Les séries familiales, qui connaissent un franc succès aux États-Unis depuis les années 1950, ne sont aujourd’hui toujours pas considérées comme un genre fictionnel à part entière. Ce travail de recherche s’attache à en dessiner les contours et à en définir les caractéristiques. Après avoir effectué un historique de la série familiale et de son évolution, il analyse les constantes sociologiques, culturelles et politiques de la famille télévisée contemporaine et la manière dont elle reflète les évolutions de la société américaine, à travers l’étude de quatre séries télévisées de 2000 à 2015 représentatives de sa diversité : Malcolm in the Middle, Gilmore Girls, Six Feet Under et Parenthood. / Family TV shows, hugely successful in the United States since the 1950s, are still not considered today a genre in it’s own right. This research work focuses on shaping its contours and defining its characteristics. After presenting a history of family TV shows and its evolution, it analyzes the sociological, cultural and political constants of the contemporary TV family, and the way it reflects the changes in American society, through the study of four TV shows from 2000 to 2015 representative of its diversity : Malcolm in the Middle, Gilmore Girls, Six Feet Under and Parenthood.

In the 20th century the relationship between African-Americans and Africa grew into a prominent subject in the lives and perspectives of people who claim Africanheritage because almost every facet of American life distinguished people based on skin color. The prevailing discourse of the day said that the way a person looked was deeply to who they were.1 People with dark skin were associated with Africa, and the notion of this connection has survived to this day. Scholars such as Molefi Kete Asante point to cultural retentions as evidence of the enduring connection between African-Americans and Africa, while any person could look to the shade of their skin as an indication of their African origins. In either case, something seems to always hearken back to Africa. However, in this modern world there is a gap between Africans and African Americans: African-Americans have achieved some great milestones in terms of liberty and equality, while many people living on the African continent still suffer poverty, political disenfranchisement, and precluded liberties. African-Americans have made great strides in dealing with these problems at home, but it is clear that they are on the whole better off than their African counterparts. The lectures and writings of W.E.B. Dubois, Malcolm X, and Kwame Nkrumah reveal that the linkages between African-Americans and Africans are political in nature and therefore do not rest solely on connections of culture or color, but on the shared struggle to achieve the unalienable rights guaranteed to all people.

This thesis presents a study of systems of the quality s administration, with focus on the Malcolm Baldrige Program for the education, analyzing the recommendations of the criteria: 1) leadership, 2) strategic planning, 3) students,interested parts and focus on the market, 4) information, analysis and knowledge administration, 5) focus on people and 6) administration of processes. Considering a qualitative research at Colégio Agrícola de Santa Maria (CASM) RS, which offers technical teaching and high school, it was carried out a survey on the practices of the school s administration, relating them to the criteria of such a Program. After the profile s description, strong points and improvement opportunity in the practices of the school s administration were identified, highlighting the teachers' high qualification and their pedagogical project. As improvement opportunity, it is suggested the identification of the students' needs, of the interested parts and of the market, which are contemplated in an action proposal of the quality for CASM, accomplishing this work s main objective / Esta dissertação apresenta o estudo de sistemas de gestão da qualidade, com foco no Programa Malcolm Baldrige para a educação, analisando as recomendações dos seus critérios: 1) liderança, 2) planejamento estratégico, 3) estudantes, partes interessadas e foco no mercado, 4) informação, análise e gerenciamento do conhecimento, 5) enfoque nas pessoas e 6) gerenciamento de processos. Mediante uma pesquisa qualitativa no Colégio Agrícola de Santa Maria/RS que atua no ensino técnico e médio, realizou-se um levantamento das práticas de gestão da escola, relacionando-as com os critérios do Programa citado. Após a descrição do perfil, identificaram-se os pontos fortes e oportunidade de melhoria nas práticas de gestão da escola, salientando-se a alta qualificação dos docentes e o seu projeto pedagógico. Como oportunidades de melhoria sugere-se a identificação das necessidades dos estudantes, das partes interessadas e do mercado, que estão contempladas em uma proposta de ações da qualidade para o CASM, cumprindo o objetivo principal deste trabalho