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"Becoming a Facebook User": the mystery of (not) leaving
Dlouhá, Marie ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Balon, Jan (referee)
Recently, facebook has become an important communication and intercation medium and social phenomenon. It attracts attention thanks to its broad audience, and it raises questions of safety and privacy, "addiction", identity and self-presentation. The study Becoming a Facebook User (the title is inspired by Howard Becker's article) is focused primarily on the question of (not) leaving - by using qualitative methods that explore "addiction" to facebook. Using methods of ethnographic interviews and interactionist analysis based on Erving Goffman's dramaturgical approach, broadened by the theory of Joshua Meyrowitz, this work shows that to be a facebook user is not a state but a career. An analysis of the individual stages of usership demonstrates the main reason for "addiction" - the "middle region" - i.e. the places where various audiences meet and there are many options for interacting with a large number of people from diverse environments. This text shows that "middle region" provides some advantages as long as there is effective management of the interactional regions that should prevent overloading, i.e. confusion. The management of regions and the study thereof in terms of a career means investment by a user in time and effort, which together with the advantages that such a management "middle...
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Medico ergo sum. Construction of symbolic inequalities and boundaries between physicians and healers /and their professional identity
Dostálová, Lenka ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Grygar, Jakub (referee)
My diploma thesis deals with the relationship and more specifically with the boundaries and inequalities between scientific medicine and alternative medicine from the constructionistic and interactionistic point of view. It explores how the boundaries are constructed by the representatives of biomedicine on one side and the representatives of alternative medicine on the other side. This thesis is based on a qualitative research - semi-standardised interviews with members of both systems of medicine. The state and the role of alternative medicine in czech setting is presented to the reader and the construction of boundaries in this context is explored. The thesis shows that the representatives of biomedicine build boundaries mainly based on moral aspects, while the representatives of alternative medicine have larger and more varied repertoire of boundaries. The fact is probably given by structural conditions and the role of alternative medicine - while the representatives of biomedicine "only" want to maintain the status quo, the representatives of alternative medicine struggle to change their situation, which requires bigger effort.
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Strategies and Practices used by Vicars and female Vicars to affecting number of Believers
Matoušová, Jana ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Kandert, Josef (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the problem how parish priests and female parish priests respond to the trends in the number of the believers who attend their worships and the strategies used by parish priests to keep the current number of believers constant, or even how to increase it. According to the results of population census the number of believers organized in three largest Czech religious denominations has been decreased in the last 20 years. The attitudes and opinions of parish priests and female parish priests on the number of their believers have been examined with the help of a qualitative research. Nine semi-structured interviews with parish priests and female parish priests of three largest Czech churches, which are the Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Church and the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, have been done. According to the obtained data we can identify two strategies currently used by clergymen. The first one is a passive approach to addressing believers during ritualistic religious ceremonies. The parish priests and female parish priests who noticed a decrease in the number of their believers identify themselves with this strategy. On the other hand the other group is characterized by efforts to organize a huge number of cultural events and programs for the general public....
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Academic plagiarism in the dramaturgical perspective
Tůmová, Markéta ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Šamánek, Jan (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Academic plagiarism in dramaturgical perspective" deals with the representation of the problem of academic plagiarism in media on the case of Professor Ivo Budil. The first part of the thesis deals with theoretical concepts. There is mentioned the history of the view of author and authorship and normative view of the problem as a legislative, moral and ethic problem. The main idea is composed of the dramaturgical concept of Erving Goffman together with the labelling and stigmatic theory. The author view plagiarism as a social construction which is the result of successful enforcement of situational definition as plagiarism. Analytic part deals with the qualitative content analysis of fifty texts about the case of Prof. Ivo Budil. Presents the main participants who engaged in the case and reflect which instruments they used to enforce to label or not label Budil as plagiarist. It leads to the result that designation of the plagiarist is the result of dramaturgical performance of participants and labelling stigmatic label to plagiarist.
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'We're such a normal family, only we have that Jamie' System approach to studying families with a handicapped child
Mičínová, Veronika ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Volek, Martin (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the problems of family coexistence in families with a handicapped child. It discusses how the disability of the child manifests itself in the life of the family as a whole and in the lives of every single family member. The first part presents actual findings about families with a child with disability, submits both negative and positive impacts of such coexistence on individual family members, namely on parents, siblings and grandparents. Subsequently it introduces a system approach to studying a family, which understands the family as a complex comprised of interacting units. The research reveals that order and organization in the light of time and division of labor or responsibilities are important factors in the life of such families. On that account it is necessary to define individual family roles properly, which helps ensuring stability and functionality of a family system. Further it comes to conclusion that due to the presence of a handicapped child, changes in the organization of the family system occur; the child turns into a sort of a family center to which others adapt. A child with disability occupies a special status of 'member - non member', because it can be situated neither into basic family subsystems nor into subsystems based on gender. The...
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The Role of National Identities in the Media Space Devoted to European Politics: The Czech Presidency of the European Union in European Press
Youssef Staňkovská, Barbora ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Tuček, Milan (referee)
Barbora Youssef Staňkovská - abstract (annotation) of the Master thesis "The Role of National Identities in the Media Space Devoted to European Politics: The Czech Presidency of the European Union in European Press" Abstract Diploma thesis "The Role of National Identities in the Media Space Devoted to European Politics: The Czech Presidency of the European Union in European Press" deals with media images of national identities, the way of their formation in media, and the effects of these images on transformations of national identities during the process of European integration. Using the qualitative content analysis and an inductive approach to the collected data, an analysis of two corpuses of articles was carried out. These articles treated the topic of the Czech presidency of the European Union and were published during that period in the Czech newspaper MF DNES and the French newspaper Le Monde. The most important Czech actors and other elements were identified, which together hold up the media image of the Czech Republic. The media image of the Czech national identity is described through them. Based on the results and wider theoretical frame of the thesis, the author further reflects the position of identities in the European media space and states that this space is not Pan-European but rather...
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STR genotyping of Czech medieval population: archeologocal site in Mlekojedy (Litoměřice)
Brynychová, Veronika ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Šimková, Halina (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis was the initial genetic analysis of early mediaeval burial site from Mlekojedy polycultural locality (Litoměřice District, Czech Republic). Autosomal STR markers were chosen because of the following reasons. The high degree of polymorphism of these markers and the high extent of heterozygosity favor the use of STRs instead of mitochondrial DNA for the structural analysis of small populations. Usefulness of STR typing for validation purposes was demonstrated many times before. We used primers for miniSTRs to obtain the fullest results. Nuclear DNA was extracted from 35 % of bone samples and 91 % of teeth. We detected lower PCR amplification success rate of fragments longer than 150 bp and very high rate of allele drop-out which is sign of degraded DNA. Twelve reliable genotypes were determined for TH01 marker. Observed allele frequency and genetic diversity values were discussed in comparison with recent populations and other aDNA studies of burial sites. Keywords: ancient DNA, STR markers, miniSTR, early medieval burial site, Czech population
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