Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:49:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Helyda Di Oliveira.pdf: 531543 bytes, checksum: 905d07eb9a6271ccae96f40e070e5f35 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-03-23 / The context of the modern society is based on disenchantment and reenchantment. Disenchantment, caused by the extreme rationality, promoter of the secularization that controls the human being by the super valorization of the reason of the science, hindering him of the transcendent and of the mystery that exists in his life, favoring the disenchantment. Reenchantment emerged by the necessity of remeaning the life, through the rethinking of the values related to the sacred, propitiating a new meeting with the magic and the transcendent, promoter factors of reenchantment. In the antecedent period to the secularization, the sacred was searched and lived in religious rituals; nowadays, in the modern times, it is lsearched in a diffuse way and not necessarily institutional. In the context of modernity, the sacred is presented in the New Age Moviment that is characterized as a phenomenon that corresponds the post-traditional religiosity with the notion of a phenomenon that matches a new religious perception . The field of observation and search occurred in Holistic AgapeCircle, in Goiânia. The purpose of this work is to outline the both sides of a process that arises in modern life. If there is disenchantment, is because, in some point inthe past, there was the enchantment. / O contexto da sociedade moderna é de desencanto e reencanto. Desencanto, causado pela extrema racionalidade, promotora da secularização que domina o ser humano através da super valorização da razão e da ciência, tolhendo-o do transcendente e do mistério que há em sua vida, favorecendo o desencantamento. Reencanto aflorado pela necessidade de ressignificar a vida, através do repensar de valores relacionados ao sagrado, propiciando um reencontro com a magia e com o transcendente, fatores promotores de reencanto. No período antecedente à secularização, o sagrado era buscado e vivenciado em rituais religioso; agora, na modernidade, ele é buscado de maneira difusa e não necessariamente institucional. Na modernidade, o sagrado se apresenta no Movimento Nova Era caracterizado como religiosidade pós-tradicional com a noção de um fenômeno que corresponde a uma nova consciência religiosa . O campo de observação e pesquisa ocorreu no Círculo Holístico Ágape, em Goiânia. O objetivo deste trabalho é esboçar os dois lados de um processo que eclode na vida moderna. Se há desencanto, é porque algum dia já houve o encanto.

Based on the concept of path-dependence, this thesis examines regional representatives’ notion of rationalizations in three Swedish regions. In the provinces of Skåne and Västra Götaland the responsibility for welfare issues like health care, regional development, communications, and culture, is appointed to the two organizations Region Skåne and Västra Götalandsregionen. Both organizations are results of merger processes between old organizations called landsting, with a smaller geographical scale and less responsibility. In Svealand three landsting formally have applied for a similar fusion like the ones in Skåne and in Västra Götaland. The idea behind these fusions is that rationalizations in the field of welfare, are achieved by changing the scale of production, from lesser to larger units. This thesis shows that the perceived effect of rationalization by fusion, can take time. Old norms, values, and cultures that emanate from the landsting are for example conceived by the regional representatives in Västra Götaland and in Svealand, to prevent what kind of rationalizations the organizations are able to accomplish. In Skåne, on the contrary, the notion that the regional organization has overcome its historically defined problems, dominate. In that sense, Västra Götalandregionen and the region-building process in Svealand are path-dependent. But Region Skåne, on the other hand, has overcome its historical institutional legacy. This thesis highlights the importance of examining organization histories to be able to understand why certain decisions are hard to make, and why institutions evolve or not. This is also important to acknowledge when the regions’ representatives try to construct regions. From this perspective, the thesis tries to clarify how people’s expectations can delay what kind of rationalizations an organization can implement and how these expectations seem to legitimize what decisions the organization are able to take. The thesis also tries to clarify one way of using the concept of “path-dependence” in academic studies by the usage of ideal types.

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