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No Grain, No Gain: Vegan Athletes' Self-Perception of Corporeality
Rutová, Simona ; Grygar, Jakub (advisor) ; Orcígr, Václav (referee)
This thesis deals with the corporeality of vegan athletes. It aims to clarify how the members of a specific vegan athlete community perceive their corporeality. It also describes the corporeality shaping process and how the process is affected by the community and by the shared body practices - mainly vegan diet and sports activities. The main concepts concerning this issue are habitus, embodiment, and the mindful body. This thesis's key ideas derive from Merleau-Ponty's views on corporeality, Csordas' embodiment, and Scheper-Hughes's and Lock's mindful body, which provided an analytical framework for this research. The research highlighted the importance of a strong community, which vegan athletes build. They can then act on the bodies of the community members and thus make bodies presenting veganism as sufficient. It is a sport that plays a crucial role in this, as it keeps bodies healthy and makes them strong. Sport thus functions as a defense for their practices, which are in the community's eyes the right way of living and respond to the current environmental crisis and immoral abuse of animals. It is the effort to defend and present veganism as sufficient that influences the practices shared in the researched community. These practices subsequently affect the formation and perception of the...
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The influence of veganism on the social life of an individual
Hlavová, Karla ; Orcígr, Václav (advisor) ; Senft, Lukáš (referee)
In this bachelor's thesis, as the name suggests, I deal with the issue of veganism and its subsequent reflection in the social lives of respondents (family, friends, partners, unpleasant situations). I research and clarify life situations that involve a variety of lifestyles and ways of eating. The individual work is divided into the three following parts: the theoretical anchoring of the researched problem, the methodology used and the subsequent research part. In the introductory, theoretical part, I use various concepts to understand veganism from a sociological perspective. In the second, methodological part of the work, I focus on the quantitative exploratory method, data collection, which I obtained through an online questionnaire and a description of the research file. The last, final part is the presentation and interpretation of the obtained results and the conclusions drawn from them. The work brings results confirming the existence of the influence of veganism on the social life of the individual, in each of the mentioned dimensions. The influence occurs mainly in the area of family background, where respondents are most often exposed to prejudice and pressure. The influence of veganism is also felt by the respondents within their social circle, partnerships (eg when choosing a partner)...
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Relationship of students of the selected secondary schools to the alternative ways of eating
Fialová Krejzová, Lenka ; Váchová, Alena (advisor) ; Kovaříková, Miroslava (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the relationships and opinions of students of selected secondary schools, which are connected with alternative ways of eating. The theoretical part contains basic information about rational nutrition, individual nutrients, there is a comparison of the food pyramid and a healthy plate. Last but not least, alternative diets are also clarified and then information on five specific types of alternative diets is given. In the individual subchapters, vegetarianism, veganism, raw food, paleo diet and a gluten-free diet are mentioned. The aim of the practical part is to find out the opinion of students of selected secondary schools on alternative ways of eating. These are my chosen secondary schools in the Rakovnicko region. A questionnaire survey is used as a research tool. Based on the data obtained, the questionnaire was evaluated and the results were converted into tables and graphs, which are always commented. 187 respondents answered the questionnaire. It was found that 19 of all respondents have nutrition-related health restrictions. The surprising result is that students did not learn about alternative meals primarily at school, but from their own resources (friends, family, etc.). The results of the questionnaire survey point to the fact that secondary school students...
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Business Plan – Sale of Nutritional Supplements
Hlavatý, Adam ; Ptáček, Roman (referee) ; Rompotl, Jaroslav (advisor)
This diploma thesis is processed as a business plan draft for the creation of a small business focused on the sale of vegan sports nutrition supplements. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part consists of the theoretical bases related to business activities. The second part focuses on the analyses of the business environment and the results of the primary research. The third part deals with the business plan itself, including financial plan and risk analysis.
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Non-specialists' awareness of alternative nutritional movements and their risks
Šafářová, Jana ; Chrpová, Diana (advisor) ; Pejšová, Hana (referee)
Nowadays alternative nutritional directions with all their forms are quite widespread. For many people, vegetarianism is not only skipping meat consumption, but also lifestyle. However, deliberate omission of certain types of food carries the risk of a deficit of some important substances. The aim of this thesis was to map awareness of lay people about vegetarianism and veganism. Find out if respondents know what excludes vegan diets, how they differ from vegetarianism and what the risks are. The theoretical part deals with vegetarianism and its division. The thesis focuses mostly on veganism. The theoretical part also contains principles of properly composed vegan diet according to the Czech vegan society. It also contains a description of substances which may be defficient in the vegetarian and vegan diet. It shows the functions of these substances in the body, in what foods they are found and how their deficiency manifests. The practical part was carried out by the quantitative method of the questionnaire survey. The research sample consisted of the lay population most frequently at the age of 20- 29 years. A total of 146 respondents completed the questionnaire. The results of the questionnaires showed that 88% of respondents were able to correctly describe what excludes vegan diet. This...
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Veganism in popculture focusing on czech music scene
Zaškolná, Jana ; Supa, Markéta (advisor) ; Rosenfeldová, Jana (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Veganism in popculture focusing on czech music scene" deals with the role of musicians in propagation of a lifestyle or philosophy. It focuses on the czech music scene applying the case study method on several areas of impact of two musicians - Ben Cristovao as a representative of the music mainstream and Lukáš Vincour as a member of a music subculture. The case study is using two types of research methods - content analysis in combination with a questionnaire survey. The content analysis looks into three areas of impact of the musicians - music, self-presentation and activism. The aim is to find out whether the musicians promote veganism in the above mentioned areas and if the do, which means of communication they use. A part of the thesis explains veganism as a lifestyle and a social phenomenon. The research is put into the theory of music, music subcultures and music glory as a means of propagation of a lifestyle or philosophy considering cultural and popcultural context.
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Veganism a as a part of personal identity - impact on attitudes and lifestyle
RAUEROVÁ, Nikol
The goal of this qualification work, for which we chose qualitative approach, and which is a study based on multiple cases, was to understand, how vegans experience their veganism and how it influences their thinking and behavior. From by us researched topic "How does veganism reflect in attitudes and lifestyle of a vegan?" we extracted the two following research questions, which this work answers using an interpretative phenomenological analysis. The research questions are: 1. How does the subjective experience of a vegan reflect in his attitudes, in his/her behavior, thinking and experiencing? 2. How does vegan perceive others and the world? The results present a look into the experiences of vegans, and point out thinking, behavior and experience of vegans. The central topics are ethics, ecology and health. The most substantial topic to vegans is ethics, because of the belief that exploiting animals is not right. Less substantial topics are ecology (believing that we should protect our planet), and health. In the area of relationships with others and with loved ones it is obvious, that vegans pursue the spreading of veganism, because they consider others insufficiently informed.
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