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Legitimation and professionalization of a Romani NGO in the Czech Repulic
Synková, Hana ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Mušinka, Alexander (referee)
Legitimation and professionalization of a Romani NGO in the Czech Republic Hana Synková This PhD. thesis maps strategies of legitimation and survival of non-governmental organizations working with people that use to be categorized as "socially excluded" or "Roma". It attempts to answer the question: "What NGOs do to be able to look successful, gain resources, and create organizational reputation?" This work does not treat organizations as "things", but as processes and social networks influenced by state and European policies, funding mechanisms and internal competition. Despite the organizations being discursively divided into those preferring more ethnic or social definition of their clients, they have to cope with the same pressures in the shape of social services law, standards of quality or control systems that come with projects. Organizations are far from devoting their time to "work with clients"; they are also involved in enlarging social capital of their members and in production of "texts" that serve their legitimation claims towards control bodies, other organizations and public. In order to research these publicly less visible processes, the authoress uses methods of organizational anthropology - fieldwork inside organization and at many places which are contextually linked to the...
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Ethic aspects of care of seniors in the rest home in Horní Planá
ŠUSTROVÁ, Petra
My thesis treats of the problems of observance of the human rights and protection of rights of the customers of the Retirements homes in Horní Planá. Theoretical part is divided into 5 chapters, when the first one defines the concept of growing old and old age. The second chapter treats of the social services in the Czech Republic and is focusing on the retirements homes. In this chapter I mention the law of social services, which defines basic sorts of social services, kinds of delivering services, care allowance and above all defines retirements homes. In the third chapter there are described norms of quality of social services with focus on the norm No. 2 {--} protection of rights of persons. The fourth chapter called Ethical aspects in the care of elderly in the retirements homes treats of human rights in the society, Church and social services and then also treats of basic human rights of customers in social services. The last chapter describes the Retirements homes in Horní Planá. The practical part of the thesis is created by two types of semi-controlled interviews. The first one was made with customers of the Retirements homes in Horní Planá and studies if the rights of the customers are kept. The second one was made with the staff of social services {--} direct service, which investigated if the rights of customers of the Retirements homes in Horní Planá are kept.
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