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Man's situation in the Western civilization
Jirsa, Lukáš ; Ortová, Jitka (advisor) ; Soukup, Václav (referee)
The central theme of this thesis is contemporary Western civilization and its supposed crisis. The theme reposes on the theories of the cultural code and the culture universalis. We share the opinion of many social scientists and the scientists who study the culture as a human type of adaptation, that there exist some characteristics common to aH human societies (religion, law, family, rituals ... ). The contemporary globalized world, which is dominated by Western civilization, is one of the most difficult subjects to treat for its complexity. Therefore, we used the theories on current civilization by the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (ln the Shadows ojTommorow, 1936) and the American sociologist Pitirim A. Sorokin (The Crisis oj Dur Age, 1941). Their approach to modem society differs in many points, but they identify the same root of crisis: the abandonment of the Christian religion and its values as the principal of the cultural integration. Huizinga and Sorokin are persuaded that the contemporary Western civilization is based on the values of material wealth and power, which are not the ideal principles of integration. The evidence for such opinion is seen in the crisis of moral values, the lack of responsibility and growing individualism. These statements were plausible in the time of Huizinga's and...
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Sociological imagination and film in the culturological perspective
Jirsa, Lukáš ; Soukup, Václav (advisor) ; Matějů, Martin (referee) ; Suchánek, Vladimír (referee)
The thesis Sociological Imagination and Film in the Culturological Perspective examines the possibilities of the sociological imagination and film relation in response to today's rapidly changing life of humanity on the planet Earth, as well as its expanding boundaries of responsibility. In this thesis, the concept of the sociological imagination, as presented by Ch. W. Mills, an American sociologist, is employed as a means of better orientation of an individual in the world. We show that the ability of sociological imagination leads from the education to the self-education and also to understanding that both, the theoretical knowledge of humanities and film art, contribute to the knowledge of the real world and real life of each individual. In the first part, we described the modern world which is undergoing a period of unprecedented change, the change that is not, paradoxically, perceived by its inhabitants sufficiently enough. We see one of the most important fruits of sociological imagination in promoting awareness of "planetarization of humanity," a concept that is no more theoretical only, but also very particular and contemporary. Using concepts of Jaroslav Krejcí, an English historian with Czech origins, and Edgar Morin, a French anthropologist and philosopher, we have outlined the possible concept...
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Man's situation in the Western civilization
Jirsa, Lukáš ; Soukup, Václav (referee) ; Ortová, Jitka (advisor)
The central theme of this thesis is contemporary Western civilization and its supposed crisis. The theme reposes on the theories of the cultural code and the culture universalis. We share the opinion of many social scientists and the scientists who study the culture as a human type of adaptation, that there exist some characteristics common to aH human societies (religion, law, family, rituals ... ). The contemporary globalized world, which is dominated by Western civilization, is one of the most difficult subjects to treat for its complexity. Therefore, we used the theories on current civilization by the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (ln the Shadows ojTommorow, 1936) and the American sociologist Pitirim A. Sorokin (The Crisis oj Dur Age, 1941). Their approach to modem society differs in many points, but they identify the same root of crisis: the abandonment of the Christian religion and its values as the principal of the cultural integration. Huizinga and Sorokin are persuaded that the contemporary Western civilization is based on the values of material wealth and power, which are not the ideal principles of integration. The evidence for such opinion is seen in the crisis of moral values, the lack of responsibility and growing individualism. These statements were plausible in the time of Huizinga's and...
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