The Committee of 100 (C100) (1960 – 68) were a British anti-nuclear protest group who campaigned for mass non-violent direct action (NVDA) in an effort to force the government to revise its defence policy. The formation of C100 created tensions with the already-established Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), whose leaders objected to C100's commitment to civil disobedience. The two anti-nuclear campaigns had some membership overlap but always remained separate. Until now, any investigation of C100 has been incorporated within wider studies of CND or has been quantitative in method. This thesis therefore addresses a historical gap by employing a life history approach to examine C100 as a distinct group. Drawing upon oral history interviews with twenty-four C100 members the resulting analysis reveals new aspects of C100's innovative structure and method, and identifies the particular nature of those who joined the campaign. A new image of first wave anti-nuclear activists emerges when focusing on C100 protestors. The respondents reveal motivations for campaign engagement that contrast with those of earlier representations of CND supporters. They were inspired by a common interest in global civil rights concerning human health and survival and a need to actively challenge rather than merely petition the authorities. Significantly, many C100 members came from left-wing, progressive or anarchist backgrounds. They were an erudite group with regard for knowledge, despite many putting conventional education on hold to fully engage in the campaign. This thesis examines C100's libertarian nature, and the extent to which its membership managed to be anti-hierarchical in structure, ethos and policy. It explores tensions within C100 concerning limits and definitions of NVDA that changed over time and came to radicalise the campaign. A biographical approach also reveals significant factors around C100 prison experience concerning issues of class and gender. This thesis serves to situate C100 for the first time in its own right on the socio-political map, both historically and globally.

This research examines the social use of the Internet at the level of specified online users in conservative Arab societies, who are called in this thesis online lead users. These specified lead users are the ones who are influential in shaping the innovation processes due to their leading role of practice in finding solutions to their needs and problems they have experienced before the emergence of online social networks such as the lack of public sphere and independent civic organizations etc., which led them to utilize the Internet as their new public space to pursue their goals through their online initiatives and collective actions to apply the social change they seek for their societies under the existence of society social norms and censorship. The research has been carried out as mixed-method study, the gathered data done through means of quantitative and qualitative methods, and the chosen country to conduct the research were Saudi Arabia. A survey questionnaire link were distributed among the targeted online lead users in the country under study, and the author chose three cases form the country under study for the qualitative part. The research sought to examine to what extent society social norms and censorship influence online lead user's expression and behaviours, and their effect on the formulation of their online activities and collective actions, and analyzing the characteristics of online lead user's. The significance of this study lies in the fact that it contribute to the gap in the literature on the use of Internet in conservative Arab societies by providing insight into the roles that social norms play in influencing online behaviour, particularly in communities that are seeking to discuss social issues or mobilize collective action, and analysing online lead users characteristic to distinguish between conservative and cosmopolitan ones using the Right-Wing authoritarian measurement.

Esta dissertação tem o intento de averiguar qual o tratamento dado pelo gênero notícia aos eventos de violência e preconceito contra os nordestinos brasileiros. A escolha deste gênero deu-se devido ao seu pertencimento às elites simbólicas, ou seja, por possuir alto poder de produção e de disseminação discursivas. Em virtude disso, o critério de seleção do corpus baseou-se em notícias que trazem em seu interior a(s) voz(es) da violência e do preconceito, por veicularem, consequentemente, discursos ideológicos. Como perspectiva teórica, esse trabalho filia-se à Análise Crítica do Discurso, buscando, especificamente, em Norman Fairclough os princípios analíticos norteadores. Para este pesquisador, o discurso produz três significados, quais sejam, o significado acional, o significado representacional e o significado identificacional. Com o intuito de depreender estes significados das notícias, a análise baseou-se, respectivamente, nas seguintes categorias: estrutura genérica, representação de atores sociais e modalização. Como resultado, a análise, de base qualitativa, demonstrou que os sentidos produzidos pelas notícias, majoritariamente, buscam reverter o quadro de discriminação que os nordestinos ainda sofrem em função de determinantes históricos. Assim, a mudança social e cultural proposta por Fairclough, com vistas a minimizar a representação assimétrica de minorias sociais- os nordestinos, neste caso- só será alcançada quando os discursos ideológicos que promovem essa representação tornarem-se explícitos para a sociedade / This thesis has the purpose of investigating which treatment is given by the news genre writers to the events of violence and prejudice against the people from the Brazilian Northeast. The choice of this genre is due to its belonging to the symbolic elites, ie, due to its high power of discursive production and dissemination. As a result, the selection criteria of the corpus was based on news stories that bring the voice of violence and prejudice, for they transmit, consequently, ideological discourses. This work draws on Critical Discourse Analysis, looking specifically at Norman Fairclough's analytical guiding principles. For this researcher, discourse produces three meanings, namely the actional, the representational and identificational. In order to infer these meanings from news, the analysis was based, respectively, on the following categories: general structure, representation of social actors and modality. This qualitative analysis showed that the meanings produced by the news, mostly, seek to reverse the discrimination that the people from the Northeast still suffer due to historical determinants. Thus, the social and cultural change proposed by Fairclough in order to minimize the asymmetric representation of social minorities - the Brazilian Northeastern people, in this case -, will only be achieved when the ideological discourses that promote this representation become explicit for society

Ce travail de thèse vise à présenter un certain nombre de tendances et de points de tensions nés ou mis à jour à Cuba à la suite de la période spéciale en temps de paix que l'on peut définir comme une crise économique et sociale d'une ampleur considérable ayant frappé ce pays à la suite de la chute du camp socialiste au début des années 90. Pour ce faire, nous nous centrons sur l'expérience de musiciens qualifiés « d'ordinaires » évoluant dans la capitale, La Havane. C'est ainsi à la lumière du quotidien de ces artistes qu'il nous sera possible de comprendre et de saisir la profondeur de cette crise et des fortes redéfinitions qu’elle met en jeu. Il s’agit de voir les conséquences des moyens mobilisés par le régime socialiste cubain de façon à sortir de cette impasse économique et sociale tout en préservant les acquis sociaux de cette révolution, base de sa légitimité populaire. Seulement, si à terme les réformes engagées (massification du tourisme, progressive mise en avant de comportements économiques libéralisant, double circulation monétaire...) ont permis un redressement économique certain, elles ne vont pas sans questionner, voire entrer en contradiction avec les discours, prérogatives et modes de vie valorisés par le pouvoir. Nous verrons ainsi de quelles manières un certain nombre de tensions, issues de ces changements (entre un passé idéalisé et un futur incertain, entre l’image de l’authentiquement cubain et celle du non-cubain, et enfin entre le nous révolutionnaire et les projections individuelles) sont traités par ces musiciens, particulièrement sensibles au décloisonnement de l’expérience cubaine. Dans leur manière de s'auto-définir en tant qu'artiste, dans le regard qu'ils portent sur leur trajectoire et leur métier, nous verrons que ces individus procèdent à un bricolage, à une négociation identitaire incessante visant à conférer à leurs actes un sens que la réalité sociale et économique a rendu trouble.La vie et les pratiques professionnelles de ces derniers, les moyens qu’ils mobilisent pour lutter et tenter de vivre de leur musique illustrent à notre avis la société cubaine dans son ensemble, marquée par une grande ambivalence, par le besoin « d’inventer » de nouveaux moyens de subsistance et la nécessité d’assembler des éléments en décomposition ou émergents. / The aim of this research is to provide a number of trends and areas of tension that have emerged or evolved in Cuba after the « special period in peacetime », which can be defined as the most considerably developed social and economic crisis that has struck this country, as a result of the socialist camp collapse in the early 90’s. In order to achieve this, we focus on the experience of musicians seen as ordinary in the city of Havana. It is thanks to the observation of artists in action in their everyday life that we will be able to understand and to capture the depth of this crisis and these large redefinitions it causes. The purpose is to define the consequences of the means that have been mobilized by the Cuba's socialist system in order to get out of this social and economic impasse while safeguarding the social benefits of this revolution, based on its popular legitimacy. If in the end the reforms (the massification of tourism, the gradual increase of liberalizing and economical behaviors, and the dual circulation of currencies...) allowed an economic recovery, they lead to a questioning and entering into contradiction with speeches, prerogatives and ways of life valued by those in power. We will see how areas of tension, emanating from changes (between an idealized past and an uncertain future, between the picture of the genuinely Cuban and non-Cuban, and finally between the people of the revolution and the individual who has his own project) treated by these musicians, especially sensitive to the « decompartmentalization » of the Cuban experience. We will see that these musicians, in the way they define theirselves as artists, in their concept of path in life and profession, effect sweeping changes, constantly negotiating questions of identity to ascribe meaning to what they do in this confused, social and economic reality. In their life and professional practices, the means allocated to fight and to try to make a living with music show in our opinion the Cuban society in its entirety marked by a great ambivalence, the need to find new means of subsistence and to bring these decomposing or emerging elements together.

O presente trabalho tomará por objetivo, através de uma revisão bibliográfica temática e pesquisa em banco de dados, uma contribuição para o Programa de Pós-Graduação em Mudança Social e Participação Política (PROMUSPP), radicado na Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades da Universidade de São Paulo, ao oferecer uma leitura geral e introdutória sobre a temática da mudança social e um panorama de autores recorrentes, tidos como referência neste campo interdisciplinar recentemente relido e em constante construção. Tendo em vista que, no âmbito do PROMUSPP nenhum estudo tenha proposto tal iniciativa, cremos estar no tempo, momento e local apropriado para tal. Neste sentido, será apresentada uma síntese teórica de caráter introdutório sobre o tema da mudança social como objeto científico de estudo / Through a literature review and data research this work aims to contribute to the Post-Graduate Program in Social Change and Political Participation (PROMUSPP), of School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities of University São Paulo. It will provide a general and introductory reading on the theme of social change, and an overview of recurrent authors, taken as a reference in this recent, and in constant construction, interdisciplinary field. Considering that, in PROMUSPP, no study has proposed such initiative, we believe being on the time and appropriate place to do so. In this sense, will be presented: a brief history on the subject of social change as a scientific object of study and a mapping of modern authors who have addressed the \"social change\" theory on their research

Comparativement à la somme des travaux accumulés dans les pays occidentaux, les recherches sur les réseaux personnels sont encore rares en Chine, malgré l’importance des relations interpersonnelles dans ce pays. La recherche présentée dans cette thèse avait pour objectif de répondre aux questions suivantes : est-il possible de transposer dans une ville chinoise une méthode complexe d’analyse de réseaux personnels utilisée entre autres à San Francisco et à Toulouse? Etant donné le poids important des familles dans la vie sociale de ce pays, observe-t-on des spécificités fortes dans la structure et la composition des réseaux personnels, ou au contraire, assiste-t-on à une convergence des structures relationnelles (du moins dans les couches sociales moyennes et en milieu urbain) avec celles observées dans les pays occidentaux ? Au-delà, comment les caractéristiques des réseaux sont-elles liées aux situations sociales des enquêtés (sexe, âge, niveau d’études, etc.) ?La thèse repose sur une enquête originale effectuée auprès d’une population des couches moyennes urbaines de Chongqing en 2014-2015 en adaptant la méthode des générateurs de noms qui avait été utilisée à San Francisco et Toulouse. Les résultats de l'enquête de Chongqing sont suffisamment cohérents avec les enquêtes prises comme exemple pour convaincre de la faisabilité de ces comparaisons. Cependant, ces résultats montrent également des différences. A Chongqing, les enquêtés ne citent pas plus de membres de la famille que dans les autres enquêtes, mais ils les citent en priorité pour la plupart des questions. Si le niveau d’études est le facteur qui explique le mieux les variations de la taille des réseaux personnels dans les enquêtes de San Francisco et de Toulouse, la profession et le revenu sont plus importants à Chongqing. / Compared to the sum of work accumulated in Western countries, research on personal networks is still rare in China, despite the importance of interpersonal relations in this country. The research presented in this thesis was aimed at answering the following questions: Is it possible to transpose a complex method of analysis of personal networks used in San Francisco and Toulouse to a Chinese city? Given the higher importance of families in the social life of this country, do we observe strong specificities in the structure and composition of personal networks, or on the contrary, there is a convergence of relational structures (at least in the middle social strata and in urban areas) with those observed in Western countries ? Beyond that, how are the characteristics of the networks linked to the social situations of the respondents (gender, age, level of education, etc.) ?The thesis is based on an original survey of a population of urban middle classes in Chongqing in 2014-15 by adapting the name generator method that was used in San Francisco and Toulouse. The results of the Chongqing survey are sufficiently consistent with the surveys taken as an example to convince the feasibility of these comparisons. However, these results also show differences. In Chongqing, respondents did not cite more family members than in other surveys, but they cited them as a priority for most questions. While education is the factor that best accounts for the variation in the size of personal networks in the San Francisco and Toulouse surveys, occupation and income are more significant in Chongqing.

As propagandas estão presentes hoje em praticamente todos os meios de comunicação, e nelas a recorrência de temas ambientais é cada vez mais notável. As chamadas propagandas verdes constituem importantes elementos das estratégias de marketing que muitas organizações utilizam para difundir mensagens de compromisso e preocupação com a natureza e o ambiente, e que são veiculadas junto aos apelos para o consumo de suas marcas e produtos. Esta dissertação, que é uma pesquisa e uma reflexão acerca do significado e da amplitude do greenwashing, procura fazer uma análise crítica do discurso das propagandas ambientais e de suas ideologias, discutindo de que forma seus conflitos éticos ajudam a produzir um cenário favorável à manutenção de valores culturais e socioambientais insustentáveis, e ao contrário do que diz a propaganda. Com base em levantamento feito nas produções e pesquisas realizadas por diversos outros autores, foi elaborada inclusive uma matriz de referências teóricas que permite a identificação do greenwashing veiculado pelas organizações. E com os pressupostos metateóricos que essa matriz fornece, foram analisadas propagandas nacionais veiculadas na mídia impressa ou eletrônica nos últimos anos. / Advertising can be found in almost all kinds of media, and among that the increasing occurrence specifically of green advertising is remarkable. The so called green advertising is an important element of marketing strategies used by many organizations to spread their messages of worries and commitment about nature and the environment while, at the same time, promote their brands and products for sale. This dissertation, which is a research and also a reflection about the meaning and occurrence of greenwashing, makes a critical analysis of discourse of green advertising and its ideology. It reveals their ethical conflicts and how they help to produce a favorable scenario to keep social and cultural values actually unsustainable, on the opposite way of the advertising claims. It was proposed a sinoptical matrix of theoretical references from previous authors which can be used to identify greenwashing. According to the meta-theoretical conjectures provided by this matrix, several cases of recent advertising were assessed.

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