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Social meaning of physical exercise presented by some of the Czech women's magazines
Semotánová, Adéla ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Řezáčová, Vendula (referee)
The subject of the thesis is meanings of the physical exercising presented in the Czech women magazines, which I explored through qualitative content analysis of the articles focused on exercising. Three relevant frames or research areas emerged from foreign literature, which became the frames of the analysis: value of the exercise related to the body, the exercise as possible social field and gender level of these practices. I was specifically interested, if the exercise is presented as activity that helps to create socially disciplined body or individually restituted body for personal needs. Or if the exercise creates specific social field - sphere with specific relationship, rules and capital and if the gender is an important factor, connected to the presentation of the exercises in magazines, focused on women. The results show that the exercise is activity that creates the restituted body so as the disciplined body. It is not possible to define, if it is specific social field. The articles content so positive indications as those, which do not comply with the social field definition. Ideal femininity and ideal woman body should be reached by exercising. This ideal woman identity varies from reader's identity, which magazines define as "common" woman. The gender is an important factor that has...
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Social meaning of physical exercise presented by some of the Czech women's magazines
Semotánová, Adéla ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Řezáčová, Vendula (referee)
The subject of the thesis is meanings of the physical exercising presented in the Czech women magazines, which I explored through qualitative content analysis of the articles focused on exercising. Three relevant frames or research areas emerged from foreign literature, which became the frames of the analysis: value of the exercise related to the body, the exercise as possible social field and gender level of these practices. I was specifically interested, if the exercise is presented as activity that helps to create socially disciplined body or individually restituted body for personal needs. Or if the exercise creates specific social field - sphere with specific relationship, rules and capital and if the gender is an important factor, connected to the presentation of the exercises in magazines, focused on women. The results show that the exercise is activity that creates the restituted body so as the disciplined body. It is not possible to define, if it is specific social field. The articles content so positive indications as those, which do not comply with the social field definition. Ideal femininity and ideal woman body should be reached by exercising. This ideal woman identity varies from reader's identity, which magazines define as "common" woman. The gender is an important factor that has...
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The development of the sociological leisure research from the 60th of the 20th century up to the present in the Czech society
Semotánová, Adéla ; Sládek, Jan (referee) ; Duffková, Jana (advisor)
This work describes the development of the leisure research in the Czech society and compendium of the significant publications about this theme. The fundamental part is preceded by the summary of the progress of the human-being relation to the time category, including leisure, and short note about time sociology. It is followed by the list of the famous world literature about this time dimension. Next chapter is dedicated to theoretical resource of the research. The chapter focused on the Czech research, begins by the description of methodological issues of the research and by the description of the factors influencing on the leisure (home facilities, working hours…). The description of the research is divided into two main complexes according the time of origin - first part dwell with the time from the 60th to 80th, second part from 90th up to now. In the conclusion is the summary of the findings and the recommendations to the leisure research.
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Satisfaction with conditions of living at the place of residence
Veselský, Michal ; Semotánová, Adéla
Within April survey CVVM investigated how were informants satisfied with living conditions at their place of residence. More than two thirds of respondents were satisfied, 22 % wasn‘t satisfied nor dissatisfied and only 8 % were dissatisfied. Respondents were also asked to evaluate particular conditions influencing the standard of Living at their place of residence. People were most satisfied with installation of gas, electricity, water and with sewerage (93 % „certainly + rather satisfied”) and 88 % were satisfied with disposal of municipal waste. These two were followed by relations among neighbours (77 %), stores and services (76 %), cleanness of the streets (73 %) and the environment (72 %). The worst evaluated aspects were the level of wages (67 % „certainly + rather dissatisfied”), job opportunities (69 %), building up of new flats (51 %) and the quality of roads (38 %).
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