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Immigrants in the Czech Republic, discourse analysis of their images
Seidlová, Jana ; Suša, Oleg (advisor) ; Buriánek, Jiří (referee)
The work aims to describe field of discourses, where the texts and talks about immigration (more concretely about immigrants in the Czech Republic) are created. The theoretical part describes the notions of nation and identity; it also provides a brief description of the explanatory models of migration and describes the universalism and particularism dichotomy in the immigration policies. Moreover it elaborates a concept of the multiculturalism as a discourse and construction. The concept of discourse is firstly explained in broader theoretical context, with reference to issues of language, power and ideology; secondly in its methodological consequences. Author also gives an account of linguistic tools (modality), and concepts of related sciences (binary opposition, ideological square). The analytical approach is based in the frame of the Critical discourse analysis. An important conclusion is the revelation of the risk as a discourse which legitimates the power and dominancy over immigrants. According different strategies regarding the risks' construction, three main categories in the field of discourse was considered: opportunity, ambivalence and threat. For the further study the author recommends to investigate the field of key actors who has a power to create and shape the discourses in this field.
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VOYAGER MESSAGE
Čápová, Klára Anna ; Egorova, Julia (advisor) ; Beseda, Jan (referee)
The theme of this work is the Voyager message that the U.S. National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) sent to the universe in 1977 on interstellar probes Voyager I and Voyager II. Voyager message consists of a phonograph record - called Golden Record - that carries a message for extraterrestrial civilization. The work provides the basic overview of scientific search for extraterrestrial life and describes the NASA Voyager program. Except for the basic overview of the message contents, the work offers an analysis of both visual and audio parts of the Voyager Message compilation. It employs the anthropology of science as an essential theoretical framework for examining the message contents. The work explores the reflections of scientific viewpoint and supposes science as the fundamental concept that shaped the composition of the Golden Record and considers mathematics as an universal tool of interstellar communication efforts.
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Analysis of the current situation in international banking regulation and its outlook for the future - from the Basel I Basel III
Růžička, Jan ; Taušer, Josef (advisor) ; Tůma, Zdeněk (referee)
The aim of the diploma thesis is to analyze the evolution of banking regulation from the turn of the 19th and 20th century with regard to the introduction of global standards of regulation and supervision. Great emphasis was placed on the status and functionality of the current regulation and also on its future shape as Basel III rules. In the theoretical part Basel I and Basel II projects are presented. The first of these is the concept from 1987 (Basel I) with the emphasis on greater stability and reliability of the international banking system. Basel I, however, represented a very simple and straightforward form of regulation, where the only monitored standard is bank's credit exposure. The amendment to Basel I and primarily Basel II, introduced a pillar regulation structure, which is still valid and provides national regulator a sufficient power to carry out its activities. The second, practical part of the thesis is devoted to current development and problems of banking regulation. This part introducing Basel III represents not only the key point of the gradual increase in the amount of regulatory capital until 2019, but also the introduction of uniform standards for measuring liquidity and strengthening the supervisory powers.
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Igbo national consciousnes
Štěpánková, Hana ; Skupnik, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Chlup, Radek (referee)
Before the direct contact with Europe, the area of present-day south-eastern Nigeria was inhabited by a dispersed population limited to only village or local consciousness but in 1967 representatives of this region declared the independent state of Biafra with the intention to separate from Nigeria which indicates strong collective consciousness. The bearers of this consciousness consider themselves to be Igbo and the collectivity has features of a nation. Therefore it is the Igbo national consciousness I deal with in this thesis. In the theoretical introduction I situate a nation within the sphere of ideas. The historiographic part of the thesis examines how the Igbo nation came into existence. It deals with traditional culture, trade, missionary activity, education, colonial administration, migration, decolonization and politics in independent Nigeria. The second, semiologic part is based on my research among the Igbos in Prague and focuses on the contemporary means for the inter-subjective maintenance of their national consciousness. I try to explain it using a concept of national symbols which can be understood as narratives supporting the idea of continuity, strengthening of borders and assuring the internal homogeneity as distinguished from the external differences.
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Moral Princip in Contemporary Shia Islam ( esp. in Iraq and Iran)
Ambrosio, Šárka ; Kropáček, Luboš (advisor) ; Vojtíšek, Zdeněk (referee)
Morální principy v současném šíitském islámu , zvl. Íránu a Iráku Moral Princips in contemporey Shi'a islam (esp. in Iran and Iraq) Šárka Popluhárová In my work I dealt with principles of Shiite Muslim fundamentalism and their reasons in the second half of the 20th century. According to my knowledge, the Shiite faith, I came to the view that morality is really dependetnt on religion and politics too. If politics and religion do not work together, discrepancy occurs in society. Even in secular states are people governed with moral values, without demonstranting their faith in God. Then the questin becomes, where the state takes over the observance of certain laws. The answer is that morality comes from God of the people. Thus, there is the claim that morality has no authority. Thus belief in God and his knowledge of laws the 20th century as a reaction positioned itself fundamentalism of Islam. The solution I see the approach of the two cultures, Western and East. Islam their observance of moral principles represent their religious attitudes.
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Josef Holeček as a public and private person. Possibilities of intergrity of creative life.
SUDÍKOVÁ, Veronika
This presented diploma thesis introduces life of a writer Josef Holeček (1853 1929); born in Southern Bohemia. His literal and journalistic activities in Czech cultural environment stretch over 50 years of changing political climate; especially the emergence of the Czechoslovak Republic. The thesis aims to reconstruct the private and public life of the author in a more compact form, for it has been previously reported on in available resources only sparsely. First chapter introduces the childhood and student years of Josef Holeček. Subsequent chapters trace pursuit of writer career following author´s arrival to Prague and his family life. The second half of the thesis deals with contemporary perception of Josef Holeček by Czech cultural public in the Fin de Si?cle period regarding his literary works and public impact. Last chapter introduces the concept of ?Southern-Bohemian personality?; which was closely related to the publications and personality of Josef Holeček. This sociological conception conceived by Emanuel Chalupný helped to create the awareness of the author.
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Do they really matter? Impact of NGOs on European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR)
Kárníková, Anna ; Rovná, Lenka (advisor) ; Weiss, Tomáš (referee)
This master thesis analyses factors determining success of civil society organisations lobbying for the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights. The research focuses on the reform of the instrument between 2006 and 2007 which took place within the overall reform of EU's external action instruments. The EIDHR is delivered mainly through civil society and is thus an important source of funding for civil society organisations. Additionally, due to the central position of NGOs in the instrument's delivery, their input is crucial for ensuring strategic quality of the instrument. In order to exert influence, the organisations have to penetrate the complex decision-making system. This thesis scrutinises their strategies as well as analyses the institutional framework and its impact on the civil society organisations. The research builds on several complementary theoretical approaches including theory of lobbying, political opportunity structures or new institutionalism. Using the process-tracing method, this thesis analyses causal mechanisms linking interests of civil society groups and changes in the EIDHR programming documents. In order to test the hypotheses it looks into three sub-cases studies focusing on three different areas of EIDHR: democracy promotion, peacebuilding and human rights defenders.
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Identification and validation of prior learning -the new way of acquiring of qualification
Marinka, Tomáš ; Byčkovský, Petr (advisor) ; Prokop, Jiří (referee)
The study deals with the recognition of prior learning. It shows how this measure is embedded in the European concept of lifelong learning (LLL) and desbribes the approach to its implementation in the Czech Republic. Within the LLL concept, learning is considered valuable irrespectively of its settings (school, work, family) and the age of learners (life-wide and lifelong learning). The recognition of prior learning enables for learners to have their learning outcomes formally recognised irrespectively of when, where and how they were acquired. It is, therefore, considered to be the fundamental in the process of making the LLL concept a reality. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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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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