Orientador: Ana Lucia Goulart de Faria / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T21:50:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bufalo_JoseaneMariaParice_D.pdf: 4161341 bytes, checksum: b2f2615ff7cce4052421c3d1d2563602 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: O objetivo central da presente pesquisa é a análise de como está sendo construída a profissão docente de creche no seio dos movimentos de resistências culturais, uma vez que a concepção de docência, ora focalizada, vai além do trabalho desenvolvido junto aos meninos e meninas de 0 a 3 anos. Ou seja, a complexidade da formação político-cultural das docentes, é contemplada nesta análise, via escolha do objeto Sindicato dos Trabalhadores no Serviço Público Municipal de Campinas, tratado como um espaço educativo mais amplo, pleno de tensões e de lutas, em que se afirma o conceito de classes sociais. Para tal focalizo, nesta pesquisa, os documentos deste Sindicato, no período de 1988 a 2001, os quais, em sua maioria, foram encontrados na própria entidade. Além destes, compõem a pesquisa, três revistas da área da educação e um caderno de poesias, ambos também publicados pelo Sindicato e hoje encontráveis em meu acervo pessoal. Elegi estas fontes primárias já que foram produzidas diretamente pelos trabalhadores e trabalhadoras, do serviço público municipal de Campinas. Nesta pesquisa concebo as docentes de creche como produtoras de culturas, como sujeitos da história que se constroem nas relações de trabalho, de gênero, de idades, de etnias. Neste sentido, as analiso como pertencentes a uma classe social. Ao mesmo tempo, situo historicamente o Sindicato, focalizando-o através dos tempos em sua composição e organização, destacando nas análises as relações de gênero e a educação infantil. Inicio a tese com uma carta, na qual trago à tona experiências por mim vividas, como docente de creche. Com o objetivo também de contemplar as vozes de outras colegas, docentes de creche, isto é, as monitoras, optei por dar início a cada capítulo com uma ata redigida por elas próprias, a qual, por sua vez, foi destacada dentre os documentos do Sindicato. Na abertura de cada capítulo registro, ainda, uma poesia de autoria de trabalhadoras do serviço público municipal, na tentativa de enriquecer as tessituras analíticas apresentadas. Sendo assim no primeiro capítulo abordo a entidade sindical como um espaço de luta e resistência dos trabalhadores e trabalhadoras, bem como discuto a situação de classe social das docentes de creche. Na seqüência, no segundo capítulo enfoco o conceito de docência em creche, através da bibliografia na área. No último e terceiro capítulo contextualizo o Sindicato dos Trabalhadores no Serviço Público Municipal de Campinas, tendo como eixo as relações de gênero e a educação infantil nas pautas de lutas da entidade. Finalizo a tese com uma outra carta, na qual abordo a arte de aprimorar-me como docente de creche, no diálogo com as experiências de pesquisa vividas no doutorado. Destaco, finalmente, que descobri, nesta pesquisa, que na trajetória das reivindicações desta categoria, nem só o salário estava presente nas respectivas pautas, e, sim, encontram-se tantas outras reivindicações, tais como a exigência de melhoria da formação docente, mostrando, assim, que nem só de salário vivem as docentes de creche. / Abstract: The central objective of the present research is the analysis of how the daycare center teaching profession has been formed in the middle of cultural resistance movements, taking into account that the teaching concept, sometimes in focus, is much more than the developed work with the young boys and girls from zero to three years old. In other words, the complex teaching political-cultural formation is contemplated in this analysis, through the chosen object Employees Trade Union in the Municipal Civil Service from Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil, which has been seen as a broader educational place, full of struggles and strains, in which the concept of the social classes has been formed. Searching this objective, I focus on this research, the documents of this Trade Union, from the period 1988 to 2001, which ones, most of them were found in the own institution. Besides these ones, three educational magazines and a poetry notebook has been part of this research, both were also published by the Trade Union and they can be found in my personal library. I have chosen these primary sources because they were produced directly by the women and men employees in the Municipal Civil Service from Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil. In this research, I conceive the daycare centre female teachers as culture formers, as historical subjects which have been formed on the working relationships- social classes, gender relationships, ages and ethnic relationships. In this sense, I analyze them as part of a social class. At the same time, I analyze the Trade Union history, through the focus on the times in its structure and organization, putting in first place the analysis on the gender relationships and the early childhood education. I begin the thesis with a letter, in which I bring back experiences lived by me, as a daycare center teacher. I have chosen, at the beginning of each chapter a minute written by the researched teachers, with the objective of contemplating their participation. These written minutes had a special place in the Trade Union documents. At the beginning of each chapter, I also register a poetry written by the municipal women civil servants, as a way of becoming the theoretical presented analysis richer. In the first chapter, I emphasize the Trade Union Institution as a place of the employees struggle and resistance and I also discuss the social class situation of the daycare center female teachers. Then, in the second chapter I focus on the concept of teaching in daycare center, through the bibliography in this area. In the third and last chapter I put into context the Employees Trade Union in the Municipal Civil Service from Campinas, having as the main subject the gender relationship and the early childhood education on the agenda in the institution struggles. I conclude this thesis with another letter, in which I focus the art of improve myself as a daycare center teacher, in the analysis of the research experiences lived in Doctorate. I finally emphasize that I discovered, in this research, that among the demands of these employees, not only the salary was present on the respective agenda, but also, there are so many different demands, such as a better teaching formation, showing us that daycare center female teachers survive not only by their wage. / Doutorado / Ciencias Sociais na Educação / Doutor em Educação

Orientador: Heloisa Andre Pontes / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T05:39:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Farias_RitadeCassiaPereira_D.pdf: 14862274 bytes, checksum: b61bd368269386238fab9faf056d9729 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: A tese analisa os usos sociais e significados simbólicos presentes no uniforme de trabalho, adotado em uma grande siderúrgica, a Usiminas, sediada em Ipatinga (MG). Esse uniforme tem a particularidade de ser um dos maiores símbolos de prestígio na região, já que todos os funcionários o vestem, independentemente do nível hierárquico ou gênero (até mesmo o presidente da companhia o usa, sob a justificativa de se igualar a todos). Entretanto, a rígida hierarquia da empresa - herdada dos japoneses - aponta para diferenças (nos cargos, salários, diplomas e exercícios de poder). Assim, para apreender a eficácia simbólica do uniforme no contexto em que foi implantado e usado, a análise articula antropologia simbólica, cultura material e história social, recuperando o percurso histórico quanto à sua adoção nas fábricas brasileiras, bem como o contexto em que a Usiminas foi implantada, possibilitando consolidar uma elite local e hierarquizar as classes. No processo de disputas simbólicas no espaço urbano, o uniforme foi útil para moldar comportamentos e "civilizar" os operários. Entretanto, o controle que ele possibilita foi transformado em símbolo de status. Dentre as estratégias que favorecem essa transubstanciação simbólica, estão as performances do presidente como "um igual" e os rituais ricamente elaborados pela empresa. Em uma perspectiva relacional de gênero, a pesquisa aponta que a siderúrgica foi concebida como locus de homens. Apesar disso, a gradual participação feminina nesse espaço e o uso de um uniforme "masculinizado" - que a princípio visava o controle da sexualidade - conferiram novas oportunidades às mulheres que chegaram a ocupar postos de comando na hierarquia da empresa. Por acompanhar a dinâmica da sociedade, o significado do uniforme mudou ao longo das gerações, envolvendo um misto de prestígio, disputas e tensões. Perpassando diversas instâncias da sociedade local, os dados evidenciam que, mais que um material inerte destinado a proteger os trabalhadores, o uniforme materializa relações de gênero e de classe, possui uma vida social essencialmente dinâmica, "impregnada" de memórias, sonhos e conquistas, além de ser marcado por perseguições, demissões, medo e dor. / Abstract: The thesis examines the social uses and symbolic meanings which are present in the working uniform adopted by a large steel company, Usiminas, located in Ipatinga (MG). This uniform has the particularity of being one of the greatest symbols of prestige in the region, since all the employees wear it, regardless of hierarchy level or gender (even the president of the company wears it, under a discourse of equality). However, the rigid hierarchy of the company - inherited from the Japanese - points to differences (in position, salary, qualifications and exercise of power). Thus, to grasp the symbolic effectiveness of uniform, in the context in which it was implanted and used, this analysis articulates symbolic anthropology, material culture and social history, restoring the historical trajectory regarding its adoption in Brazilian factories, as well as the context in which Usiminas was constructed, allowing to consolidate the local elite and to rank the classes. In the process of symbolic disputes in urban areas, the uniform was useful to shape behaviors and "civilize" the workers. However, the control that it provides has been transformed into a status symbol. Among the strategies that favor the symbolic transubstantiation, there are the president's performances as "an equal" and the rituals which are richly drawn by the company. In a relational perspective of gender, the study reveals that the steel company was conceived as a locus of men. In spite of that, the progressive female participation in this space and the adoption of a "masculinized" uniform - which at first aimed to control the sexuality - have given new opportunities to women who have come to occupy positions of leadership in the company hierarchy. Following the dynamics of the society, the meaning of the uniform has changed over the generations, involving a mix of prestige, disputes and tensions. Bypassing various levels of the local society, the data show that, rather than an inert material to protect the workers, the uniform materializes gender and class relations, has an essentially dynamic social life, "impregnated" by memories, dreams and achievements, besides being marked by harassment, layoffs, fear and pain. / Doutorado / Doutor em Antropologia Social

Orientador: Ana Lucia Goulart de Faria / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T22:37:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosa_CleliaVirginia_M.pdf: 16879102 bytes, checksum: 86c9408f834b7b7a22f19622d82cffc9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: O convívio de diferentes classes sociais no mesmo espaço educativo é uma situação pouco comum no Brasil, visto que nossa sociedade é marcada por grandes desigualdades sociais, que produzem lugares sociais diferenciados para alguns grupos, que nem sempre têm acesso a determinados bens materiais e culturais, tais como a educação. Diante dessa realidade, a presente pesquisa teve o objetivo de identificar como ocorre, no cotidiano de uma creche de empresa privada, o convívio entre crianças, mães e professoras de diferentes classes sociais. Através de um estudo do tipo exploratório, observamos e registramos em caderno de campo, diferentes momentos do cotidiano da creche, privilegiando os dias em que aconteceram as reuniões de mães - momentos nos quais estiveram juntas as mães das crianças de diferentes classes sociais e as professoras. Outros procedimentos utilizados neste estudo foram: a pesquisa bibliográfica sobre creches no local de trabalho e a visita em creches de empresa na região norte da Itália, a busca por materiais empíricos que abordassem o histórico da creche pesquisada. Também buscamos dados em jornais brasileiros sobre creches no local de trabalho. As conclusões desta pesquisa revelaram que, na instituição estudada, que reúne crianças pequenas de diferentes classes sociais, as relações adulto-adulto, protagonizadas pelas mães e professoras da creche, aparecem como ponto de tensão à dicotomia entre as atividades de cuidado e educação das crianças, ao mesmo tempo em que há, por parte das professoras, o desejo do reconhecimento de seu profissionalismo junto aos diferentes grupos de mães. Outro dado importante diz respeito à "concorrência" entre o tempo da infância e o tempo do capital, vivido pelas crianças na creche junto ao local de trabalho de suas mães. A pesquisa evidenciou também, que a temática das creches de empresa, em seu aspecto educacional, é um tema ainda pouco explorado, o que justifica a contribuição deste estudo para a construção de conhecimentos sobre tais instituições, que se constituem, ao mesmo tempo, como um direito trabalhista de pais e mães, e também um direito da criança. / Abstract: The coexistence of different social classes within the same educational environment is an uncommon situation in Brazil, given the acute social inequalities in our country; therefore, different social spaces are produced for these groups, that rarely have access to material and cultural assets. Due to this situation, the present research was aimed at identifying what the routine in a on-site day care center in a private company is like and how the interaction vamongst children from different social classes takes place. Through an exploratory survey, a variety of situations regarding the environment at the day care center were observed, with focus on those days when parents meetings took place. On those moments, the children's parents were among others from different social classes including their teachers. Another resource used in this master's dissertation was the bibliographic database on day care centers at the work place; furthermore, there was a visit to a day care facility in northern Italy in order to find empirical data on the historical background of this day care center. Moreover, there was an effort to look for data in Brazilian newspapers about day care centers in the workplace. The final conclusions of this research show that, the relationship among adults experienced by the mothers and teachers of the day care center showed as a tension point the dichotomy between the activities of looking after and educating the children.. Moreover, our research revealed the search by the teachers involved for professional recognition from the children's mothers. This survey also reveals the "competition" between childhood time and capital time faced by children at the day care center in their mother's workplace. The topic of day care centers at companies has so far been little explored from an educational perspective. This research aims to contribute to the construction of knowledge in such institutions, which must attend to not only to the working parent's rights but also to the children's rights. / Mestrado / Educação, Sociedade, Politica e Cultura / Mestre em Educação

A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo estudar o princípio da melhoria da condição social do trabalhador, como elemento central e teleológico do direito do trabalho, a fim de verificar aspectos relevantes para a contextualização sociológica, histórica e jurídica desse ramo do direito e contribuir para a construção de uma racionalidade de justiça social. Partindo da intrínseca relação do direito do trabalho com o sistema capitalista de produção e com o conflito de classes sociais inerente ao referido sistema, questionou-se o papel desse ramo jurídico, como instrumento de emancipação da classe trabalhadora ou de preservação dos interesses do capital. A finalidade da doutrina da conciliação das classes sociais e alguns dos principais aspectos de sua implementação no Brasil foram trazidos para o conjunto analítico. Foram analisados os reflexos das transformações do Estado e, portanto, do direito, para o princípio da melhoria da condição social do trabalhador, a partir das mudanças de uma estrutura normativa liberal para a social, passando pelo impacto da ideologia neoliberal e da reestruturação produtiva das últimas décadas. A dinâmica normativa dos princípios e em especial do princípio da melhoria da condição social do trabalhador e a verificação de aspectos importantes da relação deste princípio com outros centrais do direito do trabalho foram abordadas. Foram revisitadas as principais técnicas e situações jurídicas de aplicação do princípio em estudo, a partir da perspectiva de direito social e da contribuição para o fortalecimento da classe trabalhadora. Por fim, apresentouse uma reflexão, à luz do princípio da melhoria da condição social do trabalhador, a respeito da problemática da terceirização, da rotatividade da mão de obra e do excesso de jornada de trabalho. / This research aimed to study the principle of improvement of workers social conditions, as a central and teleological element of Labor Law in order to analise relevant aspects for the sociological, historical and legal contextualization of this branch of Law and also to contribute to the development of social justice rationality. Based on the intrinsic relationship of Labor Law with the production capitalist system and also based on the class conflict which is inherent in the previously mentioned system, the role of this branch of Law was questioned as an emancipation tool for the working class or as a tool for preserving the interests of the capital. The purpose of the doctrine of reconciliation of social classes and some of the key aspects of its implementation in Brazil were scrutinized. Reflections of state transformations were analyzed and therefore the right to the principle of improvement of the workers social conditions were also analyzed, based on changes which would alter a liberal regulatory framework into a social one, through the impact of neoliberal ideology and of the restructuring of productive decades. The dynamics of normative principles and in particular the principle of improvement of workers social condition and the analysis of important aspects of its relationship with other central principles of Labor Law were addressed. The main technical and legal situations of application of the principle being studied were rewied from the perspective of Social Law and from the perspective of contribution to strengthening of the working class. Finally, a reflection, under the light of the principle of improvement of workers social condition, about the issues of outsourcing, labor turnover and excessive working hours presented.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:34:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Carolina Monte Procopio de Araujo.pdf: 696630 bytes, checksum: 8982d452cf42e54427bb613bb75b436a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-07 / State and human rights keep close connection between them. The many contemporary state forms agree with the speech of protection of these rights, but the State itself is today its main violator. The contemporary age is heiress of the legal and policitical thought of enlightened modernity, in special of its positivist source. Capitalistic social inequality, disguised by only formal equality, reproduces a process of reification of the human being, equalized to mere merchandise. In this context, human rights represent a form of resistance to the system but the mere defense of rights already established, or the search of new rights, shall not lead to lose of sight the amplest and estructural horizon of search of efective equality. Today the fight is to hinder the human rights retrocession, but always inside the limits of State power that, removed the mystifying veil of the supposedly neutral institucionality, it is the power of the ruling classes. In a future social context, not divided in classes and characterized for an equalitarian social experience, the expression human rights will sound as an old and exceeded eccentricity, meaningless, therefore its enjoyment will be daily and truly universal. / O estado e os direitos humanos guardam entre si íntima conexão. As várias formas estatais contemporâneas concordam com o discurso de proteção desses direitos, mas o próprio Estado é hoje seu principal violador. A era contemporânea é herdeira do pensamento jurídico e político da modernidade iluminista, em especial de sua vertente positivista. A desigualdade social do capitalismo, disfarçada pela igualdade meramente formal, reproduz um processo de reificação do ser humano, equiparado a mera mercadoria. Nesse contexto, os direitos humanos representam uma forma de resistência ao sistema mas a mera defesa de direitos já estabelecidos, ou a busca de novos direitos, não deve levar a perder de vista o horizonte mais amplo e estrutural de busca da igualdade efetiva. Hoje a luta é para impedir o retrocesso dos direitos humanos, mas sempre dentro dos limites do poder do estado que, retirado o véu mistificador da institucionalidade supostamente neutra, é o poder das classes dominantes. Em um futuro contexto social não dividido em classes e caracterizado por uma vivência social igualitária, a expressão direitos humanos soará como uma excentricidade antiga e ultrapassada, sem sentido, pois seu desfrute será um dado do cotidiano e verdadeiramente universal.

Orientadores: Fernando Antonio Lourenço, Omar Ribeiro Thom / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T21:10:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jorge_OtavioCalegari_M.pdf: 31947336 bytes, checksum: ffd3ef2aac1c6bc64060cb2227cdfd24 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo compreender, tendo como referência inicial, mas não exclusiva, a produção intelectual haitiana e dominicana, bem como uma experiência de campo de 3 meses, as relações estabelecidas entre trabalhadores e trabalhadoras da zona franca industrial CODEVI, localizada na cidade de Ouanaminthe, fronteira entre Haiti e República Dominicana, com o mundo do trabalho, assim como outras esferas de sua vida cotidiana. As relações entre haitianos e dominicanos expressas numa cidade de fronteira e principalmente no interior da zona franca industrial CODEVI, de forte presença de capital dominicano, constituirão o eixo condutor do trabalho / Abstract: The present paper parting as initial reference, not exclusively though, from Haitian and Dominican intellectual production, as well as three months of field experiences, aims to understand relations established among workers on industrial free zone of CODEVI, located at the city of Ouanaminthe, bordering Haiti and Dominican Republic, with the reality of labor as well as other aspects of daily life. Relations among Dominicans and Haitians expressed in abordering city and mainly within the industrial free zone of CODEVI, one with strong presence of Dominican funds, constitute the axes of the present paper / Mestrado / Sociologia / Mestre em Sociologia

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The paper aims to investigate the failure of the American Dream in the novel The Grapes of Wrath and the factors that affect it. Thus, the thesis of the paper is that it is the classes and castes of Californian that prevent the Joad family from fulfilling the American Dream. The thesis will be discussed from four focal points of the American Dream: Freedom, Equality, Individualism and Family and Ideal Home. The novel takes place during the Great Depression, a time when many Americans were homeless and unemployed. An attempt will be made to define the American Dream and give a background to it. Furthermore, the binary pair of “self” and “other” will be used as an instrument of analysis.

Doctorat en sciences sociales, politiques et économiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This thesis begins with the assumption that the theory of academic dependency provides an adequate framework within which the relationship between social science communities in the North and South can be understood. Present problems of social scientists in the South have very often been attributed to this dependence and it has been concluded that academic dependence has resulted in an uncritical and imitative approach to ideas and concepts from the West (Alatas, 2000). This dependence has also resulted in the general regression among social scientists based in the South and in a marginalisation of their works within the social science community no matter how significant and original they may be. The problematic invisibility of the works of prominent South African scholars is a dimension of a wider crisis of academic dependence, if unchecked this current trend will also reinforce academic dependence. From the nature of the problems generated by academic dependence, it is obvious that there is a need for an intellectual emancipation movement. This movement may take different forms that may range from but are not limited to a commitment to endogeneity which involves among other things, knowledge production that takes South African local conditions seriously enough to be the basis for the development of distinct conceptual ideas and theories. This requires transcending the tendency to use ‘the local’ primarily as a tool for data collection and theoretical framing done from the global north. Secondly, there is a need to take the local, indigenous, ontological narratives seriously enough to serve as source codes for works of distinct epistemological value and exemplary ideas within the global project of knowledge production. Endogeneity in the context of African knowledge production should also involve an intellectual standpoint derived from a rootedness in the African conditions; a centring of African ontological discourses and experiences as the basis of intellectual work (Adesina, 2008: 135). In this study, it is suggested that the recommendations highlighted above can only succeed if scholars make an effort to actually engage with locally produced knowledge. There is therefore a need to make greater efforts to know each other’s work on Africa. This demand is not to appease individual egos but it is essential for progress in scientific work. African communities will benefit from drawing with greater catholicity from the well–spring of knowledge about Africa generated by Africans. In the South African context, transcending academic dependence in the new generation of young academics requires engagement with the work of our local scholars who have devoted their lives to knowledge production. This thesis explores the scholarship of Professor Bernard Magubane by engaging with his works on race, class and inequality by locating his works within the wider debates on race, class and inequality in South Africa. The specific contributions of Professor Magubane to the enterprise of knowledge production are identified and discussed in relation to his critique of Western social science in its application to Africa. The making of Professor Magubane’s life, his career, scholarship and biography details are analysed with the intention of showing their influence on Magubane as a Scholar. The examination of Professor Magubane’s intellectual and biographical accounts help to explain the details, contexts and implications of his theoretical paradigm shifts. This helps prove that Professor Magubane’s experiences and theoretical positions were socially and historically constituted. The research from which this thesis derives is part of an NRF-funded project, on Endogeneity and Modern Sociology in South Africa, under the direction of Professor Jimi Adesina.