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Social project case study focused on migrants
Kalinová, Klára ; Podaná, Zuzana (advisor) ; Mazák, Jaromír (referee)
In this thesis, I am focusing on the integration of Christian refugees who were transported to Jihlava in the Czech Republic thanks to the endowment fund G21. In the theoretical part of my theses, I am dealing with the issues related to migration and integration of refugees in the Czech society and I am focusing, in particular, on the Czech legislation dealing with this subject and on migration politics at the municipal level. Furthermore, I am dealing with particular resources used by the endowment fund 21 to integrate refugees into society. In the second part of my thesis, I included interview with the organizers of this project, reasons why the above mentioned refugees are provided with help and lastly real-life accounts related to the adaptation of refugees in Jihlava. The goal of this thesis is therefore to offer a comprehensive view of the matter of integration of refugees in a smaller city such as Jihlava and raise awareness of potential issues related to it and to find out what specifically would have to be done in another way so that the integration process is successful in this case.
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Sociocultural problems of mass tourism in European context
Šimůnková, Petra ; Sládek, Jan (advisor) ; Mazák, Jaromír (referee)
The goal of this bachelor thesis is to show, how does the tourism industry affects social and culture aspects of local communities and how it affects life at those places in general. For analysis, I have chosen three destinations - Venice, Barcelona and Iceland. Venice is an exemplary case which shows us how much can sociocultural problems escalate. In a case of Barcelona and Iceland we can find different approaches in dealing with this phenomenon and also ways how do these problems emerge. Despite culture differences of those places, we can find some similar patterns - for example mobilization and activation of local civil society. The second part of the thesis is based on results of the survey, which reveals opinions on mass tourism in Prague city centre. Key words: tourism, mass tourism, touristification, authenticity, travel, sociocultural problems, Venice, Barcelona, Iceland, Prague.
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Carnism as an invisible ideology: We do (not) have a choice.
Dupláková, Alexandra ; Vandrovcová, Tereza (advisor) ; Mazák, Jaromír (referee)
This thesis deals with the concept of carnism. Carnism is an invisible ideology that allows people to eat only some animals that are artificially presented to them as edible (the remaining are not edible), and that helps them overcome the unpleasant feelings caused by the consumption of these animals in order to secure its place in society. Author of this paper first examines the historical and socio-cultural context of evolution of the perception of meat in society and reveals predominantly cultural and religious influences on the clasification of animals as edible and non-edible. In the next chapter she explains character of carnism, of which main features are universality, use of violence and invisibility. Author finds that by using these and other defensive mechanisms, carnism, as a dominant ideology, replaces values with its own. Finally, author addresses the risks that carnism may cause and analyzes solutions that could improve the situation in the society. Key words: carnism, meat, edible and non-edible animals, cognitive disonance, defense mechanisms, ideology, veganism, society
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Attitudes of Czech public towards smoking regulations
Pavliš, Vít ; Vinopal, Jiří (advisor) ; Mazák, Jaromír (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis was to analyze the attitudes of Czechs towards the justifications of smoking regulations in general and towards the specific smoking ban in restaurants. General attitudes were examined through a questionnaire survey based on liberalist theoretical concepts of J. S. Mill, R. E. Goodin and T. M. Pope. This created the framework for a more thorough interpretation of the attitudes towards the smoking ban in restaurants, effectove since the end of May, 2017. The results can help us understand the limits of the conflict between personal freedom and public health policies as well as help us describe public opinion not only on the existing ban but also on potential further regulations. Smoking restrictions can be justified in the attitudes of Czechs by the general understanding of the harm principle. Consent on personal freedom limitation increases if smoking causes harm to someone else. Medical findings point to the loss of autonomy of smokers caused by the addiction. However, Czechs tend to rather disagree. Disagreement with smoking restrictions also relies on rejecting the restriction of personal freedom to smoke or not to smoke as well as the freedom of enterprise. Therefore, the main finding is that there is a need for a comprehensive understanding of attitudes towards...
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Migration crisis and nationalism
Kreisinger, Jonáš ; Lupač, Petr (advisor) ; Mazák, Jaromír (referee)
The goal of this paper is to explore media discourse on migration crisis from the perspective of nationalism studies. Nationalism is here understood as an ideology. Nationalism manifests itself as national identity. Ideology is conceptualized in the paper according to the theory of Althusser. As a research method was used discourse analysis. The analyzed data are from the first half of September 2015. The research shows that nationalism is a crucial term to describe the situation that is called migration crisis. Nationalism is shown in the perception of migrants, in two national identities according to opinion on migration crisis and also in a relationship to international coordination of solving migration crisis - in this case the EU. Migration crisis is a crisis for the nation to be solved. Migration crisis is a way how nationalism reproduces itself as an ideology.
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Targeting of political marketing on Czech websites: comparative study
Novák, Ondřej ; Sládek, Jan (advisor) ; Mazák, Jaromír (referee)
Practical character of the thesis is focused on the targeted political marketing of the Czech political parties in the 2014 elections. The research was solely focused on the communication of the parties through the social network site Facebook and communication of selected political parties was subjected to a content analysis. Political parties propagation in other areas than thru mentioned social network was not subject of this thesis even though the segmentation of the electorate was elaborated on the base of the research "Naše společnost" (Our Society) from June 2014. The aim //nebo main goal// of the thesis is to determine the primary methods and techniques, which were used by the selected parties in their communication with voters. The important finding is, that some well-established parties of liberal- democratic character get with their propagation in the segments of the electoral market, which was formerly dominated mostly by the protest parties and movements. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The Comparison of Selected Social Movement Organizations
Kotálová, Marie ; Mazák, Jaromír (advisor) ; Sládek, Jan (referee)
Title of the Bachelor's Thesis: Comparison of Selected Social Movement Organizations Abstract: This bachelor thesis compares the social movement organizations on the basis of the resource mobilization theory. In relation to the resources, organizations use various strategies. Aim of this thesis is to identify similarities and differences in the strategies that organization use in relation to selected resources. This thesis focuses on material resources, human resources and the Internet. The theoretical part introduces the issue of civil society and civil society organizations. The largest part is devoted to the theory of resource mobilization, including the specification of individual types of resources and followed by a description of selected organization strategies. In the empirical part is made a comparative analysis of selected social movement organizations. To achieve the objective it was chosen a method of semi-structured interviews with representatives of selected organizations. Key words: Civil society, social movements, resource mobilization, material resources, human resources, Internet, fundraising, commercialization, professionalization
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Political bias: a content analysis
Jarochová, Erika ; Lupač, Petr (advisor) ; Mazák, Jaromír (referee)
This thesis aims to chart political bias in the news coverage during the election campaigns in years 2006, 2010 and 2013 in three the most widely read broadsheets in the Czech Republic. The thesis summarizes theoretical framework of political bias. Content analysis was used to analyze the newspapers. It was found that approximately two-thirds of the articles mentioning a political party are devoted to either ČSSD or ODS party, which both recieved komparative amounts of coverage. The newspapers reported on political parties mostly positively. The main finding of this thesis is that most of the articles discussed the two largest political parties.
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Comparison of Juvenile Delinquency in the Czech Republic and Germany
Mazák, Jaromír ; Podaná, Zuzana (advisor) ; Buriánek, Jiří (referee)
This Master thesis explores delinquency of juvenile Czechs and Germans from seventh to ninth grade based on quantitative data. The data comes from an International Self-Report Delinquency study (ISRD-2), which is anchored primarily in the Social control theory (Hirschi, 1969/2002) and the General theory of crime (Gottfredson, Hirschi, 1990). Therefore, in the first section, attention is paid to these and other selected criminological theories; the other theories are mainly the strain theories and the cultural deviance theories. In the second section, the thesis deals briefly with the socio- cultural differences and similarities between the Czech Republic and Germany. The core of the thesis is the third, analytical section, which presents the findings of statistical analysis. A conclusion is reached that the theories studied are by far less contradictory than what the authors of the social control theory and the general theory of crime claimed them to be. It rather seems that the individual theories are complementary and often lead to the same predictions. Hypotheses are confirmed that some characteristics of the pupils` relation to their school are related to delinquency: Pupils who like going to school are somewhat less delinquent than pupils who do not. Pupils who play truant are substantially...
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Urban tourism and its social and economic aspects
Mazák, Jaromír ; Duffková, Jana (referee) ; Sládek, Jan (advisor)
This thesis is divided into two parts, a theoretical one and a research one. The theoretical one deals with selected issues of modem mass tourism with emphasize on urban tourism and its social and economic aspects. The selected issues are city marketing, congress tourism, security in tourism, forms of tourism with increased social risk and sustainable tourism. The research part is based on interviews with tourism experts from municipal authorities of Prague and Hradec Kralove. The objective of the interviews was to demarcate the major features of the municipal authorities' tourism policy with emphasize on the aforementioned theoretical issues and to compare the policies ofthe two cities.
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