The aim of the dissertation research is to identify the features of Lithuanian educational system affecting social inequality in the direction to stimulation or reduction. The role of education regarding social inequality is one of the most controversial objects of scientific discussions. Is education an effective foundation of society emancipation, equal wrights and social mobility, or on the contrary, it enhances the current structure of the society? It is an open question for scientific discussions. Researches show that education connect in itself two contradictional elements: on the one hand, it is one of the most widely acknowledged social “elevators” helping to rise by the steps of social status, on the other hand, education also has the function of mobility control. Many researches revealed that correlations between education and social status of a man in different countries are different. Thus the role of education with respect to social inequality is directly connected with social, economical and cultural specificity of the country. The dissertation research employs tools of qualitative research, and they allow describe the relationship between education and social inequality as well as identify concrete features of education system that diminish or/and increase social inequality in specific socio-cultural and economic conditions in Lithuania. The composition of the research sample includes the levels of national politics and self-government, institution (education... [to full text] / Disertacijos tikslas - identifikuoti Lietuvos švietimo sistemos bruožus, paveikiančius socialinę nelygybę jos skatinimo arba redukavimo kryptimi. Švietimo vaidmuo socialinės nelygybės atžvilgiu yra vienas prieštaringiausių mokslinių diskusijų objektas. Ar švietimas iš tiesų yra efektyvus visuomenės emancipacijos, lygių galimybių bei socialinio mobilumo pamatas, ar atvirkščiai – linkęs išlaikyti esamą socialinę visuomenės struktūrą dar šiandien yra atviras mokslinėms diskusijoms klausimas. Tyrimai rodo, jog švietimas savyje apjungia du prieštaraujančius pradus – viena vertus, jis yra vienas plačiausiai pripažintų socialinių „liftų“, padedančių pakilti socialinio statuso laipteliais aukštyn kita vertus, švietimas atlieka ir mobilumo kontrolės funkciją. Dauguma tyrimų atskleidė, jog skirtingose šalyse koreliacijos tarp išsimokslinimo ir užimamo statuso yra skirtingos. Taigi, švietimo vaidmuo socialinės nelygybės atžvilgiu, tiesiogiai siejasi su šalies socialiniu, ekonominiu ir kultūriniu specifiškumu. Disertaciniame tyrime taikytos kokybinio tyrimo priemonės kaip tik ir leido aprašyti švietimo ir socialinės nelygybės sąryšius bei identifikuoti konkrečius švietimo sistemos bruožus, mažinančius ir/arba didinančius socialinę nelygybę specifinėmis Lietuvos sociokultūrinėmis ir ekonominėmis sąlygomis. Sudarant tyrimo imtį kryptingai buvo apjungtas nacionalinės politikos ir savivaldos lygmuo, institucinis (švietimos ir kitos socialinės institucijos) bei individualus lygmuo (mokytojai... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

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This thesis examines social and economic change among Black Creoles in the sugarcane plantation society of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. It begins with slavery and emphasizes the last 40 years. The study area is viewed as a creole society set in the United States. Change and adaptation is analysed from the perspective of those lacking access to, and control over, resources ensuring socio-economic advancement. Factors of race and ethnicity are crucial to the analysis. / Changes in the agricultural economy have cast blacks off the land. In local settlements, they form a surplus labor pool. In today's industrial, neoplantation economy, Civil Rights legislation and alliances beyond the study area have ensured black participation, particularly at a textile mill, resulting in fragile prosperity. Their dual Afro-Creole identity, viewed through language, music, and food, faces a questionable future as alliances external to the creole society are strengthened.

My study concerns the social recruitment of infantry soldiers in the Swedish standing army ( indelta armén). The 19th century Swedish army was composed of three parts : hired troops , the conscripts and above all the ”indelta armén”. Indelta armén was unique in the world because of its organizational form. It consisted of infantry soldiers, naval men and cavalry soldiers, which were supported by the landowning farmers. Normally two farmers had the responsibility to find an infantry soldier, to pay him an annual wage and to give him a small-crofters holding; at least this was intended when the system was first organized in the 1680s. The famous author Vilhelm Moberg has written a well-known novel ”Raskens” about one of these soldiers portraying also the whole system as well as the surrounding peasant society. All of the 20000 concerned soldiers lived in the Swedish countryside among the rest of the population. They all got special names,( for example meaning Quick, Prompt, Faithful) still existing as family names of Sweden today. The study concentrates on the question of the social importance of this system in a period of rapid transformation of Swedish society, i.e the end of the 19th century. The most important questions dealt with are: the ones concerning social and geographical recruitment of soldiers (i.e. those ôf the indelta armén), the means of support and education given to these soldiers in special army training schools. One part of the book concerns social mobility among ex-soldiers and a minor study treats their family structure. / <p>Diss. Umeå : Umeå universitet, 1986</p> / digitalisering@umu

A pervasive critique argues that the educational and social background of senior managers, determined largely by recruitment policies and practices, was an important contributor to the relative economic decline of Britain. The current thesis argues that this critique, even in nuanced form, suffers from serious flaws. For example, long term results of recruitment are confused with information on recruitment processes. In fact, corporate performance can only be judged by understanding the challenges that faced companies, and the limits of the options available to them. The objective of the work, then, is to outline the steps sensible recruiters should have taken to secure their needs for bright young entrants, and to describe and measure what in fact happened. Key findings are that: the criteria used by companies to define high-flier entrants – intelligence, certain personal skills, and signs of character - have remained fundamentally unchanged even if emphasis has moved. Business pursued these attributes through proxies, the most important of which was that of educational qualifications. Business was rightly slow, until the 1950s, to recruit graduate entrants because most bright young people did not attend university. Although British peculiarity in terms of non-vocationalism has been exaggerated, a lesser focus on ‘relevant’ qualifications for non-technical positions was not an economic disadvantage. Proxies for personal qualities were less robust but, over time, were replaced by better direct measurement of individual qualities. The solution found in Britain to bring educated young people together with employers through regional and national recruitment institutions, including the graduate milkround, has proven highly successful. The selection of entrants has been approached at least as well as abroad, and notably unreliable tools were avoided. Business obtained an ever growing proportion of young talent, and did so by integrating educated young people from new social strata to an extent unmatched abroad.

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Cette thèse s’efforce de redéfinir le concept de caste dominante qui fut d’abord étudié à l’échelle villageoise, dans le contexte de l’Inde rurale des années 1950, afin de le rendre pertinent en l’adaptant aux évolutions contemporaines d’un pays de plus en plus urbanisé, où les mobilités socio-spatiales se sont intensifiées. Pour ce faire, cette recherche s’appuie sur le cas des Kamma, caste dominante originaire d’Andhra côtier où elle continue de posséder l’essentiel des terres, même si ses membres ont migré en grand nombre vers l’intérieur et le sud de la péninsule indienne, dans les nouvelles zones irriguées et les villes. Ils occupent désormais des positions-clés dans la vie politique et économique de l’Andhra Pradesh, et dans une moindre mesure du Tamil Nadu et du Karnataka. La prise en compte du territoire, tel que ce concept a été élaboré par la géographie sociale, est essentielle pour comprendre ce changement d’échelle et de nature de la dominance de caste et pour étudier ses variations régionales. Dans les années 1980, avec l’arrivée au pouvoir en Andhra Pradesh d’un parti contrôlé par les Kamma, le Telugu Desam, la prise en main de l’appareil d’Etat leur a permis de renforcer leur influence. Ils dominent aussi les médias et le cinéma télougous, ce qui leur confère une prééminence socioculturelle. Ces nouveaux attributs de dominance, idéels voire idéologiques, et non plus seulement matériels, permettent de parler d’hégémonie. Celle-ci est toutefois remise en cause par la résistance des Dalit à l’oppression de caste et de classe, tandis que la domination culturelle des Kamma est contestée dans la région du Telangana par les partisans d’un Etat séparé de l’Andhra. / This thesis aims at redefining the concept of dominant caste which was first studied at the village level, in the context of 1950s rural India, to make it relevant by adapting it to the contemporary evolutions of a rapidly urbanising country, where social and spatial mobility is increasing. With this objective in mind, this research explores the case of Kammas, a dominant caste from Coastal Andhra where they continue to control most of the land, even though they have migrated in large numbers towards the interior and southern regions of the Indian peninsula, both to newly irrigated areas and to the cities. They now occupy key positions in politics and in the economy of Andhra Pradesh, and to a lesser extent of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Taking territory into account, a concept which was developed in Social Geography, is essential to understand this change in the scale and nature of caste dominance and to study its regional variations. In the 1980s, when the Kamma-dominated Telugu Desam Party won the elections in Andhra Pradesh, their control over State power helped them consolidate their influence. They also dominate the Telugu media and cinema, which confers upon them sociocultural preeminence. These new attributes of dominance, which are ideological and not only material, have a hegemonic character. However, this hegemony is threatened by the growing resistance of Dalits to caste and class oppression, while Kamma cultural domination is contested in the Telangana region by those supporting the creation of a State separated from Andhra.

En se basant sur la littérature, nous étudions les liens entre les concepts de mobilité intra-organisationnelle et de Responsabilité Sociétale de l’Entreprise (RSE). Aujourd’hui, les salariés et les entreprises portent un intérêt croissant pour ces deux concepts. Le contexte économique et social, engendre une grande préoccupation pour la mobilité et pour la RSE. La loi du 22 septembre 2017 modifie en profondeur le droit du travail notamment au niveau du régime du licenciement. Ce contexte vient accentuer et souligner l’importance du sujet. Afin de comprendre les enjeux, nous étudions ces concepts sous l’angle gestionnaire, économique et juridique. Puis, le fruit de notre réflexion nous amène à conceptualiser la «mobilité responsable» à partir de cinq grands piliers : l’employabilité, la justice organisationnelle, l’équité, les catégories-socio professionnelles et les ancres de carrière. Notre démarche empirique a pour objectif de mieux appréhender les enjeux des démarches de mobilité interne. Tout d’abord, nous réalisons 47 entretiens auprès de membres de la direction des ressources humaines de 19 grands groupes situés en France. Dans le cadre d’une démarche basée sur la théorie enracinée, l’objectif est l’émergence de la connaissance sur le processus et les outils d’accompagnement de la mobilité interne. À l’issue de ces entretiens, nous proposons une grille de lecture originale et innovante. Afin de recueillir le point de vue des salariés, nous mettons en œuvre une démarche quantitative. Dans cette perspective, nous diffusons un questionnaire de recherche via internet auprès de salariés de grandes entreprises en France. Notre échantillon compte 313 répondants. Cette démarche complémentaire permet de connaître les liens avec notre concept de mobilité responsable. Nous cherchons à valider ou invalider nos hypothèses et à mesurer les influences de la mobilité responsable. Nous trouvons de profondes différences dans les pratiques de mobilité intra-organisationnelle dans les entreprises. La catégorie socio-professionnelle est un élément prégnant expliquant la diversité des pratiques d’entreprise. Cette thèse contribue à l’exploration de la mobilité responsable dans les disciplines de sciences de gestion au sein des problématiques de gestion des ressources humaines. / Based on the literature, we study the links between the concepts of intra-organizational mobility and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Today, employees and companies are increasingly interested in both concepts. The economic and social context gives rise to great concern for mobility and CSR. The law of September 22, 2017 profoundly changes the labor law, particularly at the dismissal regime. This context accentuates and emphasizes the importance of the subject. To understand the issues, we study these concepts from a managerial, economic and legal point of view. Then, we conceptualize "responsible mobility" based on three main pillars: employability, organizational justice and equity. Our approach allows us to better understand the issues related to the intra-organizational mobility approach within companies. First, we carry out 47 interviews with members of the human resources department of 19 major groups located in France. As part of an approach based on Grounded Theory, the objective is the emergence of knowledge about the process and the tools for supporting internal mobility. As an outcome of these interviews, we propose an original and innovative reading grid. In order to gather the point of view of the employees, we implement a quantitative approach. Then, we circulate a research questionnaire to employees of large companies in France via the Internet to gather data on the point of view of the employees. Our sample has 313 respondents. This complementary approach makes it possible to know the links with our concept of responsible mobility. We seek to validate or invalidate our hypotheses and measure the impact of responsible mobility. We find many differences in intra-organizational mobility practices. The socio-professional category is an essential element explaining the diversity of practices in companies. This thesis contributes to the exploration of responsible mobility in the disciplines of management sciences in the context of human resources management issues.

This thesis investigates the emergence of an indigenous middle class between 1975 and 2010 in Bolivia - a country characterized by poor and unstable long-term economic growth, high inequality, and enduring ethnic and class cleavages. The study takes a two-tiered approach. It focuses first on tracing the emergence of the middle class by highlighting the main drivers of socio-economic improvement for individuals. Based on a longitudinal examination of a Socio-Economic Index (SEI) - upon which the middle class is operationally defined in this thesis - I explain the emergence of the middle class as the result of two distinct but interconnected processes: (i) a massive urbanization process that reached a peak in the mid-1980s, which brought individuals closer to areas favoured by state policies; and (ii) an institutional change in the mid-1990s, consisting of a new national framework that allocated resources more efficiently throughout the country. In addition, my analysis uncovers the different occupational trajectories that middle-class individuals followed to gain access to the new structure of opportunities and to prosper and become part of the middle class. Based on inter- and intra-generational analyses of occupational mobility, I find that in a context of an over supply of labour and with limited skills and economic capital, migrants found the means to thrive socially and economically in commerce, transport, and construction activities. Secondly, I explore the extent to which the emergence of the new middle class has opened-up opportunities for indigenous peoples. I conduct a periodic headcount of indigeneity based on spoken languages (indigenous and/or Spanish) and self-ascription to indigenous groups. Two messages emerge from this exercise. First, the new middle class has provided opportunities for individuals who are monolingual in indigenous languages, whether they ascribe themselves or not to an indigenous group. Second, individuals' ethnic identities become fuzzier as they move into the middle class. This is revealed by indigenous language loss and a significant decrease in self-ascription that happened in a markedly stratified manner over just ten years. I tackle the intricacies of middle-class ethnic identity by drawing on a social identity conceptual framework that allows me to integrate synergistically the discussions on class, ethnicity, and modernization. By approaching social identities through the analysis of differentiated lifestyles, I find that new middle-class individuals have hybrid and segmented identities. That is, individuals combine indigenous/traditional and modern forms of living that vary according to their socio-economic level, but do not necessarily move towards cultural assimilation. I contend that the creation of new status symbols and forms of recognition based on indigenous idiosyncrasies in the new middle class constitutes a categorical break with historical, ethnic-based forms of social, economic, and cultural exclusion and discrimination. In summary, this thesis advances the conceptualization and understanding of the middle class, contributing to the burgeoning literature on emerging middle classes in developing countries by offering a more complex picture of its expansion and identity construction.

The goal of this dissertation is to understand the profile of one of the outlying regions of the city of Maceió, through the phenomenon of articulation of popular sectors - regular employees, informal, illegal and irregular, low-income (up to 2.5 minimum wages) and its families - in the process of urbanization in a peripheral region of the Brazilian Northeast. A poor neighborhood of the capital of Alagoas, the Jacintinho, is building on the theoretical framework of Christaller and Corrêa, with the purpose of presenting the street market as a core of commerce and formation of these urban spaces. The engagement theory about how to capture the economic reality of existing shopping complexes in the peripheral regions provided the “popular economy” as a solution. This concept was formatted based in Santos, Dal Ri, and Muterle Tiriba. The result of this research is that the street market of Jacintinho neighborhood is a popular economic strategy of low-income segments that have little schooling, from the countryside and, mostly, its plants do not meet the normative regulatory frameworks (formal, legal and regular). This strategy, studied in the case of Jacintinho, is similar to other suburbs of Maceió. / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas / O objetivo desta dissertação é compreender o perfil de uma das regiões periféricas da cidade de Maceió, através do fenômeno da articulação dos setores populares – trabalhadores assalariados, informais, ilegais e irregulares, de renda baixa (até 2,5 salários mínimos) e de suas famílias – dentro do processo de urbanização de uma região periférica do Nordeste. Um bairro pobre da capital alagoana, o Jacintinho, é tomando como base do referencial teórico de Christaller e Corrêa, com a finalidade de apresentar a feira livre como núcleo deste Centro Comercial e formação desses espaços urbanos. O embate teórico sobre como captar a realidade econômica destes complexos comerciais existentes nas regiões periféricas forneceu a economia popular como solução. Este conceito foi formatado com base em Santos, Dal Ri, Muterle e Tiriba. O resultado desta pesquisa é que a feira livre do bairro do Jacintinho é uma estratégia econômica dos segmentos populares de baixa renda que possuem pouca escolaridade, oriundos do campo e, majoritariamente, suas unidades produtivas não atendem aos marcos regulatórios normativos (formais, legais e regulares). Essa estratégia, estudada no caso do Jacintinho, é semelhante a de outros bairros periféricos de Maceió.