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Variationen Zweiverdienermodels: Mutterewerbstatigkeit im tschechisch-deutschen Vergleich

In diesem Kapitel befassen wir uns mit den ökonomischen, politischen und kulturellen Faktoren die Berufstätigkeit der tschechischen und ostdeutschen Mütter beeinflussen. Wir konzentrieren uns an die Faktoren, die bis jetzt nur selten untersucht waren - Bedingungen zur Kombination von Arbeit und Familie innerhalb der Betriebe. Unsere Analyse hat gezeigt, dass es nötig, im Kontext der Staaten des ehemaligen Ostblocks, zwischen verschiedenen Doppeleinkommen-Modellen von der Regelung der Geschlechterbeziehunge…

Topics: Work, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Factors contributing to the decline in childcare services for children under the age of three in the Czech Republic

The author studies changes in availability and use of daycare services in Czech society in context of changes in female laborforce participation, gender relations, family policy and public debates on childcare, population decline and economic prosperity.The author claims that the current decline in daycare services is influenced not only by current socioeconomic trends but is truly embedded in the history of daycare services in the region.…

Topics: Family, Social Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Variations of the dual earner model: a comparison of the Czech Republic and Germany

We examine factors that have impact on mothers´ employment and childcare practices in Czech and East German societies. We argue that two different versions of the dual earner model developed in the former Czechoslovakia and East Germany, andthat they affect work-life balance patterns in the two societies even today.…

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Na čí "účet" se v naší společnosti odehrává reprodukce?

Authors analyze division of unpaid work and care in dual-parent and mono-parent families with dependent children, and asses the impact of the unequal gender division of work and care on parents and their children. …

Topics: Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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The Institutional Roots of Post-Communist Family Policy: Comparing the Czech and Slovak Republics

This chapter takes a feminist-institutionalist approach to understanding post-communist family policy. It argues that in order to look at family policies from a feminist perspective, it is necessary to investigate how institutional arrangements influence policies that in turn structure gender relations.…

Topics: Gender, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Female Employment, Population Policy, and Childcare: Early Childhood Education in Post-1945 Czech Society

The author argues that there were four critical junctures that institutionalized a specific path of childcare in the Czech Republic. This policy path established the norm that mothers stay at home with children for 3 years and it also led to one of the highest percentages of 4-to 5-year-old children in public care in Europe.…

Topics: Gender, Care, Education

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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The Role of Work in Fertility Plans of Childless Men and Women in Their Thirties

To what extent and in what ways does work influence fertility plans? The issue of job instability influences mainly men, the issue of combining work and care pertains mainly women. The chapter explains the low involvement in parenthood of men with low education, the highest childlessness among university educated women, and later entry into parenthood among couples in whichthe man’s education is lower. It explains differentiation in women’s childlessness according to the type …

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Decisions on Re-Entering the Labour Market after the Parental Leave

Drawing on 48 biographic narratives, I examine the decisions post-1989 Czech mothers made about when and how to combine caring for children with making a living. Following identification of mothers’ motivations to return to work and to provide full-time maternal care, the analysis reveals the negative impact of post-1989 family policy. The extension of the economic inactivity of mothers conceals a situation in which they increasingly more than before perform a series of short-term odd jobs.…

Topics: Care, Work, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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The framing of care claims by Czech women´s groups in a post-socialist context

Authors employ frame analysis to explain how feminist organizations, gender-conservative women’s orgs., migrant-oriented orgs. and Roma women’s groups in the Czech Republic frame their care claims. They identify five interpretative frames (gender equality frame, frame of the moral value of the family and the dignity of motherhood, work-centred frame, redistribution frame, and integration frame) and identify possibilities/barriers of cooperation/implementation of their claims.…

Topics: Gender, Care

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

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Adaptace a integrace českých emigrantů do západních společností ve vztahu k jejich pozdější reemigraci

Adaptace a integrace českých emigrantů do západních společností ve vztahu k jejich pozdější reemigraci

The paper covers some findings of qualitative sociological research made by the author, which has aimed to analyse of Czech re/emigration processes in the 20th Century. It shows the most important individual and social facts that had certain influenced on re/emigration behaviour of the subjects.…

Topics: Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Úvodem k socioekonomickému studiu transformace a vstupu České republiky do Evropské unie

Úvodem k socioekonomickému studiu transformace a vstupu České republiky do Evropské unie

Analysis of the socio-economic values, mainly with respect to work, time, collective entities and governance, in the contemporary Czech society and their comparison with Western Europe. The authors maintains strong historic and socio-cultural embeddedness of these categories.…

Topics: Economy, European Union, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Jan Šrámek a česká katolická sociologie

The paper analyses sociological work of the czech politician Jan Sramek. It contextualises this work with the development of Czech sociology of religion and religious sociology before 1948…

Topics: History of Sociology, Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Dynamika silných sociálních vazeb na příkladu českých reemigrantů ze Západu v 90. letech 20. století

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Srdce věřícího a srdce Páně ve východočeském tolerančním sektářství

Srdce věřícího a srdce Páně ve východočeském tolerančním sektářství

The author discusses the presence of an important theological issue of the 18th and 19th centuries in heterodox popular religious movement on the borders between Bohemia and Moravia. Mutually, he pays attention to the religious kmovements itself and the contemporary state of its research.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Antropologie a migrační studia z perspektivy výzkumu hodnot

Antropologie a migrační studia z perspektivy výzkumu hodnot

In the paper is presented the development of migration studies with special focus on the interests of social antropology. There are also summerised applications of these theories in Czech academic space. Further on the author presents possible goals and priorities of Czech migration studies for the close future.…

Topics: Value Orientations, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Kategorie ekonomické kultury: čeští a západní podnikatelé v ČR na počátku 21. století

Kategorie ekonomické kultury: čeští a západní podnikatelé v ČR na počátku 21. století

Analysis of the socio-economic values, mainly with respect to work, time, collective entities and governance, in the contemporary Czech society and their comparison with Western Europe. The authors maintains strong historic and socio-cultural embeddedness of these categories.…

Topics: Economy, Work, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Tak zvaný český ateismus a jeho sociální a eklesiální dopady

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Religiozita, ne-religiozita a antireligiozita v moderních společnostech: česká anomálie

Religiozita, ne-religiozita a antireligiozita v moderních společnostech: česká anomálie

A comment to Jose Casanova´s paper on defferent kinds and forms of secularization from the perspektive of development of Czech society.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Mezi náboženstvím a ateismem: skrytá religiozita současné české společnosti

Mezi náboženstvím a ateismem: skrytá religiozita současné české společnosti

Paper provides comparative analysis of contemporary Czech religiosity with respekt to the late modern religious processes in Western Europe existence of an implicit religion and functional equivalents of religion is also taken into account.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Between Religion and Atheism: Hidden Religiosity of the Contemporary Czech Society

Between Religion and Atheism: Hidden Religiosity of the Contemporary Czech Society

Paper provides comparative analysis of contemporary Czech religiosity with respekt to the late modern religious processes in Western Europe existence of an implicit religion and functional equivalents of religion is also taken into account.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

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Ztráta bydlení a možnost reintegrace

The paper focuses on homelessness in the Czech Republic. The aim of the paper is to describe the causes of housing exclusion as well as the factors of successful social reintegration and re-housing.…

Topics: Housing, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Měl by stát intervenovat či nikoliv?

Topics: Housing, Public Policy

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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New social housing strategies in post-socialist states: effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability

New social housing strategies in post-socialist states: effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability

The chapter compares the different strategies in social housing in 12 post-socialist transition states, evaluates their overall efficiency and effectiveness, and list the main factors behind the success of different strategies. Read more...…

Topics: Housing, Social Policy, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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The Czech Republic: locked beetween municipal and social housing

The Czech Republic: locked beetween municipal and social housing

The chapter describes and evaluates the history and recent state-of-art of social housing in the Czech Republic.…

Topics: Housing, Social Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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