Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 259-277). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Arizona, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 325-336).

Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1986.

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This thesis highlights the significance of social reproduction of labour in analysing poverty through historical materialist perspective and explores two related sets of arguments. First, poverty is the &#039 / absolute general law&#039 / of the process of pauperization of labour under global accumulation movements of capital. Second, the question of poverty is subjected to the class struggle between historical tendency of labour, which is to collectivize its own reproduction conditions, and that of capital, which is to make it commodity produced and consumed in the parameters of market production. The concept of class struggle thus carries an analytical priority to explore the dynamic nature and the structure of poverty. The findings, based on the critical ethnographic research carried out in the squatter settlement district named &Ccedil / &ouml / pl&uuml / k in Ankara, indicate that the main tendency of the degradation process of labour is to constitute the conditions of common class experience in the labour market, even though it advocates the fractionation in the sphere of production. Moreover, in terms of the perpetual struggle for collectivising their social reproduction, squatter settlements, gecekondus, also seem to be a sphere of common class experience rather than a heterogeneous sociality. The overall findings, therefore, indicate that the current dynamics of poverty rise as a situation in which the whole working-class is in a defensive position to capital.

Habilitation - Universität, Passau, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [571]-689) and index.

Habilitation - Universität, Passau, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [571]-689) and index.

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Orientador: Olga Rodrigues de Morais von Simson / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Fculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T19:40:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CastroPinto_SilviaPatriciaLimade_M.pdf: 19285408 bytes, checksum: 9bf635baf9c089e6c33e73d50d03d841 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: O presente estudo, realizado em uma instituição de longa permanência pertencente à classe artística na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, tem como objetivo principal apontar os valores e significados associados ao envelhecimento, ao asilamento e ao convívio na instituição asilar estudada. Tem como objetivo secundário estabelecer uma reflexão sobre a influência da origem profissional sobre o cuidado prestado. Para tal utiliza a metodologia da História Oral em entrevistas realizadas com quatro artistas idosos asilados e com um representante da equipe dirigente. Este trabalho é orientado dentro da linha de pesquisa da Construção Social da Velhice / Abstract: This present study, which has been accomplished in a retirement community of artists located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, has aimed at investigating the values and significance associated with aging and living in a residence for elderly people. Thus it has applied the methodology of Oral History by interviews conducted with four residents and a member of the managing staff / Mestrado / Mestre em Gerontologia

The central theme of the thesis is the current conceptualization of social classes and the issue of stratification in the Czech Republic in the period after 1989. In the first part I confront key theses of classical stratification concepts and follow their transformations in the history of exploration of the social structure. In the second part, by secondary analysis of quantitative data, I am trying to find the key factors of self- classification into social structures and to determine how this subjective self- classification correlates with objective (sociological) classification. An important part of the research is also the question of to what extent and in what sense people perceive the contemporary Czech society as a social-stratified. In the conclusion, on the basis of the results of analysis, I am trying to suggest which of the classical concepts of stratification best reflects the situation in contemporary Czech society. Key words: subjective and objective position, stratification, class, stratum, status, society, social structure