This diploma thesis deals with the problem of identity in the novel by contemporary Czech writer Pavel Brycz The Long Lost Glory of the Patriarchy. It emerges from the concept of identity as a process of understanding one's self, the meaning of one's life, one's awareness of his place in an individual image of the world. Based on analysis of characters we try to show how Pavel Brycz portrays various aspects of identity (national, personal, social, professional, gender). Structurally, the thesis is divided into two parts: the first one is devoted to the basic characteristics of identity and represents the generalization of various concepts of identity from the point of view of philosophy, psychology, sociology and literary theory; the second part deals with the analysis of the characters of Brycz's novel The Long Lost Glory of the Patriarchy, which shows that each character carries a certain distinctive identity.

The thesis deals with the identity of social work and social workers. It aims to describe a current perception of the identity of social work and social workers in the Czech Republic by social workers and the whole society. The thesis therefore reflects the current state of the identity and also mentions various influences on it, as well as impacts that result from this situation. In connection with this problem the thesis presents basic documents and institutions important for social work and social workers, as well as important figures in Czech contemporary social work or social workers typology. The thesis also includes a research aiming to describe the current perception of the identity of social work and social workers, both by social workers and the society, which in turn enables to compare these two perspectives.

Until the 1990s, the territory of the current Czech Republic has been predominantly seen as a place of emigration. Despite (or maybe because of) such a long history of emigration, the approach towards people who, for different reasons, left the country seems to be rather ambivalent up to the present day. The notion of emigration as a betrayal is appearing frequently, both in the existing academic literature as well as in the production of popular publications, movies or series and in a public discourse. This thesis is questioning the real perception of emigrants in the eyes of family members, who stayed in communist Czechoslovakia in between 1948 and 1989, defines the possible reasons behind the respective perception and examines the impact of emigration on the Czechoslovak, respectively Czech society. The majority of authors identifies the communist propaganda as the cause of the negative attitudes of Czechoslovak society towards emigrants. By analysing the approach towards emigrants and re-emigrants and situation after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 and by combining the opinions of two generations, the author of this thesis argues that the communist propaganda related to emigration had a considerable impact in the short-term perspective, but in the long-term perspective there are another strong factors contributing to the construction of the feeling of betrayal in relation to emigration.

The thesis has the character of theoretical-empirical, with particular emphasis on evaluating the orientation of youth growing up in the atmosphere of present-day secondary schools in the Czech Republic. The first part of the text focuses on defining the expressions of growing up, adolescence, social development, emotionality, identity, orientation of values and self-perception. And furthermore, different periods of adolescence are specified. Special attention is paid to social and psychological characteristics of adolescence. The last point in the theoretical part is the comparison of the determinant in the development of personality and its influence on the formation of values in adolescents who are growing up. In the practical part, the author uses the method of questionnaires and statistic methods for conclusive elaboration. The acquired information is used for the comparison of the values of first year and graduating students as in secondary schools, specialized secondary schools and technical schools. And furthermore, to determine whether the values of students could differ depending on the type of secondary school attended.

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The theme of the thesis is a description of socalled World People, who are considered to be a specific population characterized by an itinerant way of life, connected to certain professions, linguistic and cultural practices, traditions, and values. The first part of the study concerns the origins and use of the term World Person (světský). The second, historically oriented part describes the position of World People in society, as well as the semantic content of the term světský from post-medieval times to today. The third part deals with the history of professions that are somehow related to World People in the Czech lands. The fifth part notes the representation of World People in the media and literature. The primary aspect of the study consists of the results of fieldwork in which the author, using the method of recorded semi-structured interviews, treats the themes of identity and culture among respondents from the ranks of the World People. The final part poses the question of whether it is possible to categorize the World People in some way.

Práce sleduje dva základní cíle. Prvním cílem je pojmenovat a analyzovat teoretická východiska, za která jsou považována osvětlení a vymezení pojmů národní identita, nacionalismus a národní zájmy. Záměrem této časti práce je poskytnout základní teoretický rámec pro užívání těchto pojmů. Druhým cílem je analýza pravicové politiky (u etablovaných pravicových a krajně pravicových politických stran) s důrazem na vymezené pojmy, jejich používání jako aktivizačních témat a zmapování nacionálních tendencí mezi parlamentními volbami v letech 2002-2006.