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A Hegemonic City: Discursive approach to ideology and dominance in development and planning of post-socialist Prague
Orcígr, Václav ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Vacková, Barbora (referee) ; Naxera, Vladimír (referee)
Late capitalist society is dominated by specific attributes of neoliberal ideology, which are inscribed in various ways in the politics of governance in the context of geographical location, political and social organization, economic situation, and other parameters. Discourse plays a specific role in the reproduction and legitimation processes of ideology. This thesis elaborates a theoretical approach to ideological dominance in the topic of urban development, specifically post-socialist Prague. The latter, as an urban space that has undergone major changes of post-revolutionary transformation, becomes a specific arena in which the discursive manifestations of various actors contribute to the production of theoretically identified (and also other yet unrecognized) patterns of dominant ideology. These, in turn, create a discursive field in which reproductive and legitimizing schemas are produced that contribute to the fact that the theme of urban development serves as one of the significant means that reinforce the global hegemonic position of neoliberal capitalism. The thesis builds on Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical approach to identify the actor field within which the processes of reproduction and legitimation occur, and works with Bourdieu's theory of ideological domination, which he developed...
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Contemporary reflection on the relationship of social stratification and consumption
Podsedníková, Klára ; Lupač, Petr (advisor) ; Hamplová, Dana (referee)
This bachelor thesis summarizes theories that deal with the relationship between social stratification and cultural consumption. In the first chapter, basic theories of social stratification are briefly summarized. Then the author introduces Pierre Bourdieu's distinction theory and his follower's and critic's contributions. The second part of the work deal with the contemporary theories of social stratification and cultural consumption relationship, focusing especially on the cultural omnivores concept. However, two other basic concepts of the relationship - the homology concept and the concept of individualism - are presented as well in this part.
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Spatial dimension of systemic rasism in Myrtle Beach
Trhlíková, Magdalena ; Orcígr, Václav (advisor) ; Cuker, Ivan (referee)
The bachelor's thesis with title The Spatial Dimension of Systemic Racism in Myrtle Beach focuses on how inequalities are maintained in case of afroamerican community in Myrtle Beach, the USA. Specifically, the thesis follows how is the systematic racism projected in a spatial dimension of the city. The thesis work with the data from the census in the USA and biographical interviews with members of the afroamerican community. The data help to uncover the inequalities of the afroamerican community compared to white Americans, especially using the maps of Myrtle Beach. The biographical interviews focus on identification of borderline or crucial situations that show the impact of systematic racism on the lives of Afroamericans, as well as the explanation of racism and inequalities in the city by members of the afroamerican community, and discrimination within the city space. The thesis works with the hypothesis of historical conditionality of inequalities, which together with the setting of the social system influence the actions and life decisions of the afroamerican community in the city of Myrtle Beach and the overall functioning of the city. The key concept for understanding and defining inequalities in Myrtle Beach is the spatial capital based on the Bourdieu's theory and theory of systematic...
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The cultural capital in the information age
Chrobáková, Alena ; Lupač, Petr (advisor) ; Šubrt, Jiří (referee)
Diploma thesis is focused on social stratification aspects of internet use, as a part of leisure time activities and consequently as a potential part of cultural capital. The main objective of this paper is to make a link between Bourdieusian tradition of research of cultural capital and research tradition of stratification aspects of internet use (especially digital divide). The author is trying to prove if the type of internet usage could be considered as a part of cultural capital. In the first, theoretical part of this text, the author is presenting both research traditions concerned, trying to synthetize them and concluding that internet usage can be considered as a capital. In the second, analytical part of this paper, the author is using data from World Internet Project to provide, that the theoretical synthesis have some empirical support. The analysis proves that the structure of Czech internet users' activities are differentiated by their cultural capital level. On the basis of this analysis, we can conclude that more powerful differentiation between types of internet usages is provided by traditional form of cultural capital, rather than by the emerging one. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Selected aspects of the production of embodiment in tv commercials
Kurucová, Natálie ; Charvát, Martin (advisor) ; Řehořová, Irena (referee)
Thesis Selected aspects of the production of embodiment in tv commercials works with an assumption that some tv commercials represent specific modality of discursive mechanisms of sexual representation. This thesis applies the works of M. Foucault and P. Bourdieu to semiotic analysis of chosen advertisements. Assuming that advertisements are using body and sexual motives as one of the instruments of power to affect the target groups. Main focus of this thesis is in introduction of discursive models that are used in advertising. Goal of the theoretical part is to introduce philosophical and sociological ideas and theories relating to perception of physicality, sexuality, power relations and question of subjectivism. The thesis also shows how the role of a body was perceived in different historicals eras and how the ways of use of body and embodiment has gradually developed in terms of power affection. Goal of the practical part is to analyze and interpret the acknowledgments from theoretical part on concrete examples. The aim is, by using semiotical analysis, to reveal discursive practices in advertisements based upon used statements, also to analyze the power affection presented by physicality and sexuality. The thesis presents examples of power affection of advertisements and its specific...
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Fitness Center as a lesisure activity. Comparative research among clients in Prague and Frankfurt am Main
Černá, Jana ; Vinopal, Jiří (advisor) ; Hamplová, Dana (referee)
The thesis discusses the social phenomenon of fitness and exercise in the fitness centers. It contains descriptive and comparative research of visitors fitness centers in Prague and Frankfurt am Main as representatives of this new phenomenon. It is a group of visitors who visit the fitness center at their leisure time. Research on the theoretical basis Bourdie's concept of habitus, social space and capital is trying to detect and describe patterns and main motivations of visitors fitness centers and their potential differences or similarities on the international basis.
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Contemporary reflection on the relationship of social stratification and consumption
Podsedníková, Klára ; Lupač, Petr (advisor) ; Hamplová, Dana (referee)
This bachelor thesis summarizes theories that deal with the relationship between social stratification and cultural consumption. In the first chapter, basic theories of social stratification are briefly summarized. Then the author introduces Pierre Bourdieu's distinction theory and his follower's and critic's contributions. The second part of the work deal with the contemporary theories of social stratification and cultural consumption relationship, focusing especially on the cultural omnivores concept. However, two other basic concepts of the relationship - the homology concept and the concept of individualism - are presented as well in this part.
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