Gramsci e a Teoria Crítica das Relações Internacionais

This text has the following aims: a) to discuss Gramsci and Horkheimer’s epistemological status, joined authors in an theoretical approach known as Critical Theory of International Relations; b) to draft an analysis in order to show the mentioned and joined authors’ different epistemological statuses in the theoretical approach in discussion; c) to begin a reflection pointing the absence of accuracy in this approach - whose beginning happened with Canadian political scientist Robert W. Cox – due to joining different epistemological statuses and ignoring the theoretical consequences put by respective central Gramsci and Horkheimer’s concepts: hegemony and emancipation.

Pessimismo e utopia: contribuições da teoria crítica de Herbert Marcuse à educação

Pós-graduação em Educação Escolar - FCLAR

O jazz e a mundialização: processos culturais e consumo musical no século XX

Jazz brings to the surface discussions about globalization and its unfolding. The development of such music style allows a reflection about the processes that influence 20th century culture, thus enabling a closer look into debates that involve cultural industrialization and standardization in such context. Horkheimer‟s and Adorno‟s work deal with this theme, considering culture as something standardized, a result of the process that fits into the industrial production mold. Morin goes further in this discussion, suggesting the emergence of a mass culture as a third culture. Later, Latin-American authors Ortiz and Canclini bring up new tones and approaches to the globalization through culture theme

A ideologia dos meios de comunicação social na formação da consciência familiar

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Educação escolar e mediação: impactos das tecnologias digitais no processo de formação

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A educação moral construtivista e suas contradições: uma leitura critica

Pós-graduação em Educação Escolar - FCLAR

Teoria crítica, neoliberalismo e educação: análise reflexiva da realidade educacional brasileira a partir da reforma educacional de 1990

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Literatura, história e indústria cultural em o O Xangô de Baker Street

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Entre choques, cortes e fissuras - a (semi)formação estética: uma análise crítica da apropriação de filmes na educação escolar

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

A sociedade midiática e a tecnologia nos parâmetros curriculares nacionais do ensino médio: um estudo à luz da teoria crítica da sociedade

Pós-graduação em Educação Escolar - FCLAR

As vozes e as visões dos catadores de materiais recicláveis sobre o meio ambiente

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

Transatlantic negotiations on "hell"?: W. E. B. Du Bois's visit to fascist Germany and Theodor W. Adorno's exile in the land of the culture industry

In 1936, the African-American intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois visited Nazi Germany for a period of five months. Two years later, the eleven-year-long American exile of the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno began. From the latter’s perspective, the United States was the “home” of the Culture Industry. One intuitively assumes that these sojourns abroad must have amounted to “hell on earth” for both the civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois and the subtle intellectual Adorno. But was this really the case? Or did they perhaps arrive at totally different conclusions? This thesis deals with these questions and attempts to make sense of the experiences of both men. By way of a systematic and comparative analysis of published texts, hitherto unpublished documents and secondary literature, this dissertation first contextualizes Du Bois’s and Adorno’s transatlantic negotiations and then depicts them. The panoply of topics with which both men concerned themselves was diverse. In Du Bois’s case it encompassed Europe, science and technology, Wagner operas, the Olympics, industrial education, race relations, National Socialism and the German Africanist Diedrich Westermann. The opinion pieces which Du Bois wrote for the newspaper “Pittsburgh Courier” during his stay in Germany serve as a major source for this thesis. In his writings on America, Adorno concentrated on what he regarded as the universally victorious Enlightenment and the predominance of mass culture. This investigation also sheds light on the correspondences between the philosopher and Max Horkheimer, Thomas Mann, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Oskar and Maria Wiesengrund. In these autobiographical texts, Adorno’s thoughts revolve around such diverse topics as the American landscape, his fears as German, Jew and Left-Hegelian as well as the loneliness of the refugee. This dissertation has to refute the intuitive assumption that Du Bois’s and Adorno’s experiences abroad were horrible events for them. Both men judged the foreign countries in which they were staying in an extremely differentiated and subtle manner. Du Bois, for example, was not racially discriminated against in Germany. He was also delighted by the country’s rich cultural offerings. Adorno, for his part, praised the U.S.’s humanity of everyday life and democratic spirit. In short: Although both men partly did have to deal with utterly negative experiences, the metaphor of “hell on earth” is simply untenable as an overall conclusion.

La familia como objeto de estudio

La presente investigación encuentra su primera motivación en el estudio de los diferentes exponentes del pensamiento sociológico, revisados en materias teóricas de la carrera, tales como Teoría sociología clásica, Teoría sociológica contemporánea y Sociología sistemática. En efecto, en las obras de buena parte de los pensadores de la teoría sociológica es posible encontrar abordajes o acercamientos en torno de la familia. Sin pretender un abordaje exhaustivo, la propuesta que aquí presentamos toma como objeto de estudio a las teorías sociológicas de la familia, haciendo hincapié en los planteos marxistas y estructural funcionalistas. El objetivo último es elaborar un análisis comparado de estas dos perspectivas teóricas que coexisten, conflictivamente, en el campo de la sociología. Empleando la metodología propia del análisis materialista de los discursos teóricos, específicamente, la de la lectura sintomática (Althusser), nos proponemos sistematizar las problemáticas teóricas puestas en juego por el estructural funcionalismo (y también por otras versiones de la sociología académica) y el marxismo a la hora de abordar la familia como objeto de estudio. Así, la pregunta más general de esta investigación puede formularse de esta forma: ¿qué conceptos e interrogantes, qué supuestos, qué ausencias y asuntos claves, caracterizan el abordaje que se hace de la familia desde la sociología académica y desde las vertientes marxistas y críticas? En otras palabras, ¿qué objeto (sociológico) construyen en torno de la familia los principales exponentes de ambas problemáticas? De este modo, el trabajo pretende ser un punto de inicio para investigaciones futuras, contribuyendo al debate académico.

Críticas a la racionalidad social

Fil: Fóscolo, Norma. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales

Un sacrificio ilustrado. La dialéctica sí mismo-natural a partir de Entre las cuerdas de Loïc Wacquant

La intención de este trabajo es reflexionar en torno a la noción de "sacrificio" y a su particular lugar en el entrenamiento y la práctica deportiva; para ello nos concentraremos en los diarios de campo producto de la etnografía realizada por Loïc Wacquant en una sala de en- trenamiento de boxeo en la ciudad de Chicago, y publicados bajo el título Entre las cuerdas. El centro de nuestra labor se dirigirá a dar cuenta no sólo de la perspectiva propia de los "nativos" y de los sentidos allí presentes (como tiende a primar en la etnografía), sino a buscar las lógicas relacionales subyacentes que se articulan en derredor de la práctica del sacrificio. En este sentido resulta clave en nuestro trabajo la puesta en juego de algunas de las lentes con- ceptuales forjadas por Max Horkheimer y Theodor W. Adorno en Dialéctica de la ilustración, particularmente de cómo se concibe allí la relación (dialéctica) entre sí mismo y naturaleza (interna y externa). Pues en la tensión entre esos términos, así como en su entrelazamiento, la lógica del sacrificio es un momento central en la constitución del sí mismo que domina a la naturaleza, así como en su disolución a manos de ésta