople was also paid.…
Topics: Value Orientations, Interpersonal Relations, Parenting, Family
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.…
Topics: Value Orientations, Religion and religiosity
Stručné poznámky o ideových přístupech k rodině v období socialismu
The work describes theoretical approaches towards the family from 50s to 80s. The emphasis is especially placed on the Marxist ideology and sociology of family and on the practical implications of these theories. The first phase of the communist regime in 50s was characterised by a strongly anti-family rhetoric and politics, and this was weakened only in 60. Functionalist approach towards the family and endeavour to fight against bourgeois familiarism was typical for the period of 70s and 80s.…
Topics: History of Sociology, Family, Social Policy
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