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The Role of Prejudices in the Work with Romany Youth in Salesian Centres
FUJDLOVÁ, Anna
Bachelor's thesis seeks an answer to the following question. Has the level of ethnological prejudice in interviewed employees of three Salesian Centers incresed or decreased thanks to contact and work with Romany ethnic. Thesis contains theoretical and practical part. First chapter of the Theoretical part clarifies the issue of prejudice. It points out their origin, development, and particularly the conditions leading to the reduction of prejudice. Second chapter deals with the Romany Ethnic, its history and and relationships with majority society. The Practical part includes two research projects and their results. Obtained data leads to conclusion, that majority of interviewed employees does not show an increase of prejudice while working with Romany children and youth. On the contrary, one third of them stated that the level of their prejudice decreases.
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Changes in following the Romani traditions and customs
KVASNIČKOVÁ, Kateřina
This thesis deals with changes in following traditions and customs in the Romani lives and its aim is to map and describe these changes. In its first, theoretical part there is a description of important times in the history of the Romani living on the Czech land, in which the Romani were, often under the threat of loss of their freedom, and sometimes even life, forced to change their lifestyle and adapt themselves to the majority society. The influence of the society was the reason why the Romani stopped following some of their traditions and customs and did not pass them on to the younger generations of the Romani; that is why, with time, many traditions and customs became forgotten. The second, practical part contains interviews with concrete Romani, their assessment and discussion, in which there is a comparison of the information I got with the data gathered by the authors quoted. After assessment of the interviews it is evident that the older Romani and the Romani born before the 1980 are well aware of their traditions and customs and follow some of the traditions in their families. The younger generation, however, are not interested in the traditional life of their ancestors, they do not follow the traditions and customs by themselves; they have adapted their lifestyles and systems of values to the majority society; they often do not consider themselves to be Romani.
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What does it mean be Gipsy in our society
KLÍMOVÁ, Eliška
My Thesis is aimed at the life of the Romanies in Czech society. The topic was chosen intentionally as relations between the Roma minority and the members of the major society belongs to current topics, and although the Romanies have already been living at our territory for several centuries they still remain unknown for most of the inhabitants. The aim of the Thesis was particularly to collect information on how the Romanies themselves perceive thein life in our society and to open discussion about different topics then e.g. crime or poverty. The scope was influenced by my owen work with Romay people and the isme is really familiar to me. The Thesis is dividend into two parts. The theoretical part describes the history of the Romanies, thein present situation in the Czech republic and deals with topics like racism and extremism. The practical part is based on qualitive and quantitative research. The first part interprets data obtained within a field research in selected location of České Budějovice. The research was performed in the formo f semi-controlled interview in May and June. The sekond part is based on the technice of content analysis of a primary document. A Romany magazíne Romano hangos was chosen for the purpose of the research. The selection set of my analysis consists of all the 2008 issues of Romano hangos magazíne. An article is the basic selection unit. To qualify for inclusion into the content analysis an article had to contain communication of how the Romanies perceive thein life in our society. The research results confirm that Romanies still feel like foreigners in our society.
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Sensation and pain tolerance in the range of cultural vision
ČUTOVÁ, Jana
For the Diploma work we chose the theme: ``Algesia and pain tolerance across cultures``. We chose it because due to globalisation and migration of inhabitants cultures from the whole world reside in the Czech Republic. We decided for three the most numerous cultural groups in the Czech Republic, which are Czechs, Romanies and Vietnamese. These cultures, despite living in one territory, have a different history, different customs and traditions and approach differently to health and disease. They perceive pain differently, it has a different importance for them and they use different ways of calming the pain. To get to know these cultures closer in the area of pain and to describe differences between Czechs, Romanies and Vietnamese is the essential for a good quality professional and especially multicultural care. For better lucidity and coherence we divided the theoretical part into four sections. The first one is devoted to basic information about pain, its history, factors that affect algesia and its treatment. Other sections are focused gradually on each culture separately. We mention brief history of the relevant culture, pain treatment in the past and especially pain symptoms in the relevant culture, algesia and tolerance of pain. For the empirical section there were defined three targets and five hypotheses. We should find out and compare the differences in calming pain in Romany, Vietnamese and Czech culture in domestic and hospital environment. We should further find out whether the designated cultures consider pain a part of their lives and the last target was to find out the effect of pain on normal activity leading to initiation of activities for pain calming. The targets were established based on the assumption that members of nation minorities in the Czech Republic, in this work specially Romanies and Vietnamese, prefer non-pharmacological ways of calming pain to the pharmacological ones and that Czechs do not consider pain a part of their life unlike members of the nation minorities in the Czech Republic. Other assumption was that a church person bears pain better than an atheist. And last two assumptions were that Romanies have lower pain tolerance than Czechs and that Vietnamese higher. The research was carried out at a selected sample of representatives of all three cultures in form of questionnaires. On the basis of results it is possible to say that the work targets were met. The first two hypotheses were not proved and the last three were.
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Integration of Gypsy Children Attending Salesian Centre for Young People in České Budějovice
KUBÍNOVÁ, Radka
The work deals with the help of the SaSM {--} DDM in České Budějovice during integration of gypsy children that are attending this facility. It is consisted of two main parts. The first one reveals the history of Gypsies, their origins, migration, their arrival to the Czech Republic and the evolution they have come through in the Czech Republic. Also gypsy culture, traditional customs and the differences between their upbringing and education in contrast to the major society. The second part of the work shortly describes the history of SaSM {--} DDM CB and the structure of the offered programme. It is focused on the gypsy section and the contribution of the activities it contains for the children that attend the centre. The information from interwiews with the workers in the centre and also from the questionaries that were the children given to fill in are stated in this part. The help of the centre during the integration of children is focused on fixing the positive approach to an education, emphasizing of important values, increasing their confidence and also on the fact that by means of the centre programmes the children gain positive experience with the major society.
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Chosen Charactreristics of Children from Children´s Homes
POLÁČKOVÁ, Lucie
This final year thesis focuses on problems of children growing up in children´s homes. In the theoretical part it deals with definition of the term children´s home and children´s home with school, reasons for placing child in children´s home, purpose and function of family and children´s home. The thesis characterizes family background a child came from to children´s home, it describes deprivation syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. A part of the thesis addresses Romany children growing up in children´s home and the relation between childhood spent in children´s home and crime committed in adulthood. The last chapter refers to some difficulties of young people leaving institutional upbringing. The practical part contains comparison of composition of children from three chosen institutions (two state and one non-state) Children´s Home with School Horní Planá, Children´s Home Aš and Private Children´s Home Koryto. They are compared especially in spheres described in the theoretical part. Concurrently I obtained basic information about particular children´s homes from senior executive. Also I monitored carers opinions of institutional upbringing and of children´s state of preparation for independent life after leaving children´s home and their attitudes to upbringing children.
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The Criminality of Romany Ethnicity in the Czech Republic and the Project of the System of Mentoring in the Criminal Justice
MINAŘÍK, Michal
Thesis is dedicated to the criminality of Romany ethnicity in the Czech Republic and the project of the System of mentoring in the criminal justice. The introduction part is about the history and criminality of the ethnicity. This part contains statistical data and possible causes for the criminality. The main part is dedicated to the most common illegal ways of earn living. This part is connected with part which describes the System of mentoring in the criminal justice. The practical part is aimed at check on the hypothesis of the effect and function of the project. This part is supplemented by statistical data and outcomes of the research.
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The status of probation and mediation services in re-socialisation of romany delinquents.
NOVÁKOVÁ LOJDOVÁ, Leona
The subject of this Bachelor essay is the role of CR probation and mediation service in re-socialisation of gipsy delinquents. The text outlines history and presence of gipsy population in the Czech Republic, their segmentation and life style. Attention has been paid to activities of Sdružení pro probaci a mediaci v justici, o. s. (Association for Probation and Mediation in Justice). In addition it includes information on the mission, objectives and principles of probation and mediation activities. In addition there is a list of principles and areas of activities. The objective of this work is to map the role of probation and mediation service in re-socialisation of gipsy delinquents, including partial objective which is to identify if increased success of re-socialisation is affected by improved work of probation staff and involvement of professional and laic public. The practical section of this work applies a quantitative research in the form of secondary analysis of statistic data and a questionnaire.
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The active leisure activities for Romany children in the Prachatice region.
PETRŮ, Libuše
The Romany population is extremely disadvantaged nowadays. Romany children often pursue spontaneous activities and are vulnerable to pathological dependencies. It is a challenge for the majority community to prevent them from such activities and to offer Romany children quality leisure time activities. Spending leisure time effectively should be an obvious part of our children{\crq}s life. Leisure time projects have a favorable impact on the integration of Romany children. They are also means for social-pathological phenomena prevention in society. The aim of my thesis was to survey the attendance of Romany children at leisure time projects for children of majority community and their attendance at leisure time projects focused on Romany children. The research was conducted in the Prachatice area. I questioned providers of leisure time activities to find out about leisure time activities organized for Romany children and those organized for children of majority community. The results of my research show that Romany children attend regularly leisure time activities organized for children of majority community. Romany children also attend leisure time activities focused especially on their ethnic group. The comparison shows that activities offered for both groups of children are appropriate and welcome by all children. Romany representatives cooperate at program development focused on Romany children. But there is still a lot to improve in this cooperation. Greater activity of Romany parents will be welcomed. There is no Romany representative willing to get involved in organizing Romany children activities together with those who organize activities for children of majority community. The conclusions of my thesis may be used in a regional community planning. The organization providing services for Romany children may benefit from the results of my research. My research may be followed by another research, focused on Romany children who do not take part in any organized activities and whose parents do not cooperate with the organizers.
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The Rom-centre in Jihlava and the mutual relations between Czech and Roma children
STŘECHOVÁ, Martina
In the introductory chapter, I concentrated on the origins of Romanies and their history in our part of the world, their traditional way of life, and their culture and language. The second chapter focuses on the problems that Romanies have in the Czech Republic, their demographic situation, current problems, institutional and political frame of Romany integration and ther education. The third chapter is devoted to the Romanies in Jihlava, their situation in this town, the organizations that deal with their problems, the elementary schools, and the secondary Romany school of sociology and legal studies. The next chapter is devoted to the Romany center of the Regional Charity of Jihlava, where I present in detail the program for Romany and non-Romany children and the Center´s leisure activities. The objective of my Diploma Thesis is to find out about: 1) Mutual relations between Romany and Czech childern. 2) Romany children´s reasons for coming to the Romany Community Center in Jihlava.
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