The encyclopaedia entry reviews the available literature on public opinion and social movements. It discusses how social movements affect public opinion relying on processes of consensus mobilization and framing and how supportive public opinion interacts with the movement activities in achieving their political goals.
Topic: civil society, politics (and political attitudes)
Topic: religion and religiosity
The central empirical puzzle addressed in this book is why are Czech citizens’ attitudes towards key facets of democracy so similar under socialist democracy in 1968 and liberal democracy in 2008? Examining unique survey datasets from the late 1960s and 2008 this book reveals that Czech and Slovak citizens’ political attitudes can justifiably be characterised in terms of stability.
Topic: politics (and political attitudes)
Topic: EU, politics (and political attitudes)
Topic: civil society, lifestyle
Recenze se věnuje knize Becoming an Academic: International Perspective editorek Lynne McAlpine a Gerlese Åkerlind (2010), jež vyšla v nakladatelství Palgrave Macmillan v rámci jeho edice Universities into the 21st Century. Kniha je určena lidem na začátku akademické dráhy i těm, kteří se věnují vedení začínajících vědců – školitelům, mentorům, kariérním poradcům a osobám na rozhodovacích pozicích. Recenze zdůrazňuje informace využitelné v českém kontextu.
Topic: gender, work, education
Voters and the 2010 Elections book presents descriptions, analyses, and interpretations of voter behaviour in the Czech general election of 2010, when serious fractures emerged in the long-term stability of the Czech party system (at least in the post-socialist context).
Topic: value orientations, politics (and political attitudes), elections (and polls)
The study describes and classifies particular migration movements to and from the Czech Lands in the 19th and 20th centuries. The author summarizes and analyzes the existing literature.
Topic: migration and mobility
Since the beginning of Communicative Language Teaching we have taken for granted that teaching listening comprehension should be an integral part of every general English course and that a listening session in the classroom should consist of three stages: 1. pre-listening, 2. whilelistening and 3. post-listening. However, how often do we teach listening specifically?
Topic: sociological data, education
Topic: care, social policy
Topic: care, social policy
Topic: gender
The review analyses a collective monograph on Axel Honneth, one of the leading author of the third generation of the critical theory of society.
Topic: civil society, social inequalities, sociological data
The author approaches the issue of intercultural dialog from the feminist perspective. First, drawing on critical feminist theorists she outlines the critique of mainstream Western feminist approaches and the ways, in which they partake on simplistic ideological perception of non-western cultures, mainly by looking past the connection between global inequalities generated by neoliberal globalization and gender inequalities.
Topic: gender, globalisation, sociology of law
The paper focuses on gender inequalities in participation in the housework and child care in the CR. It looks into how these inequalities has been changing since the mid 90´s and inquires what factors are currently affecting the time that men and women spend with these activities. The chapter is based on survey "Life-course 2010" which was conducted at the turn of years 2010 and 2011 by Gender & Sociology dept. , Institute of Sociology AS CR, vvi.
Topic: gender, work
This paper contributes to the debate on the relative impact of institutions or cultural values by analyzing parental attitudes to childcare, i.e. by focusing on the micro level of decisions in families instead of the macro level of political decisions andmeasures regarding childcare. Paper is based on analysis of 40 semi-structured interviews done in Prague and Bratislava withparents having a child in the first class of elementary school.
Topic: care, parenting
The aim of this chapter is to show how students react to sexual harassment initiated by professors and what strategies they use to cope with the situation given that the issue of sexual harassment is marginalized and universities have no anti-harassmentpolicies in place. Students are forced to cope with harassment on their own. Strategies they adopt can be divided into tree types: participatory, passive tolerance and active resistance.
Topic: gender, sexuality, education
In the countries of the former Eastern bloc (and the USSR), abortion politics followed a different historical path than in Western Europe. In Czechoslovakia, abortion was made legal relatively early on, almost as soon as the social and political turmoil that followed World War II and the communist coup in 1948 had settled. Unlike in Western Europe, however, it was not legalized in response to pressure from civil society or the feminist movement.
Topic: gender, sexuality, public policy
V předkládané publikaci autorský tým projektu Rekonstituování demokracie v Evropě nabízí pohled na proměny české veřejné sféry a české politiky v kontextu přípravy Smlouvy o Ústavě pro Evropu, ratifikace Lisabonské smlouvy a následných voleb do Evropského parlamentu (2009). Období přípravy a ratifikace Lisabonské smlouvy (2004–2009) je velmi podnětné, protože představovalo v České republice klíčový posun hlavního proudu českého politického diskurzu v otázkách Evropské unie.
Topic: EU, politics (and political attitudes), public policy
The paper focuses on the differences between marriage and unmarried cohabitations in the terms of their stability. We study the impact of various factors on the stability of marriages and unmarried cohabitations taking into account the different socio-demographic indicators. The paper is based on the quantitative data from the research "Life-course 2010" that included 4010 respondents. We approached to the analysis via event history method.
Topic: gender, human relations, family
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