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The Space of Prayer - Ethnography of a Monastic Community
Horská, Kateřina ; Zandlová, Markéta (advisor) ; Spalová, Barbora (referee)
The presented work deals with certain aspects of catholic monastic life; it has been elaborated on the basis of a field research carried out in a female monastic community of an active order in the Czech Republic. In the work, I focus primarily on the topic of prayer and I am trying to answer the following questions: what is the nuns' attitude towards prayer like, which activities we can consider a prayer in the monastic community and what is the influence of these activities on actors in this setting? On theoretical level, the thesis is based especially on the concept of total institutions by E. Goffman and on Pierre Bourdieu's conception of habitus. The text consists of four major parts. In the first, introductory part I describe methodological and ethical issues relevant to my research. In the second part, I concern myself briefly with monastic life in general, its origins and development, and also with stages of monastic life of an individual. The following empirical part based on ethnographic data from my field notes is presented as a description of "a common day" in the monastic community. The last part is theoretical and analytical at the same time; here I deal with the main topic of the thesis. Firstly, I present Goffman's concept of total institutions and I explain how according to this...
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Marie Kovářová - ethnographer of Podblanicko
Hozová, Markéta ; Štěpánová, Irena (advisor) ; Sochorová, Ludmila (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the personality of Marie Kovářová, ethnographic worker of Podblanicko. It describes her life between the years 1910-1972, from birth to retirement. The major emphasis is placed on the early publication and museum activities. Her biography arose from the analysis of documents stored in Kovářová's personal archive fund and available literature and was supplemented by the information obtained in a small field research. The aim was to evaluate Kovářová's role in the regional homeland work and put her personality into contemporary context of the history of ethnography.
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Certified Nursing Assistants A "Bottom-Up" Etnography of a Health Care Institution
Votřel, Jan ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (advisor) ; Stöckelová, Tereza (referee)
This thesis is based on a 10-month field work conducted in a retirement home. The empirical part is rooted in the fact that the author of this work actually became a part of the institution for a several months as its employee at the position of a certified nursing assistant. This perspective naturally enabled him to focus on a description of daily routines, taking place within the mentioned institution, from a perspective of a certified nursing assistant as well as on his interactions with the clients, which occur during these daily routines. Paying attention to the mutual interactions of both enables us to perceive how the dominant discourse in public health care works. It is particularly revealed through disciplinary techniques. The analysis of the disciplinary techniques follows the theory of power by Michel Foucault, which seems to prove that not only the clients but also the certified nursing assistants are being disciplined during the everyday practices of the given institution. Their position is at the lowest level of the hierarchy of health care system and this - in a way - dooms them to being disciplined since they are a part of the same routines as are the clients. Moreover, the analysis of the mutual power relationships between the certified nursing assistants and the clients shows that...
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Assessment level of leanness in the automotive company
Šimeček, Jakub ; Martínez, Felipe (advisor) ; Mejdrech, Vlastimil (referee)
Lean management is an approach that has made a revolution in a several industries. The measurement of its approach usually deal with quantitative approaches. However, the expansion of this phenomena lacks of qualitative perspective. Therefore, this is new opportunity to explore new metric to determinate the level of leanness of the organisation. This thesis explores new approach to deal with measurement of leanness. Main goal is to analyse level of leanness in the company automotive industry through the ethnography research and propose improvement which increase current state in that company.
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Methodology of Non-Destructive Research into Historical Fabrics of Ethnographic Nature from the Period between 1850 and 1950, Their Documentation and Identification MEP (Methodology of Ethnographic Research).
Mertová, Petra ; Samohýlová, Alena ; Holcner, Ludvík
The major goal of the methodology is to deliver an instrument for documentation and identification of fabrics in ethnographic collections of museum institutions. The methodology uses a set of describable and measureable properties of fabrics acquired through research into and documentation of museum collections. With regard to the group of presupposed users and the nature of researched objects – historical textile with cultural value, the methodology is suggested as a non-destructive one. The research methodology includes several steps aimed, as follows: first of all at a professional documentation of fabrics using non-destructive methods focused on the discovery of describing and measurable properties of an object and the technological analysis of historical fabrics of ethnographic nature; secondly, at the identification of ethnographic fabrics at collection institutions through the comparison with a set of the already summarized data about historical fabrics, including their photographs with examples of fabrics selected at museum repositories. The acquired material is stored at the web application atlastextilu.cz.
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Geographic-ethnographic characteristics of the region Podluží
JABORNÍK, Lukáš
This diploma thesis ?Geographic-ethnographic characteristics of the region Podluží? concentrates on the territorial boundaries of the region Podluží, characteristics of the physical-geographical systems, socio-economic sphere and ethnography of the region. The theoretical part deals with the key terms that are the cornerstones of this thesis. Following practical parts are devoted to the definition of the region Podluží based on a comparison of source maps and questionnaire survey. Geographic and ethnographic characteristics serve as a source of information for didactic transformation, resulting in the production of the billboard. This billboard provides a synthesis of the characteristic features that create the original image of the region Podluží.
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Children's folklore and his influence on the development of child's personality
DURDA, Lukáš
In this dissertation we are dealing with the current situation of children{\crq}s folklore and with its influence on the development of child's personality. It is based on individual components of public performance and on ethnographical knowledge, which we put into consequence with the problematic of children free-time activities. In that way we offer an insight on the potential of children{\crq}s folklore and its impact on the children{\crq}s personality development. The dissertation is divided into two parts. In the theoretical part, we put the emphasis on the opinions of notable persons of our ethnography and partial disciplines of public performance. It is also based on experiences and opinions of people, who work with children and youth in the areas related to the children{\crq}s folklore. The second part is a practical part. It contents the description of practical activity of children{\crq}s folklore group Šafránek and interviews with its members. To the dissertation belongs an audiovisual attachment.
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The Meaning of School Success and Failure at Primary School
Vojtíšková, Kateřina
The text deals with social construction of two social categories - "school success/failure" - at primary school. Data were obtained by an ethnographic study conducted at two Prague schools in eight and ninth year classes. Everyday evaluation practices of school mates and teachers toward pupils considered as un/successful were analysed. It is shown that crucial aspects of "success/failure" are not only academic abilities (intelligence) and an individual effort (merit), but also proper behaviour of child – internalization of certain values, his/her attitude towards authorities and education, being respectful. School success/failure has always moral consequences. A failure means an absence – of aspiration, intelligence, abilities, will, manners – and means stigmatisation.
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