The present thesis focuses on the image of single-mothers in the selected mass media - that is to say the most read Czech newspapers. The thesis pursues several theories and the concepts such as mass media and their role in setting the agenda for public policy, the stigmatization of lone-parent families (single-mothers), the theory of social construction of target groups (Schneider and Ingram), the topic of lone-parent families and poverty, the feminization of poverty, and concept of social exclusion. The main aim of the thesis is to determine the description of single-mothers in the selected mass media and to find the links, namely between this broadly adopted picture and public policy. Thus, the thesis contains the basic characterization of the situation of single-mothers based on various statistic data, the above mentioned theories and concepts, the presentation of the analyzed newspapers and a detailed description of the method used for the research. The chosen method in the present thesis is the quantitative content analysis. It is the most suitable way to analyze a large number of texts originating from a longer period - which is exactly the case of this study. The texts were selected based on pre-determined keywords. The results of the research are presented in charts and tables - both- in the...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:406254 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Hlásek, Daniel |
| Contributors | Hejzlarová, Eva, Dobiášová, Karolína |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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