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Parenting in the context of cultural inequalities: how parents justify their child-rearing strategies
Šulcová, Zuzana ; Frantová, Veronika (advisor) ; Hájek, Martin (referee)
This thesis is written from the perspective of cultural sociology and focuses on middle-class parents and justification of their child-rearing decisions. It describes how parents choose and evaluate the institutions their children spend time at, how they "other" parents with different values and how they relate to concerted cultivation - a type of parenting style which currently dominates the middle-class context. This parenting style (or ideal) puts a great deal of pressure on middle-class parents and it causes a symbolic war among them: a war for acknowledgment and a certain position in the cultural space. This thesis describes who the participants "other", which child-rearing strategies participants approve of, what values are crucial for them and what problems they deal with. Furthermore, four main differences between the participants' approach and the concerted cultivation approach were identified: emphasis on friendship, emphasis on balance between activities and rest, emphasis on fitting in with the majority and emphasis on approval of certain authoritarian methods such as imposing punishments, applying restrictions and issuing directives.
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Life in the Piar Fellowship
Šulcová, Zuzana ; Spalová, Barbora (advisor) ; Novotná, Hana (referee)
The subject of this bachelor thesis is a catholic charismatic community called Spoločenstvo Piar (PIAR Fellowship). This fellowship aims at young people in the region of Prievidza, SK, and its goal is to explain them basic Christian values by attractive and comprehensible means. These means are generally called formation. In my thesis, I describe what the formation looks like, I explain the three phases of formation, how the formation is kept up to date and interesting for young people, and also what meaning is given to experience and emotions, since the importance of experience is becoming more and more popular in contemporary Slovak religiosity. My research has shown that the main values of this fellowship are relationship with God, relationship with people and developing personal potential. The main means of formation are common prayer meetings, talking about life in small groups, sermons and weekend renewals. Beside that, the members of Piar meet informally and encourage each other in the values. Formation can be split up in three phases: first is the excitement phase and it allows a new member to become emotionally involved, second is the purification phase which challenges the member and third is the anchor phase - that's when the member finds his life calling. To keep the formation up to...
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