by Wan-chaw Shae. / Bibliography: leaves 74-81 / Thesis (M.Ph.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Chen Hon-fai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-261). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.iii / ABSTRACT --- p.iv / INTRODUCTION: PARSONIANISM IN CONTEXT / Chapter I. --- The Context: Parsons Revival and the Reading of Parsons --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- The Problem: Relationship between Parsons' Structural-Functionalism and Luhmann's Neo-Functionalism --- p.13 / Chapter III. --- "Interpretive Perspective: Theory, Methodology and Presupposition" --- p.31 / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- ANALYTICAL REALISM AND VOLUNTARISM: PARSONS´ة ACTION THEORY IN THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION / Chapter 1.1 --- Analytical Realism --- p.49 / Chapter 1.2 --- Action Frame of Reference --- p.62 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- EMERGENCE AND FUNCTIONALISM: PARSONS´ة SYSTEM THEORY IN THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION --- p.90 / INTERLUDE PARSONS̐ơ THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT AFTER THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION / Chapter I. --- From Voluntarism to Structural-Functionalism --- p.116 / Chapter II. --- From Structural-Functionalism to Systems Functionalism --- p.131 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- SELF-REFERENCE AND FUNCTIONALISM: LUHMANN̐ơS SYSTEM THEORY IN SOCIAL SYSTEMS / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.147 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Methodological Principle of Self-Reference --- p.150 / Chapter 3.3 --- Double Contingency and the Formation of Self-Referential Social System --- p.165 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- SELF-REFERENCE AND ANTI-HUMANISM: LUHMANN'S ACTION THEORY IN SOCIAL SYSTEMS / Chapter 4.1 --- Self-Reference of Communication and its Attribution to Voluntaristic Action --- p.195 / Chapter 4.2 --- Interpenetration and Anti-Humanism --- p.218 / CONCLUSION: LUHMANNIANISM ON TRIAL --- p.239 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.256

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, June 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

The thesis offers an original sociological understanding of intermediary Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the modern world. This is pursued through a study of NGOs and land reform in contemporary Zimbabwe. The prevailing literature on NGOs is marked by a sociological behaviourism that analyses NGOs in terms of external relations and the object-subject dualism. This behaviourism has both ‘structuralist’ and ‘empiricist’ trends that lead to instrumentalist and functionalist forms of argumentation. The thesis details an alternative conceptual corpus that draws upon the epistemological and theoretical insights of Marx and Weber. The epistemological reasoning of Marx involves processes of deconstruction and reconstruction. This entails conceptualizing NGOs as social forms that embody contradictory relations and, for analytical purposes, the thesis privileges the contradiction between ‘the global’ and ‘the local’. In this regard, it speaks about processes of ‘glocalization’ and ‘glocal modernities’ in which NGOs become immersed. The social field of NGOs is marked by ambiguities and tensions, and NGOs seek to ‘negotiate’ and manoeuvre their way through this field by a variety of organizational practices. Understanding these practices necessitates studying NGOs ‘from within’ and drawing specifically on Weber’s notion of ‘meaning’. These practices often entail activities that stabilize and simplify the world and work of NGOs, and this involves NGOs in prioritizing their own organizational sustainability. In handling the tension between ‘the global’ and ‘the local’, NGOs also tend to privilege global trajectories over local initiatives. The thesis illustrates these points in relation to the work of intermediary NGOs in Zimbabwe over the past ten years. Since the year 2000, a radical restructuring of agrarian relations has occurred, and this has been based upon the massive redistribution of land. In this respect, local empowering initiatives have dramatically asserted themselves against globalizing trajectories. These changes have posed serious challenges to ‘land’ NGOs, that is, NGOs involved in land reform either as advocates for reform or as rural development NGOs. The thesis shows how a range of diverse ‘land’ NGOs has ‘handled’ the heightened contradictions in their social field in ways that maintain their organizational coherence and integrity.

A partir do exame minucioso de alguns aspectos da sociedade hodierna, e como são vivenciados sob a ótica de uma reivindicação ética, o objetivo dessa dissertação é compreender, analisando e comparando, o agir ético e moral de culto à aparência e ao sucesso em nossos tempos, com a moral das virtudes (eupraxia) e o conceito de felicidade (eudaimonía) aristotélicos. Assim, por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica, descrição de fenômenos atuais e abordagem que parte de conceitos-chave (como a felicidade, o prazer, a virtude, o ser, a comunidade e a prudência), retomados da ética aristotélica e reinterpretados por filósofos contemporâneos, demonstrar como a Ética das Virtudes pode contribuir ao resgate do viver bem e conduzir-se bem sem abrir mão do desfrute de outros bens tão caros aos indivíduos contemporâneos. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2015-03-09T16:34:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Kelly Janaina Souza da Silva.pdf: 1153693 bytes, checksum: d1ac13b9ebdccdde0f7bb7784a8c29a9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-09T16:34:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Kelly Janaina Souza da Silva.pdf: 1153693 bytes, checksum: d1ac13b9ebdccdde0f7bb7784a8c29a9 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior. / From the scrutiny of some aspects of current society, and how it is experienced from the perspective of an ethical claim, the objective of this dissertation is to understand, analyzing and comparing the ethical and moral act of worship to appearance and to success in our times, with the moral virtues (eupraxia) and the concept of Aristotelian happiness (eudaimonía). Thus, through bibliographic research, current phenomenon description and key concepts (such as happiness, pleasure, virtue, being, the community and prudence), taken from the Aristotelian Ethics and reinterpreted by contemporary philosophers, to demonstrate how Virtue Ethics can contribute to the rescue of good life and lead own life well without giving up enjoy other importants properties to contemporary individuals.

A partir do exame minucioso de alguns aspectos da sociedade hodierna, e como são vivenciados sob a ótica de uma reivindicação ética, o objetivo dessa dissertação é compreender, analisando e comparando, o agir ético e moral de culto à aparência e ao sucesso em nossos tempos, com a moral das virtudes (eupraxia) e o conceito de felicidade (eudaimonía) aristotélicos. Assim, por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica, descrição de fenômenos atuais e abordagem que parte de conceitos-chave (como a felicidade, o prazer, a virtude, o ser, a comunidade e a prudência), retomados da ética aristotélica e reinterpretados por filósofos contemporâneos, demonstrar como a Ética das Virtudes pode contribuir ao resgate do viver bem e conduzir-se bem sem abrir mão do desfrute de outros bens tão caros aos indivíduos contemporâneos. / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior. / From the scrutiny of some aspects of current society, and how it is experienced from the perspective of an ethical claim, the objective of this dissertation is to understand, analyzing and comparing the ethical and moral act of worship to appearance and to success in our times, with the moral virtues (eupraxia) and the concept of Aristotelian happiness (eudaimonía). Thus, through bibliographic research, current phenomenon description and key concepts (such as happiness, pleasure, virtue, being, the community and prudence), taken from the Aristotelian Ethics and reinterpreted by contemporary philosophers, to demonstrate how Virtue Ethics can contribute to the rescue of good life and lead own life well without giving up enjoy other importants properties to contemporary individuals.

Doctorat en sciences sociales, politiques et économiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Informed by institutional ethnography, and taking the problematic from disjunctures in teacher/participants’ experience between actual practice and official policy, this study is an intertextual analysis of print/electronic documents pertaining to students ‘at risk.’ It unpacks the Student Success Strategy in Ontario secondary schools as organized around discourses on risk and safety. Discriminatory classing and racializing processes construct students ‘at risk’ in ways that reproduce socio-economic inequities through premature streaming into pathways geared to post-secondary destinations: university, college, apprenticeship and work. This study questions the accounting logic that reduces education to skills training in workplace literacy/numeracy, and contradicts the official ‘success’ story that promotes Ontario as a model of large-scale educational change. The follow-up intertextual analyses reveal ideological circles that promote ‘evidence-based research’ and ‘evidence-informed practice,’ while actually gearing education to improving ‘results’ on large-scale standardized tests and manufacturing consent for government policies. Questions arise about the lack of transparency and selective use of educational research. A web of behind-the-scenes activities are made visible at public policy think-tanks (e.g. Canadian Council on Learning; Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network), and two little-researched bodies in educational governance — the Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC) and OECD. Although invisible to teachers, the infrastructure for the Student Success Strategy is the Ontario School Information System (OnSIS); this web-enabled data-management technology has built-in capacity to profile students ‘at risk’ and to instigate accountability and surveillance over teachers’ work, with implications for re-regulating teaching practice towards test scores and aggregate statistics. With the intention of transforming education towards genuine equity, and linking the re-organization of social relations in large-scale reform locally, nationally and globally, this study contributes to critical scholarship on the effects of reform policies on people’s lives and extends knowledge of how translocal text-mediated ruling relations operate in education.