Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3)

Editorial

Marek Skovajsa

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 346-348  

Private Rental Housing in the Czech Republic: Growth and…?

Martin Lux, Petr Sunega

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 349-374 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.3.02  

The goal of this article is to describe the development of private rental housing after 1990 in the Czech Republic and especially to demonstrate the significance of state regulations on people's expectations, social norms, and thus the form of housing systems emerging in transition countries. The argument of this article is that state interventions affecting property restitution, the protection of tenants, rent regulation, and the relative subsidisation of individual housing tenures are crucial factors infl uencing the perception and significance of private renting in the Czech Republic. At the beginning of the transition there was a universe of options:...

Party System Nationalisation and Non-uniform Vote Switching. Evidence from the Czech Republic

Pat Lyons, Lukáš Linek

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 375-400 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.3.03  

National rather than regional party systems are the norm in most democratic states. This has been interpreted as meaning that most voters view inter-party competition in the same way. With a high level of party system nationalisation the relative proportion of electoral support attracted by parties across all constituencies tends to be very similar although the absolute level of party support changes across elections. Sociological and institutional explanations have been used to account for party system nationalisation. Both of these explanations have generally made causal inferences using aggregate data. The link between party system nationalisation...

Self-confidence and Earning Inequalities: A Test on Hungarian Data

Tamás Keller

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 401-426 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.3.04  

It is easy to see that highly fatalistic, inefficient persons believe that their actions have little outcome. Because greater fatalism lowers an employee's effort level, it may result in lower wages, while the anti-fatalistic attitude translates into more effective work that in turn may be rewarded with a higher salary. In this article the author tests a self-confidence scale that is similar to the most widely used Rotter locus of control scale. People with high self-confidence have determination, feel they have an influence on their future, and are optimistic. In the analysis the author investigates the predictive power of self-confidence in wage...

The De-standardisation of Early Family Trajectories in the Czech Republic: A Cross-cohort Comparison

Jana Chaloupková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 427-452 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.3.05  

Drawing upon the trajectory-based (holistic) approach, this article compares early family trajectories observed during the socialist period with those after the transition to a market economy in the Czech Republic. It aims (1) to provide an empirical analysis of change in the heterogeneity of early family trajectories between the ages of 18 and 35 and (2) to identify their distinct patterns. To do this an entropy index and optimal matching analysis is applied. The paper uses data from the ISSP 2002, which included questions on partnership and family history in the Czech Republic. The findings show that the process of de-standardisation is quite complex...

Reporting to the Police as a Response to Intimate Partner Violence

Zuzana Podaná

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 453-474 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2010.46.3.06  

Research on police involvement in cases of intimate partner violence (IPV) focuses mainly on best intervention strategies and often neglects the key prerequisite of any intervention: the victim's decision to contact the police. This article concentrates on the circumstances that make IPV incidents more likely to be reported to the police, and it also analyses the reasons for victims' not reporting and for their distrust of the police. It makes use of data from the Czech part of the International Violence Against Women Survey, which allows us to analyse the reporting behaviour of 709 female victims of IPV. The reporting rate among them is very low -...

Lane Kenworthy and Alexander Hicks (eds.): Method and Substance in Macrocomparative Analysis

Oliver Pamp

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 475-477  

Mathieu Deflem: Sociology of Law: Visions of a Scholarly Tradition

Jiří Přibáň

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 478-479  

B. Marin and E. Zolyomi (eds.): Women's Work and Pensions: What Is Good, What Is Best?

Jay Ginn

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 480-481  

Gillian Pascall and Anna Kwak: Gender Regimes in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe

Elaine Weiner

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 482-484  

Donald E. Heller and Madeleine B. d'Ambrosio (eds.): Generational Shockwaves and the Implications for Higher Education

Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 485  

Mitchell A. Orenstein, Stephen Bloom, and Nicole Lindstrom (eds.): Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions

Umut Korkut

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 486-487  

Manfred Huber, Ricardo Rodrigues, Frederique Hoffmann, Katrin Gasior and Bernd Marin: Facts and Figures on Long-term Care in Europe and North America

Hildegard Theobald

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 488-490  

Hynek Jeřábek and Petr Soukup (eds.): Advanced Lazarsfeldian Methodology

Tomáš Katrňák

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2010, 46(3): 491