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Rise of esports: New generation of bettors
Bohovič, Marek ; Kolomoiets, Maksym (advisor) ; Petrúšek, Ivan (referee)
This thesis is primarily focused on the issue of online sports betting, specifically on the factors that influence Czech adults to start betting on esports. Another focus of this work is identifying the characteristics of Czech esports bettors, non-bettors, esports players and video game players, as well as recognizing their differences. Lastly, this work focuses on the attitude of Czech adults towards esports and what are the distinguishing factors between video game players and esports bettors. Firstly, the work discusses concepts related to the research. Furthermore, the thesis contains information about the existing literature on the subject of odds betting and also focuses on foreign research conducted in the field of betting, specifically the characteristics of bettors and factors influencing bettors. Based on their findings, the main research questions were asked, and hypotheses were formulated. Due to the lack of existing literature on esports attitude and characteristics of esports actors, secondary research questions were asked based on educated guesswork based on many years of observation and experience with the topic. Data collection in the research of the bachelor's thesis was carried out using structured anonymous questionnaires and subsequent data analysis was done through SPSS.
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Social interactions of online game players
Nováková, Anežka ; Remr, Jiří (advisor) ; Petrúšek, Ivan (referee)
The thesis is focused on the social interactions of online game players. The aim of the work is to map the social interactions that occur among players of online games, along with the factors that can influence the nature of these interactions. Part of the work focuses on whether, and in what way, the experiences of men and women differ in the online gaming environment, and how women are perceived and accepted in this environment. The last part is focused on establishing relationships within online games. The goal was to find out whether it is possible to establish long-term and meaningful relationships in this environment, what these relationships look like, and whether they can be compared to relationships formed in the real world. To achieve these goals, quantitative research was conducted using an online questionnaire. The results were then processed and interpreted using graphs and tables. The findings showed that interactions within online games have a diverse nature, which depends on many factors - the most significant in my research turned out to be the genre of games. Many women tend to hide their true identity within online games, even though the number of women who have experienced negative interactions does not differ much from the number of men who have also experienced them. The...
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Czech Education Panel Survey – Report from the First Wave of Data Collection
Kudrnáč, Aleš ; Spitzerová, Markéta ; Hanzlová, Radka ; Petrúšek, Ivan ; Aslan, Katarína ; Bocskor, Ákos
This research report presents data from the Czech Education Panel Survey (CZEPS) conducted in autumn 2023. The focus is on how first-year male and female students perceive themselves, their academic aspirations, their relationship to school and their level of critical thinking they come to each type of secondary school. Based on responses from more than 22 thousands students from 249 schools participating in the first wave, in this report we focused on outcomes in the areas of wellbeing, choice of secondary school, sense of belonging to school, critical thinking test results and the situation of ethnic minorities.
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Support for income redistribution and its determinants in Europe between 2002 and 2019
Petrúšek, Ivan ; Linek, Lukáš (advisor) ; Katrňák, Tomáš (referee) ; Gerbery, Daniel (referee)
This cumulative dissertation consists of four research papers and examines support for income redistribution in Europe between 2002 and 2019. All analyses use the first nine rounds of the European Social Survey (ESS) merged with country-level contextual information from external databases (OECD, Eurostat, and SWIID). The reported results are fully reproducible. The descriptive analysis shows how trends in redistribution support differ by welfare regime. Except for a few countries, aggregate redistribution support was relatively stable over the studied period. Material self-interest theories conceptually frame and motivate the conducted analyses. The main research themes focus on the contextual effects of unemployment rates on pro-redistributive attitudes and how being unemployed and personal experience with long-term unemployment correlate with redistribution support. Results demonstrate that country-level structural unemployment positively correlates with aggregate redistribution support, whereas cyclical unemployment does not generally correlate with aggregate redistribution support in Europe. At the individual level, the unique analyses demonstrate that controlling for experience with long-term unemployment dramatically reduces the effect size of being unemployed, thus questioning almost unison...
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The decrease in alcohol consumption and smoking in the Czech Republic between the years 2010 and 2018 in relation to the family environment
Krásná, Anna ; Soukup, Petr (advisor) ; Petrúšek, Ivan (referee)
Since 2010, sociologists have noted that teenagers drink less alcohol and smoke a smaller number of cigarettes each year than in previous years. This paper analyses the association between family background and the decline in alcohol and cigarette use in the Czech Republic between 2010 and 2018. The data are from the international HBSC (Health Behaviour in School-aged Children) study, from the years 2010, 2014, and 2018. The bachelor thesis only discusses cases from the Czech Republic, the data have thousands of cases, so they are robust enough to perform quantitative analyses. The analysis focuses only on alcohol and conventional cigarettes as the two most common addictive substances consumed by adolescents. Family background is examined in terms of parental presence in the household, ease of communication between parent and child, and family wealth. Secondary analysis showed an association of family wealth with the amount of alcohol consumed and cigarettes smoked. Children from wealthier families drink alcohol more often than children from the opposite end of the spectrum, and conversely, children from poorer families smoke more cigarettes. The data does not have the potential to observe causality, only correlations could be observed. The main conclusion of the paper is that the decline in...
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Argumentation for accepting of universal income: perspective of biopower.
Nykl, Matěj ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Petrúšek, Ivan (referee)
My bachelor thesis is focusing on the argumentation for implementation of universal basic income. It is a system where every person receives a financial unconditional benefit regularly. There is a long history of this idea, originally presented by liberal authors. More attention has been given to this idea recently as it is sometimes declared as a potential sollution to the problems caused by robotization. Many experiments with universal income has been done by now. Left-wing authors present universal income as a tool for redistribution of wealth that should empower lower classes in the society nowadays. The aim of this bachelor thesis is the comparison between texts of liberal and left-wing proponents. The concept of Michel Foucault's biopower is beeing applied. It describes the moderm forms of governance. The articles about universal income are compared it the areas that are associated with the biopower concept. There are also texts that are not consistently using the liberal nor the left-wing argumentation. They were analysed too in order to be assesed wheater it fits to one of the ideological bases. Analysis of these articles highlights some aspects of liberal and left-wing argumentation for basic income implementation and therefore enhances the validity of conlcussions Keywords Universal...
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Explanation of professional and educational visions of pupils in the ninth grade
Vařeková, Karolína ; Remr, Jiří (advisor) ; Petrúšek, Ivan (referee)
1 Abstract This thesis is focused on the interpretation of the ninth-grade pupil's conceptions of hierarchical segmentation of society based on profession and obtained degree of education. Its main goal is to clarify student's perception of inequalities of social status among different work positions and to understand impact of study achievements on their vertical grouping. Theoretical part deals with sociological theories to explain the role of occupation and education in formation and maintenance of social stratification. Analytical part validates theoretical explanations by qualitative research conducted within one ninth class. Research questions are answered by qualitative analysis of data acquired by in-depth semi-structured interviews. Student's conceptions correspond to the basic three-dimensional hierarchical classification of the social layers defined in theoretical part. Mutual inequalities of those layers depend mainly on the level of work position which is related to particular layers. Pupils perceive different social status among vertically segmented vocational groups to be justified because individuals within those categories are distinguished by different personality traits. Achievement of specific social status depends to a great extent on educational performance, which is a measure of...
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Analysis of Missing Data: Comparing Performance of Traditional Methods across Mechanisms
Petrúšek, Ivan ; Soukup, Petr (advisor) ; Hendl, Jan (referee)
The objective of this thesis is to evaluate different methods of dealing with missing values in data analysis. The thesis is divided into three major chapters. The first chapter summarizes the theoretical literature on missing data and focuses on missing data mechanisms in particular. The second chapter introduces traditional methods for addressing missing data in sociological research. The third chapter assesses the performance of these methods by analyzing simulated data sets for two variables (income, IQ). For practical analysis (chapter 3), we simulated missing data according to three different mechanisms (MCAR, MAR, NMAR) and varied the proportion of missing values under these mechanisms (10%, 20%, 30%). Then, we applied each of the following four methods of addressing missing values: complete-case analysis, arithmetic mean imputation, regression imputation, and stochastic regression imputation. In order to evaluate the performance of each of these methods we performed correlation and regression analyses for each experimental condition. The results of these simulations are largely in agreement with existing theoretical literature on the subject of missing data. In the case of NMAR, all solution methods provided biased parameter estimates. In the case of MCAR, only complete-case analysis and...
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