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Fights of Roma Teenagers Cultural Models of Violence
Trachtová, Zuzana ; Bittnerová, Dana (advisor) ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (referee)
This thesis focuses on the meaning of violence within groups of Roma youth. It discusses questions regarding how they understand, verbalise and reflect on violence. Answers to these questions presented in the work are based on long-term communication with Roma teenagers visiting a low-threshold club, where I worked. Afterwards, the research was carried out outside the club, in their private space and also in a boxing club. The Roma teenagers formed a fixed group, identifying themselves with a particular Prague district. The dialogues revealed an interesting topic of "fights" among Roma groups coming from different Prague districts. The aim of the thesis is to provide answers to the questions what teenagers are actually saying when they are talking about "fighting" one another, how they assess such behaviour and what meanings it carries for them. The theoretical part presents definitional frameworks concerning the term of violence as well as the concept of physical violence appearing in different socio-scientific contexts. In literature, violence is often referred to in connection with young people, gender, masculinity, social exclusion and honour. Furthermore, this part concentrates on defining the Roma minority and outlining their situation in Prague and the Czech Republic. The theoretical and...
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Facebook and Instagram as a part of teenagers' lifestyle - Qualitative study on how teenagers use social networks as a part of their daily lives
Svobodová, Lucie ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Švelch, Jaroslav (referee)
This thesis focuses on social networks and the role they play in the lives of teenagers. My aim was to provide insight into teenagers' worlds on Facebook and Instagram. The first part provides a theoretical basis for my research and summarizes foreign research on this topic. The second part describes the research methodology that has been performed in this thesis, in addition to the sample who participated in this research. Finally the results of this research are compared with research of foreign authors. The main research question was "What are the motivations of teenagers to use social networks and how do teenagers represent themselves in these surroundings?" The next research questions focused on privacy concerns and whether teenagers take their own safety into consideration when using Facebook and Instagram. My research demonstrates that electronic social networks are primarily used by teenagers as a means of maintaining contact with their peer group rather than making new social connections. Though social networks such as Facebook and Instagram play a primary role in teenagers' social interactions, there are many privacy risks that are not easily accessible to teenagers and present long-term challenges for their electronic presence. It is important to emphasize that the results of my research...
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Public Library Services Focusing on Teenagers: An Analysis
Mrázová, Kristýna ; Landová, Hana (advisor) ; Nekolová, Kateřina (referee)
The aim of this work is to analyze public library services focusing on teenagers. Theoretical part describes definition of a public library and its services and analysis of some services focusig on teenagers offered by Czech and foreign libraries. Practical part is devoted to analysis of history and the current situation of surveyed public libraries (in Tábor, Strakonice, Český Krumlov and Soběslav). There is also a research included in this section - it is questioning libraries which services they offer to teenagers or why they don't offer this services. This work presents analysis of the different sizes of Czech public libraries in services focused on teenagers and also summary of this services offered by Czech and foreign libraries. Keywords Public library Public library services Teenagers Teens Young adult Youth
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Mapping approaches of youth drop-in centres and outreach social services to xenophobia and racism among adolescents
Pazlar, Martin ; Lorenzová, Jitka (advisor) ; Běhalová, Andrea (referee)
The thesis concentrates on Approaches of youth drop-in centers and outreach services towards xenophobia and racism among teenagers. It deals with topics, such as xenophobia, racism, situation of Czech society concerning these two issues and the legal view point towards it. It describes the period of growing up, what features and reasons of xenophobia and racism appear among the teenage group. It characterizes a growing up person as a user of social services. The thesis describes inspirational approaches of multicultural education heading towards development of tolerance, possibilities of education and approaches to xenophobia and racism of various organizations. Further on, it gives a number of examples of experiences from several other European countries. It introduces social services of youth drop-in centers and outreach services. It mainly deals with approaches of both services towards working with teenage clients who show signs of xenophobia and racism. The practical part of the thesis discovers approaches of social workers of various youth drop-in centers and outreach services in the Czech Republic towards xenophobia and racism among teenager clients. Key words: xenophobia, racism, teenagers, multicultural/intercultural education, experiences abroad, youth drop-in centers, outreach services
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Patterns of usage of online social network Facebook: a psychographic analysis
Pokorný, Daniel ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Dvořák, Tomáš (referee)
In this diploma thesis I explore the topic of publics on online social networking sites. I also focused on how the concept of publics affects how users behave and present themselves on online social networking sites, taking Facebook as an example. Identity management is an extensively researched area. However, less attention is paid to understanding the ways how users define their audience and how precise such a concept can actually be. In this thesis I set to understand how teenagers think and conceptualize different types of audiences they may encounter and how such imagined audience influences the way they use Facebook. Since this is a topic considerably difficult to think of let alone speak about, especially for young people, I chose projective techniques used in a focus group to overcome these obstacles. Using this method I tried to get answers on the research questions and obtain an insight as to how people imagine their audiences on online social networking sites, what are the most prominent types of users, and how it affects, in turn, their usage of Facebook. A similar type of research can be conducted also for other groups of online social networking sites users as well as for other online social networking sites. The next possible step can be a quantitative study assessing the stated...
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Various approaches to education in adolescence
Valková, Pavla ; Žáčková, Hana (advisor) ; Váňová, Miroslava (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the difference attitude to the parenting of teen-age students. The aim of the thesis is to find out differences in attitude to parental education of teen-age students during theirs growing up. The theoretical part defines basic terms like family and education. This part includes historical development of the parenting, dividing families by functionality and types of problem-burdened families. It focuses on the parenting styles of education. It also deals with emancipation from the family and current view of education. The empirical part is to find out the surveyed students' attitudes to the education. There will be presented results of a quantitative questionnaire survey which was conducted by using questionnaires submitted to pupils from grammar school in Prague. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Leisure activities as prevention of socially pathological phenomena
Rovenský, Vít ; Kohnová, Jana (advisor) ; Hanková, Zdeňka (referee)
Thesis on the subject, "Leisure activities as a prevention of socially pathological phenomena " deals with the question of what influence leisure activities have on the development of a child and how strong is the position of these activities against socially pathological phenomena among children and youth. In the theoretical part of the work a free time is defined, the elaboration of a child's development that is influenced by the social environment and congenital dispositions is here elaborated. Social pathological phenomena and the prevention against them are described. A research investigation is done in the practical part by observing two different groups of boys of the same age in the Educational Institute in Žlutice and in the Forestry High school in Žlutice. The final part of the work summarizes the findings, evaluates and confirms the positive impact of leisure activities on the development of the child.
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The usage of addictive substances among first year students in secondary schools in Zdar nad Sazavou
Velechovská, Alena ; Nevoralová, Monika (advisor) ; Reichelová, Lenka (referee)
Starting points of work Bachelor thesis deals with the issue of substance abuse among first-year students of secondary schools in Zdar nad Sazavou. It focuses on students' experiences related to the use of legal and ilegal drugs. The formulation of objective, research questions The aim of the research was to explore the experience of legal and ilegal drugs among students of all secondary schools in Zdar nad Sazavou, to get reliable information that can support strategic planning of the city, to place an overview of the prevalence, frequency and types of drugs used to map out from whom and at what age students met with drug abuse. Description of the methods used The quantitative data collection method using a questionnaire was used for students of all secondary schools, one class from each school was chosen by lotery. A non-standard questionnaire containing 27 questions was used, which was divided into several categories (usage of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, other ilegal drugs and information about the social context were used). The questions in the questionnaire were inspired by ESPAD questionnaire. The main results Smoking tobacco were introduced to 64 % of respondents. The most common age is 14-16 years, the frequency of use is 1 - 5 cigarettes per week and they were given the first cigarette...
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