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The Relationship between Qualitative and Quantitative Research: A Clash of two Paradigms or a Path Toward Co-operation?
Štěpaníková, Irena ; Čermák, Ivo
The authors deal with the differences between qualitative and quantitative research, such as the meaning of qualitative research for the interpretation of findings, the differences pertaining to the relationship between a researcher and a subject, thee relationship between theory and research, different research strategies, the kinds of findings, the conceptualization of reality, etc. They find a helpful framework in the convergence of both the approaches in the form of methodological eclecticism, reppresented by triangulation, complementarity, and facilitation.
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Czech Euroscepticism in Historical Perspective
Rejmíš, Martin ; Rak, Jiří (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
Diploma thesis "Czech Euroscepticism in Historical Perspective" deals with different representations, roots, specificities and common features of publicly acting opponents of contemporary European integration in the Czech Republic. Especially, it focuses on historicist argumentation of Czech eurosceptics who work usually with older historical stereotypes and myths, which were already largely diffused in the 19th century. After a definition of the term euroscepticism, and an explanation of its specificities in Central Europe, the thesis deals successively with an analysis of eurosceptical exposures in Czech public space, more precisely from the pre-accession period until the adoption of the Lisbon treaty in November 2009. Chapters are divided chronologically in relation with important events in the EU - Czech Republic relations, while the context of each phenomenon is shortly described. Every attempts of a historicist argumentation are remitted to a critical analysis and compared with older theses mainly concerned in modern Czech nationalist discourse. At the close the authors offers an evaluation of this political instrument, often used not only in the opposition to the European integration process, but also for gaining votes on the basis of self-profiling thanks to a new theme in Czech society.
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Domestic violence as a social problem in České Budějovice district
ŠÍMOVÁ, Ivana
Violence at home, a.k.a. home violence, is a spiraling cycle of brutality committed in private between closely related persons. Such violence can by physical, psychological, sexual, economic or social, with the roles of the attacker and the victim clearly defined and never changing. Anyone can be exposed to home violence, irrespective of her or his social position, education, job, sex, age, religion, or the type of partnership that people live in. Advanced societies have developed a tendency to tackle the issue, and the awareness of the problem has improved. In our country this favorable development is driven primarily by the newly enacted regulations and the keener interest stirred up in the public. The thesis aimed to investigate the general public awareness of home violence within the District of České Budějovice. As followed from the survey, the public living in the District is well aware of the issue. The results showed that as much as 69% of respondents knew about home violence, while the remaining 31% were ignorant of the problem. Hypothesis: Females are better informed about home violence than males - confirmed by comparison between what the women and the men knew about the issue. The difference encountered, however, was just minor. Hypothesis: People living in the District of České Budějovice are not knowledgeable about changes newly passed in Act 135/200 to solve the problem of violence at home - not confirmed. The majority of respondents heard of the Act and were able to specify at least the essential changes it enacted. The change the respondents mentioned most often was the 10 day period of flat-eviction order. It comes as a matter of interest that males were better aware of the Act and could better quote the changes it introduced. Hypothesis: The public accepts as true that home violence is confined to just problem-ridden families - not confirmed. Eighty seven percent of females and 81% of males were convinced that home violence was not limited to only such families. Merely 13% of females and 19% of males believed the home violence was a matter of the problem-ridden families. The survey results showed that the public living in the District of České Budějovice had dropped this myth, i.e. they had not seen the hypothesis as truthful. The thesis can serve as a source of information for the lay public, as a piece of instruction material for the students of the University of South Bohemia, or it could also be given to the Intervention Center to be distributed among the victims of home violence.
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Anticipating versus reality of work of nurses in cardiosurgery department
BÁRTOVÁ, Marie
In my bachelor paper I dealt with expectation of nurses before their entry in practice and confrontation with the reality of work at hospital units. Expectation plays an important part in coping with the nursing occupation. There are many factors that can influence it both in a positive and negative way. The fast pace in current medical establishments requires that a nurse should assess, predict and evaluate the state of patients and that she should react to it within several minutes so that the care for the ill is most efficient and coordinated. Such a task is difficult for every-one but for a nurse disappointed by the health system it is an impossible task. Therefore it is important that there is a correspondence between expectations and the final reality of work.
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The metaphysical detective story in Paul Auster's The New York trilogy and Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49
Buršíková, Marika ; Robbins, David Lee (referee) ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (advisor)
While the first two chapters of the thesis provide the necessary theoretical framework concerning the classical detective story and the metaphysical detective story, in the third chapter this framework is employed to analyze the particular themes that are present in The New York Trilogy and The Crying of Lot 49. To explain the metaphysical detective story, a step back to the classical detective story as its predecessor is required. To sum up the oppositions expressed in criticism dealing with this subject, the contrast between these two genres has been defined in terms of high art and popular art (Todorov), art and kitsch (Holquist), ontological dominant and epistemological dominant (McHale), postmodern and positivistic mode of thinking (Spanos). The metaphysical detective story takes the conventions of the classical detective story and distorts them in order to betray the reader's expectations. Since the popular genres are constituted by their corresponding sets of conventions which need to be familiar, any change in them causes the work to lose its status as part of the genre. In this case, the classical detective story has served as a point of departure for many authors who transformed it into a completely different genre which had no longer anything to do with popular literature. Classical detective...
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Factors Affecting a Visitors´ Satisfaction in South Bohemia (The Region of Český Krumlov)
VALTROVÁ, Barbora
The main goal of this thesis was to identify factors influencing the satisfaction of tourists visiting the region of Český Krumlov and evaluating the conformity of the visitors' expectations and the reality. Main focus of the research was to clarify how visitors view the quantity and quality of primary and secondary offer of the destination. Based on the results of the quantitative research were made suggestions that could contribute to increasing tourists' satisfaction.
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter of Mario Vargas Llosa
MIKOTOVÁ, Michaela
The first part of the thesis informs about a period, which influnced writers born after the year 1930; outlines formation of the "boom" and "post boom" phenomenon. In the second part there is introduced the writer Mario Vargas Llosa not only as a successful writer of novels but also in other aspects of his works. The third part of the thesis concerns the procedures and narrative theories of Vargas Llosa. A part of this whole is also an effort to outline the connection between post-modernism and reality and fiction. In the fourth part I pursue an analysis of narrative perspective of the novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. The thesis is closed by a consideration about art and kitsch in the connection with the mentioned novel.
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Drug addicition as a result of not properly using leisure time
KOHOUTOVÁ, Jana
The work deals with relationship between poorly used leisure time and drug addicition. It is theoretical and it is based on studies from the Institute for Criminology and Social Prevention. This work explains aspects of leisure time and its use. It describes the facts which may leisure time and selected activities affect. It describes drug history and reveals the problems of addiction. It tries to explain the causes and consequences that drug addiction brings. In particular, it deals with children and youth addicitons. Last part reveals some of the leisure time activities that have an impact on drug use. The result of studies that have been done by the Institue for Criminology and Social Prevention is clear that among these activities that include dance, mostly electronic music and virtual reality may incerase drug addiction.
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The Implementation of Transport Projects in the Context of Developing Axes in Czechia
Horáček, Michal ; Marada, Miroslav (advisor) ; Šourek, Vladimír (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the implementation of transport corridors in the context of the Czech Republic's development axes. A general definition of transport corridors is initially presented along with their supporting methodological and legislative documents. Next, the thesis is devoted to showing geography affects TEN-T sites in Europe and the Czech Republic, respectively. Main part discusses the strategic documents in the transport sector and transport policy coherence related to compliance with implementation plans. In conclusion, transport network's problems are indentified and an evaluation of the relationship between planning and reality is presented.
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Irish Neutrality During the Second World War
Geaney, Kathleen Brenda ; Rovná, Lenka (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
The Second World War is a watershed in modern history from which no state was immune. Ireland, or, if so wished the twenty-six counties with its British dominion status, pursued a policy of neutrality throughout the conflict. It is this policy of neutrality, and its Irish interpretation, that we have chosen as the object of our analysis. During the war years and after, various myths concerning the Irish policy of neutrality came into being, One such myth, for instance, is that Ireland was pro-German; another that Ireland deliberately and actively helped Great Britain. The aim of this master's thesis is to uncover what Irish neutrality meant in reality. For this reason, the prevailing conditions, both external and internal are examined, inasmuch as such conditions not only influenced the form Irish neutrality took but even predetermined its existence. At the same time, the role of the individual in the whole process, in our case pre-eminently that of Eamon de Valera, is not overlooked.
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