The thesis "The role of men in current romantic relationships" is dedicated to the concept of manhood with an emphasis on romantic relationships and focuses specifically on an identity development and its male specifics, masculinity and various developmental paths leading to an achievement of manhood. It also describes the basic characteristics of romantic relationships and specifies the role of men in them. The empirical study is based on a qualitative methodology and maps male perspective of romantic relationships. Further focus is on how men perceive the romantic relationship and their role in it. Fifty men involved in a romantic relationship participated in this study. Participants filled in projective questionnaires, namely Incomplete sentences and Life at romantic relationship and its parts. The research results refer the cathegories of romantic relationship including its detailed descriptions from the perspective of participants and also offer an overview of activities done by men within the partnership with no claim for any generalization. Keywords Male, identity, gender identity, masculinity, partner, romantic relationships

The aim of this study was to examine whether and how being committed to a close romantic relationship and gender would affect Turkish young adults&rsquo / death-anxiety. Based on Terror Management Theory (TMT), it was hypothesized that participants who are exposed to separation thoughts from a relationship partner would experience more death&ndash / anxiety than participants who are not exposed to separation thoughts from their relationship partners. In this respect, it was also hypothesized that high commitment to the relationship partner would work as a buffer against death-anxiety and those who have higher commitment to their relationship partners would, therefore, experience less death anxiety than those who have lower commitment to their relationship partners. It was also aimed to investigate whether the effects of commitment to close romantic relationships differ between genders. The effect of neuroticism was also controlled for all participants, so that any difference that is observed between groups would not be due to the effects of neuroticism. One-hundred sixty one participants (age range = 19-38) from Ankara, Istanbul, and Izmir, Turkey were included in this study. Results suggested no significant main effects of experimental manipulation (i.e. experimental group, control group), commitment level (i.e. high, low) or gender (i.e. female, male) on death-anxiety. A significant interaction effect between commitment level and experimental manipulation was found. According to that, in the experimental group (those who were asked to imagine a separation from their relationship partners) participants with high commitment level were found to experience less death&ndash / anxiety than participants with low commitment level. Also, it was revealed that those who have low commitment to their relationship partners experience more death- anxiety when they were asked to imagine a separation from their relationship partners than when they were not asked to imagine such separation. The same increment in death anxiety was not observed in participants who have high commitment to their relationship partners. The strengths, limitations, and implications of the study were discussed in light of related literature.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:54:23Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 valenciano_rc_me_prud.pdf: 1986649 bytes, checksum: 7418278355e5684cb2a5eba20a24f3a9 (MD5) / A presente pesquisa apresenta um estudo sobre duas formas distintas de organização de mulheres trabalhadoras sem terra do Pontal do Paranapanema: Coletivo de Gênero e Omaquesp, no qual procuramos apreender o processo de luta pela terra e a mobilização política das trabalhadoras sem terra tendo como perspectiva a leitura geográfica desse processo, onde o gênero é a categoria analítica e ferramenta metodológica basilar para compreendermos as manifestações e configurações das relações sócio-espaciais nos territórios de luta: acampamentos e assentamentos. A partir da análise das duas formas de organização, pudemos verificar as bases que deram sustentação para sua implementação, suas estratégias de organização, principais entraves, obstáculos e avanços em sua luta. Embora tenham sido forjadas no processo de luta pela terra desencadeado no Pontal, ambos os grupos possuem atuações e ações distintas, e vem desenvolvendo uma série de trabalhos, projetos e ações, possuindo um histórico de formação, organização e desenvolvimento de atividades que se diferem uma da outra, com linhas de atuação, ideologia e ligações diretas com outras organizações distintas. Da análise das relações de gênero no processo de luta pela terra, notamos os mecanismos que dão condições para o estabelecimento e perpetuação das relações de poder desiguais e que impossibilitam a construção de espaços igualitários de participação na luta, onde a existência dessas experiências de organização de grupos de mulheres nos forneceu elementos que mostram como sua participação está contribuindo para a fundamentação e dinamismo do espaço geográfico, rompendo com valores que antes conduziam a sua submissão, exploração, etc. seja no âmbito do trabalho doméstico, na lavra e até mesmo na militância. / To present research it presents a study on two forms different from hardworking women's organization without earth of Pontal of Paranapanema: Collective of Gender and Omaquesp, in which we tried to apprehend the fight process for the earth and the workers' political mobilization without earth tends as perspective the geographical reading of that process, where the gender is the analytic category and tool methodological basilar for we understand the manifestations and configurations of the partner-space relationships in the fight territories: camps and establishments. Starting from the analysis in the two organization ways, we could verify the bases that gave sustentação for its implementação, its organization strategies, main entraves, obstacles and progresses in its fight. Although they have been forged in the fight process by the earth unchained in Pontal, both groups possess performances and different actions, and it comes developing a series of works, projects and actions, possessing a historical of formation, organization and development of activities that they are differed one of the other, with lines of performance, ideology and direct connections with other different organizations. Of the analysis of the gender relationships in the fight process for the earth, we noticed the mechanisms that give conditions for the establishment and perpetuação of the unequal relationships of power and that disable the construction of equalitarian spaces of participation in the fight, where the existence of those experiences of organization of women's groups supplied us elements that show as its participation is contributing to the fundamentação and dynamism of the geographical space, breaking up with values that before they drove its submission, exploration, etc. it is in the ambit of the domestic work, in it plows it and even in the militância.

Orientador: Maria Franco / Resumo: A presente pesquisa apresenta um estudo sobre duas formas distintas de organização de mulheres trabalhadoras sem terra do Pontal do Paranapanema: Coletivo de Gênero e Omaquesp, no qual procuramos apreender o processo de luta pela terra e a mobilização política das trabalhadoras sem terra tendo como perspectiva a "leitura" geográfica desse processo, onde o gênero é a categoria analítica e ferramenta metodológica basilar para compreendermos as manifestações e configurações das relações sócio-espaciais nos territórios de luta: acampamentos e assentamentos. A partir da análise das duas formas de organização, pudemos verificar as bases que deram sustentação para sua implementação, suas estratégias de organização, principais entraves, obstáculos e avanços em sua luta. Embora tenham sido forjadas no processo de luta pela terra desencadeado no Pontal, ambos os grupos possuem atuações e ações distintas, e vem desenvolvendo uma série de trabalhos, projetos e ações, possuindo um histórico de formação, organização e desenvolvimento de atividades que se diferem uma da outra, com linhas de atuação, ideologia e ligações diretas com outras organizações distintas. Da análise das relações de gênero no processo de luta pela terra, notamos os mecanismos que dão condições para o estabelecimento e perpetuação das relações de poder desiguais e que impossibilitam a construção de espaços igualitários de participação na luta, onde a existência dessas experiências de organização de grupos de mulheres nos forneceu elementos que mostram como sua participação está contribuindo para a fundamentação e dinamismo do espaço geográfico, rompendo com valores que antes conduziam a sua submissão, exploração, etc. seja no âmbito do trabalho doméstico, na lavra e até mesmo na militância. / Abstract: To present research it presents a study on two forms different from hardworking women's organization without earth of Pontal of Paranapanema: Collective of Gender and Omaquesp, in which we tried to apprehend the fight process for the earth and the workers' political mobilization without earth tends as perspective the " geographical reading " of that process, where the gender is the analytic category and tool methodological basilar for we understand the manifestations and configurations of the partner-space relationships in the fight territories: camps and establishments. Starting from the analysis in the two organization ways, we could verify the bases that gave sustentação for its implementação, its organization strategies, main entraves, obstacles and progresses in its fight. Although they have been forged in the fight process by the earth unchained in Pontal, both groups possess performances and different actions, and it comes developing a series of works, projects and actions, possessing a historical of formation, organization and development of activities that they are differed one of the other, with lines of performance, ideology and direct connections with other different organizations. Of the analysis of the gender relationships in the fight process for the earth, we noticed the mechanisms that give conditions for the establishment and perpetuação of the unequal relationships of power and that disable the construction of equalitarian spaces of participation in the fight, where the existence of those experiences of organization of women's groups supplied us elements that show as its participation is contributing to the fundamentação and dynamism of the geographical space, breaking up with values that before they drove its submission, exploration, etc. it is in the ambit of the domestic work, in it plows it and even in the militância. / Mestre

The diploma thesis deals with problems of employment and unemployment policy from the special point of view: the use of equal opportunity of men and women (gender equality) in the Czech Republic, Germany and the European Union. The theoretical part describes employment, unemployment, promotion of women and men at employment market from the gender point of view, and discriminatory differences in the field of financial evaluation of men and women for the same amount and kind of work. The practical part gives the comparison of the employment policy from the gender perspective (rate of employment and unemployment of men and women) on the basis of statistical information of the member states of the European Union {--} the Czech Republic and Germany. The main goal of this work is to show and emphasize the fact, that some aspects of discrimination in the field of gender relationships at work and in private life still exist even in the present modern society. It depends on all of us mainly, in which way and direction these problems of gender equality will develop in the society in future.