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Trendy things in adolescence - prestige and its materialization
Maierová, Martina ; Bittnerová, Dana (advisor) ; Levínská, Markéta (referee)
The purpose of my thesis is to present possible influence of trendy things to prestige, in the ninth grade of city primary school. The goal of this thesis is to identify the social structure of the students' group, to map the value orientation of the students, to identify their trendy things, and to connect all these findings. The thesis tries to answer the question of the influence of trendy things to the prestige in this students' group, and find out whether in this group of students exists the materialization of prestige. The text is divided into two parts. The theoretical part focuses on pointing out the main aspects of the topic of trendy things, adolescence, materialism and prestige. These topics are analysed in the context of psychology and partly sociology, antropology and education as well. Empirical part, in addition to the description of objectives, methods, research sample and environment, pays particular attention to analysis of its own data of quality-oriented research with the support of several quantitative methods. First, it describes the social hierarchy of students in terms of their degree of influence, popularity and prestige, and identifies their sub-groups. Next I try to find out the prevailing students' value orientation. Then I subscribe the possible negotiation strategies...
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Identity and social identification of adolescents in the context of subcultures.
Sovová, Iveta ; Levínská, Markéta (advisor) ; Bittnerová, Dana (referee)
Identity and social identification of adolescents in the context of subcultures The thesis deals with issues of subcultures viewed by contemporary teenagers. It should explain how adolescents relate to subcultures and how identification with subcultures works. Through the thesis goes the theme of identity and its establishing during adolescence, especially within subcultures. The theoretical part concerns adolescence as a developmental period, subcultures in general, groups and group phenomenons (conformity, categorization, need of individuality and need to belong) and identity. The practical part summarize outcomes of quantitative research (questionnaires) and main qualitative research. Dominant technique of data collection were semistructured interviews with adolescents, who identify themselves with subcultures and also with adolescents, who distance from subcultures. Respondents of both researches were 14 to 17 years old. Based on statements made by informants, three basic attitudes, which teenagers take in realation to subcultures (full identification, ambivalent identification and non-identification) and which involve diverse conceptions of subcultures, were described. These resides in emphasizing internal or external signs of membership in subcultures and perception of obligatoriness...
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Gypsy's child structure of the day - declaration and reality
Maierová, Martina ; Bittnerová, Dana (advisor) ; Levínská, Markéta (referee)
The purpose of my thesis is to present the structuring of time of eight Gypsy children aged 11 to 17, living or spending free time at prague's suburb Velká Ohrada. The central goal of this thesis is to identify the Gypsy's child structure of the day and to find out which points of a child's day are defined as crucial by child and by parents and to which event of a day these points refer to. The text is divided into theoretical and empirical part. Theoretical part focuses on pointing out the main aspects of the topic of time. First part also tackles the issue of conceptualization of time as a category itself and as a category, which structures the reality. Question of time is analysed in the context of sociology and psychology. The literature related to the structuring of time of Gypsies is also reflected in the theoretical part of the thesis. The discourse is conducted from a historical perspective and notes that the perception of time was affected by several significant milestones. Empirical part, in addition to the description of objectives, methods, research sample and environment pays particular attention to analysis of its own data of quality- oriented research - the view of Gypsy childern and their parents on how they spend different types of days (e.g. weekday, weekend day, holiday day)....
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Motherhood as the breaking point in the life of a young Roma mother
Obručová, Markéta ; Doubek, David (advisor) ; Bittnerová, Dana (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to look into the lives of young mothers of Roma nationality and to get better understanding of influences that affect them and their adoption and perception of their maternal role. The choice of this theme is based on experience with previous working with Roma families. For the research, it has been chosen five mothers aged under 25 years, with whom were conducted unstructured interviews. In the theoretical part, there is a discussion about motherhood in general and later about its specifics in the Roma community. The greatest emphasis is taken on the receiving parent role. Firstly, the empirical part is a discourse about the choosen method - grounded theory. Then there is detailed description of data processing and data analysis. The following chapters are devoted initially to environmental influences to motherhood and later to the concrete experience of the respondents. The experience of motherhood is viewed from several angles - the time horizon (from conception to birth and the first reaction to child) and the importance of her baby to the mother, especially in terms of commitment and in the context of plans and wishes. This work gives an insight into the lives of five Roma mothers. Mothers have the greatest influence on the upbringing of a new generation - for those who are...
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