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The Benefits of Playing Collectible Card Games for Player's Life
Vaněk, Jiří ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Martinová, Marta (referee)
The bachelor thesis Benefits of playing Collectible Card Games for player's life is about a hobby game discipline called Collectible Card Games or Trading Card Games. Basic rules of collectible card games are described in the introduction. Theoretical block of this thesis describes characteristics of game according to book Homo Ludens. Important part of thesis is empirical research which conducted in March 2014. This research was performed using the method called interview with manual which belongs under the qualitative methods. Research is focused on long-term Magic the Gathering players and took place in Prague game centre. Results of this research are focusing on benefits of playing for player's life. These benefits are divided into benefits which brings the game and benefits which brings the membership in players community. Whole research procedure is summarized in conclusion. Also, there are several ideas arising from the answers of the interviewed informants.
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Direct social influences on adolescent smoking career
Zemanová, Aneta ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Göttlichová, Marcela (referee)
Bakalářská práce: Přímé sociální vlivy na kuřáckou kariéru mladistvých Aneta Zemanová Abstract The work is focused on adolescent smoking. Smoking habit is referred as a smoking career that has three stages: beginning, progress and the end. The topic of the work is restricted to studying the direct social influences on adolescent smoking career, which are defined as a specific challenge from a important person or group of persons from the social environment of the individual. It is expected that peers, partners, siblings and parents influence smoking career most. The work tries to show how does the adolescent smoking career look like. It also describes adolescence as a specific stage of evolution of the individual. In adolescence, there is an important concept of socialization, identity and relations with the social environment. Furthermore, the text examines the influence of cigarettes to adolescents and most distinctive life situations that may affect adolescent smoking. In the practical part of the work is presented a qualitative research based on ethnographic method. In the research was worked with a group of adolescents between 15 and 18 years. Observation and semi-structured interviews was used to map the course of the smoking careers of the group members and reveal a direct social influences that may...
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Rationality of the Debtor
Procházka, Ivan ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Kuchař, Pavel (referee)
This work deals with the indebtedness of consumers. It examines the causes of the debotrs themselves. Based on a secondary analysis of past research in the area of financial literacy, consumer behavior, statistical data, but also of qualitative research in the form of case study seeks to answer the question why the debtor becomes the debtor, the extent to which the indebtedness and indebtedness viewed as rational behavior but also if the debtor is accompanied by rational reasoning or irrational behavior. It concludes that the debtor can not be considered entirely rational. Applied policy then the issue of over-indebtedness problem takes into account the irrational assumptions by the debtor only marginally and does not reflect as one of its main causes.
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Agenda Setting Role of Mass Media
Veselka, Petr ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Kuchař, Pavel (referee)
The goal of here below presented text is the introduction of the concept of the agenda setting and to try to prove the validity of this theory on the thematic field of economic policy in the period from January 2009 to March 2010. For this purpose two data sets were used. The first one, which represents the public agenda, contains the data from continuous research of public opinion realized by the Public opinion research center (CVVM). The second one is the result of the quantitative content analysis of the TV news and presents the importance of the above mentioned thematic field in the media agenda. For proving of the causal relationship in between those two agendas the method of the pair correlations was used. The results confirm the relatively strong correlation between the media coverage of the topic and its position in the public agenda`s framework. It has been proved that an important role in the whole process represents the fact whether the news is domestic or foreign as well as the importance of gender. The time factor appeared also as a main intervening variable.
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Public attitude towards parenting of homosexual individuals and couples
Vocílková, Andrea ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Hendl, Jan (referee)
The master thesis "Public attitude towards parenting of homosexual individuals and couples" deals with an attitude of Czech public towards parental rights of homosexuals and attitude of European public towards alternative family forms with focus on homoparental families. The topic requires attention as part of Czech legislators currently tries to pass the novella of Registered Partnership Act, which would enable homosexuals to adopt children of their partners; and with regard to the impact of public attitude towards homoparental families on these families. The current legislation concerning homosexual rights is described in the paper along with the up to now legislative process of submitted novella of the law. Also other ways of becoming parents besides the adoption of partner's child which homosexuals can use in the Czech Republic or elsewhere are presented. The thesis then focuses on adoption and assisted reproduction. Attitude of Czech public towards these parental rights of homosexuals is subject of own quantitative research, in which also predictors of this attitude and groups of people with more negative and more positive attitude than the rest of the population are identified. The following analysis of publicly accessible data shows the development of Czech attitude towards adoption of...
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Women in Motorsport - Decoration? Competition?
Mikoláš, Michal ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Kuchař, Pavel (referee)
This thesis deals with the issue of gender equality in motorsport. It aims to carry out two main tasks. The first is based on description and explanation of the current position of female racers in motorsport (are they considered a regular part of motorsport and do they constitute a competition for male racers, or are they just decorative anomalies?). Motorsport is one of the very few mixed sports. The second task is to answer the question whether it would be useful to establish separated women-only categories, which might attract more racers. The thesis consists of two key parts. The explanatory section of this text presents a theoretical explanation of the contemporary situation (using the theory of the lenses of gender). The empirical part is derived from expert interviews and interviews with top Czech female racers. The conclusion of the thesis is a compilation of findings provided by both parts of the text. The essential result is the need to preserve mixed competition which would be free of socio-cultural barriers which hinder the beginnings of women in motorsport.
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Flexible forms of work in the labour market of the Czech Republic. The case study of the function of offer and demand in the company
Svobodová, Martina ; Kuchař, Pavel (advisor) ; Tuček, Milan (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with flexible forms of work in the Czech Republic. After the short introduction of the history and theoretical frameworks, particular types of alternative work forms used in the Czech labour market are presented. Readers are faced with part-time jobs, flexible work hours, home office and other. Special part is dedicated to occupying of part-time workers who are employed in the mode of Contract of Services, which is specific for Czech labour market and is involved in flexible work forms in this text. The great part of this thesis occupies case study, which was held at headquarters of one Czech company and which provides view of function of flexible forms of work on the side of the employer and employees as well. Data analysis offers mainly information coming from perception of alternative working forms by their users, which means employees, but by provider as well. Emphasis is placed primarily on evaluation of motives which lead into implementing and demanding of flexible work forms and also their advantages and disadvantages. Readers can find in analytic part also profiling of group of employees working in alternative working modes. These profiles are built-up from the view of the character of employees positions and from their individual characteristics as well. It is also...
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Close Social Ties and their Role in Virtual
Burešová, Lucie ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Mitrenga, David (referee)
This thesis deals with the functioning of virtual communities in relation to social capital of their members gained in this environment. The issue of virtual communities is embedded in a broader discussion about the form of community life in modern society and about the impact of new media on social behavior, individual identity and association. Attention is paid to linking the virval environment with the real environment through offline meetings and how this affects social ties between users and life of community. Based on the case study of specific community formed around game-literary server www.darkage.cz, thesis analyzes the influence of close social ties between users on the functioning of the community within its evolution in time.
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Do we have our Czech yuppies or bobos?: Searching for two specific lifestyles
Burianová, Anna ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Kuchař, Pavel (referee)
Diploma thesis discusses yuppie lifestyle and its successor bobo lifestyle in the context of postmodern transformation of society. Through the construction of weighted additive index of yuppie and bobo lifestyle the study is asking whether the young, economically active Czech population tends to these ways of life, or even has their representatives, to what extent they meet the American image of yuppies and bobos, which is their socio-demographic profile and mutual relationship. These questions are examined twice, in 2001 and in late 2011 and 2012, so we can observe development of these two lifestyles in terms of Ingelhart's transition theory from materialist to post-materialist values . The thesis shows that we can find a group of people professing the whole set of yuppie atittudes and also a group that is with some reservations similar to bobos. Detected high rate of closeness of both lifestyles, however, leads to a redefinition of purely materialistic yuppies for the Czech environment and to identification of yuppie lifestyle with post-materialist consciousness. Bobos are permanently characterized only by university education, pos-materialistic yuppies also by the highest personal income and household income. Number of post-materialist yuppies is more than twice bigger than bobos, during the...
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Sananim in Prague 5 - a Point of Conflict
Drbohlavová, Barbora ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Kotík, Michal (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the conflict that appeared after a drop-in centre for drug users was opened in the street Na Skalce in Prague 5 in April 2010. Local residents and politicians expressed their disapproval with the activities of the drop-in centre in the area that they defined as residential. The opposition based their arguments against drug services near recreational and educational facilities on the values of home, family, private property and perceived feeling of security. The primary conflict of local residents versus drug service providers was based on processes of ascribing negative characteristics to the group that was identified as unwanted in the community. Stigmatization and labelling of drug users were associated not only with drug users, but also with social workers who offer treatment and help to drug users. The data were collected from media messages and analysed by methods of the grounded theory.
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