Thesis advisor: Karen Arnold / Maximizing college summer breaks for career preparation and prestige accumulation is an established routine for elite undergraduates in the United States. Social reproduction, meritocracy, and changes to the world of work increasingly complicate this issue. Yet despite this additional burden, there is little research into the costs and benefits of participation and limited comprehension of how and why elite undergraduates internalize norms around summer breaks. This study fills that gap by introducing the High Prestige Summer Experience Model, a framework for understanding this decision-making process. Using interviews with 13 undergraduates and recent alumni from an Ivy League university, this grounded theory study presents the five phases of summer planning and participation. Students refine decisions at each stage by measuring possible opportunities against three mental measurements (Threshold of Acceptability, Narrative Currency Value, and Summer Prestige Ranking). The norms and beliefs inculcated through peer culture influence this paradigm through which they view their college summers. Underlying this process are the mediating factors that nudge and shape each particular student’s decisions: personal context; campus context; and societal context. Participants reported that summer experiences play an important role in peer positioning. They carry a narrative currency on campus and the ability to frame their experiences buys social acceptance for undergraduates. Summer experiences allow students to explore jobs in ways not normally available during term-time study, provide opportunities for personal development and growth, and equip them for their post-graduate elite status through capital accumulation. Participants noted that significant emotional and social consequences flow from actions in the summer experience process while simultaneously questioning its value to them in the long term. The findings of an additional comparison group of participants at a different selective campus indicate that this trend toward high prestige summer experiences is being normalized at lower rungs on the institutional prestige ladder as well. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2022. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

The aim of this study is to investigate and describe the perceptions women has of being in middle management position in male-dominated industries. Five qualitative semi-structured interviews have been conducted, and the empirical material analyzed from a phenomenographic perspective. The analyzed data resulted in four categories; Job satisfaction is strengthened by the feeling of security, the Organization task-orientation has a negative impact on the leadership, Traditional notions of masculinity and femininity requires adaptation, Good leadership requires some special features. Conclusion show that women in middle management-positions perceived to have strong support in their management role in the male-dominated industries, however, there are indications that these industries also require a certain type of leadership behavior. Women consider themselves even perceive a shift in the focus of what should be prioritized depending on which department they are in. Male-dominated departments often leads to down prioritizing relationship-oriented tasks, as the women think is an essential part of leadership

No Estado moderno se, por um lado, parece intrínseca a uma ordem jurídica a sua pretensão coercitiva em relação aos diferentes aspectos da vida social, resta evidente que tal ordem deve ser dotada de um atributo de autoridade que lhe garanta primazia em relação a outras ordens (morais, religiosas, pessoais), para que se justifique dotá-la de atributos tão singulares como a coercitividade. A essa autoridade, contudo, no contexto democrático - mais especificamente no contexto do Estado Democrático de Direito contemporâneo - cumpre dotar-se de uma legitimidade ou, ao menos, uma aparência de legitimidade suficiente para imprimir efetividade àquela autoridade. Nesse sentido, o presente trabalho busca redefinir, a partir da perspectiva bourdieuniana, a percepção dos principais argumentos de legitimidade e autoridade do Direito - visto não só enquanto ordenamento jurídico, mas principalmente a partir de sua produção no ambiente legislativo, tantas vezes ignorada pela doutrina jurídica que habitualmente toma o direito posto, já legislado, como ponto de partida, neutralizando as disputas do subcampo legislativo e ignorando, em ampla medida, a questão da legitimidade da produção normativa. A pesquisa demonstra, a partir da perspectiva da Teoria da Reprodução Social de Bourdieu & Passeron (1992) que coloca em cheque toda legitimidade, que é aqui vista como mero efeito de uma autoridade, como a própria democracia é um conceito em disputa, e que a legitimidade das ações legislativas, bem como a dos próprios agentes legislativos não pode ser pressuposta. / If, in modern State, the coercive pretension seems intrinsic to the legal order in respect to all the different aspects of social life, it is also evident that such an order must have an authority which guarantees its primacy over other (such as moral, religious or personal orders), so that we are able to justify its singular attributes. To this authority, however, in the democratic context of contemporary State (under the Rule of Law), we must also have at least a notion of legitimacy, enough to give effectiveness to that authority. In this context, the present work seeks to redefine, from the perspective of Bourdieu\'s theory, the perception of the main arguments to law\'s legitimacy and authority - especially in aspects of the legislative work, usually overseen by juridical doctrine that takes law for granted, neutralizing the disputes in legislative field and ignoring to some extent the different critics to legislative legitimacy. Our research demonstrates, from the perspective of the Social Reproduction Theory, developed by Bourdieu & Passeron (1992) and which questions all legitimacy, seen as mere effect of authority, how democracy itself is a concept in dispute, and that the legitimacy of the legislative actions, and that of its agents, can\'t be taken for granted.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:44:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JOAQUIM JOSE NETO.pdf: 1767465 bytes, checksum: c8ba69ddf73af350ded933eb09182914 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-30 / This study on young people in family farming in Rubiataba, Goiás, and the educational processes and perspectives of social reproduction, is a doctoral thesis in the field of research into Education, Society and Culture of the Post-graduate studies in Education Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás. It set out to analyze the conditions and environment of the children of family farmers in the region of Baixa Verde, municipality of Rubiataba, Goiás, in order to understand young people at the heart of the mechanisms of reproduction of the social group to which they belong. To do so, it investigated their feelings about their way of being young people, the way of life and work of their parents, the formal education system, the contribution of formation institutions and leisure time and how they organize their projects for professional fulfillment. Questionnaires were distributed to collect data and other techniques, such as semistructured interviews and asystematic observation, were also used. The adolescent children of family farmers constitutes a social category which arises out of the socialization of the process of family farming whose projects are affected by the expansion of capitalism in the countryside which disregards the wishes and designs of the young, to stay on and earn their living there. They participate in family units of agricultural production in which management, work, property, the institution of knowledge, norms and the values of the family universe predominate. Their families participated in the migration process of the 1940s and 1960s, the so-called March to the West, have settled in the region until today consolidating their projects of creating, maintaining and reproducing the agricultural model called family farming, but who are witnessing a decline in their children s hopes of remaining on in the countryside and, consequently, the future of their properties and cultural heritage. Participating in a school education, subordinated to the capitalist system, young people are turning their interests and projects towards opportunities for study and work in the towns and cities. Soil degradation and the fact that the small farms provide no room for expansion limit the possibilities for young people to take over farming from their parents, and are obstacles in the way of the social reproduction of family farming. / O presente trabalho Jovens da agricultura familiar de Rubiataba-GO: processos educativos e perspectivas de reprodução social é uma tese de doutorado que faz parte da linha de pesquisa Educação, Sociedade e Cultura do Programa de Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu em Educação (PPGE) da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás (PUC Goiás). O seu propósito foi investigar a condição e a situação juvenil dos filhos de agricultores familiares da região de Baixa Verde, município de Rubiataba-GO, buscando apreender os jovens no bojo dos mecanismos de reprodução do grupo social a que pertencem. Com esse intuito, buscaram-se os sentidos que elaboram em relação ao modo de ser jovem, ao modo de vida e trabalho dos pais, ao sistema formal de educação, à contribuição das instituições formadoras e dos momentos de lazer e como organizam seus projetos de realização profissional. No processo de investigação, utilizaram-se, para a coleta de dados, a aplicação de questionários, a técnica de entrevista semiestruturada e a observação assistemática. Os jovens filhos de agricultores familiares são uma categoria social que surge da socialização no processo de trabalho familiar agrícola, sendo atingidos, em seus projetos, pela expansão do capitalismo no campo, que desconsidera os anseios e os projetos dos próprios jovens, de permanência e sobrevivência na agricultura familiar. Eles participam de unidades familiares de produção agrícola, em que predominam a gestão, o trabalho, a propriedade, a instituição de saberes, normas e valores do universo da família. Suas famílias participaram do processo migratório das décadas de 1940 e 1960, a chamada Marcha para o Oeste, e se instalaram na região até os dias atuais, consolidando seus projetos de criação, manutenção e reprodução do modelo agrícola denominado agricultura familiar, mas estão vendo diminuírem as expectativas de permanência dos filhos no campo e, consequentemente, de futuro para suas propriedades e seu patrimônio cultural. Participando da educação escolar, subjugada pelo sistema capitalista, os jovens estão migrando seus interesses e projetos para as oportunidades de estudo e trabalho na cidade. O desgaste do solo, as propriedades pequenas e sem espaço para ampliação, limitam as possibilidades de os jovens sucederem os pais na atividade agrícola, são obstáculos para protagonizarem a reprodução social da agricultura familiar.

A pesquisa ora apresentada tem como temática principal a análise das estratégias de reprodução camponesa desenvolvidas pelos grupos de Fundos de Pasto localizados no município de Oliveira dos Brejinhos (BA), com uma detida análise desse processo no Fundo de Pasto Várzea Grande. A reprodução social destes grupos foi fortemente afetada pelo movimento contraditório desencadeado pelos conflitos vivenciados por eles a partir do final de 1960, o que impulsionou sua consciência de classe no transcorrer das lutas pelo bode solto e da luta na/pela terra. Essa consciência foi mobilizada na defesa dos costumes e das práticas tradicionais que regulavam a vida dos/nos grupos. É nesse movimento que se estruturam as condições de transformação desses camponeses enquanto sujeitos políticos, condicionados a uma conjuntura histórica circunscrita e particular, ao mesmo tempo em que os insere em um caleidoscópio de possibilidades e de caminhos a partir daquele momento em diante: da superação da opressão exercida pela sociedade em geral à expansão do capital mercantil regional no interior dos grupos. É abordado o processo histórico de instituição das terras de uso comum na Bahia com ênfase no pastoreio comunitário de caprinos no sertão do estado. Também são examinados a organização socioespacial do grupo, seu modo de vida, as relações de parentesco e vizinhança, os mecanismos de produção, circulação e consumo estabelecidos e a sua rede de sociabilidade. Evidencia ainda, o papel da migração como estratégia de reprodução camponesa nos fundos de pasto, considerando o ficar e o envelhecimento dos que permaneceram na terra; o partir e o absenteísmo nas propriedades; e o retornar, como um dos motivadores da diferenciação social no interior do grupo. Por fim, explora a questão do ser ou não ser camponês e busca contextualizar a tragédia dos comuns nos tempos da precarização do trabalho e da inserção do fundo de pasto na ciranda do capital mercantil regional. / The research has as its aim the analysis of peasant livelihood strategies developed by groups of Fundos de Pasto (groups that practice the common use of the pastures) located in the city Oliveira dos Brejinhos (BA), with a detailed analysis of this process in the Fundo de Pasto Várzea Grande. The social reproduction of these groups was strongly affected by the contradictory movement triggered by the conflicts they experience from the end of 1960, which boosted its class consciousness in the course of the struggles for the loose goat and for land. This consciousness has been mobilized in defense of custom and traditional practices that regulated the lives of the groups. It is this movement that are structured the historical conditions of transformation of these peasants as political subjects, conditional on a particular and limited historical juncture, while that inserts them into a kaleidoscope of possibilities and paths from that point onwards: from the general society oppression overcoming to the expansion of the regional commercial capital within the groups. It addresses the historical process of establishment of common land use in Bahia with an emphasis on community grazing goats in the hinterland of the state. The sociospatial organization of the group, their way of life, relations of kinship and neighborhood, the mechanisms of production, circulation and consumption and their social network are also analyzed. It is showed yet the role of migration as a strategy of peasant livelihood in the Fundos de Pasto, given the \"stay\" and the aging of those who remained on land, the \"go\" and the landowner absenteeism, and the \"return\" as one of the causes of the group social differentiation. Finally, it explores the question of to be or not to be peasant and tries to contextualize the \"tragedy of the commons\" in a time of labor precarization and inclusion of the Fundos de Pasto in the regional commercial capital turnover.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:12:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2006- Flavia Ferreira de Mattos.pdf: 3681175 bytes, checksum: 13c2cda3e8c1a516afd3e1fd8caa57ff (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-12-11 / Funda??o Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / This study was conducted in one of the small villages from the Parna?ba Delta Marine Extractive Reserve, the Passarinho, located in the Canaries Island. The general goal was to understand the way of life of local inhabitants in order to reflect about the management of Conservation Units of this nature. The specific goals were: to categorize local information by system (the history of occupation of the place, aspects of the productive circuits and the social relationships in the village) and to understand local meanings regarding the creation of RESEX (Extractive Reserve). As reinforcement to the theory, the study discussed the improvement of the environmental policies in Brazil and, as an example, the matter of human presence in Conservation Units, trying to understand the emergence of the concept traditional populations and its mobilization character in the political scenario. The methodological base of the dissertation was the qualitative analysis. The following procedures were carried out: bibliographical research on the covered subjects and additional information on the region; the field research: 46 interviews with local inhabitants and 2 institutional representatives and the participative observation . The study pointed out, based on the analysis of the social trajectory of inhabitants, the process of subordination with the payment of rent to the presumed land owner , the internal hierarchies to the village inhabitants and their specific ways of appropriation of land, additional fishing areas and use of natural resources. The study also pointed out the different approaches and understandings regarding the creation of RESEX and the effects of this measure, as the previously exercised rules have been suspended and new conservation rules haven`t been drafted yet. In conclusion, it was intended to subsidize the analysis of the challenges encountered by the management of protected areas in Brazil, based on a deep understanding of the traditional populations that inhabit the delta of the Parna?ba River. / Este estudo foi realizado em um dos povoados da Reserva Extrativista Marinha do Delta do Parna?ba, o Passarinho, localizado na ilha das Can?rias. O objetivo geral foi conhecer o modo de vida dos habitantes locais a fim de refletir sobre a gest?o de Unidades de Conserva??o desta natureza. Como objetivos espec?ficos: sistematizar informa??es locais (a hist?ria de ocupa??o do lugar, os aspectos dos circuitos produtivos e as rela??es sociais do povoado) e compreender os significados locais com rela??o ? cria??o da RESEX. Como respaldo te?rico, abordou o amadurecimento das pol?ticas ambientais no Brasil e, como recorte, a quest?o da presen?a humana em Unidades de Conserva??o, buscando compreender o surgimento da no??o de popula??es tradicionais e seu car?ter de mobiliza??o no cen?rio pol?tico. A base metodol?gica da disserta??o foi a an?lise qualitativa. Como procedimentos foram realizados: pesquisa bibliogr?fica: sobre os temas abordados e demais informa??es sobre a regi?o; a pesquisa de campo: 46 entrevistas com os moradores locais e 2 representantes institucionais e a observa??o participante . O estudo apontou, a partir da an?lise da trajet?ria social dos moradores, o processo de subordina??o com o pagamento da renda ao suposto dono da terra , as hierarquias internas aos habitantes dos povoados e seus modos espec?ficos de apropria??o da terra e demais espa?os de pesca e uso dos recursos naturais. O estudo apontou tamb?m as diferentes posturas e entendimentos com rela??o ? cria??o da RESEX e os efeitos desta medida, uma vez que as regras anteriormente exercidas foram suspensas e ainda n?o foram internalizadas outras de car?ter conservacionista. Por fim, se pretendeu contribuir com subs?dios para a reflex?o sobre os desafios de gest?o das ?reas protegidas no Brasil a partir de uma compreens?o mais aprofundada sobre as popula??es tradicionais que habitam o delta do rio Parna?ba.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:13:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2008 - Carlos Javier Cowan Ros.pdf: 3376736 bytes, checksum: 7fa5042faac4920a56e5031c29ff53f0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-29 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The purpose of this study is to investigate the political praxis of the peasants from Yavi shire, in Argentina. It analyses their logics of social organisation and linkage with the political and institutional system, identifying as well the role they play in their social reproduction strategies. Through an ethnographic approach, the yavenean social structure is interpreted as a whole of different networks of mutual acquaintance and recognition kinship, social organisations, political parties, neighbourhood and religious communities- partially overlapped. Each group structures itself in base of certain elements of mutual acknowledgement, ethical principles and reciprocal relationships that rule their members behaviour. However, far from being rigid entities, these networks of mutual recognition are re-defined as a product of their members alliances and antagonisms. In the last two decades new modalities of organisation social, peasant and indigenous organisations- have emerged, favoured by the actions of the Government and NGOs representatives. Within a context of the villagers standard of living precarisation, those new social organisations dynamised the peasants s linkage between each other and with the national society as well, gaining a prominent role as resources-mobilising channels. The social mediators through the provision of material resources and world-views- contributed with the promotion of certain groups - neighbourhood community, social organisation- corporate logics of relations with external agents and the (re)emergence of identities traditionally stigmatised, particularly the ethnic one. Those social, economical and institutional transformations are contributing towards the redefinition of the traditional ways of relationship and negotiation the peasants have with the political representatives: a fact that is giving a particular dynamism to the yave?a sociability. / Este estudo indaga sobre a pr?xis pol?tica dos camponeses da comarca de Yavi, na Argentina. Analisa suas l?gicas de organiza??o social e de articula??o com o sistema pol?tico-institucional e identifica o papel que cumprem em suas estrategias de reprodu??o social. A partir de uma abordagem etnogr?fica, interpreta-se a estrutura social yave?a como um conjunto de redes de afilia??o parentesco, organiza??es sociais, partidos pol?ticos, comunidades de vizinhan?a e religiosas parcialmente sobrepostas. Cada grupo de perten?a estrutura-se em base a determinados elementos de reconhecimento m?tuo, princ?pios ?ticos e rela??es rec?procas que regram o comportamento de seus membros. Mas, longe de serem entidades r?gidas, essas redes de afilia??o s?o redefinidas conforme as alian?as e os antagonismos de seus membros. Nas duas ?ltimas d?cadas, t?m emergido novas modalidades organizativas organiza??es comunit?rias, camponesas e indigenistas favorecidas pelas a??es dos representantes do Estado e das ONGs. Em um contexto de precariza??o da qualidade de vida dos alde?es, essas novas entidades organizativas dinamizaram a articula??o dos camponeses entre si e com a sociedade nacional, e adquiriram um papel relevante como canais de mobiliza??o de recursos. Os mediadores sociais atrav?s dos recursos materiais e das vis?es de mundo que disponibilizam aos camponeses contribu?ram a promover certas redes de filia??o comunidade de vizinhan?a, organiza??es sociais , l?gicas de relacionamento corporadas com agentes externos e a (re)emerg?ncia de identidades, especialmente a ?tnica, tradicionalmente estigmatizadas. Essas transforma??es sociais, econ?micas e institucionais est?o contribuindo a redefinir as tradicionais l?gicas de relacionamento e negocia??o dos camponeses com os representantes pol?ticos, fato que imprime certo dinamismo na sociabilidade yave?a.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2018-04-09T17:19:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JUVENILTO SOARES NASCIMENTO.pdf: 1707558 bytes, checksum: e9bcb3cc5bddddbbbfc8978d29f1b10c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-09T17:19:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JUVENILTO SOARES NASCIMENTO.pdf: 1707558 bytes, checksum: e9bcb3cc5bddddbbbfc8978d29f1b10c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-14 / This research investigates the intentions of the National High School Examination (ENEM) in contrast to both the forms of apprehension of cultural capital and the provisions of the game of classifications and declassifications by the school social agents, expressed by the discourses and strategies employed. For this, Bourdieu's method of praxiological knowledge was chosen, whose theory served as theoretical reference and support of data analysis. It was opportune, it was decided that the object of study should be observed in public schools of the same Federal Unit, which is why three middle schools of the Distrito Federal were selected, belonging to Administrative Regions whose socioeconomic conditions are different: High School (CEM) Piloto Plano, CEM Ceilândia and CEM Recanto das Emas. Aiming at a more effective field research, it was decided to diversify the instruments and strategies of data collection: direct observation, with the help of the field diary; application of questionnaires with open and closed questions; and interviews with semi-structured script. The investigation had a total of 281 respondents from the questionnaires - directors, teachers and students - among which 28 of these agents were interviewed. From the theoretical reference, the discussion dealt with the fundamental logic of the exams, which is to select and exclude; and unveiled some of the mechanisms that lead students from privileged classes to achieve a better performance in the Exam. This is because, besides incorporating in an "osmotic" way a favorable habitus in the school field, they can employ better strategies against the privileged capitals that they possess. The data collected were analyzed from the following categories: a) Acquisition of cultural capital; (b) reproduction and processing strategies; c) Legitimation and its forms; and d) Resistance. It was identified that three particular forms of legitimation of the Examination stand out: by the discourse, by the policies with social acceptance that were attached to it and by the "support" to the students. As for the policies linked to the ENEM, these have allowed some social advances, while at the same time reinforcing the legitimacy of the inequalities that still continue to operate by it. In turn, the results point out that contradictorily the school unit most affected by the rules of the Exam is the one that most legitimizes it. One of the factors that confirms this is the race issue. This unit, that of CEM Recanto das Emas, has 78% of blacks among its students, in contrast to 61% of CEM Plano Piloto and 76% of CEM Ceilândia. However, only 47% of its students approve racial quotas, compared to 65% of CEM Plano Piloto students' approval and 71% of CEM Ceilândia. Another factor that confirms more legitimacy for the most penalized school is the teacher evaluation of the ENEM selection form: 75% of the teachers participating in CEM Recanto das Emas consider it fair, while 50% of the CEM Plano Piloto teachers and 62,5% of CEM Ceilândia teachers consider this. On the other hand, it should be pointed out that, although the school system is one of the State's reproductive instruments, the existence of discourses and resistance practices in the schools investigated suggests that it is possible to fight for a school system whose political-pedagogical orientation is beyond social reproduction. / Esta pesquisa investiga as intencionalidades do Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (ENEM) em contraste tanto com as formas de apreensão do capital cultural quanto com as disposições do jogo das classificações e desclassificações, pelos agentes sociais escolares, expressas pelos discursos e estratégias empregados. Para tal, elegeu-se o método do conhecimento praxiológico de Bourdieu, cuja teoria serviu como referencial teórico e suporte de análise dos dados. Por oportuno, optou-se que o objeto de estudo fosse observado em escolas públicas de uma mesma Unidade da Federação, razão pela qual foram selecionadas três escolas de ensino médio do Distrito Federal, pertencentes a Regiões Administrativas cujas condições socioeconômicas são distintas: o Centro de Ensino Médio (CEM) Plano Piloto, o CEM Ceilândia e o CEM Recanto das Emas. Visando a uma pesquisa de campo mais efetiva, decidiu-se pela diversificação dos instrumentos e estratégias de coleta de dados: observação direta, com o auxílio do diário de campo; aplicação de questionários, com questões abertas e fechadas; e realização de entrevistas, com roteiro semiestruturado. A investigação contou com o total de 281 respondentes dos questionários – diretores, professores e estudantes –, dentre os quais 28 desses agentes foram entrevistados. A partir do referencial teórico, a discussão tratou da lógica fundamental dos exames, que é selecionar e excluir; e desvelou alguns dos mecanismos que levam os estudantes oriundos de classes privilegiadas a alcançarem um melhor rendimento no Exame. Isso porque, além de incorporarem de maneira “osmótica” um habitus favorável no campo escolar, podem empregar melhores estratégias face aos capitais privilegiados que possuem. Efetuou-se a análise dos dados coletados a partir das seguintes categorias: a) Aquisição do capital cultural; b) Estratégias de reprodução e de transformação; c) Legitimação e suas formas; e d) Resistência. Identificou-se que se destacam três formas particulares de legitimação do Exame: pelo discurso, pelas políticas com aceitação social que se lhe atrelaram e pelo “suporte” aos estudantes. Quanto às políticas atreladas ao ENEM, essas permitiram alguns avanços sociais, ao mesmo tempo em que reforçaram a legitimação das desigualdades que ainda continuam operadas por ele. Por sua vez, os resultados apontam que contraditoriamente a unidade escolar mais prejudicada pelas regras do Exame é a que mais o legitima. Um dos fatores que confirma isso é a questão racial. Essa unidade, a do CEM Recanto das Emas, apresenta entre os seus estudantes o índice de 78% de negros, em contraste com 61% do CEM Plano Piloto e 76% do CEM Ceilândia. No entanto, apenas 47% de seus estudantes aprovam as cotas raciais, frente aos 65% de aprovação dos estudantes do CEM Plano Piloto e 71% do CEM Ceilândia. Outro fator que confirma maior legitimação pela escola mais penalizada é a avaliação docente da forma de seleção do ENEM: 75% dos professores participantes do CEM Recanto das Emas a consideram justa, ao passo em que 50% dos professores do CEM Plano Piloto e 62,5% dos professores do CEM Ceilândia assim a consideram. Por outro lado, destaca-se que, embora o sistema escolar seja um dos instrumentos de reprodução do Estado, a existência de discursos e práticas de resistência nas escolas investigadas aponta ser possível, sim, lutar por um sistema escolar cuja orientação político-pedagógica seja para além da reprodução social.

Die Arbeit geht der Frage nach, warum die Rücküberweisungen von MigrantInnen nach El Salvador seit 1980 bis zur jüngsten Finanzkrise so konstant und enorm angestiegen sind. Dabei werden Erkenntnisse aus der bisherigen Forschung zu Migration und Remittances insbesondere aus der Neuen Ökonomie der Arbeitsmigration einer kritischen Revision unterzogen und um entscheidende Punkte erweitert. Das Ergebnis ist ein synthetischer Erklärungsansatz für das Phänomen der Remesas nach El Salvador, der sich auf die Kernbegriffe Ungleichheit, Schuld und (Un-)Sicherheit bezieht. Unter Bezug auf das Konzept gesellschaftlicher Reproduktion werden Aspekte untersucht, die über monetäre und produktive Faktoren als Ursachen für Remittances hinausgehen. Der theoretische Rahmen der subjektfundierten Hegemonietheorie erlaubt es, die Dichotomie von Struktur und Handlung bei der Erklärung der Rücküberweisungen von MigrantInnen zu überwinden.

The aim of the thesis was to explore the magnitude of inequity in accessibility to initial formal education, continuing adult education, and work-related informal learning for the workplace. The two main issues that the thesis attempted to determine is whether social background characteristics that affect initial educational attainment continue to influence participation in adult education and work-related informal learning. More specifically, this research focused on three main questions: First, to what extent does parents’ social background influence educational attainment levels for Canadians from different generations? Second, to what extent does parents’ social background influencing participation in adult education for their offspring beyond the effects of an individual’s own social background? And, third, to what extent does parents' social background have on their offspring’s participation in informal learning for the workplace beyond the effects of an individual's own social class background? A secondary data quantitative analysis was carried out on the data collected in the 2004 Work and Lifelong Learning (WALL) survey. Both crosstab analysis and structural equation analysis were used to obtain an overview of inequities in participation in formal education and informal learning and to test the applicability of Bourdieu’s social reproduction theory. Overall, the findings of this thesis indicate that social reproduction occurs not only through the formal education system, but also through the adult education system. More specifically, parents’ education continues to be a good predictor of the level of education attained by offspring. Moreover, one’s level of education continued to be a predictor of participation in adult education. Social reproduction was not present for work-related informal learning. In fact, those from low incomes were more likely to engage in informal learning than those from high incomes. These findings indicate that despite level of cultural and economic capital, the majority of Canadians engage in a learning activity. It is apparent that structures that are present in our formal education system continue to advantage students with high cultural and economic capital; however, work-related informal learning is accessible to all.