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Corruption mechanisms at Ukrainian universities
Maliukov, Hryhorii ; Mlynář, Jakub (advisor) ; Buriánek, Jiří (referee)
The corruption is a term which due to its negative characteristics can intervene into various spheres of human society on everyday basis and because of that, it attracts attention from the point of view of sociological research. Corruption as a phenomenon connected with abuse of power for own gain refers to obtaining privileges and material wealth, thereby gravitating to the structural area and is explained more often in the area of macrosociology, than in terms of sociological microanalysis. The objective of the thesis is to, using empirical research, understand corrupt practices which are happening at Ukranian universities and point out the intersubjectivity of the given practices in the light of social theory. The research of the corruption phenomenon is observed on the example of qualitative analysis of gathered semi- structured interviews with 7 Ukranian students. The interviews are subjected to interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), which individually observes the lived experience of an individual. The analysis of interviews itself takes place utilizing the computer program for qualitative analysis ATLAS.ti. The answers of respondents focus, in reconstruction of corrupt practices experiences, on the interaction plane in which the process of interiorization of corruption where the...
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Czechoslovak Jews in Israel after World War II
Šafirová, Lucie ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Mücke, Pavel (referee) ; Mlynář, Jakub (referee)
The following dissertation focuses on the Jewish minority in Czechoslovakia, which decided to emigrate to Israel in the post-war period. By combining historical-sociological knowledge of the context of the time and analysis of narrative interviews with witnesses, it captures how emigration from Czechoslovakia took place, reveals motivational factors leading to leaving the country, allows us to understand the role of the Zionist movement, associations and organizations. It outlines what the adaptation in Israel looked like and what areas were key to the witnesses in the new country. It captures the connection of emigrants to the country of origin. Key words Jewish minority, post-war period, Zionist movement, emigration to Israel, adaptation in Israel
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Video game playing as a component and factor forming an identity
Míka, David Tomáš ; Mlynář, Jakub (advisor) ; Šubrt, Jiří (referee)
Main focus of this work is to examine whether video gaming experience has an impact on a person's identity. As the impact has been proven during the personal practical research, this work further tries to explain how exactly these two variables - videogames and identity - corelate with each other. This work also tries to describe how exactly the gaming influence manifests within and upon a person's identity. These descriptions and explanations are often done through citing real quotes of casual to semi-hardcore gamers, gathered with self-made interviews. Main topics in this work are: change of identity, perception of reality, world knowledge and worldview, personal values and morality beliefs, strong and important relationships and human connections, memory recalling and lastly, media comparison. Keywords: video games, identity, Self, interview, impact and change, world perception, memory, immersion.
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Joke as an Expression of Collective Memory: Conjunction of Maurice Halbwachs' and Sigmund Freud's theories
Smyčková, Barbora ; Mlynář, Jakub (advisor) ; Šubrt, Jiří (referee)
(in English): The bachelor thesis is founded on the interdisciplinary connection of two classic scholars' approaches in psychology and sociology, in a broader frame the topic of collective memory. Specifically, it aims to theoretical application of thoughts of Sigmund Freud, introduced in his book Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, to the theory of collective memory by Maurice Halbwachs; thus explaining joke as an expression of collective memory. The paper shows an interdisciplinary relationship of texts by the mentioned authors and also discusses the possibility of supporting sociological theory of memory by thoughts of one of the most influential psychologists. In the first part, the concept of collective memory by Maurice Halbwachs is introduced. It is explained in sociological context and with consideration of the influences of linguistic social framework of the memory. Another connection of those two main themes is explained through the concept of unconsciousness, which is the main topic of the second part of thesis, together with Freud's ideas. The last part is dedicated to the very hypothesis about the possible explanation of the joke as an expression of collective memory. The elaboration of the theme is limited to theoretical analysis of the primary and secondary literature and...
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Conscience of the ecological crisis and its reflection in lifestyle
Mlynář, Jakub ; Suša, Oleg (advisor) ; Sládek, Jan (referee)
In this paper author makes an attempt to describe the development of the man - nature relationship in the Western thought and also the reflections of this problem, using the "domination of man over nature" metaphor. He concludes the problem of "culture versus nature" duality on the example of philosophical and historical research on the cultural basis of ecological crisis. He follows describing the birth of early conservationist movement (H. Thoreau, J. Muir), ecological ethic (A. Schweitzer) and transformation of this concepts into various fields: ecofeminism, social ecology (M. Bookchin) and deep ecology (A. Naess). Author reflects the position of environmental issues in the academic discussion as well as the incorporation of the ecological concepts into sociological theory (environmental sociology). In the final part of the paper the issue of individual life-style reflection of the environmental problems is opened, using the conception of "voluntary simplicity" (D. Elgin) or "postmaterial values" (R. Inglehart). The paper is finished with critical views on the "voluntary simplicity" phenomenon, the issue of "privatization of the ecological crisis" and commercionalization of the ecological lifestyle.
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The meaning of counter-revolution in two waves of thought
Jarolím, Lukáš ; Sládek, Jan (advisor) ; Mlynář, Jakub (referee)
Aim of this thesis is to understand the mening of word counterrevolution. It does so by analyzing and interpreting moder nand traditional thought, focusing namely on social dynamics and also analyzing authors, who belou to traditional wave of thought. They are authors who directly interpreted French revolution and then authors who continued thein work. Question about legitimacy of counterrevolution and about counterrevolution per se will be raised. Keywords: counter-revolution, revolution, order, conservatism, legitimacy
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Racial Socialization Strategies and Practises of Mothers Raising Biracial Children
Niklová, Olga ; Dudová, Radka (advisor) ; Mlynář, Jakub (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine racial socialization strategies and practices of white Czech mothers raising biracial black and white children. The research question is theoretically framed by critical race theory perspective. Data were obtained based on an exploratory approach through semi-structured interviews with ten mothers of underage children. Thematic analysis revealed some of the strategies, practices and concepts described in the Western societies. Also, distinct themes in the Czech context emerged, mainly due to the racial homogeneity of the Czech society. The main findings indicate an identification of specific racial socialization strategy connected to hypervisibility of the children, barriers mothers face in developing race related competencies and the absence of preparation for bias.
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Synthetic medium deepfake: blurring border between reality and fiction
Šmíd, Kristián ; Mlynář, Jakub (advisor) ; Richter, Eva (referee)
There is a lot of new amazing technological things which make our life much easier, which, at the same time, makes it harder for us to see the new things that make our living in this world more complicated. Synthetic medium deepfake gives you a power to manipulate reality in a way that a consumer of the medium will not recognize it was manipulated. To the world where we are used to see edited reality to the point where it often becomes the reality for us, this new medium brings another tool, much more powerful than any other existing tool, to make our perceived border between the reality and fiction even harder to see. Through the combination of synthesis of scientific literature focusing on media and its role in creating our ideas about reality, technical description of how the deepfake technology works and introducing empirical evidence of its usage, the goal of this paper is to describe the way, how this technology is shaping our perception of the reality. In conclusion, this paper finds deepfake medium approachable to big companies as well as to an individual, with a power to completely and realistically change an identity of a person not only in a recorded video but in a live video call, too. Thus, it has a potential to make us question the origin of basically whatever medium we see or hear,...
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The Image of Man in the Contemporary Society in the Thought of Byung-Chul Han
Jech, Martin ; Mlynář, Jakub (advisor) ; Skovajsa, Marek (referee)
(in English): The topic of this bachelor thesis is the reflection of contemporary late modern capitalist society and neoliberalism and forms of violence in society, as well as digital media. Within this framework, the main goal of the thesis is to depict an image of human individual as portrayed in the works of the contemporary author Byung-Chul Han. It is purely a theoretical work based on the detailed analysis of Han's essays and partly also the authors that Han builds on. Firstly, the bachelor's thesis deals with the macrosociological description of contemporary society, especially the transition from the so-called disciplinary society, based on various forms of negativity, to contemporary, so-called society of positivity and performance, which abandons all forms of negativity mainly to maximize Capital. In this general sociological framework, the image of the contemporary man as an actor in socio-economic relations is then presented, with an emphasis on his transformation from a subject to a self-exploiting project, which nowadays becomes a kind of new homo sacer whose life form is merely a bare life that must be preserved, vital and productive. This work also deals with the topics of the human body, beauty and interpersonal relationships, which are perceived against the background of the...
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Reflection of the Impacts of Social Change After the Velvet Revolution in Biographical Narratives
Corradi, Veronika ; Mlynář, Jakub (advisor) ; Dudová, Radka (referee)
This bachelor's thesis is focused on the reflection of social changes after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Data were collected by a combination of a biographical and problem- oriented interview. This thesis has a total of 10 interviews, all with women. Two main characteristics and conditions of this group of women are: 1. born between the years 1965 and 1972 in Prague, 2. live in Prague during the Velvet Revolution. Subsequent analysis of the interview was conducted in two steps. The first one was creating a story map. The second step was coding, which is used in grounded theory. Structural reading was also used during the analysis of the interviews. The outcome of the analysis is identification of six main impacts. Most of the impacts were connected to changes in personal life. Other impacts were related to the labour market and tech development.
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