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Paper Agora: The Samizdat Periodical Vokno and the Provincial Czech Underground in Historical and Social Perspective
Tharp, Martin ; Maslowski, Nicolas (advisor) ; Rulíková, Markéta (referee) ; Kilias, Jaroslaw (referee)
Dissertation Abstract Paper Agora: The Samizdat Periodical Vokno and the Provincial Czech Underground in Historical and Social Perspective Martin Tharp, Department of Historical Sociology. The present work takes as its central subject a Czech samizdat publication, the magazine Vokno, primarily during its years of illegal operation, i.e. from 1979 until 1990, considered within the wider context of civil and cultural resistance to the oppressive social order of European state socialism. It treats Vokno as an instance of social action amid state forces inimical towards it, discussing the interplay and interaction of oppositional practice and the forces it opposes, both of state authority and more subtle ones of state cultural hegemony. It is argued that Vokno formed an attempt at a "counterculture" in the late 20th-century sense of an impulsive critique of a regimented modernity, yet within its immediate conditions was necessitated to assume three specific forms: as an aesthetic sub/counterculture, as a social network with differing levels of involvement and connections (whether to established intellectual dissent or to other social strata), and finally as a conscious oppositional social movement.
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The influence of nobility on the shaping of polish nation
Szopová, Natalie ; Maslowski, Nicolas (advisor) ; Kilias, Jaroslaw (referee)
The goal of this essay is to illustrate what was the role of Polish nobility and its culture in the process of forming the Polish nation. The Polish nobility and its culture have been seen as unique in comparison to other European countries. Based on estimates of various researchers, the nobility in the Polish society at that time oscillate between 9-10 %. This fact had to form an extraordinary influence when creating a nation-wide Polish culture. We will focus our attention on the formation of the noble democracy itself, with regards to myth and tradition of Polish nobility. According to Walicki, not only the noble democracy had a strong influence on Polish patriotism, but also romanticism. We will mention the basic concepts of the formation of the nation as well. The purpose of this thesis is then to observe the early stages of the formation of the Polish nation. With regards to the importance of nobility culture, 19th century had a principal significance. In these times, we can see a modernization of some of the key elements, which are an inheritance of the nobility. These have then been absorbed and have become part of the new nation-wide culture. In conclusion, we will also introduce the longest lasting elements of noble culture and their presence in Poland during the 19th and 20th century....
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Belarus on the Crossroads of Twentieth-Century: Historical and sociological comparative analysis of social change in Soviet Belarus and Western Belarus in 1921-1939
Badzevich, Dzmitry ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Kilias, Jaroslaw (referee)
IN ENGLISH Author's name: Bc. Dzmitry Badzevich. School: Charles University, Prague Faculty of Humanities. U Kříže 8 150 00 Praha 5. Program: "Historical sociology". Title: BELARUS ON THE CROSSROADS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY: HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL CHANGE IN SOVIET BELARUS AND WESTERN BELARUS IN 1921-1939. Consultant: Doc. PhDr. Jiří Šubrt, CSc. Number of pages: 106 + attachments. Number of attachments: 3. Year: 2012. Key words: Capitalism, communism, social change, social structure, society,economy, urban and rural economy, industry, law system, government institutions, education, religion, ideology, family, every day. This thesis describes the processes of social changes inside social structure in contemporary Belarus, which has developed by different ways during the interwar years in 1921-1939. Combination of two theoretical concepts like "ideal types" (Parsons's AGIL and Sztompka's typology of the process of social change) have been defined terminology and methods of operation for analyzing and comparing. First part focuses on the history of Belarusian land before1921. The next part describes structural development of Western Belarus in Poland and Soviet Belarus in Soviet Union in the years 1921-1939. Last part has been explained the research of compares the...
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