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Public attitude towards parenting of homosexual individuals and couples
Vocílková, Andrea ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Hendl, Jan (referee)
The master thesis "Public attitude towards parenting of homosexual individuals and couples" deals with an attitude of Czech public towards parental rights of homosexuals and attitude of European public towards alternative family forms with focus on homoparental families. The topic requires attention as part of Czech legislators currently tries to pass the novella of Registered Partnership Act, which would enable homosexuals to adopt children of their partners; and with regard to the impact of public attitude towards homoparental families on these families. The current legislation concerning homosexual rights is described in the paper along with the up to now legislative process of submitted novella of the law. Also other ways of becoming parents besides the adoption of partner's child which homosexuals can use in the Czech Republic or elsewhere are presented. The thesis then focuses on adoption and assisted reproduction. Attitude of Czech public towards these parental rights of homosexuals is subject of own quantitative research, in which also predictors of this attitude and groups of people with more negative and more positive attitude than the rest of the population are identified. The following analysis of publicly accessible data shows the development of Czech attitude towards adoption of...
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Women in Motorsport - Decoration? Competition?
Mikoláš, Michal ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Kuchař, Pavel (referee)
This thesis deals with the issue of gender equality in motorsport. It aims to carry out two main tasks. The first is based on description and explanation of the current position of female racers in motorsport (are they considered a regular part of motorsport and do they constitute a competition for male racers, or are they just decorative anomalies?). Motorsport is one of the very few mixed sports. The second task is to answer the question whether it would be useful to establish separated women-only categories, which might attract more racers. The thesis consists of two key parts. The explanatory section of this text presents a theoretical explanation of the contemporary situation (using the theory of the lenses of gender). The empirical part is derived from expert interviews and interviews with top Czech female racers. The conclusion of the thesis is a compilation of findings provided by both parts of the text. The essential result is the need to preserve mixed competition which would be free of socio-cultural barriers which hinder the beginnings of women in motorsport.
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Flexible forms of work in the labour market of the Czech Republic. The case study of the function of offer and demand in the company
Svobodová, Martina ; Kuchař, Pavel (advisor) ; Tuček, Milan (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with flexible forms of work in the Czech Republic. After the short introduction of the history and theoretical frameworks, particular types of alternative work forms used in the Czech labour market are presented. Readers are faced with part-time jobs, flexible work hours, home office and other. Special part is dedicated to occupying of part-time workers who are employed in the mode of Contract of Services, which is specific for Czech labour market and is involved in flexible work forms in this text. The great part of this thesis occupies case study, which was held at headquarters of one Czech company and which provides view of function of flexible forms of work on the side of the employer and employees as well. Data analysis offers mainly information coming from perception of alternative working forms by their users, which means employees, but by provider as well. Emphasis is placed primarily on evaluation of motives which lead into implementing and demanding of flexible work forms and also their advantages and disadvantages. Readers can find in analytic part also profiling of group of employees working in alternative working modes. These profiles are built-up from the view of the character of employees positions and from their individual characteristics as well. It is also...
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Close Social Ties and their Role in Virtual
Burešová, Lucie ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Mitrenga, David (referee)
This thesis deals with the functioning of virtual communities in relation to social capital of their members gained in this environment. The issue of virtual communities is embedded in a broader discussion about the form of community life in modern society and about the impact of new media on social behavior, individual identity and association. Attention is paid to linking the virval environment with the real environment through offline meetings and how this affects social ties between users and life of community. Based on the case study of specific community formed around game-literary server www.darkage.cz, thesis analyzes the influence of close social ties between users on the functioning of the community within its evolution in time.
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Do we have our Czech yuppies or bobos?: Searching for two specific lifestyles
Burianová, Anna ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Kuchař, Pavel (referee)
Diploma thesis discusses yuppie lifestyle and its successor bobo lifestyle in the context of postmodern transformation of society. Through the construction of weighted additive index of yuppie and bobo lifestyle the study is asking whether the young, economically active Czech population tends to these ways of life, or even has their representatives, to what extent they meet the American image of yuppies and bobos, which is their socio-demographic profile and mutual relationship. These questions are examined twice, in 2001 and in late 2011 and 2012, so we can observe development of these two lifestyles in terms of Ingelhart's transition theory from materialist to post-materialist values . The thesis shows that we can find a group of people professing the whole set of yuppie atittudes and also a group that is with some reservations similar to bobos. Detected high rate of closeness of both lifestyles, however, leads to a redefinition of purely materialistic yuppies for the Czech environment and to identification of yuppie lifestyle with post-materialist consciousness. Bobos are permanently characterized only by university education, pos-materialistic yuppies also by the highest personal income and household income. Number of post-materialist yuppies is more than twice bigger than bobos, during the...
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Sananim in Prague 5 - a Point of Conflict
Drbohlavová, Barbora ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Kotík, Michal (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the conflict that appeared after a drop-in centre for drug users was opened in the street Na Skalce in Prague 5 in April 2010. Local residents and politicians expressed their disapproval with the activities of the drop-in centre in the area that they defined as residential. The opposition based their arguments against drug services near recreational and educational facilities on the values of home, family, private property and perceived feeling of security. The primary conflict of local residents versus drug service providers was based on processes of ascribing negative characteristics to the group that was identified as unwanted in the community. Stigmatization and labelling of drug users were associated not only with drug users, but also with social workers who offer treatment and help to drug users. The data were collected from media messages and analysed by methods of the grounded theory.
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Cafe as the Third Place: A Case Study on Mamacoffee Vodičkova
Slaběňáková, Barbora ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Kotík, Michal (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the phenomenon of cafés. It portrays cefés in the context of history, when they were perceived as places of public discussions, and in the context of the present day in framework of theory of third place by Ray Oldenburg. The term 'third place' describes particular type of public places which serve as a basis for informal public life. Their main function is socialization. And they are physically separated from home and work environment. The text presents a case study of café mamacoffee Vodičkova, which was implemented with the help of the method of participant observation completed by non- standardized interviews. One aim of this research was to specify the characteristic functions of mamacoffee Vodičkova and how the café's guests use them. Another aim was to find specific signs of the third place in this particular case and determine whether it may be marked as the third place. Research shows the café as a multifunctional space, that serves as a place for socialization and work and which therefore fulfils certain attributes of third place (atmosphere, socialization, communication). However it would not be labelled as the third place according Oldenburg. The text offers possible view on author's concept, where it emphasizes socialization function of third place, and...
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Estimation of the election results by respondents and its usage
Červinková, Monika ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Hendl, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis "Estimation of the election results by respondents and its usage" discuss the methods of predicting the election results based on election expectations of individuals and shows how people form their expectations and how exact these expectations are. First short summary of existing methods of election results predictions and its limitations is presented - it also deals with pre-election surveys and its ambitions to predict the election results. The rest of the thesis focuses only on the prediction of the election results based on election expectations of individuals: prediction markets and aggregated estimations of respondents. Concept Wisdom of Crowds, from which both approaches originate, is presented together with concrete examples of application of the predictions based on opinions of prediction markets participants and respondents of the pre-election surveys. Results of the foreign studies confirm that the prediction markets predict the election results very well and with higher accuracy than the pre-election surveys. Current studies also positively evaluate the estimation of the election results done by respondents. Respondents are usually able to predict the election results, even several weeks before the elections. Last part of the thesis is based on my own quantitative...
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Success of school leavers in the knowledge society
Úlovec, Martin ; Kuchař, Pavel (advisor) ; Tuček, Milan (referee)
The thesis concentrates on unintended consequences of putting emphasis on education in the current society and their impacts on labour market success of school graduates as well as on fulfilment of employers needs from the perspective of occupying job positions in accordance with the demographic aging of the population. The thesis is trying to answer the question, if education has an adequate influence on the social mobility as it was in the recent past. The author is also trying to suggest possible solutions of the situation occurred on the labour market from the viewpoint of the qualified labour shortage with lower educational level, especially in the secondary sector. Possibilities are seen in the consistent assertion of the LLL conception, increasing the relevance of the education content and adapting to the changing requirements of qualifications through of cooperation between schools and employers. Last but not least the thesis also draws attention to the need of relevant information about the labour market development and chances of graduates to find a job in the chosen field.
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Civil Involvement in Prague and Motivation of Citizens for Political Participation
Myslivečková, Michaela ; Tuček, Milan (advisor) ; Kandert, Josef (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with civil society in three chosen parts of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. It deals also with civic involvement and political participation of its Citizen and their motivation for that. Thesis aims to show that civil society is not so weak as it is always supposed for post-communist states and it shows that Citizen of Prague are able for mobilization and political participation. The thesis presents the overview of the development of voter turnout in the Czech Republic in different types of elections, in the rate of voter participation and civic activities and citizenship initiatives. Civic and political involvement and motivation are identified through interview made with district councilors in three chosen parts of Prague.
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