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The place of fituals in todays family
Prokešová, Petra ; Šulová, Lenka (advisor) ; Horáková Hoskovcová, Simona (referee)
The aim of this work is to map out a form of rituals in today's Prague family, to describe some particular examples, and to evaluate their psychological benefits. The text is divided into three main chapters. The first chapter describes conception and definition of the ritual in humanistic sciences; associations amongst rituals, myths and religion; important aspects of ritual in man's life including its pathological form, and its contribution to a group. The second chapter is dedicated to family rituals, their specific form and function. It provides a general categorization supplied by number of concrete examples from literature and interviews with research respondents. The third chapter, empiric, describes the qualitative research procedure - a mapping study including thirty adults. The semi-structured interviews and subsequent analysis illustrate a particular form of some rituals in present-day Prague family, and their psychological gain without a claim for any generalization.
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