Representações Sociais do Consumo de Álcool e Drogas em Estudantes da Universidade Jean Piaget: um estudo com alunos de Direito e Psicologia.

O presente estudo teve como objectivo conhecer e caracterizar as Representações Sociais do consumo de álcool e drogas em estudantes dos cursos de Direito e Psicologia, na Universidade Jean Piaget de Cabo Verde. Trata-se de um estudo descritivo e exploratório, que adopta uma abordagem quantitativa, realizado com uma amostra com 99 estudantes universitários de ambos os sexos, com idade compreendida entre 18 e 48 anos, do 1º e do 4º ano dos cursos de Direito e Psicologia, que responderam a uma Escala de Representações Sociais sobre o consumo de álcool e drogas e a um questionário sobre dados pessoais.Após a recolha de dados, foram realizadas análises estatísticas de tipo descritivo, correlacional e inferencial, utilizando-se o programa estatístico SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science), versão 20.0. Os resultados indicaram ser pouco provável que exista uma relação segura (ou melhor, com significância estatística) entre as variáveis sexo, curso e ano escolar de um lado, e as representações sociais no total da escala, de outro. Entretanto, encontramos evidências de uma associação estatisticamente significativa entre a frequência do consumo de álcool e o total da ERS, e de uma associação estatística e altamente significativa entre a frequência do consumo de álcool e a componente Atitudes. Constatámos, outrossim, diferenças estatisticamente significativas entre os sexos a nível da subescala atitudes, sendo que o sexo masculino apresenta atitudes mais favoráveis e permissivas face ao consumo de álcool e drogas, comparativamente ao sexo feminino.

Service Quality Analysis in the Five Stars Resort Hotels of Cape Verde

The objective of this study was the identification of the attributes and dimensions of service quality affecting the service performance of the five stars resort hotels located in the Cape Verde Islands. The reason boosting the initiative to do this research was the paramount role of the resort hotels in the development of the travel and tourism sector in Cape Verde, and the impact that today this sector has had in the economy of that country. The research opens with a literature review on the service quality theory in the hotel industry, starting from the middle of the 1980s with the classic model of service quality and SERVQUAL instrument to the analysis of recent models of service quality measurement in the hotel industry, as it is an example the scale of items developed in 2003 in the Lodging Quality Index (LQI). Furthermore, the study elaborates an analysis on the importance of the travel and tourism activities in the Cape Verde Islands, and it evidences the enormous importance of those activities in the performance of the Cape Verdean hotel industry. In sequence the study analyzes in details the hotel industry of Cape Verde and it identifies the market size of the five stars resort hotels and their current operators in that market. Moreover, the research develops with an online questionnaire elaborated and sent through the platforms of travel websites and communities to the guests whom have experienced the service of the five stars resort hotels located in the Cape Verde Islands. The scope of the questionnaire was to assess the attributes and dimensions of service quality in the five stars resort hotels of Cape Verde. The results of the questionnaire were in sequence analyzed through descriptive and applied statistics, using Microsoft Excel and the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). Content validity analysis, factor analysis, and reliability analysis of the factors were made to purify an initial scale of 47 items of service quality. An instrument with three dimensions covering twenty four attributes of service quality assessment in the five stars resort hotels of Cape Verde was finally created. The three dimensions found were: staff competence; food and entertainment; and physical facilities. This study on the service in the five stars resort hotels of Cape Verde ends with brief comments on the status of service quality according to the identified dimensions and their attributes. In the conclusion, the study summarizes the whole work and gives some directions for future research.

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Abstract: Public opinion as a social science concept

Visibilidad internacional de la producción científica iberoamericana en biblioteconomía y documentación (1991-2000)

Se analiza la producción iberoamericana en biblioteconomía y documentación existente en el Social Science Citation Index para el periodo 1991-2000. Se analiza la producción por países, instituciones, revistas y autores. También se estudia la citación de autores y revistas. Por último, se realiza un análisis de cocitación de revistas (ACR) y se representa mediante un mapa bidimensional.

Embodying feminist research: learning from action research, political practices, diffractions and collective knowledge.

In the past three decades, feminists and critical theorists have discussed and argued the importance of deconstructing and problematizing social science research methodology in order to question normalized hierarchies concerning the production of knowledge and the status of truth claims. Nevertheless, often, these ideas have basically remained theoretical propositions not embodied in research practices. In fact there is very little published discussion about the difficulties and limits of their practical application. In this paper we introduce some interconnected reflections starting from two different but related experiences of embodying 'feminist activist research'. Our aim is to emphasise the importance of attending to process, making mistakes and learning during fieldwork, as well as experimenting with personalized forms of analysis, such as the construction of narratives and the story-telling process.

Embodying feminist research: learning from action research, political practices, diffractions and collective knowledge.

In the past three decades, feminists and critical theorists have discussed and argued the importance of deconstructing and problematizing social science research methodology in order to question normalized hierarchies concerning the production of knowledge and the status of truth claims. Nevertheless, often, these ideas have basically remained theoretical propositions not embodied in research practices. In fact there is very little published discussion about the difficulties and limits of their practical application. In this paper we introduce some interconnected reflections starting from two different but related experiences of embodying 'feminist activist research'. Our aim is to emphasise the importance of attending to process, making mistakes and learning during fieldwork, as well as experimenting with personalized forms of analysis, such as the construction of narratives and the story-telling process.

Controversies metodològiques de la investigació

En aquest article es plantegen noves formes d'abordar les dues grans crisis generades a causa de l'escisió metodològica que va tenir lloc en els anys seixanta: la de legitimació i la de representació, crisis que són la base de les actuals controvèrsies metodològiques. Superar la dicotomía subjecte-objecte, transformar el concepte de validesa pel de fidelitat, entendre que la investigació es impensable desvinculada del context social i acceptar que la naturalesa més íntima del coneixement es troba en la multiperspectivitat d'aquest, constitueixen els elements clau proposts per a reduïr i tractar de superar la crisi. Per assolir-lo, aquest treball postula la necessitat de no continuar desvinculant la ciència de la filosofia, i de crear espais interactius entre ciència, tecnologia i societat.

Aspectes metodològics i técnica d'analisi en l'estudi dels grups i les classes socials

En aquest article es presenta el procés metodològic, com també les tècniques d'anàlisi de dades, que s'ha utilitzat en l'anàisi dels grups socials mitjançant la informació d'una gran enquesta sobre hàbits i condicions de vida. L'anàlisi dels grups socials des d'una perspectiva globalitzadora i estructuradora de les condicions de vida, tenint en compte com aquests sorgeixen mitjançant I 'associació i la coherència entre múltiples característiques. Les tècniques d'anàlisi de dades que s'han utilitzat han estat l'anàlisi de correspondències múltiples i l'anàlisi de classificació.

Videojuegos como un entorno de aprendizaje: el caso de "Monturiol el joc"

Video games in a learning environ-ment and their application to the educational world has become a common study between researchers because the use of videogames in the classroom is coherent with a compe-tence-based education theory. A social science approach to video-games allows an exhaustive under-standing of the video games and of the game experience in the classroom. When a video game gives to the user a high level of immersion, all his interest and energy is focused in the game, this fact together with the motivation in the video game is the basis of interest for educators and researchers in the potentiality of the video games as learning environ-ments. In this presentation, we will show and analyze the importance of the video games in an educational context, using a case study: the video game "Monturiol el joc". In the paper, we describe the video game structure, the instructional function, the practice application and the future work. Also, we discuss the impor-tance of the video games as a learning immersive environment, and we conclude our report with a brief analysis of the importance of the study of video games.

Norbert Elias : una proposta d’intellectual portrait vint anys després de la seva mort

L’estiu de 1990 moria a Amsterdam un dels sociòlegs més preeminents del segle XX, l’alemany Norbert Elias. La seva vida i la seva obra, profundament imbricades, són un reflex de la complexitat, de les llums i les ombres del segle passat. Amb aquesta proposta de retrat intel·lectual pretenem per una banda commemorar l’efemèride dels 20 anys de la mort d’un sociòleg poc reconegut i poc emprat. I d’altra banda, oferir una introducció a un personatge i una obra que, per la seva magnitud i originalitat, mereixen estar entre les més rellevants de la sociologia. Com a fil conductor de l’article proposem una combinació de llocs físics i simbòlics que van marcar la seva trajectòria.

GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment.

A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment was conducted in a discovery sample of 101,069 individuals and a replication sample of 25,490. Three independent single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are genome-wide significant (rs9320913, rs11584700, rs4851266), and all three replicate. Estimated effects sizes are small (coefficient of determination R(2) ≈ 0.02%), approximately 1 month of schooling per allele. A linear polygenic score from all measured SNPs accounts for ≈2% of the variance in both educational attainment and cognitive function. Genes in the region of the loci have previously been associated with health, cognitive, and central nervous system phenotypes, and bioinformatics analyses suggest the involvement of the anterior caudate nucleus. These findings provide promising candidate SNPs for follow-up work, and our effect size estimates can anchor power analyses in social-science genetics.