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Delegitimization of Climate Change Through New Media Rhetoric: The Case of Online Magazine Reflex.cz
Koutná, Barbora ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Cuker, Ivan (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to examine the problematics of delegitimising scientific knowledge in new media. It focuses primarily on the usage and forms of interpretations of scientific results concerning climate change in the section "Comments" of the internet magazine Reflex.cz. Using Norman Fairclough's discourse analysis, I examine the construction of climate change in the texts and styles of interpretations and arguments regarding scientific knowledge. Subsequently, I focus on actors and relations between them, also norms and values appearing in the discourse. The results of the analysis reveal some of the delegitimization practises and describe their mechanisms.
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Comparative study of social harms due to alcohol consumption between 2019-2021
Novotný, František ; Cuker, Ivan (advisor) ; Matoušek, Petr (referee)
This bachelor's thesis is the first to compare the social damage due to alcohol consumption between 2019-2021, i.e. before the Covid-19 pandemic and during the pandemic, when numerous restrictions came into force. The work defines in detail the concept of AHTO (Alcohol's Harm To Others), its relevance, research and measurement techniques. An important part of the theoretical section is the definition of individual dimensions of the AHTO concept, which I follow up in the creation of research tools and in the interpretation of results. The practical part then analyses the collected data and tests the hypotheses that were established in connection with the main and secondary research questions.
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Social reflexivity and education: the case of marking
Šály, Jan ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Cuker, Ivan (referee)
The Bachelor's thesis, Social Reflexivity and Education: the case of marking, is a quantitative research study that examines social reflexivity in first stage primary school teachers, specifically focusing on assessment. The main goal of the thesis is to map teachers' decision- making processes regarding changes in their practice and the extent to which they use marking, or verbal assessment, using social reflexivity theory. First, the author focuses on the changes that teachers make in their general practice. In what ways they make changes and how they think about them. Next, he reflects on the incentives that make teachers' changes happen. The author also focuses on several dimensions that enter the decision-making process of deciding the extent to which the aforementioned types of evaluation are used. The first is the progressiveness of teachers, their relationship to tradition and continuity in education. Next, their relationship to marking and verbal assessment and their perception of their individual characteristics. The author also discusses the structures that teachers perceive as limiting in reducing the use of grades in teaching. Finally, the author reflects on distance learning during the covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the use of verbal assessment and on structure.
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Spatial dimension of systemic rasism in Myrtle Beach
Trhlíková, Magdalena ; Orcígr, Václav (advisor) ; Cuker, Ivan (referee)
The bachelor's thesis with title The Spatial Dimension of Systemic Racism in Myrtle Beach focuses on how inequalities are maintained in case of afroamerican community in Myrtle Beach, the USA. Specifically, the thesis follows how is the systematic racism projected in a spatial dimension of the city. The thesis work with the data from the census in the USA and biographical interviews with members of the afroamerican community. The data help to uncover the inequalities of the afroamerican community compared to white Americans, especially using the maps of Myrtle Beach. The biographical interviews focus on identification of borderline or crucial situations that show the impact of systematic racism on the lives of Afroamericans, as well as the explanation of racism and inequalities in the city by members of the afroamerican community, and discrimination within the city space. The thesis works with the hypothesis of historical conditionality of inequalities, which together with the setting of the social system influence the actions and life decisions of the afroamerican community in the city of Myrtle Beach and the overall functioning of the city. The key concept for understanding and defining inequalities in Myrtle Beach is the spatial capital based on the Bourdieu's theory and theory of systematic...
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