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Adaptation of Spanish language teachers in the contemporary Czech republic: about the adaptation of specific minority
Sečková, Kateřina ; Soukup, Martin (referee) ; Soukup, Václav (advisor)
Job migration is a very developed phenomenon in the world today. After 1989 many foreigners from all over the world started coming to the Czech Republic. Also the mutual relations between Spain and the Czech Republic began to reinforce in all aspects. It was not only Spanish tourists who came to Czech Republic but also university students, specialised workers and businessmen, who came for longer periods. Moreover, after the entry of the Czech Republic to the European Union the process of employing foreigners became even easier for European Union citizens. Nowadays there is a Spanish minority living in the Czech Republic. This minority is formed mainly by men, official statistics (to May 31st, 2008) allege 498 persons. Spanish people in the Czech Republic live mainly in Prague (because of the biggest job market, seat of business of many companies and schools.) This work deals with the adaptation strategies of Spanish teachers of Spanish language to the conditions in the Czech Republic. The aim was to find out how the process of adaptation of the chosen group proceeds. The qualitative research was chosen for the data acquisition, the main method was a direct unstructured interviewing and side methods were participant observation and diagnostic drawing. From October 2006 to August 2008 I carried out eight...
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Maori culture
Pirunčíková, Libuše ; Soukup, Václav (referee) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor)
This project is trying to get into Maori 's history, culture and conflicts of Maori's population. It describes inhabiting New Zealand by Moari, discovering these islands by Abel Janszoon Tasman and conflicts that came up during the conquering of New Zealand by European colonists, because of the diversity of both cultures. The important part of Maori's history includes war conflicts until mid 20's, when the renesaince of the falling culture started to happened. Since the end of the world war II. the New Zealand goverments are trying to settle down all the harms done to the Maoris in the past and they are slowly trying to get used to these changes.
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The phenomenon of a stranger in male and female culture
Kučerová, Jitka ; Czumalo, Vladimír (referee) ; Soukup, Václav (advisor)
Modern society does not support variety. Globalization proves this and it affects gender, as well. Society tends to negate variety and reacts inappropriately - by segregation, ridicule, suspicion, etc. Variety is still understood as something of little value. This work studies the issue of variety in gender, whose problems it compares to problems of a stranger. It analyzes both issues in the perspective of modern Western society and offers the analogy of gender issue and the issue of a stranger. This analogy is outlined in three major areas of social life: family x society, specific male and female occupations, and partner relationships. Our work especially stresses tolerance and willingness to find what is realistic in contrast to prejudices. Any kind of discrimination not only disturbs the discriminated but also the discriminating. The obscurity of gender roles in modern times and difficulties in understanding these roles lead to negative effects for both sexes, including a lack of freedom.
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Film festival
Šedivá, Kristina ; Soukup, Václav (referee) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor)
The theme of this thesis is the film festival from historical and contemporary perspective. The first chapters are mainly focused on the development and decosecration of festivities, sabbaths and celebrations. I have conducted an analysis of the ancient official sabbaths focusing on the process of a gradual separation of sabbaths and folklore festivities, in which order and formality are suppressed, from those festivities which have standing order and rules. As a connecting thread between the traditional festivities and contemporary form of the festivals I have chosen the theme of spontaneity, liberation from hierarchical relations, norms and commitments. Further more I was looking for an interconnection based on the ritualistic behavior of festival and festivity participants. I found a certain similarity between the ritualistic behavior of traditional community members, people from the Middle Ages, renaissance era, and modern contemporary society. I have observed forms of ritualistic behavior among festival visitors particularly those visiting Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. For several years I have been professionally involved with this Festival and simultaneously have had the opportunity to compare KV IFF with other Czech and European festivals, which I attend regularly.
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Towards understanding the culture of the Rif Berbers
Doležalová, Kateřina ; Soukup, Václav (referee) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor)
This thesis is focused on the Moroccan people, known as the Rif Berbers. Berbers were Morocco's first inhabitants, they are spread over the country, from the Rif mountains in the north to the Atlas mountains and the desert in the south. Berbers are still the majority today, accounting for about 60 percent of Morocco's 30 million citizens. But they are treated like a minority by the members of the dominant Arab culture. The interdisciplinary study explores some aspects of the way of life of the Rif Berbers and uniqueness of their culture, which is mostly threatened by poverty. Chapter 10 examines also the cannabis cultivation in the Rif region. Apart from my bibliographical research, I also conducted some additional interviews and observations for my thesis (September 2004 - January 2008).
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Language, adaptation, and culture
Novotná, Magda ; Opletalová, Lenka (referee) ; Soukup, Václav (advisor)
The main objective of the diploma work Language, Adaptation and Culture is to approach the question of an adaptation of a foreigner through the process of learning the Czech language. A foreigner being new to a particular society has to go through many unknown situations concerning his behavioral patters, his language knowledge as well as his habits and attitudes. I find this process of learning the new "know how" very interesting to study as it brings important ideas and experiences to the intercultural relations. This work particularly focuses on the role of "native" language knowledge in the process of acculturation of an individual. It consists of two parts. The theoretical part, divided into six chapters, is firstly dealing with the terms of acculturation and how it is perceived by both anthropology and cross-cultural psychology. Secondly the focus is put on the phenomena of a foreigner and the characteristic of the relation between "we" group and "they" group. The third chapter is dedicated to the question of a foreigner in the Czech environment, following by the chapter five introducing the origins of language as well as the linguistic anthropology as it is presented by the contemporary human science studies. The sixth part's objective is to briefly inform about the techniques of the qualitative...
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Hair as a text - on culture semiotics
Rejchrtová, Anna ; Soukup, Václav (referee) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor)
In this thesis the author focused on hair and its symbolic meanings. The hair is a fascinating object with specific features surrounded by myths, magic power and poetry. The hair is first associated with sexuality, thanks to which it has become a symbol of fertility and virility. As a sign of femininness it is adored and appreciated in poetry and art. As a sign of virility and potence it is associated with mythological heroes. The Author has chosen some moments that link with this symbolism. In the part devoted to female hair the author is interested in erotic aspects of hair and its influence on social status and art of nineteenth century. Female hair is not only the object of erotic sensuality, its beauty can be also uncanny. The art of decadence and art deco introduces woman's hair as an powerful and essential part of femme fatale. The part about male hair focused on symbolism of supernatural and divine power. The biblical story of Samson has its roots in perception of long hair. As a symbol of revolt and freedom it became an important weapon of underground culture in the Communist Czechoslovakia. The last chapter is about hair and its importance in itself. The author has asked people with long hair about the meaning their hair has had for them. The attachement is created by answers of long-haired women,...
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Gender and culture in the context of equal opportunities
Doležalová, Eva ; Soukup, Václav (advisor) ; Opletalová, Lenka (referee)
The purpose of this dissertation is an analysis of the problems of gender, especially as applicable to the media and the implementation of equal opportunity policies. As an employee of the marketing division of a transnational corporation, I had the opportunity, since 2002, to maintain regular contact with the media marketplace while, at the same time, tracking developments in the implementation of equal opportunity policies in practice. The theory-based introduction is devoted to history, terminology, and developmental changes of gender into a cultural construct that can become the basis for mapping the theme onto the Czech environment. The next chapter covers social aspects of gender, especially equal opportunity policies and the tools used to implement them. A separate chapter on sexuality attempts to outline the differences between male and female sexuality in a somewhat different light. A chapter discussing the interrelationship between gender and the media completes the theory-based portion of this dissertation. This chapter reviews factors that influence the socialization of a human being in society, but also the creation, reproduction and strengthening of gender stereotypes and inequities. Content analysis is an important data source for this dissertation, since it permits us to depict the current...
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The influence of the Catholic church on the status of women in contemporary Czech and Italian society
Zoufalá, Marcela ; Soukup, Václav (advisor) ; Matějů, Martin (referee)
The object of the work is an empirical-theoretical analysis of the relation between institutionalized religious faith and the female role in the given context.There are several fundamental topics we have focused on in this comparative research: divorce, contraception, interruption, AIDS and preservative, assisted reproduction, the potential promotion of women in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and duty of celibacy. The project is composed of two relatively independent parts. The concept of the first part forms a theoretical base, which should map the historical changes of the family institution, the phenomenon of gender as a cultural construct and the role of the Catholic Church as a significant sociocultural imperative. Second, the empirical part of the project requires survey-based research among Czech and Italian women. So far the questionnaire has been distributed in Italy (March - May 2005; the number of collected questionnaires from Italian respondents is 411) and in the Czech Republic (May - July 2006; the number of collected questionnaires from Czech respondents is 411). The next country where the research will be worked out is Slovakia (in the year 2007/2008).
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