Students with parents with different levels of education motivate their choice of Växjö University differently. They who have parents with at least three years academic studies motivate more frequently their choice with the program they are studying while those who have parents with lower studies are more inclined to motivate their studies with contacts and nearness to their hometown. I found this in a survey study with 201 respondents involved. The result was followed by interviews on respondents from the survey study. The interviewees were four women whose parents had different levels of education, two with parents with higher education and two with parents with lower education. The interviews were in this way limited to female students only. The conclusion is that the difference in how the students motivate their choice of Växjö University can partly be explained by the theory called “könskontraktet” which says, women from higher social classes want to brake out from the old gender roles, and that makes them value education and carrier, while those who are from lower social classes accept the old traditions between genders which makes them value family and safety. This don´t need to lead to reproduction of social classes and that it goes from parents to children if there is good accessibility to the universities and you can get higher education without moving a long distance.

Thesis advisor: Karen Arnold / Maximizing college summer breaks for career preparation and prestige accumulation is an established routine for elite undergraduates in the United States. Social reproduction, meritocracy, and changes to the world of work increasingly complicate this issue. Yet despite this additional burden, there is little research into the costs and benefits of participation and limited comprehension of how and why elite undergraduates internalize norms around summer breaks. This study fills that gap by introducing the High Prestige Summer Experience Model, a framework for understanding this decision-making process. Using interviews with 13 undergraduates and recent alumni from an Ivy League university, this grounded theory study presents the five phases of summer planning and participation. Students refine decisions at each stage by measuring possible opportunities against three mental measurements (Threshold of Acceptability, Narrative Currency Value, and Summer Prestige Ranking). The norms and beliefs inculcated through peer culture influence this paradigm through which they view their college summers. Underlying this process are the mediating factors that nudge and shape each particular student’s decisions: personal context; campus context; and societal context. Participants reported that summer experiences play an important role in peer positioning. They carry a narrative currency on campus and the ability to frame their experiences buys social acceptance for undergraduates. Summer experiences allow students to explore jobs in ways not normally available during term-time study, provide opportunities for personal development and growth, and equip them for their post-graduate elite status through capital accumulation. Participants noted that significant emotional and social consequences flow from actions in the summer experience process while simultaneously questioning its value to them in the long term. The findings of an additional comparison group of participants at a different selective campus indicate that this trend toward high prestige summer experiences is being normalized at lower rungs on the institutional prestige ladder as well. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2022. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

<p>Under neoliberal capitalist globalization, women's poverty and the deepening of women’s oppression and exploitation have been notorious. Indeed, women are facing poverty all over the world, including in industrialized capitalist countries. Women living in poverty and particularly poor single mothers have been targets of the counter neoliberal reform of the capitalist welfare state. This counter reform is a gendered, classist, and complex alteration that has assaulted the social responsibilities and budgets of the welfare state. The impact of neoliberal policies against single mothers is evident in Ontario. However, policymakers continue taking away the assistance and social welfare programs that used to support single mothers. Neoliberal governments have created provincial policies to reinforce women’s unpaid caring responsibilities and to intensify the surveillance and control exerted over poor Ontarian single mothers. This qualitative case study has explores critically the role of neoliberal social policy in Ontario child welfare. Through a feminist approach and using official documentary data, this research analyzes Ontario Kinship Care Policy. The study looks at the historical and social context in which the policy was formulated, depicts the main goals of the policy, and analyzes the policy’s outcomes both, for the system and for women. Possible areas of future research on this policy are listed in the conclusions.</p> / Master of Social Work (MSW)

This study is an investigation into the ways that intersectional social actors conceptualize their position as raced, classed, and gendered, and how they seek to pass down identity categories, cultural frames, and behavioral habits to their children. In particular, it is an examination of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. as an intersectional social club, which seeks to socialize upper-middle class black youth into the habits that this community sees as legitimate and productive in modern society. Using interview, archival, and focus group data, this project analyzes the discursive frames of current club members, former child participants, and documentary evidence from historical correspondence. This project seeks to respond to racial formation and social reproduction scholarship by interrogating the ways that parents articulate the meanings of race, class, and gender, the ways such meanings are engaged by Jack and Jill, as a legitimating organization, and the absorption or internalization of such meanings by young people. It asks three questions to examine such mechanisms: 1) How do intersectional social actors talk about race, class and gender? 2) How do such community members engage social reproduction strategies that highlight their unique race and class positions? 3) How do recipients (children) rearticulate those messages and indicate their absorption or rejection of those norms? I find that discourse around race frames blackness as a salient social stigma, despite socioeconomic privilege. Mothers engage race explicitly, having frank discussions about their hopes and fears around their child’s racialized bodies. Therefore, messages about race are illuminated in organizational discourse and are well-absorbed by children. Secondly, the study finds that discourse around class obscures the ways that cultural and social capital is accumulated and activated in the larger social world. While discourses about class are largely silenced, Jack and Jill serves as a location for capital accumulation, developing ease with elite cultural forms, and cultivating dense social networks saturated with resource-rich nodes. Members talk very little about the role of class stratification in their lives. Finally, this project finds that parents articulate gender expectations according to the bimodal demands of black respectability politics. Whether mothers sought to protect children from state violence or sexual derogation is fundamentally tied to their children’s gender. Further, the aspirational desires that they have for children, particularly for children’s future spouse, differed for sons and daughters in marked ways. Ultimately, I argue that the substance of norms around race, class and gender, as well as the processes of socializing such norms and discourses, serve to reproduce this intersectional community over time. Because of their intersectional positionality, discourses about race are saturated with simultaneous messages about gender or class, and vice versa. Not only do mothers perform mastery of such intricate narratives, but though individual work and the efforts of the social club, they enjoy success in socializing these frames into their children. These narratives are more than identification markers; they serve as strategies to minimize the effect of racial stigmatization experienced in their neighborhoods and at work, teaching children the behaviors and codes that are most useful in navigating away from the worst effects of a marginalized position. As the next generation grows up to develop their own native ideological frames, I predict that we will continue to see persistent meanings about racial marginality, socioeconomic privilege, and gender respectability as part of the vocabulary of these intersectional actors. Mastery of these meanings allows individuals access into this private community and also serves as protection from the worst effects of local discrimination. / Sociology

Statistical data on community colleges confirms how vast the community college institution is: Serving 46% of all undergraduates in the country, or 12.4 million students. A large body of literature exists on the specifics of social reproduction in four-year universities; as well as the specifics of social reproduction in racially and economically segregated high schools. However, there exists a blind spot in this literature when it comes to social reproduction at the community college. Through conducting interviews with students, faculty and staff at three local community colleges, this ethnographic study explores this theoretical and empirical blind spot by using a critical cultural studies perspective on social reproduction, asking questions around community college students’ experiences on three levels: students themselves, the institutional level through administration and governance; and, lastly, the communication strategy of the community college. Community colleges largely serve working class students, immigrants and older learners. They are the embodiment of the classic American dream that social mobility is possible through a democratic and public education system that allows anyone to ‘work their way up.’ On the other hand, they can work to funnel students too quickly into vocational tracks that foreclose the possibility of a higher-prestige, and higher-earning, bachelor’s degree. Community colleges straddle this tension between upward social mobility and class reproduction, as well as institutional tensions produced by needing to adapt to pervasive neoliberal logic. Student interviews highlight the ways their educational experiences are shaped by these tensions, given the community college’s unique structural education within higher education, and how these tensions can work to foreclose or open their future education possibilities. This thesis also explores the following themes: the community college’s positioning relative to public state schools and elite private schools; community college governance; workforce changes among faculty and staff and it’s effect on students; political implications of the community college education model; and, more broadly, understanding the place of public education in a wider neoliberal sociopolitical context.

The aim of this study is to investigate and describe the perceptions women has of being in middle management position in male-dominated industries. Five qualitative semi-structured interviews have been conducted, and the empirical material analyzed from a phenomenographic perspective. The analyzed data resulted in four categories; Job satisfaction is strengthened by the feeling of security, the Organization task-orientation has a negative impact on the leadership, Traditional notions of masculinity and femininity requires adaptation, Good leadership requires some special features. Conclusion show that women in middle management-positions perceived to have strong support in their management role in the male-dominated industries, however, there are indications that these industries also require a certain type of leadership behavior. Women consider themselves even perceive a shift in the focus of what should be prioritized depending on which department they are in. Male-dominated departments often leads to down prioritizing relationship-oriented tasks, as the women think is an essential part of leadership

No Estado moderno se, por um lado, parece intrínseca a uma ordem jurídica a sua pretensão coercitiva em relação aos diferentes aspectos da vida social, resta evidente que tal ordem deve ser dotada de um atributo de autoridade que lhe garanta primazia em relação a outras ordens (morais, religiosas, pessoais), para que se justifique dotá-la de atributos tão singulares como a coercitividade. A essa autoridade, contudo, no contexto democrático - mais especificamente no contexto do Estado Democrático de Direito contemporâneo - cumpre dotar-se de uma legitimidade ou, ao menos, uma aparência de legitimidade suficiente para imprimir efetividade àquela autoridade. Nesse sentido, o presente trabalho busca redefinir, a partir da perspectiva bourdieuniana, a percepção dos principais argumentos de legitimidade e autoridade do Direito - visto não só enquanto ordenamento jurídico, mas principalmente a partir de sua produção no ambiente legislativo, tantas vezes ignorada pela doutrina jurídica que habitualmente toma o direito posto, já legislado, como ponto de partida, neutralizando as disputas do subcampo legislativo e ignorando, em ampla medida, a questão da legitimidade da produção normativa. A pesquisa demonstra, a partir da perspectiva da Teoria da Reprodução Social de Bourdieu & Passeron (1992) que coloca em cheque toda legitimidade, que é aqui vista como mero efeito de uma autoridade, como a própria democracia é um conceito em disputa, e que a legitimidade das ações legislativas, bem como a dos próprios agentes legislativos não pode ser pressuposta. / If, in modern State, the coercive pretension seems intrinsic to the legal order in respect to all the different aspects of social life, it is also evident that such an order must have an authority which guarantees its primacy over other (such as moral, religious or personal orders), so that we are able to justify its singular attributes. To this authority, however, in the democratic context of contemporary State (under the Rule of Law), we must also have at least a notion of legitimacy, enough to give effectiveness to that authority. In this context, the present work seeks to redefine, from the perspective of Bourdieu\'s theory, the perception of the main arguments to law\'s legitimacy and authority - especially in aspects of the legislative work, usually overseen by juridical doctrine that takes law for granted, neutralizing the disputes in legislative field and ignoring to some extent the different critics to legislative legitimacy. Our research demonstrates, from the perspective of the Social Reproduction Theory, developed by Bourdieu & Passeron (1992) and which questions all legitimacy, seen as mere effect of authority, how democracy itself is a concept in dispute, and that the legitimacy of the legislative actions, and that of its agents, can\'t be taken for granted.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:44:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JOAQUIM JOSE NETO.pdf: 1767465 bytes, checksum: c8ba69ddf73af350ded933eb09182914 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-30 / This study on young people in family farming in Rubiataba, Goiás, and the educational processes and perspectives of social reproduction, is a doctoral thesis in the field of research into Education, Society and Culture of the Post-graduate studies in Education Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás. It set out to analyze the conditions and environment of the children of family farmers in the region of Baixa Verde, municipality of Rubiataba, Goiás, in order to understand young people at the heart of the mechanisms of reproduction of the social group to which they belong. To do so, it investigated their feelings about their way of being young people, the way of life and work of their parents, the formal education system, the contribution of formation institutions and leisure time and how they organize their projects for professional fulfillment. Questionnaires were distributed to collect data and other techniques, such as semistructured interviews and asystematic observation, were also used. The adolescent children of family farmers constitutes a social category which arises out of the socialization of the process of family farming whose projects are affected by the expansion of capitalism in the countryside which disregards the wishes and designs of the young, to stay on and earn their living there. They participate in family units of agricultural production in which management, work, property, the institution of knowledge, norms and the values of the family universe predominate. Their families participated in the migration process of the 1940s and 1960s, the so-called March to the West, have settled in the region until today consolidating their projects of creating, maintaining and reproducing the agricultural model called family farming, but who are witnessing a decline in their children s hopes of remaining on in the countryside and, consequently, the future of their properties and cultural heritage. Participating in a school education, subordinated to the capitalist system, young people are turning their interests and projects towards opportunities for study and work in the towns and cities. Soil degradation and the fact that the small farms provide no room for expansion limit the possibilities for young people to take over farming from their parents, and are obstacles in the way of the social reproduction of family farming. / O presente trabalho Jovens da agricultura familiar de Rubiataba-GO: processos educativos e perspectivas de reprodução social é uma tese de doutorado que faz parte da linha de pesquisa Educação, Sociedade e Cultura do Programa de Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu em Educação (PPGE) da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás (PUC Goiás). O seu propósito foi investigar a condição e a situação juvenil dos filhos de agricultores familiares da região de Baixa Verde, município de Rubiataba-GO, buscando apreender os jovens no bojo dos mecanismos de reprodução do grupo social a que pertencem. Com esse intuito, buscaram-se os sentidos que elaboram em relação ao modo de ser jovem, ao modo de vida e trabalho dos pais, ao sistema formal de educação, à contribuição das instituições formadoras e dos momentos de lazer e como organizam seus projetos de realização profissional. No processo de investigação, utilizaram-se, para a coleta de dados, a aplicação de questionários, a técnica de entrevista semiestruturada e a observação assistemática. Os jovens filhos de agricultores familiares são uma categoria social que surge da socialização no processo de trabalho familiar agrícola, sendo atingidos, em seus projetos, pela expansão do capitalismo no campo, que desconsidera os anseios e os projetos dos próprios jovens, de permanência e sobrevivência na agricultura familiar. Eles participam de unidades familiares de produção agrícola, em que predominam a gestão, o trabalho, a propriedade, a instituição de saberes, normas e valores do universo da família. Suas famílias participaram do processo migratório das décadas de 1940 e 1960, a chamada Marcha para o Oeste, e se instalaram na região até os dias atuais, consolidando seus projetos de criação, manutenção e reprodução do modelo agrícola denominado agricultura familiar, mas estão vendo diminuírem as expectativas de permanência dos filhos no campo e, consequentemente, de futuro para suas propriedades e seu patrimônio cultural. Participando da educação escolar, subjugada pelo sistema capitalista, os jovens estão migrando seus interesses e projetos para as oportunidades de estudo e trabalho na cidade. O desgaste do solo, as propriedades pequenas e sem espaço para ampliação, limitam as possibilidades de os jovens sucederem os pais na atividade agrícola, são obstáculos para protagonizarem a reprodução social da agricultura familiar.

A pesquisa ora apresentada tem como temática principal a análise das estratégias de reprodução camponesa desenvolvidas pelos grupos de Fundos de Pasto localizados no município de Oliveira dos Brejinhos (BA), com uma detida análise desse processo no Fundo de Pasto Várzea Grande. A reprodução social destes grupos foi fortemente afetada pelo movimento contraditório desencadeado pelos conflitos vivenciados por eles a partir do final de 1960, o que impulsionou sua consciência de classe no transcorrer das lutas pelo bode solto e da luta na/pela terra. Essa consciência foi mobilizada na defesa dos costumes e das práticas tradicionais que regulavam a vida dos/nos grupos. É nesse movimento que se estruturam as condições de transformação desses camponeses enquanto sujeitos políticos, condicionados a uma conjuntura histórica circunscrita e particular, ao mesmo tempo em que os insere em um caleidoscópio de possibilidades e de caminhos a partir daquele momento em diante: da superação da opressão exercida pela sociedade em geral à expansão do capital mercantil regional no interior dos grupos. É abordado o processo histórico de instituição das terras de uso comum na Bahia com ênfase no pastoreio comunitário de caprinos no sertão do estado. Também são examinados a organização socioespacial do grupo, seu modo de vida, as relações de parentesco e vizinhança, os mecanismos de produção, circulação e consumo estabelecidos e a sua rede de sociabilidade. Evidencia ainda, o papel da migração como estratégia de reprodução camponesa nos fundos de pasto, considerando o ficar e o envelhecimento dos que permaneceram na terra; o partir e o absenteísmo nas propriedades; e o retornar, como um dos motivadores da diferenciação social no interior do grupo. Por fim, explora a questão do ser ou não ser camponês e busca contextualizar a tragédia dos comuns nos tempos da precarização do trabalho e da inserção do fundo de pasto na ciranda do capital mercantil regional. / The research has as its aim the analysis of peasant livelihood strategies developed by groups of Fundos de Pasto (groups that practice the common use of the pastures) located in the city Oliveira dos Brejinhos (BA), with a detailed analysis of this process in the Fundo de Pasto Várzea Grande. The social reproduction of these groups was strongly affected by the contradictory movement triggered by the conflicts they experience from the end of 1960, which boosted its class consciousness in the course of the struggles for the loose goat and for land. This consciousness has been mobilized in defense of custom and traditional practices that regulated the lives of the groups. It is this movement that are structured the historical conditions of transformation of these peasants as political subjects, conditional on a particular and limited historical juncture, while that inserts them into a kaleidoscope of possibilities and paths from that point onwards: from the general society oppression overcoming to the expansion of the regional commercial capital within the groups. It addresses the historical process of establishment of common land use in Bahia with an emphasis on community grazing goats in the hinterland of the state. The sociospatial organization of the group, their way of life, relations of kinship and neighborhood, the mechanisms of production, circulation and consumption and their social network are also analyzed. It is showed yet the role of migration as a strategy of peasant livelihood in the Fundos de Pasto, given the \"stay\" and the aging of those who remained on land, the \"go\" and the landowner absenteeism, and the \"return\" as one of the causes of the group social differentiation. Finally, it explores the question of to be or not to be peasant and tries to contextualize the \"tragedy of the commons\" in a time of labor precarization and inclusion of the Fundos de Pasto in the regional commercial capital turnover.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:12:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2006- Flavia Ferreira de Mattos.pdf: 3681175 bytes, checksum: 13c2cda3e8c1a516afd3e1fd8caa57ff (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-12-11 / Funda??o Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / This study was conducted in one of the small villages from the Parna?ba Delta Marine Extractive Reserve, the Passarinho, located in the Canaries Island. The general goal was to understand the way of life of local inhabitants in order to reflect about the management of Conservation Units of this nature. The specific goals were: to categorize local information by system (the history of occupation of the place, aspects of the productive circuits and the social relationships in the village) and to understand local meanings regarding the creation of RESEX (Extractive Reserve). As reinforcement to the theory, the study discussed the improvement of the environmental policies in Brazil and, as an example, the matter of human presence in Conservation Units, trying to understand the emergence of the concept traditional populations and its mobilization character in the political scenario. The methodological base of the dissertation was the qualitative analysis. The following procedures were carried out: bibliographical research on the covered subjects and additional information on the region; the field research: 46 interviews with local inhabitants and 2 institutional representatives and the participative observation . The study pointed out, based on the analysis of the social trajectory of inhabitants, the process of subordination with the payment of rent to the presumed land owner , the internal hierarchies to the village inhabitants and their specific ways of appropriation of land, additional fishing areas and use of natural resources. The study also pointed out the different approaches and understandings regarding the creation of RESEX and the effects of this measure, as the previously exercised rules have been suspended and new conservation rules haven`t been drafted yet. In conclusion, it was intended to subsidize the analysis of the challenges encountered by the management of protected areas in Brazil, based on a deep understanding of the traditional populations that inhabit the delta of the Parna?ba River. / Este estudo foi realizado em um dos povoados da Reserva Extrativista Marinha do Delta do Parna?ba, o Passarinho, localizado na ilha das Can?rias. O objetivo geral foi conhecer o modo de vida dos habitantes locais a fim de refletir sobre a gest?o de Unidades de Conserva??o desta natureza. Como objetivos espec?ficos: sistematizar informa??es locais (a hist?ria de ocupa??o do lugar, os aspectos dos circuitos produtivos e as rela??es sociais do povoado) e compreender os significados locais com rela??o ? cria??o da RESEX. Como respaldo te?rico, abordou o amadurecimento das pol?ticas ambientais no Brasil e, como recorte, a quest?o da presen?a humana em Unidades de Conserva??o, buscando compreender o surgimento da no??o de popula??es tradicionais e seu car?ter de mobiliza??o no cen?rio pol?tico. A base metodol?gica da disserta??o foi a an?lise qualitativa. Como procedimentos foram realizados: pesquisa bibliogr?fica: sobre os temas abordados e demais informa??es sobre a regi?o; a pesquisa de campo: 46 entrevistas com os moradores locais e 2 representantes institucionais e a observa??o participante . O estudo apontou, a partir da an?lise da trajet?ria social dos moradores, o processo de subordina??o com o pagamento da renda ao suposto dono da terra , as hierarquias internas aos habitantes dos povoados e seus modos espec?ficos de apropria??o da terra e demais espa?os de pesca e uso dos recursos naturais. O estudo apontou tamb?m as diferentes posturas e entendimentos com rela??o ? cria??o da RESEX e os efeitos desta medida, uma vez que as regras anteriormente exercidas foram suspensas e ainda n?o foram internalizadas outras de car?ter conservacionista. Por fim, se pretendeu contribuir com subs?dios para a reflex?o sobre os desafios de gest?o das ?reas protegidas no Brasil a partir de uma compreens?o mais aprofundada sobre as popula??es tradicionais que habitam o delta do rio Parna?ba.