Abstract Regular physical activity, a high level of cardiorespiratory fitness and the maintenance of normal weight are strongly associated with several positive health outcomes across the lifespan. The aim of this study was to evaluate how physical activity and social status in adolescence are associated with physical activity in adulthood, and how a change in the level of physical activity from adolescence to adulthood is associated with overall and abdominal obesity in adulthood. This study also evaluated the relationship between occupational physical activity and physical fitness and produced reference values of cardiorespiratory fitness for males and females aged 31 years. The study population consisted of the Northern Finland birth cohort of 1966 (N = 12,058). Data on physical activity and social situation at 14 and 31 years were collected by postal inquiries in 1980 and in 1997–1998, respectively. Cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular fitness and obesity were measured at medical examination at age 31. Participation in sports twice a week or more after school hours, being a member in a sports club and a high grade in school sports at age 14 were associated with a high level of physical activity at age 31. Adolescent participation in rather intensive endurance sports, and some sports that require or encourage diversified sports skills appeared to be the most beneficial with respect to the enhancement of adult physical activity. Low social class and poor school achievements were associated with physical inactivity at age 14. Poor school achievements at age 14 were also associated with physical inactivity at age 31. Becoming inactive during the transition from adolescence to adulthood was associated with overall obesity in both genders and abdominal obesity in females at 31 years. A linear dose-response relationship was observed between the frequency of participation in brisk exercise and cardiorespiratory fitness. The mean peak oxygen uptake was 43 ml·kg-1·min-1 in males and 34 ml·kg-1·min-1 in females. Very low levels of cardiorespiratory fitness were associated with a combination of infrequent participation in brisk exercise and increased body mass index. High level of occupational physical activity was associated with a high level of physical fitness, but low level of leisure-time physical activity at age 31. The enhancement of regular participation in physical activity across the lifespan is an important challenge for public health promotion. The present results that define the predictors and correlates of physical activity can be used to identify the target groups for interventions to enhance continuous participation in physical activities. New information on physical fitness of young adults is useful in physical activity counseling when fitness test results are interpreted and the need for health-enhancing or fitness-improving physical activity is evaluated. / Tiivistelmä Säännöllinen liikunta, hyvä fyysinen kunto ja normaali paino ovat yhteydessä hyvään terveyteen. Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli selvittää, miten liikunta-aktiivisuus ja sosiaaliset tekijät nuoruusiässä ovat yhteydessä liikunta-aktiivisuuteen aikuisena, sekä miten liikunta-aktiivisuuden muutos nuoruudesta aikuisikään on yhteydessä lihavuuteen ja keskivartalolihavuuteen aikuisena. Lisäksi selvitettiin raskaan ruumiillisen työn yhteyttä fyysiseen kuntoon nuorilla työntekijöillä ja luotiin aerobisen kunnon väestöpohjaiset viitearvot 31-vuotiaille. Tutkimusaineiston muodosti Pohjois-Suomen syntymäkohortti 1966 (N = 12058). Liikunta-aktiivisuus selvitettiin postikyselyin 14- ja 31-vuotiaana vuosina 1980 ja 1997–1998. Aerobinen kunto, lihaskunto, lihavuus ja keskivartalolihavuus mitattiin 31-vuotiaana terveystarkastuksessa. Urheilun harrastaminen kaksi kertaa viikossa tai useammin kouluajan ulkopuolella, kuuluminen urheiluseuraan ja hyvä liikuntanumero 14-vuotiaana olivat yhteydessä aktiiviseen liikkumiseen 31-vuotiaana. Intensiivisten kestävyyslajien sekä tiettyjen monipuolisia taitoja vaativien tai kehittävien lajien harrastaminen nuorena oli voimakkaimmin yhteydessä aktiiviseen liikkumiseen aikuisena. Heikko sosioekonominen asema ja heikko koulumenestys olivat yhteydessä liikkumattomuuteen 14-vuotiaana. Heikko koulumenestys 14-vuotiaana ennusti liikkumattomuutta myös 31-vuotiaana. Muutos liikunnallisesti aktiivisesta inaktiiviseksi 14 ja 31 ikävuoden välillä oli sekä miehillä että naisilla yhteydessä lihavuuteen ja naisilla keskivartalolihavuuteen 31-vuotiaana. Maksimaalinen hapenottokyky oli kohortin 31-vuotiailla miehillä keskimäärin 43 ml·kg-1·min-1 ja naisilla 34 ml·kg-1·min-1. Ripeän liikunnan harrastaminen oli positiivisesti ja lineaarisesti yhteydessä maksimaaliseen hapenottokykyyn. Erittäin matala maksimaalinen hapenottokyky havaittiin niillä 31-vuotiailla, jotka harrastivat harvoin ripeää liikuntaa ja olivat ylipainoisia tai lihavia. Raskas ruumiillinen työ oli yhteydessä hyvään fyysiseen kuntoon mutta vähäiseen vapaa-ajan liikuntaan 31-vuotiailla työntekijöillä. Liikunta-aktiivisuuden tukeminen elämänkulun eri vaiheissa on tärkeä haaste terveyden edistämisessä. Tämän tutkimuksen tuloksia liikkumattomuuteen liittyvistä nuoruusiän ja aikuisiän tekijöistä voidaan hyödyntää, kun määritellään kohderyhmiä interventioihin elinikäisen liikunnan edistämiseksi. Tuloksia nuorten aikuisten fyysiseen kuntoon liittyvistä tekijöistä voidaan hyödyntää käytännön liikuntaneuvonnassa, kun tulkitaan kuntotestien tuloksia ja määritellään tarvetta terveyttä edistävän ja fyysistä kuntoa kohottavan liikunnan lisäämiseksi.

The thesis titled "Czech serial Velmi křehké vztahy characters with regard to their property estate and social class" is linked to specialised publications which originated in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University in Prague mapping how the 'after the velvet revolution' series made by the Czech TV portray the topic of wealth and affluence. The theory part consist of findings from two socio-scientific fields, i.e. sociology and media studies, the outcomes of which will consequently meet in the research part of this thesis. The subject matter of the research part of this thesis is the episodes of the third season of the Velmi křehké vztahy soap opera which was broadcast by the Prima Czech TV channel between 2008 and 2009. This research sample was achieved by using a qualitative research technique, specifically the grounded theory method. The thesis focuses predominantly on how a class hierarchy and wealth determine their character. The attention is also paid to listing various social classes which appear in the series, and to the outline of the areas of a social life in which the social mobility is possible. The research part of the thesis also focuses on which professions are represented mostly in the series and how characters are portrayed when working. There is also a part dedicated to...

The ability to classify complex visual forms was studied in three, four, and five year old children. Each subject performed two tasks based on two classes of computer-generated stimuli. The oddity task required the identification of the odd form in a set of three eight-sided polygons. The sequential task required the assignment of each sequentially presented single polygon to one of two classes. No feedback was given. The results revealed a marked developmental change in classification ability occurring between about 4 1/2 and 5 1/2 years of age. The oddity task appeared to be a more sensitive test of class concept formation. / Arts, Faculty of / Psychology, Department of / Graduate

Orientador: Jose Martins Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T09:11:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernandes_JoseRodrigues_M.pdf: 799135 bytes, checksum: 23b5851e78c06b41936d54867f2a5f28 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: A pesquisa trata-se de um levantamento epidemiológico no Município de São Paulo ¿ SP, Brasil, em 137 crianças em situação de rua, de ambos os sexos, para avaliar as condições de saúde bucal. As inspeções foram realizadas segundo critério da OMS, utilizando o índice CPO-D. O termo ¿em situação de rua¿ foi utilizado para definir jovens que vivem perambulando pelas ruas e praças públicas, ainda, para aqueles que pela baixa condição econômica vivem de pequenos trabalhos ou esmolando pelos faróis da cidade, que podem vir a ser um morador de rua. Os últimos trinta e cinco anos da odontologia brasileira sofreram profundas transformações técnicas e científicas, que resultou na queda do índice de CPO-D nos diversos grupos populacionais. Em 1986, o CPO-D aos doze anos de idade, a média nacional era de 6,67, reduzindo em 2004 para a marca de 2.8, atingindo as metas da OMS para o ano 2000, por outro lado o índice encontrado para cidade de São Paulo foi de 2,3. Os jovens foram divididos em grupos: No grupo I ¿ crianças que trabalhavam em semáforos, o índice CPO-D aos 12 anos foi de 4,4; o grupo II ¿ jovens moradores de rua, CPO-D, de 6,5; e finalmente o grupo III ¿ adolescentes institucionalizados, CPO-D obtido 4,7, desviando da média estadual de 2,30. A faixa etária de 5 à 6 anos, encontramos 100% das crianças acometidas pela cárie dental, apresentando CPO médio de 1.45. O atendimento odontológico, no município de São Paulo, principalmente na periferia, é limitada em recursos humanos, na grande maioria das unidades de saúde o cirurgião dentista não faz parte do quadro funcional, e onde estão presentes, praticam exclusivamente uma odontologia mutiladora, sem a valorização da prevenção, e não utilizam em larga escala os modernos materiais odontológicos, principalmente os liberadores de flúor. Pressupomos que as condições socioeconômicas desses menores sejam condicionantes às cáries dentarias, geralmente habitam espaços reduzidos, com lugares impróprios a higiene bucal, convivendo diariamente com a falta do imprescindível à qualidade de vida, sobrevivem com uma média de duzentos e quarenta reais, por família. A baixa renda familiar implica na restrição dos materiais de higiene bucal, 36,5% não possuíam escova dental e 58% não utilizavam regularmente o creme dental. Os que relataram escovar os dentes três vezes ao dia apresentaram CPO-D, de 0,96; duas vezes, 2,23; uma vez, 4,67 e nenhuma vez 5,35 / Abstract: The aim of this study was to realize and epidemiologic survey in São Paulo ¿ SP, Brazil, in 137 street young of both sexus, to evoluate the conditions of oral health, the oral inspections, were done following who¿s criterion. The Young, had been divided in group I ¿ they work in lighthouses, the index DMFT of 12 years old was 4,4. In the group II ¿ they live in the street, DMFT, was 6,5, and group III ¿ they are in an institution, DMFT, was 4,7. Deviating from the state average of 2,30. Of this children, 36,5% did not possessed dental brush and 58% do not utilize the dental creme relugalarly. Who daily to brush their tooth, the ones had told to brush, DMFT was, 0,96; twice, 2,23; the ones 4,67; time and not time 5,35 / Mestrado / Saude da Criança e do Adolescente / Mestre em Saude da Criança e do Adolescente

Fundação de Apoio a Pesquisa e à Inovação Tecnológica do Estado de Sergipe - FAPITEC/SE / Objective: To estimate the prevalence of risk behaviors to health and its association with sociodemographic characteristics among adolescents in Aracaju and the metropolitan area, Sergipe, Brazil to the investigation and present evidence regarding the existence of intervention programs in physical activity for adolescents through of a systematic review. Methods: For the survey research, the sample consisted of 2207 adolescents (13 to 18 years) enrolled in public schools of the municipalities that make up the observed region. The survey information was held electing the following behaviors: "low levels of physical activity" and "watching time TV/day", through the PAQ-C, "drinking", "consumption of more than five doses of alcohol on a single occasion", "involvement in fights", "cigarette smoking", "bear arms" and "marijuana use", identified by YRBS instrument and "economic class" accessed for ABEP. For the systematic review, surveys were conducted in PubMed, SportDiscus, Lilacs and SciELO from keywords to population identification, intervention and outcome, with the DeCS and MeSH terms in English, Portuguese and Spanish. They included observational studies with minimal intervention six months, minimum sample size of 100 teenagers, written in any language and have reached the score STROBE ≥ 70%. Results: The highest prevalence was found for "low levels of physical activity" (88.1%), followed by "watch more than two hours of TV a day" (66.2%) and "alcoholic beverages" (38.0%). There are different patterns of risk behaviors sexes. female is associated with "low levels of physical activity" and "more than two hours watching TV." Male gender was associated with "weapons of transport", "involvement in fights" and "marijuana use". The largest age group of 16 years was associated with the "cigarette smoking", "drinking", "consuming more than five drinks of alcohol during" and "marijuana use." The highest socioeconomic status was associated with "weapons of transport", "involvement in fights", "drinking" and "more than five doses of alcohol on the occasion". In the systematic review, only seven studies met all inclusion criteria. Five studies presented different approaches to measure the physical activity intervention using the school environment only for sample recruitment, with strategies favorable to physical activity levels, and effective in promoting an active lifestyle outside of school. Conclusion: In the survey study, the most prevalent variables were: low levels of physical activity, more than two hours watching TV and drinking. The behaviors were less prevalent marijuana use, transport of weapons, cigarette smoking and involvement in fights. Associations were observed in the studied population with three risk groups that should be highlighted: male, from 17 years and with high socioeconomic status. A Systematic Review found that, among the analyzed studies, most presented experimental study design, with follow-up up to one year, with interventions that linked physical activity to diet/nutrition, with different implementation strategy and implemented in extracurricular environments, able to promote change in health risk behavior in adolescents. / Objetivo: Estimar a prevalência dos comportamentos de risco à saúde e sua associação com as características sociodemográficas em adolescentes de Aracaju e região metropolitana, Sergipe, Brasil para o inquérito e apresentar a evidência relacionada a existência de programas de intervenção em atividade física para adolescentes por meio do estudo de revisão sistemática. Casuística e Métodos: Para a pesquisa por inquérito, a amostra foi composta por 2207 adolescentes (13 a 18 anos) matriculados no ensino público dos municípios que compõem a região observada. O levantamento de informações foi realizado elegendo-se os seguintes comportamentos: “baixos níveis de atividade física” e “tempo de assistência à TV/dia”, por meio do PAQ-C, “consumo de bebidas alcoólicas”, “consumo de mais de cinco doses de bebidas alcoólicas em uma única ocasião”, “envolvimento em brigas”, “consumo de cigarros”, “porte de arma” e “consumo de maconha”, identificados pelo instrumento YRBS e “classe econômica” acessada via ABEP. Para a revisão sistemática, foram realizadas pesquisas no PubMed, SportDiscus, LiLacs e SciELO a partir de palavras-chave para identificação da população, intervenção e desfecho, com os termos DeCS e MeSH em inglês, português e espanhol. Incluíram-se estudos observacionais com intervenção mínima de seis meses, tamanho amostral mínimo de 100 adolescentes, escritos em qualquer idioma e que atingiram pontuação no STROBE ≥ 70%. Resultados: A maior prevalência foi verificada para os “baixos níveis de atividade física” (88,1%), seguido por “assistir mais que duas horas de TV por dia” (66,2%) e “consumo de bebidas alcoólicas” (38,0%). Existem padrões de comportamentos de risco diferentes para os sexos. Sexo feminino está associado aos “baixos níveis de atividade física” e “mais que duas horas assistindo TV”. Sexo masculino foi associado ao “transporte de armas”, “envolvimento em brigas” e “uso de maconha”. O grupo etário maior de 16 anos esteve associado ao “consumo de cigarros”, “consumo de bebidas alcoólicas”, “consumo de mais de cinco doses de bebidas alcoólicas por ocasião” e “uso de maconha”. O nível socioeconômico mais alto esteve associado ao “transporte de armas”, “envolvimento em brigas”, “consumo de bebidas alcoólicas” e “mais de cinco doses de bebidas alcoólicas por ocasião”. Na revisão sistemática, apenas sete estudos preencheram todos os critérios de inclusão. Cinco estudos apresentaram abordagens diferentes na mensuração da intervenção da atividade física, utilizando o ambiente escolar apenas para recrutamento da amostra, com estratégias favoráveis aos níveis de atividade física, e eficazes na promoção de um estilo de vida ativo fora do ambiente escolar. Conclusão: No estudo por inquérito, as variáveis mais prevalentes foram: baixos níveis de atividade física, mais que duas horas assistindo TV e o consumo de bebidas alcoólicas. Os comportamentos menos prevalentes foram consumo de maconha, transporte de armas, consumo de cigarros e envolvimento em brigas. Foram observadas associações na população estudada com três grupos de risco que merecem destaque: sexo masculino, a partir de 17 anos e com alto nível socioeconômico. A Revisão Sistemática concluiu que, dentre os estudos analisados, a maioria apresentou desenho de estudo experimental, com tempo de seguimento até um ano, com intervenções que associavam atividade física à dieta/alimentação, com estratégia de aplicação diferentes e realizados em ambientes extracurriculares, capazes de promover mudança de comportamento de risco à saúde em adolescentes.

The aim of this study is to examine different types of didactic methods and strategies that teachers can use and incorporate in the classroom to strengthen and enhance equity and to ensure an equal education for all students despite socioeconomic background. The paper begins with an explanation of relevant concepts such as equity, socioeconomic background and so called freedom of school choice.  The paper then goes on to discuss and describe a number of methods and strategies that are well known in research and proven to work to compensate for students' different backgrounds and conditions in school. The focus is on strategies that can impact students academic performance and that can create opportunities for everyone, and tools that can be used by teachers in everyday practice in a swedish classroom and how to concretely handle differences that are on account of social class.  The method used for this study was a systematic literature review, which is a method that collects and analyzes data and empirical evidence from several studies in a systematic way. The databases used were LibSearch and SwePub.  The results show that the following learning strategies that have a significant impact on students' academic performance are: relationship building, expectations of students, differentiation, working in groups and collegial learning.

This thesis aims to explore how a critical reading of the novel Things Fall Apart (1958) can provide valuable perspective for educators and students when examining socio-economic issues in  a colonial context in the ESL classroom. The main issues being analysed are how the novel reveals and explores socio-economic forms of exploitation under colonialism, and how a critical reading of the novel can be used in teaching to inform and persuade learners about social injustices. To show this, the essay examines the novel from a marxist perspective, and more specifically by drawing on the concept of primitive accumulation to understand and explain the changes brought about by the introduction of colonial rule. The changes in this context include the Igbo community's relation to land, its socio-economic and cultural aspects as well as the introduction of trade. The discussion and analysis of the novel centre on social injustices due to land expropriation, breakdown of traditional values and customs, and economic changes brought about by the arrival of Europeans in the context of colonialism. Expanding on this, the essay also reflects on the pedagogical implications of its arguments by showing how a critical reading of Things Fall Apart might provide an opportunity for teachers to underline issues of social injustice, material, and economic forms of exploitation under colonialism and beyond. This literary analysis also discusses and reflects on the practical challenges and possibilities of teaching such issues in the ESL classroom by using the concept of critical literacy.

A partir de six terrains d’étude menés dans plusieurs régions du Sénégal (Petite Côte, Saloum, Saint-Louis, Sénégal oriental et Dakar), cette thèse explore l’articulation différenciée des enjeux de classe et de race dans des contextes de mobilités et de migrations issues d’Europe et d’Amérique du Nord. Les trajectoires, pratiques et modes relationnels enquêtés sont liés au tourisme balnéaire et culturel, à l’entrepreneuriat individuel en situation post-touristique, à des mobilités pour étude, et aux parcours professionnels du volontariat et de l’expatriation. Ces configurations sociales mondialisées, souvent inscrites dans des champs de recherche dissociés, favorisent l’analyse croisée de la construction de deux ethnicités, la blanchité et l’africanité, conçues comme notions emic et etic. Leurs productions socio-identitaires se déploient, se croisent et se répondent, selon des mécanismes récurrents de hiérarchisation de classes et de confrontation raciale à l’échelle des interactions individuelles et des dynamiques collectives. Elles font aussi écho à des logiques de stratification et de sélection sociale, intrinsèques à la société sénégalaise, qui vont au-delà du marqueur chromatique et se combinent à des représentations culturalistes et ethniques. Les échelles socio-historiques, les asymétries de classe transnationales, les identifications religieuses, phénotypiques et genrées, présents dans les contextes de mobilités et migrations étudiés, soulignent la valeur heuristique des catégorisations identitaires de la blanchité dans les processus de classification sociale, racialisée et ethnicisée, au regard des définitions plurielles de l’africanité. Analyser ces mécanismes d’assignation et de distinction dans une société africaine telle que le Sénégal permet également de penser la question postcoloniale au cœur des ambivalences du champ social et invite à interroger la positionnalité des chercheur.e.s dans la pratique ethnographique et la production des savoirs sur l’Afrique. / Based on six fieldworks conducted in several regions of Senegal (Petite Côte, Saloum, Saint-Louis, Oriental Senegal and Dakar), this thesis explores the social mechanisms which articulate class and race issues in different contexts of mobility and migration from Europe and North America. The trajectories, practices and ways of socializing investigated are related to seaside and cultural tourism, individual entrepreneurship in post-tourist contexts, study abroad programs and professional flows of voluntary service and expatriation. These social and globalized settings, often addressed in distinct fields of research, underlie a cross analysis of the constructions of two ethnicity – whiteness and africaness – considered as emic and etic notions. The social identities they produce respond to one another and reveal recurring patterns in social hierarchy and racial confrontation throughout individual interactions and collective dynamics. They also echo logics of social stratification and selection within the Senegalese society, which are combined with culturalist and ethnic representations, beyond color markers. The contexts of mobility and migration investigated are embedded into specific socio-historical backgrounds, transnational asymmetry of class and process of identification based on religion, phenotype and gender. They all reflect the heuristic value of whiteness and its production of identity in social, racialized and ethnicized categorization, regarding multiple meanings of africaness. Analyzing these mechanisms of social distinction in an African society such as Senegal leads to face postcolonial thinking with the ambiguities of social spheres. It also questions the positionality of researchers through ethnography and in the production of knowledge about Africa.

The human resources field has changed and the responsibility for employability has been transferred to the individual himself. In this study, we have been interested in the extent to which individuals with a HR-degree from Örebro University have an employment in the field of competence after graduation and if we could identify what have affected their employment. Previous research in the field of employment gives us various factors that have been reported to affect an individual's opportunity for employment. In our study, we have verified whether these factors remain for the HR-students with a degree from Örebro University or if they disappear. Through a survey, we found that two-thirds of the respondents had employment in the area of expertise. We also detected that part-time job in the area of expertise and gender had a positive impact on employment within the area of expertise. The remaining factors had a negative impact. / Personalvetaryrket har förändrats och ansvaret över anställningsbarheten har förflyttats till individen själv. I denna studie har vi intresserat oss för i vilken grad individer med en personalvetarutbildning från Örebro universitet har en anställning inom kompetensområdet efter examen samt vad som kan påverka dess anställning. Den tidigare forskningen inom ämnet anställning ger oss olika faktorer som har redovisats påverka en individs möjlighet till anställning. I vår studie har vi kontrollerat om dessa faktorers påverkan kvarstår för personalvetarstudenterna med en examen från Örebro universitet. Genom en enkätstudie fann vi att två tredjedelar av respondenterna hade en anställning inom kompetensområdet. Vi fann även att extraarbete inom kompetensområdet och kön har en positiv påverkan på anställningen inom kompetensområdet. Resterande faktorer hade en negativ påverkan.

El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo principal analizar cómo se construye la violencia en el cine del director Park Chan Wook como una crítica a la sociedad surcoreana contemporánea. Para lograr este objetivo, en primer lugar, se identificará el tratamiento cinematográfico de la violencia en la trilogía de la venganza del director surcoreano, que está conformada por: Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003) y Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (2005). En segundo lugar, se reconocerán las formas de la violencia de dichas películas en relación a las consecuencias del sistema capitalista de la sociedad surcoreana. En la introducción se plantea el estudio cuyo objetivo general es presentar el contexto en el que surge el director surcoreano y la trilogía de la venganza. En el marco teórico, se pretende realizar un recorrido por las formas en que el cine de ficción ha representado la violencia a través de la historia, este marco me permitirá contextualizar la propuesta de Park Chan Wook dentro de la evolución de la industria cinematográfica surcoreana. Asimismo, se profundizará el concepto de la violencia en general y cómo se representa en el cine; así como la relación entre la violencia y el capitalismo. En el capítulo de análisis, se utilizarán secuencias de cada película divididas en tres criterios en relación a la presencia de la violencia: revelación, acción y conclusión. Después, se ofrecerá un análisis audiovisual de cada secuencia ligado al contexto sociohistórico de Corea del Sur y las consecuencias del capitalismo contemporáneo que enfrenta esta sociedad. Finalmente, en las conclusiones se realizará una reflexión acerca de cómo Park Chan Wook logra crear una estética de la violencia particular de un mundo capitalista y la plasma mediante los recursos audiovisuales para crear una crítica a su propia sociedad. / The main objective of this research work is to analyze how violence is constructed in director Park Chan Wook's cinema as a critique of contemporary South Korean society. To achieve this objective, in the first place, the cinematographic treatment of violence will be identified in the South Korean director's revenge trilogy, which is made up of: Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003) and Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (2005). Second, the forms of violence in these films will be recognized in relation to the consequences of the capitalist system of South Korean society. The introduction presents the study whose general objective is to present the context in which the South Korean director and the revenge trilogy emerge. In the theoretical framework, it is intended to make a journey through the ways in which fiction cinema has represented violence throughout history, this framework will allow me to contextualize Park Chan Wook's proposal within the evolution of the South Korean film industry. Likewise, the concept of violence in general and how it is represented in cinema will be deepened; as well as the relationship between violence and capitalism. In the analysis chapter, sequences from each film will be used divided into three criteria in relation to the presence of violence: revelation, action and conclusion. Afterwards, an audiovisual analysis of each sequence linked to the socio-historical context of South Korea and the consequences of contemporary capitalism facing this society will be offered. Finally, in the conclusions there will be a reflection on how Park Chan Wook manages to create an aesthetic of the particular violence of a capitalist world and shapes it through audiovisual resources to create a critique of his own society. / Tesis