scholarly journals Itaitu-Ba Environmental and Touristic Scenery

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Renata Elen Santos Macedo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Tourism Planning ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Conservation Measures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Methodological Procedures

The present work highlights Itaitu-BA, the research presents the interpretive landscapes awakening to tourism. The study aims to know the characteristics of the place wihin the aspects of geography, to make it possible to inquire about preservation measures, to know the conjuncture of the place through the socioenvironmental appoach in accordance with law no 6,938/81. Methodological procedures were based on bibliographic grouds for better epistemological deepening. The reserarch is quantitative and qualitative, a field research was carried out with data col The present work highlights Itaitu-BA, the research presents the interpretive l lection, through questionnaires answered by (40) residents, highlighting and analyzing the evironmental problem, and so, enabling conservation measures, pilot projects, tourism planning, creating conscions resolutions through each of the social actors.

scholarly journals Inclusion proposal of Santa Clara community in the information society

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Giovanna Guedes Farias ◽  
Isa Maria Freire
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Knowledge

It presents a research work proposal, in development in the Masters Program in Information Science at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), which aims to intervene in the process of informational exclusion experienced by Santa Clara Community in the João Pessoa city, Paraíba state. This intervention will occur through field research for registration, organization and dissemination of “information sources”, constituted by people from the community. For that it will be produced a website where it will deposited, to free access in the internet, the “knowledge treasure” of people who form the social memory and knowledge of Santa Clara Community, that will be available for the next generations, which may facilitate the production of new knowledge by other social actors.

scholarly journals Infrastrukturalne uwarunkowania i rezultaty kontroli sprawowanej przez personel wobec wychowanków zakładów poprawczych i schronisk dla nieletnich

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-118
Author(s):  
Piotr Chomczyński
Keyword(s):  
Direct Observation ◽  
Juvenile Delinquents ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Correctional Institutions ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
The Social

The author of this article analyses the relations between infrastructure and the exercise of control over inmates by the personnel of correctional institutions. He aims to show how physical aspects of the space are used by staff members to strengthen their own position. He uses a description of such facilities as a departure point for analyzing the activities of the social actors. The article is empirical in nature and rests on several years of qualitative field research in correctional institutions and facilities for juvenile delinquents in Poland. The analysis is based on material acquired through overt direct observation in correctional institutions and in voluntary interviews with staff and inmates, as well as visual material, internal documents, and letters.

scholarly journals Challenges Faced by UK University Students Due to the Coronavirus Crisis in the Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddharth Suhas Kulkarni ◽  
Parmjit Chima
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Personal Problems ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Methodological Procedures ◽  
Conventional Classroom ◽  
The Uk

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the worst catastrophes that we have faced globally in recent years. It has not only taken its toll on the economic sector but also on the education sector. The social distancing norms that are in place as a direct response to the pandemic have turned conventional classroom teaching into a problematic minefield; as such, students all over the world have been forced into unprecedented situations that have served only to worsen the situation. The current pandemic has given rise to one of the worst crises the 21st Century has ever seen, resulting in a surge of unemployment. Many companies have taken the route of firing employees or making redundancies, as they cannot afford the monthly reimbursement for staff. While this issue primarily concerns full-time workers, it also carries significant consequences for students – a considerable number of students are required to earn their daily living costs, and, without a job, they cannot pay their educational fees, accommodation costs, or living expenses. This comprehensive study briefly discusses the multitude of problems faced by students in the UK regarding higher education, as a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic. It contains six individual sections: a detailed introduction; the methodological procedures employed; educational disruptions, covering issues from hindrances in field research to examinations and student evaluations; personal problems experienced by students, such as accommodation and loss of income; concerns arising from the global pandemic; and finally, a conclusion and summary of the study’s findings.

scholarly journals Socioeconomic aspects of the production chain of species Cardisoma guanhumi in the Northeast coast of Brazil

2019 ◽  
pp. 065-070
Author(s):  
Brunna de Andrade Lima Pontes Cavalcanti ◽  
Daywison Borges da Silva ◽  
Leandro Muniz Barbosa da Silva ◽  
Gilberto Gonçalves Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Production Chain ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Final Destination ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cardisoma Guanhumi ◽  
Methodological Procedures ◽  
Local Ecosystem ◽  
Species Being

Mangroves are considered an important coastal ecosystem for feeding, protecting and breeding many species. Crustaceans constitute one of the most important groups of mangrove fauna, among the species traded in Brazil, Cardisoma guanhumi (Guaiamum) stands out. In recent years, there has been a decline in the populations of C. guanhumi in Brazil and the species has come to be considered as critically endangered, remaining in this category until today. The species plays an important role in the local ecosystem and social dynamics, the risk of extinction may lead to several negative social and environmental impacts. Aiming at this problem, the research aimed to characterize the socioeconomic representation of this activity. The methodological procedures focused on bibliographical, documentary and cartographic review. For the identification of the flows linked to the production chains, the participant observation technique was used, accompanying the scavengers in their work environments, the transport and commercialization transporters to the final destination. The results point to the identification of two flows (internal and external) that help to understand how the productive chain has been structured. The new modes of production have interfered in the social aspects of the productive chain of the species, being able to accentuate the situation of social vulnerability in which are inserted the social actors that depend on their harvesting. Therefore, it is necessary to create policies and instruments of governance for these territories that aim at planning, planning and environmental management for the regulation of the use of the species considering the aspects of local social dynamics.

Entanglements between Agency and Vulnerability in the Phenomenon of Birth. Reflections on Children’s Expressions about ‘Being Born’

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2-2020) ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Catrin Heite ◽  
Veronika Magyar-Haas
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cultural Embeddedness

Analogously to the works in the field of new social studies of childhood, this contribution deals with the concept of childhood as a social construction, in which children are considered as social actors in their own living environment, engaged in interpretive reproduction of the social. In this perspective the concept of agency is strongly stressed, and the vulnerability of children is not sufficiently taken into account. But in combining vulnerability and agency lies the possibility to consider the perspective of the subjects in the context of their social, political and cultural embeddedness. In this paper we show that what children say, what is important to them in general and for their well-being, is shaped by the care experiences within the family and by their social contexts. The argumentation for the intertwining of vulnerability and agency is exemplified by the expressions of an interviewed girl about her birth and by reference to philosophical concepts about birth and natality.

Care of Elderly Germans Suffering from Dementia and other Diseases in Private Social Welfare Institutions in Poland — A Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-85
Author(s):  
Nicole Horáková ◽  
Jan Kajfosz
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Field Research ◽  
High Standard ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Private Care ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Of Elderly

The European society is getting older and nobody knows how to deal with this problem. There are different models from family care, special housing for elderly to professional institutional care, which has the disadvantage of being very expensive. In Germany we have noticed in the last two or three years a special trend to send old people suffering from dementia to foreign countries, because these people need intensive care and the social services for example in Poland have a high standard. The aim of our survey is to dismantle, by the example of the private care institution situated in Poland, Upper Silesia which specializes on German customers, the social practices associated with placing the elderly in such institutions and also the methods of constructing meanings of these practices providing clarity in the various groups that take part in this process. To reach this aim we used qualitative field research, including discourse and narrative analysis of various materials (interviews, promotional texts, websites), which beside other things allowed us to reconstruct the media image of the surveyed residences for the elderly and show it in a wider context.

Brokers in the tea trade between China and West Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 092137402110218
Author(s):  
Ute Röschenthaler
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
West Africa ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Green Tea ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
The Social ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The 19Th Century

Brokers have played important roles in the trade of green tea between China and Mali, from the 19th century when tea first came to Mali up to the present. They mediate between tea buyers and sellers, work on their own account, use soft skills, knowledge and networks and make a living from the commission they gain. This article examines the work of brokers in the tea trade, the social constellations in which they are active and the scope of their activity. Based on extensive field research in Mali and China, this article shows how brokers create their own jobs in a dynamic business landscape, which is often delimited by governmental policies, competing entrepreneurial activities and social movements.

scholarly journals The Meaning of the Matrix: Towards a Cybernetic Critical Theory of Capitalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Shay Hershkovitz
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
System A ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Entity ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Operational Logic

Marxist criticism is most discernible; despite the oft-repeated claim that it is now irrelevant, belonging to an age now past. This essay assumes that criticism originating in the Marxist school of thought continue to be relevant also in this present time; though it may need to be further developed and improved by integrating newer critical approaches into the classic Marxist discourse. This essay therefore integrates basic Marxist ideas with key concepts from ‘social systems theory’; especially the theory of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann's. In this light, capitalism is conceptualized here as a ‘super (social) system’: a meaning-creating social entity, in which social actors, behaviors and structures are realized. This theoretical concept and terminology emphasizes the social construction of control and stability, when discussing the operational logic of capitalism.

scholarly journals Anti-migrant Islamophobia in Europe. Social roots, mechanisms and actors

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (53) ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
Fabio Perocco
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Muslim Immigrants ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mass Media

Abstract During the last two decades of rising anti-migrant racism in Europe, Islamophobia has proven to be the highest, most acute, and widely spread form of racism. The article shows how anti-migrant Islamophobia is a structural phenomenon in European societies and how its internal structure has specific social roots and mechanisms of functioning. Such an articulate and interdependent set of key themes, policies, practices, discourses, and social actors it is intended to inferiorise and marginalise Muslim immigrants while legitimising and reproducing social inequalities affecting the majority of them. The article examines the social origins of anti-migrant Islamophobia and the modes and mechanisms through which it naturalises inequalities; it focuses on the main social actors involved in its production, specifically on the role of some collective subjects as anti-Muslim organizations and movements, far-right parties, best-selling authors, and the mass-media.

scholarly journals Sociology’s Role in the Teaching of Organizational Behavior in Higher Education. The Case of Hospitality Management

Societies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Ferraz
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Hospitality Management ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Organizational Structuring ◽  
Hospitality Organizations ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Productivity Gains

Teaching in universities, especially in management schools, is today orientated to solving-problems and operational skills’ development, short-term productivity gains and to a vocational perspective. This represents an impoverishment of a deeper learning, an obstacle to the development of competences in a broader and integrative sense and the absence of a critical thinking practice. These are important tools to enhance in students and future managers, as specific social actors, abilities to act in a conscious, autonomous and long-term efficacious manner in society. This essay’s objective is to problematize the role that sociology could assume in the overcoming of that impoverishment, namely within the curricular unit of organizational behavior in two ways. First, teaching the social and macro dimensions that contribute to explain organizational structuring and behavior. Secondly, enhancing reflexivity and contextualization on the practices and discourses of all social actors involved and disassembling the dominant ideological, naturalized and simplistic individualized view on the reality of labor, employment and organizations. This is especially relevant in hospitality management studies because the dominant discourse about hospitality organizations hide, under a hegemonic paradigm of naturalized and individualized explanations, the macro-social dimensions of its organizational culture, work conditions, employees’ behaviors, management styles and market labor.

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