Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(4)

Primary School Choice in the Czech Republic and Related Factors

Jana Straková, Jaroslava Simonová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(4): 587-606 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.4.208  

The influence of family background on educational attainment in the Czech Republic is strong compared to other countries internationally and there is great variation in the composition and academic performance of students between schools. Research to date has focused primarily on this issue in reference to multi-year gymnasia. This article concentrates on variation at the primary-school level, on which there are only limited empirical data available on the distribution of students. It looks at how important the choice of primary school by parents of preschool-age children is, how that choice is realized over time, and what parental characteristics...

Small Rural Schools in the Primary Education Market: The Example of Turnov Region

Silvie R. Kučerová, Jan D. Bláha, Zuzana Pavlasová

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(4): 607-636 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.4.209  

The article deals with selected issues relating to the provision and accessibility of primary education in rural, non-exposed areas. These issues are examined from the viewpoint that various conditions force even public education to be guided by certain principles of the free market (e.g. competing for clients), although its actions in this respect are simultaneously rather constrained. The article sets out to analyse the primary education market in a model region Turnov (situated in Czechia) in relation to the type of catchment area. It discusses the pitfalls of public school marketisation, and it analyses the spatial distribution of schools in the...

The Role of Values in Choosing between a Career and the Home: An International Comparison

Simona Weidnerová, Petr Matějů

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(4): 637-666 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.4.210  

The objective of this article is to theoretically and empirically link Catherine Hakim's preference theory to Shalom Schwartz's basic values theory and determine to what extent women's preferences in relation to employment and a career are supported by their value orientations. A related question, and one with policy relevance, concerns the role of education in women's deep-rooted preferences and individual concepts of life-success. A third question is to what extent higher education helps women to overcome social barriers to implementing their choices between job (career) and family (household), barriers that mainly derive from the prevalence of conservative...

The Cultural and Behavioural Determinants of Health Inequalities in Slovakia

Ján Sopóci, Anna Hrabovská

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(4): 667-696 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.4.211  

The article examines the effects of selected factors of health inequalities in Slovakia and tests the theoretical and methodological assumptions of the cultural and behavioural health model of Slovak society based on the results of the 'ISSP Slovakia 2012'. Using decision tree analysis with a CRT algorithm the authors confirm the effect of socio-economic status as the dominant factor of health inequality. They also confirmed the different impacts of various types of protective and risk behaviour (regular medical examinations, eating fruit and vegetables, physical activity, smoking, drinking, and alcohol) and of other, indirect but important determinants...

O koncepci, která předznamenala teorii rozšířené mysli, a o jejím významu pro sociálněvědní teorii

Jiří Šubrt

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(4): 697-708 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2015.51.4.05  

Tomáš Kostelecký, Renáta Mikešová, Markéta Poláková, Daniel Čermák, Josef Bernard, Martin Šimon: Koho volí Vaši sousedé? Prostorové vzorce volebního chování na území Česka od roku 1920 do roku 2006, jejich změny a možné příčiny

Pavel Maškarinec

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(4): 709-710  

Kiril Stanilov, Luděk Sýkora (eds.): Confronting Suburbanization: Urban Decentralization in Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe

Ondřej Špaček

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(4): 711-713  

Hynek Jeřábek: Slavné sociologické výzkumy (1899-1949)

Jiří Šubrt

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(4): 714-717  

Mathew Arnold: Kultura a anarchie

Adela Kvasničková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(4): 718-720  

Henry Schermer, David Jary: Form and Dialectic in Georg Simmel's Sociology: A New Interpretation

Jiří Bureš

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2015, 51(4): 721-726  

Summer School in Survey Methodology (Letní škola metodologie výzkumu), Barcelona, Španělsko, 7.-11. 7. 2014

Magdaléna Gorčíková

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