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Výsledky šetření a reprodukce (FFS)
Despite many similarities, family behaviour varies in European countries. Peoples not only take various attitudes but they also differ in real behaviour especially in regards with type of union (marriage and cohabitation) and fertility. The first part of this study offers an overview of demographic development in recent years. The second and third parts are dedicated to Family and Fertility Survey (FFS). The text concentrates on 4 basic questions: leaving parental home, age and type of the first partnership, p…
Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Family
Diferenciace reprodukčního a rodinného chování v evropských populacích
Despite many similarities, family behaviour varies in European countries. Peoples not only take various attitudes but they also differ in real behaviour especially in regards with type of union (marriage and cohabitation) and fertility. The first part of this study offers an overview of demographic development in recent years. The second and third parts are dedicated to Family and Fertility Survey (FFS). The text concentrates on 4 basic questions: leaving parental home, age and type of the first partnership, p…
Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Family
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.…
Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Education
Vstup do manželství a vzdělání českých žen: generace 1952-1982
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Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Family, Education
České ženy: vzdělání, partnerství a rodina
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Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Family, Education
Sňatečnost, nesezdaná soužití a veřejné mínění.
The chapter focuses on the attitudes towads the contemorary demographic changes, marriage, cohabitation and non-marital fertility. It shows important educational differences in these attitudes in the Czech population.…
Topics: Parenting, Education
The winners in a globalizing world. Mid-career men in the Czech Republic
The chapter analyzes labor market mobility of Czech men in 1990s. It investigates job-to-job, job-to-unemployment, job-to-maternity/parental track moves. It compares the first and the second half of 1990s and shows that relatively little has changed.…
Topics: Migration and Mobility, Work, Transformation
Employment Exits of Older Workers in the Czech Republic
The chapter analyzes labor market exists of Czech men and women in 1990s. It shows that the pressure on the labor market increased older workers tendency to retire. The risk of retirement and its timing is however heavily dependent on human capital of a worker.…
Topics: Work, Transformation, Age and Aging
Life Satisfaction, Happiness and Marital Status in Four Central European Countries
The text focuses on the relationship between life satisfaction and marital status in 4 central European countries. While it confirms the positive effect of marriage on life satisfaction but it does not support a hypothesis that the effect of marital status will be mediate by the divorce rate in the society.…
Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Family
Kdo u nás rodí děti zasvobodna?
The Chapter describes fundamental characteristics of non-marital fertility in the Czech Republic and shows that the increasing proportion of children born out of wedlock can be atributed to economic as well as cultural factors.…
Topics: Parenting
The More Parties Vote and the Bigger Their Majority is, the Less United They Are
The text aims to explain the voting unity in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic building upon data from the years 1998ů2002. The article presents basic institutional rules which should lead to the unity of political parties in the Czech Parliament and then data measuring the unity of Czech parliamentary party groups. The initial presupposition that institutional factors found within the parliament and political parties will result in an increased unity of PPGs in the Czech Republi…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
The Politics between Parliament and Government - the Institutional Framework and the Reality within the Czech Parliament
Accountability is a problem in every democracy, and particularly in countries currently building a democratic system and market economy. The chapter analyses the policy between parliament and government in connection with the problem of responsibility and accountability in the Czech Republic. Special attention is paid to the institutions that are accountable to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament in the area of the economy. Not only the institutional arrangement, but also the political practice and…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Civil Society, Public Policy
Central European Parliaments. First Decade of Democratic Experience and Future Prospectives
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Topics: European Union, Civil Society, Public Policy
Agenda setting v sociologické perspektivě
In this paper the author attempts to put forth a new theoretical explanation of how the phenomenon known as “agenda setting” functions. The paper begins with a summary of current knowledge about this phenomenon, including the two theoretical explanations given to date: the psychological explanation and the explanation based on trust in the information media.…
Topics: Media, Politics and Political Attitudes
Třetí sektor a občanská participace v České republice
The paper aims to make a complex analysis of how the third sector and civic participation function in the CR. It describes the types and structures of Czech NGOs, introduces a new typology of NGOs based on selected criteria, evaluates how the Czech third sector functions in the CEE context, and further elaborates on notions of participation among Czech citizens. The paper summarises the strengths and weaknesses of Czech NGOs and points to future opportunities and possible risks in this context.…
Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes
Možnosti a bariéry rozvoje sociálního dialogu v České republice
The paper deals with the opportunities for and barriers to social dialogue in the Czech Republic. It stresses the importance of the role that social partnership and its institutionalised form – the tripartite Council of Economic and Social Agreement (RHSD) – occupied in the transformation processes.…
Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Transformation
Mezinárodní výzkum násilí na ženách: k prvním výsledkům šetření v České republice
The first part of the paper looks at the main objectives of the research, the areas it targeted, and its methodological approaches, and the second part summarises some of the main observations that the research led to. In the closing part of the paper an analysis is made of the factors contributing to an increase or decrease in the risk of the victimisation of women, especially with regard to the characteristics of the female respondents in the survey.…
Topics: Gender, Criminality
Shrnutí
This study explores why the third sector is an important agent for promoting civic participation and interest representation. The empirical evidence presented in a first part of the study is organized using an analytical typology based on two key criteria: (a) type of organizational structure evident within specific non-governmental actors and (b) the organisational composition of the entire third sector in the Czech Republic. By using this methodological approach this research maps organisational structures w…
Topics: Civil Society, Public Policy
Česko-slovenské sociologické dny. Sborník z konference
The volume contains papers presented at the international Czecho-Slovak Sociology Days, a conference held 10-12 May 2004 in Prague and jointly organised by the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the Institute of Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and the Masaryk Society of Czech Sociology. The volume is focused on Czech and Slovak sociological research on public opinion, political sociology, local issues, family, housing, and methodology.…
Topics: Housing, Research Methodology, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Family, Public Opinion
Český neziskový sektor v kontextu střední Evropy
This study explores why the third sector is an important agent for promoting civic participation and interest representation. The empirical evidence presented in a first part of the study is organized using an analytical typology based on two key criteria: (a) type of organizational structure evident within specific non-governmental actors and (b) the organisational composition of the entire third sector in the Czech Republic. By using this methodological approach this research maps organisational structures w…
Topics: Civil Society, Public Policy
Výzkum vybraných českých neziskových organizací
This study explores why the third sector is an important agent for promoting civic participation and interest representation. The empirical evidence presented in a first part of the study is organized using an analytical typology based on two key criteria: (a) type of organizational structure evident within specific non-governmental actors and (b) the organisational composition of the entire third sector in the Czech Republic. By using this methodological approach this research maps organisational structures w…
Topics: Civil Society, Public Policy
Teoretický rámec a shrnutí situace organizované občanské společnosti v České republice
This study explores why the third sector is an important agent for promoting civic participation and interest representation. The empirical evidence presented in a first part of the study is organized using an analytical typology based on two key criteria: (a) type of organizational structure evident within specific non-governmental actors and (b) the organisational composition of the entire third sector in the Czech Republic. By using this methodological approach this research maps organisational structures w…
Topics: Civil Society, Public Policy
Stabilní postoj nebo konzistentní odpovídání? Prozkoumání stability stranické identifikace v ČR
The chapter analyses stability of answers to party identification question using the panel survey. The basic hypothesis stemming from the classical conceptualization of the party identification is its stability of the intensity and the direction. Although on the aggregate level the stability is high, at the individual level there is quite high inconsistency in answering the question in around 30 per cent of cases. …
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
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