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Football and social modernization
Hanuš, Karel ; Duffková, Jana (advisor) ; Vinopal, Jiří (referee)
(English) This work deals with transformation of football (soccer) in process of social modernization and partially to influences of football on the modernization. A goal of this work is comprehension of basic dynamics of modern football which assumes combination of theoretical and historical approach. A core of the analysis (exploiting plurality of theoretical approaches) is aimed at situation in Europe (and particularly in England) which was crucial for general development. However, non-European regions are not neglected. Af first is the work focused on characterization of premodern team ball games from which later resulted modern football. Analytical framework comprises relation of football to four modernization trends and its selected displays: rationalization of society (creation of a formal rules, institutionalization of football and development of tactic), market generalization and expansion of economic system (commercialization of football including mass mediums), professionalization of players and particularities of football in state socialist countries), transformations of social bonds, identity and increase of nation states (nationalism and clubism) and displays of selected social inequalities in football and efforts to its change (class inequalities, global inequalities and gendered...
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Development of civil society organizations focusing on women's rights in Tunisia before and after the first democratic elections
Homolková, Tereza ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (advisor) ; Klípa, Ondřej (referee)
In this master thesis I deal with civil society organizations in Tunisia with a focus on women's rights. Firstly, I present the conceptual frameworks I work with and I set the indicators on the basis of which I assess the organization. I present context in which organisations are operating, I describe the history of Tunisia and the state of women's rights in Tunisia. First I focus on the period before the first democratic elections, between 1987 and 2011, when president Zin Abidin bin Ali ruled. Then I move on to the period after the first democratic elections, which took place in 2011, until 2018. Subsequently, I compare the functioning of civil society organisations with a focus on women's rights in these two periods. I discuss what organizations have to deal with during their operation, what influences them and what problems they concentrate on within the framework of women's rights. I collect information and data using document analysis, and then analyze the data with open coding.
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Demokratizace Bosny a Hercegoviny
Hartmanová, Pavla
The main aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyse the progress of the post-war reconstruction and current democratic development in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this work, author focuses on the tehory of consociative democracy, which was introduced in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the enf of the war conflict. So the author addresses the queastion of the functionality of this model of democracy and analyses the main problems it has to face. The Dayton Peace Agreement will also be dismantled at work, as it was this that brought an end to the war conflict in the terriotry of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it was this end that triggered the implementation of consociational democracy.
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union in Georgia and its Transformation
Soušková, Tereza ; Tumis, Stanislav (advisor) ; Příhoda, Marek (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the Georgian soviet socialistic republic and its transformation into an independent democratic state. The thesis analyses how soviet political institutions have turned into democratic ones. In connection with that the thesis will stress the general social situation including the civil war in the 1990s and the relationship of the new state towards the Russian Federation. The thesis will focus on time of the second half of 1980s until the first half of 1990s. Key words Georgia, Soviet Union, transformation, demokratization, transition
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American influence on the emergence, development, and democratization of marginal groups of Japanese society after 1945
Feldová, Erika ; Hornát, Jan (advisor) ; Sýkora, Jan (referee)
This thesis examines the influenced of the American occupation on the cultures of defeat which developed in the early years of post-war Japan. It analyzes the worldof Pan-pan prostitutes, black market and obscure kasutori subculture and it is searching for connection between them, the Americans and the democratization of the country. Within the Pan-pan culture it observes the relationship between the American GI and Japanese Pan-pan and how this relationship shaped the post-war Americanization of Japan. The next chapter focuses on the American products on the black market and how these products influenced Japanese society. The last chapter introduces the kasutori culture with all of its quasi-philosophical nature and describes its relationship with American occupation and its censorship.
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Social change in Moldova (1991-2017) in the social science and political expertise reflection
Matei, Mihaela ; Maslowski, Nicolas (advisor) ; Německý, Marek (referee)
This thesis analyses the interception of the social change in the social science and politically expert literature from a historical perspective of the post-soviet development of the Republic of Moldova. The first chapter introduces the main hypotheses and the research design of the master thesis. The following chapter offers the development of the concept social change in a larger context of the classical and new theories. The aim of the thesis is to find out theories of social change in the Moldovan literature between after 1991. The results of a content analysis will be presented in the third chapter. Finally, the last section of the thesis focuses on suggestions for the further development of this analysis.
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Democracy assistance policies of the US and the EU: different approaches and their causes
Hornát, Jan ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; van Hüllen, Vera (referee) ; Fawn, Rick (referee)
The United States of America and the institutions of the European Union are the most prominent democracy assistance donors in third countries. Over the last two decades, they have spent tens of billions of dollars to support the formation and consolidation of democratic regimes around the world. In this sense, the US and the EU have seemingly shared interests - i.e. seeking to build democratic institutions in target countries so that these become part of the community of democracies and contribute to the stability of the world's economic and political system. However, if we look at the approaches and strategies used by the US and the EU to support democracy, we find that they are often quite different and, in some respects, clashing. Why are the approaches of both actors different if they strive to reach the same goal? Or - upon closer examination - are their goals indeed somewhat different? The key problem is that democracy as such is a contested concept, so it is necessary to ask the question: if we are promoting democracy, what kind of democracy do we mean? If we finance the development of one or the other institution, what model of democratic establishment will be created? The thesis takes a constructivist view of this issue and demonstrates how the different democratic identities of the two...
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Comparison of Democratic Consolidation in Former Eastern Bloc
Bárta, Vít ; Houda, Přemysl (advisor) ; Vaňous, Jaroslav (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to numerically evaluate democratic consolidation in Eastern European countries of the former Eastern Bloc. To compare these countries with each other and decide which of these countries can be considered as consolidated democracies. Secondary aim is to find which factors supported this consolidation or at least correlate with it. Theoretical basis of this work is Wolfgang Merkel's theory of democratic consolidation. He divides democratic consolidation into four levels: constitutional consolidation, representative consolidation, behavioral consolidation and democratic consolidation of the political culture. Each level of democratic consolidation is numerically expressed, with usage of Bertelsmann's transformation index data, separately for all states in two-year intervals since 2005 to 2015. Based on that, overall democratic consolidation is calculated. Therefore, we can compare countries between each other and in time. Correlation between factors supporting consolidation and overall democratic consolidation is expressed by Pearson correlation coefficient. This work is beneficial in creating and describing method, which can be used for numerical expression of democratic consolidation in any state since 2005 to 2015 without author's subjective influence. Another benefit is...
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Development Funding of Czech Social Services before and after 1989
Dosedlová, Tereza ; Krpálek, Pavel (advisor) ; Holečková, Markéta (referee)
This thesis deals with basic conditions and creation trends in pursuit of increasing effectivity in funding of social services in the Czech republic. Said trends are distinguished as generally apparent, latent and those followed by decision making government body for administration purposes and in pursuit of sustainability. Time period before 1989 is described mainly as socio-political background for social services funding are based. This thesis is processed as a descriptive and analytical study.
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Time of Prague spring 1968 reflected in the journal of Literární listy
Maslova, Alina ; Pešička, Jiří (advisor) ; Dolenská, Jana (referee)
The time of the Prague Springof 1968 drawn out in the journal Literární listy This work looks into the profile of the journal Literární listy during the period of the Prague Spring of 1968; my exposition is preceded by a reflection of the political and socio- cultural atmosphere of these times. In the introduction, I give a brief overview of what was happening on the political and cultural scene, since the early loosening of internal relations in the late 1950's as well as through out the 1960's in the former Czechoslovakia (a so-called "melting period"), and an overall evaluation of the situation from a cultural point of view (including the relationship between writers and authorities, the emancipation of cultural journals from the official party and state policies, the development at the 4th congress of Svaz československých spisovatelů (Czechoslovak Writers' Union) and the voiced criticism of the regime. The following pages recall the main points of developments during the months of the Prague Spring of 1968. The vision of this work, to which I dedicate the largest part, is to expound and analyze the contemporary key themes, how it is reflected in the major journalistic contributions to the journal Literární listy: articles on current internal and foreign policy situations, probing the recent...
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