The aim of this flexible, multi-method case-study (after Yin 1994, 2003), was to elicit the 'student perspective' on issues relating to mental well-being within the Higher Education Institution setting. It has been guided by the ideology of the health promotion model, the concept of salutogenesis and the Health Promoting University initiative. Phase One consisted of eleven focus group discussions involving fifty one self-selecting participant undergraduates and a semi-structured interview conducted with the lead medical practitioner of the Medical Centre on site. In Phase Two, a quota sample of 806 undergraduates completed a questionnaire. The three datasets were analysed according to a facilitative and complementary approach (Brannen 2004) and in keeping with assumptions of the paradigms from which they originated. The qualitative data were analysed within the framework provided by Miles and Huberman (1994) and the survey was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings demonstrated that this multi-site university may have specific difficulties with regard to the provision of equal access to the support services. Reduced pastoral care could pose risks to the mental well-being of some students whereas the allocation of students to a personal tutor might increase levels of social capital and reduce symptoms of 'anomie'. Conclusions of the study suggest that HEIs need an understanding of the concerns of the students and their help-seeking behaviour in order to define 'health assets' and minimise 'health deficits'. Overall, the development of co-ordinated institutional support service provision - that is responsive to the needs of a diverse student body - facilitates and supports the creation of a salutogenic environment that both promotes and sustains mental well-being. Health education programmes need to address the persistence of stigma and discrimination. Attention should be focused on health protection measures so that all groups of students are treated equally and fairly in order to counter-balance a possible residual biomedical approach to health promotion from within the medical sector provision. As a case-study of one university, the findings may be theoretically generalisable to other similar multi-site HEIs in their mental health promotion provision.

Les jeux vidéos, les comics américains, les séminaires ludiques de créativité, leszombie walks, ou encore les phénomènes d’effervescences prennent de plus en plus deplace dans les sociétés contemporaines. Ce travail de recherche s’interroge sur cettedimension ludique de l’existence qui façonne de nouvelles manières d’être-ensemble.Si ce travail s’apparente à la sociologie du jeu, il n’envisage pas le jeu comme undomaine spécifique, comme une sphère particulière de la vie sociale. Notre réflexions’attache à replacer le jeu comme forme de socialisation. Un peu à la manière deHuizinga qui voyait le jeu comme ce qui fait culture, nous envisageons ici le ludiquecomme ce qui fait société.Trois expressions de cette forme ludique de socialisation sont abordées dans cetravail de recherche : 1. Le bovarysme, tout d’abord, qui interpelle les modalités deconstruction de l’identité, ainsi que les rapports entre réalité et irréalité. Le bovarysme,expression contemporaine de l’enromancement médiéval, suggère que l’être-ensemblerepose sur un certain type de fiction. 2. Les itinéraires mnémoniques, ensuite, quidécoulent des fictions bovaryques et qui manifestent la mutation de notre rapport àl’espace et au territoire communautaire. Les lieux communs, territoires de la mémoirecollective, ne s’expriment plus simplement dans un rapport au souvenir, mais aussi dansun cheminement, un voyage, des itinéraires. L’être-ensemble se territorialise dansl’usage de la métaphore que se proposent de faire les sociétés contemporaines. 3.L’esprit d’aventure, enfin, expression de l’amour du risque qui lutte contre l’ennui. Si lafiction identitaire et les itinéraires mnémoniques nous proposent de nouveaux voyagescommunautaires, l’esprit d’aventure et d’exploration se trouve certainement à leurorigine. L’ennui provoqué par un certain désenchantement du monde trouve icil’expression de sa vivante part maudite.Au travers de l’étude de ces trois dimensions des comportements ludiquescontemporains, le jeu apparaît comme expression ambivalente des anomiescontemporaines. Anomie destructrice de la société moderne, d’un côté, anomie créatricedes sociétés en gestation, de l’autre. / Pas de résumé en anglais

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Les jeux vidéos, les comics américains, les séminaires ludiques de créativité, leszombie walks, ou encore les phénomènes d'effervescences prennent de plus en plus deplace dans les sociétés contemporaines. Ce travail de recherche s'interroge sur cettedimension ludique de l'existence qui façonne de nouvelles manières d'être-ensemble.Si ce travail s'apparente à la sociologie du jeu, il n'envisage pas le jeu comme undomaine spécifique, comme une sphère particulière de la vie sociale. Notre réflexions'attache à replacer le jeu comme forme de socialisation. Un peu à la manière deHuizinga qui voyait le jeu comme ce qui fait culture, nous envisageons ici le ludiquecomme ce qui fait société.Trois expressions de cette forme ludique de socialisation sont abordées dans cetravail de recherche : 1. Le bovarysme, tout d'abord, qui interpelle les modalités deconstruction de l'identité, ainsi que les rapports entre réalité et irréalité. Le bovarysme,expression contemporaine de l'enromancement médiéval, suggère que l'être-ensemblerepose sur un certain type de fiction. 2. Les itinéraires mnémoniques, ensuite, quidécoulent des fictions bovaryques et qui manifestent la mutation de notre rapport àl'espace et au territoire communautaire. Les lieux communs, territoires de la mémoirecollective, ne s'expriment plus simplement dans un rapport au souvenir, mais aussi dansun cheminement, un voyage, des itinéraires. L'être-ensemble se territorialise dansl'usage de la métaphore que se proposent de faire les sociétés contemporaines. 3.L'esprit d'aventure, enfin, expression de l'amour du risque qui lutte contre l'ennui. Si lafiction identitaire et les itinéraires mnémoniques nous proposent de nouveaux voyagescommunautaires, l'esprit d'aventure et d'exploration se trouve certainement à leurorigine. L'ennui provoqué par un certain désenchantement du monde trouve icil'expression de sa vivante part maudite.Au travers de l'étude de ces trois dimensions des comportements ludiquescontemporains, le jeu apparaît comme expression ambivalente des anomiescontemporaines. Anomie destructrice de la société moderne, d'un côté, anomie créatricedes sociétés en gestation, de l'autre.

Cette recherche se penche sur le défi que peut représenter le processus d'intégration en société pour celui qui a été socialisé dans sa prime enfance dans un milieu sectaire. L'objectif central de cette étude est d'examiner les rapports entre les paramètres de la socialisation première favorisant une socialisation marginale et le processus d'intégration sociale de ceux qui ont actualisé un départ volontaire de la « secte ». Cette étude qualitative est basée principalement sur sept entretiens non-directifs qui ont servi de cadre aux récits de vie de ceux qui avaient passé leur enfance au sein d'une secte fondamentaliste apocalyptique, relativement fermée à la société. Les informateurs ont vécu en société en moyenne une vingtaine d'années depuis leur départ volontaire, ce qui a contribué largement à nous fournir les données pertinentes sur les paramètres du processus d'intégration. Deux entrevues de groupe et quelques douze sources secondaires ont complété la collecte des données. De plus, le fait pour nous d'avoir côtoyé sur une base régulière des gens qui avaient vécu une expérience similaire a contribué à raffiner et à nourrir notre analyse. Nos hypothèses sont les suivantes a) la discontinuité -langagière, axiologique, comportementale, morale et de vision du monde -entre le groupe sectaire et la société dominante rend très difficile le processus d'intégration b) les principaux éléments de discontinuité affectent la capacité d'autonomie et de jugement critique des individus c) il y a une corrélation entre le degré de fermeture du groupe, d'autoritarisme et d'abus exercés à l'endroit de l'enfant et le degré de difficulté du processus d'intégration sociale d) il existe un rapport entre le type de l'idéologie sectaire et le niveau de difficulté du processus d'intégration. Notre analyse amène à conclure que c'est la vision du monde intériorisée dans la secte qui constitue la variable dominante qui entrave le processus d'intégration. Cette vision du monde figure parmi les facteurs marquants de la socialisation première qui confère à celle-ci le caractère d'une socialisation marginale. Cette vision du monde particulière se forge principalement par le biais d'une socialisation religieuse totalisante qui infère une conception manichéenne de la réalité, affecte la construction identitaire et l'intériorisation d'un nomos (conception du monde) entièrement légitimé par le religieux. Nous analysons les étapes marquantes du processus d'intégration en discernant ce qui, de la socialisation marginale vécue, affecte chacune d'entre elles. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Secte, Socialisation, Intégration, Enfant, Anomie, Socialisation religieuse.

After the severe devastation from the Korean War between 1950~1953, SouthKorea achieved a complete makeover. The country with the 12th largest economy inthe world commemorated its success by hosting the G20 summit in 2010 for thefirst time in Asia. Korea is the only country switched its status from aninternational aid recipient to a donor. The country is known to have a highpotential to grow even further with its emerging economy.Many developing countries in Africa, South East Asia and Latin Americadeclared that they adopted or plan to adopt the Korean development model which isgovernment-driven industrialization nurturing exports. However behind thedazzling skyscrapers, the country is reported to be suffering from a high suiciderate, rising temporary employment, disparity, value crisis and increasing antisocialbehaviours.Based on an analysis of indices, the country is diagnosed to be in anomie. Thesociety is going through moral breakdown due to commodification introducedduring the rapid industrialization. Given that society is shaped through a constantreconciliation between freedom and security, Korea has sacrificed its security byletting market freedom override politics, which has to function as a soundmoderator, to the point it cannot be controlled.This paper argues that ensuring the primacy of politics to rein in marketfreedom is an urgent task. Market needs to be repositioned under society in pursuitof restoring the balance between freedom and security which should work as thebasis of the every development agenda. Sound governance and transparency asprerequisites, many countries should establish those before starting to implement adevelopment plan. Restoring community is heightened both as a measure ofprevention and cure that it can be started at the individual level.

This thesis explores the relationship between food and identity. Drawing on the concept of ‘gastro-anomie’, or ‘food normlessness’, it asks how individuals’ make sense of food and eating in the context of an increasingly globalised and complex food economy. Through a series of in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a small number of individuals living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the thesis outlines participants’ everyday attitudes toward food and eating practices. It concludes that individuals actively seek out and ultimately find meaning through their food consumption practices. Consciously aware of the problems associated with the global food economy, the participants in this study used their food choices as a way to reflexively carve out their identities. Their bodies provided a powerful medium through which they engaged in these efforts.

Long term ocean cruisers are self defined as people who have accepted, adopted or chosen a cruising lifestyle, who live aboard their own sailing vessels, have independent means, are self sufficient and have been away from their port of departure for an extended period of time. As a group, cruisers, constitute a subculture (Macbeth, 1985). Why do people choose to adopt a cruising lifestyle? Using the principles of grounded theory analysis, this study found that cruisers were motivated by a variety of extrinsic and intrinsic motivations as well as by their social background and status in society. Cruisers were motivated by a need to escape the pressures and constraints of their home society as well as to pursue a lifestyle which offered freedom and a sense of personal control, a need to add some adventure or challenge to their lives or to fulfil a dream. They were also motivated by relationship commitments and a desire to travel and experience new cultures, people and settings. Their age, gender, family life cycle stage, education, income and former lifestyle pursuits also motivated them. In setting about and maintaining the fulfilment of their motivations, cruisers exhibited personal agency in their choice to move from a life in the centre of mainstream western societies to one in the margins. Overall, cruisers were found to be social actors who exhibit agency and self governance in decision making as to whether or not to maintain a sense of 'connectivity' with and without various social settings. Cruisers' responses to feelings of anomie and alienation in their home societies, to their feelings of under or non-actualisation at the individual level, and to their need for belonging with a partner activated these people to make choices and decisions regarding the negotiation and direction of their own social realities. Based on the cruisers who participated in this study, such agency and self governance can be described as 'empowered connectivity'. Empowered connectivity is the action of exhibiting agency in order to achieve connectivity with the space in which an individual currently finds her or himself. It can be both a holding on to and a letting go of connections. Empowered connectivity is not a 'theory' per se, but rather a generic representation of a process that accounts for 'plurality, multiplicity and difference'(Tong 1989) in the actions of both women and men as they negotiate the spaces they choose to occupy. Moreover, this study informed by the interpretive social sciences paradigm and, a 'feminist methodology’ enabled an indepth understanding of cruising women's experiences to be counterpointed against cruising men's experiences. Subsequently, cruising women became subjects in their own right rather than'other’. Further, the interpretive social sciences paradigm and 'feministmethodology' emphasised the need for tourism research, in particular, to use bothernic and etic perspectives in data collection and analysis. This ethnographic study of cruisers was conducted between 1985 and 1999 on theeastern seaboard of Australia. The study involved participant observation, semi-structured indepth interviews and self-completion questionnaires relating tosociodemographics, vessel inventories, budgets and touristic experiences.

Zugl.: Augsburg, Univ., Diss., 2007

Japan has been seen as a safe country in the world. Previous studies that show societal and cultural characteristics have contributed to the comparative low crime rates. Also, the roles of criminal justice system are critical. Today, Japanese society favors a more punitive approach towards offenders. The present study examined which variables of economic factors, socio-structural factors, and deterrence factors affected Japanese crime rates (i.e., homicide, robbery, and larceny), testing for Institutional anomie theory (IAT) and deterrence theory. I conducted visual examination of co-variation with Z-scores and an ARIMA (autoregressive integrated moving average), with Japanese governmental data from 1955 to 2012. The results indicated homicide rates were explained by neither IAT nor deterrence variables. Robbery rates were significantly related with unemployment rates and divorce rates, supporting IAT. Larceny rates were strongly associated with clearance rates, giving support to deterrence theory. Based on the results, practical implications and limitations were discussed.