Members of Iraqi diaspora in the democratic countries can play role in democratization in Iraq as part of the bottom-up approach. This thesis is trying to present this role through the experiences of those members who are making regular visits to Iraq, 1 or 2 visits a year since 2003. Thesis studies that, to what extend they were able to transfer cultural capital they obtained from the hosting countries to their country of origin. Throughout the interviews, thesis investigates how much these visitors to Iraq, i.e. members of Iraqis diaspora living in Sweden and Denmark, were able to use religious rituals and political activities to present and transfer this cultural capital. Unstructured meetings have been used to reach out potential interviewees. Then, semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect data for the thesis. Theories like transnational migration, social and cultural capital in addition to the concept of Lifestyles have been used to analyze the experiences of the interviewees.Thesis comes up with the arguments that, it is important for the democratization in Iraq to benefit from the cultural capital those members of the Iraqi diaspora possess. Thesis also recommends that, in order to increase the benefit from diaspora, an organized work is needed to be done by formal, semi-formal and non-government organization. Strong and constant links need to be built between the members of Iraqi diaspora and their country of origin.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:39:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 3470.pdf: 1410366 bytes, checksum: 5e897e044d4ca0473203f7b2d42ee170 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-14 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / The aim of this study is to show the school, family and professional trajectories that both young and adult students have followed during their years of schooling and literacy. In addition to this, we understand the reason to why school attendance drops during school age. Questionaires and interviews were applied and from this data we were able to understand the reasons that brought the students back to school and their new expectations towards education. The study was based on Pierre Bourdier´s theories, having as the main concepts, the habitus, cultural, economic and social capitals. It also describes a brief analyses of the education facilities provided in the city of Araraquara/SP and the characteristics of their literacy programme for both adults and young people (PROEAJA), the main literacy programme for local students. This programme aims to diminish the number of illiterate people around the city. This study also aims to find the expectations of the students and to analyse the internal and external factors that influence the students´ behaviour towards school. Last we describe a new area of poor school attendance due to the lack of quality inside the educational system. / A presente dissertação teve por objetivos, estudar as trajetórias escolar, familiar e profissional de jovens e adultos em processo de alfabetização, identificar os principais fatores que os impediram de frequentar a escola na idade escolar, compreender os motivos que condicionaram o retorno aos estudos e analisar as expectativas dos alunos frente à escolarização. Para isso, realizamos um levantamento de dados a partir de questionário e entrevistas. O estudo foi fundamentado nas contribuições teóricas de Pierre Bourdieu adotando como eixo condutor os conceitos de capital cultural, capital econômico, capital social e habitus. Apresenta-se, uma breve análise da configuração do atendimento ao jovem e ao adulto no município de Araraquara/SP e a caracterização do Projeto de Alfabetização para Adultos e Jovens de Araraquara (Proeaja), principal programa que atua na alfabetização de jovens e adultos no município, em que se pode verificar as principais medidas realizadas para a erradicação do analfabetismo em âmbito municipal. O estudo sobre as trajetórias e as novas expectativas dos alunos permitiu a análise dos fatores internos e externos à escola que influenciaram diretamente as trajetórias escolares dos alunos, apresentando a relação entre o grupo estudado e a escola, além de evidenciar um novo tipo de exclusão escolar que está ocorrendo nos últimos anos por meio da não garantia da qualidade do ensino.

Over the past decades, the scholarly discourse of violent video games as a possible influence for aggressive behaviors has gained much attention, primarily relying on the content of such games. This study aims to explore the environment of competitive multiplayer gaming interms of technicality (e.g. game mechanics), social interactions within a video game, and additional resources outside of the game as possible influential factors for toxic behaviors in competitive multiplayer games. Bourdieusian social theory is applied to gain a better understanding of the relationship between agents (players) and the field (competitive gaming) and the relevance of gaming capital. This study is based on a digital ethnographic approach to gain a comprehensive understanding of the gaming environment, and reports on semi-structured online interviews with 14 participants aged between 17-40, to gain insight on players’ perception and responses towards toxic behaviors in competitive games. This study proposes a spectrum of toxic behaviors in competitive multiplayer games, in which actions may be distinguished based on the form of expression (eg. verbal, physical or in-game). Primary findings suggest there may be a causal relationship between a player’s knowledge ofa game and their conveyance of toxicity, regardless of age and gender. The degree of toxicity may vary depending on the player, and is more frequently performed by men. Lastly, toxic behaviors should not be examined in isolation from contextual factors such as game mechanics or social interactions, but need to be further explored as a medium-specific phenomenon.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:33:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marinaldo de Almeida Cunha.pdf: 1588559 bytes, checksum: 310fd4a4f91b045a887176faeccaa2c1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-24 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Success and School failure have been quite common themes in academic papers researching on students graduating high school from public or private schools. However, few investigate the student look that still attends this level of education, and what these people expect of themselves for the near future with the way the determinants received from family and social relationships influence the young in your possible choice. Thus, this paper aims to identify the expectations of young students on their own destiny and the relationships involving their choices upon completion of high school. The study is an empirical research aimed to characterize individuals in socio-economic terms, in addition to showing existing profiles in the classroom and seek to know the social relations kept by the subjects in and out of school. Primarily aimed to understand the expectations of young high school students from public schools in the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba. Therefore we wish to observe how the environment and social groups such as family, school, among others, have a direct or indirect influence on the individual to choose the educational path and / or professional to be followed after completion at this level of education. The Pierre Bourdieu s concepts of cultural, social and economic capitals will be the work tab in the quest to understand how social origin and social relations are determining factors in the choice of the future of the individual. We also employ the concepts of primary and secondary socialization of Berger and Luckmann. The first form of socialization is responsible for the insertion of the individual in social media, and the second, by the process that introduces the individual already socialized into new sectors of society / Sucesso e fracasso escolar têm sido temas bastante comuns em trabalhos acadêmicos que pesquisam sobre estudantes egressos do ensino médio de escolas públicas ou privadas. Entretanto, poucos relacionam o olhar do estudante que ainda cursa esta etapa de ensino, e o que esses indivíduos esperam de si mesmos para um futuro próximo com a forma pela qual os determinantes recebidos dos familiares e das relações sociais influenciam o jovem na sua possível escolha. Sendo assim, este trabalho pretende identificar as expectativas de jovens estudantes sobre seu próprio destino e as relações que envolvem suas escolhas na conclusão do ensino médio. O estudo consiste numa pesquisa empírica que visa caracterizar os indivíduos em termos socioeconômicos, além de traçar os perfis existentes na sala de aula e procurar conhecer as relações sociais mantidas pelos sujeitos dentro e fora da escola. Prioritariamente buscamos identificar as expectativas de jovens estudantes do ensino médio de escolas públicas estaduais da cidade de Campina Grande, Paraíba. Pretendemos assim, constatar de que forma o meio e os grupos sociais, tais como a família, a escola, dentre outros, exercem influência direta ou indireta sobre o indivíduo na escolha do caminho educacional e/ou profissional que pretende seguir após a conclusão deste nível de ensino. Os conceitos de capital cultural, social e econômico de Pierre Bourdieu serão o guia do trabalho na busca de compreender como a origem social e as relações sociais são fatores determinantes na escolha do futuro do indivíduo. Também empregamos os conceitos de socialização primária e secundária de Berger e Luckmann. A primeira forma de socialização é responsável pela inserção do indivíduo nos meios sociais e, a segunda, pelo processo que introduz o indivíduo já socializado em novos setores da sociedade