Dermatologie esthétique et correctrice: applications cliniques et rôle social [Esthetic and corrective dermatology: clinical applications and social role].

Skin diseases may have severe aesthetic and psychological repercussions leading sometimes to discriminations and social isolation. Dermatologists have contributed to the development of many cosmetic procedures: peelings, botulinum toxin or hyaluronic acid injections, lasers, blepharoplasty, facelift, etc. Many of these treatments have interesting clinical applications and may help numerous patients with skin diseases to return to a normal social life.

Female stereotypes in household appliances advertising and their social role in Spain: the perpetuation of a no- longer-existing female condition

The following dissertation proposes a qualitative approach on the matter ofadvertising, society and construction of identity, based on the effect of householdappliances commercials in constructing female identity of Spanish women today.Conclusions will be drawn based on a juxtaposition of social background andadvertising content and on how Spanish women of today perceive the evolution offemale imagery depicted in advertisements. The aim is to demonstrate how muchcommercials mirrors society and how far it reinforces paradigms no longer existing

Responsabilidade social empresarial: o caso Deloitte

Recentemente, a questão da Responsabilidade Social Empresarial tem se apresentado perante a sociedade como um assunto significativamente relevante, polêmico e dinâmico. Embora estudos mostrem que empresas têm abordado este tema através de uma gestão formal das ações socialmente responsáveis junto aos seus públicos envolvidos, deve-se destacar que poucas empresas implementam esta prática em seus negócios por desconhecerem seus resultados. Este trabalho visa contribuir para o preenchimento desta lacuna, analisando práticas e conceitos vinculados a este tema. O estudo busca, então, avaliar o grau de Responsabilidade Social Interna numa organização, partindo da experiência da empresa de auditoria e consultoria Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, com foco em sua área de Consultoria Empresarial do escritório do Rio de Janeiro. Tomou-se como base teórica, conceitos sobre autogestão e organização comunitária, responsabilidades e papel social da organização, desenvolvimento sustentável e a responsabilidade social da empresa. O trabalho apresenta uma pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa e, com relação aos meios, bibliográfica e de campo. A pesquisa foi aplicada junto a 41 consultores, dos quais 37 responderam ao questionário previamente elaborado. Como resultado, a investigação aponta para confirmação das suposições levantadas, ou seja, a Responsabilidade Social Empresarial pode ser utilizada como uma forma de gestão capaz de focar os seus negócios no desenvolvimento sustentável, no relacionamento transparente com os públicos envolvidos e no compromisso com a sociedade.

Pacta sunt servanda versus the social role of contracts: the case of Brazilian agriculture contracts

This study explores the instability created by contradictory court decisions related with contract breaches. Forward marketing contracts represent an important source of resources to finance Brazilian agriculture, however a large number of contract breaches were observed during a period of marked increase in soy prices. The study analyzed 161 judicial appeal decisions and a survey was carried with 70 farmers. The results show the difference of judges' interpretation and the existence of second order effects. The effects of court decisions were more requirements of guarantees and the reduction in the number of contracts. Those soybean farmers who did not breach their contracts have also been negatively affected by the strategic reactions of trading and processing companies. The concept of "social function of the contract" introduced in Brazilian civil code led to a higher degree of instability in contracts, raising transaction costs and motivating private economic sanctions.

Social role effects on gender stereotyping in Germany and Japan

Social role theory postulates that gender stereotypes are restrained for men and women observed in the same social role. Cultural differences in the valuation of communal attributes might moderate this effect. To examine this possibility, 288 participants (144 German, 144 Japanese) estimated the communal and agentic attributes of an average man or woman described in a male-dominated role, a female-dominated role, or without role information. We hypothesized and found that in Germany and Japan, participants perceived men as more agentic than women without role information and as similarly agentic in the same role. However, for communion, German and Japanese participants reacted differently. German participants perceived women as more communal than men without role information and in male-dominated roles and perceived men as more communal than women in female-dominated roles. Japanese participants perceived all targets as similarly communal, regardless of role or gender, suggesting that communion is generally expected in Japan.

Originator or propagator? Incorporating social role theory into topic models for twitter content analysis

A large number of studies have been devoted to modeling the contents and interactions between users on Twitter. In this paper, we propose a method inspired from Social Role Theory (SRT), which assumes that a user behaves differently in different roles in the generation process of Twitter content. We consider the two most distinctive social roles on Twitter: originator and propagator, who respectively posts original messages and retweets or forwards the messages from others. In addition, we also consider role-specific social interactions, especially implicit interactions between users who share some common interests. All the above elements are integrated into a novel regularized topic model. We evaluate the proposed method on real Twitter data. The results show that our method is more effective than the existing ones which do not distinguish social roles. Copyright 2013 ACM.

Incorporating social role theory into topic models for social media content analysis

In this paper, we explore the idea of social role theory (SRT) and propose a novel regularized topic model which incorporates SRT into the generative process of social media content. We assume that a user can play multiple social roles, and each social role serves to fulfil different duties and is associated with a role-driven distribution over latent topics. In particular, we focus on social roles corresponding to the most common social activities on social networks. Our model is instantiated on microblogs, i.e., Twitter and community question-answering (cQA), i.e., Yahoo! Answers, where social roles on Twitter include "originators" and "propagators", and roles on cQA are "askers" and "answerers". Both explicit and implicit interactions between users are taken into account and modeled as regularization factors. To evaluate the performance of our proposed method, we have conducted extensive experiments on two Twitter datasets and two cQA datasets. Furthermore, we also consider multi-role modeling for scientific papers where an author's research expertise area is considered as a social role. A novel application of detecting users' research interests through topical keyword labeling based on the results of our multi-role model has been presented. The evaluation results have shown the feasibility and effectiveness of our model.

A social role for churches and cultural demarcation:how German MEPs represent religion in the European Parliament

This study deals with the question of how German members of the European Parliament (MEPs) represent the German model of religion–state relations at the European level. Based on a survey and interviews with German MEPs as well as a content-analysis of German MEPs’ speeches, motions and parliamentary questions during the seventh term of the European Parliament (EP), our study demonstrates that this model is represented in three dimensions. First, German MEPs reflect the close cooperation between the churches and the state in Germany, primarily on social issues, through largely church- and religion-friendly attitudes and relatively frequent contacts with religious interest-groups. Second, by referring to religious freedoms and minorities primarily outside the EU and by placing Islam in considerably more critical contexts than Christianity, German MEPs create a cultural demarcation line between Islam and Christianity through their parliamentary activities, which is similar to, though less politicised than, cultural boundaries often produced in public debates in Germany. Third, our study illustrates similar patterns of religious affiliation and subjective religiosity among German parliamentarians in both the EP and the national Parliament, which to some degree also reflect societal trends in Germany. Yet our data also suggest that European political elites are more religious than the average German population. If the presence of religion in terms of religious interest-groups and arguments is included, the EP appears to be more secularist than the German Parliament.

Social BPM – The role of social networks in business process management

Dissertação apresentada como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Estatística e Gestão de Informação

Identidade social e auto conceito do dançarino em cadeira de rodas

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Papel das motivações do empreendedor na decisão de lançamento da iniciativa social.

É objetivo da investigação analisar o papel que as motivações assumem na decisão de lançamento de uma iniciativa de empreendedorismo em Portugal. Para o efeito, parte-se de uma revisão de literatura sobre o tema, seguindo-se a realização de uma investigação quantitativa através de um inquérito por questionário online enviado aos responsáveis de Organizações Não Governamentais para o Desenvolvimento existentes em Portugal e de projetos cotados na Bolsa Portuguesa de Valores Sociais. A investigação revela que os indivíduos quando se envolvem no empreendedorismo social o fazem de uma forma intencional, tendo em mente determinados propósitos que pretendem alcançar. O estudo realizado confirma a relevância de três objetivos na formação das intenções: a determinação social, a afiliação para com uma determinada comunidade e os objetivos de caráter pessoal, de natureza não pecuniária, relacionados com a autorrealização. Os resultados indicam que a prática do empreendedorismo social é compatível com um conjunto de motivações, de natureza não exclusivamente social, muito embora a determinação social seja predominante na decisão. A investigação apresenta como principal limitação o número de respostas obtidas. A relevância do estudo resulta das implicações práticas para o fomento do nível de empreendedorismo social em Portugal, desde que os poderes públicos atuem sobre os fatores com maior influência na formação das intenções para a adoção de um comportamento socialmente empreendedor. A investigação é realizada numa área considerada crucial para a compreensão do empreendedorismo social, onde os estudos empíricos são ainda considerados escassos, em particular no panorama nacional.

Which “place and non-place” do women occupy in social economy organisations?

Scientific literature has strengthened the perpetuation of inequality factors in the labour market based on gender, despite the on-going endeavour of various political bodies and legal norms against the vertical and horizontal segregation of women. National and European statistical data shows the relevance and timeless features of theories of market segmentation associated with the labour market dating back to the 70’s of the 20th century. Hence, the European Community considers as a priority in the Europe 2020 strategy, the definition of “policies to promote gender equality […] to increase labour force participation thus adding to growth and social cohesion”. If we consider that on the one hand, social economy is fairly recognised to be equated with market actors and the State for its economic and social role in tackling the current crisis, and on the other hand, that the ideals of the sector, systematised in the “Framework Law of Social Economy” (Law no. 30/2013 8th of May), particularly in article 5 proposing “the respect for the values […] of equality and non-discrimination […], justice and equity […]”, we aim to reflect on indicators that uncover a vertical and horizontal segregation in the labour market. Departing from a mixed methodological approach (extensive and intensive), subject to the topic of "Social Entrepreneurship in Portugal" in social economy organisations, we detect very high rates of employment feminisation, with a ratio of 1 man (23%) for every 3 women (77%). Women are mainly earmarked for technical and operational activities, arising from the privileged intervention areas, namely education, training, health, elderly, families, poverty, ultimately being underrepresented in statutory boards and, as such, far removed from deliberations and strategic resolutions. This is particularly visible in the existing hierarchy of functions and management practices of the responsibility of male members. Thus, it seems easily verified that the sector is travelling away from the ideals of justice and social equity, which can crystallise the "non-place" of women in the definition of a strategic direction of social economy and in the most invisible/private “place” of the organisational setting.