This research is born from a conscious reflection on the roles and judgements that traditional scientific analyses imprint in its objects of study, especially in the field of social movement theory. It aims to understand whether and, to which extent, autonomous resistances knowledges constructed on the ground challenge the academic interpretations of those movements. For this reason, the first part of this dissertation focuses on unravelling how traditional ontologies have been built and underpin majoritarian scientific analyses. Thus, I review most current debates in the field. Traditional social movement research tends to focus on dualist discussions related to new and old social movements, European and American approaches, behavioural or cost-benefits views, structural and agency approaches, identity-based interpretations, etc. In opposition to that, I argue for an ontology breaking with dualist views, placing Deleuze’s concept of difference at the centre of my argument and feminist ontologies of the body as the medium affecting the political experience. I propose an autoethnographic method focused on presenting a cartography of urban resistance movements composed by difference and rhizomatic relationships in opposition to the homogenisation of ideas and demands of academic research for pilling up patterns, variables or categories. Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the BwO is presented here as a theoretical tool that helps to introduce the case study in relation with its contexts, relationships, affects and networks. The second part of this research narrates and analyses how the proposed theory is unwrapped in the field. In doing so, I analyse my participation with and from within one of those collectives, Can Batlló and, more specifically, a project named La Fondona. Can Batlló is an autonomous and self-organised social centre in the neighbourhood of La Bordeta in Barcelona with which I worked during six months between 2013 and 2014. Throughout this period, I participated actively not only in Can Batlló but also in the actions and events that took place in the neighbourhood of Sants-Montjuïc and Barcelona. Hence, I present an analysis of the internal processes, relations and knowledge-practices as well as the relationships that this collective maintains with the community, its sociopolitical space and historical context. I argue those relations are constructed through rhizomatic principles as well as drawing from feminist approaches which put life and the body at the centre of their arguments. These outcomes will be finally reflected in chapter IX of this dissertation under the lenses of the research question posed in this thesis. That is whether current urban resistances challenge majoritarian social movements’ analyses. / Marie Curie Fellow Program and University of Utrecth

The prevailing discourse of “resistance vs. acceptance” in IT implementation research mostly personalizes the issue as “users” versus IT implementers (e.g., managers, CIOs, CMIOs, etc.). This kind of discourse has created an IT-implementer-centric attitude among IS scholars and practitioners. The IT-implementer-centric attitude, while embraces “acceptance” as a desirable reaction almost unconditionally, frequently holds for minimizing or more conservatively suppressing “resistance” to IT implementation. In other words, the mainstream IT implementation research, almost completely, treats “users” as passive recipients whose choices, as they face pre-developed/pre-designed/pre-rolled-out technology being implemented, can only be defined on a spectrum from “acceptance” to “resistance.” The current research study, however, offers an alternative perspective that views the “resistance vs. acceptance” duality “from the other side,” i.e., from the perspective of the supposed “resistors” or “acceptors” themselves. Through a review of the literature, this study first identifies major drawbacks of the extant theories and models of IT implementation research. Next, drawing on an interpretive paradigm of research (more specifically, phenomenological sociology), this study investigates a real world case of healthcare IT implementation. The results of the aforementioned literature review and case investigation subsequently form the basis for the study’s proposed theoretical account, which provides an unprecedented understanding and explanation of how actors representing different stakeholder groups, among which people who are routinely called “users” are but one group, experience IT implementation as they live their everyday lives. The proposed theoretical account is lastly used as a guide for crafting both practical and research prescriptions with respect to managing IT-involved change occasions.

The aim of the present study is to examine how schools organize the work with and for pupils with language disorder.  Further, it aims to find which role the Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) and principal, respectively may have in the work with the pupils and give an insight into what knowledge about Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) personnel in schools have. The background of the study is that knowledge about DLD begins to diffuse at schools in Sweden today, but there is still a great deal of ignorance about what the diagnosis entails and how to work inclusive with these students in the classroom. The study was conducted with a qualitative method, semi-structured interviews with six special needs coordinators and five principals. The theoretical framework consist of Etienne Wenger’s Social theory of learning and the analysis was performed through a thematic content analysis. The results of the study indicate that none of the schools in the study have a particular organization for pupils with DLD. Half of the informants argue that they would like increased collaboration with speech therapists. The collaboration with guardians is another area that needs to improve in the schools. Enterprise in relation to engagement is most prominent in the schools, according to the analysis based on Wenger’s social theory of learning. All informants recognize gaps of knowledge regarding the definition of DLD, and how to work with pupils with the disability. Further education on the subject was requested by all informants.

O debate sobre redistribuição e reconhecimento tem como principais referências os trabalhos de Nancy Fraser e Axel Honneth, bem como o livro Redistribuição ou Reconhecimento? Uma controvérsia político-filosófica, obra que reúne contribuições de ambos. Cada um destes autores atribui, contudo, um diferente significado a esses dois conceitos que são também mobilizados por eles de modos distintos. Com o objetivo de explorar esse debate no interior e a partir da controvérsia Fraser-Honneth, abordaremos a compreensão que os dois possuem sobre as relações entre redistribuição e reconhecimento, em seus diferentes níveis de análise. Tomando como fio condutor a pergunta acerca da possibilidade de que o conjunto de injustiças existentes seja compreendido a partir do conceito de reconhecimento, ou acerca da necessidade de recorrer para isso ao par conceitual redistribuição e reconhecimento, pretendemos mostrar que por mais importantes que sejam as questões relativas à base normativa de suas teorias, à importância e ao caráter que atribuem aos conflitos sociais a disputa entre o monismo proposto por Honneth e o dualismo defendido por Fraser tem em seu centro questões sobre teoria social, por meio das quais procuram compreender as relações entre a economia e a cultura e apresentar teorias do poder aptas a diagnosticar as injustiças ou patologias sociais existentes. Injustiças que, segundo eles, precisam ser analisadas também no interior das interações sociais, que estariam perpassadas por relações de poder. / The debate about redistribution and recognition has as its central theoretical references, Nancy Frasers and Axel Honneths work and, mainly, the book Redistribution or Recognition? A political-philosophical exchange, a work that gathers contributions from both of them. Each of these authors ascribes, though, a different meaning to those two concepts that are, besides, mobilised by them in distinguished ways. With the aim to explore this debate within and from Fraser-Honneth controversy, we seek to discuss the comprehension that both authors sustain regarding the relations between redistribution and recognition, in its different levels of analysis. Establishing as our guiding line the question concerning the possibility that the set of existing injustices be comprehended only through the concept of recognition, or if to do so is necessary to call upon the conceptual par redistribution and recognition, we aim to pinpoint that although questions regarding the normative basis of their theories and the importance or character they assign to the social conflicts might be of fundamental importance the dispute between the monism endorsed by Honneth and the dualism advocated by Fraser has its center the different social theories developed by those authors, through which they seek to understand the relations between culture and economy and to bring foreword theories of power that can diagnose the existent social pathologies or injustices. Injustices that, according to them, need to be properly analysed within social interactions, also pervaded by power relations.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:21:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DANIELA DI MORAES JARDIM.pdf: 2951915 bytes, checksum: 8c644d3a94e2b22b48c85ac5dad6cc0a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-02-17 / This essay intended to study and comprehend the socialization process of children from popular classes. It is important to reach such universe for it s the first step to the effort of elaborating public policies towards this segment, as well as thinking of strategies to include them into society in a warm manner. Thus, a brief study on the history of childhood from its conception since Feudal Ages until Contemporary times was carried out, outlining whatsoever the aspects of childhood in Brazil and in the city of Goiânia. The methodology was based upon the social-historic approach as proposed by Vigotski, developing a documental research followed by an empirical research. The first utilized the scholar applications of 203 children from a nongovernmental institution (Sociadade Cidadão 2000). The empirical part consisted of the evaluation of 81 questionnaires and the interview of 12 children (of both genders), picked from the ones who answered the questionnaires. The questionnaires were intended to allow a better comprehension of the routine and lifestyle of the surveyed children, while the interviews provided in depth information based on the questionnaire answers, allowing for a new direction on the constitution of these children subjectivity - as it was noticed that childhood playing and household duties are central in their socializing process. The surveyed children presented diverse family patterns, where grandparents are present and important figures in their lives, whereas the mothers are the most referred to concerning child education. These children associate positive feelings concerning their family, cooperate on household duties and have child playing as part of their routine. Most of these children report suffering some kind of violence, but define being a child as being able to play and have fun. By child playing they socialize with their pairs, learn rules and deal with limits previously established by the society they belong to in a playful, and yet serious, manner. The household duties are also part of their socializing process, however gender issues play an early role in this matter. / Esta pesquisa trata do processo de socialização de crianças pertencentes às camadas populares, tendo em vista que alcançar esse universo faz-se importante, porque é o primeiro passo para que haja esforços no sentido de elaborar políticas públicas direcionadas a esse segmento, assim como planejar estratégias para sua inclusão na sociedade de uma maneira acolhedora. Para tanto, fez-se um breve estudo sobre a infância, desde a Idade Média até a contemporaneidade, focando-se aspectos ligados à infância no Brasil, e posteriormente, no município de Goiânia. A metodologia fundamentou-se na abordagem sócio-histórica proposta por Vigotski, mediante uma pesquisa documental, seguida de pesquisa empírica. Com a pesquisa documental realizou-se um estudo histórico do município de Goiânia, bem como coletaram-se informações das fichas de cadastro de 203 crianças matriculadas em uma instituição não-governamental (Sociedade Cidadão 2000). A pesquisa empírica baseou-se na aplicação de 81 questionários e na entrevista com 12 crianças de ambos os sexos, escolhidas a partir da aplicação dos questionários, com o objetivo de compreender melhor o modo de vida e o cotidiano dessas crianças. Com as entrevistas, aprofundaram-se as informações obtidas a partir dos questionários, para um novo direcionamento para a constituição da subjetividade das crianças, diante da constatação de que, no seu processo de socialização, as brincadeiras e os serviços domésticos são centrais. A partir disso, apresentou-se um desenho familiar bastante diversificado, em que os avós são figuras presentes e importantes na vida das crianças e as mães são as mais citadas com referência à sua educação. Trata-se de crianças que associam sentimentos positivos em relação à família, colaboram nos serviços domésticos da casa e a brincadeira faz parte do seu cotidiano. Boa parte dessas crianças diz ter sofrido algum tipo de violência, e para elas, ser criança é poder brincar e ter diversão. Por meio das brincadeiras, as crianças pesquisadas socializam-se com seus pares, aprendem regras e lidam com limites que são previamente estabelecidos pela sociedade a que pertencem, de forma lúdica e ao mesmo tempo séria. O serviço doméstico também entra nesse processo de socialização, mediante realização das atividades da casa, tendo em vista que desde cedo questões de diferenças de gênero aparecem nessa distribuição.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T22:00:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 5 / Nenhuma / Através deste estudo, procurei discutir o processo de emancipação de jovens oriundos de camadas menos favorecidas da sociedade, a partir da perspectiva da Teoria Social do Reconhecimento de Axel Honneth. Nesse sentido, foi realizada uma pesquisa exploratória, do tipo estudo de caso e de caráter qualitativo, com ex-alunos, beneficiários do Programa de Bolsas de estudo do Colégio Metodista Americano, onde procurei avaliar a relação existente entre a oportunidade da Bolsa de estudo e o ingresso em um campo de possibilidades que viabilize o processo de emancipação desses sujeitos. Para isto foram consideradas diversas condições do campo social, econômico e cultural, do grupo familiar no período em que esses jovens receberam a oportunidade, traçando-se paralelos com as condições em que hoje se encontram. Além disto, foram avaliadas questões pertinentes ao desenvolvimento desses sujeitos, procurando enfocar, em especial, a formação e o reconhecimento de suas identidades individuais e de grupo, criando-se assim as c / Trough this study, I wish to discuss the process of the emancipation of young people coming from lower social schedules, from the perspective of “The Social Theory of Recognition”, from Axel Honneth. In this sense, it was done a exploratory research, on a case study way and with qualitative characteristics, with ex-students who were beneficiated from the Program of Scholarship from School Methodist Americano, were I looked for evaluating the existing relation between the opportunity of having the Free Studying and the entering in a field of possibilities that turns it possible that this students have their emancipation. In order to realize that, several social field conditions were considered, as well as the economic and cultural basis of the familiar group in the period that this young people received the opportunity, comparing it to the condition they find them self today. Besides, questions related to the development of this people were evaluated, searching to focus, specially, the formation and the reco

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:16:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Reginaldo Pereira Franca Junior.pdf: 1819541 bytes, checksum: 6d1fc9ffc4c52297fd062845de058ee3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-01 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The objective of this work is to review the process of ownership and objectification in Marx s social theory and its ethical-political effects on the social workers ethical-political professional project. It is also intended to analyze the contribution of Marx s social theory for the profession and its subsequent materialization in daily life of professional work. It is a study of qualitative approach, including a literature review and a field research, through semistructured interviews with three social workers one of the healthcare area, another a teaching and a third of the Judiciary in the city of Uberaba, MG, in the year 2012. This work was justified by questioning the forms of appropriation of the Marx s social theory by social workers and the forms of objectification of the ethical-political professional project in daily professional work. It was noted that there is a degree of ownership of Marx s social theory by social workers, as well as obstacles in the process of vocational training that fell on these theoretical-methodological bases deficiencies. The limitations for the objectification of professional project in daily work come from the relative difficulty in taking ownership of Marx's theory. The subjects understand the centrality of contemporary Social Service professional project, but they are limited in this objectification, given the social relations of capitalist production and institutional boundaries. It was noted that the difficulty in joining the class project cannot be attributed solely to institutional or capitalist limits; that project is to be thought of as a compromise to overcome the determinations and locate man as the measure of all things / Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar o processo de apropriação e da objetivação da teoria social de Marx e seus rebatimentos no projeto ético-político profissional junto aos assistentes sociais. Pretende-se ainda, analisar qual a contribuição da teoria social de Marx para a profissão e sua consequente materialização no cotidiano do trabalho profissional. Trata-se de um estudo de abordagem qualitativa, tendo como procedimento a revisão de literatura e pesquisa de campo, por meio de entrevista semiestruturada com três assistentes sociais da cidade de Uberaba, MG, no ano de 2012, sendo um da área da saúde, um da docência e um do Tribunal de Justiça. Este trabalho justificou-se pelos questionamentos sobre as formas de apropriação da teoria social de Marx pelos assistentes sociais e as formas de objetivação do projeto ético-político profissional no cotidiano do trabalho profissional. Observou-se que há uma relativa apropriação da teoria social de Marx pelos assistentes sociais, constatando entraves no processo de formação profissional que incidiram nessas deficiências de bases teórico-metodológicas. Da relativa dificuldade em apropriar-se do arcabouço teórico de Marx apontam-se as limitações para a objetivação do projeto profissional no cotidiano de trabalho. Dessa forma, os sujeitos compreendem a centralidade do projeto profissional no Serviço Social contemporâneo, porém se veem limitados nesta objetivação, dadas as relações sociais de produção capitalista e dos limites institucionais. Observou-se que a dificuldade na adesão ao projeto de classe não pode ser atribuída exclusivamente aos limites institucionais ou do capital; esse projeto necessita ser pensado como um compromisso que supere as determinações e situe o homem como a medida de todas as coisas

A presente tese refere-se à pesquisa teórica acerca das principais obras de autores da corrente de interpretação marxista clássica do trabalho e da teoria social em saúde. Nesse sentido, os elementos centrais dessa corrente são abordados com referência a bibliografia de autores dos contextos intelectuais, francês e italiano. Depreende-se da pesquisa que a incorporação de outros meios intelectuais possibilitou o desenvolvimento de uma teoria social em saúde original a partir de associações pluriparadigmáticas de teorias críticas de modernidade, na qual as contradições oriundas do domínio racional da natureza corpórea e seu meio na sociabilidade capitalista são elemento centrais do processo social de medicalização e mercantilização. A hipótese interpretativa desenvolvida aponta que duas principais teses da Escola de Frankfurt, a crítica ao progresso de Walter Benjamim e a crítica a racionalidade técnica instrumental de Adorno e Horkheimer, são basilares na elaboração da teoria social em saúde constituidora do campo interdisciplinar da saúde coletiva. Na perspectiva de balanço crítico da interpretação marxista, destacamos a transição analítica da prática médica à teoria do processo de trabalho em saúde com identificação de contribuições e limites para a apreensão do trabalho das ocupações em saúde no processo contemporâneo de complexificação do trabalho e da relação social em saúde. / The present thesis refers to the theoretical research about the main works of authors of the current of classic Marxist interpretation of work and social theory in health. In this sense, the central elements of this chain are approached with reference to the bibliography of authors from the intellectual contexts, French and Italian. It follows from the research that the incorporation of other intellectual means enabled the development of an original health social theory from pluriparadigmatic associations of critical theories of modernity, in which the contradictions stemming from the rational domain of corporeal nature and its environment in capitalist sociability are central elements of the social process of medicalization and commodification. The interpretative hypothesis developed suggests that two main theses of the Frankfurt School, the criticism of Walter Benjamim\'s progress and the critique of instrumental technical rationality of Adorno and Horkheimer, are fundamental in the elaboration of the social health theory that constitutes the interdisciplinary field of collective health. From the perspective of a critical balance of Marxist interpretation, we highlight the analytical transition from medical practice to the theory of the health work process with the identification of contributions and limits for the apprehension of the work of occupations in health in the contemporary process of work and social relationship in health.

Das vorliegende Buch gibt in zehn Einzelbeiträgen eine Einführung in das Gesamtwerk von Erving Goffman. Dabei wird gebrochen mit einer Sichtweise, die Goffman nur als einen "soziologischen Belletristen" kennt, der die Sozialwissenschaften mit einer Vielzahl von Begriffen bereichert hat. Vielmehr wird aufgezeigt, daß sich sein Werk durch ein eigenständiges Therieprogramm auszeichnet, das sich keinem anderen theoretischen Ansatz einverleiben läßt und Goffman in den Rang eine "Klassikers der zweiten Generation" erhebt. Die Beiträge der ersten Abteilung befassen sich mit dem Theorieprogramm von Goffman, indem das Forschungsprogramm der "interaction order" und die Grundlagen der Rahmen-Analyse beschrieben werden. In den anschließenden Beiträgen wird das Werk von Goffman im Vergleich mit soziologischen Theorien (Ethnomethodologie; phänomenologische Soziologie, Strukturalismus und Symbolischer Interaktionismus) diskutiert, mit denen es oftmals in Verbindung gebracht wird. Die Beiträge des dritten Teils befassen sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven mit der Reichweite des Theorieprogramms von Goffman. Vervollständigt wird dieser Teil durch eine umfangreiche Bibliographie.

In an accelerating Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) environment, academic libraries’ catalogs have always been part of students’ and faculty members journey of resources discovery. The master thesis intents to focus its interest in Information Systems (IS) ground related to the implementation of a new search engine at the University of Piraeus Library. The Library wants to change the search features of its traditional online services and to implement a new discover tool with Web 2.0 characteristics. The aim of this master thesis is to investigate users’ views and desires interest according to their scholarly needs and expectations about VuFind in order to facilitate the Library to customize the integration. Therefore, critical systems theory will be employed for “therapeutic” reasons to enlighten the Library’s users about their current situation. Qualitative analysis is expected to recognize discrimination against traditional Library’s search engines. Qualitative data of the user impression and reaction when operate with the VuFind interface will lead to recommendations for enhancement and improvements. Findings will assist implementers to modify the discovery layer by meeting users’ needs of the academia community. The research will collect data through qualitative method on how participants operate with the VuFind search engine merging librarians’ professional views and users’ expectations and propositions. Participatory Design (PD) will be built upon Future Workshop method.