The diploma thesis focuses on attitudes towards euthanasia and summarizes the influential factors for its evaluation. It is crucial to understand these predictors in the context of the ongoing public debate on its legalization. The content of the theoretical part is a brief definition of used terms, an overview of some countries with legislation allowing assisted dying and its alternatives. There is a part devoted to methodological aspects of research and consistency of attitudes. The empirical part presents a research that is focused on the impact of individual factors on the level of acceptability of euthanasia in hypothetical cases. The factors examined were mainly type of disease, type and degree of suffering, type of euthanasia, person performing euthanasia, age of the patient, prognosis of their disease, respondent's country of origin and respondent's personality characteristics. Demographic correlates were monitored and respondents answered additional questions about the cases. The results show a significant difference in evaluation between the type of euthanasia and the person involved in the process. It also depended on patient's age and life expectancy. Moral evaluation also varied significantly in comparison of the country of origin, political orientation, and respondent's religiosity....

By using indirect method of analyzing standard questionnaire, we can assess the approach of the students to the Physical Training. The DIPO-J questionnaire was used at secondary schools in disctrict of České Budějovice. The questionnaire consists of sixty questions dividend into six dimensions according to the approaches. A particular numer of points is assigned to each reply. Then we can compare the results among the surveyed schools according to the sex and also these results can be compared to the previous thesis on the same theme. The questionnaire is focused on students` approach to the Physical Training as a required subject at secondary shools. These approaches reflect the Physical Training teachers as a object and subject of the education process. We can view from the obtained results the current situation of the Physical Training education and we can consider if there is need to change it.

The thesis deals with the theme of morality and racist attitudes towards Roms. The theoretical part is focused on describing the development of studying the phenomenon of morality, especially on intuitionistic theory (eg.:. J. Haidt). Next on moral emotions, namely disgust, and their influence on individual judgment in a social situation. And on attitudes to other racial groups. The intention is to refer to theories that assume influence of emotions on moral judgment, as well as the activation of attitudes. In the practical part was examined moral dilemma situations rating among 142 respondents, while their disposition to the perception of disgust and their racist attitudes. By the research was proved that people evaluate the situation as more immoral if there is participant with different ethnicity, depending on their perception of disgust. Direct relationship between evaluation and racist attitudes was not proven. The conclusions are in detail discussed in the thesis.

The aim of this work is to analyze the dynamics of attitudes towards the European Union in the Czech Republic on the basis of the data file from the project "Aktér", which has been realized by the Department of Sociology Faculty of Arts since 1999. In recent years, public euro-skepticism in attitudes of the population of all EU member countries has emerged. The same for the Czech Republic, as evidenced by periodic public opinion surveys (eg Eurobarometer and CVVM). The European Union is perceived negatively by the efforts to intervene in the affairs of nation states. On the other hand, EU brings many new possibilities and opportunities but they are accepted and used selectively. Specific socio-demographic, economic and political characteristics of people differentiate the perception of the European Union. This work reveals whether the skepticism towards the EU is universal phenomenon in the Czech Republic or whether there are population groups that are consistently positive towards a united Europe, and why. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Trends and patterns of reproductive behaviour in Germany, Austria and Switzerland Abstract The main goal of this diploma thesis is to analyse fertility trends in the (former) German Democratic Republic, the (former) Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Switzerland after Second World War to 2010 and attitudes of population of the countries above towards parenthood and the changing roles of men and women. German-speaking countries belong to countries with long-term low fertility level, however each country has its own specific reproductive behavior due to historical development. Analysis of fertility is focused on describing the trends of the number of live births and the proportion of children born outside marriage, total fertility rate, cohort fertility, fertility rates by age and the mean age of women at childbirth. Attitudes of respondents towards parenthood and the changing roles of men and women were analyzed based on international survey, European Values Study 2008, by statistical methods - chi-square test and factor analysis. Further, the thesis deals with family policy in German-speaking countries with a focus on current measures. The main findings of this thesis are summarized in the final chapter.

The thesis deals with the the attitudes of young Catholics of the Diocese of Ceske Budejovice for learning and practice of the Church. The theoretical part of the work contains an overview of the currents of pastoral theology, the definition of the term pastoral theology, its competence, subject, objectives and methods. It also defines the concept of youth and reflects its pastoral in history and now. The practical part contains research on the attitudes of young Catholics for learning and practice of the Church. Here is an introduction to the research method chosen for this work and the research description. It also includes case and comparative analysis and basic characteristics of individual respondents. The final part of the thesis is the pastoral-theological evaluation of the research.

The aims of this work are to determine how the education affects attitude to parenthood, real behavior and the way how affects the attitude to parenthood and real behavior in the context of education in last two decades. The theoretical part summarizes knowledge of Czech sociologists. Answers questions how and why the parenthood in Czech society has been changed and influenced by accomplishments of individuals. According to Czech scientists since 1989 the economical change of society, the change of personal values and combinations of this two factors are causing differences in parenthood. The first analytical part is description of real development in birthrate complemented by diagrams. Second analytical part takes a look on female education according to family behavior.The analysis explains that the different family behavior of women is divided according to their education, resulting to the number of children, and in some extent, to their marital status. The third analytical part is based on a quantitive data analysis and is focused on attitudes of different education groups. In this analysis were used data from the ISSP Family (1994, 2002, 2012). It use the percent chance frequency and contingency tables, factor analysis and multivariate regression. The main topic investigates the development of...

The thesis addresses attitude changes towards environmental problems. It looks for the factors that affect the attitude change and compares their importance. With regard to particular factors it suggests how to work more efficiently on changing the attitudes. The theoretical part gives an overview of environmental education. It follows its history in the Czech Republic and abroad, and describes its current objectives, topics and methods. It also discusses today's Czech public perception of environmental issues. The key chapter of the thesis addresses attitudes. It describes their formation, structure and basic functions and most importantly the circumstances under which they may change. With the help of literature, it defines eight fundamental factors that act to attitude change, and finds examples in environmental education. At the end of the theoretical part, recommendations are offered on what tools we should focus when trying to change attitudes. The research part presents the inquiry among selected environmental education centres' staff. It figures out how they work with the issue of attitude changes and how they take advantage of their clients' feedback. In the first place, it uses their experience to find the most important factors in attitude changes . The conclusion compares the findings...

TITLE: Phenomenon of disability and its image in the print media AUTHOR: Lenka Opočenská DEPARTMENT: Department of Special Education SUPERVISOR: Mgr. Lenka Felcmanová ABSTRACT: The thesis "The phenomenon of disability and its image in the print media" aims to find out how periodicals framed chosen topic of disabilities in one year. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the typology of models of disability and the definition of disability from different perspectives. The third chapter provides an overview of how the media shape the attitudes of society. The research section concentrates on how the media has framed newspaper articles and whether terminology changes were reflected in the media. KEYWORDS: Disability, models of disability, attitudes, framing, print media

The main aim of this thesis is defining employee loyalty in its entirety and describing the concept of employee loyalty based on a qualitative research. The concept has been proposed by using theoretical knowledge, semi-structured interviews and qualitative method of thematic analysis with a partial process of grounded theory. The concept corresponds to the main research questions, and therefore formulates a theoretical definition of employee loyalty, loyalty aspects, and implications and possibilities of influencing loyalty within organizational processes. The results obtained illustrate the relationship between the job satisfaction and employee loyalty. The job satisfaction affects building and maintenance of a loyal employee relationship with the organization, but it could be also the consequence of such loyal relationship. The aspects of employee loyalty can include: personal skills, satisfaction, reciprocity of investments in the relationship, interpersonal trust, sharing of similar values and beliefs, experience, positive attitudes and desires, moral background, clear expectations and mapping of potential changes on both sides, knowledge of mutual goals, willingness to put common goals above individual ones, own responsibility towards common goals, mutual faith in the relationship, form of...