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Hegel s concept of civil society
Svojše, Jiří ; Skovajsa, Marek (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
This master's thesis is concerned with Hegel's concept of civil society. After an introduction of the contemporary normative concepts of civil society and their research potential, it provides a detailed description and interpretation of Hegel's concept, with a special emphasis on three major interpretative approaches. The final part of the thesis also includes the author's own interpretation of this concept.
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Social Capital: Usefulness of the Concept
Bulla, Martin ; Skovajsa, Marek (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
The vast amount of theoretical and empirical work on social capital that has inundated the social sciences, since the beginning of the nineties, can be roughly divided in to two categories. Firstly there are those writers, mainly political scientists and economists, who follow Putnam's line of reasoning and tend to see "associational membership" more as a source of social capital than as another form of it. Secondly those, mainly sociologists, who tend to treat the concept of social capital as primarily a social structural variable, which can be used to refer to social network or to the linkages between individuals and/or organizations. The later theorists, represented by writers such as Edwards and Foley (2001b), and Lin (2001a, 2001b), usually associate social capital with facilitating goods and service flows among individuals and organization. Through a historical overview, discussion on the major conceptualizations, as well as special characteristics and perspectives of social capital, we try to clarify the social capital debate and clearly differentiate between the two approaches. Subsequently, we present a thorough critique of Putnam's approach to social capital, as well as various arguments questioning its conceptualization and use. As a result, we argue that this line of argument leads to a dead...
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The Civil Society Viewed by Czech Presidents Václav Havel and Václav Klaus.
Kalinová, Mariana ; Skovajsa, Marek (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
With a special emphasis on civil society as a different conception from state, the first part of the thesis outlines the theoretical basis of different conceptions of civil society, giving a summary of the theories of such thinkers as Hobbes, Lock, Montesquie, Rousseau and Hegel as well as their followers, in particular Tocquevill, Hayek, Popper, Habermas. In oder to provide the theoretical framework for the second part of the thesis, it gives an overview of the conceptions of civil society defined by the central European thinkers after the WW2, in particular Michnik, Otáhal, Benda, Havel. The second part of the thesis aims both to introduce and to provide a critical analysis of the approach of Václav Havel and Václav Klaus to the civil society in the Czech Republic after 1989, in particular as represented by different civil iniciatives and movements. The thesis attempts to provide a deeper understanding of the differencies in these two approaches rathen than their assessment.
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