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The present study focuses on the activity of the Young Communist League (Komsomol) to promote the communist project during the so-called Thaw period in the Soviet Union (1953-1964). The term ‘communist project’ describes the complex temporal triangle in which the relevance of the present was rooted in its relationship to the heroic past and the bright future. Young people were supposed to emulate the heroism of previous generations while fighting remnants of the undesired past. This was presented as a precondition for achieving the communist future. The structure of this study reflects the chronology of the communist project. It analyzes the rhetoric used by the Young Communist League to promote the communist project and explores the strategies used to mobilize youth for building communism. The first chapter focuses on the organizational structure of the Komsomol and assesses its readiness for this task. Despite attempts to strengthen horizontal communication and control, streamline administration and reorganize its structure, the Komsomol remained hierarchal and bureaucratic. The second chapter explores the promotion of past heroism in rituals, social practices and the use of public space. The third chapter is also concerned with the past; it describes the Komsomol’s fight against ‘remnants of the past’, primarily religion and deviant behaviour such as hooliganism, heavy drinking and laziness. The final chapter focuses on the Komsomol’s attempts during the Thaw to bring about the future: its efforts in the economy, moral, political and cultural education, and the realm of leisure.

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how youth culture influences the attitudes and motivations of African-American junior college students who have aspirations to complete postsecondary credentials to advance their socioeconomic status but do not persist. In this study, youth culture was defined as the values, norms, and practices shared by African-American youth between the ages of 18-24, indicative of the way they chose to live life and make decisions. The independent variables were Academic Self-Concept, Student Educational Experience, College Bridge Programs, Academic Advisement, Faculty Involvement and Interaction, Extracurricular Activities, Youth Culture, Family Support, Socioeconomic Status, Black Media, and Social Media; the dependent variable was student persistence. The specific tradition of inquiry was the comparative case study approach because it dealt with the exploration of cases in a real life setting over time through detailed, in-depth data collection involving multiple sources of information. The researcher also utilized interpretive/theoretical frameworks to guide the study. The study took place at two public colleges within the University System of Georgia, one rural and the other urban. The participants included 12 students, 2 academic advising directors, and 2 faculty members. The study consisted of three types of instrumentation—interviews, direct observations, and focus groups. To analyze data, the researcher interpreted and coded statements from the interviews and focus groups from which themes were developed. Significant statements were also clustered into defined themes. The results substantiated and expounded upon the relationships between the independent and dependent variables. Using the qualitative data collected, the researcher created an Analysis Matrix organized with the three data sources, 20 themes and 5 categories. The researcher found that youth enrolled in college have a strong desire to persist but encounter many internal and external pressures which make persistence to graduation challenging. Although colleges may be equipped with the tools and resources necessary to promote persistence, many are deemed inappropriate to the needs of African- American students. The conclusions drawn from the findings suggest unlike their majority counterparts, many of these students spend their first semester trying to untangle feelings of belonging and fitting into college culture.

This thesis is based on two years of participant observation in a municipal youth club in a Swedish city suburb. In focus is a group of 14-19 year old boys and their relations to peers and to the staff of the club. Rock music playing, the activity they engage in, is studied as a part of the youth club practice, and seen as a communicative process in which relations are lived out. Two approaches are identified; "to go for it" and "to have fun" both of which become important in the boys´ musical awareness, as well as their attitude to life. The youth club is seen as a place where a particular kind of democratic dilemma is grappled with. The club has the pedagogical aim of creating meaningful leisure time on the visitors tenns, but also of disciplining them and functioning as an instrument of guidance into adult life values. Questions of power-relations and institutionalization are discussed through notions of the dialectic of control (Giddens); of authority (Sennett), and of Goffman's analysis of life within public institutions. In this setting, the complexity of power and of growing up in modem society are studied. Both groups; the staff and the visitors, are seen as jointly shaping and recreating a communicative practice through interaction, with music playing as the medium through which relations are transformedand hierarchies seemingly overturned at the same time as social control is cemented and protest limited.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-07-06T13:58:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Francisco Silva de Lima.pdf: 7514572 bytes, checksum: 7e193231c0c7b98002b4737e17f824e2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-06T13:58:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Francisco Silva de Lima.pdf: 7514572 bytes, checksum: 7e193231c0c7b98002b4737e17f824e2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-04-11 / Nenhuma / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo investigar as conversações e a consequente sociabilidade entre jovens moradores da zona rural de Pelotas – município situado na região Sul do Rio Grande do Sul – por meio do Facebook. Mais especificamente, visa a perceber se os jovens estudantes da Escola Estadual de Ensino Médio Elizabeth Blaas Romano tiveram suas relações com os colegas alteradas a partir do uso deste site de rede social. Além disso, pretende apontar elementos que ajudem na compreensão de como os jovens rurais se inserem numa realidade globalizada de consumo de mídias e tecnologias. Para isso, o referencial teórico aborda as noções de culturas juvenis e juventude rural, inserindo-as num contexto de consumo e uso de tecnologias, e no âmbito das mediações. Com relação à perspectiva comunicacional, aborda a sociabilidade frente à sociedade em rede e os conceitos de redes sociais, sites de redes sociais, laço social, capital social e interação. A metodologia, por sua vez, é construída em torno de um estudo de caso, de maneira a identificar as particularidades do grupo estudado, sem pretensões generalizantes. Num primeiro momento, durante o movimento exploratório, foram realizadas entrevistas por telefone com agricultores familiares da região e entrevistas semi-estruturadas junto a uma turma de segundo ano da escola, de maneira a subsidiar a construção do desenho de pesquisa. Em seguida, a aplicação de questionários em visita à escola e algumas conversas informais se somaram ao material já coletado de maneira a delimitar as características deste grupo e, também, de forma a identificar algumas mudanças na interação com os colegas a partir do uso do Facebook. Dentre os resultados, observou-se o uso frequente de tecnologias enquanto ferramenta para mediação de sociabilidade, o que incidiu em maior contato e, portanto, em melhoria das relações interpessoais fora do ambiente escolar. Além disso, o uso do Facebook também aumentou a sociabilidade com parentes e pessoas mais distantes, abriu espaço para interação com desconhecidos e possibilitou mais acesso a atualidades. No entanto, verificou-se que as práticas de sociabilidade off-line continuam bastante presentes entre esses jovens, ou porque nem todos têm acesso, ou porque (ainda) não dominam as linguagens da internet e dos sites de redes sociais. / This present work intends to research conversations and consequent sociability among youth who lives in Pelotas` rural areas – city located in Rio Grande do Sul southern part – throughout Facebook. Specifically, it intends to realize how social relations between students have changed from the usage of this social network site. Besides that, this study searches for elements that can help comprehending how the rural youth is affected by the globalized reality of media and technological consumption. For that, the theoretical part addresses youth culture and rural youth, putting them in a context of consumption and usage of technologies, and in a context of mediations. From a communicational perspective, this study addresses sociability inserted in a networked society and the concepts of social network, social network sites, social bonds, social capital and interaction. The methodology was built as a case study, to identify some particularities of the studied group, with no generalizing intentions. In a first moment, during the exploratory movement, some regional family farmers were interviewed by telephone, and semi-structured interviews took place in a high school class with second year students, to subsidize the research design construction. Following, the usage of questionnaires and some informal conversation added to the collected data, helping to identify some group characteristics and, besides that, to identify some changes in the colleagues` interaction from Facebook usage. As results, the technology use as tool to mediate sociability, resulting in more contact between youths and, therefore, better interpersonal relationships outside school. Besides that, Facebook usage increased sociability with family and distant people, opened space for interaction with unknown and provided more access to current information. However, it was noted that offline social practices keep strongly present among this particularly youth, because not all of them have access, or because some of them don`t master the languages and technical aspects of internet and social network sites (yet).

A proposta deste estudo foi conhecer a representação de violência que as crianças constroem nas relações sociais e com a mídia, a partir do desenho animado, desdobrando-se em dimensionar o impacto de suas representações no processo de socialização e de construção da subjetividade na infância, e em explicitar a possível relação entre violência na mídia e violência individual e social. Compreendeu um estudo descritivo, de natureza qualitativa e incluiu pesquisa bibliográfica e levantamento junto às crianças e adultos. A partir de um exercício de descrição, comparação e análise dos discursos de crianças e de seus pais, com suporte em referenciais teóricos sobre cultura contemporânea, violência e representação social, foi possível constatar que as crianças reconhecem diferentes dimensões do fenômeno, discriminam entre a violência real e ficcional e identificam gêneros televisivos e situações, às quais se sentem vulneráveis. Reconhecem imitar os personagens e seus comportamentos nas brincadeiras, porém afirmam que não matariam na vida real. / The purpose of this study is to investigate the representation of cartoon-related violence that children build into their social relationships and with the media. The study also aims to size the impact of their representations in the process of socializing and subjectivity building during childhood, and to show the possible relationship between violence in the media and individual and social violence. This is a descriptive and qualitative study which includes bibliographic research and surveys with children and adults. By describing, comparing and analyzing the language from children and their parents, theoretical references on contemporary culture, violence and social representation, it was possible to verify that children recognize different dimensions of the phenomenon, differentiate between real and fictional violence, and identify television genres and situations to which the feel vulnerable. Children recognize they emulate characters and their behavior, but claim they would not kill in real life.

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<p>The purpose of the study was, with initial position from two particular youth homes, to survey the staff’s experiences regarding different youth cultures that might occur at the institutions and how they react to them. The question formulations were as follows: What kind of youth cultures might occur at the institution and how are they being expressed, according to some of the staff members? How do the same staff members, individually, see their role and prospect to influence the type of youth culture that is developing on the institution? Earlier research in the field were used as theoretical starting positions as well as the concepts of “looking-glass self“, “the generalized other” and ”the overtaking of roles” in the symbolic-interactionism. Qualitative research interviews were carried through with three of the employees at the two youth homes and the results of the study evinced that both positive and negative youth cul-tures develops at both of the institutions, concluding the fact that youths affect each other both ways. The results of the positive culture is that the youths identifies themselves with other youths, support each other and by comprehending more might change their attitude toward different matters. The negative culture might be expressed with youths who bring their trou-bles to the institution, youths who discuss divergent subjects within the group, exposure to bad influence which leads to negative behaviour. Henceforth, the personnel considered that they have a propitious potential to influence the youths and the conditions between them. It was deemed crucial that the personnel group acted alike and kept a jointly approach toward the youths.</p>