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Social Network Discourse - Facebook, the Virtual Community
Lešková, Zuzana ; Kraus, Jiří (advisor) ; Trampota, Tomáš (referee)
Social Network Discourse - Facebook, the Virtual Community - Abstract Rigorous thesis "Social Network Discourse - Facebook, the Virtual Community" endeavours to study the social network discourse on its contextual level. When using various perspectives, the concrete analysis of such disourse focuses on particular virtual interactions within their thematical and conversational scope.
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Construction of masculinity and femininity by transsexuals who have not undergone sex reassignment surgery
Chovancová, Martina ; Pospíšilová, Marie (advisor) ; Hrešanová, Ema (referee)
The diploma thesis examines the construction of masculinity and femininity of young transsexual individuals who have not undergone surgical gender reassignment. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part builds on the theory of gender stereotype and the research of Gagné and Tewksbury, according to which transsexual individuals try to suppress their feminine or masculine selves as expected, while maintaining relationships. Furthermore, the work is based on Mandal's and Jakubowski's study, which confirms the theory that transsexual women live more in a gender stereotype than transsexual men who live in accordance with their original and new gender roles. In the practical part, a qualitative survey is carried out using the method of grounded theory, and six transsexual respondents were interviewed using semi- structured interviews: three transsexual men and three transsexual women. The sample is selected from transgender individuals who have not undergone operative gender reassignment and have decided to share their story on social networks. The aim of the research part is to find out how transsexual people without operative gender reassignment construct their masculinity and femininity. The main finding was that transsexual individuals who chose not to undergo sex...
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Transition from Working Life to Retirement
KUNOVÁ, Aneta
The bachelor thesis was focused on the transition from active life to retirement. The topic of this work was very topical. It deals with adults in active working life who were preparing for the next stage of life, considering retirement options, or partially or fully continuing their employment. The thesis was divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part defines the basic concepts, describes the period of active aging and preparation for old age. Attention was paid to the pension system. Furthermore, the transition from working life to retirement pension was described, which describes retirement pension, its conditions of entitlement, necessary steps to obtain it and timing of departure. The aim of the thesis was to describe how people in pre-retirement age live their current life period, how they prepare for the post-employment and retirement periods, and what factors influence their decisions on termination of employment and retirement. To carry out the research part of the thesis was used qualitative type of research and semi-structured interview technique. The research sample was made up of people who are of pre-retirement age and are considering terminating or continuing their employment. The results were processed by the open coding method. The research was to determine whether people are thinking about preparing for old age and retirement life, what they are aware of the conditions for retirement, what decisions they make and what they expect from life after leaving employment. Work can serve as material for people approaching retirement age. It can help to specify indicators of transition from active life to retirement.
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Network analysis of the self-presentation of users on the social media platform Facebook.com
Medová, Kamila ; Soukup, Martin (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
The Master's thesis Network analysis of the self-presentation of users on the social media platform Facebook.com focuses on the different ways of self-presentation and behavior of the users on the Facebook.com. The central theme of the thesis is the analysis of the self- presentation tools used by users to construct their virtual identities. In the theoretical part there are explained concepts of identity, self-presentation, social role and social network. The emphasis is also put on the dramaturgical concept of Erving Goffman, which is also the basic theory for this empirical research. The aim of this research is to find out whether there is a difference between the so-called virtual and real user identity and to point out the existence of the so-called ideal self. The research consists of two parts and combines two research methods. In the first part of the research, there are analysed all the data obtained by qualitative in-depth interview. This data is then used in the following network analysis of the content of their Facebook profiles. This network analysis is the main outcome of this thesis. In the conclusion, the findings obtained during the research are presented and at the same time they are compared with previous researches dealing with this topic.
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How adolescents feel their future role of a man and a woman in a partnership/marriage in relation to children.
ČERNÁ, Lenka
This bachelor thesis aims to establish how the adolescent young people see their future gender role of a man and woman in their partner/marital relationship, last not least with respect to parental planning and upbringing of children. The thesis consists of two parts. The first, theoretical part describes the adolescent age period as the process of maturation and creating the person´s own identity and outlines the comprehensive transformation of somatic, psychic and social personality. Then the basic concepts of male and female roles, their characteristics and the shaping of roles in the context of family, the mutual communication and its influence on upbringing and formation of children are explained. The parents constitute another important concept of the thesis, since they represent a complementary behaviour model that is essential for a child´s healthy development. Another subject is the marital bond and partner´s joint life. The family as an environment for life, its functions, characteristics and contemporary family types is treated extensively, as are the upbringing of children in family, manners of parenting and parenting mistakes. The second, practical part of the thesis contains a research study relying on quantitative methodology, using a non-standardized questionnaire designed by the author. The research sample was obtained by available selection method and the respondents are residents of Vimperk and its surroundings. The questionnaire was administered electronically. The research population consists of adolescents (boys and girls) aged between 15 and 22 years who live in Vimperk, commute to the town to school or employment or who live in nearby municipalities within approximately 15 km radius. The questionnaire was designed to establish the attitudes of young people, specifically on the respective roles of the woman as mother and of the man as father and on the way they influence their children. This subject was approached from two perspectives. First it was studied how the respondents perceive the role distribution and parenting influence exerted by their parents on them as their children, in their original family. The aim of second perspective was to establish how the respondents themselves imagine their future roles of a man and woman in the family and their future parenting characteristics. Also of interest was which way of living together the young people prefer, what family means to them and whether they consider having children in the future.
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Inclusive Volunteering - The volunteer activity of people with a disability
Marková, Aneta ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Frič, Pavol (referee) ; Matulayová, Tatiana (referee)
Volunteering is a phenomenon that appeals to researchers, representatives of international institutions and governments in some countries, as a tool of social policy. Current research shows positive benefits of volunteering for the society but also for volunteers themselves. In this context, a new phenomenon, called inclusive volunteering, is emerging, which emphasizes that volunteering is open to all people in the society. At present, however, this phenomenon is not fully elucidated and researches that examine volunteering from the point of view of volunteers themselves, when considering inklusive volunteering, are very rare. The presented work aims to fill in the missing knowledge and thus contribute to the recognition of the phenomenon of volunteering through research of the previously very little known group of volunteers with a disability. The research sample consists of 27 volunteers with a disability who were interviewed. The interviews were analysed by the Strauss and Corbin's theory. The research has revealed that volunteers with a disability are experiencing a lack of social participation due to the absence of a socially valuable social role. The absence of a social role encourages the search for a new socially valuable social role that the volunteers with a disability find in...
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