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The Singles Phenomenon and its Image in the Mass Media
Nováková, Barbora ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Mazáková Šetinová, Markéta (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Phenomenon singles and its image in the mass media" deals with the exploration of the singles media image as it is being depicted in printed mass media and their Internet analogues. The theoretical part of the thesis is devoted to the exploration of the concept of singles, explanation of the used terminology, the emergence of the singles phenomenon, and the description of singles lifestyle. Subsequently, the definition of mass media is provided and the extent of its impact, on forming the opinion of the wider public, is explored. The practical part of the work shows theoretical background of chosen analysis and then uses a method of quantitative content analysis in order to identify the image of singles created by the mass media. The research was carried out on two hundred preselected articles. At the end of the thesis, a summary of the research and its interpretation, based on the chosen theoretical grounding, is made.
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Singles - (not) sharing relationship
Pavienská, Marika ; Matějek, Jaromír (advisor) ; Štica, Petr (referee)
This work deals with interpersonal relationships in all their komplexity including the absence of these relationships. We try to interpret the ways of singles' lives in today's world. The aim of this work is to point out several aspects of interpersonal mutuality, which is represented by eight respondents, who live as the singles. The expressions stated in this work refer to problems of this increasing group of people. The work is a probe into life of present- day single people, who live without partner, without sharing home together. The increase amount of single people makes us to ask many questions. In these theme we try to look for andresearch the motives of these people, the reasons for accentuating the freedom, their own borderlines and we try to look for impacts, which can influence making decision of single people. Keywords: singles, mutuality, isolation, freedom, borderline, marriage, family, home, self- giving, interpersonality.
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Phenomenon singles in the Czech Republic from the data point of the research agencies
Kunc, Daniel ; Langhamrová, Jitka (advisor) ; Kleňhová, Michaela (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the phenomenon singles and its development after 1989 in the territory of the Czech Republic. The implications of the phenomenon singles began gradually to appear after 2000. Theoretical part of the thesis contains explanation of concepts, possible causes of formation of this phenomenon, which in the recent past influenced the demographic indicators closely related to singles. Following practical part describes demographic indicators connected with phenomenon singles using graphs and carto diagrams based on data from the Czech Statistical Office. Also, the socio-economic data from research agency Median, s.r.o. and their research MML-TGI, which better capture the current development of phenomenon singles are shown. The conclusion is whether the hypotheses have been confirmed or refuted.
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Singles in the Czech Republic in the perspective of changing value orientation
Hromádková, Václava ; Šťastná, Anna (advisor) ; Kalibová, Květa (referee)
The intention of this study is to analyze an evolution of singles in the Czech Republic from 90s from the perspective of a second demographic transition. I will focus on the singles' characteristic according to marital status, education level, economic activity and territorial location. This study also contains an analysis of attitude and value orientation in the Czech Republic in issues concerning family and relationships. The main source of data for the analysis is data from the Czech Statistical Office and data from sociological survey European Values Study which includes the information about the use binary logistic regression the changes of attitudes according to chosen characteristics of respondents. Results of the study show that the proportion of singles in the population of the Czech Republic is increasing. Results of the value orientation analysis say that there was a big change of value orientation in the Czech Republic. The new alternative forms of living and cohabitation of partners have been more popular since 1990. Younger unmarried people are considered as pioneers of the new lifestyle. These people often have university education.
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Presentation of singles in women lifestyle magazines (2002 - 2012)
Oratorová, Kateřina ; Křeček, Jan (advisor) ; Nováková, Petra (referee)
The bachelor thesis Presentation of singles in women's lifestyle magazines (2002 - 2012) deals with the phenomenon of singles and its presentation in selected lifestyle magazines for women in 2002 - 2012. It's divided into a theoretical and an analytical part. The theoretical part focuses on some core themes of media theory, such as the construction of media reality and media influences and effects on values and behavior patterns of the audience, and sociological perspective on the social group called singles. Separate sections are dedicated to the definition of singles and the issue of typology of singles. There is a brief outline of the historical development of the phenomenon of singles followed by a brief discussion on how this phenomenon is perceived by contemporary Czech society. The empirical part is based on a quantitative content analysis, which examines the frequency and character of articles about singles in selected magazines (Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marianne). The hypotheses are based on general principles of media production and at the same time reflect the fundamental political, economic, social and cultural events that took place during the examined period. The results of the analysis are summarized in the conclusion of the thesis.
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Czech singles Lifestyle with Focus on Eating
Vondrášová, Kateřina ; Remr, Jiří (advisor) ; Martinová, Marta (referee)
Czech Singles Lifestyle with Focus on Eating Kateřina Vondrášová Abstract Thesis deals with the issue of singles lifestyle with particular regard to food and eating. The phenomenon of gender free attitude towards series of activities in the life of singles (in other words the standpoint on the social world and practices that occur in it independently on one's sex/gender) was identified through in-depth semi structural interviews with people, who rank themselves among singles. It appears mainly in the area of relationships with friends, in the sphere of intimate (sexual) relationships, in the area of household keeping and, last but not least, in the attitude towards the food preparation, cooking and eating generally. This phenomenon is tightly related to the phenomenon of self-opening, in other words crossing the border of the private sphere of household and the entrance into the public space not just in the spatial sense but also in the social sense. Singles contribute to the social life and solidarity of society thanks to their everyday strategies - it is an opposite trend than the one which is associated with singles stereotypically. The result of the grounded theory application, which also includes the determination of schema explaining singlehood phenomenon, was the discovery of a distinctive phenomena...
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Relationships to family of gays and lesbians
Škoulová, Monika ; Koťa, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Vítečková, Michaela (referee)
This work issue from individual polostandardized interviews of gays and lesbians which were obtain to this work by method of Snowball Sampling and searching on the web-nets. Their family histories (stories) and biography were noted on dictaphone and written down to the letter. Mains objectives of this work are two and has theme about family. Objectives are: "Maping of relationships of lesbians and gays in family neighbourhood (primary family)" and "Relationship of lesbians and gay to their secondary family". Author gets in this way individual own view of gays and lesbians on these problems. To this work is added one interview of bisexual too who lived a long time lesbian's life style and currently she is a few years married.
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Image of Singles in Magazine Harper's Bazaar and in Magazine Maxim
Matoušková, Lucie ; Kubišová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Havlík, Radomír (referee)
Během 90. let se v české společnosti začala konstituovat nová společenská vrstva singles, která upouští od tradičních hodnot týkajících se vstupu do manželství a založení rodiny a rozhodla se žít o samotě. Právě singles se stali předmětem mé diplomové práce, kterou jsem rozdělila na část teoretickou a část praktickou. V teoretické části své práce jsem se pokusila vystihnout základní problematiku singles, svou pozornost jsem zaměřila nejen na charakteristiku, ale i na různé typologie singles, jejich partnerské vztahy, zmínila jsem také historické okolnosti, které ovlivnily vznik této skupiny lidí. V teoretické části jsem se také věnovala otázce sňatečnosti a reprodukce, pokusila jsem se pomocí literatury zjistit, jaký názor a jaký postoj k této problematice zaujímají současní mladí lidé a také jakou vizi o své budoucnosti mají. Vzhledem k tomu, že obraz singles není dosud ucelený, rozhodla jsem se v praktické části své práce zjistit, jaký obraz o životě singles poskytují média. Jako média jsem zvolila dva typy periodik, a to časopis Maxim, který je primárně určen pro muže a časopis Harper's Bazaar, který je určen především pro ženy. Tato periodika jsem sledovala v první polovině roku 2010, kdy jsem nashromáždila určitý korpus textů, které jsem pak podrobila analýze. Jako metodu práce jsem zvolila...
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