Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2008. / "A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Directed by Mary Jackson. ETD. Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-88) and appendices.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Edith Cowan University, 2007. / Submitted to the Faculty of Computing, Health and Science. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-172). Available also from the ProQuest website.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-04-27T10:41:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 vanessagualbertodeaguiar.pdf: 545736 bytes, checksum: 9bebd39889ff1b730d867f2dad77a09d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-05-02T00:57:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 vanessagualbertodeaguiar.pdf: 545736 bytes, checksum: 9bebd39889ff1b730d867f2dad77a09d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-02T00:57:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 vanessagualbertodeaguiar.pdf: 545736 bytes, checksum: 9bebd39889ff1b730d867f2dad77a09d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-23 / A música é uma importante ferramenta na construção da identidade juvenil, pois as identidades não são dadas a priori. Elas são socialmente construídas. Este trabalho aborda o papel da música como expressão de identidades em dois períodos distintos: os anos 1960, quando a música brasileira sofreu grandes transformações e surgiram os ritmos que deram voz à juventude engajada, e no período contemporâneo, quando surgem os ritmos ditos “universitários” e os jovens estudantes parecem ter menos problemas para se identificarem com várias expressões distintas ao mesmo tempo. Nesse sentido, o gosto musical do universitário perde a rigidez dos anos 1960 e se trona fluído, heterogêneo. Este trabalho busca, portanto, entender, nesses diferentes períodos, a relação do jovem universitário com a música, assim como compreender a transformação do gosto musical desses jovens, antes associado a um gosto de elite e, nos dias de hoje, visto como um gosto popular. Para entender essa transformação do gosto musical do universitário, fez-se necessário traçar um perfil desses jovens por meio da aplicação de questionários em universidades privadas e pública na cidade de Juiz de Fora/MG, que permitiu elucidar essas modificações. / Music is an important tool for young people identity construction because identities are not given a priori. They are socially constructed. This work discusses the role of music as identities expression in two distinct time periods: the 1960’s, when Brazilian music suffered big transformations and some rhythms emerged as the voice of an engaged youth, and the contemporary period, when rhythms called “university music” came up and the university students seem to have no problem on identifying themselves with different musical expressions at the same time. In this sense, the university students’ musical taste loses its hardness and becomes fluid, heterogeneous. Thus, this work seeks to understand the relationship between university students and music in these different moments, as well as to comprehend the youth’s musical taste transformation, previously associated to a taste of the elite and, in the current days, a taste seemed as a popular one. To comprehend this transformation it was necessary to design the youth’s profile by means of applying a questionnaire at private and public universities in Juiz de Fora/MG, that allowed us to clarify these modifications.

It is generally accepted that the youth are overall apathetic towards political activities and that such apathy is evidenced in low voter turnout during elections. Such conventional wisdom seems to be based mainly on findings in Western democracies and generates concern as to the future nature and resilience of democracy. When a significantly large proportion of the voting population shows apathetic attitudes towards the processes that enable participation of the public in democracy, it questions the extent to which a democracy can be consolidated. In the past the South African youth played an important role in the process of transformation to democracy and thereby possibly left a legacy of youth involvement. However, in the developing world, which includes South Africa, the youth seems to show the same sort of abstaining behaviour as their Western counterparts towards elections. This is problematic as the South African youth comprises a significantly large proportion of the voting population. This dissertation focuses on South African university youth and their political and voting behaviour. They have been chosen for the focus of this study as they are widely considered to be the future elite and leadership of South Africa. The aim of this study is to determine the extent to which Western scholarly explanations of youth voting behaviour can be applied to South African university youth. Western literature on voting behaviour identifies various models of voting behaviour (which comprise the Sociological Model, Michigan Model, Party Identification Model, Media/Dominant Ideology Model and Rational Choice Model) and age effects on voting behaviour (Cohort Effect, Individual Ageing Effect and Life Cycle Effect). Each of these seeks to explain voting behaviour and in order to determine how applicable they are to South African university youth, an analytical framework was developed in order to analyse and interpret the data gathered by means of questionnaires and focus group discussions. Ultimately it was found that most Western models and age effects are to some extent applicable in explaining the voting behaviour of South African university youth (albeit to a greater or lesser extent). / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Political Sciences / unrestricted