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Islam in Contemporary Czech Discourse: perception and representation of "the other"
Franioková, Tereza ; Yasar, Abu Ghosh (advisor) ; Militello, Paolo (referee)
Islam and its believers who reside in the Czech Republic are the main theme of this master thesis. My research focuses, first of all, on the Muslim presence in the country over the last ten years. Secondly, I aim to present Islam through the Czech media which is rather unexplored field till today. The text is divided in two parts: a theoretical one and a practical one. The first mentioned deals with the following topics: religiosity in the Czech Republic, history of Islam in the country (especially in Prague and in Brno), Muslims residing in the Czech Republic, image of Islam in the literature and widely debated Muslim question in Europe. The second part of the text is more pragmatic and it is exactly in this part that I lead an analysis of several blogs and Facebook pages emerged from a preliminary research on the Internet. Besides the Internet that is my source number one, I place emphasis also on other Czech mass media such as book market, audiovisual productions or press.
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Strategies of successful women with children and career
Horká, Kristýna ; Smetáčková, Irena (advisor) ; Chrz, Vladimír (referee)
My diploma thesis is focused on a qualitative research on relationship between personal and work life and the life strategies of successful women with children. The objective of this paper is to find out what is the actual life stage and the ideal stage of the women's life they strive to achieve. There will be a particular focus taken on a context of their professional career and the space that has been created between their family and personal live. Therefore, it will be about their identity strategies and how do they practice it in combination of both of their life spheres. The research is conducted by narrative- biographical interviews that are completed by a Life axis method that works well as a guide for managing the interviews, the topics of the main interest of women in particular. All research findings are confronted by professional literature. Keywords: Work/life balance, strategies for combining work and family, gender identity of women, family and labour negotiations. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Fashion - tool of the presentation of respect and recognition
Hrubalová, Zuzana ; Kladný, Tomáš (advisor) ; Šafaříková, Radana (referee)
Diploma thesis Fashion - tool of the presentation of respect and recognition deals with fashion clothing as a mediator in presenting respect and recognition in my respondents jobs. It attempts to show the level of importance that to fashion and clothes attributes thematically selected group of people living in today's society of consumerism - hence what role play these phenomenons in theirs lives and to what extent they attach importance to them. Diploma thesis assumes that their clothes communicate respect and recognition, which their job requires. For the research part of my thesis, I chose qualitative type of research. This method allows to obtain individual opinions and insides of respondents and leads to clarifying the nature of the matter of investigation. It has been used an interview with the instruction and interviews have been shot in October-November the 2012th.
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Inequality in Foreign Language Learning
Suchardová Nováková, Jitka ; Rýdl, Karel (advisor) ; Lenochová, Alena (referee) ; Betáková, Lucie (referee)
Title: Inequality in Foreign Language Learning Author: Jitka Suchardová Nováková Department: Deparment of Education Supervisor: prof. PhDr. Karel Rýdl, CSc. Abstract: This dissertation draws on sociological assumptions that learning success is significantly influenced by social environment. In this respect the questions of inequality in foreign language education are raised. The external factors such as social class, and motivation and attitudes, as two major social psychology phenomena related to success at foreign language learning, are researched. Based on these concepts the process of foreign language learning is considered as strongly influenced by opportunities for learning and by the process of constructing foreign language learner's identity. The research follows the qualitative paradigm using the narrative approach, and an in-depth interview as the main research method. The research design of biography and case study is used and two individual case studies are presented, with the impact of showing diversity and complexity of foreign language learning. The research takes place in the university environment - the students of technical faculties were the object of the research. Keywords: inequality, motivation, attitudes, habitus, identity
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Adolescent in foster care regards to the identity of an individual
Svobodová, Petra ; Matoušek, Oldřich (advisor) ; Pazlarová, Hana (referee)
The diploma thesis "Adolescent in Foster Care" deals with an adolescent growing up in foster care, with regard to the development of one's identity. The theoretical part includes preview on adolescent, foster care, identity and also the issues of deprivation. The research part is focused on opinion and attitudes of adolescents to issues like children's biological family, foster family and identity, as well as attitudes of foster parents to identical topics. Keywords Adolescent, foster care, deprivation, identity,
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Foreigners in Europe: discourse analysis of construction of "foreigners" in news in newspapers die frankfurter allgemeine zeitung and lidové noviny
Mičková, Barbora ; Vochocová, Lenka (advisor) ; Šoltys, Otakar (referee)
The thesis Foreigners in Europe: Discourse Analysis of Construction of "Foreigners" in News in Newspapers Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Lidové noviny deals with the discourse in which the category of foreigner is constituted in the media. National identity, cultural pluralism and citizenship belong to a very progressive area of social science research recently, with wide range of use in public policy, politics, economy or business. The aim of this thesis is to identify the discursive constructions used when defining foreigner and to contextualize this foreigner discourse to the German, Czech a European identity. The Critical Discourse Studies as well as an interdisciplinary approach are used, explaining the discourse from the perspectives of national identity, cultural identity and multiculturalism. The results of the grounded theory analysis are applied to the particular discursive constructions and approaches. The thesis presents the hypothesis for potential further research.
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Fashion and self-concept at older school age children
Medalová, Lenka ; Levínská, Markéta (advisor) ; Doubek, David (referee)
The bachelors thesis is focused on the relation between fashion and self-concept, particulary in older schooled-aged children. The text is structured into two parts - theoretical and empirical. The first section of the theoretical part is devoted to give a definition of terms related to self-concept, such as self-esteem and self-representation. The second section is focused on the relation between fashion and self-concept then. A view on the fashion as a reflection of time and changes of the women role is provided at first. Changes of fashion and beauty ideal arise from manners of the time and status of the sociaty. The force for fashion changes and interest in fashion is introduced in context of wish to express sexual attractivness, social status or individual personality. Those are in connection with identity of individual on a personal, social and gender level. The theoretical part is based on theoretical resources to clarify what is the origin of self-representation involving clothing on those three levels, what is the infuence of fashion on them and how the fashion is affected by them. Empirical part is devoted to qualitative research, which was conducted in secondary school. The aim was to explore how the phenomenon of fashion is reflected in the life of adolescents and what is the role of it...
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The mission of the faculties of education in Czech republic
Milota, Petr ; Kalous, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Mouralová, Magdalena (referee)
The thesis deals with the faculties of education from the perspective of their role in the system of tertiary education in the Czech Republic. It works on the theoretical assumptions of the role of non-profit organisations, which emphasize the role of the mission and it's fundamental value for the existence of the entire institution. The author of the thesis works with the assumption in terms of values, which expresses the need of more transparent differentiation of the segment of the faculties of Education in the Czech higher education system. The fundament of the methodology is the studies and analysis of the documents together with expert questionnaire survey. Based on the methodology, the definition and formulation of the identity of the faculties of education is investigated on the level of legal documents, higher education legislation, institutions (statute of the faculty) and personal attitudes of senior academic staff (expert survey).
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The Apple Phenomenon: the Impact of Modern Technologies on Subject
Kuldová, Michaela ; Šafaříková, Radana (advisor) ; Kladný, Tomáš (referee)
The Apple Phenomenon: the Impact of Modern Technologies on Subject Abstract The goal of the submitted thesis is the study of the company Apple Inc. in the context of how it is percieved by subjects. After a brief introduction of the company Apple Inc. we will focus on semiotic analysis of the brand Apple, its products and marketing strategies. The object of study will be also a present society, whose distinguishing feature is a consumption, and brand perception of a subject in connection with his identity, image building, lifestyle and an inclusion in the social classes. The aim is to uncover which importance is attached to consumer goods by a present society, especially goods marked with the apple logo. According to the facts available, Apple has many of its supporters around the world. The object of this thesis is therefore to clarify the role of the company Apple Inc. and prove that Apple is a certain phenomenon, or even a cult, in a current consumer society, which is accompanied by emotions.
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