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Deepening democracy at the local level / Civic participation in Utrecht
Blahetová, Kristýna ; Skovajsa, Marek (advisor) ; Benyovszky, Selma (referee)
This thesis focuses on the topic of active citizenship in democratic societies. An emphasis is placed on the clarification of the role of the citizen as an engaged participant in the political process at the local level. This issue is contextualized within the theory of democracy, which legitimacy is fulfilled by the citizen participation. The empirical part is devoted to the research of the citizen participation in the Dutch city of Utrecht, where the way of cooperation between citizens and public officers was investigated in the process of public policy making. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the form and the contribution of the civic participation in Utrecht. Keywords democracy, democracy at the local level, participatory democracy, citizen, participation, codecision, cooperation, relationship between the citizen and the politician, level of participation
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World from the point of view of the citizen in Early Modern Age
Sojková, Alena ; Čechura, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Ďurčanský, Marek (referee)
This diploma thesis covers the individual citizens' perception of suburban events in order to discuss the point of view of the early modern Czech citizen and their ability to gain information of the world around through the analysis of such suburban events that were registered in the chosen chronicles, originating between the years 1575-1600, a period that is considered "a golden age of the Czech cities". First, the background of the chroniclers is outlined, because it might have influenced the choice of events they decided to include in their works, i.e. the position of the concrete city, the level of education in the said period or the author's personal life. Second, the general knowledge of the authors is described in the thesis through the means of analysis of the type of recorded information (e.g. Turkish wars, the deaths of famous persons, wildfires, councils and the like). In other words, the thesis is to point out what type of information was considered to be the most interesting or extraordinary to the wider public, and which circles were usually covered by the chroniclers. Therefore, the reader is to discover the world of thought of the early modern citizen, which has been restricted to us because of the lack of other than administrative materials, and the impulses that influenced and...
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Citizenship and Authenticity
Bindásová, Juliána ; Matějka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Moree, Dana (referee)
The text tries to bring a different point of view on what citizenship is and what it means, other than political or legal interpretation. It searches for pre-political and pre-legal basis of citizenship able to protect its rights and freedoms as defined by, for example, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms or as legally guaranteed in democracies. The theoretical part of the text is based on treatises of Czechoslovak dissidents who examined the phenomenon of citizenship, being themselves citizens of illiberal regime. The treatises originate mainly in the 1970s and look at the citizen through the eyes of the dissent of "normalised" Czechoslovakia. The view is broadened by further interviews focusing on the topic of citizenship with three more dissidents. The goal is to find what citizenship should carry within, what it should mean in order to be able to defend its space, the space which officially belongs to it in democratic conditions.
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Foreigners in Europe: discourse analysis of construction of "foreigners" in news in newspapers die frankfurter allgemeine zeitung and lidové noviny
Mičková, Barbora ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Kraus, Jiří (referee)
The master thesis Foreigners in Europe: Discourse Analysis of Construction of "Foreigners" in News in Newspapers Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Lidové noviny deals with the discourse in which the category of foreigner is constituted in the media. National identity, cultural pluralism and citizenship belong to a very progressive area of social science research recently, with wide range of use in public policy, politics, economy or business. The aim of this theses is to identify the discursive constructions used when defining foreigner and to contextualize this foreigner discourse to the German, Czech a European identity. The Critical Discourse Studies as well as an interdisciplinary approach are used, explaining the discourse from the perspectives of national identity, cultural identity and multiculturalism. The results of the grounded theory analysis are applied to the particular discursive constructions and approaches. Also, a new hypothesis - possibly for future verification - is postulated in this thesis. The master thesis presents the hypothesis for potential further research.
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Psychological reaction to different types of emergencies and disasters
Koblic, Milan ; Fiala, Miloš (advisor) ; Vilášek, Josef (referee)
Title: Psychological reactions to different types of emergencies and disasters Objectives: Develop a general overview of human behavior patterns of individuals and groups in unexpected situations. Methods: In this work were used the methods of analysis and comparison. The analysis was applied to the analysing of different types of emergencies and disasters. By comparison were then compared patterns of different types of personalities among themselves, but also depending on the type of threat. Results: It was found that the response to external stimuli are internal conditions, individual abilities, attitudes and temperament. A major role but also plays a readiness on the situation. If one knows the formula by which should the situation solve, increase the chance that threat or disaster can handle. Keywords: response, Great, disaster psychology, citizen
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Foreigners in Europe: discourse analysis of construction of "foreigners" in news in newspapers die frankfurter allgemeine zeitung and lidové noviny
Mičková, Barbora ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Šoltys, Otakar (referee)
The thesis Foreigners in Europe: Discourse Analysis of Construction of "Foreigners" in News in Newspapers Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Lidové noviny deals with the discourse in which the category of foreigner is constituted in the media. National identity, cultural pluralism and citizenship belong to a very progressive area of social science research recently, with wide range of use in public policy, politics, economy or business. The aim of this thesis is to identify the discursive constructions used when defining foreigner and to contextualize this foreigner discourse to the German, Czech a European identity. The Critical Discourse Studies as well as an interdisciplinary approach are used, explaining the discourse from the perspectives of national identity, cultural identity and multiculturalism. The results of the grounded theory analysis are applied to the particular discursive constructions and approaches. The thesis presents the hypothesis for potential further research.
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Teacher's Citizenship Competence and Conception of Teaching
Klecandová, Magdalena ; Kasíková, Hana (advisor) ; Strouhal, Martin (referee)
The thesis follows up citizenship competence of a teacher and its influence on the conception of teaching. It shows components of the citizenship competence and presents it in the personality of the teacher, in educational and other documents, in education generally and in teacher's active approach in school and in life. Qualitative research looks into the influence of citizenship competence of the teacher on his approach to teaching. It introduces the personalities of teachers of civic and social sciences, their views on citizenship competence and its parts, which they observe on themselves. The research results also present an overall approach to developing this competence in pupils and students and ways of promoting good citizenship in school. The topic of an apolitical school also mentioned in the thesis. Interviews with teachers and observations of teaching are used as research methods.
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Role of the Media in Shaping Public perceptions and Political thinking in Czech Republic.
Mácha, Slavomír ; Stracený, Josef (advisor) ; Havlík, Radomír (referee)
Author's name: Bc. Mácha Slavomír School: Social Science & Philosophy Dept. Faculty of Education Charles University, Prague Graduate Program (Single Major): Master Degree (Mgr.) in Teaching Social Sciences, Philosophy, and Ethics in High Schools and Higher Professional Schools Title: The Role of the Media in Shaping Public perceptions and Political thinking in the Czech Republic Consultant: PhDr. Josef Stracený, CSc Number of pages: 97 + 1 attachments Number of attachments: 1 Number of marks: 202412 Number of literature: 56 Number of web pages: 33 Year: 2012 Key words: role of the media, political marketing, political thinking, public opinion, media manipulation, media function, advertising in politics, message effects, active and passive audience, voter, citizen, social networks, This thesis aims to prove the role of media in shaping the public perception and political thinking in the Czech republic. Thesis was worked up by analysing specialised literature concerning the above topics. The role of the media in shaping the public opinion and the views of major political and social problems are being investigated in the long-term surveys. It is legitimate (nebo generally accepted) that all we know, believe or think about what happens in the outside world is sometimes shaped into a form that reflects...
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Civil Participation at Public Affairs and Its Impact on Development of Community. Case Study of the Litoměřice Region
Charvátová, Dagmar ; Šťastná, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Šabatová, Anna (referee)
This thesis deals with the topic of civic participation in society and how participation this society develops and influences. The theoretical part is concerned with explaining the concepts, history and general knowledge that are related to participation. The grip and exploration of the region is described in the work from European, republic, district and consequently the regional context. The thesis is focused on the region Litoměřice, which is described in aspect of participation in detail. In the practical part of the thesis is the Litoměřice region studied by questionnaire survey. There are questions set and answered. With these issues is expressed effort to find out whether the value of gender, age and education tend to influence the participation rate among residents in the Litoměřice region. The detected data are processed and evaluated as a basis for presenting the conclusions.
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Philosophy and community
Timingeriu, Filip ; Hogenová, Anna (advisor) ; Blažková, Miloslava (referee)
Master's thesis "Philosophy and community" looks into the origin of ancient greek term "polis" and inception of its citizen. It looks into it as specifical means of being of world and human. The correlation of polis and citizen is most apparent in philosophy of Plato. With an emphasis on his privilegy of spoken word over written one, he shows possible sources of philosophical hermeneutics. By understanding the situation, which leads to the decline of the reciprocal relationship between human and world, author would like to express that in Platos way of thinking are still unreflected possibilities of solution for the present day. Intention of this work is to contribute - by sketching and explication of the principles of political thinking - to the discussion - and not only to that of the political philosophy and political science.
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