The aim of my thesis is to discover what is the status of women in czech Association of anti- fascist groups (AAFG). I am interested in how gender affects and limits the participation of women within the movement. This thesis also aims to describe the inner workings of selected anti-fascist organisation. The theoretical part is devoted to show the concept of subcultural and social movement, which is the Association of anti-fascist groups (AAFG) part. I will also offer a gender perspective of the researches of subcultures and women's participation in them to the readers. The main part of the thesis describes selected methods of the research - especially semi-structured interview and semiotic content analysis - and their use in practice. This part of the thesis is at the same time devoted to the theme of ethical discussion of the research and research's self-reference of the researcher. Then this part analyzes the data and presents the findings resulted from the research. In this thesis I focus on the "revival" of the Association of anti-fascist groups (AAFG) and its possible impact of larger involvement of women.

Revolver Revue is a cultural periodical magazine founded in 1985. Initially, as a product of Czech underground subculture, of the former communist Czechoslovakia, Revolver Revue was deemed to be illegal samizdat material. After the transformation of the social and political environment in Czechoslovakia, Revolver Revue became a legal publication, and continues to be published today, in the Czech Republic. The following work is a study of Revolver Revue as a social phenomenon in which the author works towards capturing its main defining features and its developments over time, including it's noteworthy changes as well as the continuity which the organization has seen. Also focused upon are the specific social groups related to Revolver Revue, the specific institutions and the interaction of important actors involved, all perceived through a political and historical context. This work is centred around qualitative empirical research based on analyses of interviews and on the study of related documents. The approach taken to this study was heavily influenced by Grounded Theory.

The theses named Subculture of a tattoo, Content analysis of a magazine Inked is primary focused on the nowadays phenomenon of a tattoo, there then the whole development of this social subculture. The aim of this thesis is to sum up and analyse the term of subculture, to see in detail the historical beginnings and development of tattooing, to describe functions, motivations and the reasons of an actual act of a tattoo. The main focus will be set on the American lifestyle magazine Inked. I will try to analyse this printed media, which targets on the tattoo subculture, culture itself, style and art. This thesis will characterise the magazine and will basically follow the Inked in two year time period. Which are the years 2009 and 2010, my interest is focused in this theme agenda and its development during this period of time. The researching method will then be a quantitative content analysis. Key words: Tattoo, tattouage, subculture, history, phenomenon, skin, motif, colour, development, function, analysis, research, Inked, magazine.

This work deals with the phenomenon of tattoo in hardcore subculture. In the theoretical part it reflects the transformation of the concept of subcultures in his historical progress, with an emphasis on the concept of style in the connection of the Center of contemporary culture Studies and post subcultural theory, especially the writing of David Muggleton. The diachronic perspective, this work also deals with the phenomenon of tattoo and its functions and meanings to it in today's society ascribed. An integral part of the theoretical part is to describe hardcore only in terms of its progress in the USA and in Czechoslovakia or Czech Republic, but also in terms of the side of music and shared ideology, which is the main key featuring to this subculture. Concepts described in the theoretical part are then used in actual research, which is conducted by using qualitative methodology. Exploration aims to describe the meanings and functions of the hardcore subculture and determine whether they are content and motivation ascribed to tattoo influenced subcultural ideologies, or whether it is primarily an expression of the contemporary individualistic discourse. In this work tattooing is examined in terms of its individual nature with regard to the subcultural, or wider, societal context, which together...

The master thesis titled Ideologization and fragmentation of Skinhead subculture deals with historical background of Skinhead subculture genesis and with cleavages, that determinated its ideologization and fragmentation. Simultaneously it pays close attention to analysis of various branches of the Skinhead subculture. The first chapter of the thesis builds theoretical foundations of the research. In this chapter the terms culture, subculture and counterculture are explained. Accentutation is placed on common denominators as well as on differences in the definition of these terms. The second chapter of the master thesis deals equally with historical background of Skinhead subculture genesis and with subcultures with a significant impact on the formation of the Skinhead subculture. In this chapter the attention is focused on historical facts of political development in Great Britain after The Second World War, on subcultures popular at that time and on foundation of the Skinhead subculture. The third chapter of this thesis analyzes infiltration of the political ideologies inside the subculture and the following fragmentation of Skinheads. Research in this chapter is focused on the spread of extreme right-wing elements, foundation of the racist branch of the subculture and sequentially on the reaction...

To this day, literature has mainly been focused on the implementation of Circular Economy in the business sector, but as more and more nations adopt the approach of Circular Economy there is a need to further research the role of public agencies in this transition. The City of Malmö is seen as a progressive actor in the field of climate issues and has integrated sustainability objectives widely across the entire organizational culture. However, behaviors and understandings of sustainability are not only connected to organizational culture, but also to organizational subculture. To successfully implement sustainable and circular practices in a public agency there is therefore a need to understand organizational subculture. To initiate the transition towards a circular economy, the municipality of Malmö procured a contract in 2019 that gave the departments of the city an opportunity to purchase circular furniture instead of new. On this foundation, the purpose of this paper was to qualitatively explore what possible subcultures that exist in the City of Malmö and how subcultures can influence circular purchasing practices within a public agency. Empirical data was gathered from semi-structured interviews, individual Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument surveys and strategic documents from five of Malmö’s departments. By analyzing the collected data from the theoretical lens of organizational culture, subculture and Competing Values Framework, this study reached three major findings. Firstly, the study indicates the existence of several organizational subcultures within the City of Malmö, that in various ways influence circular purchasing practices within the municipality. Secondly, circular purchasing is not only affected by subcultural values but also individual values and understandings of sustainability. Finally, multiple barriers and motivators for purchasing circular furniture were identified, where the main barrier shows a cultural and physical distance between the umbrella organization of the municipality and the departments. 2.12.0.0 / <p></p><p>2.12.0.0</p>

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Skatteagerande är ett ifrågasatt beteende inom byggbranschen och det finns flera tecken på att aktörerna i branschen har ett skatteundandragande beteende. Detta ses i brottförendebyggande rådets publikationer samt i skatteverkets undersökningar. Tidigare forskning visar att det existerar yrkesgrupper med skillnader i kultur där asymmetri uppstår. Detta benämns för subkultur. Det finns olika faktorer som påverkar individernas skatteagerande och skattemoral negativt. Dock påstås det även att många ändå väljer göra rätt för sig. Attityder visar individens inställning till något. Syfte med denna studie är att med undersökning av attityder finna stöd för att det finns en subkultur inom byggbranschen. Studien har en abduktiv ansats och undersöker attityder inom byggbranschen till beskattning, myndigheter, lagstiftning konkurrenters agerande samt till byggbranschens skattemoral. Undersökningen av attityder har skett genom att intervjua fyra ägare. Intervjuer kompletterades med enkäter som skickades ut till flera olika företag inom byggbranschen. Resultat visar att det finns indikationer på att det återfinns ett mönster hos respondenterna som tyder på att det finns en subkultur i byggbranschen. I detta mönstret kännetecknas aktörerna framförallt av hög medvetenhet om rådande skattefusk som därmed bidrar till att de har inget val och väljer då att bryta mot normer. Studien undersöker en liten mängd aktörer som enbart utgör en del av hela populationen i byggbranschen. Därmed bör resultatet förstärkas med mer omfattande forskning. / Tax evasion is a questionable behavior in the construction industry and there are several signs that the actors in the industry have a tax avoidance behavior. This is seen in the publications of building council's publications and in the Tax Agency's investigations. Previous research shows that there are occupational groups with differences in culture where asymmetry occurs. This is termed subculture. There are various factors that negatively affect individuals' tax behavior and tax morale. However, it is also claimed that many still choose to do the right thing. Attitudes show the individual's approach to something. The aim of this study is to find support for the existence of a subculture in the construction industry with the examination of attitudes. The study has an abductive approach and examines attitudes in the construction industry to taxation, authorities, legislation, competitors' actions and to the construction industry's tax morale. The survey of attitudes has been conducted by interviewing four business owners. Interviews were supplemented with surveys that were sent out to several different companies in the construction industry. Results show that there are indications that there is a pattern in the respondents that indicates that there is a subculture in the construction industry. In this pattern, the players are mainly characterized by high awareness of prevailing tax fraud, which thus contributes to their having no choice and then chooses to break norms. The study examines a small number of actors that form only part of the entire population in the construction industry. Thus, the results should be reinforced with more extensive research.

Dissertation Abstract Paper Agora: The Samizdat Periodical Vokno and the Provincial Czech Underground in Historical and Social Perspective Martin Tharp, Department of Historical Sociology. The present work takes as its central subject a Czech samizdat publication, the magazine Vokno, primarily during its years of illegal operation, i.e. from 1979 until 1990, considered within the wider context of civil and cultural resistance to the oppressive social order of European state socialism. It treats Vokno as an instance of social action amid state forces inimical towards it, discussing the interplay and interaction of oppositional practice and the forces it opposes, both of state authority and more subtle ones of state cultural hegemony. It is argued that Vokno formed an attempt at a "counterculture" in the late 20th-century sense of an impulsive critique of a regimented modernity, yet within its immediate conditions was necessitated to assume three specific forms: as an aesthetic sub/counterculture, as a social network with differing levels of involvement and connections (whether to established intellectual dissent or to other social strata), and finally as a conscious oppositional social movement.

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