The article reproduces the testimonies of working women, reflecting their lives. It covers the life history of Engelberta L. Pštrossová, clerical worker of Chamber of Commerce and Trade in Prague and Hradec Kárlové from the year 1904 until the beginning of World War II and Olga Nováková, clerical worker in the printing works of A. Haas in Prague in the years 1910-1936. The second part covers the memoirs of several women from blue-collar milieu, devoted to their material contribution to their families., Milada Sekyrková., and Obsahuje bibliografii
The paper relects on the gender speciic nature of private and public spheres as discussed in feminist discourses in European and American contexts. Its aim is to explore the potential of the concepts of public and private in analysing the issue of reconciliation of work and family, connected with women’ presence in the public sphere, with the hierarchy between the public and private and with the gender power asymmetry. he public and private as analytical constructs are helpful in moving beyond the individual level and understanding the social-political structure and historical context. These categories characterize diferent value systems with a hierarchical relation connected with the construction of ‘two genders’ and gendered division of work. he paper also focuses on the concept of women’s emancipation, its justiication and understanding of equality, and concrete changes in women’s life. Women’s experience of their ‘double existence’ in the public and private life is thematized as a question of reconciliation of work and family with some period particularities. Diferences in forming men’s and women’s identiies during modernity depending on their experience in the two diferent worlds are shown as relevant., Zuzana Kiczková., Poznámky na s. 23, Obsahuje bibliografii, and Abstrakt anglicky
The aim of this study is to find out which characteristics affect the age identity of individuals. The main question is: What determines whether the people in the Czech Republic find themselves young, middle aged or old? Two alternative hypotheses were tested: a) the age identity is mainly influenced by person's family and working roles; b) the age identity is primarily a function of person’s chronological age and his health. While the second hypothesis understands the age identity as an ordinal variable, the first hypothesis views values of youth, middle age and old age as three different nominal constructs. The question is answered by analysis of quantitative data from European Social Survey Round 4. The sample contains 1864 respondents aged 20-95. Author uses binary logistic regression to find models for adopting age identities in different age categories. The second hypothesis of age identity being primarily an effect of age and health is proved. The influence of some family and working roles on age identity are, however, also discussed., Romana Trusinová., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy
a1_The prosopographical (collective biographical) study set out in this article is based on data published in the Who’s Who of Contemporary Czech Sociology and Related Disciplines (2011). Due to the fact that Czech sociologists rarely retire, this intellectual sub-group is comprised of both veteran researchers born during the interwar period and their younger colleagues. Czech sociologists are mostly men, although this gender imbalance has declined. The demographics explain to some extent why the prosopography of Czech sociologists and the workings of the academic community in general are still profoundly influenced by the discontinuous and occasionally turbulent development of Czech sociology under the communist regime (1948-89); and its former ideological concerns and power interventions. This study shows that (a) sociologists often marry other sociologists, (b) a majority of Czech sociologists were born in university cities: places where they completed all of their academic education and thereafter embarked on a career and settled down. Unsurprisingly, there is a relatively low level of career movement among Czech sociologists: a trend which has only recently begun to change with increased opportunities for mobility through foreign fellowships. The academic interests of Czech sociologists are broad: tens of dozens of scholars are active in 45 subfields of research, and 10 other related academic disciplines. However, half of all Czech sociologists works in 8 sub-disciplines, including (in descending order) political sociology, gender studies, empirical research, social stratification, theoretical sociology, economic sociology, sociology of religion, and sociological methodology. One third of sociologists simultaneously work for two employers. Nevertheless, the community has not been overly active in terms of publications., a2_Every sixth sociologist has yet to publish a book; and half of them, including the holders of the very highest degrees have only one to three books to their names. The writing of the younger scholars is slightly more extensive, but this may well be the result of a “sampling error” and they – as well as other scholars today – prefer to write their own books or participate in edited proceedings to undertaking academic translations., Zdeněk R. Nešpor., and Obsahuje bibliografii