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Economic factors influencing suicide rate
Shoup, Šárka ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Vávra, Martin (referee)
This diploma thesis is devoted to the study of suicide in the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia). This thesis emphasizes the boom stage of the second half of the 1920s and the economic crisis of the first half of the 1930s and the financial crisis after 2008 and the economic boom after 2015. These two stages are important due to classical crises and booms that occurred in the market economy era. The methodology of the diploma thesis is based on selected theoretical concepts that deal with the influence factors have on suicide rates. Their subsequent application to the stages of the mentioned booms and crises in the selected periods shows their relevance for explaining this researched phenomenon in the given country. This work aims to evaluate the current state of research and find the most suitable methods and indicators that will be subjected to empirical testing using the analysis of selected stages in the author's thesis. The theoretical part presents how the topic developed during the 19th and 20th centuries. The analytical part proves the validity of the theoretical concepts; which examine the extent to which there is a connection between the suicide rate and chosen factors in the observed periods. The author thus uses empirical evidence in the diploma thesis to verify the validity of...
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"Stay Safe/Stay United/Stay In Touch" - Experiential communitas, belonging, and participation in Prague's electronic dance music scene during the COVID-19 pandemic
Gere, Nóra ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Minářová, Markéta (referee)
With the social distancing measures related to COVID-19, the party life in the Czech Republic went through major changes. Offline parties were no longer possible within the governmental framework. Practices that previously were self-evident became impossible to maintain. Attendees were pushed to rely on the online possibilities of scene participation or invent novel modes to stay connected. Through an analysis of both online and offline participation, this paper examines how their sense of community and belonging to the electronic dance music (EDM) scene changed during the pandemic. The data was collected via multiple methods. The core of the research is semi-structured interviews, fieldnotes, and netnography. Moreover, data from an online questionnaire was used to triangulate and thicken the findings. This research aimed to outline the core features of a party and the attendees' practices and values that construct or re-enforce belonging and feeling of community. For the analysis, a theoretical framework building on the concepts of communitas by Victor Turner and connectedness by Tim Olaveson was used. The data revealed that a good event heavily relies on the corporeal and physical. Therefore, the term experiential communitas was introduced as a concept which describes this special, sensory-...
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To the Witches and Ghosts Among Us: Creating Space for Non-Human Agents within Academia
Wasif, Zoya ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Coman, Adam (referee)
One glaring condition of the enlightenment and modernity is that human beings have been placed at the centre of the world in majority of academic disciplines, a condition which the Social Sciences have not been spared from. Our laws do not make space for any other agent than the human, resulting in a worldview that is emptied out of magic and external change and within which the divine does not have an agentive role. The project aims to explore how we as scholars can be more accepting of and hospitable of multiple temporalities. Following the guidelines prescribed by grounded theory; I have conducted fifteen in depth interviews with Pakistanis who claim to have had a supernatural encounter of any sort. My analysis, which is divided into four categories pertaining to haunted houses, rural areas, an urban legend and curses, reveals that taking presence seriously aids rather than hampers sociological knowledge and understanding.
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The Reinterpretation of the figure of Achilles in the Literature of Early Empire
Málková, Kateřina ; Bažil, Martin (advisor) ; Šubrt, Jiří (referee)
This thesis attempts to outline and reinterpret the concept of the character of Achilles, which is often considered very schematic, in the Roman literature of the early empire. It tries to prove that its treatment is, on the contrary, based on a number of often contradictory features, properties and motives, and therefore cannot be simplified. In the introductory part of the work, attention is paid to Achilles' depiction in the Iliad and in the works of Roman authors of the Augustan era (Catullus, Horace, Propertius, Vergil, Ovid), which forms the basis for later texts. The main part of the work focuses on specific authors of the early imperial period (the author of the Ilias Latina, Dictys of Crete, Statius, Seneca) and, by analyzing selected passages, an attempt is made to determine Achilles' key motives in individual works and in the given period.
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Video game playing as a component and factor forming an identity
Míka, David Tomáš ; Mlynář, Jakub (advisor) ; Šubrt, Jiří (referee)
Main focus of this work is to examine whether video gaming experience has an impact on a person's identity. As the impact has been proven during the personal practical research, this work further tries to explain how exactly these two variables - videogames and identity - corelate with each other. This work also tries to describe how exactly the gaming influence manifests within and upon a person's identity. These descriptions and explanations are often done through citing real quotes of casual to semi-hardcore gamers, gathered with self-made interviews. Main topics in this work are: change of identity, perception of reality, world knowledge and worldview, personal values and morality beliefs, strong and important relationships and human connections, memory recalling and lastly, media comparison. Keywords: video games, identity, Self, interview, impact and change, world perception, memory, immersion.
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Women in the role of breadwinners and care-takers: work and family stratefies of single mothers. Qualitative inquiry
Pfeiferová, Štěpánka ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Dudová, Radka (referee)
The thesis "Women in the Role of Breadwinners and Care-takers: Work and Family Strategies of Single Mothers. Qualitative Inquiry" was written on the bases of a qualitative inquiry concerning the mutual relationship of single mother's work and private lives which is a part of the research "The Context of Changes in the Labour Market and Forms of Private, Family and Partner Life in Czech Society", carried out by the Gender and Sociology Department of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The first part tries to survey the important labour market changes and the most distinctive family behaviour trends after 1989. The analytic part has as its subject to observe the mutual relationship of the changes within the two fields on a particular group of single mothers. To seize the problem, the method of semi-structured qualitative interviews was used, completed by a statistical analysis of previous representative survey data. The procedures applied should have helped to find an answer to the two key questions: In which way the current labour market demands reflect in the partnerships' fragility and How the single mothers' family situation affects their work behaviour. It reveals that structural changes of the labour market are closely related to the family-life modifications. It...
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An introduction to the history of western urban sociology: the period from Georg Simmel to Louis Wirth
Soušková, Alena ; Duffková, Jana (advisor) ; Šubrt, Jiří (referee)
This paper attempts to track the history of western urban sociology from its early beginnings to Louis Wirth (1897-1952), a member of the third generation of Chicago School of Urban Sociology. It focuses on famous European founders of sociology and their ideas and works regarding the city phenomenon. The author aims to explain why their works with the subject of city are not so relevant for urban sociology as the two texts central for this paper - Georg Simmel's essay The Metropolis and Mental Life and the Wirth's article Urbanism as a Way of Life. The paper opens a chapter devoted to early European sociologists and their reflection of cities in their works. Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Ferdinand Tonnies, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber are in the main scope of the chapter. The following section is dedicated to Georg Simmel and analyses his text about metropolis. Next chapter considers the Chicago School of Urban Sociology, to certain extend inspired by Simmel's work, further elaborating the theory of urban sociology. The section focuses among others on Robert E. Park and the approach of human ecology crucial for early urban sociology. The next chapter presenting Louis Wirth and his famous article points out the sources of inspiration and the criticism raised by the article. The paper concludes by a chapter...
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Public Opinion Surveys in China
Smolařová, Lucie ; Vinopal, Jiří (advisor) ; Šubrt, Jiří (referee)
Based on the examination of the relevant literature and findings from academic survey research, this Master's thesis focuses on the reflection of the political development in public opinion research in China and on the contour of local collective opinion. Its theoretical part stems from James Bryce's theory of the development of public opinion and from the writings of Irving Crespi who noted that the extent and role of public opinion research in different political regimes rely on the acceptance of public opinion in the political process and on the basis of governmental legitimacy. The increasing pluralization of public opinion, which is the result of the processes tied to Chinese economic liberalization and which has been reflected in the official ideology and in the growing emphasis on public opinion polling claimed by the government, is still outweighed by the inclination of the Chinese Confucian society towards authoritarian leadership. The liberalization process is further reflected in the extent of public opinion research; however, recent studies show that the results from public opinion polls are not reported objectively and survey responses of Chinese respondents are strongly influenced by the political regime. KEYWORDS China, public opinion, polls, legitimacy, James Bryce, Irving Crespi
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Formation of market institutions at the turn of 19 and 20 centry in Russia
Zhereb, Alexandra ; Müller, Karel (advisor) ; Šubrt, Jiří (referee)
Diploma thesis "Formation of market institutions in Russia at the turn of 19th and 20th century" discusses the creation of a modern capitalist economy and the market institutions in Russia in the 19th century. The selected period undoubtedly changed not only the social and economic system, but the overall Russian history. In this study, the significant role plays the analysis of trade institutions, which are very important in determining the modern economic system. Also, one of the parts of this thesis is the analysis of social, economic and community development, geographical particularities, international relations and the level of industrialization. The aim of this diploma thesis is to analyse the causes and results of the formation of market institutions in Russia, as the criteria for the transition from traditional to modern society. The thesis also compares the Russian experience with the experience of other European countries.
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The Sociology of Emil Lederer and Its Implications for Today
Jáchymová Královcová, Magdalena ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Janák, Dušan (referee) ; Havelka, Miloš (referee)
Emil Lederer (1882 - 1939), born in Pilsen, Czech Republic, was an important figure of German social sciences. A close colleague of Max Weber and friend of Karl Mannheim or J. A. Schumpeter, he taught at universities in Heidelberg, Berlin and Tokyo. After fleeing Germany, he helped Alvin Johnson, director of the New School for Social Research, found the "University in Exile." Lederer's research centered on contemporary social problems, approaching them in a critical, objective, empirically- based way. One of the first to study the new middle classes before World War I, he also dealt with unemployment, technological progress and business cycles. Additionally, his analysis of state and its sovereignty in war lead him to study the question of totalitarianism. The present thesis first offers a detailed look at the events in Lederer's life which influenced his scientific work. Its central section presents the main ideas of Lederer's posthumous, and sociologically most important, monograph State of the Masses. Placing it within the context of his previous work, the thesis demonstrates the evolution of Lederer's thinking. By comparing the work with Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism the thesis confirms existing assumptions that Lederer's text served as an unrecognized inspiration for Arendt. The...
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