Orientador: Mário Sérgio Vasconcelos / Banca: Elizabeth Piemonte Constantino / Banca: Maria de Fátima Araújo / Resumo: Nesta pesquisa realizamos um estudo sócio-moral cujo objetivo foi verificar quais regras e noções de justiça são abstraídas por crianças de rua submetidas à apreciação de uma situação hipotética de conflito envolvendo agressão. Utilizando o método clínico de Piaget e tendo por base suas idéias sobre o juízo moral, observamos e entrevistamos 20 crianças de rua, de sete a treze anos, do sexo do sexo masculino, que freqüentam uma Casa Abrigo localizada na cidade de Jaboticabal (SP). Os dados foram analisados e classificados conformes as tendências de desenvolvimento moral e noções de justiça propostas por Piaget. Os resultados mostraram que as crianças, diante de uma situação de agressão, demonstram mais características heterônomas em suas respostas. As noções de justiça concentram-se entre retributivas e distributivas. Conclui-se que a agressão é uma característica enraizada na formação da moral da criança de rua e que influência fortemente o seu desenvolvimento. Sendo a agressão uma poderosa forma aprendida de resolver problemas em seu contexto de vida, nela espelha-se para solucionar os conflitos do cotidiano. / Abstract: In this research we carried out a sociomoral study whose objective was to verify which rules and notions of justice are abstracted by street children subject to observation from a hypothetical situation of conflict involving assault. Applying the clinical method of Piaget and having as base his ideas about moral judgment, we observed and interviewed 20 male street children, from seven to thirteen years old, who often stay in a shelter located in the city of Jaboticabal (SP). The data were analyzed and classified according to the trends of moral development and notions of justice proposed by Piaget. The results showed that the children, under a situation of assault, exhibit more self-serving cognitive distortion characteristics in their responses. The notions of justice constrict in rewarding and distributing ones. We can conclude that the assault is an embedded characteristic in the moral formation of the street child, and that affects directly the child's development. Once the learned pattern to solve problems in the child's life context is the assault , it is in that that the he or she rests to resolve his or her everyday conflicts. / Mestre

Orientador: Omar Khouri / Banca: Paula de Vincenzo Fidelis Belfort Mattos / Banca: Milton Sogabe / Resumo: Surge com o objetivo de analisar uma nova modalidade de street art que aparece em placas, muros e diversos outros suportes, na cidade de São Paulo, o sticker. Apoiada na teoria de Herbert Marcuse, o filósofo da contracultura, e em estudos sobre todas as manifestações que circundam o objeto, como a arte urbana, o graffiti, a pixação e a colagem, essa dissertação traz informações básicas sobre o que é um sticker e suas inúmeras formas de composição e apresentação, além de recortar histórias de artistas precursores do stiker, como Tadeu Jungle, e alguns artistas atuantes da prática nos dias de hoje. Ao contextualizar o tema proposto, a vivência sobe a prática de colar sticker se faz presente na experiência pessoal descrita no último capítulo, que apresenta desde a elaboração de um sticker até a saída para a colagem, englobando todo o processo que compõe a manifestação. / Abstract: It arises with the aim to analyze a new modality of street art, the stiker; shown in street boards, walls and many othetr structures in the City of São Paulo. Based on the theory of Herbert Marcuse, the counterculture philosopher, and on studies of all manifestations that surround the object, like Urban Art, Graffiti, Urban Calligraphy and Collage, this dissertation brings basic information on what is a Sticker and its numerous forms of compositions presentation, beside approaching the forerunners, like artist Tadeu Jungle, and some other artists practicing this same technique today. In order to contextualize the pproposed theme, the experience over the practice of sticking is described on the last chapter, from the moment of designing a sticker until the act of placing it on the streets, covering the whole process that composes the manifestation. / Mestre

A droga na atualidade é considerada uma ameaça para a humanidade. Nos países em desenvolvimento, o álcool é o principal fator de risco, dentre as demais substâncias psicoativas. Existem poucos estudos sobre a prevalência do uso de drogas nos locais de trabalho no Brasil, e sobre os meios de enfrentamento das instituições empregadoras frente ao consumo de drogas por seus trabalhadores e as condições que levam a tal uso. O estudo foi estruturado em duas etapas: 1) revisão bibliográfica de instrumentos auto-aplicáveis sobre drogas entre trabalhadores e 2) elaboração e aplicação de um questionário auto-aplicável sobre o consumo de drogas entre trabalhadores. Foi traçado os seguintes objetivos: 1 etapa - Levantar os estudos publicados, que apresentam como objeto o uso de álcool e drogas por trabalhadores, entre os anos de 1998 e 2008; Identificar e analisar os instrumentos auto-aplicáveis, que mensuram a prevalência e o padrão de consumo de drogas em trabalhadores, utilizados pelos estudos; e Subsidiar o desenvolvimento de um questionário auto-aplicável sobre o padrão de consumo de álcool e drogas entre trabalhadores; 2 etapa - Desenvolver um questionário auto-aplicável que permite identificar a prevalência e padrão de consumo de álcool e drogas entre profissionais de saúde, assim como, as formas de enfrentamento por parte do trabalhador e das instituições empregadoras; Realizar análise descritiva do questionário desenvolvido e de seus principais resultados; e Avaliar a compreensão das perguntas do questionário desenvolvido, a partir das sugestões e respostas marcadas pelos sujeitos do estudo. Trata-se de uma pesquisa quantitativa, descritiva e exploratória realizada com 111 alunos de pós-graduação latu sensu de uma Faculdade Pública de Enfermagem situada na Cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Através da revisão bibliográfica verificamos que existem poucos instrumentos auto-aplicáveis sobre o padrão de consumo de álcool e drogas entre trabalhadores. Foi construído um questionário visando identificar informações sócio-demográficas, a história profissional, informações sobre o consumo de álcool e outras drogas, informações sobre o estresse laboral, e informações sobre as formas de enfrentamento por parte do trabalhador e das instituições empregadoras sobre o consumo de drogas. Pela análise do questionário aplicado, observou-se que algumas questões foram de difícil compreensão e precisam ser reformuladas, a fim de melhorar a compreensão dos respondentes, já que um questionário auto-aplicável deve ser auto-explicativo. As escalas AUDIT e Job Stress Scale se mostraram importantes para identificar problemas relacionados ao álcool e o estresse laboral. O álcool foi a droga mais utilizada pelos profissionais de saúde, seguido pelas substâncias psicoativas. Portanto, deve-se dar um enfoque sobressalente para a questão do fenômeno das drogas no ambiente de trabalho, promovendo programas de prevenção e de qualidade de vida ao trabalhador. Ressalta-se, também, a importância de abordar as questões sobre drogas nas graduações da área da saúde, promovendo o conhecimento do futuro profissional quanto aos riscos e danos decorrentes do uso e abuso de drogas. / Nowadays drugs are considered a threat to humanity. In developing countries such as Brazil, alcohol is the main risk factor among other psychoactive substances. There are few studies on the prevalence of drug use in workplaces in Brazil, and on the means of employing institutions confront against drugs use by their workers and the conditions that lead to such use. The study was structured in two steps: 1) bibliographic review of auto-applying instruments on drugs between workers and 2) development and implementation of an auto-applying questionnaire on drug consumption among workers. The objectives of studies were: 1st step - Raise published studies that have as an object the use of alcohol and drugs by employees, between 1998 and 2008; identify and analyze the auto-applying instruments used by the studies, that measure prevalence and pattern of drug consumption between workers; and subsidize the development of an auto-applying questionnaire on the pattern of consumption of alcohol and drug use among workers; 2nd step - develop an auto-applying questionnaire that allows the identification of the prevalence and pattern of consumption of alcohol and drug use among health professionals, as well as the forms of confrontation by the worker and employer institutions; perform descriptive analysis of the questionnaire developed and of its main results; and to evaluate the understanding of the questions in the developed questionnaire from suggestions and answers marked by the subjects of study. We found some difficulties for the application of instruments related to drug use on the working environment, so we focus only on a professional category, the nurses. This is a quantitative, descriptive and exploratory survey carried out with 111 health workers from a public nursing college situated in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Through bibliographic revision it was verified that there are few auto-applying instruments on the pattern of consumption of alcohol and drug use among workers. It was constructed a questionnaire to identify socio-demographic information, professional history, information on the consumption of alcohol and other drugs, occupational stress information, and information about the forms of confrontation by the worker and employer institutions on the consumption of drugs. The questionnaire was applied to post-graduate students from a public nursing faculty. It was noted that some questions were difficult to understand and need to be reformulated, in order to improve the understanding of the respondents, since an auto-applying questionnaire should be self-explanatory. The AUDIT scales and Job Stress Scale were important to identify problems related to alcohol and the work stress. Alcohol is the drug most widely used by health professionals, followed by psychoactive drugs. Therefore, emphasis must be given to the question of the phenomenon of drugs in the work environment, promoting prevention and quality of life programmes to the worker. Also should be emphasized the importance of addressing the questions about drugs in graduates of healthcare, promoting the knowledge of the future professional about the risks and damage arising from the use and abuse of drugs.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta dissertação de mestrado trata da prática do recolhimento de crianças e adolescentes em situação de rua, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, como um tipo de política de governo que vem reproduzindo e perpetuando um estado de barbárie, intolerância e desumanidade junto a esse segmento da população. A contextualização deste fenômeno é feita durante o período que vai de 2001 a 2011 marco dos 10 anos de constituição da Rede Rio Criança na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, e das gestões do Prefeito César Maia (2001 a 2009), e os 02 primeiros anos da gestão de Eduardo Paes na Prefeitura do Rio (2010 -2011). Para uma análise mais aprofundada, é importante nos reportarmos à história recente para entendermos melhor o desenvolvimento deste fenômeno e o seu processo contraditório, que tem no sistema capitalista o aprofundamento das desigualdades e da intolerância, a produção de subjetividades sobre o jovem perigoso, e a perpetuação de práticas de controle e repressão direcionadas aos pobres. Nesse processo, observamos a manutenção de práticas retrógradas inspiradas no higienismo e eugenia. Procuro também trazer minha implicação com essa história, e dialogar com alguns autores, trabalhando certas categorias para ajudar na construção do objeto. Como estes fatos foram sendo histórica, social e culturalmente construídos e ainda nos constituem no presente, que tipo de racionalidade está presente, saber o que esses meninos e meninas, vítimas das operações de recolhimento, sentem, de que forma estas práticas os afeta e quais são as conseqüências em suas vidas, são questões importantes trabalhadas nesta pesquisa. / This Master Sccience dissertation deals with the practice of gathering children and adolescents on the streets in the city of Rio de Janeiro, as a kind of government policy that is reproducing and perpetuating a state of barbarism, intolerance and inhumanity to this segment of the population. The background of this phenomenon is made during the period 2001 to 2011, when Rio Criança Network, when the network celebrated its 10 years of foundation in Rio de Janeiro city and, the establishment of the administrations of Cesar Maia (2001 to 2009) and the two firsts years of management of Eduardo Paes in Rio de Janeiro (2010-2011). For further analysis, it is important report the recent history to better understand the development of this phenomenon and its contradictory process, which have in the capitalist system the deepening of inequality and intolerance, the production of subjectivities on the dangerous youngers, and the perpetuation of control practices and repression directed to the poor people. In this process, we observed the maintenance of retrograde practices inspired by the hygienism and eugenic. I also try to bring my involvement with this story, and dialogue with other authors, working some categories to help build the object. As these facts have been historically, socially and culturally constructed and still are in the present, what kind of rationality is present, to know these boys and girls victims of the operations of withdrawal, feel how these pratices afected theys and what are the consequences in their lives, these questions are important issues analyzed in this research.

Esta dissertação é resultado da realização de diversas discussões e reflexões sobre as formas de viver e habitar a cidade atual. Tais questões surgem do processo de pesquisa da mestranda junto às pessoas em situação de rua, que ocorreu no município de Novo Hamburgo-RS durante o ano de 2011. A escolha por dizer da cidade a partir do olhar dessa população ocorre pelas afirmações de Calvino, Foucault e Peixoto de que uma escolha ética em pesquisa não está pautada na reprodução dos modos hegemônicos de vida na cidade, mas numa ética que luta por instaurar uma diferença na paisagem opaca através do detalhe que interroga a condição totalizante. Sustentados pelas colocações de Benjamin, Agamben e Gagnebin, de que os verdadeiros narradores da cidade são aqueles que não nos deixam esquecer a fratura que funda a sociedade e, tendo a utopia como aposta ética-estética-política, escolhemos utilizar o dispositivo imagético, inspirado nas produções fotográficas de Jeff Wall, para dar visibilidade ao habitar a cidade. Dessa forma, propusemos aos participantes da pesquisa que pensassem e escolhessem uma imagem do habitar a cidade que fosse significativa a eles para que pudéssemos recriá-la através da escrita e da fotografia. Através dessas imagens, tal trabalho tem como objetivo interrogar como ocorrem os processos de subjetivação e exclusão nas cidades atuais. Reconhecendo nos pequenos esquecimentos da história fragmentos potentes de experiência da cidade, como a discussão sobre o testemunho irá revelar e, por isso, busca-se a força de interrogar os modos de habitar a cidade através da função de testemunho. Para tanto, a escrita compõem-se, essencialmente, de três partes. Num primeiro momento, se abordará o percurso de pesquisa, discutindo a constituição e as escolhas sobre o método de pesquisa, a partir de interrogações sobre a função do testemunho. Num segundo momento, se discutirão algumas considerações que se entendem como fundamentais à compreensão sobre a cidade; como a indagação sobre uma ética do olhar sobre a cidade; o modo como se estabeleceu o urbano enquanto ciência e método para compreender a cidade e, como isso, passou a fazer parte do discurso da urbe; a análise do processo de urbanização brasileiro e a cidade de Novo Hamburgo, que foi cenário dessa pesquisa; e, através das discussões de Foucault e Agamben, os modos de subjetivação que se configuram na cidade a partir de duas questões centrais: a questão das vidas infames e a questão do modo como as políticas são estabelecidas às vidas infames, o modo como o biopolítico torna-se o paradigma das cidades, influenciando as políticas públicas. A parte final compõe-se das imagens que foram possíveis desse percurso, bem como das discussões sobre elas. / This dissertation is the result of the completion of several discussions and reflections on ways to live and dwell in the city nowadays. Such issues arise in the research process of the author, which occurred in the town of Novo Hamburgo-RS during the year of 2011, together with people on street situation. The choice of telling about the city through the eyes of this population occurs by the statements of Calvino, Foucault and Peixoto that an ethical choice on research is not based in the reproduction of hegemonic ways of city life, but an ethics which strives to establish a difference in the landscape through the opaque detail that questions the total condition. Supported by the placement of Benjamin, Agamben and Gagnebin, that the true storytellers of the city are those who will not let us forget the deep fracture that establishes society and having the utopia as a ethical-esthetic-political bet, we chose to use the imagery device, inspired in photographic productions of Jeff Wall, to give visibility to the inhabit of the city. Thus, we proposed to the research participants to think and choose a living image of the city that was meaningful to them so we could recreate it through writing and photography. Through these images, this paper aims to examine how the processes of exclusion and subjectivity occur in contemporary cities. Recognizing the small forgetfulness of history powerful experience fragments of the city, as the discussion on the witness will prove and, therefore, seeks the strength to question the ways of inhabiting the city via the witness function. To do so, the writing consists essentially of three parts. At first, it will address the way of research, discussing the constitution and the choices on the method of research, from questions about the role of witness. Secondly, it will discuss some considerations that are understood as fundamental to the understanding of the city, like the ethical questioning about over viewing the city, how they established the city as a science and the method to its understanding and, how it became part of the discourse of the town; the analysis of the Brazilian urbanization process and the city of Novo Hamburgo, which was the setting of this research and, through discussions of Foucault and Agamben, the modes of subjectivation that constitute the city from two central issues: the question of the infamous lifes and the question of how policies are set at the infamous lives, how the biopolitical becomes the paradigm of cities, influencing public policies. The final part is composed of images that were possible from this path, as well as the discussion of them.

Many cities and towns in the Global South continue to experience the growth of the informal sector. There are a number of reasons which explain the growth of the informal sector. These include formal sector retrenchments, shortage of jobs in the formal sector and lack of skills. Street vendors are the most visible traders in the informal sector as compared to other kind of traders. In many cities, the spaces in which vendors conduct their trading is not allocated to them legally as they are seen as a nuisance or obstruction to commerce and the free flow of traffic. Against this background, this study examines the contestation for vending in the East London Central Business District (CBD) Eastern Cape, South Africa. It specifically explores social processes and vendor decision making when it comes to choosing (or claiming) a particular vending space, the legal instruments (by-laws) that either promote or constrain informal trading activities. Furthermore, it investigates the extent to which street vending contributes to the traders‟ income generation and sustainable livelihoods. This study uses a qualitative research design. Purposive sampling was used to select thirty informal traders. In-depth semi structured interviews were conducted with all thirty respondents In addition to the thirty respondents, five key informants were interviewed. The study found that street vending plays a major role in providing BCMM people with livelihood opportunities. Trading space in the CBD is strictly competitive and the spaces they acquire are too small for their businesses to expand to another level. Vendors face a lot of challenges but at the epitome of their challenges is the vending by- laws which the vendors view as a major constraint when it comes to operating smoothly in the streets. The study suggested that vending polices and by- laws be reviewed in order to derive a better socio- economic and functional environment for vendors.

Esta pesquisa aborda, embasada na percepção dos usuários, o mobiliário urbano e a sua relação com a estética da paisagem e com o uso dos espaços abertos públicos. Com relação à estética, foram investigados diferentes modelos de abrigos de transporte, cabines telefônicas e bancas de serviços, considerando os elementos individualmente e inseridos em cenas urbanas. As avaliações foram realizadas com arquitetos, não-arquitetos com curso superior e pessoas sem formação universitária, com o objetivo de verificar as possíveis diferenças nas interpretações desses grupos. Com relação ao uso, foi desenvolvida uma análise relativa ao posicionamento de abrigos de ônibus em diferentes dimensões de calçadas, considerando a percepção de usuários em cadeiras de rodas, pois tais respondentes apresentam maior necessidade de espaço para a sua locomoção. A coleta dos dados foi realizada por meio de levantamentos de arquivo e levantamentos de campo, através da aplicação de questionários pela Internet. A análise dos dados utilizou testes estatísticos não-paramétricos e avaliações qualitativas. Os resultados relativos à estética, de maneira geral, evidenciaram que as características formais do mobiliário urbano mais satisfatórias à maioria das pessoas relacionam-se à neutralidade, a pouca variação entre elementos compositivos e à configuração geométrica simples. Tais constatações foram encontradas na análise dos elementos quando considerados isoladamente e quando inseridos na paisagem. Em relação aos grupos de respondentes, embora tenham sido verificadas diferenças nas avaliações, a pesquisa demonstrou que a formação acadêmica não interfere a ponto de apresentar divergências relevantes quanto às preferências estéticas. A investigação também constatou que as cenas em que o mobiliário se constitui em barreira visual tendem a ser julgadas negativamente. Os resultados relativos ao uso, por sua vez, indicaram que o posicionamento dos abrigos de ônibus que tende a ser mais satisfatório às pessoas em cadeiras de rodas é junto às fachadas das edificações, mantendo uma faixa livre de circulação entre o abrigo e o meio-fio. Por fim, a pesquisa permitiu enaltecer a importância de considerar as opiniões dos usuários no projeto e na implantação do mobiliário urbano para que tais elementos sejam satisfatórios quanto à estética e ao uso. / This research investigates, based on people’s perception, street furniture and its relationship to the aesthetics of the landscape and the use of public open spaces. About the aesthetic, we investigated different models of transport shelters, telephone booths and newstands, considering the elements individually and placed in urban scenes. The evaluations were conducted with architects, non-architects college graduates and people without college graduates, in order to determine possible differences in interpretations of these groups. For use, an analysis was developed on the placement of bus shelters on sidewalks with different dimensions, considering the preferences of users in wheelchairs, as these respondents have greater need for space for its locomotion. Data collection was conducted through archival records and field work with application of questionnaires through the Internet. Data analysis was carried out by means of non-parametric statistical tests and qualitative assessments. The aesthetics’ results, in general, showed that the formal characteristics of street furniture more satisfactory to most people relate to neutrality, little variation between compositional elements and simple geometric configuration. These findings were found in the analysis of the elements when considered separately and when placed in the landscape. Regarding the groups of respondents, although some significant differences in the evaluations, the research showed that education does not interfere as to present relevant differences regarding the aesthetic preferences. The investigation also found that the scenes in which the furniture constitutes visual barrier in the landscape tend to be judged negatively. The use’s results indicated that the placement of bus shelters that tends to be more suitable to people in wheelchairs is along the facades of buildings, keeping free range of movement between the shelter and the curb. Finally, the survey allowed enhance the importance of considering the users’ opinions about the design and implementation of street furniture for such elements as are satisfactory to the aesthetics and use.

abstract: Don't Hold Your Breath is an evening-length performance created and performed by Sarah "Saza" Kent and EPIK Dance Company that consisted of street and concert dance combined with hip hop theatre, spoken text and live singing. What began as a one-woman show about the choreographer's life, turned in to an ensemble piece that included the stories of many people, including ten community members who were interviewed on their views of life and death after being affected by a diagnosis. The show follows Kat, a young woman tiptoeing the line between her party girl past and the thought of finally growing up and settling down. Typically confident and self-assured, she is now grappling with the idea of life and death. Kat finds herself in an MRI machine that could ultimately determine her fate. As the machine examines her body, she begins to examine her life, causing her to confront some of life's most existential questions. Has she spent her time wisely? Would she do anything differently if given a second chance? When it comes down to it, and all distractions are stripped away, what is truly important? Her thoughts take her to memories of her past and visions for her future as she faces the reality that life is finite and tomorrow is not promised. This document is an account of the show's process and serves as a place of explanation, analysis, and reflection, while also questioning its significance on a personal level all the way to its place in the field. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Dance 2018

The gang has been a focal concern in UK media, political discourse, policy, and policing interventions in the last decade, occupying the position of contemporary ‘folk devil’. Despite the heightened attention on urban ‘gang culture’, sociological research on gangs in the UK is limited. However, some sociologists do stress a deterministic relationship between gangs and black urban youth, rendering urban men a source of fascination and repulsion, easy scapegoats in explaining street violence. Arguably, current work that privileges the idea of gang membership misunderstands much about the lives of some men involved. This thesis contributes to correcting that misunderstanding. The study adopts a social constructionist perspective in understanding the (multiple) ways urban men in an inner city area of London construct their lives when immersed in what they refer to as being ‘on road’, a symbolic space in which everyday lives are played out. As a broadly ethnographic study, the data for the thesis were generated using participant observation and semi-structured interviews with a range of participants, including young and adult men. The study identifies three distinct ways in which some men become trapped in difficult experiences and identities ‘on road’. It focuses on the implications of the notion of ‘trappedness’ on their experiences in public space, employment opportunities and, self- identity. The ‘on road’ lives of the men in the study represent a paradox: the road appears to offer opportunity to build masculine identity but entangles them further in a trap, restricting freedom and stunting personal growth. This study has significance for sociological theory. Theoretically, the idea of being ‘on road’ can be understood as a discourse that persists in the language and symbolism that flows through these men’s experiences and narratives. As such the idea of ‘onroadness’ powerfully shapes all aspects of their lives. It is argued that more focus is needed on the psychosocial factors that force some men into volatile social worlds, and the personal contexts that frame local narratives of ‘on road’ culture, especially within wider experiences of friendship, faith, and identity. The thesis suggests that this form of analysis offers a critical explanatory framework within which it is possible to understand the lives of some of the young and adult men in certain inner city areas in the UK.

abstract: Individual behavior change is a goal of many public policies directed at people of low socioeconomic status. Without evidence of behavioral change, these policies cannot be considered a success: a process of co-production where some level of cooperation between the client and program administrators is required to successfully meet program objectives. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), is one example of a co-production design. WIC encourages women to engage in healthy behaviors by providing healthy food along with nutrition education to improve the health status of low-income families. However, while WIC is one of the most studied nutrition programs, little attention has been paid to the nutrition education portion or to interactions between staff members and participants. This research draws on the public policy and administration literature about street-level bureaucrats and co-production, which provides a framework for understanding the purposeful, inter-dependent relationships between front-line service providers and clients. However, neither literature explicates the process of interactions that is expected to lead to client behavior change and co-production. The primary contribution of this research is the creation of a grounded theory that identifies and explains the WIC interaction process as one of "negotiating healthy self-government". Based on analysis of three months of observations of WIC encounters in two clinics, this research finds that participants and staff members enter into tacit and explicit negotiations concerning the degree to which participants should govern their family's nutrition-related behavior. Clients actively shape the interactions by demonstrating their discipline and efforts to feed their families, while staff members refine and reinforce self-governing behaviors through assessing action, and providing advice to ensure behaviors meet recommendations. Finally, participants and staff members distinctly link self-governing behavior to identity: "good mothers" feed their children healthy food and govern their behaviors to meet nutritional recommendations. This research has implications for the study of behavior change promotion in public programs by introducing the concept of identity as a mechanism for governance and explicating the interaction process between front-line service providers and clients / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Public Policy 2014