This diploma thesis is focused on the genesis of the stereotypical view of women in the media. Specifically the genesis of the ideal of beauty. The theoretical part explains the concept of stereotype, genesis and gender. It focuses on media stereotypes, gender stereotypes and ...

This work is focused on a religion tradition in the contemporary Czech Republic. The data ISSP 2008 are used for the analysis. The results from analysis show that it looks the problem with the religion is a "negative picture" that people have about it in the...

This work deals with the opinions and attitudes of physicians on their position in the current health care system. The main part of study examines how physicians perceive their role in the relationship with patients, and how they relate to interaction with them. The aim o...

My thesis will be aimed at origin and establishing of problem in team sports fans. Basic text for my thesis is used an article "Social problem as collective behavior" by Blumer (1971). This thesis will first focus on the theoretical aspects of the problem and th...

The aim of the diploma work is to describe attitudes and opinions of general public on the researched current social phenomenon, which is the popular Fifty Shades Trilogy, and to understand its significance for female readers and their positive attitude towards it. Therefore the&#x...

This thesis is focused on men who work in one of the most feminized occupation in the Czech Republic, on men working in kindergartens. These men disrupt the "normal" gender biographies, because they have chosen the occupation that is predominantly occupied by women. The&#...

The thesis focuses on the problematics of advertisement campaign which promotes vaccination againts cervical cancer. Specifically, the thesis deals with the way how the campaign uses hidden (bio)power and whether this (bio)power can influence individual. The research is composed of two parts...

This study is aimed at women who had chosen to give birth at the time of transfering births at homes to the hospitals. The thesis is focused on how the women felt during going through pregnancy and giving birth at home or in the hospital. The objective was ...

This paper deals with the conceptualisation of trust in sociological theory. It reflects in particular the approaches of two significant sociologists Anthony Giddens and Zygmunt Bauman. It also describes the process of modernization, under which was the trust transformed to the present ...

This thesis focuses on examination of the viewers of Czech soap operas, in particular one of them named Ulice. The main aim of this thesis was to find out which strategies of legitimization of their culture preferences those viewers choose and which one choose the critics...

The work focuses on the actual experience of unemployment. It examines whether this experience is different for men and women. The first part focuses on the current knowledge of the subject and in other parts of the description and analysis of custom research conducted in ...

The aim of this paper is to present the results of qualitative empirical research focused at the issue of natural birth from the emic perspective of contemporary Czech women. The research questions were formulated in order to understand what motivations women have to choose th...

This thesis deals with the process of the change of homosexual individuals who proceed from the process of coming-out, over establishing partnership relations to homoparentality. Within this process, a set of heterogenous networks is activated resulting in a change in the actors. I ...

The goal of this work is to find out if and how does one's consumption change with his/her change of social status. In particular, this work focuses on differences between status of students and university graduates. Both groups have their own specifics and therefore ...

The theme of Universities of the Third Age (U3A) and lifelong learning is relevant and current due to demographic aging. Projection of population aging predict growth in the number of seniors and the loss of people in the younger age cohorts. About this theme and about&#x...

The aim of this paper is to map and understand the reasons and motivations leading parents to refusal of compulsory vaccination and their personal experience with reactions especially of paediatricians who provide vaccinations. Part of the research question was focused on the profile&#x...

I analyze in this thesis changes in epistemology in ethnographic research. Postmodern and deconstructivist aproaches raise questions of scientific objectivity of cognition and complicate ethics of ethnogpraphic research. The subject of analysis in this thesis are text from W.F. Whyte and W.A...

This master thesis aims to present the basic assumptions of two different theoretical traditions of rational choice theory and critical theory and show how these different bases could be applied to the phenomenon of religion. Methodologically the work is based on document analysis ...

Thesis topic is "colonizer and colonized in works of art" thesis focuses on the relationship between colonizer and colonized in the first half of the 20th century in fiction.'s Used method of comparison, it is a comparative analysis of selected texts by authors. Curri...

The aim of the study was to describe the interconnection of vegetarianism and sexuality. I focused on specific experiences in relationships vegetarians and vegans. What are their lives, how their choice of food is reflected in relationships.