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The Discussion about Expulsion of Sudeten Germans in Czech Society
Čížek, Tomáš ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Hájek, Martin (referee)
This thesis focuses on the controversy in Czech society over the displacement of Germans. The dispute is one of the most significant public debates related to the Czech past held since the fall of the communist regime. The work briefly summarizes the historical development of the controversy over the displacement and introduces the political context of the discussion held already in the democratic regime. The main part of the text consists of analysis of opinions on the issues of displacement in Czech newspapers in the period of one year directly before the Czech Republic entered the European Union Concerning methodology, the work is inspired by discourse analysis. However, the author is not that much focusing on the use of language, which is common within this methodological tradition, but rather on what is being expressed through the language, i. e. the contents of the discourse itself. In doing so, he refers to the work of the Czech-British anthropologist Ladislav Holý. The author concludes that two main approaches may be found within the debate over the displacement, and calls the first of them the "official" discourse and the other the "critical" discourse. Based on the analysis, it is not possible to speak of the two discourses as competing with each other in the form of notional oppositions,...
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The integration of children with health infliction to schools
Šmilauerová, Barbora ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Vojtíšková, Kateřina (referee)
The problem of integration children with physical or mental handicap to the common schools and their incorporation to the class team is big problem of modern world. Success or failure of such integration depends upon many factors, among which belongs in the first place approach of persons, which play the biggest role in integration: parents, teacher and last but not least assistant, who directly work with child and helping him with the integration. Bachelor work is trying evaluate mutual cooperation of these three chief factors of integration namely on the principles of discourses, that were led with a number of representative assistants. In these interviews is ascertaining importance of position of the teachers like representative of schools, assistant like nearest collaborator with handicapped child and parents like no omissible authority and best expert of that child. Person assistant is in this case pivotal, because assistant cooperate above all with child, but at the same time is nearest collaborator with teachers and parents and from this point of view he is intimately acquainted with the whole process of integration and is able to appraise it. Opinions of assistants on the work of teacher and parents and on cooperation with them are consisted of processing single talk and the attention here is...
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Restitution Identity in the Rudé Právo nad Restitution of the Rudé Právo Identity in Year Zero
Šmídová, Olga ; Petrusek, Miloslav (advisor) ; Pavelka, Jiří (referee) ; Kusá, Zuzana (referee)
This dissertation analyses the mass media (the Czech communist press "Rudé právo") discourse of property restitutions one year after the revolution of 1989. The author is inspired by the approaches and procedures of Critical Discourse Analysis in investigating the discursive and extra-discursive practices of the communist/left wing newspaper Rudé Právo. From the perspective of symbolic power as control, she analyzes the newspaper text as well as the social context in which the text was produced. She reconstructs the institutional and organizational transformation of the Rudé Právo daily, whose social position and identity changed radically during 1990, from a Communist Party affiliated propagandist to a private left-wing newspaper. The author links a discursive, narrative, and recursive frame analysis of the Czech communist press with the Boltanski and Thévenot theory of justice and the theory of retrospective/transitional justice. The dissertation describes the establishment of the restitution agenda and successive crystallization of the restitution discourse during "year zero" after November 1989. The author also observes the discursive area on a more general scale, i.e., in the economic reform and transformation discourse. In 1990, the privatization ideology represented the core of the transformation...
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To begin again it is my destiny
Hroudová, Anna ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Kandert, Josef (referee)
RESUME My intention was to foreshadow the construct of the re-émigré's self perception/self depiction as a way of setting up a framework within which each individual operates. Based on analysis of interviews with individual re-émigrés, I attempted to establish individual identifying categories which gave rise to such a framework. The central interest of the study was the analysis the act of the re-emigration, the return home, the return to motherland. Nevertheless, the act of return exists as a direct consequence of many earlier life (changing) (dominant) events, including the emigration itself. I considered it essential to make such events an integral part of my investigation (study). In this context, I have considered it essential to interrogate the act of 'homecoming'with the initial act of emigration, of going to exile, of the 'escape'. The testimonies of individual respondents indicated most clearly the key/central role played by the family and its influence, not just on the émigré him/herself, but in the wider context of family background,(cultural)roots, familial orientations, customs and conventions. The family was the one constant category which runs through the entire life cycle, forming the foundation of the individual's social situations and essentially underpins their context. The further...
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The identity of gypsy children in "white" Czech families
Mrázková, Marie ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Balcar, Petr (referee)
Tendency of this article is to show, how three factual Gypsy children which were put away to creche directly after their born and which were educated with two "white" Czech families, create their identities. Basic research question was how the children construct their identities in interaction with the world and important others. My approach to this question is constructionist. I tried to find strategies of making identities. I worked with biographical stories. Simultaneously we can also speak about participate observation because I come from one of these families. Among my most important findings is the fact that children identity is influenced by parents standings and meanings. In the first family dominates a position that it is a stigma to be Gypsy in Czech racialist society. In the second family it is spoken about it that people should be valued according to their acts and not according to their flesh-colour. Gypsy child in Czech family has very difficult position because it does not properly belong to any society. Children from the first family realise their incident to Gypsies and try to manage their stigma with strategy. Child from the second family choose among both societies to obtain the biggest advantages. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Forming the "cosmoworld" and finding its essence
Horáková, Klára ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Petrusek, Miloslav (referee)
This dissertation thesis on the issue "How Cosmoworld Forms and What It Is" deals with the formation and content of a magazine for young women named Cosmopolitan. The aim of this work is to ascertain, whether the type of the woman constructed by this magazine is the emancipated one, to uncover how the magazine defines itself or, put more aptly, how it helps to maintain traditional stereotypes attributed to womanhood. In the introduction, the author pursues the basic theoretical concept and methodological tools suitable to apply in analysing media like Cosmopolitan. The very research into the process of production of the magazine and its content is covered in the second part of the thesis. Using the means of discursive analysis, the author attempts to resolve the type of womanhood re/constructed by the magazine and to work out what are the backdrops or frames which the magazine sets womanhood in. Further, we see the author researching the very creation of the magazine (the ethnomethodological observation in the editorial office), identifying the rules followed in writing articles for Cosmopolitan. Having analysed the content of Cosmopolitan and the process of its production, the author has come to the conclusion that Cosmopolitan re/produces a woman who sees her liberation and emancipation in sexual freedom...
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Discourse analysis of global climate change. Case of emissions - argumentative strategies of actors
Cholt, Jan ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Hájek, Martin (referee)
Aim of this study is to improve understanding of practical application of public media discourse about Global climate change. Theoretical base is embedded in context of humannature relationship. My premise is that risk of global warming or global climate change is hard to sense by individuals hence dependent on expert knowledge and mediating of these thematic fields toward public, mainly by mass media. Introduced topic, or its selected part, was investigated using discourse analysis. It serves as a tool to identify and discuss patterns of thoughts, elements of argumentation and actor's strategies. They are parts - or even base - of media discourse about main topic, objects, subjects and time-space and others contexts. They are systematically coded according to discourse rules in a repeating categories and their overall configuration creates underlying concept of understanding the topic. Data for analysis consist of collection of utterances made in Czech public media discourse during period of December 2004 and June 2005. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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"Stay elsewhere" or international mobility percieved by experienced actors
Voldánová, Iva ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Vodáková, Alena (referee)
The aim of the thesis was to identify how the actors (young Europeans) perceive travelling, more specifically staying abroad organised/establish by an institution, and what are attributes assigned. Therefore, an analysis of these actors' responses is applied. For the first, influences and aspects of the actors' departure abroad viewed by themselves as significant were focused on. The assumptions is that their experience is caused by their capacity / tendency to leave, which is based on their biographic preconditions, especially by the family and by "similar reference groups". Other factors affecting are privileged European origin, language and institutions. Later, specifics of staying elsewhere, which affects the life trajectories of the actors were dealt with. The actors assess travelling, its main sense and the value of their active approach that enables that. The analytical part concludes that this way of acting is in compliance with searching for themselves related to typical absence of identity at the post-modern period. The motivation for travelling is travelling itself; the motivation is becoming. Based on the above findings and analysis, the main traces of the a "staying abroad concept" have been stressed out. In this point of view the staying abroad should be perceived as a certain form of...
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