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Proměny rodinných a profesních startů

This book examines the changes in the early stages in work and family trajectories in recent decades in the Czech Republic. The individual chapters focus on changes to job mobility among, the increased diversity of family trajectories, the motives for parenthood in consensual unions, and the financial support for young families. The book compares the situation of transition into adulthood in the Czech Republic to other European countries and contributes to the discussion on the de-standardisation life courses.…

Topics: Gender, Value Orientations, Migration and Mobility, Work, Parenting, Family

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Postoje k dopadům imigrace na společnost a sebereflexe tolerantnosti

The chapter is discussing attitudes of Czech population towards immigration in terms of its negative and positive impact on the society to what extent Czechs associate this phenomenon with a problem for their country and also how they perceive themselves in terms of being tolerant toward foreigners.…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Flexibilita práce, marginalizace a soukromý život: nová rizika a šance

The chapter is resuming the findings of ten qualitative studies of specific occupations and social groups. It concentrates mainly on two phenomenons that characterise contemporary labour markets: the increasing flexibility of work conditions and labour markets, and the marginalisation of specific groups on the labour market. On the studied cases it shows their forms and prevalence in the Czech Republic. …

Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Postoje k multikulturalismu a kulturní přizpůsobení cizinců

The article deals with attitudes of respondents towards multicultural co-existence and cultural adaptation of immigrants – primarily in the Czech Republic but comparison with other European coutries is included as well.…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Trh práce a plodnost: bezdětní třicátníci a třicátnice na trhu práce

Qualitative survey showed several ways, in which labor market influences decisions on transition to parenthood in current Czech society. Those ways are gender specific. Preferences and decision-making on transition to parenthood of 30-40 year-old men and women are embedded in internalized values as well as external structural barriers and opportunities. …

Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Postoje k národnostem a etnikům

The chapter contains description and interpretation of sociological surveys on attitudes towards individual national and ethnic groups.…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Rodičovství a práce v životě migrujících žen

The chapter is based on a qualitative study of Ukraine immigrants – mothers living in the CR. It analyses the barriers that these women encounter on the labour market in the Czech Republic and the ways they realise their motherhood. …

Topics: Gender, Migration and Mobility, Work, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Postoje k cizincům na trhu práce

Chapter deals with the attitudes toward foreigners in the czech labor market. Based on many conducted surveys are then presented views on various aspects of the employment of foreigners in our country. Comparison of these basic attitudes and their evolution are also presented in this chapter.…

Topics: Migration and Mobility, Work

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Matky samoživitelky na trhu práce

The chapter is based on a qualitative study of lone working mothers and on quantitative data from representative survey Changes 2005. It analyses the barriers that lone mothers encounter on the labour market in the Czech Republic.…

Topics: Gender, Wages and Incomes, Work, Parenting

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Postoje k cizincům - získávání dat a jejich intepretace

The chapter deals with methods for getting and interpreting data relevant for measuring attitudes toward foregners.…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Migration and Mobility, Sociological Data

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Flexibilita místa a času: nový design profese "pojišťováka" po roce 1989

The chapter deals with the given profession which is characterized by forced high spatial and temporal flexibilities of working within the meaning of the combination of work from home and visits clients in asocial time. …

Topics: Work, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

V kostce o migraci v ČR

The introductory chapter is dedicated to immigration and its current trends in the Czech Republic. The author comments on the official statistics showing the growing number of immigrants since 1989, discuses the age structure of registered foreigners and their role and status on the Czech labor market and also interprets some findings from previous researches dedicated to attitudes toward foreigners and minorities…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Manažeři: vlajkonoši individualizace?

The chapter is based on a qualitative study of men in managerial positions and on quantitative data from representative survey Changes 2005. Instead of being a typical exemple of individualised living modus as we ecpected, men managers represent a position in-between the feudal and the modern worls. In order to be able to perform their occupation they need a person who will offfer them the full home service and will minimalise her participation in the public sphere.…

Topics: Gender, Work

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Práce z domova: výhoda, ale pro koho?

The chapter is based on a qualitative study of professionals working from home using new technologies of communication. It reveals the positives and the negatives that this type of work brings for different people depending on their gender and family situation. …

Topics: Gender, Work, Family

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Nová rizika pracovního trhu: flexibilita a marginalizace

The chapter is dealing with two phenomenons that characterise contemporary labour markets: the increasing flexibility of work conditions and labour markets, and the marginalisation of specific groups on the labour market. It analyses theoreticaly those phenomenons and reflects its prevalence in the Czech Republic. …

Topics: Work, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Postoje k imigrantům

This study examines attitudes towards migrants. The authors focus on the attitudes in Czech society, but they also use data from international surveys in order to situate the attitudes of respondents from the Czech Republic in a wider context. The theme of the relationship between the ‘domestic population’ and foreigners is very current today. The inter-year increase in the size of the foreign population in the Czech Republic is one of the largest in Europe. The Czech Republic is attractive to foreign…

Topics: Interpersonal Relations, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Nové šance a rizika. Flexibilita práce, marginalizace a soukromý život u vybraných povolání a sociálních skupin

The book presents the findings of ten qualitative studies of specific occupations and social groups. It concentrates mainly on two phenomena that characterise contemporary labour markets: the increasing flexibility of work conditions and labour markets, and the marginalisation of specific groups on the labour market. On the studied cases it shows their forms and prevalence in the Czech Republic.…

Topics: Gender, Work, Parenting

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Závěr: Co rozhodlo volby do Poslanecké sněmovny v roce 2006 a co jsme se dozvěděli o volebním chování v ČR?

The text summarizes the reasons behind voter turnout and vote choice in 2006 Chamber of Deputies election. It illustrates similarity of abstainers and undecided voters whose role in elections increases. It also compares different models of vote choice and shows that the strongest explanation is provided by party identification, issue voting and leadership effects. The effect of class on voting is negligible.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Tematické hlasování, vliv lídrů a stranictví ve volbách

Text analyses factors which influenced the party choice in the 2006 Chamber of Deputies elections. The authors found out that for Czech voters the left-right ideological orientation is very important. Voters choose parties according to their position on various issues. This relationship between party choice and attitudes is strong mainly for those issues which load the left-right orientation. Party sympathy and leadership effects were even more stronger for party choice than issue voting.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Czech society in the 2000s: a report on socio-economic policies and structures

Social report which informs about the development during the two decades in the fields of employment and social policies, earnings and income inequalities, social structures with attention to the situation of the middle class, pensioners and the poor, and socio-economic values with regard to work and consumer values. The aim is to provide a documented picture of Czech society using statistical and sociological surveys and other sources, seeking also systemic changes behind quantitative shifts. …

Topics: Economy, Wages and Incomes, Work, Social Inequalities, Social Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Povaha a zdroje stranické identifikace

Text analyzes sources and nature of one of the best predictors of party choice: tha party identification. Firstly, the level and intensity of party identification is analyzed for each party the most identified voters are found among those of KSČM, KDU-ČSL and ODS. Secondly, the authors showed the sources of those identities whithin the family. Those who live together in the marriage or partnership have higher level of party identification and agree on party choice.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Nerozhodnutí voliči a volební kampaň

In this chapter, the authors are identifying key variables, which influence time-of-voting decision and the susceptibility for campaign effects. Using Czech Election Study 2006 data the authors analyze the role of late deciders in the campaign. This study exercises the differences between long time decided voters and late deciding voters from the perspective of their socio-demographic characteristics, attitudes and party choice as well. …

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Vliv volební účasti na zisky politických stran

Text analyses the effect of turnout on the party support of different parties in the Czech Republic. After introduction of the main theories and research strategies of partisan effects of turnout hypotheses concerning this issue are tested. The results show that higher turnout is advantageous for the parties whose voters lack strong party identification (ČSSD and the Green Party). On the other hand, it brings lower gains to parties with disciplined electorate (ODS, KDU-ČSL and partly also for KSČM).…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Zdroje a motivace volební účasti

Text analyses reasons of abstaintion in 2006 election to the Chamber of Deputies. The main source of abstaintion lies in the feeling that people have no say in the political process. The abstaintion is mainly voluntary and is of long-term nature. Electoral participation is connected also with disposition of sources like time, knowledge, education or finance.…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Životní dráhy, strategie, názory a postoje příslušníků současné ekonomické elity

The first part of the study looks at various theoretical approaches encompassed with the concept of elites in sociology and at various techniques used to study elites. The second part presents a factual analysis of the development of political and economic elites over the past fifteen years of post-socialist transformation in Czech society, and the third part focuses on the everyday features of contemporary economic elites.…

Topics: Economy, Elites, Transformation, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

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