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Prestige and social stratification in Czech society between 1988-1999
Křepelková, Zuzana ; Duffková, Jana (advisor) ; Buriánek, Jiří (referee)
In 1989 the Czech history was significant for the revolution which meant that Czech society has shifted toward the east to west. The company which prevailed in the egalitarian principles finds itself face to face with the reality of the Western World where their orientation did not belong. In the opinion of people still persisted not only a desire for social security but also a certain amount of indignation over the rapidly growing income differentiation, which was reflected negative evaluation of wealthier people - a role also played a series of scandals (tunneling and rapid collapse of the newly establishing businesses). The Czech company was prior to the1989 only minimally stratified. After the revolution was necessary to create a new elite, the middle class and in parallel to create the new bottom layer. Dynamic development was the emerging middle class old (enterpriser), more gradually evolved a new middle class (professionals with university education) whose conversion is a matter of several generations. Compare prestige (at the time of transform and in front of it) must be used as the default range of 1967 because this is the last range created in communist Czechoslovakia. Communist society was a static society and therefore we believe that stratification in 1989 has not changed. On top...
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Blatenské listy, origin, history, present
Řebřina, Radek ; Wolák, Radim (advisor) ; Köpplová, Barbara (referee)
Name: Radek Řebřina Bachelors thesis: Blatenské listy - origin, history, present The aim of this thesis is describe origin and development of the newspaper (range, price, amount of advertisement, etc.) since its inception in 1990 till present (2009). The thesis also monitors development of the newspaper in connection with social development in those years. Throught the study of literature on this issue and also available periodicals of Blatenské listy we are trying to achieve our goals. By doing questionnaire survey finds popularity of the periodics among the inhabitants town of Blatna. A. Theoretical part: 1. Characteristics of a social and medial development in Czech rep. after the 1989. 2. Characteristics of a region town of Blatná and its inhabitants. 3. Find maximum amount of data about Blatenské listy and theirs compare with social development. 4. Questionnaire survey B. Final evaluation of obtained data
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Changes of children's status in society: disappearance of childhood or childhood innocence?
Papoušková, Kristina ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Dvořák, Tomáš (referee)
My bachelor work is focused on the topic of childhood, namely its development and change in society. I introduce here the discipline of sociology of childhood - range of its interest, background of its progress and notable authors. I'd like to prove that childhood isn't only a period of time in life. I research infancy as social entity, in this context it is possible to compare childhood to social construct such as gender or social class. I define possible forms of infancy including for example the topic of disappearance of childhood. I try to emphasize that infancy wasn't always included in the same way in society. Last but not least I try to deconstruct the myth of innocent childhood, which is typical for Western culture. Apart from the theoretically oriented part the work also includes empiric section, which analyses infancy of three generations of women, who lived their childhood in different periods of 20th century in Czechoslovakia. In this analysis I concentrate on infancy in context of social changes and in relation to effect of educational institutions or child collective on children. I aim to describe disappearing infancy and the myth of child innocence.
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Post - 9/11 Novel : An Analysis of four novels dealing with the events of September 11th, 2001, birth of a new literary phenomenon
Zbořil, Jonáš ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Bojarová, Marie (referee)
This BA thesis is concerned with the analysis of four literary works by Johnatan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), Don DeLillo (Falling Man), Ken Kalfus (A Disorder Peculiar To The Country) and John Updike (Terrorist). As the novels will have been thoroughly introduced, a set of common motifs will be analysed. The need for self-reflection of the American (western) society, the urge for understanding the enemy and the reasons for hatred. The psychological, social, political and economical changes contemporary America had and has to face. The last part of the thesis tries to find out whether there is a new phenomenon (Post-9/11 Novel) forming in the contemporary Anglo-American literature, what are its aspects, its history and its future, which works are the most significant ones.
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The development of art and its attitude to society in work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Theodor Adorno
Váňová, Veronika ; Holeček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Paulíček, Miroslav (referee)
1 Abstract Friedrich Nietzsche's work is interwoven with his idea that all art is formed by two deities, the two elements, Apollonian and Dionysian. Apollonian element, the world of individuation is a beautiful picture and a dream world, Dionysian element, the world unity, is the thunderous roaring tone music. Top art was in the form of Greek tragedy, it was perfect harmony of both elements. The art was at that time, the most perfect from all its parts of development. However, there have been thoughts, uncomprehending beauty of both forces and wanted to destroy them. All aspects of life events have been understood historically, critically, objectively, everything has been secular. Newly created form of the art, which can not be regarded as true art, because it lacks the elements of art, was called attic comedy. Contemporary culture is based on ideas that belong among others to Socrates and so it is called Socratic. Culture has the opportunity to recover and help the rebirth of true art, just listen Dionysus singing, which is already awake and must be just detected and informed. Theodor Adorno speaks about the mass society, which, through monopoly controls all that happens in it. The society is doing exactly what monopoly wants. Society is material, without imagination, the ability to experience, ability to...
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World of Children as Media Users
Kalivodová, Hana ; Gillernová, Ilona (advisor) ; Wolák, Radim (referee)
This dissertation consists of two parts - a theoretical and an analytical, empirical part. In the theoretical segment, there is a summary of theoretical knowledge about celebrities and their relationship to society and the public, a comparison between celebrities and real authorities, an overview of mass-communication and its influence on the socialisation of children and a series of advantages and disadvantages of the impact of mass-communication on children. The final stage of the theoretical segment characterises, from the point of view of developmental psychology, the two age groups that will be compared in the second segment. The empirical segment answers such questions as how much do children use media in their leisure time, what types of media are most popular amongst them, which celebrities do the children admire and why are these celebrities important for them in particular. The empirical segment is based on analysis of data taken from questionnaires created purposely for qualitative-quantitative research. These questionnaires were given to students in the 4th and 6th grades of an elementary school in Polepy in the Czech Republic (ages 10/11 and 12/13 respectively). The goal of this dissertation is to show the trending habits of children as mass- media users.
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Female sexual discourse in contrast to the Middle Ages and XX. century
Ondřejová, Dita Terezie ; Ébert-Zeminová, Catherine (advisor) ; Listíková, Renáta (referee)
Title of the thesis: Female sexual discourse in contrast to the Middle Ages and XX. century Keywords: perception of love, women, troubadours women, society, literature. Abstract: The main theme of this diploma thesis is to understand how the socio-cultural aspects and the changes affect the view on love in medieval literary production and production of writers of the 20th century. The focus of the thesis is primarily the writing of Marie de France, a representative of women author in medieval literature, and the deputy from production of contemporary writers - Simone de Beauvoir. In the introduction of my thesis I depick the development of literary genres in the historical context in the periods mentioned above. Next chapters directly address the theme of love from different perspective and the status of women in society. The last chapter analyzes the way women exhibit their emotions in the times of courtly literature and to devote part of the embattled Simone de Beauvoir and her different view on the concept of love in the contexte of female sexuality and experience life as a couple.
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