Aspects of social solidarity in the perception of young people

This bachelor thesis deals with the attitude of the young generation to fulfil the principles of social solidarity in the Czech Republic. The main task is to record and map out the areas, where the marks of social solidarity appear, and to find out how the fulfilment is accepted by the young people. The first half of theoretical part is applied to characterization of social solidarity, its development and every single areas, where the principles are being fulfilled. The social solidarity plays an important role in the company and it is an import part of it. The solidarity is applied in the social security system, in health, education, living and family policy or is proceeding completelly out of public sector. The second part of theroretical part describes in greater detail possible ways of its implementation towards the certain groups. Three kinds of solidarity are presented in this work: obligatory, voluntary and intergeneration. The obligatory solidarity is realized through the social security system and the health care. The voluntary solidarity is realized mostly out of public sector and it is more valuable and better evaluated than the compulsory solidarity. The voluntary solidarity is applied on through the variety of charitable and non-profit organizations and we speak about formal kind of volunteering. On the other hand, informal volunteering is considered as acting when somebody relinquish of something or provides help to somebody else without having any reward expectations. Intergeneration solidarity was in the past comprehended as handing over values, standards, knowledge and experience in frame of family. Nowadays in view of the fact that the age of lives is getting longer and the population is rising, demand of intergeneration solidarity out of family is also rising. The volunteereing could be a good instrument for intergeneration learning. The practical part of this work describes the opinions of enquired respondents to fulfil the principles of social solidarity in the Czech Republic. To arrange all necessary information the quantitative form of investigation has been used. The method of questionaire has been applied. The number of 188 young people participated in this kind of research. The main task was to find out how the young people feel the fulfilment of social solidarity principles in practise. The partial goal was to investigate ? how the young people feel the compulsory and the voluntary solidarity towards chosen social groups. According to the research results, the young people perceive better the voluntary solidarity, however, mostly they take part in informal kind of volunteering. Formal volunteering, i.e. charity and non-profit organization activities are maximal supported by themselves as well. Regarding the obligatory solidarity it has been find out some differencies, especially by the social security system, where is by the way the solidarity of highearning ones with lowearning ones is being fulfilled. Two hypothesis were stated in this kind of research. The first one said that the voluntary solidarity will be better accepted by young people than the compulsory one. The second hypothesis assumed that the young people will feel the affirmative intergeneration demand. Both of them were confirmed on statistic basis. In my opinion, the young people feel the social solidarity system in the Czech Republic in positive way. Most of addressed respondents apply the solidarity towards single social group and furthermore feel affirmative the requirement of intergeneration solidarity realization. However, the results point out that there is slight disagreement with redistributive state policy. This work could help to understand better the relationship between young generation and the essential atribute of social citizienship. Eventually to identification of attitudes heading for restricting the redistribution rate towards the social needy individuals