Randolph Bourne e a Grande Guerra da américa

Bourne é uma figura incontornável na tentativa de encontrar uma definição para os Estados Unidos no século XX. Em dois dos seus mais conhecidos ensaios, “A América transnacional” e “O Estado,” apresenta uma série de reflexões sobre o papel da cultura e da cidadania como alicerces da identidade nacional de um país levado pela força das circunstâncias ao lugar de império. Bourne é um dos primeiros pensadores a considerar a composição multicultural dos EUA e a questionar as bases anglo-saxónicas da mesma. Por ocasião da Primeira Guerra Mundial, Bourne toma uma posição pacifista entrando em conflito com alguns dos sectores mais influentes da intelectualidade da altura. Bourne desvela os motivos mais crus da guerra que não conseguira impedir para os EUA. A presente comunicação visa estudar o papel do novo nacionalismo proposto por Bourne no contexto determinado pela Grande Guerra.

Measuring university-to-work success: development of a new scale

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a subjective multidimensional measure of early career success during university-to-work transition. Design/methodology/approach – The construct of university-to-work success (UWS) was defined in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic career outcomes, and a three-stage study was conducted to create a new scale. Findings – A preliminary set of items was developed and tested by judges. Results showed the items had good content validity. Factor analyses indicated a four-factor structure and a second-order model with subscales to assess: career insertion and satisfaction, confidence in career future, income and financial independence, and adaptation to work. Third, the authors sought to confirm the hypothesized model examining the comparative fit of the scale and two alternative models. Results showed that fits for both the first- and second-order models were acceptable. Research limitations/implications – The proposed model has sound psychometric qualities, although the validated version of the scale was not able to incorporate all constructs envisaged by the initial theoretical model. Results indicated some direction for further refinement. Practical implications – The scale could be used as a tool for self-assessment or as an outcome measure to assess the efficacy of university-to-work programs in applied settings. Originality/value – This study provides a useful single measure to assess early career success during the university-to-work transition, and might facilitate testing of causal models which could help identify factors relevant for successful transition.

Model spaces and Toeplitz kernels in reflexive Hardy spaces

This paper considers model spaces in an Hp setting. The existence of unbounded functions and the characterisation of maximal functions in a model space are studied, and decomposition results for Toeplitz kernels, in terms of model spaces, are established