<p>The purpose of this study is to give an insight in how home care givers with different ethnic background, other than European, experience their work as home care givers. It is a qualitative study based on interviews and observations of four different home care givers. Among the questions studied include; if ethnicity is a resource or not, how does it affect home care givers in doing their work? What importance does it have on the organisation as a home care entrepreneur? Has the home care entrepreneur a perspective of diversity? The results of the study have been analyzed with the help of symbolic interaction. The results have led us to conclude that the home care givers have a professional identity, which does not include an ethnic identity. Further more results indicate that ethnicity has a limited impact on the home care givers of non European origin that have not experienced discrimination. For the home care givers who earlier on in their carrier(s) have had experiences of discrimination, exist uncertainties, especially during their first visit in the homes. How the home care entrepreneur give guidelines to solving problems and conflicts between client and home care givers are of great significance.</p>

The purpose of this study is to give an insight in how home care givers with different ethnic background, other than European, experience their work as home care givers. It is a qualitative study based on interviews and observations of four different home care givers. Among the questions studied include; if ethnicity is a resource or not, how does it affect home care givers in doing their work? What importance does it have on the organisation as a home care entrepreneur? Has the home care entrepreneur a perspective of diversity? The results of the study have been analyzed with the help of symbolic interaction. The results have led us to conclude that the home care givers have a professional identity, which does not include an ethnic identity. Further more results indicate that ethnicity has a limited impact on the home care givers of non European origin that have not experienced discrimination. For the home care givers who earlier on in their carrier(s) have had experiences of discrimination, exist uncertainties, especially during their first visit in the homes. How the home care entrepreneur give guidelines to solving problems and conflicts between client and home care givers are of great significance.

There are numerous studies that address the issue of discipline practices in schools. Within the last decade there have been an increasing number of scholars and school district personnel who have written about discipline, and more specifically, the discipline of specific populations of students such as African Americans. Although many of these studies address the disparate disciplinary practices that occur in many school districts, little attention is devoted to how students understand these practices in the larger context of their general school experiences. This research intends to fill the void in the literature that utilizes the experiences of students to understand inequitable discipline practices. The primary purpose of this study is to examine a selected group of "at-risk" African American male students' experiences and beliefs about disciplinary practices used in school.

Submitted by Edileide Reis (leyde-landy@hotmail.com) on 2013-04-08T19:07:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 joão.pdf: 2820659 bytes, checksum: 59dcbaff55c6229ac448b5513f35fac4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Lêda Costa(lmrcosta@ufba.br) on 2013-04-18T12:32:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 joão.pdf: 2820659 bytes, checksum: 59dcbaff55c6229ac448b5513f35fac4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-04-18T12:32:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 joão.pdf: 2820659 bytes, checksum: 59dcbaff55c6229ac448b5513f35fac4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-12-16 / Esta dissertação é uma reflexão sobre a história de vida dos indivíduos que aproveitam o lixo como forma de subsistência: os catadores de materiais recicláveis. Foca em particular os catadores de lixo do município do Salvador, Bahia. Aborda a sociabilidade do trabalho e a prática da economia solidária. Discuti o problema da sustentabilidade na atividade econômica, a fragilidade das experiências empreendedoras bem como a observação da produção dos resíduos. Aborda conceitos da sociologia da arte e arte e sociedade no contexto contemporâneo, na dimensão crítica e reflexiva de Joseph Beuys. Cria poéticas visuais que causam impactos e suscitam o diálogo entre dois mundos: o mundo do consumo e o mundo do desperdício. A observação participativa é neste trabalho a base que dá origem a essa pesquisa. Com esta vivência tive a intenção de criar, através da arte, esse questionamento que da origem à reflexão sobre a temática, e, a partir da cooperação com os catadores, “Mostra a Nossa Voz” sobre um problema social. Compreende a importância do artista visual no mundo como agente social que desperte no público o interesse, a reflexão critica sobre os problemas sociais de ordem humanista. / Salvador