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An Impact of Reemigration on National Identity
Axmannová, Kamila ; Šatava, Leoš (advisor) ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (referee)
Introduced diploma thesis presents the results of the research project which investigated the impact on the national identity. The goal of the research project was to find out with a help of the quality research, in detail an anchored theory, the central phenomenon in the perception of the national identity. The results of the anchored theory shows, that this phenomenon is level of adaptation of the individual on the environment respectively level of acculturation and flowingly level of reintegration. Intervene conditions, such as strategy of the handling of the stress situations, work success or family and friends' bounds also influence this phenomenon. Main context line in this direction presents emigration and re-emigration of the individual with all the possible causes and intervene conditions. Important part of the context line is the fact of the leaving of the individual itself, including his or hers preparation for leaving the country. This in its' nature determines even the process of acculturation of the individual in emigration with the impact on the perception of the national identity. If I should state the result of the research in one sentence, I would characterize it as following: "Level of acculturation of the individual in the emigration determines the perception of the national...
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Ice hockey as a symbol of national identity: the Czech society 20 years after the Nagano triumph
Burdová, Karolína ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Wladyniak, Ludmila Maria (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the process of building national identity through sport, specifically ice hockey. The thesis focuses primarily on the aspects contributing to the reproduction of the Czech national identity. Important aspects are mainly symbols, which remind us of the individual's belonging to the nation, as well as the media, which significantly help to the mythization of sports events. One of the events that played an important role in the formation of the Czech national identity is the 1998 Nagano Olympics. The success of the Czech hockey team in this tournament made part of the history twenty years ago; there are still many legacies of this triumph nowadays. The thesis is based on a research that combined several methods. I obtained the data through participant observation of the national team matches broadcasts, I also analysed documents that referred to the legacies of Czech victory, and I carried out semi-structured interviews with ice hockey fans. The interviews suggest that the victory of the Nagano hockey players, with the contribution of the media and banal nationalism, underwent the process of mythization, and thus played a significant role in the Czech national identity building.
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Athletes and Heroes - construction and evolution of Czech olympic medalist image
Houzar, Petr ; Šoltys, Otakar (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis "Athletes as heroes - construction and evolution of Czech olympic medalist image" deals with media construction of olympic Winter image and its following trasformation into national hero myth. It approaches the topic from the perspective of semiotic analysis. It informs about the key concepts of semiotics and media studies like visual communication, sign, code, myth, social construction of reality, representation and stereotype. These concepts are consequently used as tools for the analysis of photos (thein legends) and headlines in daily press. The text shows on the case of six olympic winners (between years 1998 - 2008) how Czech daily press dealt and built individual stories a basic archetypes. In its first part it offers basic theoretical frame serving to understand the hero image as the social construct. Athlete with his win attracts new - medial constructed - identity. In the second part text tries to analyse media contents that deal with athetes images immediate after their olympic victory. It arrives to following conclusions: media have a tendency to produce the stories od victory, that are gender unequal and stereotyped. And finally, text show us individual images, their basic signs and confrontation, that signifies very similar narrative pracices and zero progress in time.
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Nationalities policy of the KSČ during the period of the First Republic
Čučela, Roman ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
This bachelor's thesis focuses on the development of the nationalities policy of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, from the foundation of the party in 1921 until the signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938. The objective of the thesis is to describe the ways the nationalities policy of the KSČ developed, and the reasons why it has developed in certain ways. The thesis begins with a description of views on the nationalities question of the two approaches that influenced the nationalities policy of the KSČ, the Marxist-Leninist view and the view of Bohumír Šmeral, a significant social democratic representative before the foundation of KSČ and subsequently a founder of this party, and the ethnic situation in the newly created Czechoslovak Republic. The thesis continues with a chronological analysis of the party's nationalities policy, its criticisms and incentives for its change and the changes in the policy. The thesis covers the history of the party only during instances where its nationalities policy was either directly or indirectly influenced. The bachelor thesis is also concerned with the outcomes of KSČ parliamentary elections to the Chamber of Deputies, in electoral districts based on their ethnic composition, and how these electoral outcomes changed along with the shifts in the...
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Development of the national cultural identity, traditions and values in the subject of Czech language at elementary schools
Šebelová, Dana ; Šmejkalová, Martina (advisor) ; Babušová, Gabriela (referee)
This thesis examines changes and evolvement in conceptual notions of nationalism and national identity from the beginning of the 19th century until present. The thesis is composed of two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part delineates the concepts of nation, national identity and attempts to characterize Czech national identity. Further, it explores the notion in the context of socio-political transformations in our motherland. Moreover, this section looks at notions of education and patriotic education and the way such education was exercised in schools in particular historical periods. The study also concentrates on the concept of mother tongue and its role in building Czech national identity. Comparison of various ways the relationship towards mother tongue in various types of primary schools in this and last century is likewise offered. The practical part consists of two research segments. The first one analyzes various curricula, school material and textbooks from the beginning of the last century until present with emphasis on patriotic education. Emphasis has been put on textbooks intended for the fifth grade of all types of primary schools. The research shows the ways attitude towards patriotic education has evolved in the context of socio-political transformations in the...
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