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The Cultural Attraction Theory and its Empirical Evidence
Hillerová, Pavlína ; Havlíček, Jan (advisor) ; Horský, Jan (referee)
One of the approaches to study cultural evolution is the cultural attraction theory. This thesis aims to introduce this theory via literature analysis and subject it's empirical backing to a critique. The opening chapter briefly presents the theory and describes the circumstances of it's formation. Next, I outline the specific theoretical concepts (culture as a chain of representations, attractors, transformations). Mainly, the latter are complemented with empirical studies, both supporting and conflicting the respective theory. The last part of the thesis compares cultural attraction theory against dual inheritance theory, which has been contrasted by the aforementioned from the very beginning. Both of these perspectives have it's specifics and can provide an explanation for distinct cultural phenomena. These two theories can complement one another and together constitute an integral theory for cultural evolution study.
Significance of bastioned fortifications to developmental process of military revolution
Wohlmuth, Petr ; Horský, Jan (advisor) ; Matlas, Pavel (referee)
English Abstract This Master Degree (Mgr.) thesis, takes up the topic of so called Military Revolution theory debate, focusing on historical and social developmental process, unfolding in the Early modern Europe. Military revolution is conceptualised as a source of far reaching societal change, having a civilisational dimension, contributing to overall weberian rationalisation process, happening in the Occident. In this text, military revolution is theoretically approached as a non-substantional developmental process and its structure and dynamics are analyzed using customized version of actor-network-theory of Bruno Latour. In this attempt, usual assumptions of natural ontological continuity, totality and developmental character of social realm are critically suppressed. Theoretical outcome of this thesis, based upon historical evidences, confirms, that even using this profoundly critical approach, military revolution possesses a distinctive quality of a developmental process and it can serve as a strong cognitive instrument of social sciences for researching Early modernity in Europe. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
A "spirit history" of Zdenek Kalista and German Geistesgeschichte
Čtvrtník, Mikuláš ; Beneš, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Horský, Jan (referee)
The thesis deals with two crucial motifs. The first is the characterization of methodological concept of the spirit history as a specific historiographical movement outlined by Zdeněk Kalista. The author studies in detail all principal questions that Kalista tried to solve in his spirit history. The analysis is based not only on Kalista's texts concerning the methodology of history but his non-methodological historical works as well. Other Czech historians related to Kalista (also the ones that he was following to) are remarked. Besides Jaroslav Goll and Josef Pekař, first of all, Max Dvořák must be mentioned. It's no accident that Max Dvořák is classed as a significant representative of German Geistesgeschichte. The thesis includes an attempt to compare Dvořák's concept of history, like history of art as a place of expression of the epoch spirit and Kalista's spirit history. The second important sphere reflected in the thesis is the tradition of German Geistesgeschichte, specific historiographical trend that appeared primarily in the first half of the twentieth century. Detailed study of this tradition is essential if we seek deeper understanding of Kalista's methodology of history since Kalista followed this tradition by its spirit history and at the same time he tried to bring the definition of his own...

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