In my graduation thesis I focused on discrimination based on personal circumstances among students. In the theoretical part, I explained the concepts of discrimination and personal circumstances. I listed the forms of discrimination that are practised and briefly described each one, and then went on to describe the manifestations of discrimination. I then presented my findings on how discrimination can also be practised through discourse. I presented prejudices and stereotypes as the main reasons for discrimination against people with personal circumstances, and described the consequences of discrimination and what the legislation is in this area. At the end of the theoretical part, I looked at the discrimination experienced by students in their study environment. In the empirical part, I presented the findings of my qualitative research. I conducted eight interviews with a non-randomised convenience sample. The questions were related to the definition of discrimination, experiences of discrimination, discrimination in the study environment, perpetrators of discrimination, the impact of discrimination on the study experience, reporting discrimination and contributions to reducing discrimination. I came to the conclusion that discrimination is very common both within the study environment and in other areas of an individual’s everyday life, as all participants had experienced discrimination. I found that different forms of discrimination are practised against students and that the perpetrators are also very different. It turned out that the participants in the study had developed different strategies to cope with discrimination, such as preparing for the discrimination, accepting the reaction, psychologically processing the personal circumstances, accepting the situation and realising that they had no control over it.
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