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The ideal of women beauty before and after 1989 - discourse analysis of Vlasta magazine
Bělinová, Helena ; Vávra, Martin (advisor) ; Šmídová, Olga (referee)
The thesis interprets the ideal of women beauty before and after 1989 in terms of sociological and culture discourse in Vlasta magazine. The key premise of the thesis is the claim that ideal of women beauty differs before and after 1989. It is possible to expect influence of politic system, social structure and culture forms on discourse of women beauty. Character of this thesis is theoretically-empiric. The sociologic gender theory serves as the frame for chosen topic. Research is based on analysis of discourse of women beauty in Vlasta magazine in 1975 and 2005. The goal of overall analysis is to provide series of detailed analysis which describe general magazine topics and role of the magazine in certain historical period beside discourse of beauty. I have chosen qualitative sociological method called discursive analysis for my thesis. Ambition of the thesis is to analyze one specific social discourse and introduce all key social, historical and culture aspects which can influence the discourse and use Vlasta magazine as its concrete case. Keywords Ideal of women beauty, discourse, media discourse, gender, discursive analysis, Vlasta magazine, transformation, socialism, media, gender stereotypes, gender socialization
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Image of old age and elderly care Institutions. Representation in daily newspaper Blesk
Stehlíková, Zuzana ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Trusinová, Romana (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the representation and categorisation of old age and elderly care and their changes in media discourse of daily newspaper Blesk. Theory focuses on definitions of elderly and description of seniors and practices of elderly care in the Czech Republic. It describes changes of old age discourse in connection with the development of social policy and expert knowledge. It describes the concepts of representation and categorisation and their possible impacts in the form of stigmatisation, stereotyping and ageism. It discusses media as resources of symbolic power, ideology and discourse and sets out media representation of elderly. Related empirical part is based on qualitative discourse analysis of articles from Blesk in years 2007 and 2011. It discusses the outcomes with respect to changes of discourse and representation, stereotypes and active old age. It distinguishes three types of senior representation - like normal, stigmatized and active. Thematic distribution and stigmatisation of elderly constructs symbolic subordination of elderly as a population category. Care is described only rarely and isn't offered as the solution of the elderly's frailty.
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Myth called American high school
Zelená, Lucie ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Kolářová, Marta (referee)
Bachelors thesis "Myth called American high school" deals with an issue of high school studies in the United States of America from the perspective of Czechs who have experienced it in real terms. The main focus is on the hidden curriculum including knowledge, skills and attitudes which pupils learn even though this matter is not explicitly defined. In general terms it is possible to talk about a cultural transmission as it also includes values transferred from the teacher to the pupils. Hidden curriculum arises from the actual teaching style, the teachers' approach and the things being valued and encouraged the most. Less emphasis is then put on the officially declared curriculum with respect to the content of knowledge. The subject of study primarily includes social relations and interactions among people involved in the schooling environment, in which the informal rules of cooperation and coexistence are shaped. Strategies and types of authority which teachers assert when dealing with deviant behavior are being described, as well as the definition of deviant behavior from teacher perspective. Secondly, the study covers the structure of the class work with emphasis being put on the space devoted to different persons involved. At last, various types of lesson activities on which pupils participate...
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Social rehabilitation of sentenced and released persons
Babková, Johana ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Kolářová, Marta (referee)
This paper is a research report about qualitative research which deals with the life of sentenced and released persons. It describes programmes and specific aid which participate in social rehabilitation of these persons. I suggest possible improvements of social inclusion by studying cases concerning imprisoned and released persons and institutions that work with them. Organizations and institutions that work with these people aim at their inclusion in society, at detecting and removing difficulties in unsuccessful integration. The bases of this analysis are interviews, statistics, annual reports, biographies, simple questions in the form of an informal questionnaire, mediated biographies. The aim of this paper is to reveal discrepancies in regarding unsuccessful social integration from the view of institutions and of persons endangered by social exclusion.
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Vegetarian parenting
Půbalová, Božena ; Vodochodský, Ivan (advisor) ; Šmídová, Olga (referee)
This thesis is a final report from a qualitative study focused on vegetarian parents, who also lead their children to vegetarianism. The main purpose of the study was to examine in what ways the parents interpret and analyse their position in society, which often views the children vegetarianism as a controversial issue. The theoretical part of the work describes the background, which is relevant to the topic and help us to put the situation of vegetarian parents into a necessary context. The general information about (childhood) vegetarianism, health and social issues linked to it, are presented. The factors underlying the "family vegetarianism" - cultural relativity and symbolic of meat and nutritional discourse in combination with the ideology of motherhood, are also discussed. An entire section of the study was given to qualitative analysis of the half-structured interviews with eight vegetarian parents. The decision about the meatless diet of their children is not always accepted by general society or by their extended families and parents also often face moral judgments rather than medical problems. Therefore parents have to (re)interpret their parental identity in accordance with the positive ideology of parenthood, for example by pointing out the medical advantages of vegetarianism or by...
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Challenge to like - how to resume with diabetes
Tvrdíková, Lucie ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Vodochodský, Ivan (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Challenge to life - how to resume with diabetes" attend to integrating diabetes into everyday life of patients with this disease. Diabetes is chronic ailment which is still stigma and it causes problems and limitations to the patients, but thanks to technical advance in medicine diabetics can adapt their life to the disease without the others knowing about it. To manage with this disease there is many technical instruments which can help diabetics nowadays. It is more efficient and inconspicuous and it makes diabetics possible to solve some problems immediately without doctors. But there are still patients who think of diabetes as uncontrollable and smart from problems which can diabetes implicate. This work tries to illustrate on narratives of ten diabetics, which factors and strategies give rise to fact, that diabetic can integrate disease into his life and put up with it.
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The Relationships between the Second and the Third Generation as Seen by Grandchildren
Staňkovská, Barbora ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Maříková, Hana (referee)
The point of this thesis is to explore the way of perception of the relationships between the second and the third generation in a family by grandchildren. These relationships make up an important part of the family; nevertheless they are not given an adequate research attention. The reason for this is often the perspective of disintegration of wider family relationships along with the evolution from traditional to modern society, which is not backed up by data, as the author shows in the theoretic part. Though the meaning of intergenerational relationships changes, they are still embedded into the relationships in nuclear family, which results from surveys of intergenerational relationships carried out here, in the Czech Republic. What will be important for the future form of intergenerational relationships are norms and patterns for the formation of these relationships internalized by the youngest generation. That is why the author focuses her analysis on the perception of the relationships between the second and the third generation in the eyes of grandchildren. She stems from narrative interviews with grandchildren on the topic of grandparents and using the method of grounded theory she comes to three different contexts of relationships perception in the eyes of grandchildren - the perception...
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Social and legal child protection authority leaders attitudes to the trends outlined by major amendment to the social and legal child protection act as basis and also the part of quality improving process at practice in social and legal child protection
Kodiš, Tomáš ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Bubleová, Věduna (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the issue of introducing changes in area of social and legal child protection. In 2012, social and legal child protection act was significantly amended. The great inovation of this act has brought about significant changes, based in inspiration from the British model of social and legal child protection, which most strongly reflected in the concept of foster care, in increasing the participation of services users through continuous assessment of the child's situation and individual care planning. In order to unify common practice and ensure its quality, it has been chosen to achieve these objectives of unification the quality standards. In my qualitative research I am charting the attitudes of Departments of social and legal child protection at Prague Town district offices. Futhermore, using Kotter's eight-point process of changes, I search how much these attitudes have been reflected in the practice of managing their departments and facilitating the change process for the staff of these depatments. In the second round, the selection of researched leaders was guided by the idea of introducing "good practice". For this reason, the information is also briefly compared with the results of inspections carried by Prague City Hall.
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