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Ageism between the young and the aged in the Czech Republic: Who they are and what they deslike about each other?
Trusinová, Romana ; Plecitá, Klára (advisor) ; Rabušic, Ladislav (referee) ; Vidovičová, Lucie (referee)
This paper focuses on ageism between extreme age groups of the adult population in the Czech Republic in an international comparison. It builds on the findings regarding the extent of the problem of ageism and the increasing importance of age as a social characteristic in modern societies. The objective is to enrich the traditional exploration of ageism as a problem relating to seniors with an analysis of mutual intergenerational relationships. Using the perspective of social identity theory, the relationships between young people and seniors are described as the result of the forming process of the own age and generational identities of young people and seniors and the mutual comparison and estranging of these groups. To answer the research questions regarding the methods of forming identities of the youth and age and the sources of mutual ageism, an analysis of qualitative interviews with young people and seniors and quantitative data from two international surveys (European Social Survey Round 4 and the International Social Survey Programme 2013) were used. Analyses in the empirical section show that ageism is more common in the Czech Republic than in other European country, and they also indicate the specific sources of ageism in the Czech environment. The importance of mutual expectations...
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Ageism between the young and the aged in the Czech Republic: Who they are and what they deslike about each other?
Trusinová, Romana ; Plecitá, Klára (advisor) ; Rabušic, Ladislav (referee) ; Vidovičová, Lucie (referee)
This paper focuses on ageism between extreme age groups of the adult population in the Czech Republic in an international comparison. It builds on the findings regarding the extent of the problem of ageism and the increasing importance of age as a social characteristic in modern societies. The objective is to enrich the traditional exploration of ageism as a problem relating to seniors with an analysis of mutual intergenerational relationships. Using the perspective of social identity theory, the relationships between young people and seniors are described as the result of the forming process of the own age and generational identities of young people and seniors and the mutual comparison and estranging of these groups. To answer the research questions regarding the methods of forming identities of the youth and age and the sources of mutual ageism, an analysis of qualitative interviews with young people and seniors and quantitative data from two international surveys (European Social Survey Round 4 and the International Social Survey Programme 2013) were used. Analyses in the empirical section show that ageism is more common in the Czech Republic than in other European country, and they also indicate the specific sources of ageism in the Czech environment. The importance of mutual expectations...
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Woman journalists working in Czech news media from the perspective of political economy of communication
Vochocová, Lenka ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Plecitá, Klára (referee) ; Havelková, Hana (referee)
The dissertation thesis Structures and hierarchies in professional discourse of journalists in the Czech Republic with a focus on the factor of gender deals with professional self-reflection of Czech daily news journalists from the perspective of feminist political economy. This attitude connects the field of gender media studies and the political economy of communication, stresses the intersection of gender and other factors (demographic, socio- cultural, economic, organizational) when examining the influences in the profession and poses questions about the extent of individual autonomy in both professional and extraprofessional hierarchies. The theoretical introduction defines the field of gender media studies in terms of topics and conflicting ideas, summarizes the conclusions of gender research on media institutions and focuses on the perspective of studying gender among many influences in the news such as economic, sociocultural and organizational factors. The analysis of in-depth interviews with Czech daily news journalists reveals how the importance of gender as an influence in news media is constructed in professional discourse in the context of other structural and organizational influences. Based on the collected data and its analysis, it suggests focusing in detail on the possible...
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Who are the postmaterialists?
Hanžlová, Barbora ; Stöckelová, Tereza (advisor) ; Plecitá, Klára (referee)
Who are the postmaterialists? Sociodemographic characteristics of those who bear postmaterialistic values in the Czech Republic and Germany This master thesis is devoted to the Value Change Theory formulated by Ronald Inglehart. This American sociologist came in the 1970's with a conclusion, that there is a substantial difference between the values of the generation that experienced war and the values of the post-war generation, which is experiencing an unprecedential economic growth. As a consequence these younger generations have different priorities called by Inglehart as postmaterialistic values in contrast to materialistic ones. The aim of this paper is to find out what are the socio-demographic characteristics of postmaterialists, whether they differ in time and over countries by using secondary data from the European Values Study and from International Social Survey Programme. The results support the theory only partly. Czech and German postmaterialists are both rather younger and more educated. But there is a difference when examining the influence of gender and the size of community, where they live. In the Czech Republic the probability of being a postmaterialist is higher among men and together with eastern Germany it is higher in big cities. For western Germany relationships were in...
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Ageism as a conflict of age groups
Benešová, Romana ; Plecitá, Klára (advisor) ; Soukup, Petr (referee)
Diplomová práce "Ageismus jako střet věkových skupin" pojednává o postavení a o vzájemných vztazích lidí různého stáří v České republice. Autorka se zaměřuje na význam a důsledky věkové kategorizace společnosti v očích jejích členů. Předmětem zájmu je zejména postavení mladých lidí ve věku 20 až 29 let a seniorů starších 70 let. Ageismus je totiž v této práci považován za nebezpečný fenomén, který se formuje v interakci odlišných věkových skupin. K interpretaci vztahů mezi věkovými skupinami autorka využívá perspektivu sociální psychologie, zejména aplikuje teorii sociální identity. V empirické části práce je na základě analýzy dat z kvantitativního výzkumu European Social Survey Round 4 nejprve zkoumán vztah jedince k jeho vlastní věkové skupině. Poté se autorka zaměřuje na popis sdílených stereotypů a předsudků vůči věkovým skupinám, na zkušenosti s věkovou diskriminací a na míru segregace věkových skupin ve společnosti. Na závěr jsou nastíněny možné cesty ke zmírnění ageismu, jejichž společným cílem je snaha o formování věkově integrovanější společnosti.
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