The thesis deals with problems of lifestyle in context of increasing of consumption and manifestations of consumerism in leisure behavior of young generation. The work attends to characterization of lifestyle and leisere time and consumerism and the main marks of the world of contemporary youth, lifestyle of young generation and factors of lifestyle. The last chapter of theoretical part deals with phenomenon of boredom, leisure consume and leisure activities. The practical part deals with leisure activities and consumption of population.

The dissertation deals with the position of information and communication technologies in the lifestyle of the Czech society and the changes occurring in relation to these technologies. First of all, the basic conceptions of information and knowledge society are described and identified. In the next part, lifestyle is defined from theoretical and methodological standpoints for the concept to be operationalized for further analysis. In the analytical part, the author uses the results of a series of representative quantitative empirical research, in which she participated, examining, through the typical indicators, the place of information and communication technologies in the entire population, the pace of implementing the technologies, and the differences in various demographic groups using the technologies. The last part of the dissertation includes an empirical construction of lifestyle based on the two factors which are considered fundamental (leisure and values), also presenting an analysis, in the framework of different lifestyles, of specific aspects in making use of the information and communication technologies.

The second half of the 19th Century was a remarkable period in the history of the transformation of Istanbul's Pera district, which can also be detected in the history of its western type theatre buildings, passages, cultural activities, district regulations, planning and establishment of other public and private spaces. The scope of the study will focus on the period between the announcement of the Edict of Gulhane (1839) till Second Constitutional Era (1908). I have chosen the Pera district, also known as Beyoğlu/Taksim for this case study, because it had quite specific functions in the city. It had hosted various ethnical groups throughout its long history, which was also the case in the middle of the 19th century, and the cultural harmony influenced the district's social life. I intend to test this hypothesis by applying Charles Landry's creativity city concept with Pera's cultural district at the end of the thesis. I will apply the aforementioned concepts and examine the remarkable modern type constructions of the district and their history. I will show that gradual growth of the amount and intensity of interactions between the West and the Ottoman Society created a cultural infrastructure, which in turn created a cosmopolitan area in Pera. Social and daily life started to change with the...

The political and economic changes of the past three decades exercised varying effects on the lives and prospects of young people in Hungary and the Czech Republic. The destructive outcomes of the countries' struggle with the hardships of the global economic crisis pushed many of them to leave their countries and try their chances elsewhere over the past few years. Even though, the prevalent migratory fluxes of Europe may generally be characterized by the Westward movement of a group composed of predominantly young Central and Eastern European men and women, my two countries of research display diverging migratory tendencies. While today's Hungary advocates the threat of emerging as a country of emigration, the Czech Republic's population inflow outrules its emigration, making it gradually turn into a country of immigration. In my research, I wish to reveal the specificities of Hungarian and Czech migratory tendencies and their underlying social and economic reasons. Ultimately, my aim is to provide an understanding of the evolution of current migration tendencies in Hungary and in the Czech Republic, as well as their potential long term effects on the two countries' social and economic structure. KEY WORDS Emigration, immigration, youth, unemployment, poverty, education, work, European Union, free...

Summary This diploma thesis focuses on seniors living in the home environment. In this work, I focused on descriptions of the leisure activities that today's seniors devote and I want to address to the problems of the old people they deal every day. I have also described the seniors of risks seniors and the basic terms with which we can meet in the senior's issue. The aim of the work was to find out what activities are seniors doing in their free time and whether their leisure time is sufficiently fulfilled. I also wanted to compare the hobbies of seniors from small and big cities. I learned from my research how todays seniors spend free time and what are the obstacles on spending their free time.

(in English): This thesis is contribution to history of everyday life, cultural and regional history, and is more specifically focused on spending leisure time in years 1918-1938. It presents history of Mšeno in era of The First Republic, forms of spending free time and lifestyle of czech society in provincial town, specifically residents of town Mšeno, all based on socio-historical analysis. Work is oriented on cultural, social and associations' life in town and also on sports activities and tourism. Free time is considered as non-working hours of everyday life, but mainly organized group activities are taken into account. Work is divided into multiple sections, each viewing spending of free time from different angle, specifically winter and summer season, celebrations and associations' activities.

Last decade of society development brought numerous essential changes, which are reflected in the forming of working time. This work tries to give comprehensive view on the progress of working time forming and development (its division and separation, working hours length variation) with the emphasis on unconventional (flexible) methods of working time planning and their usage in contemporary society, that is now more often and required. In final chapter there is brought closer the development of legislative conception of working time in Czechoslovak and Czech legislation.

The diploma thesis deals with the issue of sport and doing sports as a high-quality content of free time. The first part of the work characterises terms such as free time, doing sport in free time (recreation sport). It is focused on the influence of spending free time actively and on the effect of sports on the lifestyle of the individual and his life. The second part deals with the term offer of the sport activities, it characterises the particular subjects working in the area of free time in town Jičín and it tries to chart offers of the free time sport activities which are created by these subjects. The third part focuses on media and its function in society, the term advertisement, it also follows up the use of media by the particular subjects which make the offer of the free time sport activities.

This master thesis deals with the leisure time activities of pupils of second degree of primary school in selected locations of microregion Bystřicko and České Budějovice. The diploma thesis analyses selected leisure time activities in both locations and it explores the relationship of leisure time activities and their clients ( in this case the pupils of second degree of primary school). The thesis emphasize on the question, whether the pupils can take use of the possibilities that are available in the given region or not. The author presents both of chosen regions in the theoretical part, specifies the most important theoretical terms and analyses layout and diversity of leisure time activities in selected regions. A separate chapter is the relationship between leisure time activities and risk behavior of teen-agers. The output of the master thesis will be recommendations in the area of propagation of leisure time activities in selected regions and increase of the attractiveness for the target group.

This work treats about before/after shool clubs educational programmes key competences classification and work out. In its theoretical part, the work aims at before/after school club´s characterization, role, function and its objectives´ definition. There is marginally before/after school club documentation mentioned as well. In more details, it pays attention to school eductaional programme that is worked out by before/after shool club. The work points out connection of before/after school club´s educational programme with elemntary school´s educational programme. There are highlited several attitudes to incorporation of key competences into the document ? is it obligation, or not? Different ways of key competences development in before/after school club are introduced here as well. The field part is aimed at particular processing of key competences in before/after school clubs´ school educational programmes in the whole Czech Republic. The documents were clasified into several groups according to their classification profundity and according to their key competences´elaboration. Further, the work is aimed only at the third group, exploring the key competences´ content, style and porcessing extent. The shortcomings in connection between particular activities and developed competences are in this work pointed out as well.