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Principle of subsidiarity and participation in the conception of young people
JURÁŠ, František
This bachelor thesis addresses the opinion of young people on enforcing of participation and subsidiarity principles in the Czech Republic. The task of this bachelor thesis is to determine, whether young people act according to the subsidiarity principle, how do young people perceive the participation principle and whether they actively participate on social life. The theoretical part focuses firstly on defining social politics. Secondly it defines the principles of participation and subsidiarity, which are an inherent part of a democratic society, and clarifies their social significance. Another chapter is the history of these two principles. Both of them date back all the way to the ancient times. With the change of political thinking, the perception of these principles was also changing. The most important era in the Czech Republic recently is the period before and after the year 1989. In the next part this thesis focuses on the state's policy, which strongly influences the possibilities of enforcing participation and subsidiarity principles. The main task of the state is to create such conditions, so that both principles could be enforced by the state's citizens. This thesis focuses furthermore on the non-profit sphere and the task of nongovernmental non-profit organizations, especially on the most common form of nongovernmental non-profit organizations, registered association. Non-profit organizations are often run on a voluntary basis with people working or helping without remuneration. Next, the activities of the Government Council for Nongovernmental Non-Profit Organisations are explained. There is also mentioned the importance of education for young people, especially concerning education related to their professional life. The practical part of this bachelor thesis describes how people relate to the principle of subsidiarity and participation. As a method to obtain the required data, a written questionnaire was used. Overall, 179 respondents participated on the survey. The main goal of this thesis was to find out how young people perceive the principle of participation and the principle of subsidiarity. The partial goal was to find out the significance of a young person's value orientation and conception of subsidiary help. The survey implies that in terms of subsidiary help young people rely more on the state's measures, than on their own abilities. The relation to participation is almost balanced, half of the respondents has a positive relation to participation, the other half a negative one. Young people have the best relation to participation in education for professional life. Hereafter, 2 hypotheses were determined: the first hypothesis was formulated that according to the subsidiarity principle young people prefer state's assistance over resolving their social problems by themselves. The second hypothesis stated that with higher level of education reached, awareness and activity in terms of social participation among young people are increasing. Both these hypotheses were statistically confirmed. From the data collected I conclude that young people are rather passive in relation to participation and subsidiarity principles. They prefer state's assistance over resolving their social problems by themselves. In terms of participation, young people participate mostly in education, which is probably due to their age and hobbies. This thesis can contribute to better understanding of young people's attitudes towards the principle of participation and the principle of subsidiarity. It can possibly serve as an indicator of attitudes towards individual social measures and individual types of participation. For nongovernmental non-profit organizations this bachelor thesis will serve as a source of information about young people's attitude towards activities of nongovernmental non-profit organizations. For educational institutions it can provide better understanding of young people's values related to education.
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