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Political Behavior in Metropolitan Areas in the Czech Republic between 1990 and 2002 - Patterns, Trends, and the Relation to Suburbanization and its Socio-Spatial Patterns
The presented study deals with the political consequences of the suburbanization process in the four largest metropolitan areas in the Czech Republic after 1989. The aggregate socio-economic data on the level of municipalities are used first for the creation of typology of suburban communes. Then the electoral turnout in suburban municipalities is studied in relations to their socio-economic, cultural and geographical features. Finally, the effects of the suburban development for the voting behavior are analyz…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
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
Why did distinct types of dual-earner models in Czech, Slovak and East German societies develop and persist?
We examine pre1989 and post1989 work-care models in Czech, Slovak and East German societies. Once problems of the modernized gender model emerged, Czechoslovakia and GDR set two distinct policy paths and differences in work-care practices and values emerged. Based on the institutional and cultural legacy, we explain why the post1989 transition period was accompanied by continuity in work-care models and substantive changes evolved only then, in a period of stability.…
Topics: Gender, Work
Institucionální zázemí české sociologie před nástupem marxismu
The study traces the development of Czech sociology to 1948, broken down into several periods: the period during which sociology established itself as an independent academic discipline (G. A. Lindner, T. G. Masaryk, the Catholic sociologists), the period of Masaryk’s students, who while they established departments of sociology only partly engaged in empirical sociology (I. A. Bláha, E. Chalupný, J. Král), and finally the period of the third pre-Marxist sociological generation, genuine practitioners in t…
Topics: History of Sociology
Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph
Department: Economic and Religious Studies
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
Sociální nerovnosti a distance v české společnosti. Jak "normální" vidí ty "dole" a ty "nahoře"?
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: Social Inequalities
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
Constructing the Group Identity of Ordinary People: Who Are "Those Below" and "Those Above"?
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: Identity, Social Inequalities
Rozdělení domácích prací a péče o děti v rodině
This study is the outcome of an analysis of a questionnaire survey that focused on the degree to which Czech parents develop individual and family strategies for combining work and family life, and the objective was to examine the situation and strategies of parents currently living with dependent children.…
Topics: Care, Parenting, Family
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
Reprodukční plány a realita rané péče o děti
This study is the outcome of an analysis of a questionnaire survey that focused on the degree to which Czech parents develop individual and family strategies for combining work and family life, and the objective was to examine the situation and strategies of parents currently living with dependent children.…
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting, Family
Images of Social Classes and Strata
Monografie zkoumá stratifikaci pomocí interakční sociální distance v analýze Bogardusovy škály pro profesní kategorie / vzorců přátelství a dat z hloubkových rozhovorů. Sledujeme: 1. hypotézu o statusové podobnosti, 2. existenci subjektivní třídní hranice, 3. představy o uspořádání společnosti a za použití kvalitativních dat 4. percepci sociálních tříd, 5. a jak lidé re-konstruují nerovnosti, definují sociální kategorie a hranice mezi nimi.…
Topics: Social Inequalities
Organizace a zvládání pracovního a rodinného života současných rodičů
This study is the outcome of an analysis of a questionnaire survey that focused on the degree to which Czech parents develop individual and family strategies for combining work and family life, and the objective was to examine the situation and strategies of parents currently living with dependent children.…
Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting, Family
Status Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Social Contacts
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
Rodiče na trhu práce - reálné možnosti i hypotetické volby
This study is the outcome of an analysis of a questionnaire survey that focused on the degree to which Czech parents develop individual and family strategies for combining work and family life, and the objective was to examine the situation and strategies of parents currently living with dependent children.…
Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting, Family
The Symbolic Space of Professions - Subjectively Experienced Class Boundaries
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: Work, Social Inequalities, Social Policy
Pracovní a rodinné role a jejich kombinace v životě českých rodičů: plány versus realita
This study is the outcome of an analysis of a questionnaire survey that focused on the degree to which Czech parents develop individual and family strategies for combining work and family life, and the objective was to examine the situation and strategies of parents currently living with dependent children.…
Topics: Gender, Work, Family
Class Differences in Subjective Social Distance in the Czech Republic: Like-me or Prestige Effect?
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
Subjective Social Distance: Interaction Willingness and Occupational Stimuli
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
Výzkumná sonda do světa rodičovství a bezdětnosti v časopisech životního stylu pro muže
Men´s and women´s magazines use biological explanations of reproductive behavior and expect men and women to become mothers and fathers once in their life. Women´s magazines stress value of motherhood because of motherhood itself (mothering as well as becoming a mother). Men´s magazines conceptualize fatherhood as a part of living in heterosexual partnership rather than (a value of) fathering.…
Topics: Gender, Media, Parenting
Social Distance as a Relational Approach to Social Stratification: A Theoretical Introduction
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
Rodičovství a bezdětnost ve vybraných časopisech pro ženy a pro muže
This study examines whether and in what way parenthood and childlessness are reflected in the gender-specific media targeting men and women in Czech society. The study presents the results of a qualitative and a quantitative analysis of selected women’s magazines and a qualitative study of selected men’s lifestyle magazines published in the Czech Republic after 1989, that is, during a period when important changes in reproductive behaviour have been under way in the population.…
Topics: Gender, Media, Parenting
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