The financial misconduct and corruption at the very top of the class system that in 2008 caused the collapse of the world economy saw no reaction from the criminal justice system. In contrast, the 2011 English Riots at the bottom rungs of society, estimated to have caused 200 million pounds of damages, produced a ruthless response from the judiciary where sentences were almost treble the usual rate. Politicians were quick to condemn the rioters as mere wanton criminals and framing their actions within a behavioural explanation calling for severe punishments. My thesis’s aim is to show that it was instead decades of neoliberal policies that pushed these people to vent their frustration through rioting. Their ensuing anomic ethic is understood by considering the rioters’ actions through the prism of both Strain Theory and Institutional Anomie Theory. To contextualise their place within today’s capitalist society I categorized them within an emerging social class: The Precariat. Through a qualitative analysis of 17 interviews’ extracts, all that transpired was their desires to be active consumers by grabbing what they could; the riots were merely an excuse to bypass the structurally imposed limits that stood before the desired higher social status. This research speaks of an increasingly unequal society, which positions individual economic success above collective well-being. These disturbances are symptoms of a deep seated malaise and of a stripped-down manifestation of what neoliberalism really is. To reverse it, we ought to implement holistic socioeconomic policies that empower people through the creation of secure and well-paid jobs, encourage collectivism over individualism and that promote better education towards sustainable living and happiness.

There is an absence of research on the process of identity formation and the related sense of social belonging for adolescent social orphans, that is, those youth who live outside parental care despite the presence of at least one living biological parent. In addition, scant attention has been paid to how culture norms influence the experience of ambiguous loss. Yet this population of children is vast; UNICEF (2012) estimates a total of 151 million orphans worldwide of which at least 8 million languish in institutions (RELAF, 2010). Due to complex social conditions, approximately 40,000 children over the age of seven are under the protection of the Colombian government and of this number, 25,000 reside in institutions (RELAF, 2010). Informed by ambiguous loss and attachment theories, this qualitative study's primary aims were to: (1) understand how parental loss influences the social orphan's social construction of biological as well as psychological family; (2) make explicit the role of adult identity agents who participate in the process of the youth's identity formation; and (3) identify how these youth transitioning to adulthood perceive their futures. The data are derived from two in-depth interviews conducted in Spanish with thirty social orphans aged 14 and 19 residing in two Colombian institutions. Results revealed that, despite having histories of abuse, neglect and/or extreme hardship, the absent birth family is psychologically present for the majority of these youth and their future goals include reunification as well as economic support for biological family members. Findings also suggested that those youth who are able to identify available adults who possess the attributes of an identity agent, and can draw upon the emotional and instrumental resources they offer, are better able to navigate the process of identity formation and imagine futures that are replete with hope and success. From a practice perspective, the study's findings offer insights into strategies for the development of culturally informed models of clinical engagement with adolescent social orphans to improve post-institutional outcomes for those youth for whom the world, without the benefit of parental support, is fraught with challenges and increased risk for social disconnection.

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The number of families choosing to adopt a child internationally in the United States has increased exponentially on an annual basis (Johnson, 1997; Miller, 2000). The purpose of this study was to understand the adoption process experiences of families who have adopted a child between the ages of three and five years old from Russia or Romania after 1992. In this clinical sample, all participants' adopted children had been referred for and undergone neuropsychological, medical, speech, and/or language evaluation. Specifically, the research questions were designed to help therapists understand the role mental health care professionals, schools, family members, and friends played in the adoption process and how the participants' experiences compared with their preadoptive expectations. Twenty families were interviewed and several observations were conducted. Data analysis consisted of thematic analysis which elicited codes and themes across the interviews. This study's findings suggest that: 1) parents would have found more preparation before adoption helpful in the process; 2) health care professionals and schools need to be better educated about problems, concerns, and appropriate treatments specific to post-institutionalized children; 3) raising (a) special needs child(ren) puts significant strain on the caregiver(s) and their significant relationships; and 4) families with special needs children are extremely resilient. These findings are important for education and healthcare professionals, families who are planning to adopt internationally in the future and current adoptive families. / Ph. D.

Based on the limited outcomes and often failed implementation processes of annual employee surveys a new phenomenon for collecting people data has risen; the pulsed employee survey. This survey and its continuous way of measuring are by many providers and consultants stated to be an important tool that increases employee engagement. The phenomenon of the pulsed employee survey has so far received limited academic attention, despite its growing importance as a potential institutionalized practice. Therefore, this study aims at broadening the understanding of the phenomenon of the pulsed employee survey. How is it transformed into organizations during an implementation process and can the process be seen as coupled or decoupled from the institutionalized practice? Further, what explains the potential coupling or decoupling? To investigate this, a model based on decoupling theories by Bromley & Powell(2012) has been used through a qualitative case study. The result shows that, even though the surveys are implemented into the organizations, means-ends decoupling can be found, whichmay be explained by the complexity of what is measured as well as the multifaceted expectations and perceptions at different organizational levels.

Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2018-04-09T18:13:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 LUIS HENRIQUE FORTUNATO RODRIGUES.pdf: 7770422 bytes, checksum: 1cc1d6c47f40719a60a8e31e2922151c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-09T18:13:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LUIS HENRIQUE FORTUNATO RODRIGUES.pdf: 7770422 bytes, checksum: 1cc1d6c47f40719a60a8e31e2922151c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-28 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas - PUC - Campinas / The Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA) defines shelter situations as a temporary and protective measure, although it has a protective character, it may be cause of stress, due to the changes they cause in sheltered lives. This is a qualitative, transversal and descriptive study, carried out with the purpose to describe the stress and coping strategies used by sheltered children and adolescents. The Coping Motivational Theory for which coping is a regulatory action under stress, and the Lipp's perspective for child and adolescent stress, was adopted as theoretical references. Four children and eleven adolescents, aged between 8 and 17 years and 11 months old, who were in a shelter situation in a city in the interior of S?o Paulo, participated in this study. In addition to sociodemographic participants characterization, were used the Infant Stress Scale (ESI), Adolescent Stress Scale (ESA) instruments and a semi-structured interviews to identify coping strategies. The results indicated that: (a) participants shelter time is superior to the two years determined by the legislation; (b) stress levels were low for the children and adolescents in the sample, and were lower for participants who were sheltered longer; (c) the main coping strategies used by the participants were the support seeking and the opposition. Other studies are recommended, considering that the affective bond, established between children and adolescents with the closest employees, may interfere in the adaptive coping strategy, and also that the shelter can be a positive protective factor to prevent stress on sheltered children and adolescents. / O Estatuto da Crian?a e do Adolescente (ECA) define as situa??es de abrigamento como medida protetiva e tempor?ria, e ainda que tenha car?ter protetivo, pode vir a ser causadora de estresse, devido ?s mudan?as que provocam na vida dos abrigados. Esta ? uma pesquisa qualitativa, transversal e descritiva, realizada com o objetivo de descrever o estresse e as estrat?gias de enfrentamento utilizadas por crian?as e adolescentes abrigados em casas lares. Foram adotados como referenciais te?ricos, a Teoria Motivacional do Coping (TMC), para a qual o coping ? uma a??o reguladora sob estresse e a perspectiva de Lipp, para o estresse infantil e adolescente. Participaram deste estudo quatro crian?as e onze adolescentes, com idades entre 8 e 17 anos e 11 meses, que estavam em situa??o de abrigo em cidade do interior de S?o Paulo. Al?m de caracteriza??o sociodemogr?fica dos participantes, foram utilizados os instrumentos: Escala de Stress Infantil (ESI) e Escala de Stress Adolescente (ESA) e entrevistas semiestruturadas para identifica??o das estrat?gias de enfrentamento. Os resultados indicaram que: (a) o tempo de abrigamento dos participantes ? superior aos dois anos determinados pela legisla??o; (b) os n?veis de estresse foram baixos para as crian?as e adolescentes da amostra, e foram menores para os participantes abrigados h? mais tempo; (c) as principais estrat?gias de enfrentamento utilizadas pelos participantes foram a busca por apoio e a oposi??o. Recomendam-se outros estudos, considerando-se que o v?nculo afetivo estabelecido entre as crian?as e adolescentes com os funcion?rios mais pr?ximos, aparenta colaborar positivamente na estrat?gia de coping adaptativo e que o abrigamento de crian?as e adolescentes possa ser um fator protetor ao estresse.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T18:11:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carla Maria Ariano Destro.pdf: 6385514 bytes, checksum: edce638d0f2e8918013b088b6ad11c92 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Introduction: Juvenile delinquency, associated with complex social consequences, has received research and studies, extending across the various fields of social sciences and humanities. The difficulties in school adjustment, learning, may also be related to language disorders, which can lead to cognitive and linguistic limitations, contributing to social maladjustment and behavior of young offenders. Objective: To map and characterize the occurrence of disturbances of oral and / or writing in a group of institutionalized juvenile offenders, checking possible impacts of language difficulties and communication in the social life of these subjects. Method: This project sets an exploratory and descriptive study, which estimates the occurrence and features communicative difficulties (oral and written) in a group of young offenders institutions. The research subjects were 40 internal Fundação Casa, IU 25 unit - Rio Negro, from the complex of Franco da Rocha city - SP. The youths were aged between 15 and 18. To collect the data were applied the test Mini-Mental State Examination - MMSE, which aims to detect individuals who may have cognitive impairment; the Montreal test, which examined the abilities of each individual simple oral and written language, and a semi-structured interview, whose script was about General Health, School Path, Path Vocational and perceptions of criminal behavior. Results: The results showed that the majority of the population was literate and there was no occurrence of cognitive impairment. There was a high school dropout rate reported, arising from difficulties in following the school curriculum and to adapt to the rules and school dynamics. A significant percentage of subjects reported using drugs. Conclusion: This study leads us to reflect on problems that young offenders have in terms of integrating social conditions to develop and engage the values and socio-cultural norms, as well as schoolchildren, giving evidence, among other factors, the social impact that the poor education of young people can help bring. The study demonstrates that the language should be thought of as social practice. Self-esteem, difficulties in relating with others; to adapt and have good academic performance or to achieve stable occupation, exposed to these adolescents constraints, which tend to produce helplessness and anger at a delicate stage of development is adolescence, which creates difficulties in social adaptation, which may affect the language and, above all, forms of expression and communication of these subjects / Introdução: A delinqüência juvenil, associada à complexas consequências sociais, tem merecido estudos e investigações, que se estendem pelos diversos domínios das ciências sociais e humanas. As dificuldades de ajustamento escolar, de aprendizagem, podem estar também relacionados à transtornos de linguagem, o que levaria à limitações cognitivas e lingüísticas, contribuindo no desajustamento social e no comportamento do jovem infrator. Objetivo: Mapear e caracterizar a ocorrência de distúrbios de comunicação oral e/ou escrita em um grupo de jovens infratores institucionalizados, verificando possíveis impactos das dificuldades de linguagem e de comunicação na vida social desses sujeitos. Método: Este projeto configura um estudo exploratório e descritivo, que estima a ocorrência e caracteriza dificuldades comunicativas (orais e escritas) em um grupo de jovens infratores institucionalizados. Foram sujeitos da pesquisa 40 internos da Fundação Casa, unidade UI 25 Rio Negro, do complexo da cidade de Franco da Rocha - SP. Os jovens tinham entre 15 e 18 anos. Para a coleta de dados, foram aplicados o Teste do Mini-Exame do estado mental MMSE, que tem como objetivo detectar os indivíduos que possam apresentar déficit cognitivo; o Teste Montreal, que analisou em cada indivíduo as habilidades simples de linguagem oral e escrita; e uma entrevista semi-estruturada, cujo roteiro versou sobre Saúde Geral, Trajetória Escolar, Trajetória Profissional e percepções sobre o comportamento infracional. Resultados: Nos resultados obtidos verificou-se que a maior parte da população era alfabetizada e que não houve ocorrência de déficits cognitivos. Houve índice alto de abandono escolar relatado, oriundo das dificuldades em acompanhar os conteúdos escolares e em se adaptar às regras e dinâmica escolar. Percentual significativo de sujeitos referiu uso de drogas. Conclusão: Este estudo leva a refletir sobre problemas que os jovens infratores apresentam em termos de integração social, condições para se desenvolver e se engajar a valores e normas sócio-culturais, como também escolares, dando indício, entre outros fatores, do impacto social que a precária escolarização dos jovens pode ajudar a acarretar. O estudo demonstra que a linguagem deve ser pensada como prática social. A auto-estima reduzida, as dificuldades para se relacionar com outras pessoas; para se adaptar e ter bom rendimento escolar ou para conseguir ocupação profissional estável, expõem esses adolescentes a constrangimentos, que acabam por produzir impotência e revolta em uma fase delicada do desenvolvimento que é a adolescência, o que gera dificuldades de adaptação social, podendo afetar a linguagem e, sobretudo, as formas de expressão e de comunicação desses sujeitos

Proactive socialization tactics, measures that organizational newcomers take to facilitate their own adjustment, have been shown to predict adjustment and more distal work-related outcomes, such as organizational commitment and intent to remain with the organization. Several cognitions and behaviors are considered to be types of proactive socialization tactics, but research has yet to distinguish between different types. Also, several individual dispositions have been identified as antecedents of proactive socialization tactics, but there has been little focus on identifying contextual or non-dispositional individual difference antecedents. The purpose of this research was to propose a dual-mode conceptualization of proactive socialization tactics and to distinguish between tactics directed toward changing oneself and those directed toward changing one's environment. This research also examined the role of contextual factors, the newcomer's age, and the newcomer's work experience as antecedents of proactive socialization tactics. The results of this research suggest that job and workgroup characteristics do indeed play a role in predicting proactive socialization tactics. Age and work experience were predictors as well, but not as strong as expected. Both self-directed and environment-directed proactive socialization tactics predicted desirable adjustment outcomes, but self-directed tactics were clearly stronger predictors of these outcomes. There was some evidence to suggest that newcomers' early fit perceptions moderated relationships between antecedents, such as workgroup characteristics, and proactive socialization tactics. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Americans felt threatened by Asian immigration in the late 19th century. As a result, Asian Americans were stereotyped as foreign and dangerous. The United States government supported Asian American stereotyping by passing prohibitive immigration policies. These policies were a reflection of discrimination and institutionalized racism at the time. Asian American stereotyping still exists today, but in covert form. The media plays a powerful role in perpetuating these covert stereotypes. Asian American stereotypes negatively impact the Asian American community in a number of ways, including ostracizing Asian Americans, making Asian American issues invisible, and harming the mental health of the Asian American community. As a result, stereotypes increase cumulative stress for Asian Americans, and also decrease Asian American community support. This paper reviews and provides recommendations to help reduce stereotypes and also change media representations of Asian Americans.