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Fertility rates as the basic biological assumption of social continuity is now legally in the visual field of social sciences. On the other hand, the phenomena arising from the edge of the various forms of cohabitation or partnership blending the different forms of parenting and other relationships may be the kind of research neglected while they are also an important source of household behavior and transformations of social reproduction. In this context, questions are offered: The Czech sociology of the family is too preoccupied with the problems posed by biological reproduction? To what extent is this line of research indebted to the socio-political agenda? What role in this respect plays a quantitative examination of the methodology? Reflect the category and type of standard used in the research of family change in the content of key concepts, such as family, cohabitation, household or family? The sociology of the family while we find a tendency to deal with new patterns of intimacy. Thus oriented research, however, often enough with just a description of the phenomena. Their output is usually devoid of one of the fundamental qualities of their own discipline: a move from the abstract description of behavior terminations on social structures, which are represented through negotiations and of establishment of. Lose sight of the effort to build research on fundamental questions of sociology (as the company continues to occur, what mechanisms create and reproduce social structures) which are left to the sociology of stratification and mobility. Not so oriented research divorced from the sociological issues? Lacks such a general theoretical sociology of the family background?

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• Editorial L. Slepičková, M. Bartošová more info fulltext in PDF

• Have a Room of one´s Own. On Relation Between Space and Personal Identity F. de SinglyA room of one’s own or some other “possessed” space provides a contemporary individual with a certain independence that is crucial in order to build his/her own personal world, or to become autonomous. A possibility to use this space for personal actions is more important than actual possessing of the space. more info get fulltext

• Fragile Relationships? Some Notes on Shifts in the Sphere of Intimacy I. ChorvátRelationships in the private sphere are transformed under the influence of the individualization process in the period of late modernity. This article focuses on changes in couple relationships in the sphere of intimacy. more info get fulltext
• Change of Sociological Perspective, or From the Nuclear Family to a Broader Family D. SýkorováThe author of the article poses herself the question of whether the task to newly establish the subject of Czech family sociology means that the scientific discussion should be presented with the topic of generation ties in broader family (if it is either absent or still present on the edge of interest of sociologists); or if it needs to be handled differently or in different contexts. more info get fulltext
• Pregnancy from the Perspective of Social Science J. Hasmanová MarhánkováThis paper focuses on pregnancy as on the one hand an experience that is part of specific female subjectivity and on the other hand as a process that is deeply embedded in the social notion of gendered bodies and motherhood. It highlights the ambivalent position of pregnancy in feminist thinking and its consequences for the perception of pregnancy in relation to the women’s subjectivity. more info get fulltext
• Stepfamilies and the Perspective of Child Actors: New Thematic and Methodological Approaches to the Research of Divorced Families M. Bartošová, L. SlepičkováThe text focuses on social science approaches to the research of both divorce and post-divorce arrangements. It draws attention to the importance of a child, not just in the process of family reconstruction, but also within a general discourse of new childhood sociology. more info get fulltext

• Impossible Life Together or Why Parents Split up. Single Mothers’ Views �. Pfeiferová During the past two decades, the Czech Republic has been confronted with important changes. From the individual point of view, both professional and private lives have been transformed. In the private domain, the forms of family and partnership life have changed. more info get fulltext

• Love at Two Addresses: Separate Coexistence in Sociological Research E. OčadlíkováLiving apart together as an alternative form of partnership is currently gaining increasing attention of social scientists. An increasing number of couples who do not share a common household is explained along with other changes in family structure as a result of the collapse of the traditional marriage, individualization and emancipation of women. more info get fulltext

• Families in transition. Social change, family formation and kin relationships C. Nickie, C. Aull Davies a C. Harris more info get fulltext

• International Sociological Association, Research Comittee for Social Stratification and Mobility – Summer meeting 2009, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 3.–6. srpna 2009 P. FučíkConsideration of the Conference more info get fulltext

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