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Clothes Make the Man: Dress as a Medium of Meanings
Märzová, Hana ; Šanderová, Jadwiga (advisor) ; Volek, Martin (referee)
In this thesis the meanings given by students to dress are examined. Then, these meanings are compared to those discussed in sociological literature dealing with dress and fashion. Dress is not only a protection of body against unpleasant weather but also a medium for meanings related to the wearer of the dress. Through a dress it is possible to express social status, social role, hobbies, opinions, membership in various groups and also lifestyle. Clothing and fashion are strongly associated with young people because the fashion is made for them and they contribute to its creation. For adolescents dress is a matter of particular importance because it enables them not only to express, but also to build their identity and thus reach adulthood. Dress has also an important role in our relations to other people. The analysis of interviews with students resulted in the finding that meanings given to dress by students are similar to those discussed in sociological literature. For interviewed students it is important to have a freedom to wear, what they want, because it enables them to be themselves. The findings from interviews rather contradict Simmel's assumption because a fashion is considered by interviewed students as uniform, while originality is located outside the fashion. Those students also...
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The process of constructing social status during transition to new classroom
Brožová, Martina ; Horáková Hoskovcová, Simona (advisor) ; Čáp, David (referee)
The aim of the research was to describe and understand the process of constructing social status during transition from elementary school to high school. The theoretical part focuses on the classroom as a social group, there is described the social structure of the classroom, as well as the most common roles and sociometric positions that occur in the classroom. There are also discussed relevant topics about adolescence and possible ways for exploring social relations within the classroom. In the empirical part I present a qualitative research, in which have been involved five high schools from Prague and its surroundings, N= 104 students. For this purpose two questionnaires were used - sociometric rating questionnaire SORAD and questionnaire mapping experience of the individuals in interpersonal relationships and their satisfaction with the change of the school community. Based on data analysis and interpretive methods, I conclude that social status is constructed in the earliest interactions between members and there is only a little variability. Social status is made up of two categories - relational skill, which is expressed by popularity, and social force, that is expressed by the ratio of power in the group. Competence complements these two categories, this is a specific skill and it's...
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Cultural identity of a Romany/gypsy child in the foster care
TEMIAKOVÁ, Ivana
The Bachelor Thesis looks into the cultural identity of a Romany child in foster care in the so-called majority family. The theoretical part of my thesis is focused on foster care topic, and does not neglect any failure, problems or trauma that children bring into foster families from their previous life. It also describes basic terms of the mentioned issue, such as human race, ethnic group, culture, identity, role and status. The practical part deals with the analysis of interviews with the foster parents and seeks to answer the research question: What circumstances (categories) affect a Romany child in foster families from the majority society during the process of adaptation into a family and social integration?
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Luxury economics: Comparative study of conspicuous consumption among students of The University of Economics in Prague and Technical University of Liberec
Reichelt, Patrik ; Rod, Aleš (advisor) ; Mirvald, Michal (referee)
The aim of this thesis is connect to BA František Staněk (who analysed conspicuous consumption on students at The University of Economics in Prague) and verifying hypotheses on students of Technical University of Liberec. Thesis is extended to analysis of the impact of technical education. Main conclusions of this thesis were obtained by statistical and regression analysis of data from a survey. Each brand of consumer electronics are perceived very differently in terms of social status which they express. There is a strong relationship between price of a product and and its signaling value. Students of technical disciplines show a dependency between product functionality and its ability to indicate social status. Others have no correlation.
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The Influence of Volunteering on an Individual's Social Status
Šalandová, Radka ; Havlová, Lenka (advisor) ; Novotná, Eliška (referee)
The bachelor's thesis entitled "The impact of volunteering to the social status of an individual" is about volunteering in relation to the social status of the individual, which engages in volunteering. The first half of the work represents a theoretical background, in which is explained the issue of social stratification, social status and volunteering. The second half of this work is devoted to the questionnaire survey. The aim of this survey is to find out how the participation in volunteer activities affects the social status of the individual. Specifically, this survey is focused on the views of secondary school students in town Jindřichův Hradec, which never engaged in volunteering.
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Unemployment of people with disabilities in the European Union
Šebest, Ivan ; Palíšková, Marcela (advisor) ; Stříteský, Marek (referee)
Unemployment is one of the major economic and social problems of all the countries of the European Union. Bachelor thesis analyzes the unemployment among people with disabilities in the EU. Structurally the bachelor thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical part. The first part provides a theoretical basis for the issue of unemployment. The second part contains an analysis of unemployment among people with disabilities based on a wide range of criteria as well as analysis of the effectiveness of hemophilia treatment with clotting factor concentrates. Furthermore it shows its impact on unemployment and social status of people with inherited bleeding disorder - hemophilia.
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Intergenerational transmission of social status
Tůmová, Pavla ; Mazouch, Petr (advisor) ; Nývlt, Ondřej (referee)
My diploma thesis is based on data from Survey on income and living conditions 2011 from ad hoc module on intergenerational disadvantages. The study investigates the transmission of social status from one generation to another. The diploma thesis includes descriptive statistics and data analysis. The main goal is to determine the dependency of socio-economic variables on social status transmission. To examine the strength of transmission of social status (education and occupation) logistic regression was used. In the analysis are respondents in the age 30 -- 60 years old, who lived at least with one of their parents. Due to a large number of respondents dataset enables detailed separation to groups by age groups, education level etc. followed by differences comparison between defined groups. Using the wage mechanism data are representative for population structure of Czech Republic.
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Social role of pupils in elmentary school
BROUČKOVÁ, Magdalena
This diploma thesis with the title The social role of pupils in the elementary school consists of two parts. There is a theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part aims to illuminate further the issue of social roles in connection with other factors related to this topic. The most important chapter of the theoretical part is the chapter named Social role, status and position in which is the issue of social roles further described. Then there are discussed even specific social roles with which we may encounter in the primary school. The practical part is based on a survey using a variety of methods of students´ nominations. The aim of this work is to determine the rate of agreement in views of pupils in the class and their class teacher for the functioning of the class and social roles appearing there.
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Cocaine as a status symbol
MOTTLOVÁ, Michaela
Presented bachelor thesis entitled "Cocaine as a status symbol" is focused on the relationship between cocaine use and a status symbol. The thesis points out on the rapidly increasing popularity of cocaine, which probably partially replace the role of ecstasy, as a dance drugs. This trend progressively reaches a European scale. For this reason I consider this topic actual and worthy of interest. The thesis is divided into two parts connected to each other. The theoretical part is focused on summary of general knowledge. There is the description of cocaine as plants in the context of the history of its use. There is description of the discovery of cosine and use in connection with its use in the past. It also focuses on the psychological and somatic effects of cosine use, the general mechanisms and forms of application. For completeness are shown the consequences of long term of cosine use. Then thesis focuses on the symbol and its meanings and the ritual. The last theoretical chapter is devoted to the body of knowledge about the social system and social structure, and also deals with the description of social status, a status symbol. Last but not least, is the topic of the social aspect of cocaine use. In the practical part of thesis presents the results of research. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the relationship between cocaine use to express social status as a status symbol. I chose the strategy of qualitative research to achieve the objektive of the thesis. Data collection was realized by technice of narrative interview.
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