Darbo objektas - žmonių gerovės ir laimės sąryšis Darbo tikslas - ištirti žmonių gerovės kilimo ir laimės sąryšį Lietuvoje. Darbo uždaviniai: Ištirti ir susisteminti mokslinę teorinę ir empirinę literatūra, nagrinėjančią gerovės ir laimės ryšius. Remiantis literatūros analize, suformuluoti tyrimo metodiką, bei pateikti jos pagrindimą. Išnagrinėti žmonių gerovę lemiančius veiksnius ir išanalizuoti žmonių laimės indeksą labiausiai įtakojančius faktorių dinamiką Lietuvoje bei palyginti su kitų šalių duomenimis. Išstudijavus gerovę ir laimę lemiančius veiksnių dinamiką išnagrinėti jų tarpusavio sąryšį, taikant statistinės analizės metodus; Atlikti gyventojų anketinę apklausą, siekiant nustatyti veiksnius, įtakojančius jų laimės pojūtį bei įvertinti jų poveikį laimės pojūčiui užsibrėžtoje skalėje. / Work item - the people's welfare and happiness, and the relationship between them. The aim - to explore people's welfare and happiness, and relationship between them in Lithuania. Job tasks: 1. Investigate scientific, theoretical and empirical literature dealing with the welfare and happiness. 2. Based on the literature analysis, create formulation of research methodology, and to provide its justification. 3. Examine human welfare and to analyze the determinants of human happiness index of the factors influencing the dynamics of Lithuania, and compared with data from other countries. 4. Examination welfare and happiness of the determinants of factors to examine the dynamics of their relationship, the application of statistical methods of analysis; 5. Make survey questionnaire, in order to identify the factors that influence people sense of happiness and to assess their impact on the feelings of happiness's scale. Hypothesis - people's feeling of happiness in Lithuania are directly dependent on their economic welfare. The work will contain three parts. The first part is an overview of scientific information, scientific articles related to the path of prosperity and happiness, and relationships. The second part will present the study methodology and its rationale, as well as analysis of the key indicators of well-being and happiness a sense of the determinants of the trend in Lithuania and statistically assess the relationship between them. The third section will present... [to full text]

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:43:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 601456 bytes, checksum: bbada474b85b296ebd2f0e4fe2ccaa74 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-04-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The enunciation in the religious discourse in the faithful´s testimonies from the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus is an analysis that points out to a new research perspective concerning religious studies. The present work, therefore, is a different insight about the religious phenomenon. It focuses on the prosperity theme present in the faithful´s testimonies from the mentioned church. Such corpus was displayed on this church s site in 2009. Our main aim, thus, was to analyze the meaning of the religious discourse in these people s enunciation process. The religious texts do constitute a wide research field from the Sociology related to the religion area, with its interpretation, favoring the mutual interaction between religion and society; the perspective of Theology in regard to hermeneutics and their interpretations of biblical principles, according to Friedrich Scheleiermacher (1768-843) and Boff (2005); to the linguistic and discursive perspective, being still very little exploited. Concerning the sociological point of view theoretical basis, we can mention Queiroz (1976); Bourdieu (2007); Wilges (1987/1988) and Bittencourt Filho (2003), among others in the area. As to the linguistic and discursive field, we can find some theoretical support in Bakhtin´s enunciation theory and dialogism (1972/2003); Brait (1996), as well as in an analysis of the religious discourse and the ways in which it is processed (ORLANDI, 1987). The Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus owns a persuasive discourse and it revisits the Words of Scripture so as to have support to its instant prosperity and happiness proposal. Such fact has somewhat directed our interest concerning this research, once we tried to study and understand the way the religious discourse, present in these texts, can characterize the persuasion modes and, therefore, reframe hope and prosperity in the selected testimonies. Thus, in an effort to fulfill our aims, some bibliographical surveys, concerning the enunciation theory through the Bakhtinian theoretical perspective, were made. Besides, we also carried out some research on the religious discourse theory. Apart from this, we selected our corpus, which was based on the faithful´s testimonies from the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, displayed on this church s official site. Though our analysis we could realize that both the persuasion as well as the act of convincing people are present in the religious discourse of the mentioned church. We can verify the presence of different discursive voices, which are somewhat articulated, marking the religious discourse enunciation. Besides, we could verify that it enables the perception of discourse not only as a theological or religious analysis object but it can be thought as related to other areas, receiving significant contributions to the renewal of the religious study. We present, therefore, a work that was articulated as an effort to enrich some approaches in the religious field outside the specific fields of theology and sociology, even though it does not abandon or disregard their contributions. / A Enunciação no discurso religioso em testemunhos de fiéis da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus é uma análise que se abre a uma nova perspectiva sobre os estudos religiosos. Um olhar diferente sobre o fenômeno religioso, esta pesquisa é um recorte que versa sobre o tema da prosperidade em testemunhos de fiéis iurdianos expostos no site institucional desta igreja no ano de 2009. O objetivo principal é analisar os sentidos do discurso religioso no processo de enunciação em testemunhos de fiéis da IURD. Os textos religiosos se constituem como um campo de muitas pesquisas, desde a Sociologia da religião com sua interpretação global do fenômeno religioso privilegiando a interação permanente e mútua entre religião e sociedade; a perspectiva da Teologia com a hermenêutica e suas interpretações dos princípios bíblicos, segundo Friedrich Scheleiermacher( 1768-843) e Boff( 2005); até a perspectiva linguística e discursiva, ainda pouco explorada. Do ponto de vista sociológico, podemos citar Queiroz (1976); Bourdieu( 2007); Wilges(1987/1988); Bittencourt Filho( 2003); entre outros da área; enquanto na vertente linguística e discursiva encontramos respaldo nos trabalhos sobre enunciação e dialogismo de Bakhtin( 1972/2003); Brait( 1996); e uma análise das modalidades do discurso religioso e as formas pelas quais se processam suas manifestações com Orlandi (1987). A IURD é detentora de um discurso persuasivo e agressivo, impõe novos conceitos e revisita os dizeres bíblicos para fundamentar sua proposta de prosperidade e felicidade instantâneas. Diante disso, fazse importante e intrigante o poder que a palavra, o discurso exerce sobre a sociedade e suas crenças. A IURD se utiliza desses artifícios linguísticos e discursivos para concretizar seu domínio religioso tão marcante em na atualidade. Esse fato, de certa forma, direcionou o interesse e o rumo desta pesquisa, estudar e compreender como o discurso religioso, desses textos, podem caracterizar os modos de persuasão e ressignificar os sentidos de esperança e prosperidade nos testemunhos selecionados. Para dar conta da pesquisa, foram feitos levantamentos bibliográficos sobre a teoria da enunciação na perspectiva bakhtiniana e de algumas teorias sobre o discurso religioso, houve uma seleção do corpus pesquisado, levantado especificamente com base em testemunhos de fiéis iurdianos expostos na homepage oficial da igreja. Com as análises pudemos evidenciar que a persuasão e o convencimento se fazem presentes no discurso religioso da IURD. Há presença de diferentes vozes que se articulam e se sobrepõem nos dizeres dos testemunhos e que marcam a enunciação no discurso religioso. Possibilita a percepção desse discurso não só como objeto de análise teológica ou religiosa , pode, ao ser pensado em outros domínios, receber contribuições importantes para a renovação do estudo da religião e assim nos trazer importantes revelações. Apresentamos, portanto, um trabalho que foi articulado na perspectiva de enriquecer as abordagens no campo religioso fora dos domínios específicos da Teologia e da Sociologia, mas que não abandona ou desconsidera suas contribuições.

Smart Prosperity (SP) brings together multi-sectoral business leaders, policy experts, unions and progressive NGO change makers to align Canada’s civil society messaging on climate change action and policy. SP has recently found national relevance thanks to considerable policy uptake by Justin Trudeau’s ruling federal Liberal party. Rooted in a neoclassical economic model of demand-management, SP positions themselves as the architects of an energy transition regime of consumer price signals. This study examines 118 of SP’s academic and policy reports from 2008 to 2018 using an institutional ethnographic approach to textual analysis to consider the ideological and ontological consequences of SP’s policy program for the tender geographies of communities in Canada. SP is found to contrive a terrain of energy possibilities that rests on administrative abstraction, economism and market fetishism, and which places the economic administrator at the heart of Canada’s social and natural relations. / Graduate

This dissertation is an ideological critique of the New Black Church model of ministry, with T.D. Jakes and Woman Thou Art Loosed (WTAL) as a case study. T.D. Jakes is an African American televangelist who pastors The Potter’s House, a supermegachurch in Dallas, Texas. He is the quintessential example of a New Black Church pastor—a religious entrepreneur with several successful faith brands. WTAL is by far his most successful brand. Unashamed of his capitalist success, with an empire estimated to be worth $100 million dollars, Jakes says that it is occupational discrimination for him not to reap the benefits of the American dream. This dissertation identifies what has happened to the brand and Jakes’s ministry as “the Wal-Martization of African American Religion.” As a theoretical concept, Wal-Martization speaks to both the ideology and process that explains the generational differences between the New Black Church and the Black Church. It also is indicative of the branding and storytelling at every level of representation of the New Black Church. Jakes and New Black Church pastors are successful because they blur the lines between sacred and secular when they combine their vocations of pastor and entrepreneur. In this dissertation, I propose a cultural studies approach and a two-fold theological method for scholars to study these popular preachers. The method combines James McClendon’s Biography as Theology and Paul Tillich’s definitions of theology and theological norm from Systematic Theology. The method is a collaborative effort between the academic theologian and preacher. The scholar uses Biography as Theology to study the preacher (Jakes), and the second part of the method, Brand as Theology and Theological Norm, is where the scholar uses qualitative research methods to study the brand (WTAL). I define theologies of prosperity as contextual theologies of empire on a continuum that affirm it is God’s will and a believer’s right to obtain health and wealth by using Scripture and rituals like seed-faith giving and positive confession. Because these popular preachers offer adherents existential explanations for suffering (health and wealth), and prescriptions for liberation, I describe theologies of prosperity as theodicy and contemporary liberation theology. However, unlike traditional liberation theologies, these theologies do not have a preferential option for the poor. Instead, Jakes and other New Black Church pastors only offer adherents a pseudo-liberation. In essence, the stories of liberation that Bishop Jakes tells in his brands do not actually empower women, ideologically these stories only encourage women to stay loyal to his brand, become covenant ministry partners, and to buy more products. Jakes and New Black Church pastors are from the Second Gilded Age, they encourage women to pursue individual success within an oppressive system. Similar to Russell Conwell and other celebrity clerics from the First Gilded Age, Jakes and these pastors inadvertently blame the victims for their poverty and for not reaping the benefits of the American Dream, which according to prosperity preachers is available to all.

In the diploma thesis, which is focused on the development of the welfare state, the development of the welfare state in economies with upper middle income is described. The theoretical part deals with an introduction to the theory of the welfare state, the most commonly used definitions and typologies. Following part focuses on the description of circumstances of the formation of the welfare state and the characteristics of its basic activities. The practical part is devoted to the description of the development of the welfare state in three countries, meeting the criterion of upper middle income, specifically in Argentina, Botswana and Brazil. For the purposes of subsequent comparison, the development of the welfare state in developed countries such as Germany, Great Britain and Sweden is briefly described. The final chapter deals with the time series analysis of social prosperity indicators and assessment of the indicator's development.

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L’étude que nous avons menée sur la représentation des xenia dans la Tunisie romaine, s’inscrit dans le cadre général du rapport de l’architecture domestique avec l’affirmation du statut social de l’élite africaine. La construction de la domus était, sans doute, un projet stratégique qui exigeait des notables une réflexion sérieuse sur la meilleure façon d’exalter les signes extérieurs de leur richesse, de leur bon goût et, en définitive, de leur appartenance à l’idéal de vie romain dans lequel l’hospitalité, exprimée par le décor de xenia, occupe une place de choix. Les mosaïques à xenia dans la Tunisie romaine sont les plus nombreuses à l’échelle de l’Empire. elles représentent trois particularités, la première concerne la composition des pavements : les motifs de xenia sont représentés isolés et, dans la plupart des cas, associés à d’autres thèmes décoratifs ; la deuxième se rapporte à la répartition de ces mosaïques dans l’espace domestique, couvrant toutes les composantes de la domus et non pas seulement les pièces réservées aux hôtes ; la troisième, enfin, touche à la sémantique des xenia qui traduit certains aspects de l’histoire mentale de l’élite Afro-romaine. / The mosaics of xenia in the Roman area of Tunisia are the most numerous at the scale of the Empire. They present three particularities, the first one concerns the compositions of the ornamental tiling: the xenia motifs are represented isolated and, in most cases, associated with other decorative themes; the second one relates to the distribution of those mosaics in the household space covering all components of the domus and not just the rooms reserved for the hosts; finally the third one touches the semantic of the xenia which does not refer itself only about hospitality.

The objective of this case study is to explore the social functions performed by a Charismatic church in central Pretoria for its congregants and for its surrounding community. The growth of the Charismatic movement and the ‘wealth ministry’ in recent years and the subsequent notoriety of the ‘prosperity gospel,’ (especially popular within the Charismatic church movement) which encourages people to give tithes and offerings as a pre-requisite for material blessings are the fundamental motivators of the study. The study seeks to understand how the church, through its creed and sermons affects and shapes the social behaviour of its members, and its impact on socially relevant issues facing the surrounding community. The respondents are members of the church’s congregation of varying ages, nationalities and class. They were identified by making use of the snowball selection method. The key finding is that although the ‘wealth ministry’ and ‘prosperity gospel’ are generally associated with Charismatic churches, material gain is not the main emphasis of every Charismatic church’s ministry, and in fact, this Charismatic church offers its members and the community more non-material and intangible spiritual benefits. / Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / Sociology / unrestricted

This thesis analyzes the factors determining the prosperity of medium-sized company. In the theoretical part, these factors are divided into four basic areas of corporate governance, those are management, marketing, human resource management and financial management. The thesis then describes methods and approaches used to analyze these areas. In the practical part these method and procedures are applied to specific medium-sized company opetating on the market of gardening and park implementations and maintenance of greenery. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the current state of the company in the areas of management, marketing, financial and personnel management and assess current situation, and based on these analyzes to create a set of specific short-term and long-term measures and recommendations leading to more efficient company.

This thesis deals with the concept of corporate performance management. The main goal is to present the main aspects of business performance and prosperity and according to this find the way to prosperity. The work is divided into several parts. The first part is focused on the theoretical basis of business management prosperity. The second part deals with the concept of performance management. The third part deals with the forecasting function. The last part is the application of theoretical knowledge from previous sections. Unfortunately, the area of corporate performance management and business prosperity is so broad and the scope of this thesis is limited. This applies to the methods that can be used. Emphasis was placed on the most used methods. The thesis should provide a comprehensive view on this issue.