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This bachelor thesis examines the relationship between the eating disorder treatment process and the influence of fitness influencers on social media. Specifically, it uses qualitative methods to research the motivations for membership in an online fitness community of individuals with a history of these disorders, along with the benefits of the content shared there. The thesis is divided into three main parts, of which the first part defines the discussed concepts in the context of the research and presents the current state of knowledge within the topic. Eating disorders are linked to social media and broken down in the context of different treatment options, followed by an introduction to the phenomenon of creating online communities within the field of digital health, which also frames the research. The second, methodological part of the thesis is devoted to the conduct of the digital ethnographic research, the definition of the objectives and research questions, the description of the chosen methods and their ethics. The results of the analysis of data obtained through participant observation of the selected social media content and semi-structured interviews are presented within the third part of the thesis. Here, the research findings are divided into two thematic units based on the...

In the practical part of this thesis, under the title Life of the Indian community in the Czech Republic, I documented the everyday life of several representatives of this nationality. My goal was to show how and why this very small minority lives here. In the photo book that emerged from this effort, I captured the Eastern and Western worlds colliding in their lives. The theoretical part of this work is devoted to journalistic photography, specifically photojournalism and documentary photography. These two genres are very close, they even overlap in many ways. I will therefore determine what the differences between them are. The next chapters already touch on the practical part of my work. I describe how to work with the depiction of foreign cultures in a photo document. I will take postcolonialist theory and its understanding of the relationship between Western civilization and the rest of the world as a guide. Subsequently, I will present the work of several contemporary Czech photographers who work with foreign cultures. I will look into their style and focus in particular on their understanding of the intercultural scale of their work.

The thesis deals with the influence of local museum workers on the civic community of Polná during the more than 120 years of the museum's existence. The starting point for the reflection is the perspective of collective memory of Maurice Halbwachs. The theoretical part presents different perspectives on individual and collective memory and the connection of memory with the construction of individual and community identity. It takes into account the importance of place as a factor of stability and its changes over time as a result of human action. The text examines the phenomenon of collecting from a historical perspective, summarizing the basic moments of development from collecting to museology and the emergence of museum institutions. Document analysis charts the time course of museum development in changing social and legal conditions. In particular, it focuses on the museum's management and their interactions with the local community. It traces this process across several generations. The analysis of the documents is illustrated with excerpts from interviews with museum actors in Polná since the 1960s. The aim of the work is to reflect on the museum in Polná as a place of memory and its contribution to the local community.

Background: Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) are biological resources of plant (other than timber) and animal origin, that are harvested from the natural forests or farmlands for human use. The forest continuous to serve as a socio-economic safety net for rural communities in most parts of African, South Asia and some parts of Latin America. Over 40% of the world’s poor population live within or in close proximity to tropical forest areas. Communities living adjacent forest regions invariably depend on the ecology for their everyday food, fuel, and income. Despite the economic importance of NTFPs, there is no proper valuation of NTFPs and its contribution to livelihood and development in rural communities that rely primarily on these products for their income, subsistence, and employment. Objective: To assess the potentials of NTFPs as an attractive livelihood option for the people living in the forest communities in the Sekyere East district of the Ashanti region of Ghana. Method: A quantitative cross-sectional study design was employed to collect data from selected rural communities in the Sekyere East district. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select the 6 communities from the district and a systematic sampling approach used to select every 3rd house within the community. A total of 502 participants who are above the legal working age of 15years were recruited and administered with a structured questionnaire. Data analysis was done with the use of STATA and results were presented in tables and graphical representations. Results: A response rate of 98% was obtained from the administered questionnaire. Majority of the respondents were males, 67.73% and 32.27% being females. Males were more involved in NTFPs than females. Almost half of the respondents 48.21% involved in NTFPs collection were older persons between 50 to 59 years. About 84.66% of rural population depend solely on the forest for their daily livelihood. The average sales of NTFPs per market period was GH₵172.12. The majority of NTFPs collectors in the study earned between GH₵101 to 200 for each market day. An estimated amount of GH₵ 3,000 - 4,999 is earned by most respondent from the sale of NTFPs annually. The most common NTFPs harvested were game, firewood, mushroom, snail, leave wraps and honey. Conclusion: It has become evident that the majority of rural populations rely on NTFPs for their basic cash inflow and food requirement. Earnings from NTFPs sales contributes about half of overall household income and annual expenditure. Poverty reduction policies must increasingly incorporate NTFPs as an alternative source of income for deprived rural populations across different parts of the country.

The bachelor´s thesis deals with the values of freedom and human dignity and their protection by international documents. More attention is paid to the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and article 19 of the Convention, which deals with the right for living independently and being included in the community. Next there is a description and comparison of three projects of co-habitation of people with disabilities and people without them. The comparison is from the point of freedom and dignified life. Among the chosen projects there is one, that acts as a social service sheltered housing (Villa Vallila), the second is informal co-habitation, which is closely connected to service social rehabilitation (Spolubyt), and the last is out of the system of social services absolutely (Gigabyt).

Practical bachelor thesis "Interest subcultures and is this still a hobby?" Radio reports on the life of communities connected with the way of spending free time deals with two selected subcultures of interest. Their members differ from the rest of society in the way they spend their free time. Selected subcultures are radio amateurs and fans of public transport. In the theoretical part, I describe the genre that I chose to report on these subcultures, and that is field report. I also mention the specifics of radio production, focusing on field report, I focus on the format of the podcast and I define the terms subculture and community. I also describe the mentioned subcultures. In the practical part, I use the knowledge from the theoretical part to create the basis of a radio series of reports. I made the first two episodes for this bachelor thesis. They focus on a detailed description of the activities that unite the subcultures, explaining their motivation, the problems they face, the internal relations between their members and their own view of the subculture.

The master thesis deals with the theme deinstitutionalization of residential social services and its transformation into community social services provided in natural community. The aim of this thesis is to describe basic principles of community social work, evaluation and importance of deinstitutionalization process nowadays and ascertain how social workers from residential social services in South Bohemian Region perceive deinstitutionalization of social work and how much they are aware of this matter. Theoretical part is focused on delimitation of basic terms related to the theme. It briefly describes residential social services in Czech Republic, transformation of social services, its causes and development in Czech Republic and foreign countries. This part of the thesis characterizes deinstitutionalization of social work services, advantages, disadvantages, risks and restraint of deinstitutionalization process and last but not least community social work and development of community social services. The practical part contains description of quantitative research realized by questioning method using online questionnaire, analysis and evaluation of dates and findings from questionnaire research. The research shows that social workers from residential social services consider deinstitutionalization of social services as positive process and important part of social services reform and that social workers have great awareness of this matter. However, they still want to know more about deinstitutionalization of social services. This thesis should not just serve as source of theoretical information about deinstitutionalization of social services, but it should represent a mean to raise awareness of importance and opportunities of deinstitutionalization of social services and utilization of community social services in social services transformation.

The thesis deals with environmental education programs in cities and towns of the USA. In the introductory part, it describes the idea and starting points of environmental education in the Czech Republic and the United States of America. It briefly describes environmental education in formal and non-formal education. It characterizes the urban environment and its determinants in relation to the offer of leisure programs. In the second part, it deals with six selected programs that were implemented in the USA between 2011 and 2021. It describes these programs and presents their evaluation from the perspective of participants and organizers. In the final part, it deals with the analysis of the evaluation of programmes, and it also mentions which one it sees as an inspirational example of good practice for urban environmental education programmes in the Czech Republic.

The aim of this thesis is to draw the reader's attention to the importance and necessity of community and social work with the community, which is not anchored in the Czech Republic by any legislation. The thesis draws attention to a number of ambiguous definitions of terms and different perspectives on social work with community, although many professional materials emphasize the need for functional communities, which are often replaced by social services. My thesis presents a deaf understanding of terms relating to community and community work. The emergence and gradual development of community social work then expands and refines the understanding of community work and its impact on society as a whole. The role of the social or community worker themselves then plays a crucial role in social work with the community, with clarification of their remit and job description being an essential part of social work with the community. The starting point for this work is the national and regional strategic documents that influence the direction of social work. The thesis then turns to research to answer the key question of whether current social work with the community in the Czech Republic is theory or practice.

Petr Černoch - Dining together in the New Testament church from the collective memory perspective - Abstract The collective memory is a relatively new method of studying early Christianity that was taken from the humanities, especially sociology. This diploma thesis chose it as its method of studying the phenomenon of dining together, especially in the manifestation of the ritual of the Eucharist in the 1st century AD. In the first chapter, right after the introduction, this work briefly discussed the development of the study of memory from the collective memory of Mauritius Halwbachs with its social roots. He influenced contemporary memory studies through Jan Assmann, who developed his collective memory of the cultural and described its connection to New Testament research. By defining Cultural Memory, he showed strong links in religion between identity, myth and ritual. The work tried to define the terms myth and ritual with which it operates The next chapter deals with the linguistic and literary world of books, where the words of the establishment of the ritual of the Eucharist are located, discusses their structure and references to food or dining together. The work tried to show the view of the collective memory and thus shed light on some places of tradition and the origin of the ritual of the...

The goal of this bachelor's thesis is to examine the basic conditions of Syrian identities in the Czechia and to find out whether they have created a transnational form of identity. The analytical part is written on the basis of findings from qualitative research, which was conducted through an interviews with 15 respondents of Syrian origin living in the Czechia. Factors influencing Syrian immigration may be related to the year of their arrival in the Czechia. The identity of Syrians in the Czechia can be variable over time and is conditioned very individually. Elements of transnational identity are manifested mainly by the older generations of Syrians. The religion and surroundings in which Syrians in the Czechia grow up may have an impact on the creation of their transnational identity. The Syrian community in the Czechia is not very comprehensive and concurrently not show signs of a diasporic community. The geopolitical orientation of Syrians in the Czechia may be influenced by their ethnic or religious identity. key words: Syrians, migration, integration, transnationalism, community, identity

This master's thesis looks into sociological perspectives on shared housing, or cohousing, and it is based on a case study of a project in Těšíkovská bydlina. The thesis picks up on the sociological studies of the community, which narrow down the influence of communities, and neighborly relations on the formation of shared housing. The thesis also describes various models of living together and provides specific examples of cohosing projects in various European countries. The second part of the thesis palces focus on the Bydlinská zahrádka project itself, where it employs the techniques of semi-structured interviews, narration and observation for a qualitiative study of the community. Drawing on the data garnered in this research, this work criticizes Tönnies' concepts of Gemeinshaft and Gesselschaft and further places the principles of shared living in our country in comparison with modern European trends. The work thus brings out a unique perspective on the phenomenom of cohousing in the Czech context and contributes to the discussion of why this way of living finds such a small response the Czech Republic.

This thesis deals with the corporeality of vegan athletes. It aims to clarify how the members of a specific vegan athlete community perceive their corporeality. It also describes the corporeality shaping process and how the process is affected by the community and by the shared body practices - mainly vegan diet and sports activities. The main concepts concerning this issue are habitus, embodiment, and the mindful body. This thesis's key ideas derive from Merleau-Ponty's views on corporeality, Csordas' embodiment, and Scheper-Hughes's and Lock's mindful body, which provided an analytical framework for this research. The research highlighted the importance of a strong community, which vegan athletes build. They can then act on the bodies of the community members and thus make bodies presenting veganism as sufficient. It is a sport that plays a crucial role in this, as it keeps bodies healthy and makes them strong. Sport thus functions as a defense for their practices, which are in the community's eyes the right way of living and respond to the current environmental crisis and immoral abuse of animals. It is the effort to defend and present veganism as sufficient that influences the practices shared in the researched community. These practices subsequently affect the formation and perception of the...

This bachelor's thesis is based on a five-week internship in the Philippines (Guimaras Island) in April / May 2019 mediated by the Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies. The work presents the island of Guimaras and functioning community-based tourist areas on the island. It further focuses on the attitude of visitors to this island in the issue of community tourism and their preferences or willingness to participate in this type of alternative travel. The evaluation is based on a questionnaire survey of 112 respondents as well as semi-structured interviews, which took place directly with representatives of certified CBRT on the island. The results show that although tourists are willing to participate in this type of tourism, the offer does not fully meet their travel requirements, this means there is therefore room for improvement and expansion of CBRT services. Finally, the requirements and shortcomings from the perspective of tourists on the issue of community tourism on the island of Guimaras in the Philippines are summarized.

The main aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyze chosen live-streaming platform and the term itself. Particular emphasis is focused on the description of Twitch.tv and its functions. An important segment is the stratification of represented content creators into three archetypal groups. The central element of this thesis is the aspect of interactivity, which defines streaming in all of its forms. Based on this author tries to present streaming as an artistic activity and the individual channels as an artificially created space suitable for easy self-presentation.

This research focuses on the Czech community of people interested in World War II, the so-called reenactors. This community focuses on an authentic depiction of the past. In this context, I deal in depth with the gender aspects of the reconstruction of the events of World War II through the reenacting scene. Whether women in the community accept their roles and whether they do not mind returning to the original position that women had in the 1940s. The key is to understand how the members of the reenactment think about the role of man and woman during the Second World War and how they produce this idea to this day in the reenactment scene. The motivations of members to participate and their ideas of the body are also important. This research is based on existing socio-anthropological frameworks. The qualitative method has been used. A total of nine interviews were conducted with members of this group to keep the gender ratio the same. In the end, five men and four women took part in the interviews. Women do not feel limited in their opportunities, when in fact they are limited by their dichotomously divided gender roles. Women, like men, are led to participate by a love of history and a reminder of the merits of men and women who took part in the fighting during World War II.

Participační plánování měst, kdy je do procesu zahrnuta veřejnost, je jedním z předpokladů udržitelného rozvoje. Má přímý vliv na kvalitu života, posiluje demokratické principy, transparentnost a odpovědnost při plánování města. Přesto se uvádění těchto metod do praxe potýká s řadou problémů. Autor se v článku zabývá aplikací participačních metod v městském plánování, jejich efektivitou, etikou a legislativním rámcem, srovnává je s metodami konvenčními a zkoumá limity jejich využití. Participatory urban planning, where the public is involved in the process, is one of the prerequisites for sustainable development. It has a direct impact on the quality of life, strengthens democratic principles, transparency and accountability in city planning. Still, putting these methods into practice faces a number of problems. The author of this article examines the application of participatory methods in urban planning, their effectiveness, ethics and legislative framework, and compares them with conventional methods and examines the limits of their use.

The aim of this master's thesis is to introduce hyperlocal media in the Czech Republic. In the theoretical part, the topic of hyperlocal media will be presented from the viewpoint of professional and citizen-journalism, user-generated content, participatory culture, role of watchdog and civic engagement. This thesis will also provide a definition and specification of hyperlocal media, circumstance of origin, their position, financial site and their future. Furthermore, another part of this thesis will also introduce some of the external projects, whereas the practical part will carefully examine fourteen hyperlocal media bodies in the Czech Republic; one medium of each region of the Czech Republic respectively. Specifically, the analysis is aimed towards graphical editing and thematical structure of hyperlocal media. The second practical part offers qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with the creators of the investigated hyperlocal media. The subjects of the interviews are primarily from the point of view of motivation, financial site, position and future of hyperlocal media. Based on the analysis, common elements and new findings of czech hyperlocal media will also be presented. A further important factor, besides the analysis results, is the complete list of all hyperlocal media...

Tato bakalářská práce je věnována výzkumu proměn irského tance v České republice. Výzkum byl prováděn kvalitativními metodami prostřednictvím zúčastněných pozorování, hloubkových polostrukturovaných rozhovorů a rešerší. Informátoři a informátorky výzkumu jsou tanečníci a tanečnice irského tance, jenž se v tomto oboru pohybují alespoň posledních pět let. Výzkumný terén pak představují irsky orientované události především v Brně a Praze konané v října 2018 do listopadu 2019. Ir České republice vyskytuje již od poloviny 90. let 20. století, přičemž tato práce spočívá ve zkoumání vybraných transformačních procesů a jejich vlivů na podobu irského tance, jak je známý dnes. Těmito procesy jsou globalizace

This thesis deals with alternative forms of education, particularly with home education and community learning and development. The first part of the thesis defines the key terms and deals with contemporary theories of upbringing. The thesis also deals with the philosophical point of view of child's upbringing and tries to pin down the principle of upbringing. Furthermore it describes a family as a medium of child's upbringing and describes its functions. In the same way a school as an institution and its function in child's upbringing are described. The thesis discusses primary education. The second part of thesis is dedicated to alternative forms of education, mainly the individual education. The thesis explains the term individual education and describes the home and community learning and development in the Czech Republic and throughout the world. Furthermore the thesis brings up advantages and disadvantages of such forms of education. The last part deals with the children's socialization within families, which bring them up at home.

This thesis studies the spatial distribution, integration and the diasporic nature of the ex-Yugoslav community living in Czechia and Prague. Theoretical concepts used are community studies, transnationalism, segregation, diasporic communities, and integration. Compared to other ethnic minorities in Czechia, ex-Yugoslavs are generally overlooked by research in social science. This immigrant generation is also the first instance of war refugees coming to Czechia in its modern history. The study of ex-Yugoslavs in the Czech society can potentially be useful for the future (research) of migration to Czechia. The first part of the thesis provides statistical data and a brief history of migration from the Balkans. This is followed up with the qualitative part of the thesis, where 13 ex- Yugoslavs are interviewed as a case study. The responses are coded and interpreted along with quotes. Ex-Yugoslavs display a preference for bigger cities, especially for Prague where they concentrate in the city centre, from whence their numbers radially decrease. The ex-Yugoslav community in Prague displays certain diasporic aspects, a "Yugoslav spirit" and a coexistence among nationalities. Many ex- Yugoslavs came here fleeing war and economic troubles. They have been successfully integrated and many have children,...