The thesis is focused on research for children's understanding of social stratification on secondary school. The aim is the diagnoses of children's understanding on the topic of social stratification - finding the reflection of class inequalities, interpretation of the causes of social stratification, own evaluation of the society and ideas of social mobility. In the first part was defined the theoretical base of the thesis - the concept of social stratification and basic scientific theories of social stratification, constructivism, children's understanding of the world. Also were presented foreign and home research for understanding of social stratification. In the second part were defined methodological basis of the thesis and were presented the results of a qualitative research for children's understanding using the method of the depth semi-structured interview. The research results suggested that students understand the topic of social stratification and reflect it in a different way. KEYWORDS: constructivism, preconcept, children's understanding, social stratification, qualitative research, semi-structured interview

The dynamics between partners’ careers have implications for household and gender inequality as heterosexual unions are usually formed by two individuals with similar educational attainment where the man has a stronger labor market position. This paper examines how the partner’s occupational status relates to individual career outcomes, and how the association varies by gender. The literature reports conflicting expectations on the subject. Social capital theory suggests that an occupationally successful partner can be beneficial to one’s career because of useful contacts, information, and advice. Economic theory assumes a negative relationship between the resources of the partner and own career outcomes due to less time and effort spent in the labor market. Using multiple regression analysis predicting hourly wage, annual income, and career progression, the contrasting hypotheses are tested on Swedish panel data including 1,065 married or cohabitating individuals. Results show a positive correlation between the partner’s occupational status at the start of cohabitation and hourly wage and career progression. The association does not differ significantly between men and women. However, the findings show that gender is more important than the partners’ occupational status for the interaction between careers in dual-earner couples.

T-Mobile Czech Republic a.s. Abstract.docx 1/1 Abstract This thesis is focused on the living conditions of the serf population in the West Bohemian domain of Horšovský Týn beetween 17th and 19th centuries. The core of this work is in the 17th century. The geografical area of the domain was defined in the Tax Rule - the city, fifty- four villages and five partial villages. This paper consists of four basic sections. In the first section you can find the overview of the main literature regarding this topic. The second one is dedicated to the brief historical and territorial development of the domain and to the characteristic of the administrative and economic circumstances. The demografical structure of the domain in the 17th century is described in depth in the third section. This analysis was done on the basis of the register of the serf people classified according to their religion. The focus is partially dedicated to the social structure as well, mainly to the houseless lodgers and servants. The typology and composition of the households is discussed briefly. Above that, there is an approximation of population in the domain Horšovský Týn from the mid 17th until the end of 19th century. The last section is focused on the social stratification of the domain and its changes from the mid 17th to the mid 19th...

Qui sont les vendeurs des magasins du grand commerce et quel est leur quotidien ? A partird’une enquête ethnographique réalisée, par observation participante et par entretiens dans ungrand magasin parisien, cette thèse répond à ces questions et apporte deux contributionsprincipales. La thèse contribue d’abord à la sociologie du travail de la vente en magasin. Ens’intéressant aux conditions de travail des vendeurs, à leurs modes d’emploi, à leurs pratiquesde travail, à leur rapport au travail, et notamment à l’ambivalence que nourrit la relation avecun client, elle réalise une sociologie du travail d’une activité professionnelle peu étudiéejusqu’ici. Elle en montre le caractère bigarré. Par certains aspects, ce travail est profondémentenraciné dans le salariat d’exécution, proche notamment d’une figure professionnelle àlaquelle les employés de commerce sont couramment identifiés, la « caissière ». Mais, dans lemême temps, ce travail s’en arrache en raison de l’autonomie et de la richesse que disentéprouver les vendeurs devant certaines tâches, comme la mise en valeur de la marchandise oula relation avec les clients. La thèse contribue aussi à la sociologie des employés decommerce. Armée d’une analyse du travail et des trajectoires de ceux qui l’effectuent, la thèsemontre que les vendeurs des grands magasins composent un fragment singulier parmi les« employés de commerce ». Ils composent une « petite aristocratie ». Mais la thèse rappellequ’il s’agit d’une « petite aristocratie » sous tension. En effet, celle-ci voit ses attributsglorieux malmenés par des rationalisations du travail et des transformations dans lesconditions d’emploi. / Who are the sales assistants and what does their day at work look like? Based on anethnographic survey (participant observation in a parisian department store and interviews),this thesis answers these questions and contributes to the sociology of work and the sociologyof the clerks. Firstly, by exploring the working and employment conditions of the salesmen,their technics and savoir-faire, the way they see their work, it sheds light on a work rarelyobserved by the sociology of work. Secondly, the thesis contributes to the sociology of clerks.It analyses a part of this group that can be seen as belonging to an “in-between” area: betweenthe most insecure job and the steady and qualified work.

O Sistema Único de Saúde é fruto das lutas sociais ocorridas no Brasil, nas décadas de setenta e oitenta do século XX. Seus principais objetivos eram a ampliação da noção do direito à saúde e a superação do acesso diferencial da população brasileira aos cuidados médicos. A criação de um espaço institucional em que esses objetivos pudessem se tornar realidade foi a maior conquista daquelas lutas. Passado o período de sua institucionalização, esse espaço estruturante e estruturador da ação dos cidadãos brasileiros na busca por saúde mostra-se incapaz de concretizar aqueles objetivos. Nesse cenário, a experiência dos indivíduos e as normas que procuram materializar aqueles velhos ideais indicam-nos alguns focos recorrentes de tensão em relação à possibilidade de efetivação do direito à atenção e à recuperação da saúde. Ao nos fixarmos na questão de como os cidadãos-usuários estão ou não conquistando o atendimento, não pudemos escapar da inevitável reafirmação da precariedade do sistema público de saúde. Essa característica, por seu turno, indica-nos a manutenção do padrão de acesso diferencial aos bens e serviços destinados à recuperação da saúde individual, já que o espaço do SUS continua sendo o espaço ocupado pelos pobres ou por aqueles em situação de vulnerabilidade social. / The Health Unified System is a result of the social fights occurred in Brazil during the decades of 70 and 80 of the twentieth century. Their main goals were the enlargement of the right of health notion and the overcoming of the differencial access of Brazilian people in relation to medical care. The creation of an institutional space in which these goals could become reality was the greatest achievement of those fights. After the period of its institutionalization, this structured and structuring space of the Brazilian citizens? action towards health reveals the inability in concreting those objectives. In this setting, the individuals? experience and the rules that try to materialize those old ideals show some recurrent tension spots in relation to the possibility of the right of attention and the health recovering efetivation. By fixing in the question of how the user-citizens are or not conquering the service, it was not possible to escape from the unavoidable restatement of the public health system inadequacy. Characteristic that, in its turn, indicates the maintenance of the differencial access standard in relation to the goods and services addressed to the individual health regaining, since the Health Unified System (SUS) space is still the space of the poor or of those in a social vulnerability situation.

O Sistema Único de Saúde é fruto das lutas sociais ocorridas no Brasil, nas décadas de setenta e oitenta do século XX. Seus principais objetivos eram a ampliação da noção do direito à saúde e a superação do acesso diferencial da população brasileira aos cuidados médicos. A criação de um espaço institucional em que esses objetivos pudessem se tornar realidade foi a maior conquista daquelas lutas. Passado o período de sua institucionalização, esse espaço estruturante e estruturador da ação dos cidadãos brasileiros na busca por saúde mostra-se incapaz de concretizar aqueles objetivos. Nesse cenário, a experiência dos indivíduos e as normas que procuram materializar aqueles velhos ideais indicam-nos alguns focos recorrentes de tensão em relação à possibilidade de efetivação do direito à atenção e à recuperação da saúde. Ao nos fixarmos na questão de como os cidadãos-usuários estão ou não conquistando o atendimento, não pudemos escapar da inevitável reafirmação da precariedade do sistema público de saúde. Essa característica, por seu turno, indica-nos a manutenção do padrão de acesso diferencial aos bens e serviços destinados à recuperação da saúde individual, já que o espaço do SUS continua sendo o espaço ocupado pelos pobres ou por aqueles em situação de vulnerabilidade social. / The Health Unified System is a result of the social fights occurred in Brazil during the decades of 70 and 80 of the twentieth century. Their main goals were the enlargement of the right of health notion and the overcoming of the differencial access of Brazilian people in relation to medical care. The creation of an institutional space in which these goals could become reality was the greatest achievement of those fights. After the period of its institutionalization, this structured and structuring space of the Brazilian citizens? action towards health reveals the inability in concreting those objectives. In this setting, the individuals? experience and the rules that try to materialize those old ideals show some recurrent tension spots in relation to the possibility of the right of attention and the health recovering efetivation. By fixing in the question of how the user-citizens are or not conquering the service, it was not possible to escape from the unavoidable restatement of the public health system inadequacy. Characteristic that, in its turn, indicates the maintenance of the differencial access standard in relation to the goods and services addressed to the individual health regaining, since the Health Unified System (SUS) space is still the space of the poor or of those in a social vulnerability situation.

Vor dem Hintergrund der Auflösung der DDR als besonderes historisches Ereignis, welches alle Generationen in gewisser Weise tangiert, setzt sich die Studie mit der Frage auseinander, welchen Einfluß objektive Bedingungen und die damit verbundene Funktionsweise der Individuen in der Gesellschaftsstruktur auf die Vorstellungen über die Erziehung von Kindern und auf die Vorstellung über Individualität und Unterordnung haben. Drei Generationen stehen im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung, deren Lebensverläufe eng mit den beiden Weltkriegen, dem Wirtschaftswunder, der Teilung Deutschlands und den wirtschaftlichen und sozialstrukturellen Veränderungen in Deutschland verbunden sind bzw. waren. Dabei wird auch nach Ost- und Westdeutschland unterschieden. Diese drei Generationen werden zum einen in ihrem zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext beschrieben und zum anderen in Beziehung gesetzt mit bedeutenden sozialisationstheoretischen Ansätzen der jeweiligen Zeit. Dazu gehört die Autoritarismustheorie der Frankfurter Schule, die Theorie zur schichtspezifischen Sozialisation von Melvin Kohn und die Theorie des Wertewandels von Ronald Inglehart. Die jeweiligen Theorien werden dabei als Hypothesen behandelt, deren Gültigkeit beim Vergleich der Werte zwischen den Generationen überprüft wird. Dafür werden die Familiensurvey-Erhebungen des Deutschen Jungendinstitutes in München als empirische Basis genutzt. / Against the background of a disappearing East German state - a historic event which affected all generations to varying degrees – this study examines the effect that prevailing conditions and the resultant functioning of individuals within the social structure had on people’s approaches to childrearing and to individuality and subordination. The study focuses on three generations whose life courses were or still are closely linked with two world wars, the post-war economic miracle, the division of Germany and major economic and socio-structural changes within Germany. Distinctions are also made between East and West Germany. The three generations are on the one hand described within their respective historical contexts, and on the other examined in the light of the prominent socialisation theories of their time. These include the authoritarianism theory of the Frankfurt School, the theory of class-specific socialisation by Melvin Kohn, and Ronald Inglehart’s theory of value change. These theories are treated as hypotheses, the validity of which is tested by comparing the values identified for the different generations. The family surveys carried out by the Munich-based Deutsches Jugendinstitut form the empricial basis for this work.

<p>In the village'of Citing in the northern highlands of Tanzania, the factors: social stratification, land tenure, production strategies, investment patterns and the economic uncertainties of society are studied and their relationship to land degradation is examined. The main assumption of the study is that the causes of land degradation are so complex that a methodology that emphasises contextualisation has to be used. A methodological framework that considers inter-linkages between all these factors is developed and tested. The result of the test shows that contextualisation gives a more in-depth and complex explanation than conventional, positivist research. The study gives a detailed account of the relationship that various wealth groups have to land and land degradation in the village. It is found that all wealth groups are destructive to the land but in varying ways. The rich farmers are over-cultivating land marginal to agriculture, the middle peasants have too many cattle in the village while the poor peasants are so marginalised socially that they hardly influence land management. Those identified as having economic as well as social incentives to maintain soil fertility are the middle peasants, while the rich farmers are shown to be consciously soil-mining the former grazing areas.</p>

The purpose of this study is to present an empirical pattern of social equity in Chinese higher education by investigating university students. Student socio-economic background influences access to, and socio-economic conditions in, higher education, and this, in turn, influences student career aspirations. The theoretical background of the study is interdisciplinary and a conceptual framework built on theories and previous research is used to analyse Chinese higher education in a historical, social and economic context. A questionnaire survey was administered at six public universities in the Southwest region of the country to explore students’ socio-economic background, costs and how they finance their studies, as well as their future career aspirations. The relationships between the factors investigated were examined using factor analytical techniques and linear structural relations (LISREL) analysis. The findings indicate that the students come from all socio-economic strata but a disproportionately large number are from high-income families. Students from urban areas are over-represented while rural girls are significantly under-represented. Although the gap between the lowest and highest study costs is enormous, the findings confirm that the average cost of higher education in China far exceeds the average annual income, even for urban residents. Moreover, about one-third of students and their families utilised financial resources other than family such as student loans, borrowing, and other forms of financial assistance. A structural model linking student socio-economic background, enrolment in elite institutions, costs and means of financing education with career aspirations is developed and tested in three stages in order to shed light on the conceptual framework and to present a pattern of social equity. The results show that family socio-economic status has only a modest impact on student access to and in higher education. On the other hand, having social origins in a well-developed community exerts an influential effect. Although study and living costs, and means of financing studies, are influenced by student socio-economic background, they intend to have positive impacts on student career aspirations. While enrolment in elite institutions has a strongly positive impact on costs, it has a moderately negative impact on aspirations to pursue advanced degrees. In conclusion, the study finds that the patterns of socio-economic factors influencing student upward mobility in present-day China are different from those of ancient China and from those previous Communist leaders attempted to achieve only 20 years ago.

In the village'of Citing in the northern highlands of Tanzania, the factors: social stratification, land tenure, production strategies, investment patterns and the economic uncertainties of society are studied and their relationship to land degradation is examined. The main assumption of the study is that the causes of land degradation are so complex that a methodology that emphasises contextualisation has to be used. A methodological framework that considers inter-linkages between all these factors is developed and tested. The result of the test shows that contextualisation gives a more in-depth and complex explanation than conventional, positivist research. The study gives a detailed account of the relationship that various wealth groups have to land and land degradation in the village. It is found that all wealth groups are destructive to the land but in varying ways. The rich farmers are over-cultivating land marginal to agriculture, the middle peasants have too many cattle in the village while the poor peasants are so marginalised socially that they hardly influence land management. Those identified as having economic as well as social incentives to maintain soil fertility are the middle peasants, while the rich farmers are shown to be consciously soil-mining the former grazing areas.