Family Policy in the Context of New Social Risks

The aim of the rigorosum thesis is to understand the way whether and how (what discourses) strategic documents of family policy of the Czech Republic construct new social risks. The presented rigorosum deals with family policy and the parallel phenomenon of new social risks. The structure of society is changing. Together with the new structure of society, new social risks and new kinds of social problems emerge. The question is whether this fact reflects the family policy of the Czech Republic. The thesis discusses whether family policy at all takes into account (what way) the new social risks faced by families with children. In its sub-project, however, it does not neglect the role of social work. On an epistemological basis of social constructionism is in the thesis of qualitative research strategy used method of analysis of documents. Methodologically, it is a discourse analysis, one of the possibility of discourse-analytical research is chosen a critical discourse analysis. The thesis is therefore subjected to a critical discursive analysis of strategic family policy documents (2005- 2017), with the specification of the Czech Republic. Keywords Family; Family policy; New social risks; Post-industrial society; Social work with family; Discourse; Discursive analysis; Critical discourse analysi