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Weak Church? One Attempt of Reneval of the Catholic Parishes in Bohemia
Tichý, Radek ; Kabele, Jiří (advisor) ; Lužný, Dušan (referee) ; Nešpor, Zdeněk (referee)
The thesis deals with the process in Roman Catholic dioceses in the Czech Republic, which in the first decade of the new century tried to reform the structure of the parishes and renew their religious life. The data gathered during several years of the field research mainly in the Archdiocese of Prague are interpreted using the sociology of space and sociology of organizational change. The successful reform of the structure of parishes and unsuccessful reform of religious life, intended as a goal of the whole process, is explained as caused by so called operational exhaustion of the Church actors, actual isolation of single hierarchical layers and practical unenforceability of the pastoral decisions. The thesis includes also the discussion about the organizational character of the Catholic Church, about the possibilities of comparison of the Czech and French experience, and about the external and internal secularisation of the Czech catholicism.
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Electronic Communication in Organisations
Cejthamr, Václav ; Kabele, Jiří (advisor) ; Šafránková, Jana Marie (referee) ; Nový, Ivan (referee)
The work explores the theoretical knowledge of the effects of electronic communication on the fuctioning of the working team on trust, member satisfaction, self evaluation through empowerment and cohesion. To verify the obtained results the explorative study in the natural environment of the working team, intensively using electronic communications, were done. The main methodwas the analysis of theories of electronic communication and the functioning of teams under working environment conditions. For explorative study the method of observations was used, as well as unstructured interviews and questionnaires. After analysing the current theoretical knowledge and the definition of main directions of the exploration, the work focuses on the exploration study of the team in the natural working environment with higher levels of virtualization. In addition to several theories of rational choice and theories of the impact of communication technology on social relations the concept of Human Relations was used as an crucial explanatory apparatus for findings, obtained in the exploratory study. A key finding was the dominance of social relations in communication, which outweighed the rational theory of choice and technological determinism. An additional finding was how the contextual situations determines...
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Right extremism in CZ 2007-2010
Půbalová, Božena ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Kabele, Jiří (referee)
The thesis deals with the phenomenon of right-wing extremism in the Czech Republic during 2007-2010 which is viewed from the socio-constructivist perspective of the sociological concept of moral panic. The theoretical part focuses on definition of the terms right-wing extremism and moral panic with regard to their evolution and various approaches in social theory and also briefly describes the situation and significant subjects of the Czech extremist right-wing scene in the analyzed period. The analytic part presents media content of four selected aspects and cases of right-wing extremism as published in nationally released newspaper Mladá fronta DNES which is examined in depth using qualitative content analysis. The task of the analysis was to determine to what extent and by which specific ways the representation of these cases in given newspaper fulfills the aspects and processes of an ideal type of moral panic, represented by Klocke and Muschert's hybrid model of moral panics, and how the cases are put in the general framework of constructing the right-wing extremism as a prominent social problem and a moral panic.
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Organic Farming through the eyes of farmers
Zagata, Lukáš ; Kabele, Jiří (advisor) ; Lošťák, Michal (referee)
Current popularity of organic farming is partly based on idealized picture about farming practices and its (organic) products. The goal of this thesis is to find out how the participating farmers look at their own practices, and by this to offer a comparison to what extent the subjective viewpoints of farmers correspond with notions and positive expectation of official policy actors and public. Empirical study uses a less known research tool called Q methodology, which is focused on identification of ideal-type approaches of engaged actors. Data was gathered with the use of semistandardized interviews with Czech organic farmers. Analysis pointed out three factors, which were interpreted as three existing perspectives among organic farmers. The content of each one formed a basis for their names - organic farming (1) as a way of life, (2) as a livelihood and (3) as a production of food of alternative quality. Each viewpoint puts emphasis on different elements and in a specific way forms (constructs) basic aim of organic farming. The identified classification contributes to a theoretical discussion about a nature of current organic agriculture and its position in contemporary modern society. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Community forms of ecologically-friendly life in individualized society
Losenický, Jan ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Kabele, Jiří (referee)
The thesis "Community forms of ecologically-friendly life in individualized society" deals with contemporary intentional eco-communities that are, mostly as ecovillages and cohousings, connected with the reneissance of the community movement in Western society in the nineties of the 20th century. Utilizing G. Simmel's concept of quantitative and qualitative individualism, it investigates to what extent is the existence and form of intentional eco-communities influenced by the process of individualization. The motivations of initiators and of the members of eco-communities, the question of privacy and the engagement in neighbourhood relationships and into public life are investigated in more detail. Third part of the work offers a description of examples of intentional eco-communities in Czech Republic and it also describes community projects that are related to this topic.
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Discoursive re/production of inequalities in decision making: The case of Pankrácká pláň
Šamánek, Jan ; Šanderová, Jadwiga (advisor) ; Kabele, Jiří (referee)
The diploma thesis links theoretical presumptions about new inequalities that are typical for late capitalist societies and occur between groups defined by different priority of accumulation of economic capital, to an analysis of particular social environment. The author adopts radical democratic standpoint and uses the approach of critical discoursive analysis to debunk instruments of reproduction of these inequalities that are present in mass media discourse concerned with decision making about public spaces. The particular area of interest is massmedial discourse concerned with the case of development of Pankrácká pláň in Prague. The analysis shows that typical discoursive phenomena are present in analyzed articles. These phenomena help to discoursively limit the recognition of identities of groups that are not primarily oriented towards accumulation of economic capital and to advantage primarily economically oriented groups in decision making within given legal community. The author uses results of the analysis to illustrate the contrariety between the hegemony of economic reductionist discourse and requirements of society based on radical democratic deliberative principles.
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Membership in the Communist Party in the 21th Century
Struha, Michal ; Kabele, Jiří (advisor) ; Tuček, Milan (referee)
In this paper I tried to explain the relation of the basic organization of the Czech and Moravian Communist Party (KSCM) in the town Dubí to its party and to define the member identification on the ground of the heuristic research method and of the position analysis of the KSCM in the Czech political system both in the level of Czech Parliament and in the level of the local government. The idea and program identification with its party, interests and intents to govern their town, and existence of informal social relations in the local party framed the path on the way o f exploration why the current members still remain in the KSCM party although this party is constantly stigmatized. I even attempt to explain the evolution changes of the KSCM party according to its member basis change and its possible results in the next years. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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IN ATTENDANCE OF PUBLIC..analysis of public discussion about the transport policy of city district Prague 6
Ptáčková, Kateřina ; Kabele, Jiří (advisor) ; Illner, Michal (referee)
Using the instruments of discourse analysis these master theses intend to explore, what is the core of the transport policy discussion in Prague, what are the main sources and discourses forming it. The discussion on the transport policy in one of the Prague city district's is used not only for the analysis of the transport base of the discussion but also as the illustration of forming the public discussion in general. The analysis focuses on the roles of two main groups of collective actors of public decision-making - elected politicians (local authority) and NGOs. Discourse is in analysis understood in the Foucault's view as the practices which form the objects of which they speak and do not speak. With reference to Fairclough it concentrates also on the specific role of individual actors. The analysis indicates that the main sources of the good transport solution are their suitable transport funcioning, evironmental assets and public support. First two sources are discussed in the first part of the thesis. The public support source is discused in the second part of analysis, dealing with the democratic discourse. The democratic discourse is identified as the framing discourse of the public discussion in general. Public participation and deliberation are considered both by politicians and NGOs to be...
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Awareness of freedom and risks in the terrorism era
Brandejsová, Michaela ; Kabele, Jiří (advisor) ; Tuček, Milan (referee)
My final thesis tries to analyze the consciousness of liberty and risks in the terrorism time. It deals the analysis of questions of the terrorism itself as well as the anti-terrorist measures and their impacts on the democracy, human rights and freedoms. The text focuses the risks on the rights and freedoms which are jeopardized with the argumentation of the security insurance. In the first part, the problems and questions of the terrorism itself is handled and its contemporary images and interpretations of the origins are discussed. Later, the risks connected with the terrorism are mentioned with the stress of its societal fear. The analysis of the anti-terrorist measures follows the line in the inhabitants security. In the second part of the thesis, there is the presentation of the results of the survey. The research with the university students in the Czech Republic focuses the legitimacy of the implemented programs and the reflections of evens connected with the problems of the terrorist threats. The author finds the result, that the legitimacy depends on the type of a particular anti-terrorist program. The university students tend to accept the "pasive" measures (like the control and camera in the underground, phone monitoring) and the programs of the "democracy export". On the contrary, the students...
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