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Sociologists and their selfreflection during the Great Depression in Western society
Bártová, Berenika ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Hanzal, Petr (referee)
Tato práce je koncipována jako historická studie a příspěvek k dějinám sociologie. Mým cílem je představit postoje a argumenty, které sociologové formulovali ve vztahu k jejich vlastní schopnosti odhalit příčiny krizí společnosti a komunikovat je ve vztahu k veřejnosti. Práce se zaměřuje na sebereflexi osobností oboru primárně v krizovém období spojovaném s Velkou hospodářskou krizí. Cílem je ukázat, jaké motivy se v postojích, vyjádřeních a argumentech sociologů objevují, popřípadě jak se proměnila sebereflexe oboru ve vztahu k jeho možnostem a schopnostem reprezentovat zřetelný hlas mezi zástupci ostatních oborů.
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Mourning as Interaction: Reflection of Reality in the series After Life
Čermáková, Ester ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Spalová, Barbora (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis ''Mourning as interaction: Reflection of Reality in the Series After Life'' is to focus on process of mourning in society in context with work of art, in this case represented by series After Life written and directed by Ricky Gervais. The thesis is based on connection of two dimensions such as symbolic interactionism and theory of the grief process within studies in society. Furthermore, there is the objective due to relevant scenes and its interactions demonstrate process of grief in context with reality and discuss possible identification with the main character. Referring to symbolic interactionism, specifically George Herbert Mead's theory involving his work Mind, Self and Society, there are interpreted interactions that are discussed with studies focusing on mourning in society such as Verena Kast's Mourning: Phases and Chances of the Psychological Process.
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Motivation of students and university graduates to study secondary vocational schools
Křenová, Kateřina ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Tuček, Milan (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the motivation of university graduates and students to study at a secondary vocational school and their use of selected fields in work and personal life. In the thesis, I pay attention to the origin of factors influencing the choice of education, such as their family, the usability of gained knowledge at work and in everyday life, and supplementing practical skills in their field of work. The theoretical chapter introduces the reader to the theoretical background on which the research and its outputs are based, namely the theory of sociology of professions, the process of professionalization, the theory of social constructivism, and the phenomenon of a crisis of 'office' work causing a transition to manual work. The theoretical basis is supplemented by the historical development and the current situation in education in the Czech Republic. As a method of answering the research questions was chosen an analysis of semi-structured qualitative interviews, which were supported by an analysis of quantitative data collected through questionnaires. The research sample was identified as students or graduates at the age of at least 18, who completed the secondary vocational school a maximum of 10 years ago. Based on the analysis of data, the work should find out what are the...
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Durkheim's Sociology as a Political Project
Maršálek, Jan ; Petrusek, Miloslav (advisor) ; Balon, Jan (referee)
Ce travail compte parmi ceux où l'auteur s'engage à une relecture originale des auteurs classiques. Ainsi, l'auteur reprend l'oeuvre d'Emile Durkheim pour donner une interprétation politique de ce qu'il appelle le projet sociologique durkheimien. Une mise en parallèle de la définition durkheimienne du fait social et de la réinterprétation faite par Giorgio Agamben du concept foucaldien de « dispositif », lui sert dans cette entreprise de point de départ. Dans le premier temps, l'auteur revois quelques travaux qui mettent eux-mêmes l'accent sur la dimension politique des écrits de Durkheim (notamment celui d'Aron, Giddens et Lacroix). Or ces lectures ne lui permettent pas de retrouver le niveau d'analyse annoncé dans la première partie du travail. Il se tourne alors vers des interprétations « globales » de la sociologie durkheimienne, avec un résultat médiocre, car le politique est perdu de vue. L'auteurs continue par ses propres commentaires d'un petit nombre de textes de Durkheim, dont De quelques formes primitives de qualification et De la division du travail social. Il s'appuie sur ces analyses dans la dernière partie de son travail pour soutenir sa thèse selon laquelle le caractère politique du projet sociologique de Durkheim consiste en ce qu'il participe à la libération par la société de l'individu de...
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Measuring the performance of Public Universities of Georgia: The Case of Social Sciences Faculties Problems of education quality and knowledge production
Shubitidze, Sopiko ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Senkova, Olga (referee)
In this research I investigate the problem of education quality at the faculties of Social Sciences at four Georgian Public Universities. The findings of research are derived through interviewing of professors and document analysis of Georgian legislation concerning higher education and European-level frameworks supporting the enhancement of education quality. I deal with the problem of quality using the mixture of theories. I divided researched topics in three parts: Ideological, Institutional and personal-level. The majority of theoretical claims were disproved in the local context of Georgia. Education quality and knowledge production are multi-faceted problems at Georgian Public Universities, Faculties of Social Sciences and it mainly is related to the scarce state resources allocated to HEIs in general in Georgia.
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New Forms of Tourism and their Impact on Cities
Klicnar, Filip ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Šanderová, Jadwiga (referee)
This thesis charts the increasing volume and changing nature of tourism in Europe. It was allowed by the liberalization of air travel market (the emergence of Low-Cost Carriers), and by the emergence of sharing economy (Airbnb). Followed by these changes a new segment of tourists, who were described as independent travelers, emerged. The thesis focuses on the interaction of those three factors and their effect on urban space - thus on its socio- geographic, socio-economic and socio-cultural fabric. Because of Low-Cost Carriers, tourists and travelers are concentrated in several European cities - those which were able to accommodate its environment for these airlines. In the cities, tourism spread from the concentric zones of the city center to the zones of the inner city, where a new tourist industry was adjusted for independent travelers. This touristification deepens the process of gentrification and spatial inequalities. Because of Airbnb, the limited hotel supply in the city center was surpassed, and the accommodation sector was integrated into residential fabric of the inner city. Those touristified spaces of the city become socio-culturally heterogenic. However, with increasing costs of living in the inner city, this space is more and more socio- economically homogenous. Consequently,...
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Social Network from the Perspective of Surveillance Theory
Janda, Martin ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Fišer, Josef (referee)
The paper concentrates on the general trend of extending the surveillance as it is nicely captured in the case of online social network Facebook. The text emphasized the omnipresence and hidden techniques used for mining of personal data, as depicted on the phenomenon of consumer surveillance. Data kept in the in databases create a virtual image of an individual that subsequently replaces him in the cyberspace, which leads to discrimination of the individual due to an unequal access to products and information. On introducing the surveillant assemblage the paper shows how the modern surveillance has multiple sources and its object can be anyone who is browsing the internet. Main source for the analysis are the works of Surveillance Studies, most prominently the Canadian sociologist David Lyon. The work centers on defining what part of social sciences field in the age of IT technologies occupies the panopticon - the key concept of surveillance studies - and what new aspects of surveillance are appearing in the society thanks to the development of internet and especially the social networks.
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Analysis of European Policy as European Identitty in Time
Plešr, Dominik ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Honová, Petra Alexandra (referee)
The aim of this thesis was to answer the Question Could we find something in European policy, what should to be the European identity?, through systematic research. Author decided for the mode of research on the basis of the studied literature and last international studies of this theme - thus to find european identity in european policy, not to describe a history of collocation "European identity". According to characteristic of terms "policy" and "identity, author analyses, whatever and how European identity express in European policy, by historic analysis, by analysis of documents - treaties of the European Union and foregoing organisations -, and by analysis of the overview of statistic data - Eurobarometer research. Historic analysis expressed different concepts of european identity - christianity, contradiction with islam, colonialism, science (like an ideology), rule of the law (particularly citizen's law and international law), man - sophist -, than analysis of documents of the Union -representative democracy, liberty, peace, security, human rights, rule of the law, and values, from which these emerged. Moreless, both of the groups of the concepts do not resist each other, because of we can include the concepts from historic analysis to collocation from treaties "…and values, from which...
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On the Method's Disappearance: Analysis between philosophies of social contract and classical sociologies. A Study in Epistemology
Maršálek, Jan ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Kvasz, Ladislav (referee) ; Karsenti, Bruno (referee)
The Method and its Disappearance: Analysis between philosophies of social contract and classical sociologies. A Study in Epistemology Jan Maršálek Université de Franche-Comté/Charles University in Prague Supervisors: prof. Frédéric Brahami, prof. Miloslav Petrusek (†), dr. Jan Balon. Résumé: In a doubly disloyal continuity with regard to the French epistemological tradition, largely preoccupied with the formation of scientific concepts, the present work addresses the phenomenon of disappearance of 'analytical' method. Nevertheless, the present work does not constitute an historical investigation: its very goal is to show (within the works of T. Hobbes, J.-J. Rousseau, H. Spencer and E. Durkheim) the variation of the epistemological status of the analysis, and thus to set up the concept of an 'epistemological event'. Examining the disappearance of the analysis requires its identification in the theoretical work whereby its leverage remains unacknowledged. Thus, having the status of a method in the philosophies of the social contract of Hobbes and Rousseau, the analysis 'continues' to structure, in a tacit way, the work of Spencer and Durkheim, both of them founders of scientific sociology. Is it possible to claim that, in the 19th century, the analysis manifests itself in the sociology's common recourse to...
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