This qualitative research employed the single case study approach to review the process by which service users and the staff of a food bank successfully broke through the bureaucratic resistance and secured new premises from the City of Montreal. This study explores the capacity of weaker parties to achieve their desired goal through strategic intervention on social exchange network despite the pre-existing asymmetric power relations. The conception of goal attainment, power relations and social exchange were discussed in order to develop the research questions. Case materials were collected from multiple sources: documentary research, in-depth interviews, and observation. The findings demonstrate that internal solidarity, potential uses of coalitions and expansion of resource networks are fundamental factors for members of a subordinate group to gain power and to achieve their goals. Implications for community organization practice were drawn from the overview of the empirical findings and theoretical concepts.

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<p>Over the past 20 years, primary students' knowledge in biology, physics and chemistry has deteriorated. The reasons for this are many, including students' attitudes to NO, curriculum, quick social change but also pedagogues work. The purpose of my study is to see what obstacles and opportunities practicing teachers have in their teaching and how it has affected their students. I want to investigate what apprehension teachers have about what the causes of the deterioration of knowledge is. The study was conducted at a secondary school in central Sweden where 5 teachers, 3 men and 2 women, were interviewed about their perceptions. My results show that students' performance is influenced by factors at three levels: 1. in the classroom they are directly affected by the teacher, society, resources and students' own presumptions, 2. at the local level by school management and the municipality and 3. at the national level, by the society and parliament with school policy decisions. Teachers felt that the effects from all these three levels were reasons why students' skills have deteriorated. For the students to assimilate NO teaching the teachers must gain a common pedagogical foundation in education and all students must be given equal opportunity to achieve their goals. This is something I will take with me in my future role as teacher, students just need different levels of support and resource.</p> / <p>Under de senaste 20 åren så har grundskoleelevernas kunskaper försämrats i biologi, fysik och kemi. Orsaken till detta är många, bland annat elevers attityder till NO, kursplanen, snabba samhällsförändringarna men också pedagogens arbete. Syftet med min undersökning är att se vad praktiserande pedagoger har för hinder och möjligheter i sin undervisning och hur det har påverkat eleverna. Jag vill också undersöka vad lärare har för uppfattningar om orsaken till den försämrade kunskapen. Undersökningen genomfördes på en högstadieskola i Mellansverige där 5 lärare, 3 män och 2 kvinnor, intervjuades om deras uppfattningar. Mina resultat visar att elevers prestationer påverkas av faktorer på tre olika nivåer: 1. i klassrummet påverkas de direkt av läraren, samhället, resurser och elevernas egna förutsättningar, 2. på lokal nivå genom skolledning och kommun och 3. på nationell nivå genom samhället och riksdagen med skolpolitiska beslut. Lärarna ansåg att påverkan från alla dessa tre nivåer var orsaker till varför elevers kunskap har försämrats. För att eleverna skall kunna tillgodogöra sig NO-undervisningen måste lärarna skaffa sig en gemensam pedagogiks grund att stå på i undervisningen och alla elever måste ges samma möjligheter att uppnå sina mål. Detta är något som jag kommer ta med mig i min framtida roll som lärare, elever behöver bara olika mycket stöd och hjälpmedel.</p>

Mémoire (M.Ed.)--Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1995. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Doctorat en sciences psychologiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Follow-up implies a renewal of contact for the purpose of further study; a scientific method used for testing theoretical formulations. In the many social sciences dealing with human beings, the hypotheses concerning cause and effect of human behaviour are continually changing. These hypotheses must be tested if progress is to be expected in the understanding, prediction and control of illness and maladjustment. [...]

Darbo tema: Sociologo profesijos įvaizdis (LEU akademinės bendruomenės atvejis). Temos problema, aktualumas ir naujumas. Nors sociologijos mokslas Lietuvoje dar palyginti jaunas, tačiau jo pastangos diagnozuoti socialinę realybę susilaukia vis didesnio visuomenės dėmesio. Sociologų darbo rezultatų pateikimas visuomenei tapo kasdienybe. Beveik nebeužduodamas klausimas, ką eilinis gyventojas žino apie pačią sociologiją? Kaip patys sociologai vertina savo vietą visuomenėje? Tačiau sociologai šiuos ir kitus klausimus turėtų užduoti ir analizuoti nuolat dėl refleksyvumo, kurį pabrėžia garsiausi pasaulio sociologai. Sociologas tyrinėja visuomenę, kurios dalis pats yra. Todėl, kaip ir daugeliui kitų socialinių mokslų atstovų, sociologui kyla būtinybė išlikti objektyviam, apmąstyti savo veiklą ir veiklos rezultatus. Nors sociologai yra paskelbę mokslinių publikacijų apie sociologijos istorijos tyrimus Lietuvoje, sociologijos studijų Lietuvos aukštosiose mokyklose temomis, atlikta šalies sociologų darbų suvestinė. Tai yra svarbus indėlis sociologijos refleksijos srityje, tačiau vis dėlto mūsų visuomenėje stokojama dėmesio pačiai sociologijos sričiai bei šioje srityje dirbantiems profesionalams. Šiame magistro darbe bus atskleisti mažai tyrinėti temos aspektai: koks yra suformuotas sociologo profesijos įvaizdis LEU akademinėje bendruomenėje – tarp sociologų ir ne sociologų. Bus bandoma išaiškinti, kokie sociologo profesiojos įvaizdžiai vyrauja tarp studentų ir dėstytojų. Tad darbo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Work topic: sociologist profession image (the case of Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences academic community). Problem, importance and newness. Despite the fact that sociology in Lithuania is still quite a young science, more and more attention is being paid to its trials to identify social reality. Providing the society with the results of sociologists has become standart. However, the question what an ordinary citizen knows about the sociology itself has not been raised. How is the sociology place in the society evaluated by sociologists themselves? This question, however, should be posed because of continuous reflection emphasised by the most famous world sociologists. Sociologists investigate the society whose part they are. This is the reason why a sociologist should remain objective, reflect on their activities and their results as representatives of any social sciences has to. The sociologists have declared academic works on the findings of the history of sociology in Lithuania, social studies in Lithuania high schools; also, the summary of Lithuanian sociologists works has been completed. Inspite of the fact that all those achievements is a great contribution to sociology reflection field, there is still too little attentiveness to the sociology field itself and to professionals working in this field. This master paper has covered the aspects of the topic which have not been well analyzed: a sociologist proofession image in LUES academic community –... [to full text]

This study records an attempt to apply feminist epistemology to the conduct and communication of social science research, specifically of the Badgley Report. When I began, I wanted to understand why and how mainstream social science research persists in evading feminist analysis of the problem of child sexual abuse, despite agreement on incidence and perpetrators. I also wanted to find ways of producing knowledge that did not either evade nor postpone voicing the truths of women's and children's experiences of child sexual abuse. I have learned that commitment to a feminist framework requires critical consciousness of all aspects of the processes by which knowledge is constructed, including the relationship and interaction between the writer and reader of research. Thus, what I have attempted to do in this thesis is to communicate feminist research processes through both the form and the content of my report.

Pouvons-nous être réalistes et dire le vrai en sciences humaines, lorsque nous étudions nos façons de penser, de faire sens, de nous comporter ? Habituellement, les SH donnent à cette question une réponse métaphysique en se fondant dans la réalité et la vérité des choses qu'elles examinent vues comme spécifiquement humaines. Mais nous n'attendons des SH qu'une étude de la compréhension humaine, et en cela elles ne sont que des activités ordinaires utilisant le langage. Notre question doit donc être posée dans le langage ordinaire. Cependant, à considérer que sens et compréhension ne sont que des usages, on est enclin à considérer tout savoir à ce propos comme relatif à une situation ; la vérité peut alors être considérée comme relative, et les SH comme irréalistes. Nos sciences méritent une autre voie autorisant un usage réaliste de ''vrai''. Je soutiens que ceci peut être trouvé dans une philosophie du langage ordinaire qui partage avec les SH la même matière première : le sens, la compréhension. D'Austin elles peuvent hériter sa conception non-essentielle de ce qui apparaît comme réalité dans la signification ; de Cavell, l'analyse de la compréhension dans notre accord dans le langage ; de Diamond, une solution à la question du réalisme en le prenant en considération dans nos attitudes. Pour illustrer ces usages de ''vrai'' en SH, je propose une lecture de Foucault montrant sa manière de rechercher une attitude réaliste. En conclusion, je décris comment les SH doivent être vues comme des pratiques : non pas dans un espoir de vérification, mais dans l'acceptation de leur dépendance à nos usages de ''vrai'' et à nos attitudes.

In modern society the care and rehabilitation of the crippled and disabled is one of the primary problems of human welfare. With advances in the medical sciences, has come the knowledge that many conditions, previously considered untreatable, can be improved by adequate treatment, and that individuals suffering from physical handicaps can be helped to self-sufficiency, and enabled to live useful, productive lives in the community. [...]