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Religion, intolerance, and social identityWalters, Handri 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MA (Political Science))--Stellenbosch University, 2009. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the past few decades the secular world has witnessed an increasing assault, specifically from the monotheistic religious fundamentalist community, on their beliefs and values. The undeniable intolerance shown by the religious fundamentalist community has often translated into violent terrorist attacks against the secular world. The fact that religious beings can resort to such atrocious acts of violence has certainly baffled many onlookers. It surely comes as no surprise that religious fundamentalism is generally viewed as a ''hard-to-understand‟ phenomenon. This literature review will describe the ''hard-to-understand‟ phenomenon that is religious fundamentalism by employing social identity theory.
The social identity of religious fundamentalists is generally derived from sacred texts and what they consider to be absolute truths. These presumed absolute truths not only provide ample opportunity for the development of the ''us‟/''them‟ duality, but also provide a platform for an intense intolerance of the ''other‟, also referred to as the out-group. Of course, the ''us‟/''them‟ duality can be created on many social dimensions, but religion has proven to bring quite an extensive, even murderous, intolerance to in- and out-group characterizations. The ever increasing actions of religious fundamentalist groups over the past few decades have certainly illustrated this point with some conviction.
The importance of social identity has been recognised in many major traditions of the social sciences, not excluding political science. Social identity forms the basis of any group‟s actions or reactions. Therefore, its significance stretches far beyond simply providing an identity to a social group. Social identity also acts as a preamble to how a social group, in this case religious fundamentalists, chooses to deal with invidious comparisons. By employing social identity in this particular way we can go beyond investigating how religious fundamentalists act and react to the point of understanding why they act and react the way they do. In this study it was found that although a number of options to deal with invidious comparisons are available to social groups, only a few of these options are likely to be pursued by religious fundamentalists in order to remain a
relevant and competitive social group within the social hierarchy. This approach will provide important insights into a formerly ''hard-to-understand‟ phenomenon namely religious fundamentalism. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Oor die laaste paar dekades het die sekulêre wêreld 'n toenemende aanslag op sy oortuigings en waardes waargeneem, spesifiek vanaf die monoteïstiese godsdienstige fundamentalistiese gemeenskap. Die onloënbare onverdraagsaamheid wat deur hierdie godsdienstige fundamentalistiese gemeenskap getoon word ontaard dikwels in geweldadige terroriste aanvalle op die sekulêre wêreld. Die feit dat godsdienstige individue hulself begwewe tot sulke wreedaaardige dade van geweld het verseker baie toeskouers verydel. Dis is sekerlik dan nie 'n verrassing dat godsdienstige fundamentalisme gesien word as 'n ''moelik-om-te-begryp‟ fenomeen nie. Hierdie literatuur oorsig sal die ''moelik-om-te-begryp‟ fenomeen wat godsdienstige fundamentalisme is beskryf deur gebruik te maak van die sosiale identiteits teorie.
Die sosiale identiteit van godsdienstige fundamentaliste spruit oor die algemeen uit heilige teks en absolute waarhede. Hierdie absolute waarhede bied nie slegs ruim geleenthede vir die ontwikkeling van die ''ons‟/''hulle‟ dualiteit nie, maar bied ook 'n platform vir 'n intense onverdraagsaamheid van die 'ander‟, wat ook verwys word na as die buite-groep. Natuurlik kan die ''ons‟/''hulle‟ dualiteit op grond van baie ander sosiale dimensies ontwikkel word, maar godsdiens het telke male al gedemonstreer dat dit 'n omvattende, selfs moordadige, onverdraagsaamheid na binne- en buite-groep karakterisering bring. Die al ewige toenemende aksies van godsdienstige fundamentalistiese groepe oor die laaste paar dekades illustreer sekerlik hierdie punt met oortuiging.
Die belangrikheid van sosiale identiteit word erken deur verskeie tradisies van die sosiale wetenskappe en politieke wetenskap word nie hier uitgesluit nie. Sosiale identiteit vorm die basis van enige groep se aksies en reaksies. Vir hierdie rede strek die betekenisvoheid ver verby die feit dat slegs 'n identiteit aan 'n sosiale groep verskaf word. Sosiale identiteit tree op as 'n voorrede vir die manier waarop 'n sosiale groep, in ons geval godsdienstige fundamentaliste, verkies om onbenydenswaardige vergelykings te hanteer. Deur sosiale identiteit op hierdie besondere manier aan te spreek kan ons verder gaan as om slegs ondersoek in te stel in hoe godsdienstige fundamentaliste optree
en reageer tot die punt waar ons kan verstaan hoekom hulle optree en reageer op hierdie spesifieke manier. In hierdie studie is gevind dat alhoewel daar 'n aantal opsies beskikbaar is vir sosiale groepe om onbenydenswaardige vergelykings te hanteer, is daar slegs 'n paar van hierdie opsies wat mees waarskynlik nagestreef sal word deur godsdienstige fundamentaliste ten 'n einde 'n relevante en kompeterende sosiale groep binne die sosial hïerargie te wees. Hierdie benadering sal belangrike insigte bring tot die voormalige 'moeilik-om-te-begryp‟ fenomeen genaamd godsdienstige fundamentalisme.
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The relationship between university research and the surrounding communities in developing countries : a case study of the University of Venda for Science and TechnologyMashamba, Tshilidzi 04 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Institutions of higher learning have always had relationships with their surrounding
communities. The current study focuses on the research relationship that the University
of Venda has with its surrounding community. The literature shows that although the
nature of the relationship takes different forms, each university has a certain kind of a
relationship with the surrounding community. In this study, I used the qualitative
approach and I conducted one focus group and four individual interviews. I explored
the research needs of the communities surrounding the University of Venda and the
ways in which they think the university could address those needs. The findings of this
study revealed that the communities are not at all happy with the services that are
rendered by the university. They show that instead of benefiting from its existence
within their communities, they are even more disadvantaged by its presence.
The respondents also identified certain schools and departments at the University of
Venda that they felt could be of assistance to the surrounding communities if they
redirected their research projects into applied research. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hoër onderwysinstellings het nog altyd Onbepaalde verhouding met hulle omliggende
gemeenskappe gehad. Die huidige studie fokus op die navorsingsverhouding wat die
Universiteit van Venda het met sy omliggende gemeenskap. Die literatuur wys daarop
dat alhoewel die aard van die verhouding verskillende vorme kan aanneem, elke
universiteit ° n sekere vorm van verhouding het met die omliggende gemeenskap. In
hierdie studie is die kwalitatiewe benadering gebruik. Ek het navorsing onderneem na
die navorsingsbehoeftes van die gemeenskappe in die nabyheid van die Universiteit
van Venda en ook na die maniere waarop respondente dink die universiteitsgemeenskap
hierdie behoeftes kan aanspreek. Die bevindinge van die studie toon dat
die gemeenskappe nie gelukkig is met die dienste wat deur die universiteit verskaf
word nie. Daar word onder meer getoon dat in plaas van voordeel trek uit die bestaan
van die universiteit binne hulle gemeenskappe, hulle eintlik meer nadelig beinvloed
word.
Die respondente het ook sekere skole en departemente aan die Universiteit van Venda
geidentifiseer wat tot hulp kan wees vir die omliggende gemeenskappe indien hulle
navorsingsprojekte omskep word in toegepaste navorsing.
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The formation and functioning of racially-mixed congregationsVenter, Dawid 12 1900 (has links)
Thesis (DPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 1994. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is an empirical, qualitative study of racially-mixed urban churches (congregations) as social
institutions, which includes a practical-theological perspective. Research was motivated by the rareness
of mixed congregations, compared to the profusion of homogenous congregations. My purpose was to
uncover social factors which support the formation, maintenance, and functioning of mixed congregations.
A New Testament section is included because of the normative value that these texts hold for
contemporary Christians and church structures.
My theoretical base is informed by history, theology, biblical studies, sociology, and anthropology. The
development of relevant aspects in these fields are sketched. Special attention is given to assimilation,
pluralism, and multi-culturalism as forms of inter-ethnic interaction based on structure and culture. My
methodological base incorporates congregational studies and social-scientific literary analysis. The
historical development of both is sketched by means of an overview of relevant literature. The general
qualitative analytical social and literary techniques that I apply are indicated, including
participant-observation, semi-structured interviews, structured questionnaires, and document-analysis.
A social history of South African congregations shows that the ideal of mixed congregations existed since
the start, but was gradually repressed by several factors. Some studies of mixed congregations are
discussed, and various mixed US and South African congregations are outlined. Three contemporary
Johannesburg congregations are introduced, including Johweto, an independent charismatic church in the
black city of Soweto; St. Francis Xavier, a Roman Catholic church on the borders of coloured and white
suburbs in western Johannesburg; and Central Methodist Mission, an inner-city Protestant church. The
Johannesburg congregations are idiographically and empirically analysed in terms of their context, identity,
process, and programme. Social factors contributing to their ethnic mix are indicated.
The insights from the contemporary research are applied to early Christian congregations in a social scientific
reconstruction of the social world of appropriate New Testament texts. The purpose is to
discover the role of ethnicity in their composition and functioning, and to show whether ethnically-mixed
congregations were normative. I suggest a theory concerning the effects of ethno-cultural factors on the
structures and functioning of Pauline congregations between AD 30 and 70.
I conclude with a summary of the theoretical and practical implications of the study's results, and an
evaluation of goals and methods. Practical strategies are suggested for dealing with commonly indicated
difficulties in the formation of mixed congregations. A theory of the influence of social factors on
formation is supplied, and a dynamic model of formation constructed. I posit three types of mixed
churches according to the processes by which they are formed: contextual, inclusive, or intentional. These
are evaluated as formation strategies, and a two-tiered typology in terms of internal structure is also
proposed. The types are illustrated with reference to congregations from the US and South Africa.
Segregated and integrated congregations are evaluated in theological, social and political terms and I
indicate why mixed congregations are preferable. An overall theory of the formation and functioning of
mixed congregations is put forward. Assimilation is seen as a contributive cause, but modified where
counter-status quo and multi-cultural strategies are employed. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie is 'n empiriese en kwalitatiewe studie van ras- en etnies-gemengde kerke (gemeentes) as sosiale
instellings, wat prakties-teologiese perspektiewe insluit. Navorsing is gemotiveer deur die skaarsheid van
gemengde gemeentes, in vergelyking met die groot aantal gemeentes waartoe slegs een rasgroep behoort.
My doelwit was om sosiale faktore te ontdek wat bydra tot die vorming, instandhouding, en funksionering
van gemengde gemeentes. 'n Nuwe Testamentiese afdeling is ingesluit weens die normatiewe waarde van
hierdie vroeg-Christelike tekste vir hedendaagse Christene en kerke-strukture.
Die teoretiese begronding van die studie word toegelig deur die geskiedenis, teologie, bybelkunde,
sosiologie, en antropologie. Ek skets die ontwikkeling van relevante aspekte binne hierdie velde. Spesiale
aandag word geskenk aan assimilasie. pluralisme, en multikulturalisme as vorme van inter-etniese
interaksie rondom struktuur en kultuur. My metodologiese grondslag word gevorm deur gemeentestudie
en sosiaal-wetenskaplike letterkundige analise. Die historiese ontwikkeling van beide hierdie gebiede word
geskets deur middel van 'n oorsig van relevante literatuur. Die oorkoepelende kwalitatiewe analitiese
tegnieke wat ek aanwend word aangedui, insluitend deelnemende-waarneming, semi-gestruktureerde
vraelyste, gestruktureerde vraelyste, en dokumentontleding.
'n Sosiale geskiedenis van Suid-Afrikaanse gemeentes dui aan dat die ideaal van gemengdheid van die
begin gehuldig is, maar in die praktyk verdwyn het onder aanslag van sekere faktore. 'n Paar studies van
gemengde gemeentes word bespreek, en bondige opsommings van verskeie gemengde gemeentes in die
VSA en Suid-Afrika verskaf. Drie Johannesburgse gemeentes word bekendgestel, insluitend Johweto, 'n
onafhanklike charismatiese kerk wat in die swart stad Soweto byeenkom; St Francis Xavier, 'n Rooms Katolieke
kerk op die grens van bruin en wit voorstede in westelike Johannesburg; en Central Methodist
Mission, 'n Protestantse kerk in die middestad.
Die insigte van die kontemporere navorsing word aangewend in 'n sosiaal-wetenskaplike rekonstruksie van
die sosiale wereld van toepaslike Nuwe Testament-tekste. Die doelwit is om die rol van etnisiteit in die
ontstaan en funksionering van vroee Christelike gemeentes te ontdek, en om aan te dui of etnies gemengde
gemeentes normatief was. Ek stel 'n teorie voor oor die gevolge van etnies-kulturele faktore
vir Pauliniese gemeentes tussen 30 en 70 n.C.
Ek sluit af met 'n opsomming van die teoretiese en praktiese implikasies van die navorsingsresultate, en
'n evaluasie van doelwitte en metodes. Praktiese antwoorde word aangedui op algemene vraagstukke
rondom die vorming van gemengde gemeentes. 'n Teorie word voorgestel oor die invloede van sosiale
faktore op die ontstaan van sulke kerke, en 'n dinamiese model van onstaansfaktore opgestel. Ek stel ook
drie tipes gemengde kerke voor na aanleiding van die prosesse waardeur hulle gevorm word: kontekstueel,
inklusief, of doelbewus. Die tipes word evalueer as ontstaans-strategiee, en 'n twee-vlak tipologie in terme
van interne organisasie word voorgestel. Die tipes word bespreek met verwysing na voorbeelde van
gemeentes in die VSA en Suid-Afrika. Homogene en gemengde gemeentes word evalueer in teologiese,
sosiale, en politiese terme, en ek dui aan waarom gemengde gemeentes verkieslik is. 'n Oorkoepelende
teorie oor die ontstaan en funksionering van gemengde gemeentes word ter tafel gebring. Assimilasie word
gesien as bydraende faktor, wat aan bande gele word tot die mate waartoe anti-status quo en multikulturele
strategiee aangewend word binne 'n gemengde kerk.
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Marching to a different beat : conversations about diversity with minority women students at a historically white universityDamons, Lynne 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MEd)--Stellenbosch University, 2006. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Transformation of South Africa's historically white universities IS evidenced by a
diversification of their student and staff populations. The transition from exclusion to
inclusion of minority cultures in these university campuses has not been without its
challenges for those students. This study provides a record of the experiences of five
coloured women who are undergraduate students at Stellenbosch University (SU), a
predominantly white institution. The approach used is feminist, grounded participatory
action research.
Despite institutional policy initiatives, the Coloured undergraduate students in the study
did not experience the university environment as inclusive. What emerged was that the
women had an acute awareness of othernesses and their own minority status. Factors such
as the small number of minority students and the absence of symbols or icons that reflect
and acknowledge the presence of diverse cultures exacerbate their feeling of being in the
minority or 'tolerated otherness'. The women experienced SU as a university where
established practices and traditions continue despite the changing demographics of the
student population. This type of organisational culture in which covert and overt resistance
to transformation is the norm acts as a constraint on the political will to move from policy
to practice and entrenches the marginalisation of minority groups.
The study found that integration is left largely to personal initiative. Personal variables
such as resilience, strategies for coping with stress and the resolution of identity issues,
appear to playa key role in academic success. However, academic success is not always
accompanied by successful social integration. Social isolation was found to have a
negative impact on personal and academic confidence. Although the women in the study have had relatively negative experiences of
transformation, their willingness to engage in reflexive praxis and dialogue could serve as
a challenge to SU to engage in a process which acknowledges the concerns, resistance and
experience of all role-players. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die transformasie van histories-blanke Suid-Afrikaanse universiteite word gekenmerk aan
die diversifisering van hulle studente en personeel. Hierdie proses vind plaas deur die
geleidelike wegbeweeg van die algehele uitsluiting van die minderheidsgroepe op die
betrokke kampusse tot hulle volledige insluiting by aIle bedrywighede. Die proses is nie
sonder uitdagings vir die betrokke studente nie. In hierdie studie word die ervaringe
beskryf van vyf bruin vroulike voorgraadse studente aan die SteIlenbsoch Universiteit
(US), 'n oorwegend-blanke tersiere instelling. Vir hierdie studie is 'n feministiese
benadering wat gebaseer is op deelnemende aksienavorsing gebruik.
Ten spyte van institusionele beleidsinisiatiewe om genoemde transformasie te bespoeding,
het die voorgraadse bruin studente wat aan hierdie studie deelgeneem het, nie die
universiteitsomgewing as inklusief ervaar nie. Dit het eerder duidelik geword dat die
dames baie bewus was van hulle andersheid en hulle minderheidstatus. Faktore soos die
klein aantal minderheidstudente en die afwesigheid van simbole of ikone wat die
teenwoordigheid van diverse kulture reflekteer en erken, het hulle ervaring as behorende
tot 'n minderheidsgroep versterk. Die dames het die US ervaar as 'n universiteit waar
ingewortelde praktyke en tradisies voortgesit word ten spyte van die veranderende
demografie van die studentebevolking. Hierdie soort organisatoriese kultuur waar bedekte
en openlike teenstand tot transformasie die norm is, plaas 'n demper op die politieke
gewilligheid om van beleid na praktyk te beweeg en verdiep die marginalisering van
minderheidsgroepe.
Die bevindings van die studie is dat integrasie grootliks oorgelaat word aan persoonlike
inisiatiewe. Persoonlikeheidseienskappe soos gedetermineerde optrede, die benutting van
strategiee om stres te hanteer en identiteitskrisisse op te los, speel blykbaar 'n sleutelrol in
akademiese sukses. Akademiese sukses loop egter nie altyd hand aan hand met sosiale
integrasie nie. Daar is bevind dat sosiale isolasie 'n negatiewe impak op persoonlike en
akademiese vertroue het.
Alhoewel die ervarings van die dames wat aan die studie deelgeneem het relatief
negatiewe was ten opsigte van transformasie, was hulle tog gewillig om deel te neem aan
die reflektiewe praksis en dialoog. Hierdie feit dien as 'n uitdaging aan die Stellenbosch
Universiteit om betrokke te raak by 'n proses waarin die bekommemisse, weerstande en
ervaringe van aIle rolspelers hanteer word.
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Equality and diversity : the gender dimensions of work-life balance policiesBen-Galim, Dalia January 2008 (has links)
This thesis analyses the gender dimensions of work-life balance policies in the UK. It focuses on three related questions: firstly, to what extent are work-life balance policies framed by 'diversity'; secondly, how does this impact on the conceptualisation and implementation of work-life balance policies (in government and in organisations); and thirdly, what are the implications for gender equality? Through analysing published research, the UK Government's work-life balance agenda and data generated from three selected case study organisations, the prominent dimensions of diversity that shape the conceptualisation and implementation of work-life balance policies are presented. This thesis argues that the concept of diversity - as defined by the feminist literature - offers the potential to progress gender equality through overcoming the same-difference dichotomy, and by recognising multiple aspects of identity. However, this theoretical potential is not necessarily reflected in practice. With the emphasis on the individual worker and choice, diversity has been primarily defined as 'managing diversity', and has a significant affect on how work-life balance policies have been applied in both government policy and organisational practice. The UK Government states that work-life balance policies are meant to provide everyone with opportunities to balance work with other aspects of life. The current policy framework targets parents and in particular mothers, potentially limiting the choices that men and women have to 'work' and 'care'. Locating work-life balance policies within the context of 'managing diversity' supports and facilitates women's employment, but does not necessarily challenge fundamental gender disparities such as occupational segregation and gender pay gaps. Analysis of the UK Government's current agenda and organisational case studies show that despite progressive equality, diversity and worklife balance agendas, work-life balance policies are limited in challenging persistent structural gender inequalities.
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Die invloed van werkloosheid op maatskaplike funksionering25 February 2015 (has links)
M.A. / South Africa is currently experiencing a process of transformation impacting on the welfare, economical, physical and political areas. This process of transformation and socio-economic change has created a number of problems for example - unemployment. During the past decade the South African economy has been unable to provide opportunities for its economically active population. Unemployment in South Africa has undergone a transformation and, currently, the problem cannot, as in the past, be attributed to irresponsibility and instability. External factors are currently causing a situation where stable and self supporting individuals and families are becoming unemployed. Unemployment does not only have socio-economic implications for the country but also psycho-social implications for individuals, the family and the community. Retrenchment can lead to poor self-image, the loss of confidence, limited or even no future vision, internal struggle, depression, tension in the family and other psycho-social conditions...
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THEORIZING WHEN USER REACTION TO IT IMPLEMENTATION IS NEITHER RESISTANCE NOR ACCEPTANCE, BUT CONSTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR: A CASE STUDY OF HEALTHCARE IT IMPLEMENTATIONMohajeri, Kaveh 01 January 2014 (has links)
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.
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Relationships between household resource dependence, socio-economic factors, and livelihood strategies: a case study from Bushbuckridge, South AfricaRagie, Fatima Hassen January 2016 (has links)
A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Science. Johannesburg, 2016. / Environmental income in rural socio-ecological systems consists of the monetary and non-monetary value derived by people from non-agricultural ecosystem goods and services that are sourced from wild or uncultivated natural systems. This environmental income forms an important part of rural households' diversified livelihood income portfolios and includes resources like fuelwood, herbs, fruits, game, medicinal plants and other materials that are used for clothing, shelter, arts and crafts. Rural households also depend on income from two other land-based income streams, crop farming and livestock husbandry, and off-farm activities income stream, which includes grants and wages, for both consumption and cash generation. While rural livelihoods are becoming increasingly reliant on off-farm income, land-based livelihood income streams (including environmental income) still play an important supplementary role, especially to satisfy subsistence needs.
Past studies in the developing world have quantified livelihood incomes and have often associated these income values to the socio-economic characteristics of households. However, neither do these studies examine the different livelihood income streams collectively as a portfolio, nor do they sufficiently account for and create understanding around the correlations within the suites of influencing factors. Livelihoods are often analysed using frameworks that are used to understand households' livelihood income portfolios, especially their environmental income dependencies, in relation to influencing factors. These frameworks can be useful tools to gain a quantitative understanding of households’ livelihood income portfolios. This study aimed to quantify and understand the contribution of environmental income to rural households as part of their diversified livelihood portfolios and relate these livelihood portfolios to household socio-economic characteristics and adopted livelihood strategies using the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) framework. Interviews were conducted during 2010 in 590 households spread across nine villages in the Bushbuckridge region, Mpumalanga, South Africa. The interviews focussed on the quantification of four livelihood income streams — environmental, livestock, crops and off-farm. These income streams were assessed at three points of assessment (POAs) in the livelihood income chain — the initial, primary income value into the household, the value used for household consumption, and the amount of cash generated. Livelihood incomes were analysed using summary statistics, frequency distributions and ordinations. These were used to gauge the value of these incomes to individual households as well as to the system as a whole, in both absolute terms and relative to each other. Ordinations were then used to explore the relationships between variables within the suite of household socio-economic characteristics and within the suite of adopted household livelihood strategies, and finally incorporating both. Lastly, the proportional
environmental income dependencies of households were explored using global fractional logit generalised linear models (GLMs). The models first included the socio-economic characteristics as explanatory variables, and then the adopted livelihood strategies.
Almost all households used the environmental, crop and off-farm income streams for primary income and consumption, with the primary income from off-farm activities being in the form of cash generation. In contrast, less than 12% of households were involved in the primary collection and consumption of livestock income. In general, fewer households were involved in the cash generation from the land-based livelihood income streams. However, these sellers represented a larger fraction of users for the livestock income stream then when compared to the other two land-based income streams. While livestock income was used less frequently than the other two land-based income streams, it was comparatively as valuable as the off-farm income stream to its users. Overall, absolute changes in the correlated land-based income streams were not related to the off-farm income streams. Relative variation in livestock primary income was related to the relative variation in primary income values from off-farm activities. Relative variation in the crops and environmental cash generation was related to corresponding cash generation values from off-farm activities. Whether the livelihood incomes were examined for primary income, consumption or cash generation, the worth of the different livelihoods were valued differently to the socio-ecological system as a whole compared to their value to households that were involved in those activities, and their value to individuals within households.
The collective variations at all POAs of the land-based strategies were associated with different sets of household socio-economic characteristics and adopted livelihood strategies, compared to the sets that were associated with the off-farm livelihood income stream. Factors that were associated with an income stream at one POA did not necessarily have the same association at the other POAs. The choice of adopted livelihood strategies reduces the need to understand and account for all factors that influences the translation of different types of capital, which includes household socio-economic characteristics, into livelihood incomes. This simplified connection is crucial to standardising and creating models that can be put into practice at all POAs within the livelihood chain in these socio-ecological systems. Furthermore, proportional environmental income dependencies can be useful for evaluating how the worth of environmental income is related quantitatively to influencing factors. However, many of the dynamics between influencing factors and the income streams that contribute to environmental income stream are not captured.
The methodological approach used in this study in analysing the livelihoods of households in the Bushbuckridge region provides a standardised framework of analysis. The quantification of the
livelihood data in common monetary units at the three different POAs of primary income, household consumption and cash generation, allows the analysis to be expanded to different platforms of understanding. The collective understanding of the variation between the different income streams can be expanded to understand the worth of these income streams to households and individuals within these households, as well as to understand the worth of these income streams to the socio-ecological system as a whole. When combining the collective understanding of the income portfolios at the different POAs with a collective understanding of the suite of household socio-economic characteristics or with a collective understanding of the suite of adopted livelihood strategies, a platform for understanding the dynamics within livelihoods is created. This has potential for creating workable predictive models of environmental income dependency in these systems, especially using the adopted livelihood strategies. The results of this dissertation also raise caution that analyses of these socio-ecological systems needs to be interpreted at all POAs simultaneously with the collective understanding of the links between incomes and socio-economic characteristics, and with the links between incomes and adopted livelihood strategies.
There is more value during strategic planning in asking how to encourage a set of adopted livelihood strategies that are associated with the desired dependencies than asking which socio-economic household factors are likely to result in said dependencies. Policy intervention in the area that is aimed at increasing households' dependence on land-based activities needs to differentiate whether it will be encouraging the subsistence sourcing and consumption of resources, or will it encourage the cash generation from these income streams. Particular attention needs to be paid as to which households will be addressed. It will be wiser to implement some interventions across all households and rather focus other interventions on a few more involved households. / LG2017
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Análise do custo de intervenções para promoção de atividade física em unidades de saúde da família de Rio Claro-SP /Campos, Leonardo de. January 2017 (has links)
Orientador: Eduardo Kokubun / Coorientador: Priscila Missaki Nakamura / Banca: Tania Rosane Bertoldo Benedetti / Banca: Jamile Sanches Codogno / Resumo: Introdução: No Brasil, o diabetes mellitus e a hipertensão arterial são responsáveis por gasto anual de R$12.3 bilhões e R$1.3 bilhões e praticar atividade física (AF) reduz esses gastos. Programas de promoção de AF no lazer na Atenção Básica de Saúde têm sido incentivados, mas poucos estudos no Brasil apresentam seus custos. Objetivo: Investigar o custo da intervenção de breve aconselhamento e de exercício físico supervisionado em Unidades de Saúde da Família (USF), e a influência no nível de AF no lazer e no transporte em pessoas diabéticas e hipertensas, durante um ano. Métodos: Participaram do estudo 67 adultos diabéticos e/ou hipertensos de ambos os sexos, de 4 USF do município de Rio Claro-SP. Os participantes foram divididos em quatro grupos de intervenção por meio de sorteio. Grupo aconselhamento (GA): aconselhamento para a prática de AF; Grupo exercício físico (GEF): prática de exercícios físicos nas USF, 2 vezes por semana com duração de 60 minutos; Grupo Perda (GP): participantes que foram convidados a participarem do GEF, mas não aderiram e Grupo Controle (GC): os participantes foram orientados a manter as atividades rotineiras. Os participantes foram avaliados a cada três meses (5 momentos) quanto ao nível de AF (IPAQ), percepção de saúde, variáveis antropométricas e os custos com saúde. As variáveis foram expressas em média, desvio padrão e porcentagem. Para verificar diferença entre grupos no nível de AF inicial, custo médio com medicamentos mensal e anual foi realizada uma Anova one-way, e para diferença entre os grupos nos momentos foi realizada uma Anova fatorial com intenção de tratar no programa SPSS versão 21.0. Resultados: Houve aumento na média do nível de AF no lazer para o grupo GA (20min ± 153,37) e GEF (106min ± 108,14), e diminuição para o grupo controle (15min ± 72,22) entre ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Background: Diabetes mellitus and arterial hypertension are related to more than R$ 12.3 billion and R$ 1.3 billion annual expenses in Brazil and being physically active reduces the occurrence of this expense. Programs that increase the level of physical activity (PA) in leisure time be incentived in primary care, but few studies in Brazil to show their cost. Objective: to investigate the cost of intervention with Brief advice and Physical Exercise and them influence in PA in leisure time and transport, in hypertensive and diabetic individuals of family health units (USF). Methods: the study included 67 diabetic and / or hypertensive adults of both genders from 4 USF in Rio Claro-SP, Brazil. Participants were divided into four intervention groups in a randomization fashion. Group BA: counseling for PA; Group PEFUS: exercise intervention in USF, twice a week for 60 minutes; Group lost: invited to participate in PEFUS but didn't engage; and Group control: were instructed to maintain their regular activities. Participants were evaluated every three months (5 moments) about their PA level, health perception, anthropometric variables and health cost. The variables were expressed as mean, standard deviation and percentage. One-way ANOVAs were used to compare initial PA level and average cost of annual and monthly medication between groups. Changes over time and between groups were analyzed by means of two-way factorial ANOVAs with intention to treat. Results: The GA and GEF groups increased their leisure time PA in 20 (±153,37) and 106 minutes (±108,14), respectively whereas the control group decreased by 15 minutes (±72,22) between the final and initial moment. These was not effect of interventions on annual cost with drugs in the Brazilian health system. The annual cost of GA (R$ 61,05) is cheaper than GEF (R$ 95,52) per person. However, the GEF has ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre
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Resistance is Never Futile: Un-sporting Surfing as Radical Female BehaviorUnknown Date (has links)
Using the narrative imagery of Instagram and the cultural narrative of the
Olympics, I explore the role of agency and autonomy in modern sport with a focus on the
commercial and institutional arms of surfing. This project is an attempt to evaluate visual
and cultural narrative from the perspective of a literary scholar and to root theory and
philosophy in issues that go beyond scholarship and academics. In chapter one, I use
sports sociologists Jennifer Hargreaves and Krista Comer as well as Jean Kilbourne and
Rosalind Gill to illuminate and explore two surf-centric Instagram accounts, both of
which imagine a story of surfing through a mostly visual medium. In chapter two, I turn
to Elizabeth Grosz and Michel Foucault to help explore the institutionalized arm of
surfing through its recent inclusion in the Olympic Games. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
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