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Social change in Moldova (1991-2017) in the social science and political expertise reflection
Matei, Mihaela ; Maslowski, Nicolas (advisor) ; Německý, Marek (referee)
This thesis analyses the interception of the social change in the social science and politically expert literature from a historical perspective of the post-soviet development of the Republic of Moldova. The first chapter introduces the main hypotheses and the research design of the master thesis. The following chapter offers the development of the concept social change in a larger context of the classical and new theories. The aim of the thesis is to find out theories of social change in the Moldovan literature between after 1991. The results of a content analysis will be presented in the third chapter. Finally, the last section of the thesis focuses on suggestions for the further development of this analysis.
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Health within the frame of social discourse
Kučírková, Rút ; Vávra, Martin (advisor) ; Německý, Marek (referee)
The main goal of my thesis is to characterize the conception of "Health in the framework of social discourse" by the means of data analysis and analysis of supporting documentation of explanatory reports of governmental bills regulating the fields of hygiene, preventive measures and health protection within Czech republic, focused mainly on the field of public healthcare system. Theoretical part attempts to picture the above stated matter in a social context of modern society, to point out the ideological connection of how well-being of an individual is perceived in a social system in terms of its function. The main subject of the analysis will be explanatory report regarding a historical First republic law No. 332/1920 Coll., explanatory notes from the communist era - Law. No. 4/1952 Coll. on hygienic and anti-epidemic care and law no. 20/1966 Coll., on public healthcare. The last analyzed era will be the era after year 1989, which will be represented by explanatory notes regarding law no. 258/2000 Coll., on protection of public health and law no. 372/2011 Coll., on healthcare services. The text analysis is based on Analysing discourse method combined with content quantitative method. Text of this thesis is divided to theoretical part, description of the methodology, historical overview of...
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Sociology of suicide and the Czech case
Agakishieva, Zhanna ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Německý, Marek (referee)
Diploma thesis "Sociology of suicide and the Czech case" deals with the phenomenon of suicide. The suicide problematics is discussed in two aspects. The theoretic part includes discussion and comparative analysis of sociological works dealing with the suicide phenomenon. The thesis analyzes classical theories of sociologists Emil Durkheim, Piritim Sorokin, Tomáš G. Masaryk and later concepts offered by Jack D. Douglas and Edwin S. Shneidman. These authors considered suicide to be a social phenomenon, which is primarily influenced by social integration level. Social integration means involvement of an individual to the social group or society. Analysis of sociological literature on suicide phenomenon provides basis for better understanding of available suicide rates statistics in the Czech environment and moreover allows deriving sociological determinants of suicidality, which are central for the following analysis of the Czech Republic case. Empirical or analytical part of the thesis is oriented on research and analysis of available statistic data on suicide rates and suicide dynamics in the Czech Republic. The main focus is revealing of suicidality structure. It means analysis of correlations between suicide rate and concrete factors, such as sex, age, education level, and unemployment rate. The...
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Czechoslovak intelligence service in Peru during the normalization period
Spurný, Martin ; Vávra, Martin (advisor) ; Německý, Marek (referee)
Diploma thesis is about the activities of Czechoslovak intelligence service in Peru between 1970 and 1989. The main aim of the thesis is a detailed description and analysis of archival documents. The thesis is divided into the theoretical and empirical parts. The theoretical part describes the context and history of the communist security services. In the theoretical part is also defining the use of discourse analysis and special attention is devoted to communist ideology. The empirical part is further divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the description of the intelligence hierarchy, its activities, political context and the role of other secret services. The second part focuses on exploring argumentation strategies, labeling social actors using discursive analysis. At the end of the thesis, research questions concerning the activity and language of a specific workplace of the Czechoslovak intelligence service are answered.
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What holds society together? The concept of societal community and constitutive symbolism in Talcott Parsons, Richard Münch and Jeffrey Alexander
Německý, Marek ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Skalník, Petr (referee) ; Musil, Jiří (referee)
1. In my thesis I try to answer the question: "What holds society together?" by using theoretical conceptual tools of Parsonian functionalist sociology. I work especially with Parson's concept of societal community as it is defined in his book Socities. Evolutionary and Comparative Perspective. I work with the definition of societal community used in this book. Societal community is formed on one hand by a normative system of order, on the other hand by statuses, rights and obligations derived from membership thereof. [Parsons 1966: 31] I work with this skizza concept and try to reconstruct Parsons's concept by using conception of other authors, especially neo-functionalists (Jeffrey Alexander, Richard Munch, Samuel Eisenstadt), and by other authors as well (David Lockwood, Stein Rokkan, Lewis Coser, John Rawls). In spite of the fact that I use the interpreations of these authors, I consider my thesis an original piece of work, because especially last named authors do not explicitly use the concept of societal community. I reconstructed the concept of societal community with the complexity which cannot be found in the works of other authors [Gerhardt 2001]. 2. In the first step I try to reconstruct the concept based on the work of Talcott Parsons. I came to the conclusion that Parsons sees the...
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The Experience of New Social Media
Farrier, Ellie ; Dudová, Radka (advisor) ; Německý, Marek (referee)
-The Experience of New Social Media Communication with friends and family around the world is something that American expats in Prague have much experience with. Throughout this study, the author has attempted to relate in-depth user experiences with social media to both new media and historical sociology concepts, in order to better understand how social media is used and understood. The phenomenological research conducted focuses on varied user experiences of four Americans expats currently living in Prague, Czech Republic. The experiences explored begin with the respondents' adolescent experiences with social media and the internet, and continue through their current age as young adults. The sources used to interpret and understand these user experiences range from Erving Goffman and Pierre Bourdieu, to Marshall McLuhan and Karl Marx. The author's goal in the study was to test how both historical and new media theories hold true to concrete user experiences with social media and the internet. Keywords: user experience, media, technology, phenomenological research, social media, communication
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(Re)construction of the Kosovo Crisis. The Kosovo Crisis from the view of the selected historical-sociological theories
Dobešová, Jana ; Vávra, Martin (advisor) ; Německý, Marek (referee)
1. ABSTRACT The goal of my work is to reconstruct the Kosovo crisis, that led to NATO intervention on Yugoslavia during spring of 1999. The event is analyzed from two dimensions; the first observes and compares existing interpretations of the crisis- causes, process, solutions and consequences, including possible predictions. The other dimension interprets crisis from the view of international relationships. Studying historical sociology made me watch the world, actions, actors, complexly. I realized, that phenomenons don't exist just to be her for themselves, but they are the different parts of a system, that is connected by different ties, and sustained by rules. Kosovo crisis is a differently interpreted event. The different presentations derive from the discourses under which they formed. Kosovo crisis has its historiographical facts- place, time and actor, on to which social constructs lean and which form. Kosovo crisis is a social construct, historical milestone, symbol, stage, game, field and a process. In my work I aim to prove these claims by analyzing the interpretations and applying the international relationship theories.
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