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Sexual Harassment at Universities: the Perspective of Students
Juračková, Eva ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Hašková, Hana (referee)
The main aim of my thesis is to examine students' perceptions of sexual harassment by professors at Czech universities, their attitudes, and experiences. In the theoretical section, I present the history of the term sexual harassment, its definitions, theories of sexual harassment and results of selected research. The theoretical section also discusses a specific character of the academic setting and attempts to answear some basic questions: How can we prevent sexual harassment? How prevalent is sexual harassment in the academic setting? What are the consequences of sexual harassment for students? The readers will learn about some ways of complaint handling, which are used by foreign univesities. One chapter is devoted to the pertinent law in the Czech republic. The empirical section describes a choosen method - quantitative survey research - and its practical use. This section also presents and interprets collected data. In conclusion, I offer a summary and discuss the direction of future sexual harassment research can take.
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Eurasianism and the "Skify" group 1930-1933
Hauser, Jakub ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Jančárková, Julie (referee)
Eurasianism was a strong intellectual movement among the interwar community of émigrés from Russia and it was reflected in a number of fields in the arts and sciences, including history, linguistics, literature and the fine arts. Transplanting this theory into the fine arts signified a departure from the Western artistic tradition and an attempt to create a new visual code that would express the idea of the wild and anti-European roots of Russian culture. In the large émigré community in Prague this concept was reflected most powerfully in the work of a group called the Scythians (Skify), which was founded at the end of the 1920's by the painter and professor of Ukrainian fine arts studies in Prague, Sergei Mako. The group's programme was formulated by its chair, the art historian Jaromír Pečírka, and the writer and journalist František Kubka, both of whom were linked to the editorial office of the German-language daily Prager Presse. The group had three exhibitions between 1931 and 1933 at Denis's French Institute in Prague and its membership base comprised Nikolai Rodionov and Alexandr Orlov, both of whom were students of Mako, and the painter Grigori Musatov, the sculptors Evgeni Brzezinski and Alexandr Golovin, and the Paris-based painters Boris Grigoriev and Mykola Hlushchenko. Czech artists exhibited...
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Tourism potential analysis of the Sokolov region
Kněžická, Lenka ; Valentová, Jana (advisor) ; Vidlák, Miroslav (referee)
The aim of this work is to create a profound analysis of tourism potential of Sokolov region located in Western Bohemia, the region with long industrial history. There are described location and realization factors of tourism in this region with concrete examples, the current offer of tourism services is mentioned, new projects are brought to the attention and the success of the older ones is reviewed. The following part of this work is devoted to an introduction into theory of destination marketing and management with specification of its participants. The final part deals with investigation among local people, visitors and travel agencies which analysed their opinion of tourism potential of this destination. The main goal of this work is to show that in the future Sokolov region is supposed to be a very nice place to visit and spend some time on holiday.
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The importance of EU as an external factor on democratic consolidation. The cases of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Hilleren, Ann Katrin ; Just, Petr (advisor) ; Krausz Hladká, Malvína (referee)
The breakdown of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe has offered scholars in the field of transition and regime change theory, and comparative politics in general, a major opportunity to test out former theories, but also formulate new ones. Obviously, no theory is alone applicable to the complexity of the transitions. There is a variety of cases, each with distinct developments before, during and after the transition to democracy has been completed. Some common features are still possible to extract when studying regime change in a region. As for Central and Eastern Europe, one of the most outstanding characteristics of the transition to democracy has been the visibility and importance of external factors. Previously the view was held that external factors were essentially secondary to domestic processes of regime change. The studies on Central and Eastern Europe carried out the last 15 years might show another picture, and that leads us to the core of this paper. How important have the external factors been? After providing the reader with some relevant theories on democracy and démocratisation, the focus is turned to the examination of external influences on transition in this region. In order to narrow down the complexity of the subject, the European Union has been chosen as the variable to...
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Culture, gender and power
Ferrarová, Eva ; Soukup, Václav (advisor) ; Matějů, Martin (referee) ; Pavlík, Petr (referee)
The dissertation focuses on a theoretical analysis of feminist theories in the context of social and cultural evolutionary changes. Special attention is paid to the culturological connections between gender, culture, and power. The aim of my reflexion is to describe concrete solutions offered by various feminist theories and schools from the perspective of improvement of the women's position in the society. The key of understanding the women's position in the society are gender behavioural patterns and gender stereotypes accepted and further reproduced by the majority culture. Hence attention is paid to a transformation of these patterns and stereotypes and a study of reasons why women were excluded from public life. Theoretical and empirical analysis of the women's exclusion from public life and searching for an answer to the question why women and the femininity are on the value ladder in the society behind men and the masculinity is a significant part of the dissertation. The results obtained by this research were used to verify how much gender influences basic social institutions (family, education system, labour market, and politics) in the contemporary Czech society.
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Contemporary revaluation of southern local color fiction
Pegues, Dagmar ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (advisor) ; Ulmanová, Hana (referee) ; Ewell, Barbara Claire (referee)
The objective of this study is to offer an examination of the works of Kate Chopin and Grace King, representatives of the genre of Louisiana "Local Color" fiction, and to introduce a new perspective on their fiction that is equally distanced from the national/local dichotomy and the feminist interpretative framework. This study interrogates selected aspects of the category of race in the fiction of Kate Chopin and Grace King in order to reclaim the importance of race for regional Aesthetics and to offer an alternative view on the existing interpretations that emphasize the feminist themes of their fiction and, ultimately, to expand such interpretations. A replacement of the existing theoretical frameworks applied to the works of these two authors by postcolonial theory offers a new perspective on the category of race in their fiction without reducing its complexity and interconnection with the category of gender and region. As a result, the insight into the formation of region-specific racial knowledge testifies to the complexity of the issue of race within the framework of Local Color fiction. The focal point of this examination is the representation of racial stereotypes in the fiction of Chopin and King.
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World banking crises
Mirazčievová, Michaela ; Půlpánová, Stanislava (advisor) ; Paholok, Igor (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to offer a contemporary overlook on the widely discussed and problematic topic of bankong crises. This analysis gives a list of banking crises which have ocurred since the 90s. up to now, their causes and definitions, and explains some important macro- and microeconomic reasons for their occurrence.It also shows how current economic theory describes the causes and nature of financial instability, with emphasis on its real effects and high economic, as well as social costs. Based on these findings, this paper offers possible resolutions of problems of the financial system and methods of its stabilization with the aim to prevent future crises. A separate chapter is dedicated to the crises in Argentina 2001, the nordic countries in the late 80s/early 90s, and the Czech republic during its transition period.
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Expression and system in the art of 20th century
Tothová, Martina ; Bláha, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Synecký, Jakub (referee)
The thesis is engaged in questions of aesthetic interaction with work of art in art lessons on primary school. It's especially focused on the art of 20th century. The thesis's objective is to find and verify by applied research the ways how to perceive an expression and system in the art of 20th century like a resource for aesthetic interaction with work of art. The thesis id divided into two parts. The first part surveys psychologically - didactic resousces for the art education project focused on the interaction with work of art of 20th century during the art lessons on primary school. This thesis also includes the gallery animation definition. The second part is focused on the modern art history in relation to the following art project. The art project offers three tutorial blocks. One of them is verified by applied research. The conclusions head to the education practise like one of many ways how to provide interaction between pupils and work of art.
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Illocutive force of syntactic pattern
Wagenknecht, Martin ; Chejnová, Pavla (referee) ; Janovec, Ladislav (advisor)
The first part of this work is dedicated to the theory of speech acts. The author of the work deals with the beginning of this theory, the basic terms connected with it (performative verb, explicit performative, locutionary act, illocutionary act, perlocutionary act etc.) and with its two main representatives - John Langshaw Austin and John Rogers Searle. The author also speaks about the classification of speech acts; their themes in the theory of mentioned representatives and other authors. At the end of this part the work deals with the influence of the theory of speech acts on Czech authors and with Czech authors" classification of speech acts (in Czech background this theory is called communicative function of utterance). The second part of the work concerns the definition of utterance with expressive communicative function. After the summary of existing Czech and external definitions the author tries to formulate his own definition of expressive communicative function. The definition of Miroslav Grepl from current Czech classification of communicative functions, the author's own observation and comparison with the external authors (Austin, Searle) represent the basis of this his definition. At the end of this part the author describes particular expressive communicative functions and deals with the...
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Contemporary revaluation of southern local color fiction
Pegues, Dagmar ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (advisor) ; Ulmanová, Hana (referee) ; Ewell, Barbara Claire (referee)
The objective of this study is to offer an examination of the works of Kate Chopin and Grace King, representatives of the genre of Louisiana "Local Color" fiction, and to introduce a new perspective on their fiction that is equally distanced from the national/local dichotomy and the feminist interpretative framework. This study interrogates selected aspects of the category of race in the fiction of Kate Chopin and Grace King in order to reclaim the importance of race for regional Aesthetics and to offer an alternative view on the existing interpretations that emphasize the feminist themes of their fiction and, ultimately, to expand such interpretations. A replacement of the existing theoretical frameworks applied to the works of these two authors by postcolonial theory offers a new perspective on the category of race in their fiction without reducing its complexity and interconnection with the category of gender and region. As a result, the insight into the formation of region-specific racial knowledge testifies to the complexity of the issue of race within the framework of Local Color fiction. The focal point of this examination is the representation of racial stereotypes in the fiction of Chopin and King.
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