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Politics, Mass-media and Power.
Mochanová, Karolína ; Stracený, Josef (advisor) ; Samek, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis concerns itself with the relationship between media and politics and politicians, particularly in those media messages where visual stimuli predominate.First, the author introduces key terms in the field of media and visual culture. The following part of the present paper focuses on two prominent figures of our political scene. These figures are briefly introduced and an attempt is made to analyse their means of visual self-presentation and the effect of this message on the public, namely their voters. The method chosen to carry out this analysis is semiotic analysis, inspired predominantly by Roland Barthes' book Mythologies. The author uses the concept of interpreting an image, denotation, and connotation, and subsequently situates her findings in a broader social context. Semiotic analysis helps to decipher messages used by media to influence voters' perception of politicians.
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The problem of resocialization after the imprisonment
Vu Khuc, Hoai Diep ; Hlaváčková Fleischerová, Andrea (advisor) ; Samek, Tomáš (referee)
In addition to protecting society, imprisonment has another purpose in the form of reeducating a convicted people to a proper life in freedom and preparing to resocializing them. This bachelor thesis focuses on issues related to imprisonment, specifically on the impact on the life of the convicts. Above all, it deals with the problems that convicts have to face after their release in the resocialization process. The sentence has further consequences for the convicted. Family and social ties are disturbed, the individuals are stigmatized especially when searching for a job, they often find themselves in debt and have to face many repercussions. The thesis introduces the reader to the various aspects of imprisonment, from the rights and duties of the convicts, through their education and employment, to the exit department. The key part is to analyze the problem of the complicated return of convicts to everyday life. Their resocialization is a complicated process with many obstacles such as unemployment, indebtedness and lack of background. KEYWORDS resocialization, term of imprisonment, recidivism, unemployment, indebtedness
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The Comparision of the Chosen Concepts of Socioeconomic Alternatives
Ulrych, Lukáš ; Stracený, Josef (advisor) ; Samek, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to enrich the political imagination in terms of the ability to think about alternative socioeconomic arrangement of the human society. Its topic is a comparison of three chosen concepts of socioeconomic alternatives according to the following criteria: (1) the degree of economic democracy in terms of the employees' control of enterprises and in terms of the citizens' control of economy, (2) their political systems and (3) the means of remuneration. The chosen concepts of alternative socioeconomic arrangement present concepts of market socialism of David Schweickart, cybersocialism of Allin Cottrell and W. Paul Cockshott and the participatory economics of Michael Albert. The aim of this diploma thesis was realized through the analysis and description of the chosen concepts of socioeconomic alternatives and their subsequent comparison by virtue of the mentioned criteria. Besides the method of analysis and comparison there were also used the methods of induction, deduction, analogy and abstraction. By virtue of the comparison of the chosen socioeconomic alternatives according to the criteria we found out that large measure of economic democracy in employee's control of enterprises, as in the case of market socialism, decreases the degree of influence of citizens on...
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Changes in Human Relations to the Land in Wallachia in the 20th Century
Adamová, Lucie ; Zicha, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Samek, Tomáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with human relation to the land and its transformation in connection with significant changes in the political scene. Human relation to land is not influenced and defined merely by geographical location, but also by historical development of given area and other external influences and one of them is the political situation. Between the years 1948 - 1989, the Communist Party with its specific approach to personal ownership and the ownership of land ruled the territory of today's Czech republic. The Communist regime has also strongly influenced the historical development of Wallachia. Agriculture and pastoralism have been and still are characteristic for this region and local people have been dependent on these for several centuries. People who owned the fields, land or farms started loosing their property and the concept of personal ownership itself started to change. These changes have then influenced several generations of farmers living in this area. The key task of this thesis is to map the influence of the Communist regime on the human relation to land in Wallachia. The theoretical part of the thesis introduces the development of agriculture in Wallachia in the 20th century, the region of Wallachia and the general description of human relation to land and the...
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Media education as a mean of development of lower secondary school student's critical assessment
Caltová, Veronika ; Dvořáková, Michaela (advisor) ; Samek, Tomáš (referee)
The thesis is focused on the influence of media education of the ability of students of the second grade of elementary schools to interpret media communication. The reader will be provided an insight into the issue of media and their influence on a person with a main focus on the students of the second grade of elementary school. The second part of this thesis present the concept of media education, it offers a proposal for a block of media education with assessment of the impal of teaching on the respektive competencies of the students. The effectiveness of the teaching will be assessed through research surveys designed as a qualitative comparison of students' testimonies after completing a media education course, using the group interview Focus group. The questions are focused on the critical analysis of media communication, whereas students' answers are compared with a control group that was not equally educated. KEYWORDS advertisement, influence, focus group, media, mass media, media education, second grade of elementary school
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The development of the town of Nymburk
Kolbaba, Lukáš ; Dvořáková, Michaela (advisor) ; Samek, Tomáš (referee)
The nineteenth century, characterized by its industrial revolution, has brought many changes to people's lives. Nymburk as one of the centers of the middle Polabí, is a example when industry has changed the everyday life of the city's inhabitants. The task of the thesis is to describe the key sectors and, consequently, related events that have had an impact on the lives of the local population, and at the same time they have been a change for many centuries, rather, a rural town in an industrial city. The work starts from the earliest beginnings of the city to better illustrate the boom times and the fall of the city. Emphasis is placed above all on what took place in Nymburk itself, although it was very often the historical milestones for the whole country. The work will be based primarily on regional historical literature.
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Social dynamics and interethnic relations in educational settings
Vorlíček, Radek ; Samek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Bittnerová, Dana (referee) ; Synková, Hana (referee)
Radek Vorlíček ABSTRACT The dissertation explores the dynamics of social marginality and dominance in educational settings. It explores social distance dynamics among pupils in elementary school, and its impact on their position in social hierarchy. I focus on social interaction in a group of children, and record the context in which the inclusion or exclusion of non-dominant identities take place. Special attention is paid to the role of schools in the process of boundary constructions. Larger framework of the research is integration, segregation and assimilation tendencies of school systems. The dissertation is based upon long-term qualitative inductive and ethnographic fieldwork. The central method of my fieldwork is observation. To some extent, the research was conducted in the framework of goffmanian interactionism. The data for this study have been collected over a period of ten months in twelve elementary schools located in various regions of the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. The dissertation is structured in four parts: (1) Introduction, referring to the aim and structure of the dissertation; (2) Methodology, presenting the research process, strategies and methods as well as data analysis, theoretical and methodological discussions, reflexivity and ethical aspects; (3) Elementary schools in...
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Code-switching a code-mixing Česko-Anglických bilingvních dětí v České Republice
Terry, Zuzana ; Halbich, Marek (advisor) ; Samek, Tomáš (referee)
My diploma thesis shows patterns of alternation by bilingual children between their two mother tongues, Czech and English. The patterns are studied in two different types of language alternations; code-switching, meaning switching between language codes in whole ideas and discussed topics, and code-mixing, meaning inserting a word or phrase in language A into speech in language B. The code-switching and code-mixing types and patterns were studied on basis of 12 recordings and observations of a class of pre-school children during one morning of English school activities per week and 14 recordings and observations of a following year class of first-year school children during their after-school English activities. All children attended state education, pre-school nursery and the following year Czech state primary schools. Most of the children's parents are a combination of a Czech and an immigrant from an English-speaking country (with three exceptions) and they both speak with the children exclusively in their respective native languages. By studying the patterns of children's alternation between the languages, I also analyse how socialisation through the use of two languages influences social competences. The rules of the speech community, the school, as well as the family speech communities are...
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