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International audience; V tomto článku se autorka zajímá o vývoj instituce vlastnictví a kvazi-vlastnictví a o vztah mezi formální veřejnou sférou a neformální soukromou sférou. Analyzuje vzájemné propletení formální a neformální ekonomie a označuje tu neformální za organickou součást formální ekonomie. Nejprve se věnuje institucím z historického hlediska a dále pak specifikům reálného socialismu a požívacímu právu, které je připodobňováno k vlastnictví. Následně poukazuje na roli rodiny v procesu přechodu do osobního vlastnictví, analyzuje fenomén restitucí a dědických práv po pádu komunismu a v závěru rozebírá první kroky směrem k legislativě vztahující se ke kvazi-vlastnictví.

This dissertation analyses the mass media (the Czech communist press "Rudé právo") discourse of property restitutions one year after the revolution of 1989. The author is inspired by the approaches and procedures of Critical Discourse Analysis in investigating the discursive and extra-discursive practices of the communist/left wing newspaper Rudé Právo. From the perspective of symbolic power as control, she analyzes the newspaper text as well as the social context in which the text was produced. She reconstructs the institutional and organizational transformation of the Rudé Právo daily, whose social position and identity changed radically during 1990, from a Communist Party affiliated propagandist to a private left-wing newspaper. The author links a discursive, narrative, and recursive frame analysis of the Czech communist press with the Boltanski and Thévenot theory of justice and the theory of retrospective/transitional justice. The dissertation describes the establishment of the restitution agenda and successive crystallization of the restitution discourse during "year zero" after November 1989. The author also observes the discursive area on a more general scale, i.e., in the economic reform and transformation discourse. In 1990, the privatization ideology represented the core of the transformation...

International audience; Dans cet article, l’auteur s’intéresse à l’évolution des propriétés et « quasi-propriétés », et au rapport entre sphère publique, formelle et sphère privée, informelle. Elle s’attache ainsi à analyser les intrications de l’économie informelle et de l’économie formelle, la première étant, selon elle, la partie « organique » de la seconde. Elle détaille tout d’abord l’histoire des institutions, et les spécificités du « socialisme réaliste » ainsi que du droit usufructuaire assimilé à la propriété. Elle montre par la suite comment la propriété individuelle remplace graduellement la propriété privée, en mettant l’accent sur le rôle central de la famille dans ce processus. Elle analyse enfin le phénomène de restitution des biens et des droits patrimoniaux après la période communiste, et les premiers pas dans la législation de la « quasi-propriété ».

Dans cet article, l’auteur s’intéresse à l’évolution des propriétés et « quasi-propriétés », et au rapport entre sphère publique, formelle et sphère privée, informelle. Elle s’attache ainsi à analyser les intrications de l’économie informelle et de l’économie formelle, la première étant, selon elle, la partie « organique » de la seconde. Elle détaille tout d’abord l’histoire des institutions, et les spécificités du « socialisme réaliste » ainsi que du droit usufructuaire assimilé à la propriété. Elle montre par la suite comment la propriété individuelle remplace graduellement la propriété privée, en mettant l’accent sur le rôle central de la famille dans ce processus. Elle analyse enfin le phénomène de restitution des biens et des droits patrimoniaux après la période communiste, et les premiers pas dans la législation de la « quasi-propriété ».

This diploma thesis deals with the issue of introducing changes in area of social and legal child protection. In 2012, social and legal child protection act was significantly amended. The great inovation of this act has brought about significant changes, based in inspiration from the British model of social and legal child protection, which most strongly reflected in the concept of foster care, in increasing the participation of services users through continuous assessment of the child's situation and individual care planning. In order to unify common practice and ensure its quality, it has been chosen to achieve these objectives of unification the quality standards. In my qualitative research I am charting the attitudes of Departments of social and legal child protection at Prague Town district offices. Futhermore, using Kotter's eight-point process of changes, I search how much these attitudes have been reflected in the practice of managing their departments and facilitating the change process for the staff of these depatments. In the second round, the selection of researched leaders was guided by the idea of introducing "good practice". For this reason, the information is also briefly compared with the results of inspections carried by Prague City Hall.

Bonding is an emotional and biological process that creates a bond between a mother and her child and is among others important for easier breastfeeding, faster recovery of the mother etc. It is important to support it by an early contact between the mother and her newborn child. The diploma thesis aims to compare the discourse regarding mother-infant bonding and its support in our country around the year of 1980, when the rooming-in system appears, up to the present, with the milestone between 1998 and 2000, when the Centre of Active Birth was established as a result of changes in birth care that occurred then and which started to offer a different kind of care from the model that was known and used in the Czech Republic at that time. Emphasis will be put on the development of the discourse, changes in birth and after-birth care it has brought and changes of its participants and the role which women have as receivers of care. The theoretic part introduces the relatively little-known term 'bonding' and its support from the biological and social points of view, then discourse analysis will be applied in the methodological and experimental parts of the thesis. Analysed materials included media communication both in printed and electronic forms available at each analysed period. Keywords:...

Diplomová práce na téma "Motivace fyzioterapeutů pro jejich profesi, vývoj této motivace během jejich pracovní kariéry." se zabývá přiblížením vztahu motivace, a to ve smyslu motivačních podnětů se kterými se fyzioterapeuti setkávají během profesní dráhy. V tomto kontextu jsou v rámci práce kladeny otázky, jak jsou fyzioterapeuté připraveni pro nástup do praxe. Jak jsou schopni se sami fyzioterapeuté vyrovnávat se sociálními složkami terapie ve smyslu navázání vztahů s pacienty s jiným zdravotnickým personálem např. lékařem, jak a nakolik se ztotožňují s kompletním zdravotnickým systémem a co je předmětem jejich kritiky systému. Diplomová práce je rozdělena do dvou hlavních částí - teoretické v podobě jakéhosi obecného vymezení problému a empirické části. Teoretická část ve svém úvodu stručně představuje obor fyzioterapie "jako takový" s jeho historií, legislativou, podmínkami, s jeho možnostmi studia a možného uplatnění. Následující kapitoly se zabývají tématy, které s oborem a nasměrováním dráhy fyzioterapeuta úzce souvisejí. Práce se soustřeďuje na sociální stránku poskytování fyzioterapeutické péče a to ve smyslu uvědomění si sociálních a psychologických potřeb přípravy a výkonu oboru z hlediska těch, kteří již po několik let obor fyzioterapie vykonávají. Diplomová práce přináší reflexi kultury...

This thesis deals with the generational shift in women's attitudes towards the upbringing of their own children in the early 21st century. The aim of this thesis is to determine how today's generation of mothers reflects the upbringing of their parents, reflection of their own experience with upbringing and whether that leads to some inter- generational shift or change within the approach itself. Possible causes and influences of shifts and changes are discussed. To achieve this goal a qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with women - mothers was conducted. The research shows that in fact shifts in these approaches actually occur and that the main criterion is a reflection of one's own childhood in particular, reflection of one's parents and reflection of the current relationship with one's parents.

This diploma thesis deals with the penetration of discourse of Communist power into the society through content of (women's) magazine Žena a móda within 50s and 60s. The aim of this thesis is to point out that the elements of communist ideology appeared also in media such as fashion magazine. First chapters of this thesis deal with socialism and its ideological propaganda and represent the importance of ideological symbols, propaganda and manipulation through the media. In connection with this the thesis represents also the political-economic situation in the textile and clothing industry and also uses the facts about the media control by the communist regime. On this basis the thesis presents an analysis of 240 issues of the Žena a móda magazine and focuses on selected ideological symbols such as socialist fashion, working clothes, relationship between the East and the West, ideological leaders and personalities, the Soviet Union as ideal, conceptualization of the "Great History" and the image of socialistic woman. The method of discourse analysis thus allowed to introduce the symbols in different historical and social contexts and also to point to their changes in time, specifically in the context of comparing their likeness in the 50s and 60s of 20th century. The content of Žena a móda magazine...

The primary aim of this diploma thesis is to research language variability of school pupils at the age of 13 and 15, its changes occurring in last decades and the analysis of causes and links leading to these changes. The thesis also deals with social conditionality of contemporary Czech language and relationship between language variability and social stratification. After a theoretical part introducing the method of discourse analysis and Czech language varieties surrounding today's school children, school essays written in the fifties of 20th century and now are compared. In the following part the analysis results of the semi-structured interviews with 15 year old people are brought in. The interviews are focused on teenagers' attitude to contemporary language variability and their considering which social environment and contexts require using of high-level standard language. Finally the questions are raised if the value of language is perceived by teenagers and what social functions of language are indicated by them.

The aim of the diploma thesis is to find answers to questions connected to the symbolic construction of collective identity of the initial drug community in communist Czechoslovakia. This discourse creation of collective identity is analyzed on the basis of biographical interviews with outliving members of the then drug subculture. In the course of the terrain investigation there has been recorded a total of 34 narratives of the representatives of the two successive generations of this drug community by using the unstructured and semi-structured interview technique. For the purposes of this research, there has been analyzed 7 interviews closely connected to the beginning and the initial process of formation of drug community. By means of analysis and interpretation of the content of these biographical materials there are primarily captured the collectively shared interpretative frames of values and important identification attributes by which protagonists of the oldest generation of this community form their former collective identity. In this way is clarified how the narrators themselves re-construct and re-interpret their subjectively experienced "we" and at the same time using the symbolic resources to define borders against the non-members of this collectivity. The biographies of the...

This thesis deals with the work-life balance issues encountered by cardiologists and cardiac surgeons. The main objective of this study was to find out on how these young doctors in cardiology specialization training combine their work and other areas of their lives that they consider important and draw attention to the problems of being junior doctors with a vision to use the obtained results to improve their conditions both for work and for quality of life. Qualitative research techniques were utilized and data were obtained from semi-structured interviews with our respondents. The theoretical part of this thesis presents the informations and concepts regarding balance between work versus private life concerning their interdependencies. It focuses both on professional and social aspects and their eventual conflict. Partly, it maps motivation: motivators (motives and aspirations), which led these young doctors in their lives and careers, as shared motives characterize the level of content and identification with professional roles and their professional aspirations. Widely, it deals with the working conditions of junior doctors that the de/motivation to contribute. Moreover, part of it was also given to possible future impacts on doctor's health resulting from failure of work-life balance. The...

Diplomová práce Kultura profese sociálních pracovníků sociálně-právní ochrany dětí se zaměřením na odebírání dětí z péče rodičů Bc. Šárka Nováková, Dis., Praha 2014 Vedoucí práce: PhDr. Olga Šmídová, PhD. Abstract Social and legal protection of children represents a set of specific activities consisting in the provision of child protection. Culture of Social Workers OSPOD is defined values that are shared by professionals in this field. This thesis aims to illustrate the work of social workers through exploration of professional culture. Since the work of social workers covers wide range of duties, this thesis focuses on the removal of children from their families, as values of social workers in critical cases can be demonstrated within these difficult situations. Furthermore, from the professionals' perspective, this area is little known to the public. Qualitative research strategy has been used to answer the research question: "What is the professional culture of social workers OSPOD?" This thesis presents initial results on professional culture through analysis of interviews with OSPOD employees from two departments and a case study, which is supplemented with two specific interviews with SOPOD employees.

The thesis interprets the ideal of women beauty before and after 1989 in terms of sociological and culture discourse in Vlasta magazine. The key premise of the thesis is the claim that ideal of women beauty differs before and after 1989. It is possible to expect influence of politic system, social structure and culture forms on discourse of women beauty. Character of this thesis is theoretically-empiric. The sociologic gender theory serves as the frame for chosen topic. Research is based on analysis of discourse of women beauty in Vlasta magazine in 1975 and 2005. The goal of overall analysis is to provide series of detailed analysis which describe general magazine topics and role of the magazine in certain historical period beside discourse of beauty. I have chosen qualitative sociological method called discursive analysis for my thesis. Ambition of the thesis is to analyze one specific social discourse and introduce all key social, historical and culture aspects which can influence the discourse and use Vlasta magazine as its concrete case. Keywords Ideal of women beauty, discourse, media discourse, gender, discursive analysis, Vlasta magazine, transformation, socialism, media, gender stereotypes, gender socialization

This diploma thesis deals with obese patients' motivation to undergo or refuse a bariatric surgery in obesity treatment. The aim of the thesis was to create an overview of patient's motivation to undergo or refuse a bariatric surgery, to show an obese patient's situation (a candidate for a bariatric surgery) from a closer perspective and offer recommendations for the work with obese patients. The qualitative research method in a form of a semistructured interview with the obese patients, who are being treated in obesity ambulances, and with the psychologists, who work with obese patients, was used to analyse the theme of the research. The eight interviews were conducted and analysed with open coding. Obese patients are motivated to undergo a bariatric surgery by improvement of their health, increased attractiveness and by expectation of their obesity's final solution. Obese patients don't want to undergo a bariatric surgery because they're convinced, that they could manage to lose weight and keep it without undergoing a bariatric surgery. Also because they are worried about the bariatric surgery, its complications, its restrictions, required anesthesia and about the failure after undergoing bariatric surgery. Obese patients' motivation to undergo or refuse a bariatric surgery is also influenced by...

Establishment of Chaplaincy Service at the Hospital in Cheb This thesis describes the process of implementation of the hospital chaplain service in a hospital in Cheb, including a description of the obstacles and problems related to organizational culture change in this medical device. The aim of launching this new service was to contribute in improving the quality of services through complementing existing health services with the spiritual dimension of patient care. In the theoretical part the thesis focuses on knowledge about ecumenically-scale pastoral work of the hospital chaplains in the specific environment of hospitals. These findings are derived from publicly available sources - from secondary sources, or from websites. The practical part of the thesis describes the sequential steps that have been made in the implementation of chaplaincy services in Cheb hospital. The practical part contains interview with a professional chaplain, an experienced priest and nurses of Cheb hospital and a subsequent analysis of these interviews. Processed outputs of the interviews were then applied in the process of individualization of services according to the specific needs of this hospital. In this part also the state of new services a month after its launch had been evaluated. In the conclusion of the...

The topic of the thesis deals with everyday life in Podblanicko Region during the socialist era. This is a local research that tries to show the memories of rural people on the period of normalization, defined by the 70s and 80s of the 20th century, in terms of food, clothing and housing. The research deals with the strategies, tactics and improvisations of the inhabitants of this region in the period of socialism, among other things focused on the lack of required goods in shops, poor supply, searching for not very high-quality construction materials and fashionable clothes. Apart from individual expressions, it deals with community style that inherently belongs to the rural population. The era of socialism is strongly ingrained in the mind of the people who lived at that time. It is clear from many sources that before the year 1989 people in the countryside did not live just meaningless lives, remarked and emptied by a totalitarian regime. In many cases, they tried to ignore the regime or they just were not interested in it. In their everyday life they created values, which were more important to them. However, they were able to realize the values mostly only partially. In order to achieve the things they considered important, their ingenuity, strategy and tactics were essential. A life in the...

The work is focused on the issue of relations between people and their dogs in a selected group. Its aim is to present what relationships are created between people and their dogs and if there are such cases when the relationship that has been developed with a dog, replaces, complements or simulates to its owner any of interpersonal relationships. And finally, how such relationships look like and for what reasons can be formed. The work consists of a theoretical part, which includes a chapter summarizing the current state of knowledge of the subject, thus representing the relevant literature and authors who have worked on and written about the same or similar field already. In addition, the chapter briefly describes the history of men and dogs union, moment of their connection and the development of relationships and roles. The work also contains a research part, an empirical survey. The research approach is a qualitative survey, mainly driven by scenarios interviews and observations. Every step taken in research and subsequent analysis are based on the methodological literature. Key words: Dog in society, the family dog, human-animal relationships, pets

This diploma thesis describes how the women suffering from the migraine apprehend their life. One of the first places in the whole thesis is taken by a preventive behavior as a first step in the fight with the disease. For understanding the examined subject, it is cardinal to become acquainted of the terms like a quality of life, health and disease, strategy of preventing and managing the disease. In the theoretical part, there is the disease itself mentioned, including its definition, clinical picture, classification, examination methods, prophylaxis and treatment. A larger space was dedicated to the provocative factors and the effects of disease, where recognizing and knowing them is for migraine prevention especially important. In the research part of the diploma thesis, on the base of the analysis of in-depth interviews, the data telling about influences perception by the women in the context of migraine were interpreted. A part of the research was dedicated also to the analysis of expert advices dealing with migraine prevention dedicated to the lay public. The author's own experience with the disease and the results of the research helped for development of diploma thesis' proposal part. Here, it is important to notice that the author has been personally and professionally interested all above...

Children growing up in the environment of social exclusion acquire values and habits which weaken and aggravate their integration into the school environment. The lack of success of such children at school is followed by limited educational and professional aspirations which reduce possibilities of their social integration. The governmental conception of social integration and involved experts consider the area of education crucial for prevention of social exclusion transfer from generation to generation. The actors involved in the process of education of socially excluded children are NGOs which provide social services supporting and strengthening educational and professional aspirations. The thesis focuses on the influence of schools on educational - professional aspirations of socially excluded children. The coordination of activities and cooperation of one particular NGO, schools and local authorities in the area of education and their involvement in strengthening of educational - professional aspirations are analysed on the case of regional capital - the City of Pilsen. Based on the analyses of research results, the thesis also proposes a system of coordination of activities between schools and NGOs in the area of education of socially excluded children. Keywords: educational - professional...

Revolver Revue is a cultural periodical magazine founded in 1985. Initially, as a product of Czech underground subculture, of the former communist Czechoslovakia, Revolver Revue was deemed to be illegal samizdat material. After the transformation of the social and political environment in Czechoslovakia, Revolver Revue became a legal publication, and continues to be published today, in the Czech Republic. The following work is a study of Revolver Revue as a social phenomenon in which the author works towards capturing its main defining features and its developments over time, including it's noteworthy changes as well as the continuity which the organization has seen. Also focused upon are the specific social groups related to Revolver Revue, the specific institutions and the interaction of important actors involved, all perceived through a political and historical context. This work is centred around qualitative empirical research based on analyses of interviews and on the study of related documents. The approach taken to this study was heavily influenced by Grounded Theory.

This thesis is inspired by the theory of social construction of mental illness. The work is a case study that uses the metaphor of the story and narrative analysis of interviews examining the individual human experience with mental illness. My goal was to find out what makes us understand the disease and how this understanding can be used in a daily struggle with the disease. In the theoretical part, I drew from documented knowledge about mental illness, particularly for depressive disorder and schizophrenia simplex. Then I presented the narrative approach as a legitimate way of exploring understanding of lived experience. The practical part is implemented as a case study and through narrative analysis provides interesting insight into the way of understanding and coping with mental illness a person who has the expertise and also suffer from mental illness. Key words: mental illness, social construction, narrative, narrative approach, the dominant medical discourse, depression, schizophrenia simplex, stigma, coping strategies.

This diploma thesis deals with the representation and categorisation of old age and elderly care and their changes in media discourse of daily newspaper Blesk. Theory focuses on definitions of elderly and description of seniors and practices of elderly care in the Czech Republic. It describes changes of old age discourse in connection with the development of social policy and expert knowledge. It describes the concepts of representation and categorisation and their possible impacts in the form of stigmatisation, stereotyping and ageism. It discusses media as resources of symbolic power, ideology and discourse and sets out media representation of elderly. Related empirical part is based on qualitative discourse analysis of articles from Blesk in years 2007 and 2011. It discusses the outcomes with respect to changes of discourse and representation, stereotypes and active old age. It distinguishes three types of senior representation - like normal, stigmatized and active. Thematic distribution and stigmatisation of elderly constructs symbolic subordination of elderly as a population category. Care is described only rarely and isn't offered as the solution of the elderly's frailty.

The subject of this thesis is a description and analysis of life imprisonment prisoners' daily life. The thesis deals with wider integration of daily life in jail. The jail as an institution and its impact on prisoners' life is described in theory. Problems of life imprisonment, key words connected with daily reality of total institutions and jail as a formal organization are also analysed. This work points out the lost of life imprisonment prisoner's identity and the importance of process adaptation in it. That means that life in jail is connected to identity lost during his collision with total institution. This process of identity lost is obvious particularly in of life imprisonment prisoners. In theoretical part of this thesis I derive from references of sociologists who work with topics of total institutions, stigmatization, moral career, technique of power and other sociological concepts. I try to show the impact of punishment on one's identity, what strategies of dealing with stress prisoners use and the whole picture of prisoner's personality impacted by the isolation from outer world to the end of the life. I would like to summarize the daily routine of life imprisonment prisoner. I suppose that this thesis doesn't give unambiguous conclusions but I would like to expound this sphere and...

This thesis is focused on the phenomenon of the social exclusion to the specifications of socially excluded children. My target was to answer these questions: How children threatened by social exclusion spend their free time? Are they satisfied with these ways and do they feel any limitations to spend a free time in different way? The theoretical part I focused on the theoretical definitions of the concept of social exclusion and other theoretical related concepts like integration, social inclusion or culture of poverty. Further I was dealing with definition of free time and in addition I described briefly a town called Neratovice where children participated in my research live, visit the school or do some leisure activities. For the research, I selected a quantitative research method - four semi-standardized interviews with children threatened by social exclusion at the age of 6-11 years. In addition children drew a time schedule of their common week day and weekend day. In practical part I analyzed the data from research, compare it with the data from other researches and suggest some recommendation based on these data in theoretical context published in theoretical part. Key words: social exclusion, integration, social inclusion, culture of poverty, Gypsy, free time, leisure activities, children

This thesis concerns the problems connected with the legal protection of children in the Czech Republic. In particular it focuses on possibilities of taking care of children who are forced to live out of the family. All contemporary possibilities how to care about such children as well as legislative of these amenities are surveyed and financial system of these is introduced. Based on background professional research, the most common reasons for placing children out of their own families are presented. Work and function of homes for children are described in further details. The theoretical part offers the view into historical development of taking care of Czech children without any stable and functioning family background, some good experience examples from France and samples of endeavour to remedy the situation in Slovakia are mentioned. The inner part of the thesis is the issue concerning not only wide variety of psychological theories but also the satisfaction of children development needs. Research part traces fulfilling children development needs in a particular children home taking into consideration the point of view of the staff, the parents whose children were placed there and the youngsters who were cared about. According to the latter and the research summary, a model of children care...

The problem of integration children with physical or mental handicap to the common schools and their incorporation to the class team is big problem of modern world. Success or failure of such integration depends upon many factors, among which belongs in the first place approach of persons, which play the biggest role in integration: parents, teacher and last but not least assistant, who directly work with child and helping him with the integration. Bachelor work is trying evaluate mutual cooperation of these three chief factors of integration namely on the principles of discourses, that were led with a number of representative assistants. In these interviews is ascertaining importance of position of the teachers like representative of schools, assistant like nearest collaborator with handicapped child and parents like no omissible authority and best expert of that child. Person assistant is in this case pivotal, because assistant cooperate above all with child, but at the same time is nearest collaborator with teachers and parents and from this point of view he is intimately acquainted with the whole process of integration and is able to appraise it. Opinions of assistants on the work of teacher and parents and on cooperation with them are consisted of processing single talk and the attention here is...

This paper is a research report about qualitative research which deals with the life of sentenced and released persons. It describes programmes and specific aid which participate in social rehabilitation of these persons. I suggest possible improvements of social inclusion by studying cases concerning imprisoned and released persons and institutions that work with them. Organizations and institutions that work with these people aim at their inclusion in society, at detecting and removing difficulties in unsuccessful integration. The bases of this analysis are interviews, statistics, annual reports, biographies, simple questions in the form of an informal questionnaire, mediated biographies. The aim of this paper is to reveal discrepancies in regarding unsuccessful social integration from the view of institutions and of persons endangered by social exclusion.

Bachelor thesis "Challenge to life - how to resume with diabetes" attend to integrating diabetes into everyday life of patients with this disease. Diabetes is chronic ailment which is still stigma and it causes problems and limitations to the patients, but thanks to technical advance in medicine diabetics can adapt their life to the disease without the others knowing about it. To manage with this disease there is many technical instruments which can help diabetics nowadays. It is more efficient and inconspicuous and it makes diabetics possible to solve some problems immediately without doctors. But there are still patients who think of diabetes as uncontrollable and smart from problems which can diabetes implicate. This work tries to illustrate on narratives of ten diabetics, which factors and strategies give rise to fact, that diabetic can integrate disease into his life and put up with it.

Bachelors thesis "Myth called American high school" deals with an issue of high school studies in the United States of America from the perspective of Czechs who have experienced it in real terms. The main focus is on the hidden curriculum including knowledge, skills and attitudes which pupils learn even though this matter is not explicitly defined. In general terms it is possible to talk about a cultural transmission as it also includes values transferred from the teacher to the pupils. Hidden curriculum arises from the actual teaching style, the teachers' approach and the things being valued and encouraged the most. Less emphasis is then put on the officially declared curriculum with respect to the content of knowledge. The subject of study primarily includes social relations and interactions among people involved in the schooling environment, in which the informal rules of cooperation and coexistence are shaped. Strategies and types of authority which teachers assert when dealing with deviant behavior are being described, as well as the definition of deviant behavior from teacher perspective. Secondly, the study covers the structure of the class work with emphasis being put on the space devoted to different persons involved. At last, various types of lesson activities on which pupils participate...

This thesis is a final report from a qualitative study focused on vegetarian parents, who also lead their children to vegetarianism. The main purpose of the study was to examine in what ways the parents interpret and analyse their position in society, which often views the children vegetarianism as a controversial issue. The theoretical part of the work describes the background, which is relevant to the topic and help us to put the situation of vegetarian parents into a necessary context. The general information about (childhood) vegetarianism, health and social issues linked to it, are presented. The factors underlying the "family vegetarianism" - cultural relativity and symbolic of meat and nutritional discourse in combination with the ideology of motherhood, are also discussed. An entire section of the study was given to qualitative analysis of the half-structured interviews with eight vegetarian parents. The decision about the meatless diet of their children is not always accepted by general society or by their extended families and parents also often face moral judgments rather than medical problems. Therefore parents have to (re)interpret their parental identity in accordance with the positive ideology of parenthood, for example by pointing out the medical advantages of vegetarianism or by...

The point of this thesis is to explore the way of perception of the relationships between the second and the third generation in a family by grandchildren. These relationships make up an important part of the family; nevertheless they are not given an adequate research attention. The reason for this is often the perspective of disintegration of wider family relationships along with the evolution from traditional to modern society, which is not backed up by data, as the author shows in the theoretic part. Though the meaning of intergenerational relationships changes, they are still embedded into the relationships in nuclear family, which results from surveys of intergenerational relationships carried out here, in the Czech Republic. What will be important for the future form of intergenerational relationships are norms and patterns for the formation of these relationships internalized by the youngest generation. That is why the author focuses her analysis on the perception of the relationships between the second and the third generation in the eyes of grandchildren. She stems from narrative interviews with grandchildren on the topic of grandparents and using the method of grounded theory she comes to three different contexts of relationships perception in the eyes of grandchildren - the perception...

This thesis focuses on the controversy in Czech society over the displacement of Germans. The dispute is one of the most significant public debates related to the Czech past held since the fall of the communist regime. The work briefly summarizes the historical development of the controversy over the displacement and introduces the political context of the discussion held already in the democratic regime. The main part of the text consists of analysis of opinions on the issues of displacement in Czech newspapers in the period of one year directly before the Czech Republic entered the European Union Concerning methodology, the work is inspired by discourse analysis. However, the author is not that much focusing on the use of language, which is common within this methodological tradition, but rather on what is being expressed through the language, i. e. the contents of the discourse itself. In doing so, he refers to the work of the Czech-British anthropologist Ladislav Holý. The author concludes that two main approaches may be found within the debate over the displacement, and calls the first of them the "official" discourse and the other the "critical" discourse. Based on the analysis, it is not possible to speak of the two discourses as competing with each other in the form of notional oppositions,...

RESUME My intention was to foreshadow the construct of the re-émigré's self perception/self depiction as a way of setting up a framework within which each individual operates. Based on analysis of interviews with individual re-émigrés, I attempted to establish individual identifying categories which gave rise to such a framework. The central interest of the study was the analysis the act of the re-emigration, the return home, the return to motherland. Nevertheless, the act of return exists as a direct consequence of many earlier life (changing) (dominant) events, including the emigration itself. I considered it essential to make such events an integral part of my investigation (study). In this context, I have considered it essential to interrogate the act of 'homecoming'with the initial act of emigration, of going to exile, of the 'escape'. The testimonies of individual respondents indicated most clearly the key/central role played by the family and its influence, not just on the émigré him/herself, but in the wider context of family background,(cultural)roots, familial orientations, customs and conventions. The family was the one constant category which runs through the entire life cycle, forming the foundation of the individual's social situations and essentially underpins their context. The further...

This dissertation thesis on the issue "How Cosmoworld Forms and What It Is" deals with the formation and content of a magazine for young women named Cosmopolitan. The aim of this work is to ascertain, whether the type of the woman constructed by this magazine is the emancipated one, to uncover how the magazine defines itself or, put more aptly, how it helps to maintain traditional stereotypes attributed to womanhood. In the introduction, the author pursues the basic theoretical concept and methodological tools suitable to apply in analysing media like Cosmopolitan. The very research into the process of production of the magazine and its content is covered in the second part of the thesis. Using the means of discursive analysis, the author attempts to resolve the type of womanhood re/constructed by the magazine and to work out what are the backdrops or frames which the magazine sets womanhood in. Further, we see the author researching the very creation of the magazine (the ethnomethodological observation in the editorial office), identifying the rules followed in writing articles for Cosmopolitan. Having analysed the content of Cosmopolitan and the process of its production, the author has come to the conclusion that Cosmopolitan re/produces a woman who sees her liberation and emancipation in sexual freedom...

Aim of this study is to improve understanding of practical application of public media discourse about Global climate change. Theoretical base is embedded in context of humannature relationship. My premise is that risk of global warming or global climate change is hard to sense by individuals hence dependent on expert knowledge and mediating of these thematic fields toward public, mainly by mass media. Introduced topic, or its selected part, was investigated using discourse analysis. It serves as a tool to identify and discuss patterns of thoughts, elements of argumentation and actor's strategies. They are parts - or even base - of media discourse about main topic, objects, subjects and time-space and others contexts. They are systematically coded according to discourse rules in a repeating categories and their overall configuration creates underlying concept of understanding the topic. Data for analysis consist of collection of utterances made in Czech public media discourse during period of December 2004 and June 2005. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Tendency of this article is to show, how three factual Gypsy children which were put away to creche directly after their born and which were educated with two "white" Czech families, create their identities. Basic research question was how the children construct their identities in interaction with the world and important others. My approach to this question is constructionist. I tried to find strategies of making identities. I worked with biographical stories. Simultaneously we can also speak about participate observation because I come from one of these families. Among my most important findings is the fact that children identity is influenced by parents standings and meanings. In the first family dominates a position that it is a stigma to be Gypsy in Czech racialist society. In the second family it is spoken about it that people should be valued according to their acts and not according to their flesh-colour. Gypsy child in Czech family has very difficult position because it does not properly belong to any society. Children from the first family realise their incident to Gypsies and try to manage their stigma with strategy. Child from the second family choose among both societies to obtain the biggest advantages. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)