Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Biological Sciences Department, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

O presente estudo buscou investigar se o modelo de cooperativismo adotado por uma cooperativa de pequenos produtores rurais ligados à citricultura orgânica tem contribuído para o empowerment dos seus membros, ou seja, se os atores envolvidos, de forma individual ou coletiva, têm utilizado seus recursos econômicos, sociais, políticos e culturais para agir com responsabilidade no espaço público defendendo os seus direitos. Como a pobreza rural e as desigualdades sociais estão presentes em grande parte do território nacional, muitos produtores vêem no cooperativismo e em ferramentas como o comércio justo alternativas para a subsistência e uma forma de mediar as contradições políticas, ideológicas e psicológicas existentes nas sociedades. A organização estudada foi a Cooperativa dos Citricultores Ecológicos do Vale do Caí – ECOCITRUS. Localizada no município de Montenegro/RS, essa é a única cooperativa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul com o selo de certificação internacional do comércio justo (Fair Trade). Adotando-se o método Estudo de Caso e como principal instrumento para coleta de dados a entrevista semi-estruturada realizada com pequenos produtores rurais associados – principalmente aqueles que participaram do processo de constituição da cooperativa – o autor procurou identificar e separar os cinco momentos do empowerment propostos por Kieffer (1984) e vivenciados pelos fundadores da cooperativa. Dessa maneira, o estudo concluiu que a inserção desses produtores no sistema cooperativista está contribuindo para mudanças positivas nas suas vidas, proporcionando a abertura de novas oportunidades, até então não vivenciadas por tais individuos. Em síntese, acredita-se que tais atores foram empoderados à medida que passaram a ter acesso a um poder anteriormente limitado, alterando significativamente as suas vidas. / The present study aimed at investigating if the cooperativeness model adopted by a cooperative of small rural producers developing organic citrus culture has contributed for the empowerment of its members, i. e., if the involved actors, either individually or collectively, have utilized their economical, social, political and cultural resources in order to perform with responsibility in the public space by defending their rights. As the rural poverty and social inequalities are present in a great part of the national territory, many producers see, in cooperativeness and in tools like the fair trade, the alternatives for subsistence and a way of mediating the political, ideological and psychological contradictions existing in society. The studied organization was the Cooperative of Ecological Citrus Producers from Caí Valley – ECOCITRUS. Located in the municipality of Montenegro, RS, this is the sole cooperative in the state of Rio Grande do Sul awarded with the international certification of Fair Trade. By adopting the Case Study as method and, as main instrument for the data collection, the semistructured interview carried out with associated small rural producers – mainly those who participated of the cooperative constitution process, the author searched for identifying and detaching the five empowerment moments suggested for Kieffer (1984) and experienced by the cooperative founders. As a result, this study draw the conclusion that the insertion of these producers into the cooperative system has contributed for positive changes in their lives by providing new opportunities they had not experienced as yet. To summarize, there is the belief that such actors have been empowered when they began to have access to a power which was previously limited and significantly changing their lives.

O presente estudo buscou investigar se o modelo de cooperativismo adotado por uma cooperativa de pequenos produtores rurais ligados à citricultura orgânica tem contribuído para o empowerment dos seus membros, ou seja, se os atores envolvidos, de forma individual ou coletiva, têm utilizado seus recursos econômicos, sociais, políticos e culturais para agir com responsabilidade no espaço público defendendo os seus direitos. Como a pobreza rural e as desigualdades sociais estão presentes em grande parte do território nacional, muitos produtores vêem no cooperativismo e em ferramentas como o comércio justo alternativas para a subsistência e uma forma de mediar as contradições políticas, ideológicas e psicológicas existentes nas sociedades. A organização estudada foi a Cooperativa dos Citricultores Ecológicos do Vale do Caí – ECOCITRUS. Localizada no município de Montenegro/RS, essa é a única cooperativa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul com o selo de certificação internacional do comércio justo (Fair Trade). Adotando-se o método Estudo de Caso e como principal instrumento para coleta de dados a entrevista semi-estruturada realizada com pequenos produtores rurais associados – principalmente aqueles que participaram do processo de constituição da cooperativa – o autor procurou identificar e separar os cinco momentos do empowerment propostos por Kieffer (1984) e vivenciados pelos fundadores da cooperativa. Dessa maneira, o estudo concluiu que a inserção desses produtores no sistema cooperativista está contribuindo para mudanças positivas nas suas vidas, proporcionando a abertura de novas oportunidades, até então não vivenciadas por tais individuos. Em síntese, acredita-se que tais atores foram empoderados à medida que passaram a ter acesso a um poder anteriormente limitado, alterando significativamente as suas vidas. / The present study aimed at investigating if the cooperativeness model adopted by a cooperative of small rural producers developing organic citrus culture has contributed for the empowerment of its members, i. e., if the involved actors, either individually or collectively, have utilized their economical, social, political and cultural resources in order to perform with responsibility in the public space by defending their rights. As the rural poverty and social inequalities are present in a great part of the national territory, many producers see, in cooperativeness and in tools like the fair trade, the alternatives for subsistence and a way of mediating the political, ideological and psychological contradictions existing in society. The studied organization was the Cooperative of Ecological Citrus Producers from Caí Valley – ECOCITRUS. Located in the municipality of Montenegro, RS, this is the sole cooperative in the state of Rio Grande do Sul awarded with the international certification of Fair Trade. By adopting the Case Study as method and, as main instrument for the data collection, the semistructured interview carried out with associated small rural producers – mainly those who participated of the cooperative constitution process, the author searched for identifying and detaching the five empowerment moments suggested for Kieffer (1984) and experienced by the cooperative founders. As a result, this study draw the conclusion that the insertion of these producers into the cooperative system has contributed for positive changes in their lives by providing new opportunities they had not experienced as yet. To summarize, there is the belief that such actors have been empowered when they began to have access to a power which was previously limited and significantly changing their lives.

O presente estudo buscou investigar se o modelo de cooperativismo adotado por uma cooperativa de pequenos produtores rurais ligados à citricultura orgânica tem contribuído para o empowerment dos seus membros, ou seja, se os atores envolvidos, de forma individual ou coletiva, têm utilizado seus recursos econômicos, sociais, políticos e culturais para agir com responsabilidade no espaço público defendendo os seus direitos. Como a pobreza rural e as desigualdades sociais estão presentes em grande parte do território nacional, muitos produtores vêem no cooperativismo e em ferramentas como o comércio justo alternativas para a subsistência e uma forma de mediar as contradições políticas, ideológicas e psicológicas existentes nas sociedades. A organização estudada foi a Cooperativa dos Citricultores Ecológicos do Vale do Caí – ECOCITRUS. Localizada no município de Montenegro/RS, essa é a única cooperativa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul com o selo de certificação internacional do comércio justo (Fair Trade). Adotando-se o método Estudo de Caso e como principal instrumento para coleta de dados a entrevista semi-estruturada realizada com pequenos produtores rurais associados – principalmente aqueles que participaram do processo de constituição da cooperativa – o autor procurou identificar e separar os cinco momentos do empowerment propostos por Kieffer (1984) e vivenciados pelos fundadores da cooperativa. Dessa maneira, o estudo concluiu que a inserção desses produtores no sistema cooperativista está contribuindo para mudanças positivas nas suas vidas, proporcionando a abertura de novas oportunidades, até então não vivenciadas por tais individuos. Em síntese, acredita-se que tais atores foram empoderados à medida que passaram a ter acesso a um poder anteriormente limitado, alterando significativamente as suas vidas. / The present study aimed at investigating if the cooperativeness model adopted by a cooperative of small rural producers developing organic citrus culture has contributed for the empowerment of its members, i. e., if the involved actors, either individually or collectively, have utilized their economical, social, political and cultural resources in order to perform with responsibility in the public space by defending their rights. As the rural poverty and social inequalities are present in a great part of the national territory, many producers see, in cooperativeness and in tools like the fair trade, the alternatives for subsistence and a way of mediating the political, ideological and psychological contradictions existing in society. The studied organization was the Cooperative of Ecological Citrus Producers from Caí Valley – ECOCITRUS. Located in the municipality of Montenegro, RS, this is the sole cooperative in the state of Rio Grande do Sul awarded with the international certification of Fair Trade. By adopting the Case Study as method and, as main instrument for the data collection, the semistructured interview carried out with associated small rural producers – mainly those who participated of the cooperative constitution process, the author searched for identifying and detaching the five empowerment moments suggested for Kieffer (1984) and experienced by the cooperative founders. As a result, this study draw the conclusion that the insertion of these producers into the cooperative system has contributed for positive changes in their lives by providing new opportunities they had not experienced as yet. To summarize, there is the belief that such actors have been empowered when they began to have access to a power which was previously limited and significantly changing their lives.

This study examined the influence of age, expertise, and task difficulty on children's patterns of collaboration. Six- and eight-year-old children were individually pretested for ability to copy a Lego model and then paired with each other and asked to copy two more models. The design was a 3 (dyad skill level: novice, expert, or mixed) X 2 (age: six or eight) X 2 (task difficulty: moderate or complex) factorial. Results indicated that cooperation increased with age and expertise and decreased with task difficulty. However, expertise had a greater influence on younger than older children's interaction styles. It is argued that with age, social skills may become as important as expertise in determining styles of collaboration. The issue is raised of whether cooperation, domination, and independence represent developmental sequences (i.e., independence precedes cooperation) or whether they represent personal styles of interaction. Finally, it is suggested that an important goal for future research is to assess the relationship between patterns of collaboration and learning.

There is evidence that cooperation in the workplace can have positive outcomes for organizations. To take advantage of these outcomes, it would be useful to gain information about the causes of cooperation. This study attempts to isolate some factors, leader motivation and style in particular, that may predict cooperation within work groups.

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The purpose was to investigate whether using two type of interventions (i.e., Four rooms of change in school and EQ- workshop) in addition to curriculum guidelines can affect character development in children 10-12 years of age. The data was collected using the test Junior Temperament and Character Inventory (J-TCI; Cloninger, CR, 1994) in three elementary schools among students in fifth grade who had been involved in any of the two interventions for the past two years or no intervention at all. The J-TCI scales were used to, besides the seven personality dimension it measures, create a self-constructed empathy scale. A total of 55 participants were included in the study (girls n = 26 and boys n = 29). Statistical testing with MANOVA showed no significant main effect on empathy or any personality trait. There was however an interaction effect between intervention and gender on the character traits. Girls in the Four Rooms of change in school, compared to boys, reported higher Self-directedness and Cooperativeness and girls in the EQ-workshop reported higher Self-transcendence. The interventions Four Rooms at school and EQ workshop seems to have different impact on boys and girls. / Syftet var att undersöka om användandet av två typer av interventioner (dvs, Fyrarummaren i skolan och EQ verkstan) utöver Läroplanens riktlinjer kan påverka karaktärsutveckling hos barn 10-12 år. Data samlades in med hjälp av testet Junior Temperament och Character Inventory (J-TCI, Cloninger, CR, 1994) i tre grundskolor bland elever i femte klass som hade varit inblandade i någon av de två insatserna under de senaste två åren alternativt ingen intervention alls. J-TCI skalorna användes för att, förutom de sju personlighetsdimensioner den mäter, skapa en egentillverkad empatiskala. Totalt 55 deltagare ingick i studien (flickor n = 26 och pojkar n = 29). Statistisk testning med MANOVA visade ingen signifikant huvudeffekt på empati eller något personlighetsdrag. Det fanns dock en interaktionseffekt mellan intervention och kön på karaktärsdrag. Flickor i  Fyrarummaren i skolan, jämfört med pojkar, rapporterade högre Self-directedness och Cooperativeness och flickor i EQ-verkstan  rapporterade högre Self-transcendence. Interventionerna Fyrarummaren i skolan och EQ-verkstan verkar ha olika påverkan på pojkar och flickor.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T12:19:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RaimundoCavalcanteRodrigues.pdf: 1344536 bytes, checksum: db9a50bd4d39c7e207c02b8379c77096 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-17 / The present study describes the diverse socioeconomic aspects that contribute to family income increase of cooperative members at the Cooperativa Agropecuária do Cariri Coapecal. The idea of cooperative firstly appeared in the nineteenth century when the first cooperative was founded in Rochdale, Manchester, Britain in response to the Industrial Revolution advance that had introduced the steam machine to replace manpower available then. The method used in the research was a case study including a descriptive and bibliographic field survey. A population of 900 cooperative members were involved in the study, being 187 out of them used as a sample for the investigation. A questionnaire involving three aspects was used to collect the data in the survey. The first aspect containing 8 questions related to the socioeconomic profile of cooperative members; the second with 6 questions referred to property, being the third aspect with 9 questions about cattle raising. The whole questionnaire comprised of 23 closed questions aiming to estimate the increase rate in the family income of the people surveyed. Finally, after compiling and interpreting the variables of the research, the study showed there was, indeed, an increase in the family income of those members, and it confirmed that cooperativeness is an effective alternative to reach this goal. Thus, it is expected that cooperative managers ponder over this reality and that they be willing to meet their members´ requests. / O presente estudo teve por objetivo analisar os principais fatores que contribuíram para a elevação da renda familiar dos cooperados da Cooperativa Agropecuária do Cariri Coapecal. O cooperativismo surgiu no século XIX, com a fundação, em 1844, da primeira cooperativa, em Rochdale, bairro de Manchester na Inglaterra, em resposta ao avanço da Revolução Industrial, que introduzia a máquina a vapor em substituição a mão-de-obra disponível na época. O método utilizado foi o estudo de caso. A pesquisa realizada quanto ao objeto foi do tipo bibliográfica e de campo e quanto aos fins a descritiva. O universo pesquisado foi composto por uma população de 900 cooperados, sendo destes retirada uma mostra de 187 cooperados. Utilizou-se como instrumento de coleta de dados a aplicação de questionário, com vinte e três perguntas fechadas, visando delinear o perfil socioeconômico dos cooperados, como também identificar os aspectos relacionados com a propriedade e as atividades desenvolvidas referente à pecuária, onde se buscou aferir o grau de elevação da renda familiar dos pesquisados. E por fim, depois de agrupadas e interpretadas às variáveis inerentes a referida pesquisa, o presente estudo demonstrou que a maioria dos pesquisados teve realmente comprovada à elevação na sua renda familiar, confirmando que é o cooperativismo uma alternativa na microrregião do cariri oriental paraibano, para se alcançar esse objetivo. Desse modo, esperamos que os gestores da Cooperativa reflitam e busquem atender às reivindicações feitas pelos seus cooperados.

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