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The parliamentary election in the Czech Republic, May 2010

In May, 2010, the Czech Republic held parliamentary elections. The two parties that partnered with the ODS after the 2006 elections in minority government, the KDU-ČSL and the Green Party, are now absent from parliament. Two new parties, TOP 09 and Public Affairs, sprung onto the scene with over 10% votes each. The two pillars of the party system, the ODS and the CSSD, lost substantial support in the election. The new majority government is comprised of the ODS, TOP 09 and Public Affairs.…

Topics: Public Policy, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Values and Politics

Patterns of family life courses in Europe – between standardization and diversity. A cross-national comparison of family trajectories and life course norms in European countries

Based on data from the ESS, round 3 we investigate 1) to what degree there still exist standardized patterns in the timing and sequencing of family transitions, 2) the relationship between family patterns and socially established norms. Our results confirm that the degree of destandardization varies across Europe. The most obvious tensions between rather traditional family patterns and liberalised norms were identified in Southern Europe.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Family

Publication Type: Working Paper

Department: Values and Politics

Hans-Jürgen Andreß and Dina Hummelsheim: When Marriage Ends: Economic and Social Consequences of Partnership Dissolution

The book under review focuses on the situation after partnership dissolution in terms of 1. change in disposable income, 2. female labour market participation, 3. residential mobility, and 4. living conditions. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic consequences of divorce and its gender differences across European countries. Methodologically, it combines case studies with comparative micro-macro analyses using individual and institutional context data.…

Topics: Family, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Published review

Department: Values and Politics

How does Society Change? Exploring Social Change through the Tracing of Life Course Trajectories

Topics: Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

Je manželství přežitkem? Změny postojů k manželství a nesezdanému soužití v České republice

This paper focuses on attitudes towards marriage and unmarried cohabitation and the diffusion of unmarried cohabitations and unmarried cohabitations with child in the Czech Republic. In the second part, based on qualitative study shows the diversity of attitudes of unmarried parental couples and reasons of their potential postponement or considering of entry to marriage.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Interpersonal Relations, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Values and Politics

Návrat do zaměstnání po rodičovské dovolené: rozdíly podle rodinného uspořádání?

The paper explores the timing of the return from parental leave to the labour market according the family situation of mothers and the reasons of their decision to return to an employment or stay at home. The paper is based on analyses data from social survey Social and economic conditions of motherhood from 2006 and on the analysis of model families which explores impacts of social system on economic activity of mothers with young children.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Základní charakteristika prožensky orientovaných neziskových organizací v České republice

The article describes character of activities and thematic areas of Czech non-profit organizations that focus on promoting gender equality and women’s rights in 1990s. Beside the women’s organizations the attention is paid to identify the other projects aimed at supporting women or gender equality, but addressed by non-profit organizations whose main object of activity is broader. The shifts in topics and activities of Czech women’s organizations are identified in process of EU accession and particularly…

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Nejdříve dítě, potom svatba? Rodinné dráhy neprovdaných matek

Using SEPM 2006 data this paper explores factors influencing a probability that unmarried mothers will marry after childbirth. The findings show that for the third of them unmarried parenthood is rather a new phase of family life-course leading to marriage than long term family arrangement. The higher probability to experience transition to marriage have unmarried mothers living in unmarried cohabitation, with higher education and who postponed marriage due a pregnancy.…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

Vstup do dospělosti – co znamená být dospělý podle Evropského sociálního výzkumu 2006

Topics: Work, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

Typy rodinných drah mladých

Topics: Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

Důvody svobodného mateřství

Topics: Value Orientations, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

Jaké jsou postoje české společnosti k rodičovství mimo manželství?

Topics: Value Orientations, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

Ověření indikátorů užívaných ve výzkumech názorů na kriminalitu

The target of methodological research, specialized on victimization, was to analyze and improve the qustionnaire used in quantitative research in order to increase the quality of interviewing. Main topics were: how respondents understand the term 'our society', way, in which respondents answer sensitive and delicate questions on vicrimization, which form of interviewing they prefer and problem of identity of respondent's awareness and real extent of fear, connected with some type of danger. …

Topics: Criminality, Research Methodology

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Pierre Bourdieu: Sociologist of Dominnace and of the Dominated

Pierre Bourdieu, the living legend of French sociological theory, died. His "grand theory" strives to answer almost all the key sociological questions of the 20 century: the question of power and dominance, social reproduction, symbolic violence, cultural practices, social classes and their strategies. He was also one of the sociologist actively involved in the reality he was analysing and helped the oppressed that is why we can call him "the sociologist of dominance and of the dominated.…

Topics: History of Sociology, Elites, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Doktorský výzkumný kurs Gender Equality and Men’s Practices in European - Welfare Regimes, Jurmala, Lotyšsko

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Individuum a rodina: teorie soukromého života podle Francoise de Singlyho

The article deals with the theory of French sociologist of family F. de Singly and explains his conception of private life. …

Topics: Family

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Rozporuplné diskursy otcovství

Fatherhood has experienced many transformations in the past years, as well as the institution of family and relationships between partners, parents and children. The social science discourse reflects those changes, but quite often through a prism of values and ideologies, and only rarely is gender neutral. This article presents today’s discourses of fatherhood, their paradoxes and one way streets in which they sometimes end. …

Topics: Gender, Parenting

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Partnerský život a slaďování práce a rodiny v páru u žen a mužů v manažerských pozicích

The article presents partial results of a qualitative study realized in 2006 between Czech men and women managers. The purpose of the study was to compare the situation and conditions of men and women in managerial work. It shows that the main source of inequalities is the need of conciliation of managerial work and household and family duties. The division of non-paid labor in the families of our respondents is very gender unequal. Those differences represent a handicap for women and hinder the carriers of wo…

Topics: Gender, Work, Family

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Otcové „mimo manželství"

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Parenting

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

Nárůst mimomanželské plodnosti = nárůst nesezdaných soužití?

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Parenting

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

Old Obligations in the Modern World: The Father as Provider before and after Divorce

The article draws on empirical qualitative research to identify the various ways in which separated or divorced fathers in theCzech Republic relate to the norm of father-provider. It offers an analysis of the plurality of men’s approaches to the traditional provider norm of fatherhood, and the changes that occur in their attitudes and approaches as a result of divorce.…

Topics: Gender, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Analýza voleb do Evropského parlamentu 2004 v ČR. Platí stále teorie voleb druhého řádu?

Topics: European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Values and Politics

What’s your Preference Madame? Home, Work, or Home-Work

Topics: Gender, Work, Family, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

Is Your Life Best Explained by One or Many Events? The Sociological Analysis of Family Trajectories

Topics: Research Methodology, Family

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Values and Politics

Práce jako řešení? Strategie obživy osamělých matek v ČR

Mothers as heads of one-parent families become very often the only breadwinners for their families, while still being the primary carers for their children. This leads to the worsening of the economical situation of their families. The results of my research presented in this article show further the barriers that women encounter while trying to provide for their families and the values that intervene in their work life choices. …

Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

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