<p>This study sought to investigate the alleged problem of &lsquo / academic dependency&rsquo / , on the part of South African sociologists, on western scholarship. The stated problem is said to undermine South African sociologists&rsquo / ability to set their own intellectual and epistemological agenda. Sociology in South Africa is characterised by two issues: &lsquo / negations&rsquo / and theoretical &lsquo / extraversion&rsquo / . In the light of the foregoing claim, the study sought to investigate the underlying epistemological features of sociology curriculum in one of the South African universities. In investigating these issues, the thesis relies on the notion of &lsquo / authentic interlocutors&rsquo / put forward by Archie Mafeje. Literature on transformation of the social sciences in (South) Africa was reviewed. Methodologically, the study assumes a qualitative approach. In order comprehensively to understand the problem under investigation, in-depth interviews were conducted along with a review of course outlines of the selected department of sociology / these, in turn, were subjected to content analysis. Interviewees included, respectively, academic members of staff and postgraduate students. The study concludes by highlighting the &lsquo / ontological disconnect&rsquo / , on the part of South African sociologists, not only with their immediate environment but the rest of the African continent. In maintaining this view, it argues that their ontological and epistemological standpoints only succeed in highlighting their cultural affinity with Euro-American perspectives. The said ontological disconnect and cultural affinity, it is argued, lead to extraverted curricula.</p>

Past research suggests that members of devalued groups recognize their group is discriminated against. Do the implicit responses of members of these groups demonstrate the same pattern? I argue that they do not and that this is due to a motivated protection of members of devalued groups’ social identity. Study 1 demonstrates that, at an explicit level African-Canadians recognize that their group is discriminated against, but at an implicit level African-Canadians think that most people like their group to a greater extent than do European-Canadians. Study 2 replicates this implicit finding but demonstrates that devalued and majority groups do not have different implicit normative regard about a non-devalued group. Study 3 again replicates the implicit finding with Muslim participants while demonstrating that, when affirmed, this group difference disappears. Study 4 demonstrates that implicit normative regard can predict collective action over and above implicit attitudes and explicit normative regard. The implications for social identity theory and collective action are discussed.

In leadership development, an established literature and a fertile praxis fall short of clarifying how individuals may develop the many and varied capabilities that contribute to leadership processes. Literature promoting personal growth tends to reduce personal development to cognitive development or rely on broadly defined and under-evidenced notions. The adult development literature offers to this research a conceptualization of personal development as systemic qualitative change in individual sensemaking. As sensemaking develops, it progresses toward greater integration (of interdependent cognitive, emotive, purposive, and conative dimensions), sophistication, and self-determination. The research aimed to examine how changes in the sensemaking of individuals may result in developmental outcomes relevant for personal and leadership development. This inquiry moves from a perspective idealist ontology and a social constructivist epistemology, selects philosophical hermeneutics as a research paradigm, and embraces exploratory qualitative longitudinal research. Purposive sampling guided the selection of research context, a leadership program focused on personal growth. Transcripts from 32 semi-structured constructivist-phenomenological interviews, collected from nine participants across fourteen months, were analyzed through constructivist grounded theory. Development was assessed ipsatively according to a literature-based framework. Contributions, in terms of substantive theory, are not generalizable beyond research context and sample. This research advances the differentiation of developmental context, process and outcomes. Context is found to transcend holding environment—to be ideally conducive to a specific type of change in virtue of a distinctive emerging quality. While vector processes facilitate development, core processes (individual sensemaking) are development. In terms of outcomes, the research supports an association between personal development and development of leadership capabilities, but questions whether self-awareness or personality adjustments per se constitute authentic personal or leadership development. This research exposes a pattern of seeking affirmation, associated with disproportionate identity salience of external image, which is potentially capable of hindering personal development by triggering maladaptive rather than adaptive self-reflection.

Group commitments such as partisanship and religion can bias the way individuals seek information and weigh evidence. This psychological process can lead to distorted views of reality and polarization between opposing social groups. Substantial research confirms the existence and persistence of numerous identity-driven divides in society, but means of attenuating them remain elusive. However, because identity-protective cognition is driven by a need to maintain global and not domain specific integrity, researchers have found that affirming an unrelated core aspect of the self can eliminate the need for ego defense and result in more evenhanded evaluation. This study proposes a competing intervention. Individuals possess numerous social identities that contextually vary in relative prominence; therefore a different means to unbiased cognition may be to make many social identities salient simultaneously, reducing influence of any potentially threatened identity. This may also reduce selective exposure to congenial information, which has not been found with affirmation. This study also advances research on the phenomenon of selective exposure by considering individuals’ interpersonal networks in information search. Because networks are not static, and are instead contextually activated, inducing a more complex representational structure of the self may broaden the set of contacts from whom individuals seek information. The bias-mitigative potential of self-affirmation and social identity complexity is examined here in a series of dispute contexts — two partisan, one religious — over a mining spill, an advanced biofuels mandate, and gene editing technology. Results from the three experiments (total N = 1,257) show modest support for social identity complexity reducing group-alignment of beliefs, behavior, and information search, while affirmation failed to reduce, and in some cases increased, group alignment.

SOUSA, Érica Costa. Nietzsche: as paixões como afirmação da vida e construção de uma nova ética. 2013. 107f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Filosofia, Fortaleza (CE), 2013. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-08-04T12:07:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_dis_ecsousa.pdf: 386071 bytes, checksum: 13275934515f2c262947cca507609379 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-08-04T16:51:23Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_dis_ecsousa.pdf: 386071 bytes, checksum: 13275934515f2c262947cca507609379 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-04T16:51:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_dis_ecsousa.pdf: 386071 bytes, checksum: 13275934515f2c262947cca507609379 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / The present dissertation – entiteld Nietzsche: the passions as life affirmation e constructing of a “new ethics” – aims at thinking of a “new ethics” in Nietzsche’s philosophy, based upon his early writtings as well as on his lattest works. While developing this theme, we intend to consider, in a first moment, the notion of body as guide line and background of the analysis - taking it not as a dualistic opposition to the soul, but as a multiplicity of forces within an ethernal becoming, contributing towards a formation and transformation of living; then, after having considered the question of the inversion of Platonism, in line with the ideia of creation and yes-saying to life, we finally hope to point out a possible “new ethics” in Nietzsche’s philosophy. / A presente dissertação - intitulada Nietzsche: as paixões como afirmação da vida e construção de uma “nova ética” – visa a ponderar sobre uma “nova ética” em Nietzsche, com base tanto em seus escritos de juventude quanto nos textos de sua maturidade filosófica. Ao propor esse tema, levaremos em conta, num primeiro momento, a noção de corpo como fio condutor e pano de fundo da análise, pensando-o, não mais dualisticamente em relação à alma, mas como uma multiplicidade de forças que estão em um eterno vir-a-ser, concorrendo para a formação e transformação do viver; depois, após termos abordado a questão consoante à inversão do platonismo, trateremos finalmente de apontar, a partir da ideia de criação e do dizer-sim à vida, para uma possível “nova ética” na filosofia nietzschiana.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-02-02Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:24:08Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 yazlle_scl_dr_assis.pdf: 724707 bytes, checksum: 93a76ce0b5b422ed1f8fb2811aa1a567 (MD5) / Com o objetivo geral de contribuir para a história, teoria e crítica da literatura infantil brasileira, proponho-me, nesta tese, a realizar um estudo da representação da criança enquanto personagem da literatura infantil de Ana Maria Machado. De um ponto de vista teórico, adota-se a concepção lingüística dialógica de Bakhtin, afinada com a proposta estética da literatura infantil, “como aquela que também pode ser lida pela criança”. Do ponto de vista da infância, adota-se a visão sociológica de caráter marxista de Walter Benjamin, bem como de seus discípulos no Brasil, que concebem a criança como um ser histórico, cultural e social, capaz de quebrar com o “adultocentrismo”, na medida em que cria e transforma seu próprio discurso. De acordo com essas concepções teóricas, conclui-se que a personagem-criança representada em toda a literatura infantil de Ana Maria Machado é aquela que se auto-afirma pela sua subjetividade, ou seja, pela maneira de explorar seu mundo exterior em consonância com seu mundo interior, baseada na reflexão sobre si mesma e sobre seu mundo circundante. / With the general purpose of contributing for the Brazilian juvenile literature’s history, theory and criticism, I intend in this thesis to make a study of the child’s representation as a character of Ana Maria Machado juvenile literature. From a theorist point of view, it is adopted the dialogical linguistic conception of Bakhtin, according to the esthetical purpose of juvenile literature as “that one which can be read by children”. From the childhood point of view, it is adopted the Marxist sociological view of Walter Benjamin as well as his disciples in Brazil who understand a child as a historical, cultural and social being able of break with the “adultcentism” when creates an transforms his or her own speech. According to the theorist conceptions, it is concluded that the children-character represented in all the juvenile literature of Ana Maria Machado are those ones who affirm themselves by their subjectivity, in other words, by the manner of explore their external world in consonance with their internal world based on the reflection about themselves and their surrounding world.

Orientador: Solange Bigal / Banca: Adriana da Rosa Amaral / Banca: Hélio Rebello Cardoso Júnior / Resumo: Uma escuta contemplativa dos acontecimentos sonoros do Psychedelic Trance. Agenciadas por Deleuze e Guattari, desde a gênese da música eletrônica, as afecções bergonianas nietzscheanas e espinosanas se desdobram em Psytrance, uma composição afectivo-sonora da mídia eletrônica. / Abstract: A contemplative audition of the sonorous events of the Psychedelic Trance. By the texture of Deleuze and Guatarri meaning, since the eletronic music genesis, the Bergson, Nietzsche and Espinosa affections unfold in Psytrance, an affective-sonorous composition of the eletronic media. / Mestre

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Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-07-04T12:12:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 989612 bytes, checksum: 81bb07550777145999647bd6f656275e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-04T12:12:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 989612 bytes, checksum: 81bb07550777145999647bd6f656275e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The main objective of this work consists in investigating, from Nietzsche’s philosophical work – especially in the texts The birth of tragedy, Human, all too human and the Genealogy of morals – in what form the contemporary esthete understood the notion of tragic art in three differentiated perspectives. For this task, we will pursue the following steps: First, the overview of the will to power and of surviving will be sketched, and the consequent affirmation of life by man. Subsequently, an understanding of the tragic art as an artist’s metaphysics will be built, perceiving it as a result of the Apollonian and Dionysian impulses, which relate to the principle of individuation and thus manifests an interpretation of the world as an aesthetic phenomenon. In this first perspective, the tragic art is useful to man by making the absurdity of life bearable. Then the second notion of tragic art as an educator of men for their most primitive instincts, mainly for the will of survival and creativity. This second way of looking at tragedy is related to an instrumental interpretation of Socratic and to Nietzsche’s “perspectivism”. Moreover, the tragic will be useful to educate man to affirm his life. In a third moment, we intend to demonstrate how tragic art, mischaracterized by modernity, shall be understood as an ascetic priestess. Finally, some concluding remarks on the problem of how tragic art has changed its meaning of artist’s methaphisics, passed to be man’s educator and became ascetic priestess. However, there is an element that will surpass all three Nietzsche’s notions of tragic art, namely its usefulness in seducing men to affirm their living. / O objetivo capital desse trabalho constitui-se em investigar, a partir obra filosófica de Nietzsche –, sobretudo, nos textos O nascimento da tragédia; Humano, demasiado humano e Genealogia da moral –, de que forma o esteta contemporâneo compreendeu a noção de arte trágica em três perspectivas diferenciadas. Para tal indústria, encadear-se-ão as seguintes etapas: Primeiro, será esboçado o panorama geral das vontades de poder e de sobrevivência, bem como a consequente afirmação do viver por parte do homem. Subsequentemente, será construído um entendimento acerca da arte trágica como metafísica de artista. Percebendo-a como resultado das pulsões apolíneas e dionisíaca, as quais se relacionam com o princípio de individuação e assim manifesta-se uma interpretação do mundo como fenômeno estético. Nessa primeira perspectiva, a arte trágica será útil ao homem por tornar o absurdo da vida suportável. Em seguida, será refletida a segunda noção de arte trágica como formadora do homem em vistas de suas pulsões mais primitivas, principalmente, das vontades de sobrevivência e de criação. Essa segunda forma de contemplar a tragédia encontra-se relacionada a uma instrumentalização do socratismo e ao perspectivismo nietzschianos. Ademais, o trágico servirá para educar o homem para a afirmação do seu viver. Em um terceiro momento, objetiva-se demonstrar como a arte trágica, descaracterizada pela modernidade, passa a ser compreendida como uma sacerdotisa asceta. Por fim, serão realizadas algumas considerações finais acerca da problemática de como a arte trágica teve o seu significado modificado de metafísica de artista, passou por formadora do homem e chegou a sacerdotisa ascética. Contudo, existe um elemento que irá transpor todas as três noções nietzschianas de trágico na arte, a saber: a utilidade do mesmo em seduzir o homem a afirmar o seu viver.

Orientador: Benedito Antunes / Banca: Alice Vieira / Banca: Maria do Rosário Longo Mortatti / Banca: Odil José de Oliveira Filho / Banca: João Luís Cardoso Tápias Ceccantini / Resumo: Com o objetivo geral de contribuir para a história, teoria e crítica da literatura infantil brasileira, proponho-me, nesta tese, a realizar um estudo da representação da criança enquanto personagem da literatura infantil de Ana Maria Machado. De um ponto de vista teórico, adota-se a concepção lingüística dialógica de Bakhtin, afinada com a proposta estética da literatura infantil, "como aquela que também pode ser lida pela criança". Do ponto de vista da infância, adota-se a visão sociológica de caráter marxista de Walter Benjamin, bem como de seus discípulos no Brasil, que concebem a criança como um ser histórico, cultural e social, capaz de quebrar com o "adultocentrismo", na medida em que cria e transforma seu próprio discurso. De acordo com essas concepções teóricas, conclui-se que a personagem-criança representada em toda a literatura infantil de Ana Maria Machado é aquela que se auto-afirma pela sua subjetividade, ou seja, pela maneira de explorar seu mundo exterior em consonância com seu mundo interior, baseada na reflexão sobre si mesma e sobre seu mundo circundante. / Abstract: With the general purpose of contributing for the Brazilian juvenile literature's history, theory and criticism, I intend in this thesis to make a study of the child's representation as a character of Ana Maria Machado juvenile literature. From a theorist point of view, it is adopted the dialogical linguistic conception of Bakhtin, according to the esthetical purpose of juvenile literature as "that one which can be read by children". From the childhood point of view, it is adopted the Marxist sociological view of Walter Benjamin as well as his disciples in Brazil who understand a child as a historical, cultural and social being able of break with the "adultcentism" when creates an transforms his or her own speech. According to the theorist conceptions, it is concluded that the children-character represented in all the juvenile literature of Ana Maria Machado are those ones who affirm themselves by their subjectivity, in other words, by the manner of explore their external world in consonance with their internal world based on the reflection about themselves and their surrounding world. / Doutor