This thesis explores the increasing medicalization of society, the process whereby social phenomenon are transformed into medical problems. Alike the general tendency of neuropsychiatric diagnoses, the number of people with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) has increased and expanded from a boys’ diagnosis to include both adult men and women. Studies on the latter category is however scarce. The objective of the thesis is to contribute with a micro sociological and critical perspective on the effects of the biomedicalization process, by focusing women's experience of getting and living with ADHD. The empirical material consists of narrative interviews with sixteen women, diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood. The participants, age 20 to 50, were enrolled via Swedish NGOs in 2010 and 2013. The thesis resides on four analytical themes: biomedicalization, pharmaceuticalizaton, functionality and gender. It shows how diagnostics evokes processes that involve learning and using a biomedical terminology to describe and understand oneself. ADHD is, in general, depicted as diffuse, expansionary, masculine and deviant sociability and cognitivity. Unlike depression and anxiety, described as temporary and unwanted illnesses, the ADHD-diagnosis embraces the whole personality. Hence, the women find it difficult to identifying and separating ADHD from the self. Furthermore, categorizations of oneself as a ‘woman with ADHD’ imply constructions of individual and collective identity that has ideological implications, i.e. the individual narratives are related to grand narratives. These contradictory grand narratives bring about ideological dilemmas that are handled rhetorically in the women's everyday life. The masculine connotation of ADHD, for example, render the women experiencing themselves as transgressing not only femininity but also ADHD-personhood. Additionally, as social actions are attributed to the ‘ADHD brain’, the brain is portrayed as a pathological deviant and dysfunctional object for pharmaceutical intervention. Nevertheless, this discourse is also contested by the women by pointing to 1) positive aspects of the ‘ADHD-brain’ in everyday life, or 2) gender inequalities and demands of the late-modern society. Concluding, the women in this study are not only victims of their bodies or societal norms, but also agents negotiating – adapting and opposing to – expectations of how to be an ideal citizen or woman.

While discussions on the capacity of food tourism on promoting and maintaining the sustainability of host community have recently gained interest in tourism academia, the intersection between food events, tourism and sustainability need to be explored in a greater depth. This study focuses on place identity formation and examines how Ölands Skördefest shapes local residents’ place identity. In-depth interviews conducted with business representatives and tourism department members are themed analyzed through the lend of Identity Process Theory (IPT). The results illustrate how Ölands Skördefest shapes five components of place identity, and in particular how respondents felt about distinctiveness, belonging and self-efficacy. The study offers an understanding of how Ölands Skördefest contributes to promoting community sustainability through strengthening local place identity.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Samuel Cavalcante da Silva - 2013.pdf: 843507 bytes, checksum: bc0e3a6cd6bb7dd60060dec62662f7f7 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07-26 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás - FAPEG / This research aims to analyze the discursive effects of identity processes, observed in Brilliant parents, fascinating teachers, from Augusto Cury, one of the representative authors of selfhelp literature in Brazil. We used as theoretical and methodological devices French Discourse Analysis postulates, from Michel Pecheux´s and Michel Foucault´s contributions. Specifically we focus in this research, the notions of speech, subject and production conditions from Pêcheux and of subject/power, power/knowledge, ways of subjectivity and disciplinary practices from Michel Foucault. As a methodological approach we propose the description of statements based on the proposal for the development of Foucault's archaeological method. With the theoretical-methodological support we´ve analyzed the book in order to identify the identity processes proposal of the teacher subject. We observed a discourse that takes place in certain production conditions. The enunciator subject determines the places occupied in the process of dialogue which are: the place of an enunciator who holds a scientific knowledgepsychological, that aims, through a disciplinary and pastoral power, to establish truth regimes on the subject/reader/teacher, and the reader subject, a place determined by the enunciator, as the subject of the lack, one that is lost and need guidance to act promptly in your profession. It is proposed to the teachers subjects certain disciplines that constitute ways of subjectivity, which aims to get the discursive subject in a discursive mash, in order to make it docile and useful. For this, the enunciator establishes interdiscursive relationships with the following discourses: scientific, religious, and with official discourses on education as Parameters National Curriculum (PNC), this interdiscursivity shown produce senses since an identification with what is being said as true until the intimidation, punishment for mistakes. We´ve noted that the proposal of constitution of the teacher subject in this self-help discursivity is of an individual, homogenized subject, that will revolutionize education, a kind of sweet superhero. It is a discoursivity which imposes certain disciplines and does not respect the singularities. / Propomos pelo presente trabalho analisar os efeitos discursivos de construção identitária, observados no livro Pais brilhantes, professores fascinantes, de Augusto Cury, um dos autores representativos da literatura de autoajuda no Brasil. Utilizamos como base teóricometodológica desta pesquisa os postulados da Análise do Discurso francesa, a partir das contribuições de Michel Pêcheux e Michel Foucault. Mais especificamente centramo-nos, nesta pesquisa, nas noções de discurso, sujeito e condições de produção a partir de Michel Pêcheux e sobre sujeito/poder, saber/poder, modos de subjetivação e práticas disciplinares a partir de Michel Foucault. Como caminho metodológico propomos a descrição dos enunciados baseada na proposta de Foucault para o desenvolvimento do método arqueológico. Com o suporte teórico-metodológico analisamos a obra buscando identificar a proposta de constituição identitária do sujeito professor. Observamos um discurso que se realiza em certas condições de produção. O sujeito enunciador determina os lugares ocupados no processo de interlocução a saber: o de enunciador detentor de um saber científico-psicológico, que pretende, por meio de um poder disciplinar e pastoral estabelecer regimes de verdade sobre o sujeito/leitor/professor, e o sujeito leitor, lugar determinado pelo enunciador, como sujeito da falta, aquele que está perdido e precisa de orientação para atuar com presteza em sua profissão. É proposto aos sujeitos professores determinadas disciplinas que configuram modos de subjetivação, que pretendem prender o sujeito em uma malha discursiva, com objetivo de torná-lo dócil e útil. Para isso o enunciador estabelece relações interdiscursivas com os seguintes discursos: científico, religioso, e com os discursos oficiais sobre a educação como os PCNs, essa interdiscursividade mostrada produz sentidos que vão desde uma identificação com o que se está dizendo como verdadeiro até a intimidação, a punição por erros cometidos. Observamos que a proposta de constituição do sujeito professor nesse discurso de autoajuda é de um sujeito individualizado, homogeneizado, que irá revolucionar a educação, uma espécie de super-herói doce. É um discurso que impõe certas disciplinas e não respeita as singularidades.

När en kvinna får sitt första barn skapar hon en ny identitet som mamma. Hon ställs inför nya situationer vilket skapar en osäkerhet. Tidigare sociala sammanhang som till exempel arbete eller studier sätts på paus och även vänskapsrelationer kan genomgå en förändring. Känslor av ensamhet och oro leder till att individen söker sig till andra som har liknande upplevelser. Många kvinnor finner stöd i grupper som anordnas på Familjecentralen. Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie är att förstå kvinnors upplevelser kring sitt identitetsskapande under första tiden som förälder samt vilken betydelse sociala relationer med andra nyblivna föräldrar har för att öka trygghet och skapa mindre ensamhet i föräldrarollen. Studien har använt socialpsykologiska teorier kring exempelvis självet, kategorisering och social jämförelse för att tolka och förstå respondenternas upplevelser. I studien utfördes 10 semistrukturerade intervjuer med förstagångsmödrar om deras upplevelser kring att bli mamma. Studiens resultat visar hur mammaidentiteten växer fram och hur kvinnans tro på sin egen förmåga är kopplat till barnets välmående. Barnet blir en del av kvinnans självbild. I föräldragruppen upplever kvinnorna en gemenskap med andra i samma situation. Råd, stöd, tankar och upplevelser delas i ett öppet klimat vilket tillsammans med möjlighet att rådfråga personal leder till ökad trygghet och minskad känsla av ensamhet. / When a woman has her first child, she creates a new identity as a mother. She is faced with new situations, which creates uncertainty. Previous social contexts such as work or studies are put on hold and even friendships can undergo a change. Feelings of loneliness and anxiety lead the individual to seek out others who have similar experiences. Many women find support in groups organized at the Family Centre. The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand womens´ experiences regarding their identity creation during the first time as a parent, as well as the importance of social relationships with other new parents to increase security and create less loneliness in the parental role. The study has used social psychological theories regarding, for example, the self, categorization and social comparison to interpret and understand the respondents' experiences. In the study, 10 semi-structured interviews were conducted with first-time mothers regarding their experiences of becoming a mother. The study's results show how the mother's identity develops and how the woman's belief in her own abilities is linked to the child's well-being. The child becomes part of the woman's self-image. In the parent group, the women experience a community with others in the same situation. Advice, support, thoughts and experiences are shared in an open climate, which together with the opportunity to consult staff leads to increased security and a reduced feeling of loneliness.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T11:06:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JULIA DE SOUSA NETO.pdf: 567011 bytes, checksum: dc698593e50ee8a1fba0c35df7c88258 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-22 / The object of this study is the novel Terra Sonâmbula, by Mia Couto, which fictionalizes African traditions and religion, referencing elements such as oral history, the figure of ancestry, magic and the belief in the possibility of interfering in material life through the use of supernatural forces. Our goal is to show how the ancestry is represented in the fictional of Terra sonâmbula. Therefore, we investigate identity, time, space and ancestry as modalities of human experience, worked by the speech of the characters, narrators and voices present in the narrative. We dialogue with authors like Angela Bello (1998), Irene Dias de Oliveira (2002), Ana Mafalda Leite (2003), Rita Chaves (2005), among other views on religion and ancestry, changes related to the colonial period and on the uses and customs, knowledge and techniques of African myths and rites. To explain, in a theoretical way, the presence of the sacred, the profane and questions about the myths, we have Mircea Eliade (2001, 2010, 2012); and to talk about identity and culture, we count on Homi Bhabha (2001), and Stuart Hall (2006). Besides these authors, we also dialogue with scholars who study the work of Mia Couto, with the intention of to identify answers to our questions about Terra Sonâmbula on the light of ancestry which is the subject of this work. / O objeto desta pesquisa é o romance Terra sonâmbula de Mia Couto, obra que ficcionaliza tradições e religiosidade africanas, fazendo constantemente referência a elementos como a história oral, a figura da ancestralidade, a magia e a crença na possibilidade de interferir na vida material por meio do uso de forças sobrenaturais. O nosso objetivo é o de mostrar como a ancestralidade é representada no tecido ficcional de Terra sonâmbula. Para tanto, investigamos identidade, tempo, espaço e ancestralidade como modalidades da experiência humana, trabalhadas pelo discurso das personagens, narradores e vozes presentes na narrativa. Dialogamos com autoras como Ângela Bello (1998), Irene Dias de Oliveira (2002), Ana Mafalda Leite (2003), Rita Chaves (2005), entre outros pontos de vista sobre a religião e a ancestralidade, as mudanças relativas ao período colonial e sobre os usos e costumes, o conhecimento e as técnicas dos ritos e mitos africanos. Para explicar, de forma teórica, a presença do sagrado e do profano, questões sobre os mitos, temos Mircea Eliade (2001, 2010, 2012); para falar sobre identidade e cultura, temos Homi Bhabha (2001) e Stuart Hall (2006). Além desses autores, dialogamos com estudiosos da obra de Mia Couto, com o intuito de identificar respostas às nossas indagações sobre Terra sonâmbula à luz da ancestralidade, tema deste trabalho.

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O presente estudo teve como objetivo verificar, a partir das relações de poder dentro do CRIAAD de Duque de Caxias e das possíveis influências que os jovens recebem por sua relação com o do tráfico de drogas, quais são as categorias de identificação presentes na formação identitária dos adolescentes que cumprem medidas socioeducativas no DEGASE. A geração de dados se fez por ocasião de grupos focais com dois segmentos de adolescentes, o primeiro com idade de 17 a 19 anos; o segundo com adolescentes de 14 a 16 anos. Foram realizados dois grupos focais, além de entrevistas com técnicos do CRIAAD. Todo o processo de coleta de dados foi devidamente autorizado pelo Juizado da Infância e do Idoso de Duque de Caxias e pela Escola de Gestão Socioeducativa Paulo Freire. Este estudo apoiou-se principalmente na Análise do Discurso da Linha Francesa, proposta por Michel Pêcheux, além dos estudos sobre as instituições de atendimento ao adolescente em conflito com a lei, conforme Altoé, o estudo sobre as prisões e as relações de poder, conforme Foucault e uma parte histórica sobre o surgimento do Comando Vermelho, de acordo com Carlos Amorim e o estudo sobre o slogan, de acordo com Olivier Reboul. A pesquisa constatou que há um discurso de resistência por parte dos adolescentes, utilizando-se a categoria de silêncio, e o discurso de silenciamento por parte dos profissionais que atuam com as medidas sócio-educativas, de acordo com Orlandi . Tais aspectos conferem as instâncias sócio-educativas uma relação de poder que não se apagou, mesmo com as mudanças no sistema de atendimento à criança e ao adolescente. / This study aimed to verify, through the power relations within the CRIAAD Duque de Caxias and the influences the relationship with the drug trade may exert over young people, what are the categories of identification present in the identity formation of the adolescents who imposed socioeducational measures in DEGASE. Data was collected through focus groups with two segments of adolescents, the first aged 17-19 years, the second with adolescents aged 14-16 years. Besides the research with the two focus groups, interviews with technicians from CRIAAD were also conducted. The whole process of data collection was authorized by the Juvenile Court for Children and the Elderly in Duque de Caxias and the Paulo Freire Socio-educational Management School. This study primarily relied on the French Discourse analysis style, proposed by Michel Pêcheux, in addition to Altoe's studies on institutions that care for adolescents in conflict with the law, Foucault's study of prisons and power relations, Carlos Amorim's historical part of the emergence of Comando Vermelho and the study on the slogan, by Olivier Reboul. The survey found that there is a discourse of resistance among the adolescents, who use the category of silence, and there is a silent speech from the professionals who deal with the socioeducational measures, according to Orlandi. Such aspects give the Socioeducational instances a power relationship that has not vanished, even with the changes introduced to the system of assistance for children and adolescents

In the last decade stratification within educational results has, in Sweden as in other countries, been framed as a matter of boys’ and young men’s under-achievement. The question of whether this is a problem, and if so, for whom and how to change the structure, has been discussed in research and educational policy. The aim of the thesis is to contribute to these fields and to enhance knowledge of young people’s gendered and classed identity processes, by analyzing how achievement and engagement were negotiated and given meaning in relation to young men. Previous research has primarily explored identity processes among “risk categories” or subordinated students. The objective here was to analyze how masculinity was accomplished via peer-group interactions within a rarely problematized category, through examining how upper middle-class young men identify themselves and are ascribed identities by others. The study’s design was inspired by ethnographic methodology and combined participant observation, semi-structured individual and group interviews and a background questionnaire. Identities, social categorizations (especially gender and class) and dominance-relations were thus analyzed from an actor-oriented perspective. The research participants were young men and women, age 15-16, in two school classes. The field work was conducted at, respectively, a Natural Science and a Vehicle Programme; educational settings with connotations to masculinity but significantly different in terms of class. The study enrolled a total of fifty-six students, but focus is upon the fifteen young men among the natural science students.  High achievement and under-achievement, high social and cognitive ability, and group loyalty are main themes in the study. Identity claims were analyzed in relation to the practices through which they were negotiated, e.g. self-hindrance. Similar to other research, the results emphasize the relationship between masculinity and “effortless achievement”. The concept “under-achievement” is developed as an analytical tool, by distinguishing between five dimensions.

This study investigates the relationship between the individual and their monthly donation to the INGO Amnesty International Sweden as a process of identity stimulation. Problematizing how consuming a brand whichdoes not give anything concrete back to the individual communicates through core values in order to strengthen identity. The study uses theories from Zygmunt Bauman, Sidney Levy, Lilie Chouliaraki and Ronald E. Anderson. According to research for the relationship between the individual and brand there has been a shift where the individual choses brands from other parameters than function, rather this is made from its representation. Therefore consuming brands is an expression for identity. Furthermore research about charity organizations states that there has been a shift in how they communicate and affect individuals’ need to reduce suffering - identity stimulation - as a consequence of neoliberalism. The study is constructed through a qualitative methodology that collects empirical data from responsive- and flexible deep interviews, with respondents who donates monthly to Amnesty International Sweden and are in the age gap between 18-30 years old. The study does not aim for a generalization of the result, rather it investigates how identity can be stimulated through Amnesty International Sweden using concepts as self-oriented, others-oriented and reduce suffering. The result proves what have been stated by former theories, were the relationship between the individual and brand functions as an identity stimulation through different aspects such as identification and distance, the individual as a product and ways to materialize this. However, there has been a clear shift in the individuals awareness of online and offline behaviour which affects how they present themselves as a product. As pointed out earlier by theories from Bauman and Levy, the resultemphasizesthat the individual consumes a brand that represents themselves and strengthens their identity individually and to their social environment. Lastly,the study discuss its result of new individual behavior online and offline as a consequence of neoliberalism and how research within media- and communication studies can further help us understand how communication technology and political forces can affect each other in regards of individual behaviour. The study and its result is situated in the junction between the digital communicative sphere and constant political changes.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:18:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Reinaldo Arruda Pereira.pdf: 2062538 bytes, checksum: f1b349f60f3d4a06096428740f526cd4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-10 / The religious diversity in Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century became progressive and moved at enormous speed. Given that, the process of diversification and pluralism of the Brazilian religious field has been considered in the scenario nowadays, creating new ways of thinking and of expressing religious faith. During that time, among the Baptists living in Belo Horizonte, specifically in the neighborhood called Lagoinha; a new religious organization emerged, the so-called Lagoinha Baptist Church (IBL). In its early days, even though carrying "the Baptist name", this new church took a very singular dynamic form of church liturgy known as " revival/awakening" or "charismatic," whose religious message and practice emphasized and highlighted the manifestation of "spiritual gifts" and experiential "awakening " as the evidence of" baptism in the Holy Spirit. " per se. As a result, there were reactions from the traditional Baptists because the IBL manifestations were deemed as similarly closed to another religious movement so-called Pentecostalism, which differs from those practices adopted by the Baptists from Minas Gerais, deemed as historic and traditional. As result of this new church engagement to Revivalism/Awakening and charismatic practices, the IBL achieved theological, organizational and administrative independence and autonomy. Consequently, the IBL was excluded from the list of cooperating and co-partners Baptist churches of the Brazilian & Mineira Baptist Convention. This church took a religious structure characterized by Revivalism and traces of the Pentecostalism movement within the Baptist denomination. These new traces and paradigms of the IBL were chosen to be analyzed in this paper. However, this thesis takes into account sociological studies regarding religion per se. In other words, the thesis wants to explore how the changes that occurred at IBL are intrinsically correlated to theories of cultural and socio-cultural symbolism. That is to say IBL history and identity are related to the processes of urbanization and modernization of society, which fostered the emergence of more flexible, adaptable and in constant changes of religious forms. Therefore, from this correlation we would like to postulate that the IBL is a religious organization, hybrid, changeable/adjustable, and "broadcasted" with an identity that makes and remakes it, as IBL is being adjusted to a kind of culture that is at the same time, urban, evangelical, technological, broadcasted and well advertised. / A diversidade religiosa brasileira na segunda metade do século XX tornou-se progressiva e tomou enorme velocidade. Com isso, o processo de diversificação e pluralização do campo religioso brasileiro começava a ganhar o contorno atual, abrindo espaço para novas formas de crer e de expressar a fé religiosa. Nessa mesma época, entre os batistas de Belo Horizonte, no bairro da Lagoinha, surgia uma nova organização religiosa, a Igreja Batista da Lagoinha (IBL). Já em seus primeiros dias essa nova igreja assumiu um dinamismo próprio de igrejas conhecidas como avivadas ou carismáticas , cuja mensagem e prática religiosa reforçavam, por meio de dons espirituais e de experiências extáticas , a evidência do batismo no Espírito Santo . Houve reações por parte dos batistas tradicionais, pois a IBL manifestava-se, por um lado, mais próxima de uma religiosidade em processo de pentecostalização e, por outro, mais distante daquela adotada pelos batistas mineiros, identificados como históricos. Esta nova igreja, devido ao seu engajamento no avivalismo e nas práticas carismáticas, alcançou independência teológica, organizacional e administrativa, pois foi excluída do rol das igrejas batistas cooperadoras da Convenção Batista Mineira e Brasileira. É essa igreja que assumiu uma forma religiosa avivada e que desenvolveu o processo de pentecostalização entre os batistas que escolhemos analisar neste trabalho. Entretanto, a análise que realizamos e que se embasou nos estudos da sociologia da religião, nas teorizações da cultura e na simbologia sociocultural, mostrou que as modificações ocorridas na trajetória e na identidade IBL, são correlatas aos processos de urbanização e modernização da sociedade e ao surgimento de formas religiosas, mais flexíveis, adaptáveis e em constante reconfiguração. Portanto, a partir dessa correlação é que podemos afirmar que a IBL é uma organização religiosa híbrida, mutacional, midiática e com uma identidade que se faz e refaz, já que ela está se ajustando a um tipo de cultura que é, ao mesmo tempo, urbana, gospel, tecnológica, mercadológica e comunicacional.