Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / The purpose of this research study is to develop and describe a model to enhance the empowerment professional nurses to promote the recovery of people who have been diagnosed with depression. Depression is a prevalent psychiatric disorder that despite its increase worldwide, often goes undetected or inadequately treated. The biomedical model's reductionist and dualistic approach proves to be inadequate for nursing practice to address depression and calls for the examination of a multifaceted holistic approach. A multifaceted holistic approach views disease as having multiple causes that are amenable to multiple therapeutic interventions. Despite research evidence about the effectiveness of such an approach, an in-dept literature search did not reveal the availability of such a model to enhance the empowerment of professional nurses to promote the recovery of people who have been diagnosed with depression. The research question that emerged was: • How can professional nurses in the Western Cape be empowered to promote the recovery of people who have been diagnosed with depression? The assumption is that this question was necessary to address. To realise the purpose of this research study, the following objectives were formulated: • To explore and describe the self reported attributes needed by professional nurses to promote the recovery of people who have been diagnosed with depression. • To explore and describe how these self reported attributes can be facilitated in the work environment. • To propose a model to enhance the empowerment of professional nurses to promote the recovery of people who have been diagnosed with depression. • To develop guidelines for the operationalisation of the model. The theoretical framework for this research study was adopted from the Critical Social Theory. The research design and method used was qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual in nature. The research was done in two phases. In phase one the researcher did semi- structured interviews with a purposive and convenient sample of fourteen (14) professional nurses who were working in the Cape Town Metropolitan area and the West Coast.

For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. In this brief note written during a global pandemic, we consider some of the important ways this historical moment is altering the religious landscape, aiming our investigative lens at how religious institutions, congregations, and individuals are affected by the social changes produced by COVID-19. This unprecedented time prompts scholars of religion to reflect on how to strategically approach the study of religion in the time of “social distancing,” as well as moving forward. Particularly important considerations include developing heuristic, innovative approaches for revealing ongoing changes to religion, as well as how religion continues to structure social life across a wide range of contexts, from the most intimate and personal to the most public and global. Although our note can only be indicative rather than exhaustive, we do suggest that the initial groundwork for reconsiderations might productively focus on several key analytical themes, including: Epidemiology, Ideology, Religious Practice, Religious Organizations and Institutions, as well as Epistemology and Methodology. In offering these considerations as a starting point, we remain aware (and hopeful) that inventive and unanticipated approaches will also emerge.

In 1986, the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy published A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century in which it recommended that a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) be established to ascertain and institute criteria for teacher excellence (Steiner, 1995). No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) mandated that every classroom employ a "highly qualified teacher" (No Child Left Behind, 2001a); moreover, NCLB articulated the relationship between improving student achievement and higher standards for qualifying classroom teachers (Rotberg, Futrell & Lieberman, 1998). Research conducted in Miami-Dade County supports Florida's use of National Board Certification (NBC) as an "effective signal of teacher quality"(CNA Corporation, 2004, p.1). Critical theorist, Michael Apple, emphasized the role of education as an agent for the maintenance of hegemony (Apple, 2004). However, Apple further posited that the actual bureaucracy of school - the institution of education itself - is reflective of the same consumerist ideology of society, thus making the hegemony even more complete. Using the aforementioned theoretical construct, the researcher examined the development of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), the distribution of Nationally Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) in a central Florida school district, and their professional responsibilities as a means of examining whether this mechanism for identifying "highly qualified teachers" achieves its stated aim of providing every student with access to a "highly qualified" teacher, as is legislated and funded per NCLB.

In my research, I will attempt to examine the way in which Neoliberal Capitalist Globalization and economic conditions in the marketplace have shaped and continue to shape the assessment by Islamic groups of modernity, secularism and their place within it as a mutually constitutive process. I will conduct this analysis utilizing two country case studies: that of Turkey and Pakistan, each within the context of the theoretical frameworks of Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim and their study of the impact of religious ideas upon economic structures. In the last 30 years, from the start of market Neoliberalism, the political economy has shaped religious ideas in Muslim-populated regions as a result of privatization, deregulation of the market and urbanization. I found this process similar to that of the industrialization and emergence of modern capitalism in the beginning of 19th century Europe, which produced rapid urbanization. This, in turn, created a different lifestyle, family structure and (most importantly) produced a unique and secularized individual that was and is a product of modernity. The process can also be described as a departure from tradition and God. Economic transformations of this period restructured the concept of social and politics. The politics of God have been replaced by the politics of economy. On the other side, neoliberal economic policies have instigated a desecularization process within Muslim-populated countries. In Turkey, privatization and deregulation of the market have actually helped Muslims and Political Islam to move upward in the social stratification ladder and the result is the emergence of an Islamic-oriented middle class. The Gulen movement in Turkey is one of the best examples of this process. In Pakistan, the Jama’at-e-Islami has been a key player in the political and social sphere and has been supported by the middle class since the country was established in 1947. However, the polarization of Pakistani politics has weakened Jama’at at and has consequently led to the formation of even more religious groups and movements. Both countries have in common similar social, political and economic characteristics and the desecularization process is taking place rapidly. In my research, I will compare the Fethullah Gulen Movement and the Jama’at at in the context of the strengthening Neoliberalist economic process, and will look at how and why economic policies have created and led to a de-secularization of the social and political spheres, unlike the case of 19th century Europe. According to this research, desecularization in Muslim populated societies is a temporal process, which represents the larger social and political patterns of transformation that have been fueled by the market economy. Although we do witness an increasing trend of Islamization in Pakistan and Turkey, these movements will in time become weakened and absorbed by new market conditions. In the Turkish case, the Gulen Movement has already been integrated into the market economy and should be understood as a market oriented movement rather than an Islamic-based Nurcu movement. This is because in the Gulen Movement, establishing an Islamic order is not the primary objective, but the movement instead seeks political power as well as economic prosperity. I therefore describe the Gulen Movement as an 'Islamic movement without Islam.' On the other hand, The Jama’at at in Pakistan represents a persisting form of classical Islam, which conflicts with and directly opposes the market conditions. However, powerful economic forces have transformed the Jama’at-e-Islami of Pakistan from a classical form of Islam to a more reactionary form of Islam. I argue that both the Gulen Movement in Turkey and the Jama’at at in Pakistan will be domesticated by powerful market forces; however, this change will occur over the longer term. In this global era, there will continue to be less space for traditional community, and instead, market-based-individualism will play a dominant role in social relations. I contend that Islam will not be able to escape from this domestication process. / Ph. D.

This study focuses on the mechanisms through which systems of inequality operate in relationship to health and disablement processes. Using quantitative data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 and qualitative data from in-depth interviews with twelve construction workers in the southeastern United States, this study evaluates the relationships among race, class, gender, and occupation in the health of male construction workers. More specifically, this research examines white working-class masculinity in the context of working within the construction industry, and in relationship to health and disability processes. Each chapter in this dissertation focuses on one of three primary research questions. First, how do race, class, gender, and occupation shape the health of construction workers? Second, how does working-class masculinity and occupation affect patterns of disablement among construction workers, and how do they experience these processes? And finally, how do social inequalities shape bodies? This study finds that race, class, gender, and occupation all play multiple roles in the health and disablement processes of workers. These findings also suggest that a re-conceptualization of disability as a process is necessary to best reflect the experiences associated with occupational disability. Finally, these findings point to the body as a social process, with direct ties to the larger social structure and systems of inequality. This study extends our conceptualizations of health, disablement, and the body as processes. In addition, it illuminates the mechanisms through which systems of complex inequalities operate to create health disparities. / Ph. D.

Scholarship on Black American religious life has historically understood Black Pentecostalism as unconcerned with the socially-challenging lived experiences of its congregants. Many scholars and lay observers, maintaining that such Pentecostal religious life has no identifiable political dimension, have consequently overlooked the political nature of the ritual practices animating the worship event. Centering the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) as a case study, this dissertation argues that the ritual practices of COGIC worship events carry a tradition of political protest that contest dominant ideas of what it means to be “human” as both a social-political identity and an ontological category. To accomplish its task, this dissertation reinterprets turn-of-the-twentieth-century historical events and employs social theory to investigate the social practices of Black Pentecostals. It is the contention of this dissertation that COGIC congregants have historically embodied and expressed their political commitments through the adoption, adaptation, and engagement with Christian rituals. The project demonstrates how the ritual practices of worship (relating to preaching, music-making, tarrying, and ecstasy) allow COGIC congregants to remake themselves and their world, challenging the larger society to reconsider what it means to be “human.” Through the examination of four ritual practices of COGIC worship, this project explains how that group participates in the political dimension of human life as a necessary part of its religious activity. Through the activity of worship, congregants participate in the work of making themselves anew, which impacts how the greater society relates to them as people who are due the rights and privileges of U.S. American citizenship. Simultaneously, COGIC worship provides the ontological discourse or tools for congregants to become “new beings,” which directly corresponds to—and contests (racist) dominant ideas of—what it means to be human. / 2026-05-16T00:00:00Z

Trata-se de uma interpretação dos ensaios nos quais Theodor Adorno criticou autores clássicos da sociologia e discutiu problemas sociológicos de seu tempo. Tal investigação não se destinou em detectar as influências que determinados autores por ventura tenham desempenhado sobre o pensamento de Theodor Adorno, mas demonstrar como a sua teoria social pode ser reconstituída a partir de sua crítica à tradição sociológica. Pretende-se demonstrar que ao tratar da história da sociologia, ao posicionar-se ante as polêmicas e controvérsias científicas, Adorno efetua um alargamento do âmbito da experiência sociológica e leva às últimas consequências o projeto de compreender o processo social através da crítica ao pensamento sociológico moderno. Pode-se afirmar que Adorno nas polêmicas contra o positivismo na sociologia alemã, em suas análises a respeito da obra de Auguste Comte, na interpretação dos trabalhos de Émile Durkheim, através da crítica imanente visa à construção de uma teoria crítica que se compõe a partir da crítica da tradição sociológica. / This text is a interpretation of the essays in which Theodor Adorno criticizes classic authors of sociology and discusses the sociological problems of his time. This investigation dont have the aim of to detect the influences that certain authors by chance would have over the Theodor Adornos thoughts, but to show how his social theory can be rebuilt starting from his criticism of the sociological tradition. I intend to show that, by dealing with the sociologys history, positioning himself before the scientific polemics and controversies, Adorno perform a widening the comprehension of the sociological experience leading to the last consequences the project of understanding of the social processes through the criticism to modern sociological thought.I can assert that Adorn, in the polemics against the positivism in German sociology, in his analysis about the Auguste Comtes work, in the interpretation of Émile Durkheims works, through of immanent criticism, seeks to build a critical theory, which constitutes itself starting from the criticism to sociological tradition.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-22T17:26:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Novo_a_ Documento do Microsoft Word.pdf: 7211 bytes, checksum: 35560270a18baa25556da438c119fd4b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-26 / This doctoral dissertation presents a qualitative investigation, the purpose of which is to analyze the process of teaching and learning mediated by learning objects (LOs). The dissertation proposes an LO built by the researcher and used in a classroom, at elementary level, with young adults (EJA), on the line Historical Social Theory, based on Vygotsky and other post-Vygotskian authors. The construction and use of this type of educational material are motivated by the possibilities that Information and Communication Technology offer to the educational process at school. These materials have been seen as instruments that facilitate and enhance human development in the context of the digital age. Data for the study were collected through unstructured observation, semistructured interviews with students and classroom teacher, film and document analysis, including questionnaires - one applied after the presentation of research to students and the other after completing the use of LO - and intellectual production developed by students with the use of the object. The analysis indicated that the pedagogical practice mediated by the LO was characterized by the following aspects: a) change in the students towards an active stance regarding their own study and change in the teacher towards a consultant role in the teaching and learning process, b) collaboration among students to the understanding of scientific concepts; c) contextualization of the content through examples related to the experiences of students, enhancing their motivation to study and understand the content, d) work towards the zone of proximal development of the students, highlighting help and feedback by means of the LO e) affective nature of motivation generated by the animations present in LO. The use of the LO as a mediator of the educational process was regarded by the students as interesting, funny and motivating, while the analysis of intellectual production shows significant progress in learning the concept of crase / Este trabalho apresenta uma investigação de cunho qualitativo, cujo objetivo é analisar o processo de ensino e de aprendizagem mediado por objetos de aprendizagem (OAs). A pesquisa propõe a elaboração de um OA pela pesquisadora e seu uso em sala de aula, em uma turma de ensino fundamental da modalidade de ensino Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), para avaliação, ambas realizadas à luz da teoria Histórico-cultural do desenvolvimento humano de Vygotsky e de outros autores pós-vygotskyanos. A construção e o uso desse tipo de material pedagógico são motivados pelas possibilidades que as Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação apresentam ao processo educativo escolar. Esses materiais vêm sendo entendidos como instrumentos facilitadores e potencializadores do desenvolvimento humano no contexto da era digital. Os dados para a pesquisa foram coletados mediante observação não estruturada, entrevistas semiestruturadas com os estudantes e a professora da turma, filmagem e análise de documentos, incluindo questionários um aplicado após a etapa de apresentação da pesquisa aos alunos e outro após concluir a de uso do OA e a produção intelectual desenvolvida pelos estudantes ao longo do uso do objeto. A análise indicou que a prática pedagógica pesquisada mediada pelo OA caracterizou-se pelos seguintes aspectos: a) mudança dos estudantes para postura ativa frente ao estudo e mudança docente para consultora no processo de ensino e de aprendizagem; b) colaboração entre os estudantes para a compreensão dos conceitos científicos; c) contextualização do conteúdo por meio de exemplos relacionados às vivências dos estudantes, favorecendo a motivação para estudar e compreender o conteúdo; d) trabalho voltado para a zona de desenvolvimento proximal dos alunos, evidenciando a ajuda e o feedback ao longo do OA; e) motivação de cunho afetivo gerada pelas animações presentes no OA. O uso do OA como elemento mediador do processo educativo foi considerado, pelos estudantes, como interessante, divertido, motivador, ao mesmo tempo em que a análise da produção intelectual evidencia significativo avanço na aprendizagem do conceito crase

Neste trabalho nos propomos a analisar as possibilidades e limites de um paradigma intercultural para o Direito na América Latina, tendo em vista: i. a produção da literatura especializada a respeito do tratamento jus-político da alteridade cultural nas últimas 5 décadas e situando a proposta intercultural nessa bibliografia; ii. verificando as características específicas da América Latina para a integração jurídica e consolidação democrática que propõe a interculturalidade e iii. buscando na afirmação e no desenvolvimento dos direitos indígenas elementos que indiquem caminhos para a interculturalidade na região. Para tanto parte-se da formulação de categorias para a organização do conhecimento produzido na temática e sua colocação no contexto contemporâneo (capítulo 1). No que respeita à conceituação da interculturalidade, buscou-se trabalhar a partir dos debates especializados e do léxico teórico e político que perpassa o termo, de modo que se eximiu do propósito de conceituar a partir do plano normativo. A diferença do conceito desenvolvido a partir do texto normativo, método comum ao Direito, tratou-se de ampliar os conteúdos implícitos no debate intercultural a partir de sua relação com os campos teórico-científico e político-social (capítulos 2 e 3). Por fim, fez-se o esforço de análise sistêmica da normatividade internacional relacionada ao tema indígena buscando os elementos de interculturalidade que tal sistema oferece. Na conclusão apontam-se ainda alguns campos de pesquisa interculturais para a teoria do direito. / The aim of this thesis is to analyse the limits and possibilities of a intercultural paradigm to the Theory of Law in In Latin America, considering: i. the extent academic production of the last 5 decades towards the jus-political treatment of alterity and placing interculturality amongst it; ii. verifying the specific characteristics of Latin America to the juridical integration and to democracy consolidation which is proposed by the interculturalism; and iii. seeking in the process of consolidation and development of indigenous rights some of the elements that indicates the paths to the interculturality proposals in the region. In this purpose this work initiates its analysis by proposing some categories in order to organize the knowledge produced in this field and its locus in the contemporary context (chapter 1). In the conceptualization of the interculturality the method chosen was to get its initial meaning by the contents and terms theoretical and political debates on the issue. In this sense, in spite of being a very common recourse in civil law systems to make use of the normative or legal conceptualizations, it was not the choice of method in this work. The reason why the traditional method was not chosen is that it was considered crucial to the object of this research to show the implicit contents in the intercultural debate departing from its lexical connotation in both theoretical-scientific and social-political fields (chapters 2 and 3). At last, there is an effort to analyze systematically the international law related to the indigenous peoples\' rights, searching for the intercultural elements offered in it. In the conclusive pages, some new intercultural research fields in Theory of Law are pointed out.

Trata-se de uma interpretação dos ensaios nos quais Theodor Adorno criticou autores clássicos da sociologia e discutiu problemas sociológicos de seu tempo. Tal investigação não se destinou em detectar as influências que determinados autores por ventura tenham desempenhado sobre o pensamento de Theodor Adorno, mas demonstrar como a sua teoria social pode ser reconstituída a partir de sua crítica à tradição sociológica. Pretende-se demonstrar que ao tratar da história da sociologia, ao posicionar-se ante as polêmicas e controvérsias científicas, Adorno efetua um alargamento do âmbito da experiência sociológica e leva às últimas consequências o projeto de compreender o processo social através da crítica ao pensamento sociológico moderno. Pode-se afirmar que Adorno nas polêmicas contra o positivismo na sociologia alemã, em suas análises a respeito da obra de Auguste Comte, na interpretação dos trabalhos de Émile Durkheim, através da crítica imanente visa à construção de uma teoria crítica que se compõe a partir da crítica da tradição sociológica. / This text is a interpretation of the essays in which Theodor Adorno criticizes classic authors of sociology and discusses the sociological problems of his time. This investigation dont have the aim of to detect the influences that certain authors by chance would have over the Theodor Adornos thoughts, but to show how his social theory can be rebuilt starting from his criticism of the sociological tradition. I intend to show that, by dealing with the sociologys history, positioning himself before the scientific polemics and controversies, Adorno perform a widening the comprehension of the sociological experience leading to the last consequences the project of understanding of the social processes through the criticism to modern sociological thought.I can assert that Adorn, in the polemics against the positivism in German sociology, in his analysis about the Auguste Comtes work, in the interpretation of Émile Durkheims works, through of immanent criticism, seeks to build a critical theory, which constitutes itself starting from the criticism to sociological tradition.