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Together alone: Collective behaviour in times of social distance
Brabencová, Markéta ; Císař, Ondřej (advisor) ; Němcová, Lucie (referee)
BRABENCOVÁ, Markéta. Pohromadě sami: kolektivní jednání v době sociálního distancování. Praha, 2022. 57 s. Bakalářská práce (Bc). Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, Institut sociologických studií, Katedra sociologie. Vedoucí diplomové práce prof. PhDr. Ondřej Císař, Ph.D. Abstract The thesis deals with collective behaviour, as a form of coordination between people for political or social purposes during a pandemic. I am particularly interested in this issue from the perspective of the transformation of political activism. For this work, I define collective behaviour as a meeting of at least three people, in order to express an interest or problem in relation to public institutions, both in person and online. The mentioned pandemic period means the term from March 1, 2020, when the first Czech patient was tested positively, until August 31 of last year. The aim of the theoretical part is to present the political activism itself, individual types of collective behaviour, to describe the strategic protest repertoire and a view of symbolic instruments. The empirical part provides an analytical and systematic capture of collective action in the Czech Republic during pandemic. For that, protest events analysis was chosen as a methodological tool. In an effort to capture the pattern of contention politics...
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Campaign of Cinoherni Divadlo in Ústí nad Labem - Framing Analysis
Rohanová, Markéta ; Navrátil, Jiří (advisor) ; Dohnalová, Marie (referee)
This thesis is a research of a case related to the theatre Cinoherni divadlo in Usti nad Labem, which happened in 2014. This case was about a conflict between Cinoherni divadlo and Usti nad Labem city councilmen. This conflict was reflected by the public in Usti nad Labem and other cities of the Czech Republic and the case was accompanied by various kinds of civic activism. Representatives of Cinoherni divadlo was making public statements about the conflict during the case and they was formulating their requirements and were trying to gain public support and mobilize public to join the collective action. This case of civic activism will be studied from the perspective of the framing theory. Participant's statements will be studied and for that will be used the framing analysis. There will identified diagnostic, prognostic and motivational frames, which were used by the represenatives of Cinoherni divadlo and how were the frames changing during the case. There will be also identified counterframes, which were used by the city councilmen in their reactions to the represenatitves of Cinoherni divadlo.
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Activism and Collective Violence: Šluknov Riots in 2011
Bizubová, Kateřina ; Navrátil, Jiří (advisor) ; Benyovszky, Selma (referee)
This thesis is focused on the issue of violence in civil society. Using Charles Tilly's political theory, it attempts to point out that the emergence of collective violence can be well understood by tracing small scale causes (mechanisms), rather than large causes (poverty, extremism etc.). This argument is empirically studied in the context of anti-Roma riots that took place in Šluknov Hook, Czech republic, in the year 2011. The research is based on a broad concept of civil society, which doesn't assume fixed division between civil and uncivil subjects, but works with a number of actors, whose identity is unstable and their acting strategy fluently changes from nonviolent to violent and contra. The data show, that radical actors are generally more prone to use force. However, Tilly's theory provides opportunity to explain their influence on majority through the dynamics of relationships that is studied in this paper. The catalogue of events was created on the basis of news and document analysis and the incidence of theoretically defined mechanisms is identified by process tracing method: Boundary activation between us and them (mainly network-based escalation, signaling spirals), polarization, competitive display, selective retaliation, containment, monitoring, certification/decertification and...
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Organisational Structures and Forms of Collective Action in Civil Sector Organisations. Case Study Czech Forum for Development Cooperation.
Vraštilová, Klára ; Šťovíčková Jantulová, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Antošová, Petra (referee)
Networking of civil society organizations has been occurring in the Czech civic sector for several years. Since the nineties a number of new networks has emerged or extended their membership base. Networks can be examined diversely. This work is focused principally on the network internal operations. The aim of this work is to show the forms of organizational structure and collective action on the example of the Czech Forum for Development Cooperation (FoRS). The operational objective is to determine whether the examined internal form of network has an effect on the achievement of its objectives. The hypothesis that the centralised and hierarchical forms of network achieve more likely their objectives was confirmed in this case. The analysis also revealed that the network FoRS acts as a "consensus- based organization". This type of structure has typically sparse network of interactions, weakly shared collective identity and the absence of conflicting orientation towards a defined enemy.
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Eufunction and dysfunction in theories of collective action
Kinská, Michaela ; Maslowski, Nicolas (advisor) ; Německý, Marek (referee)
In this work, we deal with theories of collective action. To categorize the researchers used information from the functionalist approach. The aim is to provide an overview of sociologists concerned with theories of collective action, i. e. various forms of collective action. Mainly for this work is the concept of function and its distribution eufunction and dysfunction as two poles. Researchers are closer to those poles. The inclusion of researchers in these poles are still dealing with other characteristics that unite and differentiate. In the first chapters of the thesis deals with the functionalist concepts and theories of collective action. The next chapter is already engaged functionalist categorization and other characteristics researchers. The chapter is divided into two parts, which correspond to two functionalist terms, i. e. eufunction and dysfunction. Keywords functionalism, collective action, eufunction, dysfunction, crowds, social movements, revolutions, R. K. Merton, T. Parsons
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