Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2)

Editorial

Ondřej Císař

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 239  

From the leaving editor

Marek Skovajsa

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 240-242  

The Situation of the Standardised Interview from the Perspective of Cognitive Approaches

Jiří Vinopal

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 397-420 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.2.09  

The article focuses on an analysis of the situation in which information is obtained from respondents in questionnaire surveys. From the perspective of the cognitive aspects of survey methodology the article takes a complex view of this situation and applies theoretical concepts and empirical evidence in order to explain the close connection between the interview situation and the quality of the information obtained. The interview situation is portrayed in its twofold form: personal aspects (the mental operations of respondents) and social aspects (the interaction and communication between the interviewer and the respondent). The analysis of the interactive...

Family Care for Seniors as a 'Labour of Love' - New Arguments

Hynek Jeřábek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 243-266 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.2.03  

This paper is based on a survey among 435 Czech households caring for a dependent senior in the family to inquire into the conditions and circumstances of caring for seniors in the family. The concept of 'care as a labour of love' (Graham) is contrasted with the concept of the 'defamilisation of care' (Glenn) and 'social rights for elderly care' (Fine). The author finds that more demanding family care, measured as the level of IADL or BADL, is reflected in a growing number of hours spent on family care. The author shows the significant differences in the psychological and financial burden experienced by primary caregivers in relation to how demanding...

The Social Context of Attitudes towards Various Infertility Strategies

Lenka Slepičková, Petr Fučík

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 267-290 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.2.04  

Infertility is a problem that affects around 15% of Czech couples of reproductive age. Using data from the survey 'Marriage, Work, Family' the objective of this analysis is to identify the attitudes that Czech men and women maintain towards various strategies for overcoming infertility (adoption, different forms of assisted reproduction) and the factors that infl uence and shape these attitudes. The first part of the analysis looks for the determinants behind attitudes towards adoption and assisted reproduction in the respondent's external characteristics. For example, education and religion were found to have a signifi cant influence. More educated...

Shifts in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in a Historical Perspective in the Czech Republic

Natalie Simonová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 291-314 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.2.05  

The aim of this article is to explain educational reproduction in the Czech Lands between 1906 and 2003 from the perspective of educational mobility. Mobility trends in the intergenerational transmission of educational status identified in an analysis are presented in the context of findings on odds ratios in education and in a historical context. The analysis is based on observations of the intergenerational transmission of educational status, i.e. educational mobility, in two educational transitions between three educational levels (lower secondary, upper secondary, and higher education). Mobility tables and their log-linear analysis are used to...

The Potential Unaffordability of Rental Housing after Rent Deregulation in a Regional Perspective

Martina Mikeszová, Martin Lux, Anne Morisseau

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 315-344 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2009.45.2.06  

The article deals with an analysis of regional differences in rental housing affordability following rent deregulation in the Czech Republic. The objective is to identify the types of households potentially at risk of being unable to afford housing, to map the development of potential housing (un)affordability since 2000, and to trace the development of regional differences in the percentage of at-risk households in the Czech Republic. Owing to the absence of useful aggregate data on incomes and expenditures for different household types in the regions of the Czech Republic, the authors created their own simulation methodology for measuring housing...

Essentialism and Ethnicity: The Socio-cognitive Explanation of Representing Social Groupings

Martin Kanovský

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 345-368  

The aim of this article is to explore the various ways in which people represent social groups. The author shows that a prominent role in such processes is played by psychological essentialism. People represent some of their social identities as inherent qualities that are based on the sharing of a presumed 'essence': something unobservable, diffi cult to remove, irreversible, and causally responsible for overt behaviours. Empirical evidence suggests that no particular causal process of essence acquisition is constitutive for essentialism in folk models of society. Some authors believe that folk essentialism is necessarily connected with the presumed...

Street-level Bureaucrats and Their Role in Public Policy

Pavel Horák, Markéta Horáková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 369-396  

This article puts forward the concept of street-level bureaucrats and their role in public policy in its full complexity. In the first two parts the authors define street-level bureaucrats and the roots of the basic ideologies that determine their behaviour (principles of bureaucracy, professionalism, bureau-professionalism and managerialism). They draw on previous analytical studies they conducted on this theme and present the latest empirical findings on the behavior of street-level bureaucrats who work with unemployed people. In this way they try to demonstrate the importance of principles of bureaucracy, professionalism, and bureau-professionalism...

A Last Meeting with Zdeněk Strmiska

Libor Prudký

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 421  

Curriculum vitae from July 1989

Zdeněk Strmiska

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 422  

Zdeněk Strmiska - My Teacher and Close and Distant Friend

Miloslav Petrusek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 423-425  

Zdeněk Strmiska in France

Georges Mink

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 426-427  

A Selected Bibliography of Works by Zdeněk Strmiska

Libor Prudký, Michaela Šmídová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 428-430  

Vladimír Borecký - An Attentive Wanderer through the World of Humor

Miroslav Paulíček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 431-434  

Richard Jung: Experience and Action: Selected Items in Systems Theory

Jiří Šubrt

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 435-437  

Joanna Derdowska: Praskie przemiany: Sacrum i desakralizacja przestrzeni miejskiej Pragi

Miloslav Petrusek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 438-439  

Adéla Gjuričová, Michal Kopeček (eds.): Kapitoly z dějin české demokracie po roce 1989

Daniel Kunštát

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 440-443  

Jiří Tomeš, David Festa, Josef Novotný et al.: Konflikt světů a svět konfliktů. Střety idejí a zájmů v současném světě

Karel Černý

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 444-447  

Václav Bělohradský: Společnost nevolnosti - eseje z pozdější doby

Čeněk Kras

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 448-450  

Robert Wuthnow: After the Baby Boomers. How Twenty- and Thirty-somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 451-453  

Henry Bäck, Hubert Heinelt, Annick Magnier (eds.): The European Mayor. Political Leaders in the Changing Context of Local Democracy

Dan Ryšavý

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 454-457  

Mark E. Warren, Hilary Pearse (eds.): Designing Deliberative Democracy: The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly

Pavel Nejdl

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 458-461  

Roger Ingham, Peter Aggleton (eds.): Promoting Young People's Sexual Health. International Perspectives

Markéta Žampachová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 462-466  

Konference Masarykovy české sociologické společnosti 2009

Michal Illner

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 467  

Workshop Deliberativní metody ve výzkumu místních společenství

Marek Skovajsa

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 468-469  

Berlínská konference k otevřenému přístupu k vědeckým publikacím

Radka Taucová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 470-471  

Konference o etice ve veřejné správě (Olga

Olga Vidláková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 472-473  

Conference Cyberspace 2008

Petr Soukup

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 474  

Konference a setkání Gypsy Lore Society

Marek Jakoubek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 475-477  

Zpráva z mezinárodní letní školy New Risks and New Governance in Europe

Eva Mitchell

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 478-479  

Unsichere Zeiten - 34. kongres Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie

Jiří Šafr, Julia Häuberer

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2009, 45(2): 480