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Lone-parent families as a public policy problem: stakeholders' frame reflection and reframing
Hejzlarová, Eva ; Veselý, Arnošt (advisor) ; Krebs, Vojtěch (referee) ; Matoušek, Oldřich (referee) ; Žižková, Jana (referee)
The main theme of the work is finding an answer to the question why in the past years Czech Parliament has failed to enforce measures improving the quality of life of lone-parent families, and what could be done for these measures to be adopted. Theoretical support for answering both questions is provided by a) frame analysis (Schőn and Rein), which works with the idea of conflicting frames and bridging conflicts through reframing, and b) the theory of social construction of target groups (Schneider and Ingram). Based on an analysis of stenographic minutes from proceedings dealing with the issue of non-payment of child support (in particular with proposals for the state to pay child support first and then to receive it from the obligor) and the arrangements connected to child custody (in particular the proposal to strengthen alternating custody), conflicting frames are reconstructed (in the case of non-payment, there are three conflicting frames, in the case of child custody two). These conflicting frames, or rather the fact that they are insufficiently addressed, may be the cause of the incapacity of Czech political representation to address the above agenda. An "efficient penalizing of the debtor" is described as a possible reframing of the problem in the field of non-payment of child support....
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Formation and use of agentiv nouns in contemporary czech and polish language
Plasová, Anna ; Rusin Dybalska, Renata (advisor) ; Benešová, Michala (referee)
This thesis focusses on the issue of feminine gender agentive nouns formation and use in contemporary Polish, with respect to analogical phenomena in Czech. The theoretical part of the thesis sketches the form and the manner of derivation of the feminine counterparts of agentive nouns, subsequently analysing their socio- political implications (the opposition between masculine and feminine gender, various views concerning the asymmetry in their usage). In contemporary Polish, two antagonistic trends can be delineated, one tabooing and blocking the derived forms, the other, on the contrary, upholding and promoting them. In general, feminine forms are widely used for designations of jobs with lower social prestige; conversely, with respect to professions and honorifics viewed as prestigious, feminization is sparse, and, outside the feminist coterie, viewed as unnatural, inappropriate, even belittling. There are also quite a few nouns that undergo derivation only selectively. This state of affairs is evaluated as substantially different from that in Czech, a language in which feminization is common and normally unmarked. The practical part contains a research carried out on a corpus of texts from the Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza from 2006; 18 problematic feminine gender agentive nouns were...
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The Impact of the Fall of the Berlin Wall on RAF
Matějková, Nikola ; Renner, Tomáš (advisor) ; Daňková, Šárka (referee)
The terrorist group Red Army Fraction ("RAF"), which jeopardized the public security with their attacks in West Germany since the seventies and killed more than three thousand people, issued a statement of official closure on April 20, 1998 after 28 years of its activity. This thesis tries to answer the question whether the fall of the Berlin Wall brought the final dissolution of the group. In addition to geopolitical changes it is also necessary to take into account the instruments of the national security policy and the split of opinion within the group. The geopolitical reversal in 1989 had two negative impacts on the RAF. Firstly it meant a devastating ideological defeat for them, even though the former GDR or any other Eastern Bloc country did not respond fully to their expectations. Another shock for them was the arrest of ten former RAF-members who were hiding in the GDR under a false identity. They eventually filed an extensive testimony, so that their sentences could be commuted. Federal Republic of Germany, which had not been too successful in the fight against terrorism up to this time, used the internal weakness of the RAF caused by political circumstances and it finally introduced new instruments to further destabilize the group and led to a rift between prisoners and members at large....
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Socioeconomic Analysis of a chosen Area
Pospíšilová, Lucie ; Luštický, Martin (advisor) ; Pucandlová, Miroslava (referee)
Bachelors thesis which deals with socioeconomic analysis of Humpolec is divided into four main chapters. The first chapter that describes the basic terms of regional development and politics is followed by socioeconomic analysis of Humpolec. The analysis summarizes information from the field of population, social infrastructure and economic activity. Data for this chapter were gathered from Czech Statistical Office and official Humpolec website. Dynamic and comparative approaches were used for formulating these parts. A method of semantic differential is used in the section that follows, it reflects two different opinions on the theme. Obtained facts are supplemented by information from personal interview with town representative and are used for SWOT analysis. Completing SWOT analysis is the main objective of this thesis. Then the author selects a final strategy based on SWOT analysis. In the conclusion there is a personal evaluation and a summary of current situation with the view to the future in Humpolec area.
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Poverty and its solution within the social aid systems
Světlíková, Jana ; Kotous, Jan (referee) ; Munková, Gabriela (advisor)
Poverty and its solution in social assistance systems This work deals with problems of poverty and possibilities of its solution. At first, it follows history of this phenomenon in our country. After the theoretical determination of poverty follows individual conceptions of poverty such as absolute and relative, objektive and subjective, simple and complex. In the comlex conception, poverty is seen as a phenomenon, which has influence on people's life in several dimensions at the same time. A definition of individual conceptions is important for research work to determine size and intensity of poverty in a particular society. Today, we have two main social - political instruments. They help to establish the formal limit of poverty. There are minimum living standard and subsistence level. The amount of minimum living standard and minimally guaranteed wage influences motivation of people to work. The passing of Act No. 111/2006 Sb., on assistance in material indigence, established a new legislative framework regulating this questions. Its basic ideas are: more restrictive circumstances for paying the benefits, active integration of people in solving their problems relating to poverty and prevention of their formation. As compared with other members of European Union the Czech Republic is doing well (on the...
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The GDR and FRG olympic team at the Olympic games in Melbourne 1956
Veselková, Ivana ; Pešek, Jiří (advisor) ; Dimitrov, Michal (referee)
Diploma thesis "The GDR and FRG olympic team at the Olympic games in Melbourne in 1956" describes the process of making the united german team, which has begun in 1955 and which was . Thesis deals with the mutual negotiations of both olympic teams and also describes the goals, which the sport officials and politics were trying to reach during the whole process of making the united team. The next part of the thesis deals with the real experience with the united german team at the summer olympic games in Melbourne in 1956 and also tries to answer the question, whether in reality this united german team was not more or less just two autonomous teams, which only had a few visible symbolic things such as clothes and flag together.
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Theory of interventions and the concept of minimal intervention
Cvrček, Václav ; Sgall, Petr (advisor) ; Čermák, František (referee) ; Kořenský, Jan (referee)
Theory of Interventions Theory of Interventions was elaborated as a general methodological and sociolinguistic theory describing 1) influences which can change the language development (types of intervention, their effect and their classification) and 2) the possible ways how to design relationship between linguists, speakers and language. According to this theory, language is an object which is exposed to interventions (metaphor of an Brownian motion from physics, p. 19). Among other possible divisions, interventions can be of two types: individual and institutionalized (p. 18). Individual interventions include processes of (self-)censorship, proofreading or language management in media. These interventions create a spontaneous order, they are plural and variable. Therefore they mutually interfere and their impact is very small or none (they almost never influence the immanent evolution of language). On the other hand, institutionalized interventions include processes leading to standardization of language, language education or language politics. Impact of institutionalized interventions can influence development of language, because they are monopoly and because of their authority.
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Media image of the Workers Party during Janov events on the pages of Mlada Fronta DNES and Lidove Noviny
Werner, Lukáš ; Slanec, Jaroslav (referee) ; Láb, Filip (advisor)
Diploma thesis "Media Image of the Workers Party During Janov Events on the Pages of Mlada fronta Dnes and Lidove noviny" deals with the manner how two chosen Czech newspapers referred about the commotions in Janov, which is a part of Litvinov, Northern Bohemia. In autumn 2008 members and supporters of ultra-right Delnicka strana (the Workers Party) clashed with police and local Romany after they tried to break through to the Janov housing estate. According to them, their aim was to support and protect the local non-Romany inhabitants. The methods of the thesis are quantitative and qualitative analysis of the media content. Thanks to them it is able to compare the amount of space which two chosen newspapers used to refer about these events and if their news were balanced and in which manners did they differ. There is also a theoretical part, in which a development and rise of Czech rightwing extremism after the Velvet revolution is described and summed up, focusing on the political parties who represented the Nazis in the 1990s and now - the SPR-RSC (Republicans) and Delnicka strana.
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Protection of personal rights and public media
Tušilová, Barbora ; Salač, Josef (referee) ; Švestka, Jiří (advisor)
73 SUMMARY: PERSONALITY PROTECTION AND PUBLIC MEDIA This final thesis is focused on the collision of two crucial values of legal culture in democratic societies - the freedom of speech and personality protection. On one side there is the freedom of speech or freedom of expression as one of the most fundamental civil and political rights. This right can be defined as a right to receive and expand information. On the other side there is the personality protection which can be understood as an integral unity of moral, physical and social characteristic. The freedom of speech and the personality protection are considered to be of equal weight. It is impossible to give privileged position to either of them. It is often quite problematic to define limits of the freedom of expression in relation to the personality protection. There is no single resolution to be found in the Czech legislation. For this reason, a crucial role in resolving this issue is played by courts. When deciding these cases, courts always have to strive to balance these values such that they are kept in the appropriate proportionality to each other. The first part of this final thesis focuses on the concept of the protection of personality in general. It provides the reader with the main characteristics of the personality protection and it...
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Central African Music
Polydorou, Nikoletta ; Pecháček, Stanislav (referee) ; Kittnarová, Olga (advisor)
In my bachelor thesis I studied how harmony, rhythm and forms can apply in ceremonial music in Central Africa, forms and rhythms that we can find in European music also but somehow different. Firstly, I spoke about the Geographical area in Central Africa, which is divided in latitudes. And how in these latitudes since there were boundary marks, political territories involved. These territories were French Equatorial Africa, the Belgian Congo and Ruanda - Urundi, Uganda and Tanganyika. Secondly, I speak about ceremonial music, how music, dance and drama come together. It is very strange to notice that in some of their languages they use only one word for music, dance and drama. I moved through healing, initiation, birth, marriage, hunting, and New Year and new moon ceremonies. Furthermore, one of the most interesting parts of my thesis is the "Talking Drum", a drum that can announce important news to the tribes. For me of course is very unique but it is normal if we consider that some of these tribes have until nine pitch levels in their speech. One of their special elements is rhythm. African hemiola style is a style that we know from early European music. Considering harmony the most interesting is "hocketus", a technique that can be described by breaking up the melodic flow into interrupted (hiccupped)...
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