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Crisis of czech welfare state, its reform and impact on changing quality of life of people of retirement age
Klán, Jan ; Duškov, Ivan (advisor) ; Hedbávný, Petr (referee)
The author valorizes also his practical experiences of a left-oriented politician and first results from sociological research has set an objective to check two hypotheses: 1) that in the conditions of global capitalism development to save and fully revitalize the social state in his conception of a factor that is not only mitigating urgent social inequalities, but also raise the society and cultivates the human being, 2) that in the process of capitalist crises and the crises of a social state, senior citizens living from their pensions belong to the most threatened social groups. Methodologically the author claims to belong to modern Marxism and critically demarcate himself both from stalinism as well as from the recent official ideology, above all neoliberalism. The author refuses also the attempts to equate Marxism and the policy of KSČM to the ideology of the past governing class of controlling apparatus and comprehend the KSČM as a party disguised as Stalinist, anti human and non-democratic and in agreement with the program of this party that it represent in the Parliament of Czech Republic belongs to the self- managed socialism as a long-term objective of a societal transformation. As far as the method is concerned, in the view of a certain interdisciplinarity of the present publication, the...
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Globalization: social-political effects of activities of multinational corpotations
Koryntová, Adéla ; Havlík, Radomír (advisor) ; Tichá, Milena (referee)
This thesis entitled "Globalization: the sociopolitical consequences of the activities of supranational corporations" examines the effects of actions of supranational organizations in the process of globalization, on the basis of contemporary sociological literature. In the first two chapters I assess the process of globalization itself and its most important aspects. The third chapter inspects the supranational corporations, their development, functioning and characteristic attributes and then presents the consequences of these actions. The final chapter focuses on socially responsible behavior.
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New Capitalism as a Cause and a Result of Effectivization of Society
Hrabánková, Anežka ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Maršálek, Jan (referee)
Given the breadth of the concept of new capitalism and possible topics that present themselves here, the main objective of this work is especially presentation of new capitalism as reflected in sociological literature and reference to its highly efficient nature. The work is also a reflection on key topics opened by leading theoreticians of contemporary capitalism. Using Weberian sociology, the work seeks to capture the development of capitalism and to grasp new contemporary capitalism. The development of capitalism is described by the development of three important aspects that appear early in modern capitalism which are important during its whole history up to the present. It is the development of the phenomenon of work, consumption and time. For these three phenomena, the presented work deals in particular with their tendency to become increasingly more efficient. Efficiency is part of the rationalization process; the work uses a more suitable term for contemporary Euro-American society - effectivization (efficiency boost of society), due to its ubiquity and topicality, and also due to the fact that current changes are being legitimized under the designation of efficiency. Where the logic of money takes control (at the market), thinking is being rationalized and resources are being used more...
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Why Did Voucher Privatization Occur?
Kohout, Martin ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Vlček, Josef (referee)
In this paper I try to analyze all circumstances and threads that led to voucher privatization. I try to analyze factual historical events like for example certain motions in the Civic Forum (Czech: Občanské fórum) within the frame of corporate processes. I observe the shift of power between the majority of citizens and elite and question the legitimity of decisions the leaders of the revolutionary movements make. The power shifting from an individual onto the society served me as an indicator for searching the relations that could had led to the voucher privatization. I try to understand the circle of disidents around Václav Havel and the circle of reformists around Václav Klaus from the sociological perspective and try to apprehend these from tin the light of their organization and opinion coherence. Ideological data of these two groups are compared with the meaning of the public; moreover, I do not restrict myself just to the time after the revolution. I pay attention also to the pre - revolutionary roots of certain social circumstances that influenced the public. I try to find the continuity between the time before the revolution, during the revolution and after the revolution. Naturally it made sense to allude often examples from the history of revolutionary movements. I analyzed the rhetoric...
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So far so good
Rariga, Branislav ; Mazanec,, Martin (referee) ; Šrámek, Jan (advisor)
A dystopic game inspired by a children’s monopoly game, with its content, rules, visuals, etc. metaphorically simulating, ironising or criticizing, and at the same time pointing to the issue of capitalist society, whether in the personal or work / corporate life of an individual, and its impact on society and its development.
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Visible vs. invisible hand of the market
FOŘT, Ladislav
The thesis deals with an analysis of government interventions in modern economy which will enable to evaluate the economic reality with respect to the role of the visible versus invisible hand of market. Firstly, the concepts concerning the visible and invisible hand of market are defined theoretically. It is especially capitalism and its individual kinds, the difference between these kinds and state capitalism, a particular case of state capitalism and a description of Czech economy transformation. Then, with help of a selected institution the Heritage Foundation, index of economic freedom in selected countries in the world is characterized and investigated with help of four main pillars, which are the rule of law, government size, regulatory efficiency and market openness. Each pillar is characterized by three component freedoms. The resulting data clearly present the harmony importance of economic freedom and economic growth in each of compared countries. The stage of a democratic regime and a level of political situation in the state are the next possible solution.
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Belarus on the Crossroads of Twentieth-Century: Historical and sociological comparative analysis of social change in Soviet Belarus and Western Belarus in 1921-1939
Badzevich, Dzmitry ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Kilias, Jaroslaw (referee)
IN ENGLISH Author's name: Bc. Dzmitry Badzevich. School: Charles University, Prague Faculty of Humanities. U Kříže 8 150 00 Praha 5. Program: "Historical sociology". Title: BELARUS ON THE CROSSROADS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY: HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL CHANGE IN SOVIET BELARUS AND WESTERN BELARUS IN 1921-1939. Consultant: Doc. PhDr. Jiří Šubrt, CSc. Number of pages: 106 + attachments. Number of attachments: 3. Year: 2012. Key words: Capitalism, communism, social change, social structure, society,economy, urban and rural economy, industry, law system, government institutions, education, religion, ideology, family, every day. This thesis describes the processes of social changes inside social structure in contemporary Belarus, which has developed by different ways during the interwar years in 1921-1939. Combination of two theoretical concepts like "ideal types" (Parsons's AGIL and Sztompka's typology of the process of social change) have been defined terminology and methods of operation for analyzing and comparing. First part focuses on the history of Belarusian land before1921. The next part describes structural development of Western Belarus in Poland and Soviet Belarus in Soviet Union in the years 1921-1939. Last part has been explained the research of compares the...
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Ideology of Liberalism, or Ideology after its own End
Korda, Tomáš ; Suša, Oleg (advisor) ; Hauser, Michael (referee)
The essay begins with Benjamin`s comprehension of truth and his method of constellation which aims to the truth. I connect the method to the act of naming, which I derive from comprehension of subject in German idealism. Method is necessary condition for very constellation of liberal ideology. Contemporary liberalism thus does not only symbolize time after "the end ideology", but even space of time, when the ideology acquire its own most effective form. "The truth became most effective form of lie." In this sense I continue in critique of postmodernism as the ideology of late capitalism. In fine I outline the way to postmodernism by force of "risk thinking" which remains faithful to dialectic. Solely immanent critique which is far from normative critique of postmodernism sets in motion rigid conditions caused by omnipresent ideology.
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Constuction of Identity in the Emotional Culture
Prýmková, Karolína ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Holeček, Tomáš (referee)
Diploma thesis Construstion of Identity in the Emotional Culture deals with possible changes in the construction of identity of man after the fall of the millenium. The thesis stems from Eva Illouz's description of society which states that our present society is unprecedently emotional and rational at the same time. The goal of this thesis is to advocate the intitial statement, that in this organization of society the main source for construction of identity is no longer the consumption of material goods as it put notable social theorists since the second half of the twentienth century. I do not state that this remarkable era is fully over now, but I would like to point out, that consumption of material goods is loosing its strength in the process of identity construction due to the overall increasing living standards and mainly due to the fragmentarization of lifestyles. Considering the unprecedently high level of penetration of our society with emotion I consider them to be the new source of identity creation.
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