Thesis (Th. M.)--Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-104).

Thesis (M.A.)--Johnson Bible College, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-94).

Orientador: Mario Sérgio Vasconcelos / Banca: Elizabeth Piemonte Constantino / Banca: José Sterza Justo / Banca: Luís Guilherme Coelho Buchianeri / Banca: Denise de Camargo / Resumo: O jogo se configura numa das mais antigas atividades humanas. Repleto de significados foi incorporado na linguagem, na arte, na religião e na cultura em geral. Seus estudiosos se estendem pela Filosofia (WITTGEINSTEIN, 1958; HUIZINGA, 1991; SCHILLER, 1995), História (ARIÈS, 1978; CAILLOIS, 1958), Teoria da Comunicação (POSTMAN, 1994), Antropologia (GEERTZ, 1989; MALINOWSKI, 1978) e inevitavelmente pela Educação e Psicologia. Embora nos reportemos com freqüência as demais ciências, nosso trabalho se insere numa tradição psicológica. Buscamos nas teorias do psicólogo russo Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) e do psicanalista inglês Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) uma alternativa para a compreensão do jogo infantil e seu significado na produção da subjetividade. Partimos da apresentação dos autores e suas respectivas biografias intelectuais, detalhando suas concepções de indivíduo, sujeito e meio (social, ambiental e cultural), para em seguida explorarmos conceitualmente zonas de sentido entre suas teorias. Na direção metodológica encaminhamos a discussão a partir da Epistemologia Qualitativa desenvolvida por Gonzalez Rey, criando zonas de sentido entre as concepções de ambiente e jogo infantil. Diante da morte precoce de Vygotsky e a consequente interrupção das suas pesquisas sobre o jogo, buscamos nas teorias dos seus alunos e colaboradores - principalmente Leontiev e Elkonin - os princípios ontogenéticos do jogo infantil complementares à explanação vigotskiana. Defendemos que uma teoria do jogo infantil deve buscar origens nas relações sociais mais primitivas do indivíduo, bem como no uso mais precoce que este faz dos objetos. Tais relações foram amplamente detalhadas por Winnicott na sua teoria dos fenômenos e objetos transicionais e acreditamos que podem ser relevantes para a compreensão do jogo protagonizado, tal qual desenvolvido por Elkonin e Vygotsky / Abstract: The game is set in one of the oldest human activities. It was full of meanings embedded in language, art, religion, and culture in general. His scholars extend the Philosophy (WITTGEINSTEIN, 1958; HUIZINGA, 1991; SCHILLER, 1995), History (ARIÈS, 1978; CAILLOIS, 1958), Communication Theory (POSTMAN, 1994), Antropology (GEERTZ, 1989; MALINOWSKI, 1978) and inevitably for Education and Psychology. Although we refer frequently to other sciences, our work is part of a psychological tradition. We seek theories of the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) and the English psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) an alternative to the understanding of children's play and its significance in the production of subjectivity. We start from the presentation of the authors and their intellectual biographies, detailing their conceptions of individual, subject and the environment (social, environmental and cultural), then to conceptually explore areas of meaning between their theories. Following toward a methodological discussion, we discuss the Qualitative Epistemology developed by Gonzalez-Rey, creating zones of meaning between the concepts of environment and children's game. Given the early death of Vygotsky and the consequent disruption of their research into the game, we turn to the theories of his students and collaborators - mostly Leontiev and Elkonin - with the principles ontogenetic children's game, a complementary explanation to Vygotsky's theory. We argue that a theory of children's play should seek origins in more primitive social relations of the individual as well as the earlier use of objects that he makes. Such relationships have been widely detailed by Winnicott in his theory of phenomena and transitional objects, and we believe may be relevant to understanding the game played in children, as it was developed by Eldkonin and Vygotsky / Doutor

The basis of this thesis is a study of the ninth-century portion of the Liber Vitae of Durham (London, British Library, Cotton Domitian VII). This is a list of names of those who were remembered in the liturgy and prayers of the community of St. Cuthbert, who were resident at Lindisfarne at the time when the greater part of the list was written. The aim of this thesis is to discover what information the Liber Vitae can provide about religion, society, and politics in Northumbria in the seventh to ninth centuries, with particular regard to the role of St. Cuthbert's community in Northumbria. The first part of the thesis is concerned with the Liber Vitae; the second part focuses more on St. Cuthbert's community. Each part consists of three chapters. The first is a description of the manuscript; and the second looks at its purpose, with particular stress on the liturgical aspects of "libri vitae". This chapter also contains a comparison of the Liber Vitae with eight other early commemoration books. The third chapter looks more closely at the information contained in the Liber Vitae, based on the identification of the names in the book. Chapter Four is the first chapter of Part Two and comprises a description and discussion of St. Cuthbert's community and the sites included in its "familia". Chapter Five studies the community's relations with other ecclesiastical centres, and Chapter Six is a discussion of Northumbrian politics in the seventh to ninth centuries and the community's place in this world. Within the thesis certain topics are brought out - the importance of groups within the society of the time, and in particular kinship groups; a study of the royal families who competed for power in Northumbria; the wide range of Lindisfarne's contacts; a reassessment of Lindisfarne's relations with the Irish after 664; and the connection between the Liber Vitae and the promotion of the cult of St. Cuthbert.

We are presented with a situation in which ‘the male identity is a fragile and tentative thing with no secure anchorage in the contemporary world’ (Brittan, 1989:3). However, empirical evidence surrounding the commonly perceived contemporary crisis of masculinity fails to support any overall crisis of masculinity thesis (Edwards, 2006:16). Instead, the different perceptions of the crisis tend to rest on at least one of the three propositions pointed out by Edwards (2006:17): Firstly; masculinity as a set of values, practices or dispositions may be suffering a crisis in so far as it is being undermined and devalued, or, moreover that masculinity per see is now to a greater or lesser degree equated with a series of negative rather than positive associations and connotations. Secondly; masculinity may be in crisis due to its perceived tendency to implore into femininity, whether through an undermining of any gender role distinctions or through feminization of some forms of masculinity as, for example, in the case of the rise of contemporary consumerist, fashion conscious or sexually uncertain masculinities such as metrosexuality. Thirdly, the crisis of masculinity may relate to the sense that masculinity in terms of the male sex role is itself ipso facto crisis-inducing. In this sense, masculinity is not in crisis, it is crisis. This study was based on the second proposition. In the patriarchal Kenyan society where gender roles are fairly traditional, and the male person perceived superior to the female and male things valued above female things, the aspect of feminization of masculinity is not just new but indeed strange. This investigation was intended to find explanations for the feminizing behaviour by males. The sex role paradigm developed in the 1970s explains acquisition of masculinity through socialization, sex role learning and social control. These mainstream theories of learning gender were explored in the assumption that they form the basis for the contemporary theories, and further, although much had changed with the times, a large part of the society still perceived gender roles from this traditional viewpoint. The masculine crisis theory and the constructionist views of gender constituted the theoretical framework of the study. This was due to the researcher’s acknowledgement that individuals were active participants in the construction of their own gender identity, and that there was likelihood for the individuals to deviate from the social expectations of what masculinity means and should be. As a result they could construct a masculinity that did not reflect normality, hence portraying a crisis. Data relating to the respondents’ perception of and reasons for feminine behaviour among young male adults was gathered from young males, young females, and both male and female parents through questionnaire and interview methods. Information about the home environment of the respondents was also necessary to help explore environmental factors that contribute to gender construction. In addition, observation was used to obtain information to dispute, confirm or complement the findings from the other mentioned methods. An exploratory-descriptive qualitative type of research was undertaken at Moi University, Eldoret in Kenya, where the feminization of masculinity was observed. 100 male students chosen through both purposive and simple systematic sampling responded to the open-ended questionnaire which contained perception-eliciting items. A discussion with two focused groups of seven female students each, from the same institution obtained their opinion on the subject of cross-gender behaviour of their male colleagues. Selection of the females was based on willingness to participate. An in-depth interview with two male and three female parents of young male adults whose selection was upon availability, was done on a one-on-one basis to capture the view of adults (likely reasons for, and attitudes) on the matter of feminine behaviour among boys. Data was qualitatively processed and analyzed, taking into account issues of dependability and accuracy. Explanations, findings and conclusions were made, based on the fairly rich data. Overall, the researcher concluded that an interplay between various factors in the young males’ environments, including peers, media, parents and the general dynamics of society (including the feminist movements) explained the feminization of the masculine identity. All these were perceived as influenced by the postmodern movement that had transcended boundaries, thanks to modern communication techniques, to reach the initially very traditional societies. The researcher acknowledged the irreversibility of the clock of time and behaviour trends, hence suggested inclusiveness of this group of males for overall society development, but against the backdrop of responsible guidance and understanding. The study was seen as significant, both for education as an institution that empowered individuals for social function, as well as for peaceful coexistence for the society at large. Conclusively, a redefinition of ‘masculinity’ and a change in the current social attitudes about masculinity and femininity was recommended. Hopefully this was a step towards enhancing an understanding of behaviour dynamics in the largely changing social systems which, in the same vein, remained the touchstone for behaviour formation, modification and prediction not only in Kenya, but Africa as a whole.

Final thesis is about changing role of men and women in a culture. It describes three roles of women in a advertisement.

An intensive case study design was utilized, integrating data from the application of Q-technique and subject interviews, to examine the meaning of career change from a family perspective. Ten subjects, identified through an informal network of referrals, were selected as diverse examples of career changers (6 men, 4 women). Subjects Q-sorted 46 items drawn from Holland's (1966) typology of personalities for 19 to 23 Salient Role Figures identified from three domains of dramatic enactment: Family, Self, and Vocation. Q-sort results for each subject were developed into a correlation matrix, then submitted to a principal components analysis. Results were analyzed to identify shifts or maintenance of themes and role enactments as indications of lived-out dramas. The empirical findings and suggested themes were presented to each subject to stimulate subject elaboration. Quantitative and qualitative data were synthesized to develop portraits pointing to the meaning of career change for each subject. Results support previous research that suggests individuals displace role enactments from family-of-origin onto the vocational arena. This study also provides support for the thesis that the phenomenon of role displacement from the family to vocational arenas occurs across differing vocational contexts. Additionally, while the meaning of career change as reflected in patterns of dramatic enactment appears idiosyncratic, the shifts in role displacement from family-of-origin to vocational arena appear to virtually define the subject's sense of the meaning of the career change itself. Thus, when viewed in the context of the individual's life as it is lived out, there appears to be regularity in the meaning of career change. / Education, Faculty of / Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of / Graduate

Le paludisme est une vieille endémie tropicale bien connue, dont les moyens de prévention, de lutte, voire d’éradication sont aujourd’hui bien vulgarisés. Au Cameroun pourtant, il continue de sévir, faisant chaque année plus de victimes et de morts que toutes les autres maladies. Au vu des efforts consentis pour la contenir, nous avons choisi d’interroger les échanges discursifs entre les acteurs de la communication sociale sur le paludisme pour expliquer la persistance d’une situation aussi paradoxale. Cette maladie est, en effet, au cœur de nombreux échanges, faisant intervenir des représentations scientifiques et des représentations sociales séculaires des populations. En fonction des acteurs, l’on distingue ainsi : des discours internationaux et des discours nationaux sur cette maladie. Les seconds sont constitués principalement de discours médicaux (produits par les experts tant de la médecine conventionnelle que ceux de la médecine traditionnelle), de discours économiques et politiques. L’examen de la construction de ces discours montre que les discours nationaux sont l’adaptation des grandes orientations adoptées au niveau mondial pour la lutte contre l’endémie. Ces discours répondent, par ailleurs, aux exigences économiques, de santé publique, de mobilisation des fonds et de mobilisation sociale liés à la lutte contre le paludisme.L’analyse de ces discours a permis de déceler plusieurs entraves à la prévention du paludisme : le jeu des protagonistes de la lutte et la promotion de méthodes de prévention impuissantes à juguler durablement le fléau paludique dans le pays. Dans cette lutte en effet, des acteurs, y compris ceux entretenant des représentations sociales néfastes sur le paludisme limitent l’accès des principales cibles de la maladie (femmes enceintes et enfants de moins de 5 ans) aux moustiquaires imprégnées d’insecticides. D’autres mettent en avant leurs profits personnels. Enfin, les discours montrent que les méthodes courantes de prévention de la maladie sont celles de protection contre les piqûres de moustiques et non celles de frein à leur prolifération. Elles se confinent au domaine de la santé au lieu de faire de la lutte un problème holistique de développement qui met une emphase sur les mesures d’assainissement pour contrôler la prolifération des moustiques. / Malaria is an old endemic disease which means of prevention, treatment, not to name eradication, is well known and vulgarized. However, this disease is each year the main cause of sickness and death in Cameroon, in spite of tremendous endeavors to fight it. The present research has chosen to scrutinize social communication actors’ speeches on the disease to try and shed light into this paradoxical situation. Malaria inspires a number of discourses exchanges involving scientific representations and aged social representations of populations on the disease. Based on actors’ functions, one can distinguish between international and national discourses on the disease. National discourses mainly include medical speeches (produced and used by modern and traditional medical experts), economical and political speeches. The study of the construction of those speeches shows that at the national level, the speeches on malaria are adapted from global orientations on malaria control adopted at international level. In the other hand, those speeches respond to the economical and public health requirements, as well as to resources and social mobilization needed for malaria control.Discourses analysis on malaria in Cameroun has shown that the prevention of this endemic disease is render ineffective by many reasons, namely: a kind of game played by some key actors of the fight against malaria and the promotion of prevention methods that stand little chance to sustainably get raid of the malaria scourge in the country. Some actors, including persons attached to misleading social representations on malaria, prevent the main malaria targets (pregnant women and under five children) from access to impregnated mosquito nets. By involving themselves in the fight against malaria, some other actors put forward their own interest. Lastly, some speeches clearly show that prevention methods, promoted in the country, aim at protecting populations from mosquito bides while neglecting mosquito proliferation. The tendency is to consider malaria control as an exclusive health problem instead of treating it as a holistic developmental problem, widely calling upon sanitation measures to continuously cut down in mosquito population.

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