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Function of clothing and identity in adolescents
Ciencialová, Eva ; Levínská, Markéta (advisor) ; Doubek, David (referee)
This work focuses on fashion and its function in a class at school, mainly with adolescets. Pupils of the eight grade at primary school were involved for comparation and students of the second year of high school were involved. The main questions are: What these young people consider as fashionable? Do they percieve the fashion to be an instrument to achieve any goals? What can certain clothing enable to them? The aim was to map the importance that students attach to the clothing, and the allocation of the various functions of a clothes according to their importance. This is all in connection with the formation of identity, which is the main developmental task in the period of adolescence. Following methods were used in order to collect information: observation, short completing interviews and questionnaire, which was fundamental. This questionnaire consisted of three parts. The first part was focused on what do they consider as fashionable, the second part was focused on personal preferences and the third part was focused on the functions of clothing. On the basis of the analysis of questionnaires and other data, have been set fashion trends and the function of clothes, which are described according to the importance. Also been found a social group created on the basis of the modes and relations....
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Is it myself in the mirror?
Radová, Vlasta ; Levínská, Markéta (advisor) ; Doubek, David (referee)
in English A beautiful and healthy body now indicates a happy and contented life, and that is why our society is so obsessed by it. It was transformed into a commercial object, and the borders to which we can manipulate with it are pushed even further. At the same time, many people realize the necessity of cooperation with the body in order to reach a physical and mental health. Voices are heard calling for prevention of exploitation of human bodies and against the lowering of human dignity. We can see showing up different kinds of oriental philosophy, psychosomatic medicine or psychoterapeutic approaches targeted at the body, which are trying to outweigh the trends treating the body as a mere commodity. In spite of those efforts, the number of people with impaired perception and experiencing of their own body is still growing. The most frequent and most discussed are the eating disorders, which endanger seriously all aspects of a person's life. Most of the disorders will develop during adolescence, and that is why in my research I focused on the mapping of corporal experience of young people. In my work I employed the grounded theory method, or a qualitative research. The main research method used is semi-structured interview. The theoretical part consists of a philosophical historical and social...
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The idols in school age
Kravcová, Jana ; Kučera, Miloš (advisor) ; Doubek, David (referee)
This paper attempts an overview of the phenomenon of idolization in the period of childhood and adolescence. Idolization, with the meaning of secondary attachment to significant people (e.g. peers, friends, massmedia figures, excluding parents). It is concerned with defining the topic according to empirical research, paying special attention to organizing the terminology in the terms of secondary attachment and its types, as romantic, identiflcatory, platonic etc., and idolization and its types as identification, sexual adoration and crushes. The empirical part of the paper narrows its topic and is focused only on massmedia idols. It is based on empirical research, asking girl' s and boy' s (age 8-16) for their idols and reasons for their choices.
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Socialization of Second Generation Armenian Immigrants
Hovhannisyan, Milena ; Bittnerová, Dana (advisor) ; Doubek, David (referee)
A qualitative research focuses on the effects of socialization in Czech cultural environment on the ethnic identity of the second generation Armenian immigrants. The research was conducted with six participants. Their age ranged between 17-28. Two of the participants were male. Author used the method of semi-structured interviews, to find out how the different socialization factors interract with a person's identity. In order to preserve the original ethnic identity, several factors must meet. The first contact of family with the destination country has a significant impact on a child's development of ethnicity. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Power of the stickers - Ethnography research at the first class
Pejchalová, Michaela ; Levínská, Markéta (advisor) ; Doubek, David (referee)
in English The bachelor's thesis is focused on the phenomenon of stickers for children at the first class of the primary school. Its aim is the description and the explanation of the sense of their collection, grouping and exchange. The thesis is conceptualized like an ethnographical study at the school background. It is based on the methods of qualitative research. Data was collected using participant observation, interviews with focus group, analysis of documents and diary of research worker. Then it was qualitatively analysed and interpreted in relation to the relevant literature. The text of work is divided in two parts - the theory and the research. The theoretical part is coming out from sphere of psychology and also social and cultural anthopology, sociology, philosphy nad cultural history. The practical part presents results of the research. The aim of study is to enable better insight into the problematics of stickers, especially their influence on relations between children and self-concept of pupil at the first class. It describes and analyses in detail of principles of classifications and exchanging. The thesis shows what is the power of stickers to create individual and his surroundings.
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Upbringing and educational strategies of immigrants
Vlachynská, Kateřina ; Bittnerová, Dana (advisor) ; Doubek, David (referee)
The purpose of this study is to present educational strategies of immigrants - mothers coming to the Czech Republic from third countries of Eastern Europe and recently visiting multicultural woman community. The central aim of this thesis is to identify cardinal problems and targets that informants perceive in accordance with childrearing and educational experiences of their offsprings and subsequent identification of strategies reacting to these problems and targets. The study is divided into two parts. In the first, theoretical part, the situation of mothers and their children in accordance with literature dealing with cultural conditioned explanation of the word is described. The focus is given to application of upbringing cultural patterns into the new society. The conceptual framework is based on concepts of reproduction of society. The possible applications of these concepts to the school roles of the second generation of these immigrants is followed. Thus, the situation of informants is observed on the line of their specific role, combined with being woman, as well as mother and immigrant and on the line of their specific social status, which they have in the new society. Empirical part is based on quality - oriented research. The educational strategies are found out in accordance with the...
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Symbolization of Adulthood by Girls from Sixth Grade of Elementary School
Kálalová, Jiřina ; Doubek, David (advisor) ; Levínská, Markéta (referee)
The subject of the bachelor's thesis is pubescence of girls at the sixth, later seventh grade of an elementary school. It describes girls' methods, that represent their pubescence by interaction with other people (mainly with teachers and classmates), and symbols, that the girls use to be perceived as adults by other people. This thesis points, that girl's new identity is formed by symbolization of adulthood. This thesis is ethnographic research, author picked data at an elementary school in Prague, between children at the sixth, later seventh grade, for nearly a year. She used qualitative methods: concernedly observation of class and interviews with girls. The text of the thesis is divided into two main parts, theoretical and practical. It contains introduction, resume and summary of used literature. The theoretical part includes findings of developmental and social psychology and ideas of Erving Goffman. The practical part contains a description of ground and observed methods, the girls use to construct their adulthood by interaction with other people. The resume deals with fundamental sense of social construction of dulthood for gradational integrate of girls to the world of adults.
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Music Therapy with pre-school children
Čadek, Martin ; Valentová, Lidmila (advisor) ; Doubek, David (referee)
Following study is about music therapy processes within group of preschoolers attending music therapy sessions. The study is directed on group dynamics processes in small group. The main research question is: "Which phenomenons occur in group dynamic process of group integrity and group de-integrity?" these concepts of deintegrity and integrity are linked theoretically with concept of cohesion and tension. The concept of cohesion and tension leads the group into two group states. The first one can be characterized as "cohesiveness" and the following is characterized as "moving apart". The results of study outline what kinds of factors can be found for cohesion and tension for small group of preschoolers in music therapy sessions.
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Magical thought in preschool age children
Mlázovská, Barbora ; Doubek, David (advisor) ; Klusák, Miroslav (referee)
The subject of this bachelor's thesis is magical thinking in preeschool age children. This concept is theoretically defined from the perspective of cultural anthropology and developmental psychology. The aim of this thesis is to discover and clarify the manifestations of magical thinking in child's conception of the world, particularly in the concept of life and consciousness. The analytical part of the thesis is based on my own empirilal material. The data were collected using qualitative field research with the use of the methods of participant observation and semi-structured interview. The results summarize four developmental stages of the concept of life and consciousness with a focus on phenomena typical for magical thinking in children.
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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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