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Meaning of fashion as a way of expressing woman's individual self
Bílková Černá, Michaela ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (advisor) ; Paulíček, Miroslav (referee)
English Abstract This Master Degree thesis takes up the topic of fashion and deals with the debate concerning fashion as a mean of expressing womens individual self. The main aim of this thesis is to analyse the meanings which women in todays society attach to fashion and their individual lived experience with this phenomenon. This text is based on theoretical assumptions of Gilles Lipovetsky as his conceptual understanding of fashion emphasises free agency of human beings and therefore stays against the opinions of traditional sociology of fashion. For a long time, the area of fashion had been neglected, however, in this text the subject is discussed as a socially relevant and historically developing phenomenon and as an unique institution, which is characteristic for a modern society. Theoretical outcome of this thesis is the suggestion that fashion might be understood as one of the means used by women to express their individual self. Woman is seen as an individual human being, who lives through her own unique experience, on the other hand, her behaviour, her own experience is limited by external factors and conditions.
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The Intensive Motherhood in the Czech Society
Pavlicová, Martina ; Dudová, Radka (advisor) ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (referee)
Diploma thesis "The Intensive Motherhood in the Czech Society" deals with the motherhood. It focuses on finding the forms of motherhood in two different social environments in the Czech Republic reflecting the Ideology of Intensive Mothering. In response to identified information from secondary sources in this thesis I consider motherhood a social construct that is proved by the analysis of primary data too. The qualitative research strategy was chosen to achieve defined goals. Outcomes of analysis of the Problem-Centered Interviews, realized with mothers of young children from different social backgrounds, show two different realities of motherhood. This distinction also proves that The Intensive Mothering is not accepted by all mothers. Although the cited authors present it like dominant model, it can't be automatically considered the dominant model in practice.
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Reflection of archaeologized landscape elements in ethnographic resources
Pohunek, Jan ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (advisor) ; Janeček, Petr (referee) ; Otčenášek, Jaroslav (referee)
Reflection of archaeologized landscape elements in ethnographic resources Mgr. Jan Pohunek Abstract: This thesis discusses contemporary folklore interpretations of meanings of abandoned and decaying buildings and other types of artificial immovable monuments. Mutual relations between these interpretations and modes of place usage are also being observed. The research is based on ethnographic survey focused on Czech republic and including primarily interviews with various respondents and crtitical analysis of written, electronic and audiovisual resources. Aside from general part of the research, several sites were chosen as a more in-depth example of formation of meanings belonging to an archaeologizing place, a complex proces influenced by the history of the site, its physical appearance and other attributes. An attached catalogue includes collected contemporary legends related to abandoned places and a system of categorization of their motifs is offered. This collection is further discussed, especially with regard to ways how character of a location and activities that take place here influence appearance of various motifs. In general, it can be said that different abandoned places are also perceived differently and there are groups of motifs that are more characteristic for certain categories of places....
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The Consequences of Munich Agreement for economy and society of Czechoslovakia
Budský, Tomáš ; Štemberk, Jan (advisor) ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (referee)
Diploma thesis "The Consequences of Munich Agreement for economy and society of Czechoslovakia" deals with the Munich Agreement and the impacts of this Agreement on the former Czechoslovakia. The aim of the work is based on archival materials and secondary literature for comparison how crucial was the change of the economic and social system "as a result" of the Munich Agreement. This thesis also analyzes on what was based the economy of the First Czechoslovak Republic, what form the social structure had, how economy has evolved and how significant were impacts by totalitarian regimes on society. At first, the economy was influenced by the Great Depression followed by consequences of the Munich Agreement, which is the main subject of the thesis. The emphasis is on understanding the situation before the Munich Agreement, subsequently reactions of society which were documented immediately in connection with the implementation of specific actions related to the seizure of the territory. At the end of the main part of the thesis, economic and social changes are analyzed in particular. The issue of the Munich Agreement is examined from the perspective of the former Czechoslovakia (Second Czechoslovak Republic), and the emphasis is on understanding the contemporary people's mentality and behavior of...
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The Finnish School and Typological Classification of Folk Narrative
Závodská, Barbora ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (advisor) ; Janeček, Petr (referee)
(in English) The Master's Thesis surveys the origins of academic folkloristics in Finland characterised by the birth of so called Finnish school of folkloristics and historic- geographic method. It breaks downs the method's specifics, theoretical starting points and practical applications. The thesis is also concerned with the work of Finnish folklorist Satu Apo who uses emic units and her own structural classification for studying folk narrative.
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Social aspects of the forced community in Terezin
Fictumová, Andrea ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (advisor) ; Maříková, Hana (referee)
This study deals with aspects of the everyday social reality of the forced community in the Terezin ghetto in 1941-1945. It is a microsociological introspection of the life of the prisoners that lived in the ghetto. It aims to define social factors that influenced the lives of people that were stigmatized, fought for their lives and lived in border-line situations. The research part of the study uses biographical method. It uses 10 recorded testimonials of survivors - former Terezin prisoners. The research was carried out by means of partly structured interviews. The questions dealt with internal and external factors that created the daily reality of this forced community. The aim was to map their subjective perception of life conditions, social ties, both negative and positive factors and further personal utterances of the narrators. The testimonies serve for better and deeper understanding of the Terezin reality. The factors that affected the community in a negative way included fear of the unknown, fear of loosing close friends and relatives, very bad life conditions that strongly affected the negative mind-set of people and loss of moral values. In contrast, the positive factors included culture and sports that were welcomed by the prisoners as they allowed them to shift aside gloomy thoughts....
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The Sociology of Death
Kolinger, Pavel ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (referee)
This thesis deals with the transformation of burial ritual in czech society in modern and postmodern times. First part outlines the evolution of burials considering the shift in relationship between confessions in modern society. Next part is focused on the influence of deviation from catholicism viewed as resistance which was connected with enforcement of cremation. Following chapters address changes related to spreading atheism and also reflect changes in political atmosphere and development of technology. The theoretical part is suplemented by empirical qualitative research showing the forms of burials in last fifty years in town and in the country. The aim of this thesis is to uncover the change the ritual has undergone, his current forms and which of the formative processes was crucial for it. Key words: secularisation, transformation, modernisation, confession, cremation, the Church, ritual, graveyard
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Reflection of haute couture in the Czech countries
Hoffmannová, Soňa ; Štemberk, Jan (advisor) ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (referee)
"Reflection of Haute Couture in The Czech lands" deals with fashion in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century in the Czech lands. Before confirmation of national independence in the form of Czechoslovak republic the Czech fashion was evolving between two opposing tendencies. First, there was acceptance of influence from abroad, especially from France, England and Germany particularly through fashion magazines, and second, there was an effort to preserve national originality. The target of this thesis is not the analysis of fashion trends in the Czech environment but analysis of fashion as a phenomenon linked to wider societal aspects, political affiliations, construction of national identity and specific, nearly missing position of Czech aristocracy. This thesis monitors the status of a tailor in the Czech lands, his struggle with the beginning of apparel production and compares his emplacement with the French tailors, also known as coutiers who have created an autonomous and independent status of the clientele already in the second half of the 19th century.
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