Fri vilja eller tradition? : Prästrespektive i den prästerliga kulturen

The purpose of the study was to investigate, using data from the sacerdotal culture, t h espouses of five priests. The main questions were: How does the priestly calling affect thespouse? Do the spouses involve themselves with voluntary work? Do the spouses feel thecongregation have expectations? Do the female and male answers differ?The sacerdotal culture has consisted of several elements. The main element is the priest’scalling for his work. As far as the spouse is concerned within the congregation, the spouseshave been seen as necessary for voluntary work. The congregation has also expected thespouse to act in a certain way and to undertake certain tasks.How the five informants feel about and react to the sacerdotal culture is focus for this study.The study shows that the sacerdotal culture is still strong today and it is something that thespouses take into account. They can choose not to participate but that might involve, forinstance, having to live somewhere else. The study found that the calling affects the femaleinformants, but not so much the males. The amount of participation varies from spouse tospouse and is a matter of their own choice. Expectations can also vary and participation inthe congregation can create higher expectations.

How do neighbouring populations affect local population change over time?

This study covers a period when society changed from a pre-industrial agricultural society to a post-industrial service-producing society. Parallel with this social transformation, major population changes took place. In this study, we analyse how local population changes are affected by neighbouring populations. To do so we use the last 200 years of local population change that redistributed population in Sweden. We use literature to identify several different processes and spatial dependencies in the redistribution between a parish and its surrounding parishes. The analysis is based on a unique unchanged historical parish division, and we use an index of local spatial correlation to describe different kinds of spatial dependencies that have influenced the redistribution of the population. To control inherent time dependencies, we introduce a non-separable spatial temporal correlation model into the analysis of population redistribution. Hereby, several different spatial dependencies can be observed simultaneously over time. The main conclusions are that while local population changes have been highly dependent on the neighbouring populations in the 19th century, this spatial dependence have become insignificant already when two parishes is separated by 5 kilometres in the late 20th century. Another conclusion is that the time dependency in the population change is higher when the population redistribution is weak, as it currently is and as it was during the 19th century until the start of industrial revolution.

Violinistas e método Suzuki : um estudo com egressos do Centro Suzuki de Santa Maria

A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar as opiniões de violinistas egressos do Centro Suzuki de Santa Maria sobre o método Suzuki, descrevendo as influências do método na vida pessoal desses instrumentistas, examinando as contribuições do ensino através do método e analisando algumas críticas feitas ao método. Neste estudo empreguei o método de survey. Através dele foram selecionados quatorze ex-alunos que começaram a estudar violino pelo método Suzuki com a professora irmã Wilfried. As informações foram coletadas por meio de questionário enviado eletronicamente. Os dados foram confrontados com a literatura sobre o método Suzuki apresentada neste trabalho através de textos do próprio Suzuki (1994) e de outros autores, como Penna (1998a, 1998b), Gerling (1989), Mark (1986), Priest (1989), Hargreaves (1986), entre outros. Entre os resultados desta investigação, pude constatar uma forte concordância com o método por parte dos investigados. Além disso, a maioria deles considera o método Suzuki como o melhor método para o ensino da música e do instrumento, principalmente no que se refere ao ensino para crianças e à sociabilidade que se dá através do tocar em grupo.