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Certified Nursing Assistants A "Bottom-Up" Etnography of a Health Care Institution
 Votřel, Jan ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (advisor) ; Stöckelová, Tereza (referee)
This thesis is based on a 10-month field work conducted in a retirement home. The empirical part is rooted in the fact that the author of this work actually became a part of the institution for a several months as its employee at the position of a certified nursing assistant. This perspective naturally enabled him to focus on a description of daily routines, taking place within the mentioned institution, from a perspective of a certified nursing assistant as well as on his interactions with the clients, which occur during these daily routines. Paying attention to the mutual interactions of both enables us to perceive how the dominant discourse in public health care works. It is particularly revealed through disciplinary techniques. The analysis of the disciplinary techniques follows the theory of power by Michel Foucault, which seems to prove that not only the clients but also the certified nursing assistants are being disciplined during the everyday practices of the given institution. Their position is at the lowest level of the hierarchy of health care system and this - in a way - dooms them to being disciplined since they are a part of the same routines as are the clients. Moreover, the analysis of the mutual power relationships between the certified nursing assistants and the clients shows that...
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Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
 VOTŘEL, Jan
This work is concerned to an anthropological theory of linguistic relativism, that is called Sapir {--} Whorf hypothesis. This theory sais, that the language we use in-fluences our thought and our understanding of the world around us (our {\clqq}worl-dview``). The work deals with the historical antecedents of the hypothesis, focuses at characteristics of the hypothesis itself, at it´s empirical support and scarify it. Finally, the work shows some other theories that are similar to the Sapir {--} Whorf hypothesis.
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