Why do crowds cause trouble? Exploring affective instability in collectivity

2021 ◽  
pp. 147059312110349
Author(s):  
Maíra Magalhães Lopes ◽  
Joel Hietanen ◽  
Jacob Ostberg
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Urban Activism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Expression ◽  
Affective Instability ◽  
Being And Becoming

Through our ethnographic study of urban activism collectives in São Paulo, we propose another approach for exploring the process of collective formations and their longevity. Rather than seeking out the representational meanings of individualized communities, we approach collectivity from the perspective of crowds. Crowds are affective. Crowds are contagious. By adopting affect-based theorizing, we discuss affective intensities that bring about collectivity before the individuals awaken to narrate their meaning-makings. In our ethnographic context, collectives resist manifestations of gentrification (i.e., consumer culture in itself) and offer us a multifaceted site of being and becoming with the crowds. We explore how connections and disconnections affectively rekindle the social expression of collective bodies in consumer culture. This way, we add new dimensions to extant theorizing of consumer collectivity that tends to focus on individualized meaning, stability, and harmony.

A estranha objetividade do valor: trabalho, ideologia e capital no pensamento de Marx

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-175
Author(s):  
Wécio Pinheiro Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Labor Process ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Concrete Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Logic ◽  
The One

Resumo: Em O Capital, Marx nos alertou que a mercadoria tem um caráter misterioso que carrega “sutilezas metafísicas e argúcias teológicas”. Este artigo tenta decifrar um pouco desse mistério buscando decodifica-lo naquilo que denominamos como a estranha objetividade do valor. Para isso, analisamos a relação entre a ideologia e o valor a partir da crítica marxiana à mercadoria, consignada à lógica de Hegel. Vemos que o valor se constitui como razão ontológica da mercadoria enquanto produto do processo de trabalho que carrega uma racionalidade imanente, isto é, um espírito socialmente produzido que se objetiva à medida que é vivenciado pelos indivíduos como uma lógica social que rege as relações nesta sociedade. Isso se dá por meio de “sutilezas metafísicas” na formação da realidade social marcada por contradições estabelecidas entre, de um lado, o conteúdo objetivo das relações sociais, e de outro, a forma como essas relações são vivenciadas pela consciência na sociedade capitalista. Nesta relação entre conteúdo e forma, encontramos determinações de profundidade ontológica entre o valor e a ideologia, enquanto forma social que opera harmonizando as contradições constituintes da realidade social, a exemplo do que acontece no trabalho assalariado. A mediação ideológica se põe como uma progressão imanente à materialização da vivência concreta da relação entre capital e trabalho no salário, de maneira a naturalizar a exploração que se esconde na estranha objetividade do valor que se realiza na troca de mercadorias. Concluímos que a conexão ontológica entre o ser social e a mercadoria é socialmente ubíqua, precisamente por conta do seu caráter ideológico na formação da sociabilidade a partir do processo de trabalho subjugado ao capital.  Palavras-chave: Valor. Ideologia. Trabalho, Capital. Salário.  Abstract: In Capital, Marx warned us that the commodity has a mysterious character bearing "metaphysical subtleties and theological insights." This article attempts to decipher a little of this mystery by decoding it into what we call the strange objectivity of value. For this, we analyze the relation between ideology and value from the Marxian critique of the commodity, consigned to the Hegelian logic. We see that value is constituted as the ontological reason of the commodity as the product of the labor process that carries an immanent rationality, that is, a socially produced spirit that is objectified as it is experienced by the individuals as a social logic that governs the relations in this society. This is done through "metaphysical subtleties" in the formation of social reality marked by contradictions established between, on the one hand, the objective content of social relations, and on the other, the way in which these relations are experienced by consciousness in capitalist society. In this relationship between content and form, we find determinations of ontological depth between value and ideology, as a social form that operates by harmonizing the constituent contradictions of social reality, as in wage labor. Ideological mediation is seen as an immanent progression to the materialization of the concrete experience of the relation between capital and labor in wage, in order to naturalize the exploitation that is hidden in the strange objectivity of the value that is realized in the exchange of commodities. We conclude that the ontological connection between the social being and the commodity is socially ubiquitous precisely because of its ideological character in the formation of sociability from the labor process subjugated to capital.  Keywords: Value. Labor. Ideology. Capital. Wage.  REFERÊNCIAS  ADORNO, Theodor W. Teoria Estética. [Asthetische Theorie]. Tradução de Artur Morão. – São Paulo : Livraria Martins Fontes, 1988.  ADORNO, Theodor W. 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O Capital – Crítica da Economia Política. Livro 1 – O Processo de Produção do Capital. Vol. I – 10 ª. Edição, Tradução de Reginaldo Sant’ Anna. Do original em alemão: DAS KAPITAL – Kritik der politischen Ökonomie (Buch I: Der Produktionsprozes des Kapitals, Quarta edição, 1890). São Paulo : DIFEL, 1985.  MARX, Karl. O Capital – Crítica da Economia Política. Livro 1 – O processo de produção do capital. Do original em alemão: DAS KAPITAL – Kritik der politischen Ökonomie (Buch 1: Der Produktionsprozess des Kapitals.  – São Paulo: Boitempo, 2013.   NICHOLS, Bill. Ideology and the Image: Social Representation in the Cinema and Other Media. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.

Sound-Politics in São Paulo

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
Crime Control ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Analytical Category

This book is an ethnographic study of controversial sounds and noise control debates in Latin America’s most populous city. It discusses the politics of collective living by following several threads linking sound-making practices to governance issues. Rather than discussing sound within a self-enclosed “cultural” field, I examine it as a point of entry for analyzing the state. At the same time, rather than portraying the state as a self-enclosed “apparatus” with seemingly inexhaustible homogeneous power, I describe it as a collection of unstable (and often contradictory) sectors, personnel, strategies, discourses, documents, and agencies. My goal is to approach sound as an analytical category that allows us to access citizenship issues. As I show, environmental noise in São Paulo has been entangled in a wide range of debates, including public health, religious intolerance, crime control, urban planning, cultural rights, and economic growth. The book’s guiding question can be summarized as follows: how do sounds enter and leave the sphere of state control? I answer this question by examining a multifaceted process I define as “sound-politics.” The term refers to sounds as objects that are susceptible to state intervention through specific regulatory, disciplinary, and punishment mechanisms. Both “sound” and “politics” in “sound-politics” are nouns, with the hyphen serving as a bridge that expresses the instability that each concept inserts into the other.

scholarly journals The Social Cost of Drinking and Driving in the City of São Paulo

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edilaine Moraes ◽  
Marcio Mariano Moreira ◽  
Geraldo Mendes de Campos ◽  
Ronaldo Laranjeira
Keyword(s):  
Social Cost ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Drinking And Driving ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Corrupção e violência no sistema penitenciário de São Paulo / Corruption and Violence at São Paulo's Penitenciary Prison

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-220
Author(s):  
Marisol de Paula Reis
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Illegal Activity ◽  
Professional Category ◽  
The Social ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThe present work has as object of study the Penitentiary Security ex-Agent (ex-ASP) who is in prison regime by the crime of passive corruption (Article 317 - Brazilian Penal Code). The study answered the following questions: 1) What do staffs and ex-staffs think on the practice of corruption exercised between institutional staffs and some prisoners inside the Sao Paulo's Prisons? 2) What are the representations for the conduct of the ASP's? 3) How do these representations explain the inclusion of some staffs in illegal activity by way of corruption? What is the relationship between corruption and violence? This is a qualitative research with questionnaires and interviews script sticking to the viewpoint of those involved in acts of corruption (the ex-ASP's) and the speeches of the staffs in the exercises of function. The social representations was used as theoretical and methodological axes to present the explanatory elements (material and symbolic) that guide the conduct of this professional category about the corruption and the relationship of this practice with the intramural violence. Authors such as Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Wieviorka, Alves-Mazzoti, Denise Jodelet and Campos Coelho contributed to the discussion proposed.RESUMOO presente trabalho tem como objeto de estudo o ex-Agente de Segurança Penitenciária (ex-ASP) que se encontra em regime de prisão pela prática do crime de corrupção passiva (artigo 317 - Código Penal Brasileiro). O estudo respondeu às seguintes preocupações: 1) O que pensam Agentes Penitenciários e ex-ASP´s sobre a prática da corrupção exercida entre agentes institucionais e alguns presos no interior das prisões de São Paulo? 2) Quais são as representações para tal conduta dos ASP’s? 3) Como essas representações explicam a inserção de alguns agentes penitenciários na atividade ilegal pela via da corrupção? Qual a relação entre corrupção e violência? Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa, com aplicação de questionários e roteiro de entrevistas, atendo-se ao ponto de vista dos sujeitos envolvidos em atos de corrupção (os ex-ASP´s), e às falas dos agentes de segurança penitenciária em exercício da função. Utilizou-se as representações sociais como eixos teórico e metodológico, para apresentar os elementos explicativos (materiais e simbólicos) que orientam a conduta desta categoria profissional sobre a corrupção, e a relação desta prática com a violência intramuros. Autores como Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Wieviorka, Alves-Mazzoti, Denise Jodelet e Campos Coelho contribuíram para a discussão proposta.

scholarly journals Ocio y procesos educativos en el contexto del movimiento de los trabajadores rurales sin tierra (MST) de la región de ribeirão preto – sp – Brasil (Leisure and educational processes in the context of the movement of rural landless workers (MST) in the re

Retos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 637-644
Author(s):  
Robson Amaral de Silva ◽  
Luiz Gonçalves-Junior ◽  
Jose Maria Pazos Couto
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Nature ◽  
Societal Structure ◽  
Las Mujeres

El objetivo central de este estudio fue comprender el significado atribuido al ocio en la percepción de los integrantes del Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra (MST) de la región de Ribeirão Preto, interior del estado de São Paulo, Brasil, y describir procesos educativos emergentes de esa práctica social en áreas de reforma agraria ocupadas por estos/as trabajadores/as. La metodología utilizada fue de naturaleza cualitativa inspirada en la fenomenología existencial, para la recogida de datos se utilizaron diarios de campo. Para el análisis de resultados construimos dos categorías: A) Ocio como tiempo-espacio de lucha del MST; B) Apropiación desigual del ocio por las mujeres del MST. La práctica social del ocio en el MST es un tiempo-espacio de lucha, no fragmentado de otras luchas del Movimiento, que además de la tierra, lucha también por mejor educación, salud y ocio. Percibimos la contestación de la actual estructura societaria y sus imperativos en la práctica social del ocio en el cotidiano de los/as trabajadores/as rurales con que convivimos en la investigación, pero contradictoriamente, algunas experiencias reprodujeron valores hegemónicos de la sociedad neoliberal.Abstract. The main objective of this study was to understand the meaning attributed to leisure in the perception of the members of the Movement of the Landless Rural Workers (MST) of the Ribeirão Preto region, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and to describe educational processes that allowed that social practice in areas of agrarian reform occupied by these workers. The methodology used was of a qualitative nature inspired by existential phenomenology. Field journals were used for the data collection. For the results, we constructed two categories: A) Leisure as time-space of struggle of the MST; B) Unequal appropriation of leisure by women of the MST. We consider that social practice of leisure in the MST is a time-space of struggle, not shared with other struggles of the Movement, which besides the land, also fights for better education, health, and leisure. We perceive the answer of the current societal structure and its imperatives in the social practice of leisure in the daily life of the rural workers with whom we live, but contradictorily, some experiences reproduced hegemonic values of the neoliberal society.

scholarly journals Communication, Education and the Social Acceleration of Time in Brazilian Schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
Rogério Pelizzari de Andrade ◽  
Douglas de Oliveira Calixto
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Communication Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University

The paper presents data from the research Interrelationships Communication and Education in the Context of Basic Education, which involved 3.7 thousand students and more than 500 Brazilian teachers, and addresses the theme of social acceleration of time. Developed by the Educommunication Mediations group (MECOM), which is linked to the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo (ECA / USP), the survey extended from September to December 2018. The results show that educators are subjected to stressful working hours and that the media, especially mobile devices, cross the school ecosystem. Through their smartphones, even accessed in the classroom, students rearrange and re-signify the experience and time of education.

scholarly journals HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN THE EXPEDITION ALONG THE IPIRANGA STREAM

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERMELINDA MOUTINHO PATACA ◽  
CAMILA MARTINS DA SILVA BANDEIRA
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Scientific Representations ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Abstract In this article we reflect on the development of an educational fieldwork conducted along the Ipiranga River, in which we bring the debates concerning History of Science and Environmental Education closer together, by problematizing the social and environmental issues in the city of São Paulo in a contextualized and critical way. To that end, we established the limits for the hydrographic basin by highlighting the headwaters of the Ipiranga River and the changes it has undergone, as well as the political, sanitary and environmental meanings throughout the 20th Century. We associated the environmental issues with the history of two important institutions located along the river: The Botanical Garden and the Museu Paulista’s [São Paulo Museum] arboretum. We highlighted the practices, techniques and scientific representations that were developed on the sites, by valuing them as cultural heritage of the Brazilian science.

scholarly journals Ensino superior e avaliação institucional: um modelo em implantação

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (194) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardete Gatti
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
State Council ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Experiment ◽  
Basic Features

Chama a atenção para algumas questões ligadas à cultura de avaliação no Brasil e para aspectos básicos que devem ser considerados quando se realiza um processo avaliativo. Trata esses processos como processos de ajuda, invertendo a visão que comumente se adota para a avaliação. Ressalta o sentido social associado a qualquer processo dessa natureza e as responsabilidades do avaliador. Por fim, apresenta a experiência de avaliação institucional que o Conselho Estadual de Educação de São Paulo vem desenvolvendo com as instituições de ensino superior que estão sob sua jurisdição. Palavras-chave: instituição de ensino superior; avaliação institucional; modelo de avaliação; Conselho Estadual de Educação de São Paulo. Abstract This article calls the attention to some points related to the culture of evaluation in Brazil and to some basic features to be considered when developing an evaluative process. These processes are treated as a process of helping choices or changes. It emphasizes the social meaning associated to any process of this nature and the evaluator responsabilities. At last, it is presented an institutional research experiment that the State Council of Education of São Paulo is helding at the higher education institutions under its jurisdiction. Key-words: higher education institution; institutional evaluation; evaluation model; São Paulo State Council of Education.

scholarly journals Análise da Insolvência das Empresas Devedoras da Previdência Social / Analysis of the Insolvency of Companies Borning the Social Security

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (49) ◽  
pp. 272-287
Author(s):  
Mariana Costa Silva ◽  
Raimundo Nonato Lima Filho
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The Social

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo a efetiva análise das principais empresas devedoras da Previdência Social, utilizando, para tanto, os índices: do endividamento, imobilizado, rentabilidade e retorno de investimento. Estas informações foram obtidas por meio da junção entre informações do site Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo (B3), somadas ao balanço patrimonial e a Demonstração do Resultado do Exercício (DRE) das instituições escolhidas para estudo, no período de 2010 a 2016, tentando, dessa forma, obter e evidenciar respostas aos fatores que levaram à insolvência das maiores devedoras da dívida ativa da Previdência Social. Para executar a pesquisa, foram utilizados os métodos qualitativo e quantitativo, apresentando-se então as contribuições dos estudos aplicados na análise feita, buscando compreender o que está acontecendo com a dívida, a realidade em que o país se encontra e as consequências da falta desse dinheiro. Entretanto, é preciso salientar desde já que as limitações de informações de algumas das empresas escolhidas, que acabaram declarando falência ou estão com processo judicial em andamento, foram fatores impeditivos para a obtenção das informações desejadas. Para trabalhos futuros, sugere-se adotar outros modelos para análise da estrutura de capital das empresas. 

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