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Voluntary childlessness in the Czech Republic in the international context
Trdličková, Gabriela ; Dobiášová, Karolína (advisor) ; Hejzlarová, Eva (referee)
This thesis "Voluntary childlessness in the Czech Republic in the international context" is focused on the phenomenon of voluntary childlessness, that has been increasing in the past twenty years in the Czech Republic and other countries. It is based on relevant sociological theories, particularly theories of individualization and a cultural change and also the value of child theory. It deals with demographical changes and the second demographic transition in the Czech Republic and Europe. On this basis there is built an idea of using information about voluntary childlessness in other countries for the phenomenon in the Czech Republic as well, because it has similar reproductional intentions as in the other countries. The paper explains the term childlessness and defines a voluntary and involuntary choice, with accent to the first type. Shortly it deals with a media reflection and public opinion. To achieve goals of the thesis which are understanding and describing factors and motives of voluntarily childlessness and for creating a model of the factors and motives, a qualitative attitude was used to review the research. There are described three basic types of factors and motives, each of them is described in one chapter. Moreover there is a chapter dedicated to the stereotypization and stigmatization of...
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Professionalization and its impact on sectoral identity of non-governmental organizations in the Czech Republic
Trdličková, Gabriela ; Frič, Pavol (advisor) ; Kokeš, Richard (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to explore a new phenomenon of professionalization in the non-governmental organizations and its impact on the sectoral identity of non-governmental organizations that are targeted to handicapped people. Because of the modernization a trend of professionalisation enters to non profit sector. This process changes the structure of organizations. The most important changes are a spreading of professional knowledge that leads to increasing of professionals in organizations. Other changes are the division of labour, changes in the hierarchy and the structure of the organization, the accessibility for the public, financing, and also that professionals start to have a bigger impact on organizations. This transformation changes characteristics of sectoral identity of non-givernmental organizations that are starting to be similar to public administratiion institutions or to commercial subjects. The basic hypothesis of this thesis is: The more proffesionalized the organizations are the less characteristics of sectoral identity they show. The sectoral identity is a concept that was determined for this thesis according to the definitiion of non-governemnetal organizations of Salamon and Anheier. They determined five characteristics of non-governmenatl organizations. This thesis...
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Voluntary childlessness in the Czech Republic in the international context
Trdličková, Gabriela ; Dobiášová, Karolína (advisor) ; Hejzlarová, Eva (referee)
This thesis "Voluntary childlessness in the Czech Republic in the international context" is focused on the phenomenon of voluntary childlessness, that has been increasing in the past twenty years in the Czech Republic and other countries. It is based on relevant sociological theories, particularly theories of individualization and a cultural change and also the value of child theory. It deals with demographical changes and the second demographic transition in the Czech Republic and Europe. On this basis there is built an idea of using information about voluntary childlessness in other countries for the phenomenon in the Czech Republic as well, because it has similar reproductional intentions as in the other countries. The paper explains the term childlessness and defines a voluntary and involuntary choice, with accent to the first type. Shortly it deals with a media reflection and public opinion. To achieve goals of the thesis which are understanding and describing factors and motives of voluntarily childlessness and for creating a model of the factors and motives, a qualitative attitude was used to review the research. There are described three basic types of factors and motives, each of them is described in one chapter. Moreover there is a chapter dedicated to the stereotypization and stigmatization of...
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