Information sources used by homeowners in their purchase of major appliances were compared with the homeowner's occupation, education, and income. The sample consisted of 60 Logan City homeowners who had Purchased a major appliance within the past 5 years. The respondents completed a questionnaire consisting of: 1) personal background information and 2) questions concerning their major appliance purchases. Dy testing with the adjusted chi square test , it was found that of the 3 consumer variables: education , income, and occupation , education was relatively significant ( .175), and occupation was very significant ( .074) in determining the type of information sources a homeowner used.

Esta dissertação de mestrado realizou uma etnografia com membros de uma Associação de Moradores localizada em um bairro de ocupação irregular chamado Parque Recanto Cocaia. O referido bairro se situa no distrito do Grajaú, Zona Sul da cidade de São Paulo. Parte do distrito pertence à área de proteção ambiental, pois se assenta em um manancial urbano, característica que confere especificidades com relação às problemáticas das ocupações urbanas irregulares. O ponto de partida da pesquisa foi investigar os processos de construção de demandas para o bairro, bem como as estratégias para dar visibilidade às mesmas junto ao Estado, tornando-as, assim, reivindicações. A problemática de fundo desta pesquisa visou por em pauta a manutenção e reprodução de um espaço em que a ocupação urbana é restrita, pois se trata de área de manancial. O aprofundamento etnográfico na Associação de Moradores revelou que o processo de construção de reivindicações leva seus membros a participar de múltiplas esferas de atuação política. Eles atuam em movimentos sociais, em Conselhos Gestores Municipais de Saúde e são lideranças comunitárias em seu bairro. Assim, argumento que a produção de vínculos com atores políticos de outros bairros do Grajaú, de alguns distritos próximos e com gestores públicos dos Conselhos Gestores, leva ao fortalecimento de suas atuações políticas. Isso ocorre porque tais vínculos decorrem de uma prática cuja ênfase está nas relações desenvolvidas nas esferas de atuação política. / This masters degree dissertation develops an ethnography with the members of a Homeowners association located in an irregular occupation neighborhood called Parque Recanto Cocaia. The referred neighborhood is situated in the district of Grajaú, in the South zone of the city of São Paulo. Part of the district belongs to the environmental protection area, since it is located on an urban fountainhead, a characteristic that confers specificities regarding the problematics of irregular urban occupations. The starting point for the research was to investigate the demand construction processes for the neighborhood, as well as the strategies to provide visibility of these alongside the State, thus turning them into claims. The backdrop problematic of this research sought to bring to the agenda the maintenance and reproduction of a space where urban occupation is restricted, since it is a fountainhead area. The ethnographic deepening into the Homeowners Association revealed that the claim elaboration process leads its members to participate in several spheres of political action. They take part in social movements, Municipal Health Management Boards and are community leaders in their neighborhood. Thus, I argument that the production of bonds with public actors from other neighborhoods in Grajaú, from some close districts and with public managers from Managing Boards, leads to the strengthening of their political actions. This occurs because such bonds result from a practice whose emphasis is in the relationships developed in the spheres of political action.

Comparison of contemporary legislation of basic institutes of condominium act in Czech Republic and Germany The work focuses on explaining the basic concepts which limit the whole legislation and position of homeowners' association (HOA) as a legal entity which is responsible for keeping the house. The first chapter deals with the theoretical concept behind the condominium. How does it differ from the common ownership and what are other similar concepts. Legal orders of both countries (Czech Republic and Germany) stand on classical concept of a thing. In this context the apartment cannot be a thing because it lacks independence from other things - they cannot exist outside a building (which is a thing) and therefore they cannot be legally transferred. In my opinion the current law stand on dualistic theory, where the unit is primary and the co- owner share in building and parcel are accessorial to the unit. In Germany there is a ruling principle of superficies solo cedit. That means a building is part of land and cannot be legally transferred without the land underneath. In German theory the ownership of flats constitutes a unity of three elements: co-ownership (on land), exclusive ownership (on unit) and membership in HOA. The second chapter outlines the terms which appear in the following text and which...

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