298 resultados para Marginalized
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Tese de doutoramento, Sociologia (Sociologia da Família, Juventude e das Relações do Género), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, 2016
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This mixed-methods study analyzed quantitative and qualitative data on rental market conditions in the Seattle area, their effects on renters, and coping mechanisms used by renters. Data was collected from 111 individuals using an online survey and face-to-face interviews. While the focus of the study was on low-income renters and other marginalized populations, results show that a majority of renters surveyed are struggling to make ends meet, and that rental market conditions are impacting renters’ residential situations, as well as their life choices in other areas, such as education, their career, and decisions to have children. Future research should investigate these relationships further and in more detail, particularly for renters from marginalized populations, and investigate what types of solutions or improvements renters would like to see.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06
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Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06
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Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06
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Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06
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Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06
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The complex relationship between marginalized people, 'public nuisance type offences' and fines law is explored. Court observation research conducted in Brisbane is reported which suggests that indigent people are more likely than others to appear before the court on charges related to public space offences, and that they are just as likely as others to receive a fine in response to their offending behaviour despite the legislative provisions aimed at avoiding this
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The direction, complexity and pace of rural change in affluent, western societies can be conceptualized as a multifunctional transition, in which a variable mix of consumption and protection values has emerged, contesting the former dominance of production values, and leading to greater complexity and heterogeneity in rural occupance at all scales. This transition is propelled by three dominant driving forces, namely: agricultural overcapacity; the emergence of market-driven amenity values; and growing societal awareness of sustainability and preservation issues. Australia's generous supply of land and sparse investment in agriculture has facilitated local transitions towards enhanced consumption and protection values, enabling a clearer delineation of emerging differentiated modes of rural occupance than in more contested locales. In Australia seven distinctive modes of occupance can be identified, according to the relative precedence given to production, consumption or protection values. These modes are described as: productivist agricultural; rural amenity; small farm (or pluriactive); peri-metropolitan; marginalized agricultural; conservation; and indigenous. Within these seven modes, alternative trajectories are identified, indicating variability in the intensity and type of resource use. Articulation of the transition concept may provide synergy between discrete discourses in rural research. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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While there is sufficient evidence to suggest that physical activity is inversely related to lifestyle diseases, researchers are far from being certain that this evidence extends to children. Nevertheless, the school physical education curriculum has been targeted as an institutional agency that could have a significant impact on health during childhood and later during adulthood if individuals could be habituated to assume a physically active lifestyle. The purpose of this article is to examine the recontextualization of biomedical knowledge into an ideology of healthism in which health is conceived as a controllable certainty and used as a pedagogical construction to transform school physical education. Using a Foucauldian perspective, we explore how the atomized biomedical model of chemical and physical relationships is constructed, reproduced, and perpetuated to service and empower the discourse and the practices of researchers and scholars. In this process the sociological or cultural aspects of public health are marginalized or ignored. As a result of this examination, alternative approaches are proposed that engage the limitations of the biomedical model and openly consider the insights that are available from the social sciences regarding what participation in physical activity means to individuals.
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Discriminatory language became an important social issue in the west in the late twentieth century, when debates on political correctness and minority rights focused largely on the issue of respect in language. Japan is often criticized for having made only token attempts to address this issue. This paper investigates how one marginalized group—people with disabilities—has dealt with discriminatory and disrespectful language. The debate has been played out in four public spaces: the media, the law, literature, and the Internet. The paper discusses the kind of language, which has generated protest, the empowering strategies of direct action employed to combat its use, and the response of the media, the bureaucracy, and the literati. Government policy has not kept pace with social change in this area; where it exists at all, it is often contradictory and far from clear. I argue that while the laws were rewritten primarily as a result of external international trends, disability support groups achieved domestic media compliance by exploiting the keen desire of media organizations to avoid public embarrassment. In the absence of language policy formulated at the government level, the media effectively instituted a policy of self-censorship through strict guidelines on language use, thereby becoming its own best watchdog. Disability support groups have recently enlisted the Internet as an agent of further empowerment in the ongoing discussion of the issue.
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This paper examines idiosyncrasies of tea plantation culture and politics in relation to Sri Lankan national and popular cultural typologies, with special reference to female tea plantation workers. Tea production in Sri Lanka is heavily based on manual labour, and it is the largest industry that provides accommodation for employees and their families. In this paper, it is argued that politico-cultural production relations have dominated labour productivity in tea plantations. Ways in which female workers have been marginalized, through patriarchal politics, ethnicity, religion, education, elitism, and employment are explained. This culture of the plantation community operates negatively with respect to the management agenda. It is also argued that social capital development in tea plantations is important not only for productivity improvement, but also for reasons of political and social obligation for the nation, because migrant plantation workers have been working and living in plantations over 150 years.
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Um dos grandes desafios a serem enfrentados pelas cidades brasileiras é a problemática vivenciada pela população em situação de rua, cada vez mais numerosa nos centros urbanos. Essa população heterogênea e complexa vem sendo cada vez mais, alvo de discussões que buscam compreendê-la melhor, tentando quantificá-la e descrevê-la para delinear caminhos de intervenção em sua situação-limite, que melhor contemple suas necessidades. As ações pastorais adotadas com a população em situação de rua nas cidades, por sua vez, geralmente têm privilegiado o proselitismo e o assistencialismo, que acabam por reproduzir os mecanismos que os excluem e os tornam sobrantes em todos os aspectos da vida, inclusive da própria religião. Essa postura se explica por sua pastoral estar pautada no antigo paradigma de missão, no qual o assistido não tem voz e torna-se apenas um depositário de assistência e de dogmas. Na busca de uma ação pastoral alternativa, encontramos a Missão SAL, em Santo André, que realiza sua missão a partir da convivência familiar com pessoas sobrantes dos centros urbanos, como aquela que pode revelar-se uma importante expressão do rosto da missão para eles. Assim, a presente dissertação se propôs a analisar a ação pastoral da Missão SAL a partir da seguinte pergunta norteadora: A ação pastoral adotada pela Missão Sal possui suas bases em uma metodologia da convivência, que promova o diálogo, devolvendo a voz às pessoas sobrantes que acolhe, contribuindo para a construção de sua autonomia? A metodologia utilizada contou com dois momentos distintos. Iniciamos com a sistematização de referencial bibliográfico sobre a população em situação de rua, especialmente o que convencionamos chamar de sobrantes, bem como o contexto em que esta está inserida na contemporaneidade e a sistematização da bibliografia sobre o referencial teórico para uma avaliação crítica da metodologia de ação pastoral utilizada na Missão SAL. Em seguida nos detivemos ao estudo de caso, que teve como objeto a metodologia de ação pastoral da Missão SAL, em Santo André, que foi analisada a partir da observação participativa e de entrevistas não estruturadas com os moradores da casa. Essa dissertação está composta em três capítulos. O primeiro capítulo buscou apresentar os sobrantes que fazem parte de um exército de excluídos e marginalizados, que vivem em situação de rua nos centros urbanos, apontando sua relação com a cidade. O segundo capítulo apresentou os resultados obtidos no estudo de caso da Missão SAL e, por fim, o terceiro capítulo procurou apontar caminhos para uma metodologia da convivência na ação pastoral para a população sobrante dos centros urbanos, como aquela que pode contribuir para a autonomia dessa população.