Contribuições da metodologia service-learning para o ensino de responsabilidade social em cursos de graduação em administração

A temática da Responsabilidade Social está em grande discussão na atualidade, fazendo a sociedade repensar o papel das empresas e exigindo delas mais responsabilidade e envolvimento com o seu desenvolvimento. No Brasil, a discussão de questões relativas à Responsabilidade Social ganhou espaço apenas mais recentemente, em seguida ao processo de industrialização e vinda de grandes empresas para o país. Dessa forma, vem à tona uma discussão sobre o preparo dos profissionais de Administração brasileiros para trabalhar a Responsabilidade Social nas empresas e sobre a inclusão desta temática nos cursos de graduação em Administração. O desafio dessas instituições é abordar a Responsabilidade Social e a ética dentro de seus currículos, conjugando a formação acadêmica, técnica e ética dos alunos. As metodologias de ensino tradicionais levam a um esclarecimento teórico sobre o tema, no entanto não preparam os alunos para lidar com as questões de responsabilidade social na prática. Este estudo propôs o service-learning como uma metodologia de abordagem prática para o ensino de Responsabilidade Social, permitindo a aproximação entre instituições de ensino superior e comunidades, em uma experiência de aprendizado e ganho para ambas. Foram analisados neste estudo dois casos de instituições de ensino brasileiras que desenvolvem programas junto a comunidades, com o objetivo de conhecer suas práticas e estudar as possíveis contribuições que o uso da metodologia service-learning poderia trazer ao contexto educacional brasileiro, em busca da formação de profissionais mais sensibilizados às questões sociais.

Social norms and money

In an economy where there is no double coincidence of wants and without recordkeeping of past transactions, money is usually seen as the only mechanism that can support exchange. In this paper, we show that, as long as the population is finite and agents are sufficiently patient, a social norm establishing gift-exchange can substitute for money. Notwithstanding, for a given discount factor, the growth of the population size eventually leads to the breakdown of the social norm, while money still works. 1 Introduction

Saiba como foi, minuto a minuto, a repercussão do debate promovido pela CNBB, na última terça-feira (16/9), nas redes sociais

As políticas de combate à fome e as propostas de reforma política estiveram entre os temas mais debatidos nas redes sociais durante o debate presidencial promovido ontem pela CNBB. Nas quase duas horas e meia em que os candidatos discutiram posições em torno de diversas questões, foram registradas cerca de 53 mil menções relativas ao debate, das quais 23 mil se referiram a “fome”, “reforma política” e “democracia” – indicando que políticas de segurança alimentar encontram amparo entre os eleitores, mas também que, diante de um quadro de crise de representação, a discussão sobre reforma institucional possui respaldo social.

Primeiro debate do 2º turno é marcado por menções sobre corrupção e programas sociais

O primeiro debate do segundo turno entre os candidatos à Presidência, realizado ontem (14) à noite, foi marcado por denúncias de corrupção de ambas as partes e por discussões em torno de programas sociais, seguidas por questões ligadas à economia. Os temas comportamentais, como aborto, drogas e homofobia, que marcaram os debates no primeiro turno, ficaram em segundo plano, marcando uma importante diferença entre a agenda pública debatida antes de 5 de outubro pelos candidatos e a agenda que se coloca para a etapa final da campanha.

Crise hídrica no Sudeste repercute nas redes sociais

A crescente preocupação com a crise hídrica e com uma eventual crise energética na região Sudeste do Brasil, em curto/médio prazo, se reflete nas redes sociais. A Diretoria de Análise de Políticas Públicas da Fundação Getulio Vargas monitorou as menções ao assunto, ao longo da última semana, e identificou grande aumento no volume de postagens a partir do último domingo, 12 de outubro. O gráfico abaixo ajuda a visualizar este ponto: dobrou o número de menções ao problema da água no Sudeste entre o início e o fim da atual semana – de 10 mil/dia para 20 mil/dia.

Social-analytics firms churn out world cup visuals

Three weeks into the world's most famous football tournament, you'd be forgiven for thinking those charts, maps and infographics you've been seeing everywhere were some kind of symptom of your World Cup fever. They are actually the result of a strategy shift by marketing teams in the social-media-measurement space, which have been investing more heavily in designers and content that can show off their products in a visual way.

Crise hídrica no Brasil gera grande número de debates nas redes sociais

Monitoramento de redes sociais realizado pela Diretoria de Análise de Políticas Públicas da FGV (FGV/DAPP), entre 18 e 21 de janeiro, registrou 315 mil menções relacionadas à crise hídrica em todo o Brasil. São Paulo foi a cidade com o maior volume de comentários, concentrando 16% do total, mais do que o dobro do Rio de Janeiro, a segunda cidade no ranking, com 7%. Os termos mais mencionados foram "água", com 46% do total, e "seca", com 32%. Outras palavras muito citadas foram "falta", "cantareira" e "racionamento".

Posse e eleição do novo Congresso geram mais de 150 mil menções nas redes sociais

O início de um novo período parlamentar na Câmara dos Deputados e no Senado, neste fim de semana, em Brasília, mobilizou as redes sociais – sobretudo domingo, em virtude das polêmicas eleições para as presidências das duas casas legislativas. Favoritos, o deputado federal Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ) e o senador Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL) venceram as respectivas disputas, com ampla repercussão no Twitter ao longo dos últimos dois dias.

Oscar 'político' repercute nas redes sociais

Neste domingo, na noite de 22 de fevereiro, ocorreu no Dolby Theatre, em Los Angeles, a 87ª cerimônia de entrega do Oscar, que foi marcada por discursos politizados e de cunho reivindicatório – e que, inclusive, roubaram a cena nas redes sociais dos filmes e astros que ganharam prêmios. A quantidade de menções no Twitter ao Oscar, com as respectivas hashtags, dá a justa medida da relevância do evento: em 24 horas, foram 11,4 milhões de postagens no mundo inteiro, segundo levantamento da FGV/DAPP.

Em comemoração aos 450 anos do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil rende milhares de homenagens nas redes sociais

Neste domingo o Rio de Janeiro completou 450 anos. O episódio tem sido marcado por eventos comemorativos espalhados por toda a cidade. Muitos deles serão realizados durante o ano todo. No site do Rio50Anos é possível conferir toda agenda. As comemorações foram assuntos nas redes durante o final de semana. De acordo com a análise de rede feita pela Diretoria de Análises de Políticas Públicas (FGV/DAPP) foram mais de 250 mil menções ao aniversário do Rio em todo o Brasil entre os dias 1 e 2 de março. Os internautas fizeram diversas homenagens ao Rio e reproduziram muitas mensagens referenciando a paisagem da cidade, como as praias, sol, mar, futebol, montanhas. Também houve diversos compartilhamentos de fotos em pontos turísticos tradicionais e não tradicionais

Social entrepreneurship practices and social change In Brazil: a qualitative study in three non-governmental organizations

Social Entrepreneurship (SE) has attracted growing interest from a wide variety of actors over the last 30 years, especially due to a general agreement that it could be an important tool for tackling many of the world’s social ills. In the academic sphere, this growing interest did not translate into a matured field of study. Quite the opposite, a quick look at this literature makes it evident that: SE has been consistently subjected to numerous theoretical discussions and disagreements, especially over the definition of the concept of SE which is often based on a taken-for-granted notion of social change; it has been more systematically investigated in restricted contexts, often leaving aside so called developing/emerging countries like Brazil and especially lacking in-depth qualitative studies; SE literature lags behind SE practices and few studies focus on how SE actually occurs in a daily and bottom-up manner. In order to address such gaps, this thesis examines how social entrepreneurship practices accomplish social change in the context of Brazil. In this investigation I conducted an inductive practice-based, qualitative/ethnographic study in three Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) located in different cities in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Data collection lasted from February 2014 until March 2015 and was mainly done through participant observations and through in-depth unstructured conversations with research participants. Secondary data and documents were also collected whenever available. The participants of this study included a variety of the studied organizations’ stakeholders: two founders, volunteers, employees, donors and beneficiaries. Observation data was kept in fieldnotes, conversations were recorded whenever possible and were later transcribed. Data was analyzed through an iterative thematic analysis. Through this I identified eight recurrent themes in the data: (1) structure; (2) relationship with other organizational actors (sub-themes: relationship with state, relationship with businesses and relationship with other NGOs); (3) beliefs, spirituality and moral authority; (4) social position of participants, (5) stakeholders’ mobilization and participation; (6) feelings; (7) social purpose; and (8) social change. These findings were later discussed under the lens of practice theory, and in this discussion I argue and show that, in the context studied: (a) even though SE embraces a wide variety of different social purposes, they are intertwined with a common notion of social change based on a general understanding and aspiration for social equality; (b) this social change is accomplished in a processual and ongoing manner as stakeholders from antagonistic social groups felt compelled to and participated in SE practices. In answering the proposed research question the contributions of this thesis are: (i) the elaboration a working definition for SE based on its relationship with social change; (ii) providing in-depth empirical evidence which accounts for and explains this relationship; (iii) characterizing SE in the Brazilian context and reflecting upon its transferability to other contexts. This thesis also makes a methodological contribution, for it demonstrates how thematic analysis can be used in practice-based studies.

BlueFriends: measuring, analyzing and preventing social exclusion between elementary school students

Social exclusion is a relatively recent term, whose creation is attributed to René Lenoir(Lenoir, 1974). Its concept covers a remarkably wide range of social and economic problems, and can be triggered for various reasons: mentally and physically handicapped, abused children, delinquents, multi-problem households, asocial people, and other social “misfits” (Silver, 1995, pp. 63; Foucault, 1992). With an increasingly multi-cultural population, cultural and social inequalities rapidly ascend, bringing with them the need for educational restructuring. We are living in an evermore diverse world, and children need to be educated to be receptive to the different types of people around them, especially considering social and cultural aspects. It is with these goals that inclusive education has seen an increased trend in today’s academic environment, reminding us that even though children may be taught under the same roof, discriminatory practices might still happen. There are, however, a number of developed tools to assess the various dimensions of social networks. These are mostly based on questionnaires and interviews, which tend to be fastidious and don’t allow for longitudinal, large scale measurement. This thesis introduces BlueFriends, a Bluetooth-based measurement tool for social inclusion/exclusion on elementary school classes. The main goals behind the development of this tool were a) understanding how exclusion manifests in students’ behaviors, and b) motivating pro-social behaviors on children through the use of a persuasive technology. BlueFriends is a distributed application, comprised by an application running on several smartphones, a web-hosted database and a computer providing a visual representation of the data collected on a TV screen, attempting to influence children behaviors. The application makes use of the Bluetooth device present on each phone to continuously sample the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) from other phones, storing the data locally on each phone. All of the stored data is collected, processed and then inserted into the database at the end of each day. At the beginning of each recess, children are reminded of how their behaviors affect others with the help of a visual display, which consists of interactions between dogs. This display illustrates every child’s best friends, as well as which colleagues they don’t interact with as much. Several tips encouraging social interaction and inclusiveness are displayed, inspiring children to change their behaviors towards the colleagues they spend less time with. This thesis documents the process of designing, deploying and analyzing the results of two field studies. On the first study, we assess how the current developed tools are inferior to our measuring tool by deploying a measurement only study, aimed at perceiving how much information can be obtained by the BlueFriends application and attempting to understand how exclusion manifests itself in the school environment. On the second study, we pile on the previous to try and motivate pro-social behaviors on students, with the use of visual cues and recommendations. Ultimately, we confirm that our measurement tool’s results were satisfying towards measuring and changing children’s behaviors, and conclude with our thoughts on possible future work, suggesting a number of possible extensions and improvements.

Redistribuição e reconhecimento: o caso das políticas sociais nos municípios de Natal e Belo horizonte

This research refers to a comparative study of social policies from the cities of Natal (RN) and Belo Horizonte (MG). Understanding that the demands for social justice in contemporary societies require both economic redistribution, and cultural recognition, we set out to investigate, according to Nancy Fraser s formulations (1996, 2005a, 2005b, 2007), how these two municipalities incorporate these dimensions in their social programs.

A economia social e os estados do cooperativismo: ascensão ou declínio dos princípios do cooperativismo em empreendimentos autogestionários

Crisis in the capitalist system of production, contributes to appearance of social enterprises. In spite of, to believe these undertakings were to promote a true revolution that supply alternatives to consolidation of a socialist society, which it wasn t succeed. The cooperatives which was our object of study, get appearance in the middle of the capitalist system of production in a disorganized way, therefore, many of them Just get rich or they became true work machines and exploration of the human work. This study has like main objective: Do cooperatives have knowledge and/or they pratice rudments of the cooperativist moviment?. Get some conclusions, the cooperatives of work come promoting a decline of the rudments of the cooperativism and they don t have a knowledge about the rudments of the cooperativism and they don t pratice the same ones, instead of, the ccoperative of production comes promoting the appearance of the self-management idealism which they know the rudments of thecooperativism and they pratice the same ones