CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / A implantaÃÃo dos Centros de Atendimento Educacional Especializado (AEEs) pelo governo ocasionou mudanÃas nas identidades profissionais da equipe multiprofissional, e reconfigurou as identidades maternas. Os profissionais e as profissionais das diversas Ãreas que antes prestavam atendimento de forma isolada tiveram que desenvolver um trabalho conjunto. Nesse contexto, as identidades profissionais foram sendo reconstruÃdas e influenciadas, em grande parte, pelas prÃticas de letramento das diversas Ãreas profissionais presentes nos centros. Quanto Ãs mÃes, viram diante de si o desafio de terem que matricular seus filhos e filhas na escola regular a fim de continuarem a ter direito aos atendimentos da equipe multidisciplinar. Isso foi fonte de grande ansiedade e inseguranÃa, visto nÃo considerarem o modelo da escola regular atual apropriado Ãs suas crianÃas. Para pesquisar sobre identidades, adoto nesta tese a Teoria Social do Letramento (BARTON; HAMILTON, 1998; BARTON, 2009), que entende o letramento como um conjunto de prÃticas sociais que tÃm relaÃÃo direta com valores e crenÃas existentes nas diversas comunidades e grupos sociais e que estÃo, assim, intimamente relacionadas Ãs identidades das pessoas. Adoto tambÃm a proposta teÃrico/metodolÃgica de Gee (2000 â 2001, 2003) de anÃlise das identidades em contextos educacionais. AlÃm disso, a abordagem teÃrico-metodolÃgica da AnÃlise de Discurso CrÃtica (CHOULIARAKI; FAIRCLOUGH, 1999; FAIRCLOUGH, 2003), fornece subsÃdios para o estudo das identidades a partir de duas categorias, a saber: o Significado Representacional (Discursos) e o Significado Identificacional (Estilos). Por meio da pesquisa etnogrÃfica reflexiva, os dados indicam a existÃncia de uma assimetria de poder nas relaÃÃes entre os profissionais e as profissionais oriunda, em sua maioria, da predominÃncia dos letramentos da Ãrea da saÃde em detrimento aos letramentos relativos à Ãrea educacional, o que acaba por afetar, de forma negativa, os atendimentos. Ao considerar as concepÃÃes e representaÃÃes das mÃes em torno do letramento, foi possÃvel perceber como esses aspectos foram importantes na formaÃÃo de suas identidades maternas no sentido de serem parÃmetros que pautam suas escolhas em relaÃÃo a que atendimentos sÃo apropriados ou nÃo para seus filhos e filhas. / The implementation of Specialized Educational Care (SEC) Centers by the Central government brought about changes in the multidisciplinary team practitioner identities, and reshaped maternal identities. Practitioners from diverse fields that used to provide treatment in isolation had to develop joint work. In this context, professional identities were rebuilt, influenced largely by the literacy practices of the various professional fields present in the centers. In relation to the mothers, they had to face the challenge of having to enroll their children in mainstream schools in order to continue to be entitled to the multidisciplinary team care. This was a source of great anxiety and insecurity, as they do not consider current mainstream schools as appropriate to their children. To research about identities, I adopted in this thesis the Social Theory of Literacy (BARTON and HAMILTON, 1998; BARTON, 2009), which considers literacy as a set of social practices that are directly related to existing values and beliefs in different communities and social groups who are thus closely related to the membersâ identities. I also adopted Geeâs (2000 - 2001, 2003) theoretical and methodological proposal on identities in educational contexts. In addition, theoretical and methodological approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CHOULIARAKI; FAIRCLOUGH, 1999; FAIRCLOUGH, 2003) provides support for the study of identities with two categories, namely: Representational Meaning (Discourses) and Identificational Meaning (Styles). Through the reflexive ethnographic research, the data indicated the existence of power asymmetry in the relations among the practitioners originated, mostly, from the predominance of literacies related to the health area over the literacies in the educational area, which ultimately affect in a negative way the educational care. By taking into account the motherâs views and representations around literacy, it was possible to see how these aspects were important in the construction of their maternal identities in relation to their choices regarding the appropriate care to their children.

[pt] Partindo das rupturas políticas - simbolizadas pelo ano de 1989 - nos planos teórico e prático, esta pesquisa busca estudar a imaginação política crítica contemporânea. Tomando tal fio condutor, o presente estudo intenta criticar o estado-centrismo de alguns teóricos (Rosenberg, Colás e Panitch) de hoje. Ainda, propõe um diálogo entre outros dois críticos (Walker e Holloway), visando apreender tais limites imaginativos e sugerir - com auxílio da prática de certos movimentos sociais - outros modos de pensar os dilemas da soberania estatal e sua inclusão e exclusão do espaço político. / [en] Beginning from the point of political ruptures - symbolized by 1989 - on the theoretical and practical levels, this research critically explores the contemporary critical political imagination. Following this line of thought, this investigation aims at criticizing the state-centrism of some current theorists (Rosenberg, Colás and Panitch). Moreover, it proposes a dialogue between two other critics (Walker and Holloway), in order to explore and appreciate such imaginative boundaries and to suggest - with the help of certain social movements` practices - other ways of thinking through the dilemmas of state sovereignty and its inclusion and exclusion of the political space.

Computing education has struggled with student engagement and diversity in the student population for a long time. Research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education suggests that taking a social, long-term perspective on learning is a fruitful approach to resolving some of these persistent challenges. A longitudinal study has been conducted, following students from two computing study programmes (CS/IT) over a three-year period. The students reflected on their experiences with CS/IT in a series of interviews. Drawing on social identity theory, the analysis has focused on describing participation in CS/IT, doing, thinking, feeling in relation to CS/IT, as negotiated among different people. Phenomenographic analysis yields an outcome space that describes increasingly broad ways in which the students experience participation in CS/IT over the years. Two further outcome spaces provide nuanced insights into experiences that are of increasing relevance as the students advance in their studies; participation as problem solving and problem solving for others. Problem solving defined as solving difficult (technical) problems seems predominate in the learning environment. Problem solving for others brings the user into perspective, but first in the human computer interaction (HCI) course in year three. Students react with scepticism to HCI, excluding HCI from computing, some are students who commenced their studies with broader interests in computing. Demonstrating (technical) problem solving competence is the most vital indicator competence in the two study programmes and the students adapt their reflections on who they are as computing students and professionals accordingly. People showing broader interests in computing risk being marginalised. I identify a gap between conceptions of computing as interdisciplinary and important for society and constructions of computing as technical. Closing the gap could improve retention and diversity, and result in graduates that are better prepared to contribute to societal development.

Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of Ph. D (Public Managment), Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017. / Using historic and ethnographic data collected from KwaZulu-Natal, this study examines food consumption from the Zulu Cosmology epistemic point of view. The study highlights as a prosocial behaviour that reduces the importance of self in favour of pro social norms of sharing and selflessness. In other words, personhood is understood as a process and the product of interconnectedness experienced in social spaces. Pro-social behaviour is therefore seen as a determinant of harmonious and social cohesive communities. The study concluded that social cohesive communities develop a set of cultural protocols and boundaries that reward prosocial norms and punish antisocial behaviour. Social cohesion as a concept was also found to be inseparable from the notion of shared values, identities and norms. The study delved deeper and found that the land, the livestock and the cultural rituals to honour the living and the dead defined a unique interconnectedness of the Zulu person to his culture. Eating and eaten products were part of a uniting culture that linked a Zulu man, woman, girls, old men and women to other people, their animals and their land. Zulu people lived for, and with, other people in peace. No man or family would go hungry. Immediately that becomes known, another man would give the destitute man a few cattle to start his own flock and feed his family. This and other eating rituals contributed to a strong, peaceful and social cohesive nation of King Shaka ka Senzangakhona. On the basis of the understanding of the cultural rituals, their link with the land and animal the study concluded that land restitution and agrarian policies can be enhanced by taking into consideration their need for land to cultivate vegetables and fruits that have cultural meaning, policies that enable to have livestock as well as space to practise their culture. The study is envisaged to inspire social welfare and community development policies that instil the prosocial values of Ubuntu and interconnectedness. / D

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.

<p>Poor food safety in informal, open-air markets remains a pressing issue in Cambodia, contributing to both foodborne illness and malnutrition. In order to design food safety programs that successfully promote positive food safety practices among the various actors involved in these markets, is important to understand their perceptions of food safety and of their own capability, opportunity, and motivation for adopting positive food safety behaviors. To that end, this research sought to explore and describe the perceptions of vegetable vendors, vegetable distributors, and vegetable growers in the Cambodian provinces of Battambang, Siem Reap, and Phnom Penh regarding food safety and their own personal capability, opportunity, and motivation for implementing specific food safety practices.  To note, this research was made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) though Cooperative Agreement No. 7200AA19LE00003 to Purdue University as management entity of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety. The contents are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. </p> <p>The first portion of the research, which examined levels of perceived capability, opportunity, and motivation for positive food safety practices among actors involved in informal vegetable markets in Cambodia, employed a quantitative questionnaire based on the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation-Behavior model of behavior and the Theoretical Domains Framework. A pilot study using this questionnaire was performed with vegetable vendors in the Province of Phnom Penh (<em>N</em> = 55), after which the questionnaire was revised and implemented in person with vegetable distributors in Battambang Province (<em>n</em> = 37) and vegetable vendors and growers in Battambang (<em>n</em> = 26 and <em>n</em> = 27, respectively) and Siem Reap Provinces (<em>n</em> = 61 and <em>n</em> = 30, respectively). To validate the questionnaire, response data from participants in Battambang and Siem Reap were evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis. The resultant nine-factor model had a comparative fit index of .91, a Tucker-Lewis index of .89, and a root mean square error of approximation of .05. Data analysis proceeded using a fitted general linear mixed model. Results of this analysis suggested that levels of perceived motivation and capability for the target food safety practice were typically significantly higher (<em>p</em> < .05) than levels of perceived opportunity among vegetable vendors and distributors, regardless of location. Levels of perceived opportunity and perceived capability were significantly lower (<em>p</em> < .05) than levels of perceived motivation among vegetable growers in both Battambang and Siem Reap. Significantly higher (<em>p</em> < .05) levels of perceived opportunity and motivation for the target food safety practice were observed among vendors in Battambang in comparison to vendors in Siem Reap; perceptions of all three behavioral determinants were higher among vendors in Battambang than among farmers in either location. </p> <p>Subsequently, a quantitative questionnaire regarding participants’ perceptions of vegetable safety was implemented in person with vegetable growers in Battambang (<em>n </em>= 41) and Siem Reap (<em>n</em> = 28) and vegetable vendors in Phnom Penh (<em>n </em>= 31). Response data were analyzed using a fitted logistic regression model. Nearly all respondents indicated that they were concerned about vegetable safety (overall mean estimate 97.4%, 95% CI = [89.7, 99.4]%), with ≤ 62.7% of respondents in all groups reporting at least moderate concern (lower bounds of 95% confidence intervals 46.2% at the lowest). Across all groups, chemical contamination was perceived as more concerning than microbial contamination (84.9%, 95% CI = [76.0, 90.9]%). The majority of respondents reported that they were familiar with the potential health effects of consuming vegetables contaminated with either chemicals (71.4% [61.5, 79.6]%) or microbes (57.3% [47.2, 66.9]%). Nonetheless, when those who reported familiarity were asked to give examples of such health effects, fewer than 50% (ranging from 7.3% to 48.4%) provided an example of a commonly understood health effect of consuming contaminated vegetables. </p> <p>Both chemical and microbial contamination were most frequently perceived as occurring mainly “at the farm”, regardless of participants’ occupation and location (≥ 76.7%, lower bounds of 95% confidence intervals at least 61.5%, and ≥ 39.3%, lower bounds of 95% confidence intervals at least 21.2%, respectively). Correspondingly, “vegetable farmers’ were most often perceived as having the greatest responsibility for chemical contamination prevention (≥ 51.6% across all groups, lower bounds of 95% confidence intervals at least 34.0%). There were significant between-group differences in participants’ perceptions of microbial contamination prevention responsibility, however (<em>p</em> = .02). With regards to practices intended to prevent vegetable contamination, 22.6% of surveyed vendors in Phnom Penh, 39.0% of surveyed growers in Battambang, and 53.6% of surveyed growers in Siem Reap described at least one commonly accepted contamination prevention practice. </p> <p>Considered as a whole, these findings indicate that food safety practice adoption may be more effectively encouraged among vegetable growers, distributors, and vendors in Phnom Penh, Battambang, and Siem Reap by emphasizing the importance of microbial contamination and integrating educational components regarding the health effects of consuming vegetables contaminated with microbes or chemicals into food safety programs. Such programs should also address the relatively lower levels of perceived opportunity present among all groups; environmental restructuring-based interventions may be one means by which to do so. Programs for vegetable vendors specifically should communicate that microbial contamination of vegetables is common and highlight the significance of the role of vegetable vendors in maintaining a safe vegetable supply. Food safety programs tailored to vegetable growers could draw on growers’ perception of their own responsibility for both vegetable contamination and contamination prevention as well as their perception of contamination as a common occurrence. Programs for vegetable growers also need to incorporate efforts to address the relatively lower levels of perceived capability present within this group. These efforts could include educational programming or hands-on demonstrations that increase participants’ perceptions of their own ability to implement positive food safety practices. </p>

Ce mémoire vise à approfondir un cadre théorique élaboré dans les années 2000 par la sociologue Viviana Zelizer pour comprendre comment l’activité économique (la consommation, la production, les échanges) prend forme à travers une pratique sociale qu’elle nomme travail relationnel. Ce concept reflète les conflits de correspondance entre transactions économiques, culture et relations sociales dans la vie économique. Depuis quelques années des chercheurs en sociologie économique et économie politique tentent d’élargir la portée de ce cadre théorique, construit à partir des relations intimes, afin de changer son niveau du micro vers le macro. J’adopte cette même problématique théorique en explorant comment le mouvement climatique étudiant à Montréal « travaille » la société québécoise pour répondre à la crise climatique. J’ai mené 10 entretiens semi-dirigés avec des activistes présentant un fort niveau d’engagement pour la lutte climatique dans plusieurs groupes militants participant à ce mouvement social au Québec. Mes résultats montrent plusieurs manières par lesquelles la culture et les relations sociales s’entremêlent aux activités économiques dans les discours des activistes concernant l’économie politique. Spécifiquement, les activistes climatiques misent sur la solidarité, le partage, l’interdépendance et la durabilité pour repenser l’économie et son architecture sociale. C’est ce que je rattache au concept de travail relationnel de Viviana Zelizer. Mon analyse m’amène à proposer le concept de travail relationnel civil pour représenter une pratique politique visant à transformer symboliquement l’« arrière-plan relationnel » de l’activité économique, c’est-à-dire l’appartenance à une communauté imaginée et des modèles normatifs d’échange. / This dissertation aims to develop a theoretical framework elaborated in the 2000s by sociologist Viviana Zelizer, meant to understand how economic activity (consumption, production, and exchange) takes shape through a social practice called relational work. This concept illustrates how conflicts of correspondence between economic transactions, meaning-making and social relations are central to economic life. In recent years, scholars in economic sociology and political economy have recognized the need to deepen the analytical scope of Zelizer’s framework by scaling-up relational work from the micro-level to the macro-level. My research follows such a theoretical puzzle and explores how the student-climate movement in Montréal “works” Québec society in the context of a climate crisis and emergency. My findings reveal multiple ways in which culture and social relations are intermingled with economic activity in the activist’s discourses of political economy. Specifically, the cultural repertoire of climate activists includes solidarity, sharing, interdependence and sustainability as tools for “rethinking” the economy and its social architecture. This cultural logic is similar to relational work as defined by Viviana Zelizer. Through my analysis I elaborate the notion of civil relational work to represent a political practice that aims to construct and transform the “relational background” of economic activity, that is, the identification with an imagined community and normative models of exchange.

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This project engages with the Kogi, an Amerindian indigenous people from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range in northern Colombia. Kogi leaders have been engaging in a consistent ecological-political activism to protect the Sierra Nevada from environmentally harmful developments. More specifically, they have attempted to raise awareness and understanding among the wider public about why and how these activities are destructive according to their knowledge and relation to the world. The foreign nature of these underlying ontological understandings, statements, and practices, has created difficulties in conveying them to mainstream, scientific society. Furthermore, the pre-determined cosmological foundations of Kogi society, continuously asserted by them, present a problem to anthropology in terms of suitable analytical categories. My work aims to clarify and understand Kogi environmental activism in their own terms, aided by anthropological concepts and “Western” forms of expression. I elucidate and explain how Kogi ecology and public politics are embedded in an old, integrated, and complex way of being, knowing, and perceiving on the Sierra Nevada. I argue that theoretically this task involves taking a realist approach that recognises the Kogi’s cause as intended truth claims of practical environmental relevance. By avoiding constructivist and interpretivist approaches, as well as the recent “ontological pluralism” in anthropology, I seek to do justice to the Kogi’s own essentialist and universalist ontological principles, which also implies following their epistemological rationale. For this purpose, I immersed myself for two years in Kogi life on the Sierra, and focused on structured learning sessions with three Mamas, Kogi spiritual leaders and knowledge specialists. I reflect on how this interaction was possible because my project was compatible with the Mamas’ own desire to clarify and contextualise the Kogi ecological cause. After presenting this experience, I analyse the material as a multifaceted, interrelated, and elaborate system to reflect the organic, structured composition of Kogi and Sierra, also consciously conveyed as such by the Mamas. I hereby intend to show how the Kogi reproduce, live, and sustain this system through daily practices and institutions, and according to cosmological principles that guide a knowledgeable, ecological relationality with things, called ‘the Law of Origin’. To describe this system, I develop a correspondingly holistic and necessary integration of the anthropological concepts of cosmology, ontology, epistemology, and ecology. Based on this, I argue that Kogi eco-politics are equally embedded in this system, and constitute a contemporary attempt to maintain their regulatory relations with the Sierra Nevada and complement their everyday care-taking practices and rituals. In Kogi terms, this continuity and coherence is a moral imperative and environmental necessity. Thus framing and clarifying Kogi eco-politics may enrich insights into the nature of indigenous ecological knowledge, and may help address environmental problems.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PSO - Renato Ferreira de Souza.pdf: 422705 bytes, checksum: 0b76aaae440c4e3112c3ecb4a276edb3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-06 / The developed work intends to contribute for the understanding of an author/character of the social psychology. We analyzed and we added knowledge about George Herbert Mead and the unfoldings of his psychosocial theory. For this purpose we worked in two basic pathways: first, through the social approach of the psychology s history, we confronted Mead s life with moments of constitution of the psychology at his time, placing in projection central aspects of his dialogue not always identified. We correlated the history of Mead with social subjects, politics, economical and scientific of his time; information on what happened in the plan of the interpersonal s relationships at the time he was elaborating his theory, as well as his connections with practices and specific cultural values were mediated. The second path elapses from an incursion that goes through a thematic concerning to the Meadelian s studies, for what we prioritized the sociologists Peter Berger s and Thomas Luckmann s works and of the philosopher Jürgen Habermas. It is then intended to contribute to the history of the social psychology and to diffuse the Meadelian s scientific concepts, turning them more accessible to the specialists of the social psychology / O trabalho desenvolvido pretende contribuir para a compreensão de um autor/personagem da psicologia social. Analisamos e acrescemos conhecimento sobre George Herbert Mead e os desdobramentos de sua teoria psicosocial. Para este propósito trabalhamos em duas vertentes básicas: primeiro, através da abordagem social em história da psicologia, confrontamos a vida de Mead com momentos de constituição da psicologia à sua época, colocando em relevo aspectos centrais desta interlocução nem sempre identificados. Correlacionamos a história de Mead com questões sociais, políticas, econômicas e científicas de sua época; informações sobre o que se passava no plano das relações interpessoais ao tempo em que elaborava sua teoria, assim como suas conexões com práticas e valores culturais específicos foram contemplados. A segunda vertente decorre de uma incursão na literatura que perpassa por temáticas concernentes aos estudos meadianos, para o que priorizamos os trabalhos dos sociólogos Peter Berger e Thomas Luckmann e do filósofo Jürgen Habermas. Pretende-se assim contribuir para a história da psicologia social e difundir os conceitos científicos meadianos, tornando-os mais acessíveis aos estudiosos da psicologia social