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Personal responsibility and justice: How do Czech adolescents understand dilemmatic cornerstones of history

TYRLÍK, Mojmír and Petr MACEK

Basic information

Original name

Personal responsibility and justice: How do Czech adolescents understand dilemmatic cornerstones of history

Name in Czech

Osobní odpovdnost za své jednání a spravedlnost: Jak souasní etí adolescenti vnímají klíové dilematické události eské historie

Name (in English)

Personal responsibility and justice: How do Czech adolescents understand dilemmatic cornerstones of history

Authors

TYRLÍK, Mojmír (203 Czech Republic, guarantor) and Petr MACEK (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Actes du colloque International Citoynneté, Justice & Psychologie, 2005

Other information

Language

Czech

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/05:00014775

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

justice; responsibility; social representations; adolescents
Změněno: 15/4/2010 11:18, doc. PhDr. Mojmír Tyrlík, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

In adolescence, child should build new social relations and develop social skills. The adolescents own experience as well as the transmitted experience of others enables her/him understand the situations with which she/he is faced and enables one to plan her/his actions. The communications of shared experience establish common understanding of life-situations within a group (Markova, 2003). These semantic and symbolic structures - we can relate them to Moscovicis social representations (Moscovici, 1984) - provide individuals with general and dynamic, history based and experience based frame for their opinions and believes. The adolescents are not passive when they are developing the representations of events that happened many years ago. The historical events and terms are seen and discussed from the present point of view with respect to actual experience. Our research has aimed to find and explain how adolescents understand questionable part of Czech history. Seven groups of Czech adolescents (aged from 16 to 25) were presented with dilemma - real life-story of a man who varied between position of victim to communist regime and position of evildoer in fifties. This dilemmatic situation has addressed both concept of responsibility and concept of justice. We used the thematic analysis (Tyrlik, Macek, 2002) in order to find social representations, which originate opinions and actions of adolescents. We found three multidimensional thematic structures. All of them include evaluative dimension but differ in antecedent dimensions and just consequences. In the case of the first theme, preceding internal (personal) evil and awareness of tragic results of own behaviour result in necessity of punishment. The second theme consists of relation between personal admission of the guilt and the punishment/pardon. The third theme shows the pardon more acceptable in the case the offence was frequent at the age of fifties.

In English

In adolescence, child should build new social relations and develop social skills. The adolescents own experience as well as the transmitted experience of others enables her/him understand the situations with which she/he is faced and enables one to plan her/his actions. The communications of shared experience establish common understanding of life-situations within a group (Markova, 2003). These semantic and symbolic structures - we can relate them to Moscovicis social representations (Moscovici, 1984) - provide individuals with general and dynamic, history based and experience based frame for their opinions and believes. The adolescents are not passive when they are developing the representations of events that happened many years ago. The historical events and terms are seen and discussed from the present point of view with respect to actual experience. Our research has aimed to find and explain how adolescents understand questionable part of Czech history. Seven groups of Czech adolescents (aged from 16 to 25) were presented with dilemma - real life-story of a man who varied between position of victim to communist regime and position of evildoer in fifties. This dilemmatic situation has addressed both concept of responsibility and concept of justice. We used the thematic analysis (Tyrlik, Macek, 2002) in order to find social representations, which originate opinions and actions of adolescents. We found three multidimensional thematic structures. All of them include evaluative dimension but differ in antecedent dimensions and just consequences. In the case of the first theme, preceding internal (personal) evil and awareness of tragic results of own behaviour result in necessity of punishment. The second theme consists of relation between personal admission of the guilt and the punishment/pardon. The third theme shows the pardon more acceptable in the case the offence was frequent at the age of fifties.

Links

MSM0021622406, plan (intention)
Name: Psychologické a sociální charakteristiky dětí, mládeže a rodiny, vývoj osobnosti v době proměn moderní společnosti
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Psychological and social characteristics of children, youth and families, development of the personality in the time of changes of modern society