Adottando l’approccio della sociologia del corso di vita allo studio delle traiettorie occupazionali, la ricerca analizza comparativamente i percorsi di fine carriera di individui 50-67enni in Europa. Lo studio si focalizza su un’analisi esplorativa dei percorsi di fine carriera e sull’analisi delle influenze esercitate dai contesti istituzionali, da comportamenti e attitudini gestionali di imprenditori e manager, dalle caratteristiche individuali sui late-career pattern. Dunque, la ricerca nel complesso include tre livelli: a) macro-sociale, sistemi di welfare e di produzione; b) micro-sociale, caratteristiche individuali; c) meso-sociale, pratiche gestionali d’impresa. La mia ipotesi è che le pratiche di age management si sviluppino secondo logiche coerenti con le strategie macro di gestione dell’occupazione degli anziani e che siano tipiche a livello di regimi di welfare/di produzione. Per rispondere alle domande di ricerca sono state applicate tecniche di analisi statistica monovariata e multivariata ai dati: 1) SHARE: Survey sulla salute, l’invecchiamento e il pensionamento in Europa, che analizza le biografie occupazionali di individui over50 in 19 paesi europei; 2) ASPA: Survey Activating Senior Potential in Europe che analizza attitudini comportamenti dei datori di lavoro nei confronti del lavoratori anziani. I paesi inclusi nello studio sono: Germania, Polonia, Svezia, Danimarca, Italia e Olanda. / By adopting the institution and agency-centered approach of the sociological life-course theories, the research analyses late career patterns of 50-67 years old individuals across Europe. I am in particular interested in understanding the prevalent late-career patterns in different countries and the influences exerted on them by institutional contexts, employers’/managers’ attitudes and behaviors and individual characteristics. So, overall, I consider three levels: the macro-social level (institutional context: welfare and productive regime), the micro-social level (individual characteristics) and the meso-social level (companies practices). My hypothesis is that age management practices are in line with macro institutional employment strategies for the older workforce and that they are typical at the level of welfare/production regimes. The empirical analysis consists of mono e multivariate statistical analysis using these data sources: 1) the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, on 50 years old individuals’ life courses in 19 countries all over Europe; 2) the Activating Senior Potential in Europe survey, on employers’ attitudes and behavior towards older workers in different EU countries. The countries included in my comparative study are: Germany, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Caroline Goncalves.pdf: 8456004 bytes, checksum: 1226d667e42dd2e7822a64bac9de46ca (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-04 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The study examines the written material made public by Ernestina Lesina, an Italian socialist immigrant whose political action consisted chiefly in the defence of the working women s cause through an indefatigable participation in the debate of ideas supported by Anima e Vita, the weekly newspaper she published. The examination brings to life the tensions all too real in which the town of São Paulo was awash with early in the 20th century a time of fast urbanization and structuring of the industrial system and closely follows the spreading of political ideas and the outset of clashes between unions and employers. After depicting a general view of feminine, feminist and working class woman press, the study concentrated on the analysis of Anima e Vita and attested to the consistency of subjects covered and themes chosen, such as women s awareness of their role in society, anticlericalism, free love, marriage, education, work, and maternity/family. Ernestina Lesina s articles draw a clear profile of the socialist ideology to the indoctrination of which she devoted her efforts, emphasizing women s self-esteem and awareness, along with the vital importance of the fight to conquer their rights / A dissertação analisa os escritos propagados por Ernestina Lesina, imigrante socialista italiana, cuja atuação política consistiu precipuamente em defender a causa das mulheres operárias mediante a participação no debate de ideias, estimulado pelo Anima e Vita, jornal que dirigia. A investigação restaura o universo de tensões vivido na cidade de São Paulo no início do século XX, momento de urbanização intensa e estruturação do sistema fabril, acompanhado pela disseminação das ideias políticas e a gênese das lutas operárias. Recompondo o cenário da imprensa feminina, feminista e operária, privilegiou-se a análise do semanário Anima e Vita, observando a circularidade de seus discursos e a valorização de temas como compreensão das mulheres de seu papel histórico, anticlericalismo, amor livre, casamento, educação, trabalho e maternidade/família. Os artigos de Ernestina Lesina delineiam um perfil do ideário socialista a cuja propagação ela se dedicou, enfatizando a conscientização das mulheres e a importância fundamental de lutarem pelos seus direitos

This Bachelor of Arts paper in Media and Communication Studies from Stockholm University examines the image of Russia in Sweden in 1986 and 1993. I studied the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 in Pripyat, Ukraine in the former Soviet Union and the crisis in the White house in Moscow in today’s Russia in 1993. The aim of this paper is to examine how the view on former Soviet Union and today’s Russia was portrayed in Sweden after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. I have analysed 20 articles from Dagens Nyheter (DN) and Svenska Dagbladet (SvD). I have used “framing” as a method for analysing the articles in relation to Swedish foreign politics and foreign journalism. My research questions are following: what kind of problems, identifying causes, moral judgements and improvements to solutions were found in the investigated articles? What differences, if any, were discovered between DN and SvD’s journalism?   The results of my study showed that DN focused on general news reporting regarding the Chernobyl disaster and Sweden’s critique to the Soviet Union and the poor maintenance of the nuclear power station in a larger extent than SvD. Sweden was the first country to reveal abroad that they had discovered nuclear radiation on Swedish soil. DN framed, among others, how the Soviet Union was incapable of solving the Chernobyl crises on their own. SvD focused on how Sweden was affected by the Chernobyl disaster and the nuclear radiation. SvD framed how the Soviet Union kept quiet during the aftermath and how the Soviets tried to “conceal” information. Both DN and SvD framed the Soviet Union as “unpredictable”. After the crisis in the White house in Moscow DN and SvD were milder in their criticism towards Russia since there was a political and journalistic hope in Sweden that Russia would become a democratic country. Swedish foreign correspondents could therefore in 1993 create their own image of Russia since the Swedish foreign policy was not as clear after the events in Moscow in 1993 as they were after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Both newspapers focused on how Boris Yeltsin struggled to solve the crisis and Russia was now torn between the nostalgic Soviet communism and a new democratic Russia. DN and SvD received continually information about the events taking place in Moscow and reported how Russia was torn between a new tsar Russia/a new Soviet Union and a democratic Russia.

Parlare di morte è un tabù della nostra società. L'incremento quantitativo di pazienti terminali impone peraltro uno sforzo per il miglioramento della loro qualità di vita. Lo psicologo deve comprendere la domanda sociale su questi temi, per costruire un adeguato intervento clinico-formativo rivolto agli operatori sanitari. Obiettivi della ricerca sono di individuare: la rappresentazione di disponibilità di Cure Palliative (CP); gli atteggiamenti degli operatori sanitari e del pubblico circa le diverse opzioni di fine vita (End-Of-Life, EOL), verificando l'ipotesi che i sanitari e in particolare i palliativisti siano meno favorevoli all'eutanasia e più alle CP; i predittori delle opinioni; l'influenza delle difficoltà concettuali sulla stabilità delle opinioni; il rapporto tra le opinioni e la rappresentazione delle CP; le diverse percezioni dei bisogni del paziente terminale; il burnout dei palliativisti rispetto agli altri sanitari. 524 soggetti (265 sanitari, di cui 118 palliativisti; 259 non-sanitari) hanno compilato un questionario self-report, sviluppato ad-hoc. Ai 265 sanitari è stato inoltre somministrato il Maslach Burnout Inventory. I non-sanitari risultano più favorevoli all'eutanasia e meno alle CP rispetto ai sanitari. Analisi lineari indicano, fra i predittori dell'accordo all'eutanasia, religiosità e lavoro sanitario; le opinioni risultano peraltro instabili. Il campione presenta livelli di burnout significativamente inferiori alla media italiana; i palliativisti segnalano un burnout minore dei colleghi nella dimensione EE; il sostegno alla relazione costituisce elemento protettivo. L'incidenza di fattori non misurabili indica l'opportunità di approfondimenti qualitativo-idiografici. Lo studio suggerisce la necessità di una maggiore conoscenza delle tematiche EOL. Lo psicologo deve sostenere presso i caregiver un luogo simbolico per l'elaborazione dell'evento-morte. / In our society death is a taboo topic. The increase of dying patients calls for an improvement in their quality of life. Psychologists need to understand the social demand on these issues, in order to promote appropriate clinical and training interventions for health workers. In this research we looked at the representation of availability of Palliative Care (PC) as well as attitudes of health workers and the general public towards different End-Of-Life (EOL) options. We tested the hypothesis that health workers and especially palliative care workers disagree with euthanasia and agree with PC more than the public. We also investigated attitudes predictors; the influence of conceptual difficulties on attitudes stability; the relationship between attitudes on euthanasia and PC representation; different perceptions of dying patients' needs; palliative care and other health workers' burnout. 524 subjects (265 health workers: 118 involved in palliative cares and 147 in other health sectors; 259 from the general public) filled in a self-report questionnaire, created ad-hoc. The 265 health workers also filled in the Maslach Burnout Inventory. The public, compared to health workers, agreed more with euthanasia and less with PC. Linear analysis indicates that religious beliefs and health work are the only significant predictors of this agreement, even if attitudes are quite unstable. The burnout levels in our sample are significantly lower than Italian mean levels. Palliative care workers show lower levels in EE subscale than their colleagues; supporting relationships are a protective factor. The incidence of non-measurable factors suggests the opportunity of further qualitative studies. This research highlights the need for deeper knowledge of EOL issues. Psychologists should give to all professional carers the opportunity for reflective practice and symbolic work on the event of dying.

Questo studio si occupa di investigare il percorso abitativo degli immigrati, dedicando un’attenzione particolare alla varietà degli elementi che contribuiscono al suo evolversi e alla loro connessione con fenomeni macro, come il mercato abitativo o le politiche abitative. Il fieldwork, un quartiere nel Sud della città di Milano, è stato scelto per due ragioni: da una parte, esso è infatti caratterizzato da una considerevole presenza di popolazione immigrata, dall’altra, tale quartiere, è stato soggetto, nel corso degli ultimi anni a una serie di interventi di recupero urbano e sociale promossi da attori privati e pubblici. Tramite l’utilizzo di diversi strumenti metodologici, le storie di vita, le interviste a testimoni chiave, l’osservazione etnografica e la creazione di mappe, la ricerca mira a cogliere la complessità che caratterizza la dimensione abitativa nell’esperienza migratoria. Esperienze individuali, fenomeni spaziali e politiche sono tutti elementi oggetto di osservazione. L’utilizzo delle mappe, inoltre, costituisce un’innovazione e un esperimento in ambito metodologico. Il complesso della ricerca è volto a suggerire un nuovo approccio all’analisi dei percorsi abitativi, sia da un punto di vista teorico che metodologico. L’analisi finale è dedicata a una riflessione sull’efficacia e i limiti delle politiche per la casa e per l’immigrazione. / This work aims to investigate the housing pathway of migrants, paying attention to the variety of different features from which they are shaped over time and their interaction with structural dimensions, as housing market and policies. Through the use of different methodological instruments, this research tries to gather the complexity concerning the dimension of home in migrants’ experience. The fieldwork, a neighborhood in Southern Milan, has been chosen for two main reasons: in the one hand it is characterized by a considerable presence of migrants at different stages of their migration experience, on the other hand it has been interested by urban renovation programs and social interventions promoted by private and public actors. Individual experiences are thus investigated, alongside with spatial phenomena, policies and interventions. Achieving these different fields of interest implied the utilization of life story interviews, ethnographic observation, key informants interviews and participatory maps. This last technique constitutes a methodological innovation. The purpose is to suggest a new approach in analyzing housing pathway, both from a theoretical and methodological perspective. In addition the research aims to reflect on the efficacy and limits of housing and immigration policies drawing on evidence based data.

Scopo del contributo è descrivere la costruzione e rappresentazione dell’identità nel corso della transizione adolescenziale. Ipotizzata circolarità e reciproca determinazione tra individui e società, lo studio tratta il tema dell’identità come frutto di riflessività e di chances di vita offerte dal contesto. Il fuoco dell’attenzione è sugli adolescenti di origine straniera, scelti come oggetto di studio perché chiamati a vivere la transizione identitaria in maniera amplificata dall’esperienza migratoria ed esemplificativa di traiettorie di costruzione del Sé percorse anche dai pari italiani. L’analisi sottolinea dunque l’analogia generazionale tra adolescenti italiani e stranieri e la pluralità di definizioni identitarie, anche prescindendo dall’eventuale esperienza migratoria. Lo studio ha seguito l’approccio della sociologia visuale, sia nei riferimenti teorici ed analitici, sia sul piano della ricerca empirica. Sono stati intervistati 12 adolescenti, italiani e stranieri, che hanno narrato di sé presentando immagini e video. A partire da ciò sono state individuate 3 tipologie di costruzione identitaria, quella dei relazionali, quella dei progettisti e quella dei sognatori, e si è confermata la reciproca connessione tra individui e società e la pluralità di traiettorie nella transizione alla vita adulta. / The study’s aim is to describe the construction and representation of identity during the adolescent transition. Hypothesizing circularity and reciprocal determination between individuals and society, the study deals with the topic of identity as the result of reflexivity and lifetime chances which are offered by the context. Attention is focused on adolescents with foreign origins, chosen as the subject of study because they are called to experience identity transition in a way which is broadened due to their migratory experiences, and exemplified by paths involving Self-construction which their Italian peers also follow. The analysis thus underscores the generational analogy between Italian and foreign adolescents and the plurality of definitions of identity, also irrespective of any migratory experience. The study followed the visual sociology approach, both in theoretical and analytical terms as well as at the level of empirical research. The 12 Italian and foreign adolescents who were interviewed spoke about themselves through images and videos. 3 types of identity construction were identified thanks to these presentations: relational, planners and dreamers, and a reciprocal connection between individuals and society, and the plurality of paths in the transition to adult life were confirmed.

Questo studio ha raccolto la sfida lanciata dalla ricerca pediatrica internazionale sulla qualità della vita (QoL), relativamente all’analisi degli indicatori e all’uso delle misure applicabili a bambini ed adolescenti, come ai loro genitori, allo scopo di comparare le percezioni soggettive di QoL. Successivamente, sulla base di queste analisi, è stato sviluppato uno studio pilota sulla QoL dei bambini con distonia. I dati sono stati raccolti attraverso i questionari KIDSCREEN-52 che misurano fino a dieci dimensioni Health Related QoL. Tutte le interviste, riferite alla somministrazione dei questionari, sono state audioregistrate allo scopo di un’analisi dei contenuti. sviluppate attraverso il software T-LAB. Sei bambini ed adolescenti con distonia, ed i loro genitori, sono stati intervistati nello studio pilota. I risultati del Kidscreen evidenziano che i bambini ottengono alti punteggi (quindi una migliore QoL) in dimensioni quali il benessere psicologico, le emozioni, il rapporto con i pari e la scuola. I punteggi generali di QoL risultano spesso minori rispetto al campione normativo europeo. La content analysis evidenzia come la dimensione della scuola influenzi tutti i domini di QoL. Lo studio si conclude con una proposta progettuale, verso una ricerca sulla QoL che veda la collaborazione del comparto sanitario con la scuola. / The study approach has tackled the challenges of international paediatric Quality of Life (QoL) research by analysing QoL indicators and by using measures that are applicable for children and adolescents, as well as their parents to compare their perception about the subject’s QoL. Subsequently a pilot study on QoL of children with dystonia was developed. The data were collected by KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaires. The KIDSCREEN-52 instrument measures ten Rasch scaled Health Related QoL dimensions. All interviews were recorder in order to a content analysis. Content analysis and text analysis were carried out using T-LAB software. Six children and adolescents (aged 8-17) with dystonia and 6 parents’ interview were collected in this pilot study. We want to underline that all the children reported higher QoL’s level than the QoL attributed by parents. The results of Kidscreen showed that the children obtained higher scores (so a better QoL too) than those that were reported by their parents in the following areas: psychological well-being, mood and emotions, relationships with peers, school. The QoL’s average values in our sample, however, are often lower than the Kidscreen’s European average standards. The content analysis shows that school inclusion influences all the QoL dimensions.

Zugl.: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2004

The seventh century was a formative period in the history of western monasticism. It was during this period that a monastic culture became more entrenched on the Continent with the foundation of new monasteries that were more closely tied to royal and aristocratic power. The catalyst behind this development was the Irish abbot and monastic founder, Columbanus (c. 550-615), and his Frankish disciples, the Columbanians. Columbanus’s ascetical exile to the Continent in 590 and his founding of monasteries in the Vosges forests of Burgundy and at Bobbio in Lombard Italy had a deep impact on Frankish and Lombard societies. Luxeuil in Burgundy became the nexus of the Hiberno-Frankish monastic movement in Merovingian Gaul in the years following Columbanus’s death, while Bobbio became an important centre of Catholic orthodoxy and influence in Lombard Italy. This thesis considers our principal source for Columbanus and the Columbanian familia, Jonas of Bobbio’s Vita Columbani abbatis et discipulorumque eius, written between 639 and 642. This is arguably the most important hagiographical work produced in the seventh century and one of the most significant of the early Middle Ages. I propose that the work was principally a Bobbio production meant to re-vindicate Columbanus’s saintly reputation amongst the Frankish communities and to criticize the dissent and disunity that had led to a change in Columbanian practices a decade after the saint’s death. I also consider whether it was addressed to a wider royal and aristocratic audience in Merovingian Gaul and propose new insights into the structure of the work. In addition to a close textual study of the Vita Columbani and Jonas’s other, lesser-known saints’ Lives, the Vita Vedastis and the Vita Iohannis, I explore the career of Jonas himself, seeing him as an individual whose life reflected many of the changing political, cultural, and religious circumstances of his age.

La présente thèse a comme sujet les icônes hagiographiques exécutées du début du XVe à la fin du XVIIe siècle dans l'île de Crète qui était sous domination vénitienne depuis 1210. La prise de Constantinople par les Ottomans en 1453 a privé l'empire byzantin de son centre et la Crète, où plusieurs peintres constantinopolitains se sont réfugiés, a développé, sous leur influence, l'art du chevalet dans des ateliers organisés sur le modèle des ateliers occidentaux. La présente étude inclut 74 icônes de 26 saints. Dans l'introduction, la présentation du sujet est suivie de l'intégration des œuvres dans leur contexte historique et artistique, de la présentation de l'état de la recherche et de J'approche méthodologique. Le texte s'articule en quatre chapitres. Le premier inclut une présentation de la fréquence de l'illustration des saints sur les icônes, de la répartition des œuvres par siècle, de la localisation des peintres connus et des commanditaires d'après des inscriptions dédicatoires. Le deuxième aborde l'évolution de la typologie quant à la disposition du cycle hagiographique du saint par rapport à la représentation centrale, au nombre des compartiments et le rapport avec celui des épisodes illustrés, les modes de délimitation des compartiments et la mise en place des épisodes illustrés. Le troisième chapitre étudie en détail l'évolution de l'iconographie des scènes, de la constitution des cycles et de la diffusion des formules iconographiques, avec comme point de départ les cycles des saints Georges et Nicolas. L'étude de l'évolution iconographique des cycles des toutes les icônes, suivant l'ordre chronologique des œuvres, est abordée dans le quatrième chapitre. / The present thesis is about vita icons executed from the beginning of the 15th to the end of the 17th c. on the island of Crete which was under Venetian rule since 1210. The capture of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453 deprived the Byzantine empire of its center and Crete, where several Constantinopolitan painters have taken refuge, has developed, under their influence, the art of the icons painting in workshops organized on the mode] of Western workshops. This study includes 74 icons of 26 saints. ln the Introduction, the presentation of the subject is followed by the integration of the works in their historical and artistic context, the presentation of the state of the research and the methodological approach. The text is divided into 4 chapters. The 1st includes a presentation of the frequency of illustration of saints on icons, the distribution of works by century, the location of known painters and sponsors based on dedicatory inscriptions. The 2nd deals with the evolution of the typology as to the disposition of the hagiographic cycle of the saint in relation to the central representation, the number of compartments and the relationship with that of the illustrated episodes, the modes of delimitation of the compartments and the establishment of the illustrated episodes. The 3d chapter studies in detail the evolution of the iconography of the scenes, the constitution of the cycles and the diffusion of the iconographic formulas, with as starting point the cycles of saints Georges and Nicolas. The study of the evolution of the iconography of the cycles of ail the icons, according to the chronological order of the works, is addressed in the 4th chapter.