Este estudo busca dar visibilidade aos modos de enunciar afirmativamente as periferias e classes populares na atualidade do ambiente comunicativo no Brasil, articulando três temáticas centrais: televisão, periferias e o contexto de emergência de um discurso de ascensão socioeconômica no país. A compreensão do fenômeno recente de aumento do poder aquisitivo de determinados grupos sociais foi operante no desenvolvimento de nosso objeto de pesquisa, sendo abordada a partir de autores contemporâneos brasileiros. Assumindo relações intrínsecas entre as transformações socioeconômicas e culturais dos anos 2000 e 2010 no Brasil e as atualizações discursivas percebidas no ambiente da TV aberta do país, partimos de uma perspectiva teórico-metodológica foucaultiana, tensionada pelas contribuições do campo da Comunicação, em especial relacionadas aos estudos sobre os mundos televisivos, realidades televisivas e ao conceito de televisibilidade. Focamos o estudo na dimensão comunicacional dessa rede de inteligibilidade que permite trazer a tona novas formas de se ver e falar sobre as periferias e pautamos a análise em enunciados midiáticos televisivos que as posicionam hoje em certos discursos relacionadas à noção de ascensão. Constatada a primazia da Rede Globo no reposicionamento da programação frente à conjuntura estudada, o corpus apresenta fragmentos de TV que dão conta dos mundos real, ficcional e lúdico dessa emissora. A inspiração cartográfica possibilitou a construção das etapas metodológicas de pesquisa, que culminam em um roteiro foucaultiano de análise. Tomando, então, o discurso enquanto conjunto de práticas produtivas, que formam os objetos de que falam, procuramos percursos teórico-metodológicos capazes de apreender as conexões e processualidades do objeto, em sua condição movente e heterogênea. Nessa busca pela multiplicação do visível, mapeamos três conjuntos de regularidades discursivas principais, sendo elas estas compostas pela dimensão da periferia produtiva; pela dimensão do consumo e da ostentação e pelas dimensões do orgulho e pertencimento e da exotização e disparidade cultural. Exploramos tais regimes sem posicioná-los em categorias, mas, antes, em termos de relação. Ao investigar relações de saber-poder contidas nesse discurso, lançamos luzes também sobre a topografia subjetiva moldada sobre as periferias pelas vias da atividade televisiva. A pesquisa busca, portanto, avançar não apenas sobre os estudos relacionados à televisão, como, também, no uso de uma dimensão teórico-metodológica com potencialidades amplas de exploração pelo campo e na contribuição com o registro sobre a participação da comunicação em um contexto social de mudanças tão estruturais para o país. / This study seeks to give visibility to in speech affirmatively the periphery and popular classes in the communicative environment present in Brazil, articulating three central themes: TV, peripheries and the emergency context of socioeconomic mobility of speech in the country. Understanding the recent phenomenon of increased purchasing power of social groups was active in the development of our object of research being approached from Brazilian contemporary authors. Assuming intrinsic relationship between the socioeconomic and cultural changes of the 2000s and 2010 in Brazil and the discursive updates perceived in broadcast TV the country's environment, we start from a theoretical and methodological perspective Foucault, tensioned by contributions from the field of communication, especially related to studies on the television worlds, television realities and the concept of ‘televisibilidade’. We focus the study on the communication dimension of this intelligibility network that allows to bring out new ways to look at and talk about the peripheries and we base the analysis in television media statements that the position today in some speeches related to the notion of the rise. Given the primacy of Rede Globo in repositioning the front programming studied the situation, the corpus presents TV fragments which describe the real worlds, fictional and playful this station. The cartographic inspiration enabled the construction of the methodological stages of research, culminating in a Foucault script analysis. Taking, then, the discourse as a set of production practices that form the objects of which they speak, seek theoretical and methodological pathways able to grasp the connections and procedurals of the object in its moving and heterogeneous condition. In this search by multiplying visible, mapped three sets of main discursive regularities, which were composed by the size of these productive periphery; the size of the consumption and ostentation and by the dimensions of pride and belonging and exoticization and cultural disparity. We explore such schemes without setting them into categories, but rather in terms of relationship. To investigate relationships of power-knowledge contained in that speech, also launched light on the subjective topography made up of the periphery by way of television activity. The research aims therefore move not only on studies related to television, as also the use of a theoretical and methodological dimension with large potential for exploitation in the countryside and contributing to the record on the participation of communication in a social context so structural changes for the country.

Este estudo busca dar visibilidade aos modos de enunciar afirmativamente as periferias e classes populares na atualidade do ambiente comunicativo no Brasil, articulando três temáticas centrais: televisão, periferias e o contexto de emergência de um discurso de ascensão socioeconômica no país. A compreensão do fenômeno recente de aumento do poder aquisitivo de determinados grupos sociais foi operante no desenvolvimento de nosso objeto de pesquisa, sendo abordada a partir de autores contemporâneos brasileiros. Assumindo relações intrínsecas entre as transformações socioeconômicas e culturais dos anos 2000 e 2010 no Brasil e as atualizações discursivas percebidas no ambiente da TV aberta do país, partimos de uma perspectiva teórico-metodológica foucaultiana, tensionada pelas contribuições do campo da Comunicação, em especial relacionadas aos estudos sobre os mundos televisivos, realidades televisivas e ao conceito de televisibilidade. Focamos o estudo na dimensão comunicacional dessa rede de inteligibilidade que permite trazer a tona novas formas de se ver e falar sobre as periferias e pautamos a análise em enunciados midiáticos televisivos que as posicionam hoje em certos discursos relacionadas à noção de ascensão. Constatada a primazia da Rede Globo no reposicionamento da programação frente à conjuntura estudada, o corpus apresenta fragmentos de TV que dão conta dos mundos real, ficcional e lúdico dessa emissora. A inspiração cartográfica possibilitou a construção das etapas metodológicas de pesquisa, que culminam em um roteiro foucaultiano de análise. Tomando, então, o discurso enquanto conjunto de práticas produtivas, que formam os objetos de que falam, procuramos percursos teórico-metodológicos capazes de apreender as conexões e processualidades do objeto, em sua condição movente e heterogênea. Nessa busca pela multiplicação do visível, mapeamos três conjuntos de regularidades discursivas principais, sendo elas estas compostas pela dimensão da periferia produtiva; pela dimensão do consumo e da ostentação e pelas dimensões do orgulho e pertencimento e da exotização e disparidade cultural. Exploramos tais regimes sem posicioná-los em categorias, mas, antes, em termos de relação. Ao investigar relações de saber-poder contidas nesse discurso, lançamos luzes também sobre a topografia subjetiva moldada sobre as periferias pelas vias da atividade televisiva. A pesquisa busca, portanto, avançar não apenas sobre os estudos relacionados à televisão, como, também, no uso de uma dimensão teórico-metodológica com potencialidades amplas de exploração pelo campo e na contribuição com o registro sobre a participação da comunicação em um contexto social de mudanças tão estruturais para o país. / This study seeks to give visibility to in speech affirmatively the periphery and popular classes in the communicative environment present in Brazil, articulating three central themes: TV, peripheries and the emergency context of socioeconomic mobility of speech in the country. Understanding the recent phenomenon of increased purchasing power of social groups was active in the development of our object of research being approached from Brazilian contemporary authors. Assuming intrinsic relationship between the socioeconomic and cultural changes of the 2000s and 2010 in Brazil and the discursive updates perceived in broadcast TV the country's environment, we start from a theoretical and methodological perspective Foucault, tensioned by contributions from the field of communication, especially related to studies on the television worlds, television realities and the concept of ‘televisibilidade’. We focus the study on the communication dimension of this intelligibility network that allows to bring out new ways to look at and talk about the peripheries and we base the analysis in television media statements that the position today in some speeches related to the notion of the rise. Given the primacy of Rede Globo in repositioning the front programming studied the situation, the corpus presents TV fragments which describe the real worlds, fictional and playful this station. The cartographic inspiration enabled the construction of the methodological stages of research, culminating in a Foucault script analysis. Taking, then, the discourse as a set of production practices that form the objects of which they speak, seek theoretical and methodological pathways able to grasp the connections and procedurals of the object in its moving and heterogeneous condition. In this search by multiplying visible, mapped three sets of main discursive regularities, which were composed by the size of these productive periphery; the size of the consumption and ostentation and by the dimensions of pride and belonging and exoticization and cultural disparity. We explore such schemes without setting them into categories, but rather in terms of relationship. To investigate relationships of power-knowledge contained in that speech, also launched light on the subjective topography made up of the periphery by way of television activity. The research aims therefore move not only on studies related to television, as also the use of a theoretical and methodological dimension with large potential for exploitation in the countryside and contributing to the record on the participation of communication in a social context so structural changes for the country.

Este estudo busca dar visibilidade aos modos de enunciar afirmativamente as periferias e classes populares na atualidade do ambiente comunicativo no Brasil, articulando três temáticas centrais: televisão, periferias e o contexto de emergência de um discurso de ascensão socioeconômica no país. A compreensão do fenômeno recente de aumento do poder aquisitivo de determinados grupos sociais foi operante no desenvolvimento de nosso objeto de pesquisa, sendo abordada a partir de autores contemporâneos brasileiros. Assumindo relações intrínsecas entre as transformações socioeconômicas e culturais dos anos 2000 e 2010 no Brasil e as atualizações discursivas percebidas no ambiente da TV aberta do país, partimos de uma perspectiva teórico-metodológica foucaultiana, tensionada pelas contribuições do campo da Comunicação, em especial relacionadas aos estudos sobre os mundos televisivos, realidades televisivas e ao conceito de televisibilidade. Focamos o estudo na dimensão comunicacional dessa rede de inteligibilidade que permite trazer a tona novas formas de se ver e falar sobre as periferias e pautamos a análise em enunciados midiáticos televisivos que as posicionam hoje em certos discursos relacionadas à noção de ascensão. Constatada a primazia da Rede Globo no reposicionamento da programação frente à conjuntura estudada, o corpus apresenta fragmentos de TV que dão conta dos mundos real, ficcional e lúdico dessa emissora. A inspiração cartográfica possibilitou a construção das etapas metodológicas de pesquisa, que culminam em um roteiro foucaultiano de análise. Tomando, então, o discurso enquanto conjunto de práticas produtivas, que formam os objetos de que falam, procuramos percursos teórico-metodológicos capazes de apreender as conexões e processualidades do objeto, em sua condição movente e heterogênea. Nessa busca pela multiplicação do visível, mapeamos três conjuntos de regularidades discursivas principais, sendo elas estas compostas pela dimensão da periferia produtiva; pela dimensão do consumo e da ostentação e pelas dimensões do orgulho e pertencimento e da exotização e disparidade cultural. Exploramos tais regimes sem posicioná-los em categorias, mas, antes, em termos de relação. Ao investigar relações de saber-poder contidas nesse discurso, lançamos luzes também sobre a topografia subjetiva moldada sobre as periferias pelas vias da atividade televisiva. A pesquisa busca, portanto, avançar não apenas sobre os estudos relacionados à televisão, como, também, no uso de uma dimensão teórico-metodológica com potencialidades amplas de exploração pelo campo e na contribuição com o registro sobre a participação da comunicação em um contexto social de mudanças tão estruturais para o país. / This study seeks to give visibility to in speech affirmatively the periphery and popular classes in the communicative environment present in Brazil, articulating three central themes: TV, peripheries and the emergency context of socioeconomic mobility of speech in the country. Understanding the recent phenomenon of increased purchasing power of social groups was active in the development of our object of research being approached from Brazilian contemporary authors. Assuming intrinsic relationship between the socioeconomic and cultural changes of the 2000s and 2010 in Brazil and the discursive updates perceived in broadcast TV the country's environment, we start from a theoretical and methodological perspective Foucault, tensioned by contributions from the field of communication, especially related to studies on the television worlds, television realities and the concept of ‘televisibilidade’. We focus the study on the communication dimension of this intelligibility network that allows to bring out new ways to look at and talk about the peripheries and we base the analysis in television media statements that the position today in some speeches related to the notion of the rise. Given the primacy of Rede Globo in repositioning the front programming studied the situation, the corpus presents TV fragments which describe the real worlds, fictional and playful this station. The cartographic inspiration enabled the construction of the methodological stages of research, culminating in a Foucault script analysis. Taking, then, the discourse as a set of production practices that form the objects of which they speak, seek theoretical and methodological pathways able to grasp the connections and procedurals of the object in its moving and heterogeneous condition. In this search by multiplying visible, mapped three sets of main discursive regularities, which were composed by the size of these productive periphery; the size of the consumption and ostentation and by the dimensions of pride and belonging and exoticization and cultural disparity. We explore such schemes without setting them into categories, but rather in terms of relationship. To investigate relationships of power-knowledge contained in that speech, also launched light on the subjective topography made up of the periphery by way of television activity. The research aims therefore move not only on studies related to television, as also the use of a theoretical and methodological dimension with large potential for exploitation in the countryside and contributing to the record on the participation of communication in a social context so structural changes for the country.

The aim of this thesis was to study the intergenerational socioeconomic mobility of second generation immigrant daughters in Germany, by measuring how the parents’ educational level affect their children’s education. By adding a gender equality index to the dataset, the aim was to create a more nuanced interpretation of the results, including how cultural views in the parents’ source country can affect the parental investments. The results imply that daughters seem to have a lower intergenerational mobility, in line with previous research. When interacting a gender equality index variable with the parents’ educational level the results suggested that a high educated father from a country with high gender equality will increase both his son’s and daughter’s educational attainment. On the other hand, a high educated mother from a country with high gender equality will instead decrease her son’s educational level. Furthermore, another interaction variable was generated to translate how the parents’ educational level affects second generation immigrant children but failed to produce estimates on a statistically significant level. Nonetheless, it is important to notice that the results implied that both sons and daughters have a lower educational level than their fathers, and that daughters have a lower educational attainment than their mothers. This suggests that second generation immigrant children do not outperform their parents, as previous research suggests.

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the personality traits that are associated with socioeconomic mobility, specifically pertaining to individuals from working class backgrounds. Socioeconomic mobility is an important issue to examine due to the persistence of intergenerational poverty and the difficulty with which to resolve it. Extensive research explicitly shows the dilemma of intergenerational transmission of poverty exists and continues to persist regardless of revised policies. Many aspects each individual experiences have been proven to affect economic attainment, such as race, family background, parental efficacy, social discrimination, area of residency, welfare, education, and intelligence. Although these are recognized in this paper, they are, for the most part, ignored as determinants, as the focus is on the personality traits defining the upwardly mobile, and similar characteristics exist, even while disregarding the above ignored qualities. Mainly social identity theory and identity theory, but also motivational theory, personal efficacy theories, and other related theories, have determined social participation, perception of social class and poverty, control of emotions, impulse control, personal efficacy, social identity, motivation, victimization and dependence or the lack thereof, are all major determinants of mobility.

This dissertation interrogates the deficit assumptions about English proficiency of skilled immigrants who were recruited by Canadian governments between the late 1990s and early 2000s. Through the lens of literacy as social practice, the eighteen-month ethnographic qualitative research explores the sequential experiences of settlement and economic integration of seven well-educated Chinese immigrant professionals. The analytical framework is built on sociocultural approaches to literacy and learning, as well as the theories of discourses and language reproduction. Using multiple data sources (observations, conversational interviews, journal and diary entries, photographs, documents, and artifacts collected in everyday lives), I document many different ways that well-educated Chinese immigrants take advantage of their language and literacy skills in English across several social domains of home, school, job market, and workplace. Examining the trans-contextual patterning of the participants’ language and literacy activities reveals that immigrant professionals use literacy as assistance in seeking, negotiating, and taking hold of resources and opportunities within certain social settings. However, my data show that their language and literacy engagements might not always generate positive consequences for social networks, job opportunities, and upward economic mobility. Close analyses of processes and outcomes of the participants’ engagements across these discursive discourses make it very clear that the monolithic assumptions of the dominant language shape and reinforce structural barriers by constraining their social participation, decision making, and learning practice, and thereby make literacy’s consequences unpredictable. The deficit model of language proficiency serves the grounds for linguistic stereotypes and economic marginalization, which produces profoundly consequential effects on immigrants’ pathways as they strive for having access to resources and opportunities in the new society. My analyses illuminate the ways that language and literacy create the complex web of discursive spaces wherein institutional agendas and personal desires are intertwined and collide in complex ways that constitute conditions and processes of social and economic mobility of immigrant populations. Based on these analyses, I argue that immigrants’ successful integration into a host country is not about the mastery of the technical skills in the dominant language. Rather, it is largely about the recognition and acceptance of the value of their language use and literacy practice as they attempt to partake in the globalized new economy.

This dissertation interrogates the deficit assumptions about English proficiency of skilled immigrants who were recruited by Canadian governments between the late 1990s and early 2000s. Through the lens of literacy as social practice, the eighteen-month ethnographic qualitative research explores the sequential experiences of settlement and economic integration of seven well-educated Chinese immigrant professionals. The analytical framework is built on sociocultural approaches to literacy and learning, as well as the theories of discourses and language reproduction. Using multiple data sources (observations, conversational interviews, journal and diary entries, photographs, documents, and artifacts collected in everyday lives), I document many different ways that well-educated Chinese immigrants take advantage of their language and literacy skills in English across several social domains of home, school, job market, and workplace. Examining the trans-contextual patterning of the participants’ language and literacy activities reveals that immigrant professionals use literacy as assistance in seeking, negotiating, and taking hold of resources and opportunities within certain social settings. However, my data show that their language and literacy engagements might not always generate positive consequences for social networks, job opportunities, and upward economic mobility. Close analyses of processes and outcomes of the participants’ engagements across these discursive discourses make it very clear that the monolithic assumptions of the dominant language shape and reinforce structural barriers by constraining their social participation, decision making, and learning practice, and thereby make literacy’s consequences unpredictable. The deficit model of language proficiency serves the grounds for linguistic stereotypes and economic marginalization, which produces profoundly consequential effects on immigrants’ pathways as they strive for having access to resources and opportunities in the new society. My analyses illuminate the ways that language and literacy create the complex web of discursive spaces wherein institutional agendas and personal desires are intertwined and collide in complex ways that constitute conditions and processes of social and economic mobility of immigrant populations. Based on these analyses, I argue that immigrants’ successful integration into a host country is not about the mastery of the technical skills in the dominant language. Rather, it is largely about the recognition and acceptance of the value of their language use and literacy practice as they attempt to partake in the globalized new economy.