Socio-cultural meaning of non-professional activities in consideration of theatre

The purpose of this degree work is the description, characterizion and analysis of non-profesional art activities in consideration of the theatre. The central theme is the socio-cultural meaning of these activities. In first part of the text, the author defines art as the socio-cultural phenomenon. Because, on one hand, society and culture influence art and on the other hand, art influences society and culture. This degree work also deals with the applied research on infant aesthetic activities, which proves that the non-professional art activities has positive influence to a life style, process of socialization, creativity and relation to art and culture. ln second part of the text, the author defines professional and non-professional theatre, describes contemporary situation and conditions of non-professional theatre and statistical data. In connection to this description, the author deduces the socio-cultural meaning of non-professional theatre. The ma in puprose of this work is the rationale why it is neccesery to support, cultivate, reflect, structurally deal with and study non-professional art activities