Thesis (M.S.) -- Mississippi State University. Department of Sociology, Athropology, and Social Work. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Zugl.: Oldenburg, Universiẗat, Diss. A. Janßen und A. Polat, 2005 u.d.T.: Janßen, Andrea: Zwischen Integration und Ausgrenzung.

This thesis examines the relation between subnational autonomies, that is to say regional and local authorities and the norms they create, and European Union law. The existence of local and regional autonomies within the various Member States of the EU is a factual truth. We know that they exist and co-exist with other levels of public authority, themselves generating norms. Yet, on its surface European Union law does not devise any substantive understanding of such autonomies. This stands in stark contrast to the relation between the Member States and the EU, which is governed by a complex catalogue of Treaty rules. As a consequence of European integration, however, subnational autonomies and EU law do interact, so that the latter cannot simply ignore the existence of the former. This thesis sets out to determine the contours of their mutual relation through an analysis of EU procedural and substantive law. It uncovers that the relation between subnational autonomies and EU law is multifarious and diverges depending on whether we look at the surface of EU law, that is to say the Treaties, or whether we look below its surface, at the Court of Justice's rich case law or soft law instruments of the Commission. I map this conclusion through a modelling approach, relying on what I term the 'Insider Model' and the 'Outsider Model' respectively. These models underline that, in some areas of EU law, SNAs are seen to be outsiders to the project of European integration whereas other areas recognise SNAs and especially their norms to be the insiders of that project. The coexistence of both models forces us intellectually to rearrange things. It challenges our 'constitutional imagination'. The key to understanding the coexistence of both models can be found in the evolution of EU law itself. While the Outsider Model remains attached to the public international law origins of the EU Treaties, the Insider Model captures the reality that not only States and citizens, but also SNAs, are integrated into the EU legal order.

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This qualitative study aims to investigate how a multinational company works to promote workforce diversity and inclusiveness, how native and immigrant employees and managers experience social integration and social relations in the workplace, and how the managers work to contribute to social integration and social relations in the workplace. Interviews have been made with thirteen participants working in the same company. Among the participants there are natives and immigrants, and there are managers and employees. The theoretical framework is based on habitus, on capital, and on symbolic interactionism theory. The previous research is based on workforce diversity and inclusiveness, on social integration, and on social relations in workplaces. The findings indicate that the managers involve in different initiatives to promote diversity and inclusiveness inside and outside the company. Most participants have positive attitudes towards the position of the company in its work with diversity and inclusiveness. The findings also indicate that social integration and social relations in the workplace are of extreme importance for the employees and the managers. Most participants have good experiences of social integration in their workplace as they have feelings of inclusion, belonging, and community. Social relations in the workplace seem to be extremely significant for meaning, job satisfaction, well-being, and job performance. In addition, the findings indicate that the managers work with multiple initiatives to contribute to social integration and social relations in the workplace.

The diploma thesis focuses on the term risk in human life in general, as it is seen in the society and defined by current knowledge in the field of social science. Furthermore, the thesis explores the risk as a phenomenon connected to the social services. The social integration of disadvantaged groups of inhabitants into majority society have brought with it the need to defend the rights of people with disabilities, with an emphasis on their active involvement in everyday life, in seeking the opportunity to experience those situations that define this life. This focus brings a number of theoretical solutions for risk planning with respect to clients of social services. These solutions have been further taken into account in this section of the thesis. The experimental part of thesis focuses on the perception of risks by the employees who work in residential facilities in Zlín district, directly taking care of clients. This part of the thesis provides a relevant insight into risk awareness in selected residential facilities and its active use in practice. Consequently, it deals with other factors that may affect employees of facilities for people with disabilities when assessing risk planning and generally concerning their perception of the risk phenomenon in clients with mental disabilities. On the...

Idrottsämnet som en möjlig väg till integration har under de senaste tre decennierna fått allt mer uppmärksamhet i forskarvärlden. Forskare har hävdat att integrering, både in i skolans och samhällets struktur, har stora möjligheter att ske genom användandet av idrott som ett internationellt och kulturöverskridande språk. Emellertid har dessa slutsatser till stor del dragits utan att fråga skolelever med en utomeuropeisk etnicitet om vad deras upplevelser kring skolidrotten som en integrationsarena är. Syftet med vår undersökning är att undersöka vilka upplevelser elever med utomeuropeisk etnicitet har av idrottsämnet som integrationsarena. Genom att ta reda på deras åsikter och upplevelser hoppas vi kunna få en bättre uppfattning om idrottsämnet har eller inte har en integrerande roll och i så fall på vilket sätt. Vi har gjort en kvalitativ undersökning med öppna riktade intervjuer. Respondenterna utgörs av sex elever med utomeuropeisk etnicitet, som alla går i gymnasieskolan. Samtliga elever har vistats i Sverige i högst sju år vilket gör att de kan antas genomgå en integrationsprocess. Undersökningen visar att elever upplever idrottsämnet som en möjlig integrationsarena, dock skiljer sig deras åsikter åt i många avseenden. De upplever i olika grad idrottsämnet som en plats där de kommer i kontakt med den svenska kulturen, där de får en större förståelse för olika platser i samhället samt där de har en möjlighet att skapa vänner som de umgås med i skolan och på fritiden. Undersökningen visar också att möjligheterna till integration påverkar elevernas förutsättningar för innanförskap. Bland annat dessa aspekter gör att idrottsämnet kan ses som en arena som skapar förutsättningar för integration in i den svenska skolan men även in i det svenska samhället.

Submitted by Mario BC (mario@bc.ufrpe.br) on 2016-08-08T12:29:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Stella DAngelis Rodrigues Rocha.pdf: 3694835 bytes, checksum: e9d9f4fdae2d0466c2f87e6f6a7c0ac0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-08T12:29:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Stella DAngelis Rodrigues Rocha.pdf: 3694835 bytes, checksum: e9d9f4fdae2d0466c2f87e6f6a7c0ac0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This paper chiefly aims at understanding the perception that recipient families entitled to the Housing State Program under PAC Beberibe have on experiencing their right to the city, taking into account the consumption perspective of collective use-driven goods. Besides the economic reasoning, consumption can be also construed as a social distinction factor, and also as political expression, when reasoned as a purpose of grassroots struggle for the equal access right to the ensemble of goods and services made available within the urban background. The perspective of the said consumption construing further enhances the studies dedicated to social inclusion process, in particular, when dealt with the urban setting and upon taking the city as a product of human labour, placed within a capitalist environment that brings together not only the physical structural dimension, but also the cultural, symbolic and the political dimension underneath the daily life. Aiming to meet the purposes of the said survey, the paper hereof turned out to be an exploratory, quality-led research. The empirical background of this paper comprised the families who have left the wretched dwellings in the banks of Beberibe River and currently live in council housings built according with Beberibe Basin’s Integrated Sanitation Programme (PAC Beberibe), carried out in the municipality of Recife, State of Pernambuco. Hence, upon the sample selection based on the snowball sampling technique, the empiric contribution to the speech analysis was employed as related to the French line to guide the search for the meaning given to the right to the city as experienced by the recipient families through their own descriptions. Among the outcomes thus achieved, it should be stressed that it is becomes indispensable that social housingoriented public policies are built upon the housing concept in a broader sense than its physical infrastructure, by encompassing the home feeling awareness and the entitlement to other social rights to the family, including the access to mass consumption goods and services and the actual involvement at the urban development, based upon the adoption of the citizenship status. / A presente dissertação tem por objetivo, compreender a percepção que as famílias beneficiárias do programa habitacional do PAC Beberibe possuem sobre a vivência do direito à cidade, levando em consideração a perspectiva do consumo dos bens de uso coletivo. Além da racionalidade econômica, o consumo pode ser interpretado também como um fator de distinção social e ainda como uma expressão política, quando pensado como um propósito de luta popular pelo acesso igualitário ao conjunto de bens e serviços disponibilizados no ambiente citadino. A observação destas interpretações do consumo, enriquece ainda mais os estudos que se dedicam ao processo de integração social, especialmente, quando se trata da esfera urbana e se admite a cidade como um produto do trabalho humano, imerso em um contexto capitalista que congrega não só a dimensão estrutural física, mas também a cultural, simbólica e a política que subjazem o viver cotidiano. E para atender os propósitos desse estudo, este último configurou-se como uma pesquisa qualitativa. Teve como universo empírico, as famílias que saíram de habitações miseráveis às margens do rio Beberibe e que hoje residem nos habitacionais sociais construídos através do Programa de Saneamento Integrado da Bacia do Beberibe (PAC Beberibe) executado no município de Recife em Pernambuco. Assim, após a seleção da amostra com base na técnica bola de neve, fez-se uso do aporte teórico da Análise do Discurso referente à linha francesa para nortear a busca pela compreensão do sentido dado à vivência do direito à cidade pelas famílias beneficiárias através de suas narrativas. Entre os resultados obtidos, destaca-se que é imprescindível que as políticas públicas voltadas para habitação social alicercem-se no conceito de moradia em um sentido mais amplo que o de sua infraestrutura física, ao englobar a sensação de lar para o núcleo familiar e o atendimento dos outros direitos sociais, incluindo o acesso aos bens e serviços de consumo coletivo e a efetiva participação no desenvolvimento urbano a partir da apropriação da condição de cidadania.

Doctorat en sciences psychologiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

The diversity of the undergraduate student population encourages understanding of others and provides opportunities for students to challenge their assumptions of cultures, political and religious views, values, and personal backgrounds. However, it also creates challenges for academic and student success as faculty and administrators struggle to meet different generational and cultural needs. A broader, more inclusive definition of student success may help meet the needs of a more modern complex institutional student demographic. It may also allow for new avenues of research specifically related to success for Black, Hispanic, and White undergraduate male students, as these students continue to struggle in higher education (Bailey & Moore, 2004; Barker & Avery, 2012; Conger & Long, 2010; Harper, 2006b; Harper & Kuykendall, 2012; Kuh & Love, 2000; Kuh et al., 2007; Sax & Arms, 2006; Sax & Harper, 2007; Spruhill, Hirt, & Mo, 2014; Strayhorn, 2010a; Sutton & Kimbrough, 2001). Meanwhile, the concept of globalization and global citizenship are being integrated into higher education at many levels in both academic and student affairs. Many institutions are integrating these concepts into policies and programs, which provide opportunities for diverse interactions, conversations, and experiences. Informal interactional diversity, which is defined as “the opportunity to interact with students from diverse backgrounds in the broad, campus environment” (Gruin, 1999, para. 4), is a concept related to globalization and global citizenship, but not much research exists to show how it might impact student success. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to further explore informal interactional diversity in Black, Hispanic, and White undergraduate males and its possible relationship to the multi-faceted nature of student engagement. The resulting framework for this study was built around Tinto’s (1993) theory of social integration, Astin’s (1993a) theory of student involvement, and persistence research by Pascarella and Terenzini (1991) because these models highlighted important environmental factors that informed research on informal interactional diversity. In this quantitative study, the researcher utilized a purposeful, national sample of secondary data from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) to analyze levels of informal interactional diversity in Black, Hispanic, and White undergraduate men. The sample included 3,613 Black, Hispanic, and White undergraduate men who were enrolled at five participating large, public predominantly White institutions (PWIs) in the United States and completed the survey with an appended Experiences with Diverse Perspectives topical module in 2013 and 2014. The majority of the males in the sample were White and classified as seniors, or fourth-year undergraduate students (n = 1,830). Statistical analyses, such analysis of variances (ANOVAs) and multiple regressions tests, were conducted to examine the relationships between variables (informal interactional diversity, classification in college, and student engagement). Results of the analysis indicated the relationships between informal interactional diversity, male ethnic group, and student engagement were statistically significant. Additionally, findings indicated there was a significant relationship between levels of informal interactional diversity and classification in college, as well as classification in college and male ethnic group. Implications for future research based on the findings of this study included: a) investigating how reflective and integrative learning, as well as supportive environment, affect engagement for the undergraduate male populations studied; b) examining why decreases in qualitative reasoning, effective teaching practices, and collaborative learning occur for these undergraduate male populations; c) investigating these variables using samples of participants at different types of institutions; and d) conducting a mixed-methods study with a qualitative portion, or a purely qualitative study, focused on male student perceptions of informal interactional diversity, student engagement, and campus climate or race relations at PWIs to gain more insight on the lived experience of Black, Hispanic, and White males. The conclusion of this research study was that the findings support much of the literature related to informal interactional diversity, as well as the success of Black, Hispanic, and White males.