This study explores various youth empowerment programs for young people aging out of foster care in the U.S. Youth Empowerment Programs (YEPs) are interventions that encourage youth to make meaningful decisions about program design, implementation, and/or evaluation. This dissertation employed three methods to contribute to the evidence-base on the effect of YEPs for youth aging out of foster care: a qualitative historical study, a comprehensive literature review, and a quantitative cross-sectional survey that utilized a contemporaneous comparison group. The historical study examined the different program aspects of the Children's Aid Society (CAS) to see if there were any empowering parts. CAS was the precursor to the modern day foster care system in the U.S. The study found that much of the programming that occurred in the Boys Lodging Houses in New York City could be classified as youth-led or youth-informed. Specifically, the children's bank, lending library, and military cadet companies provide detailed examples of youth participating in meaningful programmatic decision-making. Other program aspects in the boys lodging houses could be classified as youth dominated or anarchical. The child placement process was found to be disempowering. There was very little evidence of younger children and girls engaging in programmatic decision-making. The literature review included four studies from 2,631 potentially relevant titles and abstracts. Three of the four studies were qualitative and no randomized controlled trials were found, thus meta-analysis was not possible. The review found that the state of the evidence of the effectiveness of YEPs for youth aging out of foster care is sparse and methodologically weak. All four studies found that YEP participation improved various youth development outcomes. One study reported three iatrogenic effects for a subset of youth. The cross-sectional survey examined the level of psychological empowerment of 193 foster care alumni (ages 18-25) who did (n= 99) and did not (n=94) participate in at least one YEP in Florida. Those who participated in a YEP experienced significantly higher perceived control (B = .25, p =.007), motivation to influence their environments (B = .30, SE B =.09, p =.001), self-efficacy for socio-political skills, and participatory behavior (B = .586, SE B= .136, p =.000), than non-YEP participants even when controlling for age at program entry, gender, race, time in foster care, number of placements, and Pinellas County location. Findings from this dissertation suggest that youth empowerment is possible in child welfare and might be beneficial. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

Undergraduates' field of study is intricately linked to inequality in the US, where women have surpassed men in most indexes of academic achievement but continue to be less likely than men to complete STEM degrees. This gendered variation in major selection has substantial implications for stratification: college major choice is closely related to labor market outcomes and advancement to future degrees. Building on recent theoretical developments in social aesthetics and field theory, the project argues that academic interests are developed in concert with encounters in the environment, and that position in academic fields at the start of university, gendered distributions of interest patterns, and peer influence play a critical role in gender differentiation in college major choice. The project uses a unique longitudinal data combining complex administrative databases from an elite American university, merging admissions, housing, course, financial aid, and alumni data. Multiple correspondence analysis shows that students' interests are organized in academic fields characterized by divisions between knowledge domains: science interests oppose social sciences, economics interests oppose humanities, and life sciences are differentiated from hard sciences. Knowledge domains share features of retention and attraction, and movement between disciplines that are close together in students' interest spaces are more common. Using clustering methods, the project shows that there are important distinctions in how students are interested in disciplines: some students are particularly devoted to knowledge domains, while other students are generalists. These finding have important implications for women and men, who have different interest patterns. There is durability in gender differences in high school interests reinforced by both retention and attraction to disciplines once at school. The last chapter of the dissertation explores the role that peer influence plays in these outcomes. Because students' interests are organized in academic fields, peer influence on academic major choice is better understood as a field effect. Utilizing the fact that roommate assignment is random at this university, the project shows that choosing a major is associated with roommate's interests coming into college, and this association depends on students' own initial interests when applying to university. Generalist science students are more likely to complete science degrees when they have science or engineering roommates compared to those who have humanities roommates, while devoted science students are less mutable. Because women are less likely to have roommates who are in sciences and engineering, gender segregation of roommates contributes to gender difference in STEM outcomes. By reframing choice as a question of social aesthetics, the project makes important contributions to understanding choice, inequality and peer influence.

Orientador: Tamas Joszef Marton Karoly Szmrecsanyi / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociencias / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T03:30:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nascimento_MariaAliceRebellodo_D.pdf: 1633347 bytes, checksum: 281f84c8a6a81f711150b1fc495ad81d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: A comunicação científica, qualquer que seja o ângulo pelo qual for examinada, constitui parte essencial do processo de investigação científica. Contudo, essa comunicação sempre enfrentou a mudança e a diversidade. Os principais veículos utilizados no passado, de maneira preponderante, em suas mais variadas modalidades de divulgação: inscrições, manuscritos, conferências, livros impressos, agora subsistem com novos meios de divulgação criados pela tecnologia da comunicação, que se incumbe de ¿apagar¿ a distinção tradicional entre a comunicação formal e a informal. O que parece haver se mantido durante todo esse tempo é a noção de que apenas os próprios cientistas podem avaliar o trabalho de seus colegas ¿ os seus pares. Para tentar entender todo esse enredamento, a pesquisa teórica se embasou nos preceitos teóricos de funcionamento da ciência descritos por Robert Merton, nas análises quantitativas da ciência empregadas por Derek de Solla Price e na contribuição de Eugene Garfield que criou os índices de citações bibliográficas. Do ponto de vista da pesquisa empírica, examinou-se a produção científica e o ¿fazer¿ dos pesquisadores brasileiros no campo da Antropologia, a partir da análise dos currículos destes antropólogos, disponíveis no CV-Lattes e de entrevistas estruturadas encaminhadas aos principais atores desta pesquisa. O conjunto destes resultados permitiu evidenciar que a comunicação científica em Antropologia é veiculada em periódicos, mas principalmente em outras modalidades de publicação, a despeito do crescente emprego de instrumentos internacionais de medição da produção da ciência que elegeram os periódicos e seus artigos. Essa mudança cultural, vinda do exterior, vem se refletindo nas agências de fomento à pesquisa do Brasil. Porém, essa crescente importância dos periódicos internacionais, de maneira indiscriminada, imposta em todos os ramos da ciência, tem trazido enormes prejuízos, no que tange ao desempenho da produção científica visível da Antropologia brasileira e no financiamento de suas pesquisas / Abstract: The scientific communication, no matter from which angle it will be examined, constitutes an essential part of the scientific investigation process. Nevertheless, this communication has always faced change and diversity. The main means used in the past, in a preponderant way, in its most varied kinds of disclosure, were: inscriptions, manuscripts, conferences, printed books, subsist now with new means of disclosure created by the communication technology, which undertakes to ¿abolish¿ the traditional distinction between formal and informal communication. One thing that seems to have been maintained for all this period is the notion that only scientists themselves can evaluate the work of their colleagues ¿ or their peers. In order to understand all this entanglement, the theoretical research was based on the theoretical rules of functioning of science described by Robert Merton, on the quantitative analysis of science applied by Derek de Solla Price as well as on the contribution done by Eugene Garfield who created the indexes for biographical quotations. From the empirical research point of view, the scientific production and the ¿doing¿ of the Brazilian researchers in the Anthropological field were examined on the basis of the curricula analysis of these anthropologists, available in the CV-Lattes, as well as structured interviews submitted to the main actors of this research. The set of these results has allowed to evidence that the scientific communication in Anthropology is transmitted through journals, but mainly through other ways of publishing, in spite of the increasing usage of international instruments of measurements of the scientific production that elected the scientific journals and their articles. This cultural change, originated from abroad, has been reflecting upon the agencies that are encouraging the research in the Brazil. However, the increasing importance of the international reviews, indiscriminately imposed on all branches of the science, has brought considerable damages in relation to the development of the visible scientific production of Brazilian Anthropology and the financial help for its researches / Doutorado / Politica Cientifica e Tecnologica / Doutor em Política Científica e Tecnológica

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Magister Artium (Sport, Recreation and Exercise Science) - MA(SRES) / High-performance sport is characterised by the effective amalgamation and synergy of elements, including financial and managerial support, coaching, sport sciences and sports medicine support, talent identification and athlete pathways, training facilities and equipment, and competitions. Universities have increasingly become hubs for high-performance sports services, used by students and non-students alike. According to Dr Ralph Richards, a senior research consultant for Sport Australia, most university students are in their late teens to early 20s, which is also a critical demographic for elite sports performance. Universities can and do have a substantial impact on the sports sector, particularly in supporting and developing elite student-athletes through quality facilities and infrastructure, supportive programming, competitive opportunities, and sports bursaries or scholarships. In recent years, the high-performance sport has firmly established itself as a modern industry at some top- performing South African Universities. Since the Varsity Cup and Varsity Sport’s inception, South African Institutions have invested more in developing the sport to win competitions. However, many institutions, especially Historically Disadvantaged Institutions, do not establish athletic performance pathways. The study aimed to create guidelines for the best high-performance sport management practices and analysed successful international and local systems. The Spliss Model (a theoretical model of 9 pillars of sport policy factors influencing international success) provided the theoretical framework for this study. This study used a purely qualitative approach informed by an extensive literature review. This was followed by face-to-face semi-structured interviews with the high-performance sports directors and directors of sport at Universities and sports organisations in South Africa who currently have high-performance sports units. The data were transcribed verbatim and analysed through the lens of the SPLSS model. A thematic analysis was conducted to identify the best practices for high-performance sport at Historically Disadvantaged Institutions. The key findings showed that the best practices for high-performance sports systems included proper governance, appropriate funding, training facilities, quality coaching, sport science support services, academic support services and opportunities to compete. Ethics considerations were observed where the anonymity of the participants was upheld by way of using pseudonyms after permission from them were obtained. Permission to conduct the study was obtained from the University of the Western Cape Humanities and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee.

Background: Sexual minority women (SMW; e.g., lesbian, bisexual women) are at substantially higher risk for hazardous drinking (HD) than their heterosexual, cisgender counterparts. There is considerable evidence that minority stressors at the individual (e.g., internalized stigma) and interpersonal (e.g., discrimination) levels are associated with HD among SMW, but minority stressors at the structural level (e.g., structural stigma) are understudied. Further, there is a wide gap in the literature on the relationships between multilevel minority stressors and HD. Additionally, there is evidence that these associations may differ by race/ethnicity and sexual identity, but relatively little is known about these differences, particularly in a multilevel context. Methods: This dissertation includes three studies that were guided by an adaptation of the minority stress model and the social ecological model. In the first study we conducted a systematic review of quantitative research studies that examined associations between structural stigma and alcohol-related outcomes among sexual and gender minority (SGM) adults in the United States. In the second study we used data from a diverse sample of SMW enrolled in the Chicago Health and Life Experiences of Women (CHLEW) study to determine whether structural stigma at Wave 4 (2017-2019) was prospectively associated with HD at Wave 5 (2019-2022), and whether this association was attenuated when accounting for individual- (i.e., internalized stigma, stigma consciousness) and interpersonal- (i.e., discrimination, sexual identity concealment) level minority stressors. In the third study we used data from Waves 4 and 5 of the CHLEW study to examine whether associations between multilevel minority stressors (i.e., internalized stigma, stigma consciousness, discrimination, sexual identity concealment, structural stigma) and HD varied by race/ethnicity and sexual identity. Results: The systematic review included 11 studies. There was moderate to strong support for a positive association between structural stigma and poor alcohol-related outcomes among SGM people, with differences by gender, sexual identity, race, and ethnicity. All studies used cross-sectional designs, and nearly half utilized non-probability samples. Transgender and nonbinary people, SGM people of color, and sexual identity subgroups beyond gay, lesbian, and heterosexual were underrepresented. Multilevel stigma and resiliency factors were understudied. In the second study, structural stigma was positively associated with HD alone, and when combined with interpersonal-level minority stressors. With the addition of individual-level minority stressors, the association between structural stigma and HD was attenuated, with partial attenuation (i.e., structural stigma was still significant) in the model combining all three levels, and full attenuation (i.e., structural stigma was no longer significant) in the model with only structural stigma and individual-level stressors. Discrimination was negatively associated with HD in the fully combined model and was not associated with HD in any other models. In the third study, we found that associations between structural stigma and HD did not vary by race/ethnicity or sexual identity. However, the associations between individual-level minority stressors (i.e., internalized stigma, stigma consciousness) and interpersonal-level minority stressors (i.e., sexual identity concealment) with HD varied somewhat by race/ethnicity and sexual identity. Conclusions: Findings from this dissertation highlight the importance of structural stigma in SMW’s HD and underscore the importance of both structural-level and multilevel minority stressors in designing interventions to effectively address HD drinking disparities and inequities among SMW. Future research is needed using intersectional approaches with probability samples, longitudinal designs, expanded measures of structural stigma, and samples that reflect the diversity of SGM people.

A morally contested political project has definitively entered late liberal international politics and human rights: material claims to reparatory justice for transatlantic slavery. In the absence of legal avenues with appropriate jurisdiction, claimants of redress for chattel slavery turn to an international network of political and legal forms of expertise. In anthropology and socio-legal research, studies on reparations have focused on transitional justice and redress initiatives within the framework of the nation-state. This project offers a monograph-length ethnographic study of formal reparations work across institutional scales and beyond the nation-state, showing the productive complexity of post-colonial rights-based claims for justice. Based on 18 months of qualitative research, the project explores transnational reparations work in three organizational contexts: the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, the Caribbean Community Secretariat and the Guyana Reparations Committee in Georgetown, Guyana. Regimes of Reparative Reasoning focuses on the legal-discursive political terrains that simultaneously enable and restrict the institutional circulation of reparation claims. Grounded in the belief that reparations are morally and materially imperative, this project argues: 1) formal reparations work is not principally a transformative political project but a liberal progressive project that speaks to established legal and political mechanisms; 2) to reckon with reparation claims for slavery and an emergent descent-based notion of legal personhood, we need to consider longer histories of dispossession: the beforelives of slavery. Ultimately, this study foregrounds the material multiplicity of reparation claims and how disparate national and organizational sites develop, exchange, and transform distinct forms of reparative reasoning.

No âmbito das organizações empresariais, é premente a necessidade constante de lançamento de novos produtos e serviços em função da redução do time to market, o que vem requerendo maior precisão nas decisões de portfólio de oportunidades de inovação. Em específico, as questões de portfólio vêm sendo tratadas primordialmente na gestão de produtos e projetos, o que acaba por ocorrer tardiamente no Processo de Desenvolvimento de Produtos (PDP), com preocupações concentradas na revisão ou gestão do portfólio de produtos e/ou projetos. Desta forma, há um descompasso entre a geração de oportunidades de inovações e o aproveitamento destas, como produtos e projetos, o que prejudica as organizações na identificação e valoração de suas inovações; na antecipação de oportunidades que venham a se tornar inovações; no equilíbrio das escolhas dentre vários critérios inclusive não financeiros; bem como, no direcionamento do portfólio a partir de uma estratégia harmônica. Visando instrumentalizar as organizações para suprir estas dificuldades, uma vez que elas carecem de métodos e técnicas que tratem o portfólio de forma mais ampla, o objetivo da pesquisa foi propor um Método de Referência na Geração do Portfólio de Oportunidades de Inovação (MERGE-OI), o que possibilitou que organizações empresariais brasileiras gerassem e selecionassem um portfólio de oportunidades de inovações de forma mais precisa, independente de seu porte e segmentação econômica. O MERGE-OI foi aplicado em cinco empresas representativas de três segmentos econômicos: alimentos e bebidas, construção civil e eletroeletrônico. A aplicação em campo permitiu validar a sua consistência e coerência. Quanto aos métodos, esta pesquisa é primordialmente observacional e de análise de conteúdo, sendo que, os mesmos foram empregados tanto como métodos quanto técnicas, o que consolidou o desenvolvimento da pesquisa em sete grandes etapas. Foram obtidos três grandes resultados advindos da pesquisa: o método de referência MERGE-OI (diagramas de atividades, entradas, saídas, documentos e arquitetura); a validação do MERGE-OI de acordo com critérios de redução de incerteza e utilidade, bem como, o portfólio de oportunidades de inovação das cinco empresas em que se aplicou o método em campo. De forma mais ampla, esta pesquisa trouxe à tona a importância da integração entre as disciplinas de gestão de inovação, gestão de produtos e gestão de projetos. / In the context of business organizations, there is an on-going need of products and services launch on a regular basis due to time to market shortening which has been taking better choices in portfolio decisions on innovation opportunities. In particular, the issues of portfolio has been considered primarily in product and project management, which usually occurs late in the product development process (PDP) focused on reviewing and managing the portfolio of products and projects. Therefore, there is a gap between the generation of innovation opportunities and its implementation as products or projects, which affects organizations in several aspects as identifying and valuing their innovations, detecting opportunities in earlier stages such that they can be turned into innovations, balancing choices among several criteria including non-financial as well as driving portfolio decisions from strategy. In order to overcome these difficulties, since there are a lack of methods and techniques that addresses the portfolio more broadly, this research goal was to propose a reference method for portfolio generation for innovation opportunities (MERGE-OI), which has enabled business organizations to create and select a portfolio of innovation opportunities with more assertiveness, whatever the size and market segmentation. The MERGE-OI was applied in five representatives enterprises on three economic sectors: food and beverage, construction and electronics. A field survey allowed the method to be validated in terms of consistency and coherence. Regarding the research method, this research is primarily observational and content analysis, an the same methods were employed as well as techniques, which consolidated the research development in seven major steps: each of with two main phases: pre-analysis and exploration, consolidating a research corpus based on documentary and research techniques. The three main results obtained were: the reference method MERGE-OI (activity diagrams, inputs, outputs, documents and architecture), the validation of MERGE-OI according to criteria such as usefulness and precision, as well as the portfolio of innovation opportunities in the five enterprises in which MERGE-OI was applied. More broadly, this research has highlighted the importance of integration among subjects such as innovation management, product management and project management.

CAPES / O presente trabalho se caracteriza como uma pesquisa quali-quantitativa e tem como objetivo principal analisar aspectos da implementação, andamento e atualidade do PROEJA (Programa Nacional de Integração da Educação Profissional com a Educação Básica na Modalidade de Educação de Jovens e Adultos), em um Centro Estadual de Educação Profissional, com vistas a descobrir o porquê do insucesso do referido Programa nesta instituição, mais especificamente sobre as causas do abandono escolar e, também, as causas da própria persistência e/ou permanência no curso por parte dos remanescentes. Assim, pois, em termos de metodologia, resumidamente, nos utilizamos de um método de análise das ciências sociais – o método dialético – e, por utilizá-lo, procedemos nosso estudo com base em um quadro de referência teórica que toma o materialismo histórico como ponto basilar. Para tanto, como procedimentos metodológicos, utilizamos as pesquisas documental, bibliográfica e empírica – questionários e entrevistas. O questionário foi aplicado aos alunos remanescentes e aos docentes do PROEJA, já as entrevistas foram realizadas com o universo total dos alunos evadidos e com a gestão da instituição. Entre outras considerações, fixa-se a urgência de definir e realizar políticas públicas perenes que promovam melhores condições de oferta e de permanência aos alunos, ampliando e garantindo a qualidade de um processo educacional significativo. Paradoxalmente, podemos concluir que há certas distorções – ideal e concreta – entre o que o documento institucional almeja e define como perfil profissional do concluinte do curso, em detrimento do que os alunos pensam sobre sua formação, mais especificamente sobre estar ou não preparados para assumir funções e/ou tarefas específicas da área de atuação do curso. As causas da evasão são as mais diversas. Podemos enfatizar que os processos excludentes tomam ramificações distintas e todos eles fazem com que o aluno não permaneça no espaço escolar, seja pela necessidade de trabalhar, de cuidar da família ou de satisfazer seus desejos. Logo, a falta de condições de transporte, os compromissos com a família e com o trabalho, a localização da instituição e a falta de opções de cursos de qualidade próximos de suas residências também se mostram como pontos que levaram ao desinteresse e, em consequência disso, ao abandono. / This work consists of a qualitative and quantitative research and aims to analyze the main aspects of the implementation, progress and the PROEJA (The Program of Professional Education Integrated with Basic Education on the Modality of Youth and Adult Education) present condition, in a Professional Education State Center, in order to discover why the Program failure is specifically caused by school leaving and, also, the causes of persistence among the remaining students. Briefly, the methodological approach used as basis of analysis method from social sciences – the dialectical method – gives a theoretical reference thru the historical materialism. The methodological procedures executed include documentary research, bibliographical and empirical (questionnaires and interviews). The applied questionnaire was focused on PROEJA teachers and remaining students, while interviews were carried out with the full universe of students, including leavers, and the principals. Among other considerations, we set the urgency to define and implement public policies that promote best supply conditions and students' permanence, expanding and ensuring educational quality for the warranty of a significant process. As a paradox, we noticed certain distortions - ideal and concrete - what predicts and defines the institutional document as the professional profile for the students that end the course, rather than what the students think about their educational path, more specifically on whether or not feeling prepared to assume the roles or specific tasks in the working area. The evasion causes are possibly the most diverse. We emphasize that exclusionary processes gain different reasons and all of them provoke school leaving, if they must work, take care of the family or to satisfy their own needs. Therefore, the lack of help for transport, their commitments to family and work, the location of the institution, normally are near their homes but have only few options of courses that should provide quality education , may lead to their disinterest and, consequently, early school leaving.

Orientadores: Elide Rugai Bastos, Mariana Miggiolaro Chaguri / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T22:41:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Campos_AntoniaJunqueiraMalta_M.pdf: 3121764 bytes, checksum: a7ae2bcbec0ab41707e32272d85857cb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta dissertação trata da Pesquisa UNESCO acerca das relaçoes raciais, coordenada, no caso da cidade de Sao Paulo, por Florestan Fernandes e Roger Bastide. Buscou-se reconstruir o procedimento da investigaça?o e as técnicas de pesquisa empírica mobilizadas, em especial o contato entre pesquisadores acadêmicos e intelectuais negros identificados com os movimentos sociais do "meio negro" de Sa?o Paulo. A metodologia utilizada consistiu na ana?lise conjunta da tese de cátedra de Fernandes de 1964 intitulada A integraça?o do negro na sociedade de classes e da documentaça?o referente ao material empírico coletado em sua forma original, presente no Fundo Florestan Fernandes (localizado na Biblioteca Comunita?ria da Universidade Federal de Sa?o Carlos), procurando estabelecer conexões entre a interpretação sociológica e o contexto original da pesquisa empírica, por meio da análise e explicitação do tratamento e recorte do material bruto coletado realizados por Florestan Fernandes. A riqueza do material empi?rico comprova a importância e a complexidade da interaça?o entre a investigaça?o sociolo?gica e meio social. Os documentos do Fundo evidenciam a pluralidade de te?cnicas de pesquisa mobilizadas pelos investigadores para coletar dados por meio da criação de situaço?es de dia?logo com os intelectuais negros colaboradores: histo?rias de vida, estudos de caso, observaço?es em massa em situaço?es individuais (por meio de questiona?rios) e em situaço?es grupais (por meio de onze Mesas Redondas realizadas em 1951 e que reuniram pesquisadores brancos e intelectuais do "meio negro"). A análise das histórias de vida de José Correia Leite e Francisco Lucrécio, ambas coletadas por Renato Jardim Moreira, da monografia "Movimentos sociais no meio negro" e das atas disponíveis das Mesas Redondas compõem o núcleo do tratamento que se deu ao material do Fundo, em conjunto com a organização de um apêndice que fornece um guia para futuros pesquisadores interessados na exploração de todo o material original disponível / Abstract: This thesis deals with the UNESCO Research on Racial Relations, coordinated in São Paulo by Florestan Fernandes and Roger Bastide. The objective was to reconstruct the investigation's procedure and the techniques of empirical research that were utilized, specially the contact between the sociologists involved and black intellectuals identified with the social movements in São Paulo's "black milieu". The methodology consisted in the joint analysis of the 1964 Fernandes' Full Professor Thesis entitled A integração do negro na sociedade de classes and the collected empirical material in its original form, at the "Fundo Florestan Fernandes" (located in the Federal University of São Carlos' Community Library), seeking to establish connections between the sociological interpretation of Fernandes' work and the empirical research's original context, through the analysis of the treatment and interpretation of the raw material collected, performed by Florestan Fernandes. The extent of the empirical data collected indicates the importance and the complexity of the interaction between sociological research and social movements. The documents located at Fundo Florestan Fernandes show the diversity of the techniques that were employed by creating situations of dialogue with black intellectuals: Life Stories; Case Studies; Individual Mass Observations (by the use of questionnaires) and Mass Observations in Group Situations (by the organization of eleven Round Tables with black intellectuals in 1951). The material that was analyzed in this thesis is that of two Life Stories, of José Correia Leite and Francisco Lucrécio, collected by the sociologist Renato Jardim Moreira; the Case Study "Social Movements in the Black Milieu", written by Correia Leite and Moreira; and the transcripts of the Round Tables. In addition, it was made an Appendix with a guide to future researchers interested in the entire collection of empirical material that is available at the "Fundo Florestan Fernandes" / Mestrado / Sociologia / Mestra em Sociologia