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A presente pesquisa aborda a educação brasileira frente ao processo de modernização da sociedade. Seu objeto de estudo consiste, especificamente, na dimensão ocupada pela educação escolar quanto à formação da classe operária nacional durante o governo Vargas (1930-1945). Tratando-se de um período que condiz com mudanças observadas nas esferas política, econômica e social do país, faz-se necessária uma abordagem do contexto histórico que enfatize as propostas e ações desempenhadas na esfera educacional. Considera-se, dessa forma, que a educação escolar deve ser analisada conjuntamente com aqueles fatores que implicam em sua organização e dinâmica. Sua realização está baseada em literatura acerca da relação entre Estado, sociedade e educação, após a proclamação da República e, mais especificamente, nas décadas de 1930 e 1940. Recorreu-se também à análise de documentos oficiais da época concernentes à educação e à criação e regulamentação de instituições, como os textos relativos às reformas educacionais promulgadas em 1931 e em 1942 e às Constituições (1934 e 1937), ao Manifesto dos Pioneiros da Educação Nova (1932), à Escola Livre de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo (1933) e à Fundação Getúlio Vargas (1944). Destaca-se, o papel exercido pelo Estado como agente capaz de promover o projeto de modernização por, além da sua intervenção em diferentes esferas da sociedade, promover outra formação escolar à sociedade para consolidar a ordem social emergente. A adequação do ensino às novas necessidades é apontada pelo esforço para organizá-lo nacionalmente a partir da criação do Ministério da Educação e Saúde Pública e das reformas por ele executadas em seus diferentes níveis. Se, por um lado, exigia-se a formação de uma classe trabalhadora apta à produção sob a lógica racional do trabalho, por outro, havia a preocupação com a formação de uma classe dirigente capacitada para conduzir e coordenar as ações econômicas, além de ocupar altos cargos hierárquicos na burocracia privada e estatal. / This research deals with the Brazilian education on the process of modernization of society. Its subject matter is specifically in the occupied dimension for school education for the formation of national working class during the Vargas government (1930-1945). Since this is a period that is consistent with the observed changes in the political, economic and social of the country, an approach that emphasizes the historical context the proposals and actions taken in the educational sphere is required. It is considered therefore that school education should be analyzed together with factors that imply their organization and dynamics. Its realization is based on literature about the relationship between state, society and education, after the proclamation of the Republic and , more specifically , in the 1930s and 1940s it was also resorted to analysis of official documents of the time pertaining to education and the creation and regulatory institutions such as the texts relating to educational reforms enacted in 1931 and 1942 and the Constitutions (1934 and 1937) , the Manifesto of the Pioneers of the New Education ( 1932) , the Free School of Sociology and Politics of São Paulo (1933 ) and the Getúlio Vargas Foundation ( 1944) . To highlight the role played by the State as agent capable of promoting the modernization project, as well as their involvement in different spheres of society, promote other school education to society for the emerging social order. Better education adapting to new needs is appointed by the effort to organize it at national level since the creation of the Ministry of Education and Public Health and reforms implemented at different levels. On the one hand, demanded the formation of a working class capable of producing under the rational logic of the work, on the other, there was the concern with the formation of a ruling class able to lead and coordinate the economic actions, and have high hierarchical bureaucracy positions private and state.

This thesis explores the interactions between women and men who work in highly-skilled blue-collar trades. The aim of this research is to describe women's perceptions and responses to their on-the-job communicative interactions with male co-workers, supervisors and union officials. small focus groups were conducted to produce rich narrative data that was audio recorded for later use by the researcher. The researcher met with the four subjects for three sessions. The interviews lasted three hours each. The researcher also conducted follow-up interviews by phone to clarify subjects' responses. The subjects were provided with an interview schedule of questions prior to the interview. This thesis seeks to identify women's perceptions of male and female differences in communication, perceived problematic communicative interactions and women's responses to perceived differences. This thesis also explores the possible correlation between women's sense of self-esteem and interactions with males on the job. Finally, subjects were interviewed to determine what strategies, if any, are used by women to work more effectively in a predominately male work environment. It was found that this sample of women reported several perceived differences between male and female communication styles and that some differences are problematic. The subjects reported that difficult interactions may result in feelings of anger, frustration, anxiety, hostility or sadness. Finally, the subjects offered several strategies for coping in nontraditional jobs.

The literatures of Immigration from North Africa to France represent one of the constitutive fields of investigation for Postcolonial Francophone studies. As such, approaches to this are often locked in a postcolonial perspective. Through my courses in 20th century literature, I discovered several aspects of literature of immigration that relate to French popular literature. In light of this, my dissertation establishes a link between these two literary genres by analyzing the evolution of urban spaces in the Parisian periphery. The primary objective of this dissertation is to translate aspects of the contemporary issues of the French banlieues from a purely postcolonial perspective to questions of institutional choices in French city planning over the course of the past hundred and fifty years. The underlying assumption is that the spatial transformation that has taken place has affected the social interactions of the inhabitants and contributed to the evolution of a working class mentality. The expectation is that in-depth understanding of this interaction will allow me to explore the socio-cultural situation in France’s suburbs today. Beginning with the renovation of Paris, undertaken by Haussmann in the second half of the nineteenth century, each of the five chapters of my dissertation corresponds to a particular moment of this evolution. For every chapter, I analyze the characters’ relationships with their spatial surroundings, as well as the nature of their social interactions with other residents. The first novels are the only ones of my corpus set in the interior part of Paris. As more and more of the urban working class is driven outside of the city limits by the renovations and the rapidly developing industry in the periphery, the texts illustrate the increasing social isolation and loss of agency for the characters. In aligning popular literature and literature of immigration on the same axis, my focus lies primarily on the geographical space, the banlieue, and its transformation in time.

This study investigated a little known topic: the experiences of working-class, white male, professors, who have attained tenure. Academics who have immigrated from working class backgrounds have reported experiences of navigating culturally confusing interactions within their professional settings, even years after their class migrations. Working-class, white, male, tenured academics were selected for the present study in order to ascertain findings intended to contribute to understandings of their pre-tenure experiences, and strategies that they believed were most significant for tenure attainment. Ethnographic research methods were employed in this study. Research questions guiding the study were: "What do first-generation, white male college professors identify as the key factors which helped them achieve tenure?" and, "To what extent did their class background help or hinder the process?" The data analysis chapter divides participants' experiences into three themes; Theme 1 addresses some of the formal and informal social contexts of the tenure process. Themes 2 and 3 focus on the participants' psychological and social challenges and successes that were also part of the process. This study analyzed data regarding social contexts that participants believed were relevant to their tenure attainment. Participants experienced academic culture in ways connected to important issues of diversity and exclusion found in the literature on the experiences of other, more traditionally recognized marginalized groups in American higher education. Seemingly routine work related events often transpired according to unwritten social rules informed by academic culture. Most participants reported significant cultural outsider experiences, and although they experienced cultural based success challenges, they gradually developed strategies that incorporated working-class background experiences into their pre-tenure period experiences in ways that they believed constituted unique professional strengths. Findings were generalized in four statements: most participants experienced social class-related struggles toward gaining tenure attainment; most participants had entered academia without adequate cultural knowledge; most participants experienced academic work and social related practices as contentious with their working-class sensibilities; and most participants gradually developed internal truces between their past and present cultural orientations toward their eventual goal of tenure attainment. Directions for future study and concluding thoughts are included.

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Australian government Mutual Obligations welfare policies, key features of contemporary Australian welfare reforms are the focus of this study. The subjectivities of poor and working class young women and girls and the subject positions made available to them through Mutual Obligations policies are focal points. A key concern is, 'How do Mutual Obligations policies, their texts, discourses and implementation strategies construct the subjectivities of Australian poor and working class young women and girls?' This study asks what subject positions are made available by the policy, how policy discourses are taken up and enacted by policy subjects, and enquires after the lived effects of government policies. / thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2004.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006. / 1 electronic text (136 p.) : digital, PDF file. Title from title screen. Clifford Kuhn, committee chair; Ian C. Fletcher, committee member. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 5, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-136).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Full text release at OhioLINK's ETD Center delayed at author's request