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Postoje k manželství, rodičovství a k rolím v rodině v České republice a v Evropě
This study focuses on attitudes towards marriage, unmarried cohabitation, parenthood, and the roles of men and women in the family in Czech society in the past decade. Using data drawn from the ISSP Family and Gender Roles survey conducted in 1994 and 2002, the authors analyse how these attitudes have developed over the past decade and their differentiation according to social group and, especially, age, education, gender, and marital status.…
Topics: Gender, Value Orientations, Parenting, Family
Životní spokojenost: rodina, práce a další faktory
Text studies life satisfaction and happiness of Czech men and women. It works with ISSP 2002 data. Basic socio-demographic factors are analyzed (sex, age, education, marital status and cohabitation). Satisfaction with family life and satisfaction with work is also included in the analyses. Married people are happier than others. Satisfaction with family life affects happiness more strongly than satisfaction with work.…
Topics: Value Orientations, Interpersonal Relations, Work, Family
Volby do Evropského parlamentu 2004 - analýza volební účasti a stranické podpory v České republice
This study analyses the reasons behind the low electoral participation and behind voter mobility, and looks at the consequences these changes hold for the electoral gains of individual parties. Using data for the Czech Republic the author indicates some socio-demographic factors and some political attitudes that can be linked to electoral participation and highlights some of the factors that cause voters to participate less in elections. The study also focuses on voter mobility and explains these shifts on the…
Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Civil Society and Civic Participation in the Czech Republic
Based on differentiation between the terms civil society and the third sector the text defines the space of civic participation. The establishment of terminology and theoretical framework appears to be a key component, as the terms civil society and third (non-governmental) sector are often confound. Notwithstanding its long tradition the term, civil society is rather abstract and is today used mainly in theoretical and conceptual context. Whereas the term third sector is more practical and concrete, as it off…
Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes
Measuring Value Orientations with the Use of S.H. Schwartz‘s Value Portraits
The study acquaints readers with two methods of measuring value orientations developed by S.H.Schwartz. Attention is focused especially on the Portrait Values Questionnaire that was used in the European Social Survey in 2002 and 2004. The analysis in the study uses ESS 2002 data sets from ten selected countries (the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland,Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland) and creates four higher order value types (conservation, openness to change, self-transcenden…
Topics: Value Orientations, Research Methodology
Sociální třída v médiích: relikt třídního boje, nebo zamlžený koncept?
This text focuses on how Czech people re-construct the divisions and inequalities, how they define social categories and classes in the Czech society, and how people distinguish and distance themselves from or identify with these categories/classes. The qualitative analysis is based on 30 in-depth interviews with men and women with various educational backgrounds and social statuses and on qualitative analysis of the concept of social class in Czech media discourse.…
Topics: Media, Social Inequalities
Vnímání a konstruování sociální třídy a zařazování se do třídy
This text focuses on how Czech people re-construct the divisions and inequalities, how they define social categories and classes in the Czech society, and how people distinguish and distance themselves from or identify with these categories/classes. The qualitative analysis is based on 30 in-depth interviews with men and women with various educational backgrounds and social statuses and on qualitative analysis of the concept of social class in Czech media discourse.…
Topics: Identity, Social Inequalities
Educational Aspirations in a Comparative Perspective. The role of individual, contextual and stuctual factors in the formation of educational aspirations in OECD countries
The aim of the paper is to assess the effect of education system stratification, its vocational specificity and permeability on the formation of educational aspirations in OECD countries participating in PISA 2003. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of ability, gender, and socioeconomic background.…
Topics: Social Inequalities, Education
Metoda výzkumu
This text focuses on how Czech people re-construct the divisions and inequalities, how they define social categories and classes in the Czech society, and how people distinguish and distance themselves from or identify with these categories/classes. The qualitative analysis is based on 30 in-depth interviews with men and women with various educational backgrounds and social statuses and on qualitative analysis of the concept of social class in Czech media discourse.…
Topics: Media, Research Methodology, Social Inequalities
Vnímání a utváření sociálních distancí a třídních nerovností v české společnosti
This text focuses on how Czech people re-construct the divisions and inequalities, how they define social categories and classes in the Czech society, and how people distinguish and distance themselves from or identify with these categories/classes. The qualitative analysis is based on 30 in-depth interviews with men and women with various educational backgrounds and social statuses and on qualitative analysis of the concept of social class in Czech media discourse.…
Topics: Media, Social Inequalities
Perception of Social Classes and Class Identification in the Czech Republic
The monograph deals with stratification by means of interaction distances: analyses of Bogardus scale for occupational categories / friendship patterns and in-depth interviews. We pursue 1. homophily (like-me) hypothesis, 2. existence of subjective social class boundaries, 3. images of occupations and the society and using qualitative analysis 4. the perception of social classes and 5. how people distinguish and distance themselves from or identify with these categories/classes.…
Topics: Social Inequalities
Obecná důvěra v druhé lidi jako dimenze sociální soudržnosti
This publication is based on the results of project research and is aimed at being more than just a volume of studies by individual authors. The introductory, theoretical chapter, devoted to a discussion of concepts of research on social solidarity (J. Šafr, M. Sedláčková, (with a supplement by P. Machonin)), is followed by a series of empirically based studies that deal successively with how social solidarity is interpreted by the Czech public (J. Šafr), values (O. Špaček) and norms (L. Gatnar and M. T…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Research Methodology
Vazby mezi politickými postoji a jejich závislost na politické informovanosti (a zapojení do politiky)
This study explores political awareness of Czech citizens from the point of view of both its distribution within the society, its dimensionality and sources, and its effect on political attitudes and their constraints. The study shows that Czech citizens know most about local and national politics and political players, and are least informed about international affairs. Moreover, the distribution of political knowledge is systematically biased and this results in specific forms of political inequality. These …
Topics: Value Orientations, Politics and Political Attitudes
Politická informovanost: teorie, koncepty a měření
This study explores political awareness of Czech citizens from the point of view of both its distribution within the society, its dimensionality and sources, and its effect on political attitudes and their constraints. The study shows that Czech citizens know most about local and national politics and political players, and are least informed about international affairs. Moreover, the distribution of political knowledge is systematically biased and this results in specific forms of political inequality. These …
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Politická informovanost občanů: teorie, měření a role při zkoumání politických postojů
This study explores political awareness of Czech citizens from the point of view of both its distribution within the society, its dimensionality and sources, and its effect on political attitudes and their constraints. The study shows that Czech citizens know most about local and national politics and political players, and are least informed about international affairs. Moreover, the distribution of political knowledge is systematically biased and this results in specific forms of political inequality. These …
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes
Social Standing and Lifestyle in Czech Society
The author address two associated issues concerning culture consumption and stratification: hypothesis social classes in the Czech Republic are intensively associated with distinct lifestyles and social sources of cultural omnivorousness. In the introductory part cultural consumption and lifestyle theories along with research agenda related to social stratification are introduced. Using data Market & Media & Lifestyle TGI 2004 (MEDIAN s.r.o.) the autor deals with three dimensions of cultural consumptio…
Topics: Consumption, Lifestyle
Sociální kapitál. Koncepty, teorie a metody měření
This study reports on the results of the study “The Image of Science in Czech Public Opinion”, which was conducted by the Public Opinion Research Centre at the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in February 2006 as a part of “Our Society”, a continuous public opinion research project. The study aims to show what kind of image contemporary Czech society has of science, how it views science, what science and scientific research represent in the public’s view, and how they…
Topics: Social Capital
Základní charakteristiky členské základny KDU-ČSL
This study describes the socio-demographic structure of the membership base of the Christian Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People’s Party (KDU-ČSL) and the party’s voters. It is based on a questionnaire survey carried out among the party’s membership base in the middle of 2005. Only part of the survey’s results is used in this study. The membership base is examined according to when member-respondents joined the party and where they reside – Bohemia or Moravia. The analysis focuses mainly on…
Topics: Sociological Data, Public Policy
Mimomanželská plodnost: individuální charakteristiky žen a vliv regionu
This volume is devoted to the subject of non-marital fertility in the Czech Republic during the period between 1990 and 2005.…
Topics: Parenting, Education
Volební účast
The book examines elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic during all its previous existence. The main objective is to analyze the impact of majority electoral system and specifics of the candidates´ support in elections. This also book focuses on electoral success and representation of individual parties. Then we look at long-term record low turnout.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Volební výsledky
The book examines elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic during all its previous existence. The main objective is to analyze the impact of majority electoral system and specifics of the candidates´ support in elections. This also book focuses on electoral success and representation of individual parties. Then we look at long-term record low turnout.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Volby do Senátu 1996 až 2008
The book examines elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic during all its previous existence. The main objective is to analyze the impact of majority electoral system and specifics of the candidates´ support in elections. This also book focuses on electoral success and representation of individual parties. Then we look at long-term record low turnout.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Mimomanželská plodnost v České republice po roce 1989: sociální a ekonomické souvislosti
This volume is devoted to the subject of non-marital fertility in the Czech Republic during the period between 1990 and 2005.…
Topics: Parenting, Education
Nerovnosti (třída, gender, rasa a sexualita) v médiích: svět celebrit
Essay examines content of magazine Bravo from the point of view of life style intermediation, inequality reproduction and value orientation. Values that the magazine shows on young celebrities’ stories are success, diligence, independence, physical attraction and traditional family values. In the sections pointed on advices in the field of relationship dominate values as private happiness, personal benefit and self-fulfilment. The magazine lays emphasis on visual aspects and attractiveness as a precondition …
Topics: Gender, Interpersonal Relations, Sexuality, Social Inequalities, Lifestyle
Životní styl v časopise Bravo
Essay examines content of magazine Bravo from the point of view of life style intermediation, inequality reproduction and value orientation. Values that the magazine shows on young celebrities’ stories are success, diligence, independence, physical attraction and traditional family values. In the sections pointed on advices in the field of relationship dominate values as private happiness, personal benefit and self-fulfilment. The magazine lays emphasis on visual aspects and attractiveness as a precondition …
Topics: Media, Lifestyle
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