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DREAM AND REALITY: Case studies of sustainable living in Czech Republic
RYBÁK, Hynek
This thesis aim to theoretically and empirically cover the theme of self-sufficient way of living in full spectrum from local economy supporting associations to clear pictures of live of the people who are trying to live self-sufficient. The work deals with many forms of self-sufficiency: energetic self-support, home schooling and sharing. In theoretical part of the work author specifies research questions whose are used for expanding and verifying conclusions or data from another researches. In the empirical part author analyse data collected during an ethnographic research (participant observation and semi-structured interviews in three households.
Rainbow family: etnografické zkoumání jedné soudobé hippies komunity
RYBÁK, Hynek
This thesis analysis and describes contemporary hippie community Rainbow Family, using sociological methods and knowledge. It examines behaviour and motives of its members and attempts to understand their way of thinking. The findings were acquired during field research with the usage of ethnographic methods: participant observation and non-structured interviews with the participants of the meeting. A part of ethnographical research is also authors attempt to capture his/hers attitude towards the examined before and after own research. Considering the limited experience with field research, this thesis will be focused mainly on things that were possible to examine within the collected ethnographic data. In this study are confronted ideals of the participants on how the meetings should work with real experience from the research. Thanks to this, the weaknesses of the working of the community come to surface and so does situation where the structure of the community finds its limits. The author tries to capture the most complex situations he can, all of which form the experience of a typical participant of the meeting. The author does not aim to affect the laws that apply in the researched community. He aims to capture the authentic experience of meeting the Rainbow Family.

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