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Students in a large mid-Atlantic city graduate from the public district high schools at an average annual rate of fifty-six percent. This low rate of high school completion predicts future financial and social instability for not only those individuals who drop out of school, but also for their surrounding community. The research on dropouts highlights the significance that students' low levels of academic and social engagement in school have on their decisions to leave school. Advocates for single-sex education argue that students engage and achieve at high levels when learning in this educational model. According to the current literature, students' success in single-sex schools is primarily a result of the proacademic choice that they and their guardians make when electing to attend a single-sex school. Through focus groups, interviews, and observations, this study explores what student engagement looks like at an all-girls urban neighborhood public high school that is non-selective and where the proacademic choice of students is not a factor. With new federal policy measures advocating innovation in public education, single-sex schools - historically inaccessible to minority students from low-income communities - are finding a foothold in urban public school systems across the country. This study aims to illuminate the extent to which a single-sex school serves as a "site of transformation" for young women of color from a low-income neighborhood. The realization of the school's mission, to interrupt the social reproduction of the neighborhood through the education of its young women, depends on its students' graduation from high school and their access to and success through college. Data related to various features of the school are analyzed to highlight how student engagement is promoted and inhibited at the school and ultimately results in transformative and/or reproductive educational experiences for students. / Urban Education

The commodification of culture, space, and resources is incentivized by neoliberal urbanism. In response, we have seen an attempt to develop collectively organized, oppositional spaces within urban places. The tensions that arise when considering the production of commons in the development of the neoliberal city are the central focus of this paper. As I will observe, these spaces are subjected to commodification as they become increasingly de-politicized through neoliberal ideologies. In order to theorize about these contradictory elements, I observe a makerspace in Richmond, Virginia called HackRVA. Specifically, I consider HackRVA as an urban commons. Through in-depth interviews and participant observation, I consider how HackRVA engages with the neoliberal city of Richmond and how the organization and maintenance of their space and their community reflects commoning as social reproduction. I find that HackRVA’s relationship to the city is complicated as the community within the space both contests and assimilates to the creative economy.

The aim of this thesis is to look into the lives of young mothers of Roma nationality and to get better understanding of influences that affect them and their adoption and perception of their maternal role. The choice of this theme is based on experience with previous working with Roma families. For the research, it has been chosen five mothers aged under 25 years, with whom were conducted unstructured interviews. In the theoretical part, there is a discussion about motherhood in general and later about its specifics in the Roma community. The greatest emphasis is taken on the receiving parent role. Firstly, the empirical part is a discourse about the choosen method - grounded theory. Then there is detailed description of data processing and data analysis. The following chapters are devoted initially to environmental influences to motherhood and later to the concrete experience of the respondents. The experience of motherhood is viewed from several angles - the time horizon (from conception to birth and the first reaction to child) and the importance of her baby to the mother, especially in terms of commitment and in the context of plans and wishes. This work gives an insight into the lives of five Roma mothers. Mothers have the greatest influence on the upbringing of a new generation - for those who are...

Os deslocamentos de homens, mulheres e famílias inteiras, moradoras no município de Timbiras/MA para o labor nas atividades da agricultura canavieira no Estado de São Paulo se desenrola por uma série de redes de relações pessoais, que abrange diversos agentes sociais, tanto no Maranhão - no município timbirense e também em municípios vizinhos - como nas duas principais cidades em que residem durante a colheita da gramínea, no Estado de São Paulo: Guariba e Pradópolis. Por meio de testemunhos orais, colhidos no município de Timbiras (MA) e nas cidades paulistas de Guariba e Pradópolis, buscamos compreender as relações entre a rede de informações familiares e as redes territoriais de apoio que fundamentam o processo migratório. A primeira se sustenta a partir de vínculos de reciprocidade nutridos pelos trabalhadores migrantes nos espaços sociais das referidos municípios do Estado do Maranhão e de São Paulo. Já as redes territoriais de apoio dão suporte a essa troca de informações entre os territórios de migração e o dito local de moradia do tronco ou núcleo familiar, no Maranhão nos anos 2000. Essas redes de relações pessoais, fundamentais para alavancar a experiência migratória, se costuram, se refiguram e se fortalecem a partir de múltiplas formas de trocas de informações entre os que migraram e os que não migraram, bem como entre os possíveis migrantes e os agentes responsáveis pelo processo de deslocamento e recrutamento até a área canavieira paulista. Compreende-se que há uma vinculação estreita entre o processo de construção de territórios de migração e a territorialidade experimentada na área de origem, sustentada por redes múltiplas de relações sociais que cimentam estas territorialidades criadas e ressignificadas com a migração. / The displacements of men, women and entire families living in the city of Timbiras/MA for labor in agricultural activities of sugarcane in the state of São Paulo unfolds through a series of networks of personal relationships, covering many different social agents, both in Maranhão in the city of Timbiras and in neighboring counties as well - and in the two major cities where they live during the harvest of sugarcane, in the State of São Paulo: Guariba and Pradópolis. By oral testimonies, collected in the municipality of Timbiras (MA) and in the cities of Guariba (SP) and Pradópolis (SP), we sought to achieve the understanding of the relationships between the network of family information and territorial networks of support that underlie the migration process. The first is based on the bonds of reciprocity fed by migrant workers in the social spaces of these referred cities in the state of Maranhão and São Paulo. The territorial networks of support gives a base to this exchange of information between the territories of migration and the place of residence of core of the family, in Maranhão in the year of 2000. These networks of personal relationships, fundamental to leverage the experience of migration, sew themselves get strengthened from multiple forms of information exchange between those who migrated and those who did not, as well as among potential migrants and the agents responsible for the process displacement and recruitment to the sugarcane production area in São Paulo. It was possible to understand that there is a close relationship between the process of construction of territories of migration and the territoriality experienced in the area of origin, supported by multiple networks of social relationships that cement these territorialities created and re-signified with the migration.

Cette thèse de doctorat analyse le rôle des stratégies familiales dans les processus de reproduction et de transformation sociale dans la Grèce d’après-guerre. Elle tente de montrer que les familles ont développé, tout au long de la période d’après-guerre, un système de stratégies afin d’assurer sur le plan intergénérationnel la préservation ou l’amélioration de leur statut économique et symbolique. Ces stratégies, qui constituent le « mode de reproduction familial », ont joué un rôle capital dans les processus de transformation sociale du pays (tels que l’urbanisation et la restructuration économique), notamment pendant la première période d’après-guerre. La recherche se focalise sur trois types de stratégies familiales : la pluriactivité, les stratégies résidentielles et les stratégies éducatives. Tout d’abord, à travers les stratégies de pluriactivité, les familles, notamment dans le monde rural, ont fait face à l’exode rural et aux mutations économiques profondes des premières décennies d’après-guerre. Ensuite, les stratégies résidentielles avaient pour objectif l’accession à la propriété, mobilisant principalement l’épargne des ménages, ainsi que les ressources humaines et matérielles des réseaux familiaux. Enfin, les stratégies éducatives, qui ont également mobilisé d’importantes ressources des ménages, exprimaient les efforts des familles pour assurer leur reproduction, voire leur mobilité sociale, sur le plan intergénérationnel à travers l’obtention des diplômes universitaires par leurs enfants. Par ailleurs, la question du rôle de l’État-providence grec est abordée dans les processus de protection et de reproduction sociale. En analysant le développement tardif et fragmentaire de l’État-providence grec, il est démontré que la famille n’a jamais perdu son rôle prépondérant en termes de protection et de reproduction. / This PhD. Thesis focuses on the role of family strategies in social reproduction and change processes in post-war Greece. It argues that during the whole post-war period, families, according to a normative propensity in pursuing their subsistence, protection and reproduction in an intergenerational perspective, developed a system of strategies in order to assure their social reproduction, namely to assure the preservation or amelioration of their economic and symbolic status. These strategies, that constitute the ‘family mode of reproduction’, played also an important role in social transformation processes (such as urbanization and economic restructuring), notably in the first post-war period. The dissertation focuses particularly in three types of family strategies: pluriactivity, residential and education strategies. With the development pluriactivity strategies, rural families (in particular) tried to cope with deep economic restructuring and rural depopulation during the first post-war decades. Residential strategies aimed at accessing home-ownership, notably in the period of rapid urbanization by mobilizing mainly family savings and exchanges. Educational strategies expressed family aspirations of social reproduction and mobility through the acquisition of university degrees. These strategies also mobilized important proportions of family wealth in order to cope with high competition within the academic field. We finally address the question of the role of the Greek Welfare-State in social protection and reproduction processes. By analysing the late and fragmentary development of public policies, we show that family never lost its prominent role in social protection and reproduction.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:46:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SANDRA CELIA COELHO GOMES DA SILVA SERRA DE OLIVEIRA.pdf: 3764340 bytes, checksum: c1068b9bc3b5a5ebca7383c6d242ec5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-05 / This thesis is a study about women in the Pilgrimage of Bom Jesus da Lapa, emphasizing gender relations, analyzing the space of the pilgrimage as a social reproduction of the ideology of the patriarchal family and of the female gender identity. The research environment is the Pilgrimage of Bom Jesus da Lapa, which has been held for 323 years in that city, located in the western region of Bahia. The subjects in the research are pilgrim women who fall in an age group of between 50 and 70 years-old and have been participating in the Pilgrimage for more than five consecutive years; they are from five Brazilian states (Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Espírito Santo and Goiás) that report a higher rate of participation in this religious event. We utilized as our research methodology the bibliographical, qualitative, fieldwork and documentary research, and the collection of data; our technique was participant observation and semi-structured interviews. This thesis has as its general objective to analyze how to articulate, within the area of popular Catholicism, and more particularly in the Pilgrimage of Bom Jesus da Lapa, sociocultural changes occurring in society, gender relations and the dynamics of Catholicism. Emphasis will be given to the impacts of such articulation on the conceptualization of gender relations, to the core of the pilgrimage itself and beyond, to the everyday relationships of the women concerned; to the form of the inclusion of women in this context, how the pilgrim women are situated (are positioned), in relation to socio-cultural changes in progress, how pilgrim women understand the space of the pilgrimage, in relation to their daily domestic life, to the challenges faced by these subjects, in the sense that, at times, they approach or move away from gender identity, derived from patriarchal society, where the submission of women to men is a key feature. Based on the results of the interviews of the pilgrim women and on the theoretical framework as references, we concluded that the Pilgrimage of Bom Jesus da Lapa is a space for the social reproduction of the family and of the female gender identity, where a contrast is observed in the reframing of the role of and in the profile of the pilgrim women of Bom Jesus da Lapa, alternating between permanence and transformation of the gender identity arising from patriarchy. / Esta tese tem por objeto de estudo a mulher na Romaria do Bom Jesus da Lapa, enfatizando as relações de gênero, analisando o espaço da romaria como reprodução social do ideário de família patriarcal e de identidade de gênero feminina. O cenário da Pesquisa é a Romaria do Bom Jesus da Lapa, que se realiza há 323 anos, naquela cidade, localizada na região Oeste da Bahia. Os sujeitos da pesquisa são mulheres romeiras que se enquadram na faixa etária entre 50 e 70 anos de idade e participam, há mais de cinco anos consecutivos, da Romaria do Bom Jesus da Lapa, pertencentes a cinco Estados brasileiros (Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Espírito Santo e Goiás) que registram um maior índice de participação nesse evento religioso. Utilizamos como metodologia a pesquisa bibliográfica, qualitativa, de campo e documental e na coleta de dados; aplicamos como técnica a observação participante e a entrevista semiestruturada. Esta tese tem por objetivo geral analisar como se articulam, no espaço do catolicismo popular, e mais particularmente no espaço da romaria do Bom Jesus da Lapa, as mudanças socioculturais em curso na sociedade, as relações de gênero e a própria dinâmica do catolicismo. Dar-se-á ênfase aos impactos de tal articulação nas concepções e relações de gênero, ao interno da própria romaria e para além dela, nas relações cotidianas das mulheres em questão; à forma de inserção das mulheres nesse contexto, como as mulheres romeiras se situam (posicionam) em relação às mudanças socioculturais em curso, como as mulheres romeiras percebem o espaço da romaria, em relação ao seu cotidiano doméstico; ao desafio que se coloca aos referidos sujeitos, no sentido de que elas em alguns momentos se aproximam ou se distanciam da identidade de gênero oriunda da sociedade patriarcal, onde a submissão da mulher ao homem é uma característica determinante. A partir das falas das romeiras entrevistadas e dos aportes teóricos utilizados, concluímos que a Romaria do Bom Jesus da Lapa é um espaço de reprodução social da família e a identidade de gênero feminina, observando-se um contraste na ressignificação do papel e no perfil da mulher romeira do Bom Jesus da Lapa, alternando entre a permanência e a transformação da identidade de gênero oriunda do patriarcalismo.

The promotion of education has long been a priority of the successive regimes of Ethiopia. Combined with the momentum of Education for All (EFA) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in recent years Ethiopia’s education sector has experienced a major expansion of primary school enrolment which has earned Ethiopia international acclaim and so much optimism in meeting the MDGs set for 2015. Despite this, however, large numbers of primary school aged children remain out of school, most of these are found in rural areas and many of them are girls. Many of the children that enrol do not stay on to complete the full cycle of their primary schooling. While there are numerous studies looking at rural children’s schooling, village-based ethnographic studies are rare, particularly in Ethiopia. The thesis offers a sociological insight as to why low enrolment and incompletion persist in rural areas. Drawing on an ethnographic approach study over extended period this thesis presents analysis of data from two local communities. Methodologically the analysis are anchored on the voices of the children, their parents and teachers and make a valuable contribution in emphasising not only the importance of bringing local people’s own voices into the debate, but also drawing attention to the ways voice may be utilised and calling for greater sensitivity to the way it is interpreted in scholarly and policy circles. Theoretically, the study shows the value of applying Bourdieu’s approach to social reproduction in analysing the challenges faced by rural children in completing primary school. Time spent with children, their families and their teachers suggests reproduction of educational inequality at all levels (home, school, community). While these are certainly important, this thesis argues that more attention needs to be paid to the social context in which children and their schooling are embedded. It suggests the challenges in schooling rural children are not simply explained either by the quantity of primary schools available, or a lack of value being accorded to education, or deliberate acts of discrimination (e.g. against girls). Rather, it has argued that discriminatory outcomes, or the reproduction of social inequality, have to be understood as the outcome of social practice, where ‘choices’ are made in circumstances of considerable constraint. Furthermore, it has shown that these patterns of social reproduction are as characteristic of teachers and the field of the school as they are of parents and children and the field of home and community. Rather than the school operating as an external change agent, as imagined in much of the education literature, the school is very much part of the local social context. The application of policies and the social practice of staff are significantly marked by their positionality within the communities which they serve.