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Obsahová analýza rozvojových dokumentů pro území ČR v období od roku 2000 do 2013
The objective of this study is to describe the basic discourse of cooperation, participation, and partnership in terms of how it is defined in the process of democratic administration in the Czech Republic and its regions. This basic discourse is determined from a legislative perspective by the laws in effect within the country, but it is also shaped by the results of current research in the Czech social sciences and studies in public administration, and even by the media.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Public Administration
Pečující otcové a vzorce genderového uspořádání v rodině
The study therefore aims to answer the question of whether in families where the father is involved in caring for children in the early stage of their lives there is an erosion of gender inequalities in the family, or whether what occurs is just a modification of the given status quo. The study also looks at the question of at what point gender equality is (or can be) established in the family and what is the connection between gender equality in the family and gender inequality in the society at large. The st…
Topics: Gender, Care, Family
Participace ve volebních záměrech politických stran a v prohlášení vlády
The electoral programmes of the political parties and the Government declaration from 2006 were subjected to content analysis. The aim was to find the selected key words in the documents as cooperation, trust, cohesion etc. that point to a respect to the principles of democratic governance and citizens’ participation. The frequencies of the key words found in the documents are small and their context not convincing.…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research
Participace mužů na domácích pracích a péči o děti na základě kvantitativních výzkumů
The study therefore aims to answer the question of whether in families where the father is involved in caring for children in the early stage of their lives there is an erosion of gender inequalities in the family, or whether what occurs is just a modification of the given status quo. The study also looks at the question of at what point gender equality is (or can be) established in the family and what is the connection between gender equality in the family and gender inequality in the society at large. The st…
Topics: Care, Work, Parenting, Family
Pojmy partnerství a participace v tištěných médiích
This paper try to show how often and in what context the terms "partnership" and "participation" occurred in selected Czech printed mass media. Context in which the terms social capital and social cohesion occurred in selected Czech printed mass media is also briefly discussed.…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Media, Interpersonal Relations, Social Capital
Participace a partnerství na lokální úrovni v českém sociálním výzkumu
The chapter summarizes the results of contemporary social research on the processes of participation and partnership at local level in the Czech republic. The papers are classified according to their theoretical focus and the empirical field of interest.…
Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Public Administration
Teoreticko-metodologický úvod: gender, rodina a jejich zkoumání
The study therefore aims to answer the question of whether in families where the father is involved in caring for children in the early stage of their lives there is an erosion of gender inequalities in the family, or whether what occurs is just a modification of the given status quo. The study also looks at the question of at what point gender equality is (or can be) established in the family and what is the connection between gender equality in the family and gender inequality in the society at large. The st…
Topics: Gender, Care, Parenting, Family
Institucionalizované formy spolupráce, partnerství a participace v místní veřejné správě a jejich právní regulace
The chapter maps the main forms of legal regulation of cooperation between municipalities, of their partnership with private subjects and of participation of citizens in local government that are currently available in Czech law.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Administration
Trvalá nebo dočasná změna? Uspořádání genderových rolí v rodinách s pečujícími otci
The study therefore aims to answer the question of whether in families where the father is involved in caring for children in the early stage of their lives there is an erosion of gender inequalities in the family, or whether what occurs is just a modification of the given status quo. The study also looks at the question of at what point gender equality is (or can be) established in the family and what is the connection between gender equality in the family and gender inequality in the society at large. The st…
Topics: Gender, Care, Work, Parenting
Postoje české vysokoškolsky vzdělané populace k pozici žen na trhu práce
The article brings an overview of theoretical approaches to gender differences on the labor market and their critics. Based on data from a representative research of university graduates we explore their interpretation of the lower position of women on the labor market. Results indicate that it´s possible to use theories that highlight biases concerning female and male labor force as a source of discrimination, as a basis for the research of the lower position of women on the Czech labor market.The article br…
Topics: Gender, Work
Participace a partnerství v místní veřejné správě
The objective of this study is to describe the basic discourse of cooperation, participation, and partnership in terms of how it is defined in the process of democratic administration in the Czech Republic and its regions. This basic discourse is determined from a legislative perspective by the laws in effect within the country, but it is also shaped by the results of current research in the Czech social sciences and studies in public administration, and even by the media.…
Topics: Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Public Administration
Srovnání podmínek rodičovství v podnicích ve čtyřech evropských zemích (závěry)
The chapter raises parallels between the countries in the study and the dynamics of organisational processes in those countries – CR, Germany, France and Sweden. The substantial differences between the employee policy of companies in their home countries and in the Czech branches derive partly from the differences in the family and employment policies in different countries, the gender structure of related institutions at various levels in different countries and within the field the enterprise operates in, …
Topics: Care, Work, Parenting, Family
Late Communist Rule at the District Level
Sborník sestává z příspěvků přednesených na semináři Hierarchie jako síla i slabina komunistického vládnutí, který se konal ve dnech 11.-12. září 2003 na Fakultě sociálních věd UK. Celkovým záměrem semináře bylo pokud možno nezkresleně a bez předsudků ukázat a interpretovat procedury komunistického ovládání společnosti na konci osmdesátých let. Přednesené příspěvky resp. ve sborníku shromážděné texty lze rozdělit do třech tematických skupin. První skupinu t…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Public Administration
Není organizace jako organizace: skandinávská firma v domovské zemi a v českém prostředí
Chapter deals with the question of a combination of work and family on example ot the Scandinavian companies operating in the Czech Republic. The author explores the culture in the organisation, measures and benefits for parents, captures the various cases of parents working in the Czech branch of the company. At the end of chapters the author concludes that in the Czech company, there is little tolerance for other work organisation, which is conditional on the existence of the family, by co-workes rather than…
Topics: Care, Work, Parenting, Family
Hierarchy as the Strength and Weakness of Communist Rule. The Legacy of Communist Rule IV: A Volume of Papers from the Seminar Held in Prague on September 11-12, 2003
This volume is comprised of the papers that were presented at the seminar “Hierarchy as a Strength and Weakness of Communist Rule”, which was held on 11-12 September 2003 at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague. The general purpose of the seminar was to reveal and interpret, in so far as possible without misrepresentation or bias, the procedures on which communist rule of society was based at the end of the 1980s.…
Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Administration
Vstřícnost v rámci obchodních cílů? Srovnání podmínek práce a rodičovství v české pobočce a v centrále francouzského podniku
The text is a comparative study of conditions of employees who are parents of small children, in Czech branch and in the headquarters of a French company. The company is a very demanding employer. The principal advantage offered and used in France and in the Czech Republic is the flexible working hours. In France, parents can moreover benefit from many partial advantages given by the union contract, on the other hand they are expected to spend long hours at their workplace, exceeding their official working hou…
Topics: Care, Work, Parenting, Family
Childbirth Definition and Childbirth Experience
The article is dedicated to changes that have occurred in Czech obstetrics over the past decade. Although the text is dedicated especially to topical, social and medical changes in Czech obstetrics, the fact that permanent medical as well as social changes in childbirth practice depend on medical knowledge, fashion, ethics, and other circumstances pervades the text …
Topics: Care, Public health, Lifestyle
"To nejde, to není nikde ve světě!" Srovnání podmínek rodičovství v rámci jednoho podniku v Česku a Německu
The text is based on one of three work-life balance case studies made by SOÚ AV ČR, v.v in the years 2006-2007. In the research were, on the level of parents-employees (fathers and mothers), company (human resources) and unions representatives, conditions for combining of work and family life analyzed. The study was made in one engineering holding that has both in Czech Republic and Germany an important manufacturing plant with prevailing band production. The analysis shows important national differences in…
Topics: Care, Work, Parenting, Family
Teoretická východiska výzkumu podmínek rodičovství v podnikovém prostředí a podniková praxe v Čechách
The Chapter presents a theoretical introduction to the sociology of organisations through the lens of the sociology of gender, and shows how the under-developed research on gender processes at the company level is linked to the survival of organisational structures that emerged alongside modernisation and is based on a rationalised principle of patriarchy. Contemporary organisations and companies have only slowly and reluctantly begun to face the fact that their employees – both men and women – have privat…
Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting
Only a Dead Fish Flows with the Stream: Subversive Voices, NGOization and Czech Women’s Organizing
Authors focus on Czech women’s organizing in recent years within context of increasing pressure on organizations to professionalize and become project-and reform-oriented. They discuss reasons for and consequences of changes in funding and orientation that have accompanied European enlargement. Then, they turn to a closer look at the interplay between increasingly professionalized women’s NGOs and explicitly anti-institutional groups of anarchofeminists.…
Topics: Gender
Podmínky rodičovství v podnikovém prostředí v mezinárodním srovnání
This study looks at the problem of work-life balance at the employee level and at the mechanisms for negotiating policies for working parents directly at the workplace. The research was based on three case studies of engineering companies, comparing the parent companies in Germany, France, and Sweden with their branches in the Czech Republic.…
Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting, Family
Czech Women´s Civic Organising under the State Socialist regime, Socio-economic Transformation and the EU Accession Period
Author describes Czech women’s civic organizing focused on gender equality and women’s rights since the WWII and explains its development in context of state socialist regime, foreign donors´ impact on the organizing during the socio-economic and political transformation of the first part of the 1990s, and current process of formalization of Czech women’s civic groups that has been brought by the period of Czech Republic’s preparation for the EU accession.…
Topics: Gender, Sociology of Law
Závěr
This chapter concludes the findings about the political impact of suburbanisation in the localities in focus and answers the research questions from the introduction: whether the suburbanisation lead to the emrgence of new themes or actors into local politics and if the partisan affiliation is strenghtened or not.…
Topics: City and Village, Civil Society, Public Policy
Představení studovaných lokalit: Brno-Jehnice
This chapter examines the political impact of suburbanisation in the district of Brno-Jehnice. The study discusses the demographic changes, political behaviour and civic participation, especially the participation of people who have newly moved into the neighbourhood.…
Topics: City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Public Policy
Představení studovaných lokalit: Praha-Kolovraty
This chapter examines the political impact of suburbanisation in the district of Praha-Kolovraty. The study discusses the demographic changes, political behaviour and civic participation, especially the participation of people who have newly moved into the neighbourhood.…
Topics: City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Public Policy
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