"Outdoor Education" and German Scout-Type Youth Organizations in the Czech Lands Title: "Outdoor Education" and German Scout-Type Youth Organizations in the Czech Lands Abstract: The thesis deals with the formation and history of German youth organizations in the Czech Lands. It especially covers those organizations that either directly referred to the Scout movement originating in the UK or US, or at least adopted the fundamental educational methods and principles of working with the youth which were typical for these movements. These organizations marked a revolutionary change in the approach to youth and their education. Such a change was possible thanks to a series of philosophical, pedagogical and political transformations in the society. Scout movements were especially built on the modern philosophical theories based on the ideas of American and German philosophers. However, the roots of this approach to nature and to human education can be traced to the early modern era, when the first modern approaches to teaching appeared and were generally applied under the changing economic and social environment of a modern society. In addition to philosophy, the movement was also influenced by a number of other social, political, ideological and cultural phenomena. The origins of these organizations can be seen...

Submitted by Lafaiete Santos Santiago (lafaiete.santiago@ucsal.br) on 2016-11-17T14:08:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AVENA-ME-2013.pdf: 873662 bytes, checksum: fd7ad666c98927de2c3e1390efa32c7b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rosemary Magalhães (rosemary.magalhaes@ucsal.br) on 2017-01-13T18:52:51Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 AVENA-ME-2013.pdf: 873662 bytes, checksum: fd7ad666c98927de2c3e1390efa32c7b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-13T18:52:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AVENA-ME-2013.pdf: 873662 bytes, checksum: fd7ad666c98927de2c3e1390efa32c7b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-11-11 / O presente estudo teve como objetivo investigar como vem se desenvolvendo a dinâmica interna do grupo familiar contemporâneo em sua rede vincular e interacional, buscando compreender suas ressonâncias no processo de socialização dos filhos. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa que partiu de um enfoque específico da Psicologia Social: o ECRO (Esquema Conceitual Referencial e Operativo) criado e desenvolvido por Pichon-Rivière. Foram realizadas, de maneira individualizada, entrevistas semi-estruturadas com três casais de classe média/média alta de salvador, com nível superior e com filhos em idade de 05 a 10 anos. Em seguida, foi realizado o Grupo Operativo com as três mulheres/cônjuges dos casais entrevistados e mais duas mulheres cujos cônjuges não puderam ser entrevistados. Os resultados coletados foram apresentados através de cinco eixos temáticos: Mulher X Trabalho; Individualização X Pertença/cooperação; Crise X Mudança/Superação; Verticalidade X Horizontalidade; Novas tecnologias X Novos vínculos X Novos modelos de aprendizagem. Tais eixos puderam revelar que, a função de socialização e educação no grupo familiar vem sendo dificultada cotidianamente, como também a função parental que a sustenta, devido às condições novas e adversas que emergem com os processos sociais, culturais e tecnológicos na atualidade. Esses processos, pelo grau de aceleração com que ocorrem, geram instabilidade e insegurança no âmbito familiar e, portanto, em seus vínculos. Neste contexto e em relação às funções já citadas, a mãe/mulher tem o papel mais participativo junto aos filhos e na sustentação dos vínculos familiares. Os aspectos revelados não são conclusivos e merecem maior aprofundamento devido ao seu nível de complexidade. / INTRODUCTION: The present study aimed to investigate how the internal dynamics of the contemporary family group has been developing on its network link and interaction, seeking to understand its resonances in the children’s process of socialization. This is a qualitative research that started with a specific focus of Social Psychology: CSRO (Conceptual Schema Reference and Operation) created and developed by Pichon-Rivière. METHODOLOGY: Semi-structured interviews were carried out on an individual basis, with three couples of middle class/upper middle class in Salvador with higher education, and children in 05-10 years. Then, the Operational Group formed with three women/spouses of interviewed couples and two other women whose spouses could not be interviewed. RESULTS: The results obtained were presented through five theme axes: Women X Work; Individualization X Belonging/Cooperation; Crisis X Change/Overcoming; Verticality X Horizontality; New technologies X New bonds X New models of learning. Such axes might reveal that the function of socialization and education in the family is being hampered every day, as well as the parental function that sustains it, due to new and adverse conditions emerging from social, cultural and technological processes nowadays. Those processes, due to the degree of acceleration they occur, generate instability and insecurity in the family and therefore in their ties. CONCLUSION: In this context and in relation to the functions already mentioned, the mother/woman has a more participatory role with their children and in the support of family bonds. Aspects revealed are inconclusive and deserve a more profound study, due to their level of complexity.

abstract: Due to the booming young mothers and fathers in the new era as well as the changes in the concept of parenting and the favorable liberalization of China's second child policy, the maternal-baby nursing market continues to grow, and it has become a must for businesses nowadays. In 2020, the size of the maternal-baby nursing market will reach 3.6 trillion. (Data: Yibang Power China's Maternal and Child Industry White Paper 2017). The rapid development of mobile Internet, highly transparent information, consumers grasp the sovereignty, along with the rise of the middle class, consumption increase encouraged personalized, customized needs. The boundaries between online and offline are becoming increasingly blurred. Consumers are more inclined to choose multi-category with service channel providers. If the retailers still rely on good market resources, and the difference between the sales and purchase of commodities, they will face a huge challenge of the decrease in passenger flow and a decline in performance. The paper takes the relationship between maternal-baby nursing retailers and targets customers as the study object, based on customer service of maternal-baby nursing retailer data, empirical studies, we found that this particular group, mothers and babies, especially value safety, quality, public praise and community review. If the retail enterprise attaches importance to establishing relationships with customers and enhances the relational viscosity through mutual trust, emotional formation and spread of public praise, it will help to increase the traffic volume and increase the output value of single customers. The maternal-baby nursing retailers form a strong relationship between enterprises and customers by establishing a strong relationship between products and customers, employees and customers, and customers to customers. Maternal-baby nursing retailers operate single-customer value deeply, build a heavy membership system and manage customer assets, thereby enhancing their brand and performance. The research on the method of establishing the strong tie can be considered as an analysis of feasibility. The research results of this paper will help to improve the overall customer service experience and satisfaction of the mother and infant retail industry, enhance the development of the whole industry and draw significance lessons from other service industries. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Business Administration 2018

Submitted by Valquíria Barbieri (kikibarbi@hotmail.com) on 2017-08-17T18:42:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Gabriela Scroczynski Fontes.pdf: 2512538 bytes, checksum: 128dfa2fbe99fb13d283ff55462695ef (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2017-08-21T13:45:08Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Gabriela Scroczynski Fontes.pdf: 2512538 bytes, checksum: 128dfa2fbe99fb13d283ff55462695ef (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-21T13:45:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Gabriela Scroczynski Fontes.pdf: 2512538 bytes, checksum: 128dfa2fbe99fb13d283ff55462695ef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-04-04 / CAPES / Este trabalho sintetiza uma pesquisa etnográfica a respeito da criação e manutenção de vínculos sociais por parte de estudantes da Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso - UNEMAT, da cidade de Sinop – MT. O método etnográfico foi utilizado com o intuito de realizar reconstruções analíticas de cenários e de grupos sociais, através de mergulhos e observações da cultura do grupo estudado, em busca de indícios e características que contribuam para a compreensão do mesmo. Para compreender como o estudante universitário, da cidade de Sinop constrói e mantém vínculos sociais tanto no espaço urbano quanto no ciberespaço e como as mídias e novas tecnologias de comunicação participam desse processo, foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas com 13 estudantes, cujas idades variam de 18 a 33 anos. Além disso, também foram utilizadas como ferramentas de coletas de dados a fotoetnografia e observações assistemáticas e sistemáticas, devidamente registradas em caderno de campo. Baseado em perspectivas teóricas de autores como Michel Maffesoli e Muniz Sodré e na noção de que a vida social em comunidade e a vinculação social são constituídas por processos de interação que ocorrem através da comunicação, este estudo constatou que os vínculos sociais, dos alunos participantes desta pesquisa, são constituídos a partir de dois fortes elementos: a família e o estudo e que as ferramentas de comunicação mediadas por aparelhos móveis de comunicação são instrumentos importantes no que se refere à manutenção desses vínculos. / This work synthesizes an ethnographic research about the creation e maintenance of social ties by the students from University of Estate of Mato Grosso – UNEMAT, Sinop – MT. The ethnographic method was used in order to perform analytical reconstructions of scenarios and social groups, through dives and observations of the culture of the group studied, looking for clues and characteristics that contribute to the understanding of it. To understand how the college student, from Sinop builds and maintains social ties in both urban space and in cyberspace and how the media and new communication technologies participate in this process, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 students, whose ages range 18-33 years. In addition, were also used as instrument of data collection the photoethnografy and the unsystematic and systematic observation, which were registered in a field notebook. Based on theoretical perspectives from authors as Michel Maffesoli and Muniz Sodré and in the idea that community social life and the social ties were constructed by interaction process which occur by communication, this study noted that the social ties, of the students who participated of this research, are made based on two elements: family and study and the communication tools mediated by mobile communication devices are important instruments used for the maintenance of this social ties.

Submitted by Edson Macedo (edsonmacedo@gmail.com) on 2013-09-26T02:17:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 The Relationship between Kinship and Microloan Performance.pdf: 825813 bytes, checksum: ff7e142b1e9ae57f59e0b786a53946b3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by ÁUREA CORRÊA DA FONSECA CORRÊA DA FONSECA (aurea.fonseca@fgv.br) on 2013-09-27T13:58:37Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 The Relationship between Kinship and Microloan Performance.pdf: 825813 bytes, checksum: ff7e142b1e9ae57f59e0b786a53946b3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2013-09-30T12:10:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 The Relationship between Kinship and Microloan Performance.pdf: 825813 bytes, checksum: ff7e142b1e9ae57f59e0b786a53946b3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-09-30T12:11:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 The Relationship between Kinship and Microloan Performance.pdf: 825813 bytes, checksum: ff7e142b1e9ae57f59e0b786a53946b3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-28 / I exploit a large data set of microloans from a MFI of Brazilian northeastern to investigate whether the kinship ties influence the likelihood of repayment. I found evidence that the kinship relationship between members of a group loan positively affects repayment. Groups in which all members are connected somehow by kinship have a 24% lower probability of default compared to groups without such connections. Additionally, I show that a group loan with 100% of kinship has a 45% lower probability of default in the first loan than groups lacking of kinship ties among members. I also found a negative relationship between kinship and change in the group formation. These results allow us to infer about the mechanisms of group lending and suggest that the greatest impact of kinship on microloan performance occur through screening activities. The results also suggest that the improvement on monitoring activities outweigh the weakening of enforcement. / A partir de uma grande base de dados fornecida por uma instituição de microcrédito do nordeste brasileiro, a relação entre parentesco e inadimplência é analisada. O presente trabalho mostra evidências de que o parentesco entre membros de um grupo solidário afeta positivamente a adimplência. Grupos em que todos os membros possuíam algum laço de parentesco entre si apresentaram uma probabilidade 24% menor de inadimplência do que grupo sem esses laços. Além disso, quando considerado apenas o primeiro empréstimo, grupos com 100% de parentesco entre os membros apresentaram uma probabilidade 45% menor de inadimplência em comparação com membros sem relações de parentesco. Os resultados deste trabalho também mostram que há uma relação negativa entre parentesco e probabilidade de mudança na formação de um grupo solidário. Essas análises permitem fazer inferências acerca dos mecanismos pelos quais o parentesco afeta o desempenho do microcrédito. Os resultados sugerem que o parentesco possui um benefício maior no processo de autosseleção do grupo. Além disso, os resultados também sugerem que o impacto positivo do parentesco nas atividades de automonitoramento compensa o enfraquecimento das atividades de enforcement.

Le problème que suscite la complexité du débat autour du processus de la mondialisation nous impose un nouveau questionnement du phénomène. En effet, de sa vocation première, essentiellement économiquement, de susciter de l’espoir par la croissance et un bonheur partagés à travers le monde, découle paradoxalement un double visage de peur et de catastrophes. Juridiquement, la mondialisation mobilise les valeurs universelles des droits de l’homme et offre au droit un fondement éthique. Or contrairement à cette vocation universellement éthique du droit, l’homme s’use et s’épuise par des exigences impératives d’être soi. Culturellement s’ouvre aussi des horizons d’une unification enchanteurs des mœurs et habitudes civilisationnelles en même temps qu’une société fragmentée entre des religions et des cultures qui se rivalisent sans merci. Au final, la mondialisation nous enveloppe dans une complexité qui lui est ontologique mais nous impose également de penser une nouvelle politique complexe de civilisation. Car malgré la brutalité compétitive inhérente à l’économie-monde, celle-ci doit faire appel à une nécessité de reconstruire un monde avec les autres dans un élan de reconnaissance ou de solidarité mutuelle. Cette nouvelle inspiration est également valable pour les sociétés africaines qui ont subi son influence. Notre recherche entend rendre compte de la problématique du vivre-ensemble dans nos sociétés contemporaines mais aussi des critiques-interprétatives qui en dérivent. / The problem raises the complexity of the debate around the process of globalization imposes a new questioning of the phenomenon. Indeed, his first vocation economically to create hope for the growthand happiness shared around the world, paradoxically stems two faces of fear and disaster. Judicially, globalization is mobilizing the universal values of human rights and the right offer an ethical foundation. But unlike the universally ethical vocation of law, the man wears and exhausts by imperative requirements to be yourself. Culturally also opens the horizons of a civilizational unification enchanting customs and habits together a fragmented society between religions and cultures that are competing without thank you. Finally, globalization envelops us in a complexity that is ontological him but we also needed to tins of a new civilization of complex policy. For despite the brutality inherent in the competitive world economy, it must call to a need to rebuild a world with others in a burst of recognition or mutual solidarity. The new inspiration is true for African societies that have undergone its influence. Our research intends to account for the problem of living together in our contemporary societies but also interpretative-critical derived therefrom.

Social networks are everywhere, from face-to-face activities to online social networks such as Flickr, YouTube and Facebook. In social networks, ties (relationships) are connections between people. The change of social relationships over time consequently leads to the evolution of the social network structure. At the same time, ties serve as carriers to transfer pieces of information from one person to another. Studying social ties is critical to understanding the fundamental processes behind the network. Although many studies on social networks have been carried out over the last many decades, most of the work either used small in-lab datasets, or focused on directly connected static relations while ignoring indirect relations and the dynamic nature of real networks. Today, because of the emergence of online social networks, more and more large longitudinal social datasets are becoming available. The available real social datasets are fundamental to understanding evolution processes of networks in more depth. In this thesis, we study the role of social ties in dynamic networks using datasets from various domains of online social networks. Networks, especially social networks often exhibit dual dynamic nature: the structure of the graph changes (by node and edge insertion and removal), and information flows in the network. Our work focuses on both aspects of network dynamics. The purpose of this work is to better understand the role of social ties in network evolution and changes over time, and to determine what social factors help shape individuals’ choices in negative behavior. We first developed a metric that measures the strength of indirectly connected ties. We validated the accuracy of the measurement of indirect tie metric with real-world social datasets from four domains. Another important aspect of my research is the study of edge creation and forecast future graph structure in time evolving networks. We aim to develop algorithms that explain the edge formation properties and process which govern the network evolution. We also designed algorithms in the information propagation process to identify next spreaders several steps ahead, and use them to predict diffusion paths. Next, because different social ties or social ties in different contexts have different influence between people, we looked at the influence of social ties in behavior contagion, particularly in a negative behavior cheating. Our recent work included the study of social factors that motivate or limit the contagion of cheating in a large real-world online social network. We tested several factors drawn from sociology and psychology explaining cheating behavior but have remained untested outside of controlled laboratory experiments or only with small, survey based studies. In addition, this work analyzed online social networks with large datasets that certain inherent influences or patterns only emerge or become visible when dealing with massive data. We analyzed the world’s largest online gaming community, Steam Community, collected data with 3, 148, 289 users and 44, 725, 277 edges. We also made interesting observations of cheating influence that were not observed in previous in-lab experiments. Besides providing empirically based understanding of social ties and their influence in evolving networks at large scales, our work has high practical importance for using social influence to maintain a fair online community environment, and build systems to detect, prevent, and mitigate undesirable influence.

Background: This thesis is about knowledge transfer and diversity at Nordic trading floors. The research is focusing on knowledge transfer and how it is influenced by diversity and the ties between homogenous people. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand how the knowledge transfer could be more efficient at Nordic trading floors and whether employees prefer to share knowledge with employees to whom they either have a weak or strong social tie to. We also want to see how homogenous people impact the flow of knowledge transfer. Methodology: This research is conducted through a case study of respondents working at trading floors at two different banks in the Nordic countries. The data is mainly collected through quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews. Conclusions: Knowledge transfer at Nordic trading floors is implemented through different types of training and mentoring and by keeping up with strong social ties which is feeding the sociocultural arena. Homogenous people are contributing to knowledge transfer by spreading tacit knowledge while networking and socializing with each other. Wearing suits and playing golf might therefore help employees at Nordic trading floors to learn more.

Cette étude interroge les fonctions sociales et anthropologiques des fêtes familiales par l’analyse en particulier de sa fonction de transmission. L’étude de ces fêtes contribue à la recherche de la complexité des liens sociaux. Elle montre en effet que ces espaces sont ambivalents par l’aspect intégrateur et excluant de la fête. En présentant les différents éléments matériels et immatériels transmissibles, elle explore la variété de ces processus. La fête socialisée et socialisante, engendre un apprentissage par inculcation et par imprégnation. La relation éducative semble favorisée par l’ambiance particulière de ces festivités qui rapproche les corps et autorise un relâchement. Cette proximité rend les participants plus attentifs à l’autre et plus enclin à une réciprocité relationnelle. Autour de la table, les membres de la famille négocient la mémoire familiale par le partage d’expériences communes et par la narration d’anciens souvenirs, notamment des fêtes passées ou à venir. Entre pudeur et exaltation, ces groupes constituent des entre-soi signifiants pour la construction de ceux-ci, mais aussi pour l’individu et son rapport à l’altérité. Dans cette chorégraphie bien réglée, les différentes phases de la fête ménagent des espaces de rencontres pour une mise en dialogue ouvrant la possibilité à l’individu de narrer son histoire et de penser son identité plurielle. D’un point de vue méthodologique, cette analyse qualitative de pratiques festives dans un cadre familial se révèle être proche d’une méthode ethnographique, associant une observation participante et une récolte de diverses paroles. Impliquant son propre sujet, l’enquêteur propose un questionnement autour de la proximité entre le chercheur et son terrain. / This thesis looks at the social and anthropological functions of family celebrations, and focuses in particular on transmission. The study of these festive gatherings contributes to an exploration of the complexity of social ties. It shows that these spaces are ambivalent, as they both integrate and exclude from festivities. The material and immaterial elements that can be passed down are introduced in all their variety. Festive practices socialise while also being a social product themselves, and create learning opportunities through processes of inculcation and impregnation. The educational relationship seems heightened by the particular atmosphere of these celebrations, which bring people physically closer and allows the relaxing of rules and habits. Through this proximity, participants become more attentive to each other, and more inclined to reciprocity in their relationships. Around the table, relatives negotiate the family memory by sharing their experiences and through the narration of old memories, especially past or future celebrations. Between reserve and elation, these groups thus create a sense of community that is significant both for the group’s evolution and for the individual, and his or her attitude towards others. Along the way, the different phases of festivities create space for encounters and dialogue, which allow individuals to tell their story and process their plural identity. From a methodological perspective, this qualitative analysis of festive practices within the framework of the family draws on an ethnographic approach, and combines participant observation with the gathering of multiple voices. Through her own involvement, the writer questions the proximity between the researcher and the field studied.

A SINGLE REGRET is a murder mystery set on the post Hurricane Sandy Jersey shore. At thirteen, Jimmy Miller killed his father in retribution for murdering his mother. Twenty years later, he returns home because of the murder of his childhood best friend, Dillon Abernathy. Jimmy learns that Gavin, a classmate turned junkie, is charged with murdering Dillon, a scenario Jimmy doesn’t find plausible, so he decides to pursue leads the police won’t. Told in first person past tense, A SINGLE REGRET follows Jimmy as he unearths the secrets behind his friend’s death and also learns the truth behind the destruction of his own family. As in Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River, the novel examines how childhood ties shape perceptions in ways that are both true and false. Jimmy is forced to evaluate his own sense of bitterness and learn how to forgive his own mistakes and those of others.