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Act on protection of health against harmful effects of addictive substances: Development of narative of competing frames in media discourse
Lipková, Simona ; Nekola, Martin (advisor) ; Hejzlarová, Eva (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the development of tobacco control legislation with the main focus on the Act on protection of health against harmful effects of addictive substances with accent on smoking regulation in restaurants. The main line of this thesis is to determine the competing rhetorical frameworks and the main actors representing the individual frameworks which they present on the level of arguments and then to compare the development of narrative over time. At this level, the thesis focuses on the analysis of the presented rhetorical frameworks with the aim of discussing possible specific attributes that facilitated the process of reframing opposition actors, namely using the rhetorical strategy of narrative attributes of storytelling, technical terms, imagery or comparison. These goals were achieved by using a qualitative analysis of media outcomes and by using public policy documents, legal standards and other relevant documents. Theoretical support for answering the set forth questions was a frame analysis, which was conceptualized on the field of public policy by Rein and Schön along with the theory of social construction of target population conceptualized by Schneider and Ingram. In this thesis, written under the auspices of the case study, four main competing frames were...
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Changes in Social Construction of Czech Political Parties during 2004-2016: Media Analysis from the Social Constraction Framework Perspective
Švajlenková, Simona ; Novotný, Vilém (advisor) ; Angelovská, Olga (referee)
The bachelor thesis Changes in Social Construction of Czech Political Parties: Media Analysis from Social Construction Framework Perspective is reacting to adopting the amendment No. 302/2016 Coll., which changes law No. 424/1991 Coll., on association in political parties and political movements in 2016. The law represents stricter regulations of political parties activities. It was adopted after 12 years without significant law changes. The assumption is that the perception of political parties has changed. In other words, their social construction has changed. According to Social Construction Framework it was social construction of political parties which influenced adopting of the new law. I will identify its changes according to Schneider and Ingram's theoretical approach Social Construction of Target Populations (SCTP). It represents values, ideas and stereotypes about the target population that receives burdens or benefits from the new policy. To broaden the perspective of specification of social construction of political parties I will use discursive analysis as a method of media analysis. According to SCTP media are one of apects which create social constructions.
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Universities' approach to educationally disadvantaged students
Hromada, Jan ; Mouralová, Magdalena (advisor) ; Kohoutek, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with educationally disadvantaged student at public universities in Czechia. Thesis presumes the existence of educational inequality in Czech educational system and the effect of disadvantages based on attained education level of student's parents. These inequalities hadn't significantly changed even after the massification of tertiary education sector. The population of educationally disadvantaged in the thesis is equivalent to first generation student population, meaning the families with unattained tertiary education level. The main objective is to find out designs of policies targeting this group and to explore perception of the population. To achieve the goal, the thesis is using social construction of target framework. In this way, designs of applied policies are analyzed and the social construction of the target population is defined. The thesis uses qualitative research methods, using thematic document analysis of annual reports and long-term plans of all public universities and then uses the academic senate reports and semi-structured interviews with universities' representatives with selection of cases regarding the first analysis findings. The results show that educationally disadvantaged population remains undefined and there is a general lack of relevant...
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Social construction of the people with disabilities in employment policy
Rudolfová, Jitka ; Mouralová, Magdalena (advisor) ; Tomášková, Vladimíra (referee)
This paper analyses social constructions of people with disabilities in Czech employment policy with a help of Anne Schneider's and Helen Ingram's theoretical framework: Social constructions of target populations. Methodologically this paper is a case study, the analysis is based on a secondary analysis of statistical data and a study of public policy documents, primarily analysis of legislation development and relevant strategic documents. The paper is attempting to define general construction of people with disabilities by public reprepresentative surveys. Power of the group is defined by characteristics resulting from the theoretical framework. The key part of the paper examines, what policies assume about participation of people with disabilities on the labour market. At the end the paper describes employment rates of this group. In conclusion the paper describes how hidden asumptions in design of policy probably hinders participation of people with disabilities on the labour market.
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