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Spash, Clive L. "The Need for and Meaning of Social Ecological Economics." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2017. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5500/1/sre%2Ddisc%2D2017_02.pdf.
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Ecological economics has arisen over a period of three decades with a strong emphasis on the
essential need to recognise the embeddedness of the economy in the biophysical. However,
that element of realism is not matched by an equally well informed social theory. Indeed the
tendency has been to adopt mainstream economic concepts, theories and models formulated
of the basis of a formal mathematical deductivist approach that pays little or no attention to
social reality. Similarly mainstream economic methods are employed as pragmatic devices
for communication. As a result ecological economics has failed to develop its own consistent
and coherent theory and failed to make the link between the social and the economic. In
order to reverse this situation the social and political economy must be put to the fore and that
is the aim of social ecological economics. This paper provides a brief overview of the
arguments for such a development. The prospect is of unifying a range of critical thought on
the social and environmental crises with the aim of informing the necessary social ecological
transformation of the economy.Series: SRE - Discussion Papers
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DANTAS, Deuzimar da Silva. "Os significados da economia solidária: o caso da Rede Cearense de Socioeconomia Solidária." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFC, 2013. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/18086.
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DANTAS, Deuzimar da Silva. Os significados da economia solidária: o caso da Rede Cearense de Socioeconomia Solidária. 2013. 105f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2013.Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-06-30T14:33:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_dis_dsdantas.pdf: 1011308 bytes, checksum: ca40e31c2373e20ecaf68e6fae4a3534 (MD5)
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This research focuses on the field of solidarity economy. It seeks to comprehend the meanings this social phenomenon incorporates within the context of Rede Cearense de Socioeconomia Solidária (RCSES). RCSES is one of the institutions that represent the named solidarity economic businesses in Ceará. The objective was mainly to understand their political potential of creating new meanings and practices which are capable of confronting dominant notions of politics, economy and sociability, as well as the various forms of exclusion and discrimination which are within social relationships in Brazil. In this sense, the methodological approach used is qualitative and understanding because the research looks for noticing the meaning of the social actions that are part of the solidarity economy movement in Ceará. The work tries to understand how the movement is organized taking into account the actions of people who belong to RCSES. First, it is possible to say RCSES creates “the politics of meaning” because it has as focus discuss alternatives ways of thinking about material subsistence, and of building new social bond. On the other hand, there are ambiguities and reproduction of discourses and practices in the movement that restrain an effective participation of people in the main decisions about economic and political issues.
Esta dissertação focaliza o campo da economia solidária na busca de compreender os significados que esse fenômeno social assume no contexto da Rede Cearense de Socioeconomia Solidária (RCSES). A RCSES é uma das instituições que representam os chamados empreendimentos econômicos solidários no Ceará. Meu objetivo foi entender, especialmente, seu potencial político de gestar novos significados e práticas, capaz de se confrontar com as noções dominantes de política, economia e sociabilidade e com as diversas formas de exclusão e discriminação presentes nas relações sociais no Brasil. Nesse sentido, minha abordagem metodológica é qualitativa e compreensiva, pois, busco perceber o sentido das ações sociais que configuram o movimento de economia solidária no Ceará, sobretudo, a forma como ele é configurado a partir das ações dos sujeitos que integram a RCSES. Preliminarmente, diria que a RCSES gesta uma “política do significado”, pois, tem como foco de discussão pensar formas alternativas de sobrevivência material e de construção de um novo laço social. Por outro lado, há ambiguidades e reprodução de discursos e práticas que restringem uma participação efetiva desses sujeitos nas principais decisões sobre o campo econômico e político.
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Forsyth, Colin James. "Structural Processes and Local Meaning: Explanatory Models, Political Economy, and Chagas Disease in Tropical Bolivia." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5482.
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This project describes and analyzes explanatory models of Chagas disease among people in a highly endemic area of eastern Bolivia, and examines the role that cultural and structural factors play in shaping explanatory models of this disease. Dressler (2001) characterizes medical anthropology as divided between two poles; the constructivist, which focuses on the "meaning and significance that events have for people," and the structuralist, which emphasizes the relationships between the components of a given society. This project endeavors to synthesize structuralist and constructivist perspectives by understanding the interaction between structural processes and explanatory models of Chagas disease.
The research took place in the spring of 2013, in collaboration with the Centro Medico Humberto Parra, a non-profit clinic servicing low income populations in Palacios, Bolivia and surrounding communities. Semistructured interviews (n=68) and consensus analysis questionnaires (n=48) were administered to people dealing with Chagas disease, and free lists of possible treatments were collected.
Overall, participants largely accepted the biomedical model, but also emphasized the emotional and social aspects of Chagas disease. The consensus analysis procedure indicated a clear shared model of Chagas disease, with coherent social, vector, symptoms, and ethnomedical domains. Furthermore, the model differed between groups based on ethnicity, gender, income and occupation. Significant differences were found in cultural knowledge of the disease based on community of residence and occupation status, two clear markers of how people are tied into the global economy. In the interviews, participants associate their Chagas disease with structural factors including poverty, rural living and traditional housing. They describe substantial barriers to getting biomedical care for their disease despite the existence of a free treatment program in Bolivia. However, participants reported numerous ethnomedical treatments; the study identified 39 ethnomedical treatments for Chagas disease and 66 for its cardiac symptoms.
In sum, explanatory models include structural processes that shape disease, and are in turn influenced by these processes. In Bolivia, although structural constraints limit the scope of biomedical treatment, ethnomedical approaches to the disease are in a process of dynamic growth. The methods used here for assessing the structural component of the explanatory model of Chagas disease can be replicated in future research on explanatory models or political economy of health.
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Azambuja, Lucas Rodrigues. "Os sentidos do trabalho autogerido : um estudo a partir dos trabalhadores de economia solidária." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/12769.
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Paul Singer entende que existam, basicamente, duas lógicas de condução das atividades econômicas: a capitalista cujas características são a competição, individualismo, exploração do trabalho e a desigualdade gerada pelo jogo da livre concorrência, sendo a reprodução de tal lógica assegurada pelo modelo de propriedade privada e heterogestão; e a lógica de Economia Solidária cujas características são a cooperação, solidariedade, participação e igualdade, sendo a reprodução dessa lógica possível através do modelo de autogestão e propriedade coletiva. Assim, Singer entende que o sentido do trabalho autogerido está determinado por um conjunto de princípios (cooperação, solidariedade, participação e igualdade) objetivados no modelo de autogestão. Critica-se essa perspectiva por desconsiderar o papel criativo e reflexivo dos indivíduos na construção do sentido do seu trabalho e, também, por afirmar que o modelo de autogestão só poderia ser “verdadeiramente” conduzido através de princípios de Economia Solidária. Em contraposição, esta pesquisa buscou compreender o sentido do trabalho autogerido como uma construção reflexiva do sujeito, a partir de princípios e conhecimentos de natureza diversa, que se sedimentaram no seu estoque subjetivo de conhecimento ao longo de sua biografia de socialização. Com base na fundamentação empírica de 28 entrevistas estruturadas realizadas com trabalhadores de cinco cooperativas, identificaram-se quatro tipos de sentido do trabalho autogerido: 1) político – o sentido do trabalho autogerido é que ele representa a possibilidade de participação em um processo de mudança da realidade social; 2) coletivista – o sentido do trabalho autogerido é que ele representa a possibilidade da promoção do bem-estar e da qualidade de vida dos membros do coletivo de trabalho; 3) capitalista – o trabalho autogerido só tem sentido se servir de meio para inserção competitiva no mercado visando ao lucro como um fim em si mesmo; 4) sobrevivência individual – o trabalho autogerido representa uma saída, na falta de uma melhor, para manutenção da sobrevivência material e financeira. As diferenças entre os sentidos do trabalho autogerido são explicados a luz das diferenças em seis dimensões (família, trabalho, política, sindicato, educação e religião) nas biografias de socialização dos trabalhadores.In Paul Singer’s understanding, there are essentially two logics guiding economic activities: the capitalist one, characterized by competition, individualism, labor exploitation and inequalities generated by the game of free competition – the reproduction of such logics being ensured by private property and the “hetero-management” model; and the logics of Solidary Economy whose characteristics are cooperation, solidarity, participation and equality – the reproduction of this logic being possible by means of collective property and the selfmanagement model. Thus, Singer understands that the meaning of the self-managed labor is determined by a set of principles (cooperation, solidarity, participation and equality) objectified in the self-management model. We criticize this perspective for disregarding the creative and reflective role of individuals in building up their labor’s meaning and, also, for claiming that the self-management model might only be “truly” conducted within the principles of Solidary Economy. Contradicting such perspective, this study sought to comprehend the meaning of selfmanaged work while a reflective construction by the individual subject, based on both principles and knowledge of diverse character, which were consolidated within the subjective stock of knowledge along his/her biography of socialization. Based on the empirical foundation comprised by 28 structured interviews applied to workers of five cooperative enterprises, we identified four categories of meaning related to the self-managed work: 1) politic – the meaning of self-managed work is that it represents the possibility of participating in a process for changing the social reality; 2) collectivist – the meaning of the self-managed work is that it represents the possibility of promoting the welfare and the quality of life of members of the labor group; 3) capitalist - the self-managed work only makes sense if it serves as a means for competitive entry in the market aiming at profit as an end itself; 4) individual survival – the selfmanaged work represents a resort, in the absence of a better one, for the maintenance of material and financial survival. The differences between meanings of self-managed labor are explained in the light of six dimensions of distinctions (family, work, politics, labor union, education and religion) in the worker’s biography of socialization.
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Löfgren, Alexander. "Making Mobile Meaning : expectations and experiences of mobile computing usefulness in construction site management practice." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-9216.
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During the last decade, anticipated and realized benefits of mobile and wireless information and communication technology (ICT) for different business purposes have been widely explored and evaluated. Also, the significance of ‘user acceptance’ mechanisms through ‘perceived usefulness’ of ICT applications has gained broad recognition among business organizations in developing and adopting new ICT capabilities. However, even though technology usefulness is regularly highlighted as an important factor in ICT projects, there is often a lack of understanding of what the concept involves in the practical work context of the actual users, and how to deal with the issues of usefulness in organizational ICT development processes. This doctoral thesis covers a 1,5 year case study of a mobile computing development project at a Swedish international construction enterprise. The company’s mobile ICT venture addressed the deficient ICT use situation of management practitioners in construction site operations. The study portrays the overall socially shaped development process of the chosen technology and its evolving issues of usefulness for existing construction site management practice. The perceived usefulness of mobile computing tools among the ‘user-practitioners’ is described as emergence of ‘meaningful use’ based on initial expectations and actual experiences of the technology in their situated fieldwork context. The studied case depicts the ongoing and open-ended conversational nature of understanding adequate ICT requirements in work practice, and the negotiation of mobile computing technology design properties between users and developers over time towards the alignment of diverse personal, professional and organizational needs and purposes of ICT use. The studied introduction of mobile computing technology in construction site management fieldwork practice serves as an illustrative actual example of how to interpret, understand and approach issues of usefulness and user acceptance of ICT resources in operative work contexts when managing ICT development processes in organizations.QC 20100825
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Carvalho, Clarissa de FÃtima Nobre. "Subjetividade, solidariedade e trabalho: a construÃÃo dos sentidos do trabalho no contexto da economia solidÃria." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2011. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=6437.
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nÃo hÃO mundo do trabalho contemporÃneo à perpassado por um cenÃrio de profundas metamorfoses, exemplificado pela mudanÃa nas relaÃÃes laborais, cada vez mais dinÃmicas e competitivas; no mercado de trabalho, onde se proliferam as terceirizaÃÃes, subcontrataÃÃes, desemprego; e nos modos de organizaÃÃo e produÃÃo, centrados predominantemente, no capital. Entre as estratÃgias de enfrentamento dos modelos de precarizaÃÃo laboral e alternativas de geraÃÃo de renda, chama a atenÃÃo a proliferaÃÃo das organizaÃÃes solidÃrias, que se pautam em valores bastante distintos daqueles mais difundidos na sociedade atual, tais como cooperaÃÃo, ajuda mÃtua, tomada de decisÃes democrÃticas. Esta especificidade motivou a realizaÃÃo desta pesquisa, a qual teve como objetivo geral compreender os sentidos atribuÃdos ao trabalho por membros de empreendimentos pautados nos princÃpios da Economia SolidÃria. A pesquisa foi realizada a partir da percepÃÃo dos prÃprios trabalhadores associados sobre esta realidade laboral e teve por pressupostos teÃricos as ideias apresentadas por autores como Antunes (1995), Castel (2005), Singer (2002) e Vygostky (2001). A metodologia utilizada para a consecuÃÃo dos objetivos propostos seguiu o referencial qualitativo, e a coleta dos dados foi realizada por meio de entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas. O material discursivo colhido, por sua vez, foi analisado tomando por base a AnÃlise de ConteÃdo proposta por Bardin (1977). Os dados analisados apontaram que a inserÃÃo nesses empreendimentos provoca um impacto positivo nos sentidos atribuÃdos ao trabalho, embora permaneÃam referÃncias à noÃÃo do trabalho com carteira assinada como garantia dos direitos e proteÃÃes a ele associados.
The contemporary world of work is permeated by a backdrop of profound transformations, exemplified by the change in labor relations, increasingly dynamic and competitive, labor market, which spread into the outsourcing, subcontracting, and modes of organization and production, predominantly centered in the capital. Among the coping strategies of the models of precarious employment and alternative income generation, draws attention to the proliferation of solidarity organizations, which are based on values very different from those most widely used in today\'s society, such as cooperation, mutual aid, democratic decision-making. This specificity motivated this research, which aimed to understand the general meanings attributed to work by members of enterprises based on the principles of Solidarity Economy. The research was conducted from the standpoint of the workers associated themselves and had the theoretical ideas presented by authors such as Antunes (2000), Castel (2005), Singer (2002) and Vygotsky (2001). The methodology for achieving goals followed the referential quality and data collection was conducted through individual interviews. The discursive material collected, in turn, was analyzed based on Content Analysis proposed by Bardin (1977). The data analyzed showed that inserting these projects brings a positive impact on the meanings attributed to work, while remaining references to the notion of working with a formal contract as a guarantee of rights and labor protections.
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Adamson, Ben. "IP in the corridors of power : a study of lobbying, its impact on the development of intellectual property law, and the implications for the meaning of democracy." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/ip-in-the-corridors-of-power-a-study-of-lobbying-its-impact-on-the-development-of-intellectual-property-law-and-the-implications-for-the-meaning-of-democracy(7d70a931-02da-4ebd-bd9c-dca2805c005c).html.
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This thesis demonstrates that, while generally seen as a non-democratic activity, lobbying should in fact be viewed as an important part of democratic policymaking, providing valuable input into law and policy, particularly in areas where expertise is at a premium. Constructing a theoretical model of democracy and using the field of intellectual property as a focal point, the role of private actors is examined across a series of case studies: the 2011 Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth, the 2010 Digital Economy Act, and the proposed 2002 EU Computer Implemented Inventions Directive. Each case study is based upon a combination of secondary sources and the first-hand experiences of certain actors involved and in each case the lobbying activity is critically evaluated in light of the features and normative conditions of the democratic model. This study ultimately shows both the positive aspects and negative aspects of lobbying from a democratic viewpoint, noting that the importance of stakeholder input into the law and policy that will affect those stakeholders is essential. It also shows, however, that equality of access to, and influence over, policymakers is far from satisfactory and that until such inequalities can be resolved, lobbying cannot be fully justified under my model of democracy.
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Dantas, Deuzimar da Silva. "Os Significados da Economia SolidÃria: o caso da Rede Cearense de Socioeconomia SolidÃria." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2013. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=17213.
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgicoEsta dissertaÃÃo focaliza o campo da economia solidÃria na busca de compreender os significados que esse fenÃmeno social assume no contexto da Rede Cearense de Socioeconomia SolidÃria (RCSES). A RCSES à uma das instituiÃÃes que representam os chamados empreendimentos econÃmicos solidÃrios no CearÃ. Meu objetivo foi entender, especialmente, seu potencial polÃtico de gestar novos significados e prÃticas, capaz de se confrontar com as noÃÃes dominantes de polÃtica, economia e sociabilidade e com as diversas formas de exclusÃo e discriminaÃÃo presentes nas relaÃÃes sociais no Brasil. Nesse sentido, minha abordagem metodolÃgica à qualitativa e compreensiva, pois, busco perceber o sentido das aÃÃes sociais que configuram o movimento de economia solidÃria no CearÃ, sobretudo, a forma como ele à configurado a partir das aÃÃes dos sujeitos que integram a RCSES. Preliminarmente, diria que a RCSES gesta uma âpolÃtica do significadoâ, pois, tem como foco de discussÃo pensar formas alternativas de sobrevivÃncia material e de construÃÃo de um novo laÃo social. Por outro lado, hà ambiguidades e reproduÃÃo de discursos e prÃticas que restringem uma participaÃÃo efetiva desses sujeitos nas principais decisÃes sobre o campo econÃmico e polÃtico.
This research focuses on the field of solidarity economy. It seeks to comprehend the meanings this social phenomenon incorporates within the context of Rede Cearense de Socioeconomia SolidÃria (RCSES). RCSES is one of the institutions that represent the named solidarity economic businesses in CearÃ. The objective was mainly to understand their political potential of creating new meanings and practices which are capable of confronting dominant notions of politics, economy and sociability, as well as the various forms of exclusion and discrimination which are within social relationships in Brazil. In this sense, the methodological approach used is qualitative and understanding because the research looks for noticing the meaning of the social actions that are part of the solidarity economy movement in CearÃ. The work tries to understand how the movement is organized taking into account the actions of people who belong to RCSES. First, it is possible to say RCSES creates âthe politics of meaningâ because it has as focus discuss alternatives ways of thinking about material subsistence, and of building new social bond. On the other hand, there are ambiguities and reproduction of discourses and practices in the movement that restrain an effective participation of people in the main decisions about economic and political issues.
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CARVALHO, Clarissa de Fátima Nobre. "Subjetividade, solidariedade e trabalho: a construção dos sentidos do trabalho no contexto da economia solidária." http://www.teses.ufc.br, 2011. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/2242.
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CARVALHO, Clarissa de Fátima Nobre. Subjetividade, solidariedade e trabalho: a construção dos sentidos do trabalho no contexto da economia solidária. 2011. 82f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Psicologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2011.Submitted by moises gomes (celtinha_malvado@hotmail.com) on 2012-01-05T12:25:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_dis_CDFNCarvalho.PDF: 392286 bytes, checksum: 9d3518af1b98c73c42e8578610c094b9 (MD5)
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The contemporary world of work is permeated by a backdrop of profound transformations, exemplified by the change in labor relations, increasingly dynamic and competitive, labor market, which spread into the outsourcing, subcontracting, and modes of organization and production, predominantly centered in the capital. Among the coping strategies of the models of precarious employment and alternative income generation, draws attention to the proliferation of solidarity organizations, which are based on values very different from those most widely used in today\'s society, such as cooperation, mutual aid, democratic decision-making. This specificity motivated this research, which aimed to understand the general meanings attributed to work by members of enterprises based on the principles of Solidarity Economy. The research was conducted from the standpoint of the workers associated themselves and had the theoretical ideas presented by authors such as Antunes (2000), Castel (2005), Singer (2002) and Vygotsky (2001). The methodology for achieving goals followed the referential quality and data collection was conducted through individual interviews. The discursive material collected, in turn, was analyzed based on Content Analysis proposed by Bardin (1977). The data analyzed showed that inserting these projects brings a positive impact on the meanings attributed to work, while remaining references to the notion of working with a formal contract as a guarantee of rights and labor protections.
O mundo do trabalho contemporâneo é perpassado por um cenário de profundas metamorfoses, exemplificado pela mudança nas relações laborais, cada vez mais dinâmicas e competitivas; no mercado de trabalho, onde se proliferam as terceirizações, subcontratações, desemprego; e nos modos de organização e produção, centrados predominantemente, no capital. Entre as estratégias de enfrentamento dos modelos de precarização laboral e alternativas de geração de renda, chama a atenção a proliferação das organizações solidárias, que se pautam em valores bastante distintos daqueles mais difundidos na sociedade atual, tais como cooperação, ajuda mútua, tomada de decisões democráticas. Esta especificidade motivou a realização desta pesquisa, a qual teve como objetivo geral compreender os sentidos atribuídos ao trabalho por membros de empreendimentos pautados nos princípios da Economia Solidária. A pesquisa foi realizada a partir da percepção dos próprios trabalhadores associados sobre esta realidade laboral e teve por pressupostos teóricos as ideias apresentadas por autores como Antunes (1995), Castel (2005), Singer (2002) e Vygostky (2001). A metodologia utilizada para a consecução dos objetivos propostos seguiu o referencial qualitativo, e a coleta dos dados foi realizada por meio de entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas. O material discursivo colhido, por sua vez, foi analisado tomando por base a Análise de Conteúdo proposta por Bardin (1977). Os dados analisados apontaram que a inserção nesses empreendimentos provoca um impacto positivo nos sentidos atribuídos ao trabalho, embora permaneçam referências à noção do trabalho com carteira assinada como garantia dos direitos e proteções a ele associados.
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Lee, Taehyun. "Essays on Meanings in the Sharing Economy:." Thesis, Boston College, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109209.
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Thesis advisor: Candace JonesThesis advisor: Richard P. Nielsen
The sharing economy has played an important role in transforming today's business landscape. The dissertation consists of two essays that examine different aspects of meanings illuminated by the sharing economy. In each essay, I draw on several theoretical lenses, including institutional logics, legitimacy, and categories, to build theories of how entrepreneurial firms strategically appropriate meanings as resources to shape the attention and the interpretation of their activities and how such cultural meanings emerge and transform. The first essay illustrates the case of Airbnb to examine how an entrepreneurial firm uses institutional logics for legitimacy in navigating multiple audiences with potentially contradictory criteria for legitimacy at different stages of development. The second essay looks at the sharing economy as a category to examine what is used as the central examples of a category by the category promoters (i.e., movement) versus the press, the differences in how the central examples are understood that lead to changes and differences in the category’s meanings, and ultimately affect the survival or decline of a category. I conclude with implications for theories around changes in meanings, the strategic uses of meanings, and their political and moral nature
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2021
Submitted to: Boston College. Carroll School of Management
Discipline: Management and Organization
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Santos, Heliani Berlato dos. "O sentido do trabalho na economia de comunhão." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/2314.
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Previous issue date: 2006-02-16T00:00:00ZO tema sentido do trabalho é algo que vem sendo estudado por vários autores, internacionais e nacionais. Essa atenção a ele dedicada decorre das importantes transformações que têm ocorrido no mundo do trabalho, onde novas formas de organização surgem, atreladas a modificações em sua natureza. Diante disso, entender o sentido que trabalhadores contemporâneos atribuem ao seu trabalho é algo relevante, mormente se considerado que estes trabalhadores desenvolvem suas atividades produtivas em empresas que apresentam alguns aspectos peculiares dentro do contexto capitalista. Trata-se de empresas que buscam uma alternativa ao modelo administrativo vigente na maioria das organizações, que propõem um estilo de agir econômico com as características da gratuidade, da abertura ao outro e da solidariedade, apesar de atuarem, principalmente, em setores econômicos com fins lucrativos. São elas conhecidas como empresas participantes da proposta de economia de comunhão, a qual visa ao oferecimento de uma resposta ao drama da extrema pobreza das populações, que estão privadas dos direitos humanos mais fundamentais, e constitui-se, ainda, em um esforço de integração entre a gestão de empresas e os princípios contidos em uma base religiosa para transformar o modelo econômico dominante. Não se confunde a proposta da economia de comunhão, portanto, com um simples caso de filantropia ou de participação nos lucros. Assim, esta pesquisa busca investigar qual o sentido que funcionários e proprietários de empresas de economia de comunhão atribuem ao trabalho que realizam. Para desvendar esta questão, foram analisadas, a partir da metodologia de análise de conteúdo, entrevistas com 36 funcionários, 2 diretores e 2 proprietários de 2 empresas, totalizando 40 entrevistas. Realizou-se um estudo de dois casos e a coleta dos dados da pesquisa ocorreu com entrevistas semi-estruturadas. A análise das entrevistas permite dizer que o trabalho é tido como algo fundamental na vida dos entrevistados e que é dotado de muito sentido, conclusão que corrobora com outras pesquisas, as quais também identificaram resultados semelhantes. Contudo, no que tange às empresas de economia de comunhão, foi possível observar que favorecem, em relação ao sentido deste trabalho, aspectos que circundam fatores direcionados a questões pessoais, tais como a valorização da pessoa dentro do ambiente de trabalho, a autonomia concedida para a realização das tarefas e, principalmente, ao relacionamento interpessoal desenvolvido dentro da organização. Portanto, verifica-se que as empresas de economia de comunhão contribuem para o relacionamento e a valorização das pessoas no meio empresarial.
The topic, meaning of work, has been studied by several Brazilian and international authors because of the important transformations that have been occurring inside the labor world where new forms of organizations emerge and they are subjected to the changes in its nature. In the light of this, it is relevant to understand the meaning which the contemporary workers give to their work, mostly if it is considered that those workers develop their productive activity inside companies which present some peculiar aspects in a capitalistic context. In other words, these companies seek an alternative to the current administrative model found in the majority of them, which offers an economic working style with the characteristics of gratuitousness, the open-mindedness in relation to others, the fellowship, despite the fact of working mostly in profitable sectors of the economy. Such companies are known as participant companies of the communion economy proposal.This proposal intends to offer an answer to the extreme poverty drama of the population that is deprived of the most essential human rights. It consists in a struggle of the integration between the companies administration and the principles underlain on a religious basis in order to change the dominant economic model. Therefore, this should not be understood as a simple case of philanthropy or profit sharing. Such being the case this research seeks to investigate what is the meaning given by the employees and the owners of the communion economy companies for the work they do. In order to reveal which are these meanings, it has been analysed based on Methodology of Content Analysis, and it had been done interviews with 36 employees, 2 executives e the owners of each company, in a total amount of 40 interviews. It had been accomplished a study of two cases and the research data collection was done with semi-organized interviews. The analysis of the interviews allows to say that the work is considered a fundamental part for the lives of the interviewees and it has a great meaning for them, similarly with the results of other researches. Nevertheless, it was possible to observe in relation to the communion economy companies that they help this meaning of work with aspects that are found in personal matters, such as: the appreciation of the person inside the work environment, the granted autonomy to accomplish the tasks and mainly, the interpersonal relationship developed inside the enterprise. Therefore, it is seen that the communion economy companies contribute to the relationship and the appreciation of the people inside them.
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Pforr, Tobias. "Meaning construction and the socialisation of economic ideas : an autobiographical approach." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/80217/.
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This dissertation explores how to conceptualise the production, reproduction and transmission of economic ideas. I highlight that a first step in such an exploration needs to consist in the recognition that theory and ideas not only describe reality but also help to constitute it. Language inherently frames our understanding in particular ways. We learn language, as well as other practices, by being socialised into particular communities. As a result, there is an inherent connection between our ideas and our identity. The task for this dissertation is to showcase different ways of understanding how we become socialised into particular economic ideas and what some of the consequences of this might be for how we think about economic theory in general. I examine two particular sites of knowledge production and two particular concepts. The two chosen sites are undergraduate economics textbooks and contemporary novels. I highlight that both partake in the production and transmission of economic ideas but that the strategies they employ to do so are markedly different. Economics teaching could benefit from using a greater variety of materials and I suggest that works of fiction are a very useful resource in this regard. The two concepts I examine are the concept of the market and the concept of violence. I argue that the concept of the market is not merely used to describe a place of exchange but that it is also used to express subjective and social notions. Last, I argue that much can be gained from following Johan Galtung's approach to violence. His conceptualisation of violence allows one to understand the price of socialisation. Socialisation processes are inherently burdensome for individuals and the concept of violence can help one to appreciate the burden which particular conceptions of human agency have for those who are asked to internalise these.
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Kirmizi, Meric. "Taksim Republican Square: A Field Study On Socio-economic, Form, Use And Meaning Dimensions." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613398/index.pdf.
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Price, Patricia Lynn. "Crafting meaning from economic chaos : low-income urban women and neoliberal reform in Mexico /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5640.
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Nash, Richard Mark. "The Meaning of economic equality in 2 Corinthians 8:13,14 and its implications for believers." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.
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Parsons, Elizabeth C. "Provoking the Rocks: A Study of Reality and Meaning on the Zambian Copperbelt." Thesis, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/61.
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Even though the West, or Global North, initiates extensive development policymaking and project activity on the African continent, this study argues that one source of major frustration between different parties entrusted to do the work arises from cognitive differences in their worldviews. These differences affect people's actions and have theological ramifications involving how we all understand meaning and reality. The study employs a case method analyzed through the lens of Alfred Schutz's sociology of knowledge theories and augmented by insights from African scholars to look at basic perceptual differences between Zambians and expatriates working on the Copperbelt Province's mines. After exploring how participants in the study interpreted various experiences, this study concludes that Zambians and expatriates were essentially living in "parallel universes" of meaning regardless of their apparently shared activities and objectives. The study further argues that viewpoints expressed by Zambian participants can be extrapolated into powerful lessons for members of civil society who are concerned about international development and the environment. Such teaching elements could especially help reshape how Americans and other Westerners understand ourselves in relation to physical creation and the cosmos as well as to those from radically different cultures. Lessons learned from the Zambian perspective could also help reinvigorate Western theological thinking, providing much needed critiques of discourses that currently dominate international development policymaking and planning and that determine value principally according to economic strategies and fulfillment of efficient, measurable objectives.Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2007.
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Hofmeyr, Amanda. "No meaningless gesture, the measure and meaning of socio-economic rights in the New South African Constitution." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ54243.pdf.
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Parker, Simon. "Sustainable meanings : the contradictions, values and worth of sustainability in organisations." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/73167/.
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In this thesis I explore contemporary understandings and practices of sustainability. Based on an ethnographic study at Anuvelar Investments, a sustainable financial services organisation, I contribute to both the conceptual and strategic literature by drawing upon the theoretical resources of discourse theory. In doing so, I position sustainability as a discourse which has implications for how it can be conceptualised but also how it can be understood in practice. My overall questions relate to conceptualising the contested and contingent nature of sustainability, but also the role of subjectivity when understanding sustainability in practice. All of which, I later argue, contribute to the political role particular articulations of sustainability might play within society more broadly. First, I note the ambiguous and contested nature of sustainability as being unavoidable due to the nature of language and discourse and its construction within an antagonism between pro-financial and pro-social/environmental logics. I contribute a conceptualisation of sustainability as a discourse that is set boundaries as to what it means within a particular context. This contextual understanding of sustainability shows how the discourse excludes and includes certain elements but also modifies or quilts other concepts, positions and ideas. It does so, I argue, due to the ‘empty’ quality of sustainability as a discourse, standing as an open yet powerful concept that can align various different positions and ideas. Second, building upon an understanding of the ambiguous and contested nature of sustainability I explore instances of identification with sustainability at Anuvelar Investments. Such an exploration mobilises the concepts of fantasy and enjoyment to contribute an understanding of the affective character of sustainability. Based upon interview data and observations I point to the beatific and horrific fantasies that engage and disgust individuals at Anuvelar Investments. Although the beatific character of sustainability provides a source of enjoyment for many, the horrific fantasies that are concealed within and outside the discourse are deemed equally pertinent in the maintenance of a sustainable subject. In so doing, I contribute to and problematise the sustainability literature that calls for employee engagement with the values of sustainability. Third, I contribute to the debates within critical management studies (CMS) in reference to the empirical work produced in this thesis and the particular case study of Anuvelar Investments. In presenting a vignette from my ethnographic study at Anuvelar, I explore the many ways in which it is possible to critique certain practices performed at Anuvelar. However, drawing on the political theory of Chantal Mouffe and discourse theory more broadly I present a different approach to critique that seeks a more positive approach and a more productive platform for engagement. Overall this thesis provides an important contribution to an understanding of sustainability as a discourse within contemporary organisations. In addition to this, it puts forward an argument that queries whether sustainability should always be seen as hijacked by or coopted into capitalism. Instead, I propose that sustainability can in fact be a useful discourse from which to challenge the status quo, albeit dependent upon its articulation.
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Somhlaba, Zamokwakhe Ludidi. "Conceptualizing and implementing the meaning of Africa's new partnership with the industrialized north : implications and possibilities for the renaissance." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004655.
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This study is a contribution to the on-going debate about the path that Africa has taken in realising the vision of its renewal. The central theme of the study is the idea of Africa's 'new partnership' with the industrialised North, which is envisaged under the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Acknowledging that asymmetrical partnerships have existed between Africa and the North, particularly in the last century, the question this study poses is: to what extent does the idea of the 'new partnership' represent something new? The study argues two points. Firstly, it argues that the idea of the new partnership has become a terrain of contestation between the Africanist and the post-modernist social forces. Secondly, the study argues that it is unlikely that conceptualising the idea of the new partnership in post-modernist terms will result in sustainable development and rebirth of Africa. That is particularly the case, because post-modernity suggests a certain degree of loyalty to the prevailing and asymmetrical global order. Against this background, the study concludes that the extent to which Africa will enjoy the benefits of a truly revised partnership with the North, and thus fulfil the vision of its rebirth, will be determined, by and large, by the modalities of accommodation and struggle between these social forces.
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Muir, Lauretta, and n/a. "The impact of economic theory on the art of clinical practice : a study of science, meaning, and health." University of Otago. Dunedin School of Medicine, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20060911.160405.
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In being philosophically based this thesis is concerned with understanding the human condition with particular reference to matters of meaning and how these find expression in systems of government and social policy.
This study is based on the premise that concepts determine how the world is viewed and people use a variety of conceptual schemes to answer different classes of questions. Scientific endeavour is based in a scheme that enables questions about the material world to be answered. It cannot however answer classes of questions related to many features of human lives as its methods necessitate the development and use of abstractions and generalisations that are ill-equipped by design to determine what is important to people and what motivates and satisfies them. Therefore, the reality of any particular individual or group cannot be adequately understood in scientific terms.
The thesis examines the scientific conceptual framework and minimalist abstractions of the medical model and the quasi-scientific conceptual frameworks of economics and identifies their conceptual limits. It shows that if the medical model is assumed to provide a complete representation of realities in health and is uncritically used as the basis of medical practice it has the potential to overlook the patient as a person and distance medical practice from its social roots which can lead to adverse outcomes for both clinical practice and medicine itself. It also observes that the economic scheme has conceptual limits that create their own distorted representations of reality. A similar dislocation in the meaning of people�s lives occurs when abstractions are made by adopting concepts from other schemes based in science, such as the medical model, without any awareness of their conceptual limits. Further distortions occur when these other accounts are turned into economic ones. Not only is the patient as a person overlooked, so is the patient as an entity.
In light of these observations the thesis examines health reforms that have taken place in New Zealand, whereby the economic scheme has been given dominance in the development of public policy and set the parameters for rationality and what can acceptably be said. It shows that in not recognising features of meaning these parameters have led to health sector reforms that have had unintended and adverse consequences for clinical practice, as shown in the particular case of reforms of maternity services. Furthermore these reforms have severed the health sector from its social roots and moral frameworks and created barriers between it and government so that health sector problems that cannot be understood using economic parameters cannot be addressed in forums where public policy is developed.
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HERIBERTO, RUIZ TAFOYA. "POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CORPORATE PACKAGED FOOD：A STUDY OF EXCHANGE AND CONSUMPTION IN METRO MANILA'S SLUMS." Kyoto University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/242452.
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Wang, Jia. "Research on EU regional policy : its selective mechanisms, effects and role for EU integration, with reflections on its possible meaning for China." Thesis, University of Macau, 2011. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2555597.
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Botelho, Caitlin C. "Social Identities and Meanings in Correctional Work." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3170.
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This study focuses on correctional officers’ values and perceptions of their workplace, the people they work with and for, and members of the general public. Although prior research has investigated correctional staff members’ feelings about their occupation, far fewer studies have implemented a comprehensive qualitative, microsociological approach. The author conducted 20 in-depth interviews with current and former correctional officers (COs) in public-supported facilities. Additional data were collected through two public Facebook pages designated for COs and citizens interested in the criminal justice system. The study offers insights about the significance of COs’ feelings about their work and how the correctional environment affects their lives at work and away from the workplace among the non-incarcerated public. How COs contend with the devalued nature of correctional work and how female COs deal with a male-dominated workplace are primary analytical themes.
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Ahearn-Ligham, Ariell. "The changing meaning of work, herding and social relations in Rural Mongolia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:da410056-7e73-4b15-b2e9-8be97fe40dd8.
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By using ethnographic methods based on extensive participant observation, this thesis explores the role of pastoralism and rural work as a medium of social reproduction for families in rural Mongolia. This work is reported in four articles, which examine herder household management, decision making, and the spatial aspects of household social and economic production. As standalone pieces and as a united work, the articles make a case for understanding social change through the lens of spatialized performative relations. Pastoralism as a form of work and social system is one aspect of these relations. I contend that people consciously engage with herding as a form of work, which is an important reference point in political subjectivities and administrative practices that idealize the state. The policies and practices of government institutions, including non-state agencies, play powerful roles in the particular forms through which relations are spatialized. By taking this approach and prioritizing herder critical reflections on their own lives, I argue against the dual claim that herders exist outside the state and are bound to local environments. I show, in contrast, how herder efforts to access resources beyond local environments, such as formal schooling for children, spatially transform the labour, finance, and mobility systems of households. My work presents three key arguments with reference to these concepts. The first is that patron-client relations continue to play a strong role in family hierarchies and wider social alliances used to gain access to needed resources and services. Secondly, I argue that pastoralist work is an integral part of governance and the propagation of the moral authority of the state. Pastoralism as a form of work should be seen as a political enterprise as much as an economic or cultural one. Finally, attention to the spatial organisation of household economies, including household splitting and new types of mobility, reiterates the significance of place in human agency.
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Clarke, Jean Elaine. "Repeated teenage pregnancies – The meanings ascribed by teenagers – A comparison between London and two Caribbean islands." Thesis, Brunel University, 2002. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5139.
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This qualitative research seeks to improve our understanding of the relatively under-researched phenomenon of repeat teenage pregnancies, by exploring the underlying factors and meanings that teenagers ascribe to their pregnancies. The study uses a comparative approach to provide a comprehensive psychosocial and economic understanding of the factors leading to repeat teenage pregnancies. This is achieved by exploring both the diverse and similar experiences of two groups of teenagers within different socio-economic environments - one group of 26 respondents from the Caribbean islands of Jamaica and Barbados and the other group of 26 respondents from London. The research also capitalises on a unique opportunity to contextualize the welfare dependency/teenage pregnancy discourse. The behaviours, motivations, values and attitudes of young women who become repeatedly pregnant in a Welfare state such as England, are compared with those living in countries with limited state resources and few state benefits. The comparison shows that in the latter case, the lack of state intervention can have the disempowering impact of fostering dependency in many insidious forms. The findings demonstrate the very powerful influence that both intentional and hidden or masked factors can have on a young woman's decision to repeat a pregnancy. The intrinsic relationship between the personal driving forces of the young women and their repeated pregnancies is convincingly highlighted. These driving forces are accompanied by very strong and deep-rooted beliefs in the importance of motherhood and fertility, as well as anti-abortion views. When these factors are added to economic stringency, they provide the fuel for a young woman's journey into repeat pregnancies. The findings therefore caution against a reliance on a mechanistic understanding of both single and repeat teenage pregnancies and emphasise the fact that social, psychological, and emotional processes, as well as the economic influences, are also crucial to our understanding of repeat teenage pregnancies.
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Frommholz, Gotz Harald. "Local embeddedness matters! : a study of the meaning of locality for the production process in the kitchen furniture industry in East Westphalia and Lippe." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8266.
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New institutionalism in sociology addresses how institutional pressure influences organisational behaviour. Its particular impact on “new economic sociology” is to establish a counter perspective to neo-classical economics by criticising the rational actor model of behaviour and emphasising cultural and cognitive references for business actions. Recent developments in new institutionalism increasingly focus on researching national and international contexts, which demonstrate a keen interest in non-local environments. Micro sociological research accordingly receives limited attention and the meaning of locality for production strategy in relation to markets is largely neglected. This thesis presents evidence from the kitchen-furniture industry of East Westphalia and Lippe (EWL) in Germany that, in an increasingly globalised economic system, local institutional contexts continue to influence business behaviour significantly. The thesis demonstrates the importance of locality for production organisation and business strategy in this case. The research aims to contribute to new institutionalist theory by establishing the relevance of “localness” and to encourage research to re-engage in meso-analysis on the sub-national level. The analysis presents results from a qualitative case study, which encompasses in-depth interviews, as well as results derived from contextual analysis of the industry’s structure and performance and statistical indicators provided by local institutions. The study tries to understand why about 70% of German produced kitchens, and about every fourth kitchen in Europe, originates from EWL. The findings demonstrate that managers’ evaluations of local production networks, regional cultural norms and values, shape managerial cognitive frameworks, which influence business behaviour significantly and can create meaning for locality of production sites.
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Hole, Nicola. "The policy implications of everyday energy consumption : the meanings, temporal rhythms and social dynamics of energy use." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16551.
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Traditional research into pro-environmental behaviour change has a tendency to be focussed on either the context in which practices are enacted or the cognitive processes that lead to particular behaviours. Research is often located within individual disciplines, with policy implications defined by (often) narrow interpretations of a problem. Despite increasing recognition of the ability of behaviour change to significantly contribute to the reduction in emissions required to meet UK targets, policy is so far failing to encourage ânormativeâ low carbon practices in many areas of life. Based on theories of social practice, this thesis attempts to redress the relationship between individuals and behaviour in order to discover how energy practices are developed, maintained and reconfigured. Specifically, it develops a phenomenological approach to energy consumption by exploring how energy practices are experienced by individuals on a daily basis, based on the premise that much human behaviour is driven by individualsâ perceptions of their actions. The study highlights the importance of the meanings and associations that individuals possess in relation to their energy practices and how these are implicated by their experiences, past and present. Furthermore, it contends that practices are influenced by social interactional dynamics and normative frameworks within the home, as well as by the form and frequency of social relations external to the home. With energy consumption so closely interlocked with the practices with which individuals engage in a daily basis, this thesis suggests that policy needs to be more in tune with the everyday experiences of energy consumers. It concludes by setting out a form of policy-making that has the potential to reduce everyday energy use by being sensitive to the experiences and well-being of individuals and society.
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Fisher, Joshua B. 1981. "No alternative: Participation, inequality, and the meanings of fair trade in Nicaragua." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10573.
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xvi, 411 p. : ill., maps. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.This dissertation research takes an ethnographic perspective on competing notions of "fairness" in the first vertically-integrated garment production chain in the world that is certified as fair trade. In sharp contrast to the straightforward images of social justice that are so common on the consumer end of fair trade, the dissertation demonstrates that relations of fair trade production, distribution, and consumption are complicated by ideological disjunctures, by different experiences of work and labor, by unequal access to capital and political opportunity, by asymmetrical power, and ultimately by disparate concepts of economic justice. Organized as a commodity chain analysis, this dissertation is based on sixteen months of multi-sited, ethnographic research in Nicaragua, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), with four separate fair trade organizations: a faith-based NGO from North Carolina called the Center for Sustainable Development, a well-known Michigan-based fair trade retailer called Clean Clothes Organics, and two Nicaraguan producer organizations, including a women's industrial sewing cooperative (The Fair Trade Zone, which is the first worker-owned organization in the world to gain free trade zone customs certification), and an industrial cotton spinning plant called Genesis. The research shows that, from the standpoint of production and distribution, conflicts frequently emerge over the terms, conditions, and meanings of labor, business contracts, extra-contractual relations, participation in decision-making, and the definition of roles. Producers, moreover, often have no alternative but to accept the terms of more powerful groups under duress of poverty. Theoretically speaking, this dissertation contributes to an understanding of alternative economic formations, including fair trade and cooperatives. In this vein, I argue that the idea of fair trade as an "alternative" to conventional trade is a problematic rhetorical move that tends to obscure the fact that all aspects of trade--production, distribution, and consumption--are not only inherently political, they are also riven with the complications of mediating between disparate cultural meanings, social positionalities, and political, economic, and social inequality. I recommend revisioning the relationship between the economy, the state, and various spheres of society in light of the insights of substantivist economics, feminist political economy, and ethnography.
Committee in charge: Lynn Stephen, Chairperson, Anthropology; Philip Scher, Member, Anthropology; Aletta Biersack, Member, Anthropology; Lise Nelson, Outside Member, Geography
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Linsi, Lukas. "How the beast became a beauty : the social construction of the economic meaning of foreign direct investment inflows in advanced economies, 1960-2007." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2016. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3389/.
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Dominant approaches in International Political Economy treat inflows of foreign direct investments (FDI) only as a material fact, a physical flow of capital. The analysis of the perceptions of inward FDI presented in this research, however, reveals that the meaning that policymakers and analysts attribute to FDI inflows goes far beyond that. What is more, the predominant interpretation of the meaning of FDI inflows has changed dramatically over time: While they were perceived primarily as a threat to national economic development from the 1950s to the 1980s, they came to be gradually re-interpreted as a sign of economic success in the 1990s. Focusing on these developments in the major OECD economies, this research aims to make sense of this stunning transformation in the social interpretation of inward FDI and to examine the implications of these ideational evolutions for policy outcomes. To do so, the research adopts a mixed methods research design, which combines quantitative approaches with the insights gained from qualitative historical analysis: After providing a nuanced theoretical discussion of the significance of economic narratives in international economic affairs and a broad overview of the key developments in FDI policies and relevant policy discourses in the six largest advanced economies during the post-war era, the research subjects the theoretical argument to two quantitative tests at large cross-national samples using data from public opinion surveys and general election results; finally, a qualitative comparison of relevant developments in the United Kingdom and France analyses the impact of these ideational changes on FDI policy-making processes in empirical depth.
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Chan, Lai-wah, and 陳麗樺. "An exploratory study on how new founders in the information technologyfield perceive the meaning of their current career pursuit." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42576106.
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Holstein, Fredrik. "Environmental values - what's the point? : essays on compliance with environmental regulations and on the meaning of environmental values /." Uppsala : Dept. of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2009. http://epsilon.slu.se/201001.pdf.
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Nelson, Meaghan Brady. "How Social Consciousness and the Development of Social Responsibility Can Grow Through the Meaning-Making Processes of Collaboration and Artmaking." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343620040.
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Sternäng, Li. "Ethical and normative reasoning on climate change : Conceptions and solutions among students in a Chinese context." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-56033.
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Previous research in environmental education and learning has mainly concerned students’ understanding of natural scientific knowledge, whereas research on the influence of other knowledge in learning environmental issues is marginal. Also, the interest in most studies investigating students’ natural scientific knowledge has been to capture constraints in students’ understanding, hence investigations of students’ meaning making are rare. The main objective of this thesis was to explore individual students’ reasoning regarding climate change, and the influence of knowledge on their reasoning. In Study I, students’ conceptions of the enhanced greenhouse effect (EGHE) were investigated. The results showed that students incorporated different pieces of information from different problem areas into the conceptualization of the EGHE. Setting up causal links between diversely different pieces of information seems to be a way to make meaning, and thus a necessary step in the learning process. Study II is an investigation of students’ solutions to climate change. The results indicated that students contextualized problems and solutions by addressing the individual(s), where the individual(s) was either “myself” or “someone else”. The different notions of the individual(s) became crucial as the students’ views of the environment, as well as society, changed according to the different contexts. To further study students’ conceptions of “me” and “others”, Study III examined students’ conceptualized solutions to the dilemma between economic development and mitigating climate change. The findings suggested that students’ conceptualized nature as a “box” of resources, and that economic development would sustain and improve nature. Therefore, the dilemma between economic development and mitigating climate change or dealing with environmental problems did not exist. Results from all three studies were discussed with respect to theoretical implications.At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 1: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript.
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Campos, Adilson Rodrigues. "A educação financeira em um curso de orçamento e economia doméstica para professores: uma leitura da produção de significados financeiro-econômicos de indivíduos-consumidores." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2015. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/1394.
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Esta pesquisa, de cunho qualitativo, tem como eixo central a Educação Financeira. Nosso estudo tem como objetivo principal investigar a produção de significados financeiro-econômicos de nove indivíduos-consumidores de bens e serviços (KISTEMANN JR., 2011), membros de uma sociedade de consumo líquido-moderna, em relação às atividades, entrevistas e situações-problema apresentadas. Partindo de um curso de orçamento e economia doméstica para professores, dividido em oito módulos-encontros, onde todos eram donos ou donas de casa e participavam ativamente da elaboração e execução de um orçamento doméstico-familiar, buscamos discutir temas e situações-problema referentes às ações de consumo e tomadas de decisão, bem como oferecer informações relevantes para se tentar buscar um melhor gerenciamento de suas finanças pessoais, domésticas e familiares através de um consumo mais consciente e sustentável. Para a realização de tal pesquisa, fundamentamo-nos nos referenciais teórico-metodológicos de: Luís Carlos Ewald, Gustavo Cerbasi, Zygmunt Bauman e Romulo Campos Lins. Nossa pesquisa ainda revelou uma considerável necessidade de se refletir mais esses assuntos de forma coletiva, visando assim uma melhor compreensão de todos os aspectos envolvidos, além de implementar ações que possam contribuir para uma melhor formação financeiro-econômica dos indivíduos-consumidores. E, para que isso se concretize, apresentamos um “livreto didático” como produto educacional, que poderá auxiliar aos interessados como entender e compreender melhor tais questões relacionadas a planejamento financeiro de curto, médio e longo prazo; assim como é relevante também ter e manter o seu próprio orçamento doméstico sempre equilibrado.
This research, qualitative approach, has as its central axis the Financial Education. Our study aims to investigate the production of financial-economic meanings of nine individuals-consumers of goods and services (KISTEMANN JR., 2011), members of a society of liquid-modern consumer, in relation to activities, interviews and problem-situations presented. Starting a course of budget and domestic economy for teachers, divided into eight modules-meetings, where all are owners or housewives and actively participated in the preparation and implementation of a domestic-family budget, we discuss issues and problem situations related to consumer actions and decision-making, and provide relevant information to try to seek a better management of your personal finances, household and family through a more conscious and sustainable consumption. To conduct such research, we base ourselves in the theoretical and methodological framework of Luís Carlos Ewald, Gustavo Cerbasi, Zygmunt Bauman and Romulo Campos Lins. Our research also revealed a considerable need to reflect over these issues collectively, thus aiming at a better understanding of all aspects involved, and implement actions that can contribute to a better financial-economic formation of individuals consumers. And for that to happen, we present an "educational booklet" as an educational product that may help interested how to understand and better understand such issues related to financial planning short, medium and long term; as it is also important to have and maintain their own household budget always balanced.
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Fermiano, Maria Aparecida Belintane. "Pre-adolescentes ("tweens") - desde a perspectiva da teoria piagetana a da psicologia economica." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/251656.
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Orientador: Orly Zucatto Mantovani de AssisTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: Desde a II Guerra Mundial, os pré-adolescentes passam a ocupar uma nova posição na família e, com o fenômeno da globalização, essa tendência se intensifica. A globalização modifica as relações humanas e novas necessidades são mediadas por simbolismos que provocam desejos e consumo, manipulados pelas estratégias de marketing. Os novos símbolos criados passam a ser constituidores da identidade dos pré-adolescentes ou "tweens", que se encontram vulneráveis, uma vez que não possuem estratégias de resistência às solicitações tão intensas como as do marketing. Este os considera como um segmento que representa mercados promissores e influencia-os grandemente. Por isso, esta pesquisa investigou uma amostra de 423 participantes, de 8 a 14 anos, estudantes entre a 3ª e 7ª séries do ensino fundamental de escolas pública e particular, de cidades da Região Metropolitana de Campinas. Teve por objetivo coletar dados para descrever as atitudes, os hábitos, o comportamento econômico dos pré-adolescentes; os fatores que os levam a ser grandes pequenos consumidores; o poder de persuasão que possuem; as influências que recebem da família, da escola, dos amigos, dos meios de comunicação, da propaganda e do marketing. O método de pesquisa é um "survey", com caracterização sociodemográfica. Aplicou-se um questionário com 93 perguntas abertas, fechadas e de múltipla escolha. Os resultados quantitativos da pesquisa foram submetidos à análise exploratória dos dados em relação à sua frequência e porcentagem e as variáveis categóricas foram comparadas através de teste Qui-Quadrado, o que forneceu suporte aos pressupostos da pesquisa, os quais são: a possível homogeneização de comportamentos dos "tweens"; a necessidade de construção de novas alfabetizações, estratégias e conhecimentos; uma educação econômica, com fundamentação na Psicologia Genética e Psicologia Econômica. Os resultados qualitativos foram analisados pelos conteúdos de todas as perguntas, originando-se os eixos "Identidade e relações interpessoais", "Cotidiano econômico", "Mídia". Os resultados sugerem que é urgente reverter o cenário atual, pois o ritmo biológico e psicológico é desrespeitado, não havendo tempo para assimilação e acomodação no sentido mais piagetiano do termo, assim, os padrões de comportamento necessitam de ressignificações. Como contribuição, delineia-se para a Educação Econômica um currículo, uma proposta pedagógica de intervenção e um programa de formação para professores, para auxiliar professores e alunos em tomadas de decisão e em estratégias de ação, favorecendo uma socialização econômica e do consumidor mais racional e consciente. O marco teórico apresenta a Psicologia Econômica, que estuda as manifestações da racionalidade humana na economia. Também apresenta sua história, bases e teóricos mais eminentes. Assim como elege a Epistemologia Genética e a "Lógica das significações" como o fio condutor na compreensão dos comportamentos estudados. A teoria piagetiana embasa o desenvolvimento do ser humano em seus aspectos indissociáveis: físico, intelectual, emocional, afetivo, moral e social, para a construção da autonomia, da solidariedade e da ética em direção à equidade social. A interdisciplinaridade destas teorias podem e devem ser vistas como colaboradoras na compreensão da economia cotidiana e para atuação eficiente nela, utilizando estratégias para adaptação ao meio e para o estabelecimento de relações conscientes e equilibradas.
Abstract: Since II Word War, a new status in the family is given to pre-adolescents and this bias grows notably because of globalization, wich modifies the human relationships and new wants are mediated by symbolisms provoking desires and consumption manipulated by marketing strategies. These new created symbols begin to compose the pre-adolescents or tweens' identity. They are a segment that represents promising markets, that is the marketing point of view. Marketing influences them greatly, and they are vulnerable, because they have no strategies to resist to the intense requests that marketing imputes. So, this research investigated a sample of 423 participants, from 8 to 14 years old, students from the third to the seventh grades of high school, from public and private schools, from some towns belonging to Campinas Metropolitan Region. The research aims were to collect dates to describe the tweens' attitudes, habits and economic behavior; the factors that make them big little consumers; the little naggers they are; the persuasive power they have; the influences they receive from family, school, friends, midia, advertising and marketing. The research method is a survey, with a demographic characterization it was applied a questionnaire, with 93 open, closed and multiple choice questions. The research quantitative results were yielded to the exploratory date analysis related to their frequency and percent. The categorical variables were compared through chi-square test, what provided support to the research presuppositions, which are: the tweens' possible behavior homogeneity; the necessity of new literacies, strategies and knowledge construction; an Economic Education with Genetic Psychology and Economic Psychology foundation. The qualitative results were presented by the subject analysis from all the questions, deriving the axis "Identity and interpersonal relations", "Economic daily", "Midia". The results suggest that is urgent to revert the present-day scenary, as the biological and psychological rhythm is disregarded, because there is no time to assimilation and accommodation in the more piagetian sense of the word. So, the behavior patterns need re-signification. As a contribution, this research outlines a curriculum, an intervention pedagogical project and a teacher training program for an Economic Education that helps teachers and students' decision making and action strategies, sustaining an economic socialization and a consumer socialization more rational and conscious. The theoretical framework presents Economic Psychology, that studies the human rationality manifestations in Economy. It also presents its history, basis and the most important researchers. As well as it elects Genetic Epistemology and "Logic of Meanings", as the conductor wire in the studied behavior comprehension. Piagetian theory is the foundation for human being's evolution in their undissociated aspects: physical, mental, emotional, affective, moral and social, for the authonomy, solidarity and ethics construction toward social equity. These interdisciplinary theories can and must be seen as cooperators, in the daily economy comprehension and the efficient actuation in it, using strategies to the environment adaptation and to the establishment of conscious and equilibrated relations.
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Psicologia, Desenvolvimento Humano e Educação
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Gildenhuys, Annelie. "Leadership style as a component of diversity management experience / Annelie Gildenhuys." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2006.
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de, la Torre Mónica. "Nobody There: Acousmatics and An Alternative Economy of Meaning in Latin American Poetry of the 1970s." Thesis, 2013. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8M04J16.
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This study focuses on the works of three authors whose first poetry books appeared in the 1970s, in the context of the dictatorial and authoritarian regimes that began seizing power in Latin America in the 1960s and '70s. At a juncture in which both traditional leftist discourse and the programs of earlier avant-gardes had begun to seem inadequate, younger poets sought to articulate, in the realm of the symbolic, coherent responses to increasingly oppressive and polarized political environments. The works in question are the following: Brazilian Waly Salomão's "Me segura qu'eu vou dar um troço" (Rio de Janeiro, 1972); Juan Luis Martínez's "La nueva novela" (Santiago, Chile, 1977); and, by Mexican conceptual artist Ulises Carrión, the unpublished "Poesías," from 1973, as well as a selection of his poetry-based artists books. These are hyper-referential, process-oriented, polyphonic works. They are not only politically motivated, but, given their understanding of the entwinement of politics and genre, are also decidedly against the ideology bolstering the lettered tradition, lyrical poetry, and self-expressive tendencies. At the core of their critique is a rejection of an economy of meaning in which the author's function, as Foucault puts it, equals "the principle of thrift in the proliferation of meaning." First and foremost, in their goal to burst open the meaning-making process, Salomão, Martínez, and Carrión disembody the utterance and question notions of literary value that set apart literary language from common speech. Relying heavily on appropriation and framing devices, they each posit an alternate model of authorship in which writing and reading are inextricable and, consequently, the work is co-created by the reader.
Key among their strategies is that of acousmatics--here understood as the concealment of the source of the utterances in the text--in order to, primarily, create conditions of reception in which the reader can interact with the material on the page directly, without its being mediated by the poem's subject. Salomão, Martínez, and Carrión each achieve the uttering subject's removal from the text through different procedures that are contrasted in the dissertation. Emulating the cacophony of popular culture, Salomão performatively adopts multiple subjectivities in his works, saturating them to the point that no unitary subject can be said to be manifest in them. Martínez, on the other hand, mirrors the cacophony of printed matter. Besides failing to attribute the copious materials he samples in the wide-ranging word/image works comprising "La nueva novela," in presenting them he adopts the depersonalized institutional tone of textbooks, photographic captions, and paratextual materials such as footnotes, editor's notes, and bibliographical annotations. In Carrión's works the subject seems to have vacated the poem entirely, as author function is reduced to misreading canonical materials and performing interventions and erasures on them. Resulting from Carrión's operations are open structures that serve as models for post-literary ways to engage with texts.
The way these authors assembled and put their books in circulation is also examined, since "Me segura qu'eu vou dar um troço," "La nueva novela," and Carrión's artist books are the result of a thorough rethinking of the politics of the book, the lettered tradition's keystone institution.
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Hsu, Chia-yin, and 許家楹. "The discussion of the meaning of Newman's idea of the university in the Knowledge-Based Economy Age." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/w42p9p.
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Nowadays, the society is under the transit process of a Knowledge-Based Economy Age. In this process, 「knowledge」replaces other traditional resources, such as money and land, and it becomes the most critical resource in the course of economic development. The demandingness of 「knowledge」 in the society has led the society to pay much attention on Universities that focus on knowledge-production and knowledge–communication. It requires not only educating talent people in the field of a knowledge-based economy, but also expecting these Universities can be leaders to guide the development of social economy. Era’s change results in stretch-forced dialogues between society, university and the idea of the university. Deriving from these dialogues, this dissertation investigates the meaning of the past idea of the university on current university, based on Newman’s idea of the university and the issues faced by today’s university. This essay will further review Newman’s 「liberal knowledge」from Polanyi’s 「tacit knowledge」point of view, in order to search for the realistic meaning of the idea of the university on a knowledge-based economy age.
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Tremblay, Charles-Étienne. "Émergence du fumisme dans la production d'un nouvel esprit littéraire." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4773.
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La présente thèse se veut une relecture du fumisme en tant que concept et mouvement historique daté (années 1860-1880) et situé (la France), ou moment qui représente une économie de sens qui a bouleversé les habitudes perceptuelles et intellectuelles de la réception depuis la seconde moitié du dix-neuvième siècle.
Selon la lecture habituelle du fumisme, les productions des poètes et artistes fumistes, qualifiées de « fumisteries », ne forment qu’un chapitre, ou une catégorie négligeable, de l’histoire littéraire. Cette histoire confond le fumisme en tant que mouvement littéraire éphémère avec les épisodes décadent et symboliste pour le réduire à un concours de mystifications de bourgeois par des bohèmes en marge par rapport à l’institution littéraire organisées par le comédien Sapeck et l’écrivain Alphonse Allais, tous deux nommés ironiquement chefs de « l’École fumiste » vers 1880.
Or, en offusquant la conception positiviste du langage qu’elle lui applique afin de le réduire à une simple provocation sans but, et en assimilant Rimbaud aux « fumisteries » des « décadents », la critique littéraire nous donne l’outil principal de démystification du fumisme en tant que pratique ou mode de production d’une économie de sens.
C’est cette économie qui constitue notre principal point d’intérêt. Contemporain des épisodes décadent et symboliste, le moment fumiste oblige la réception à reconfigurer la façon de produire du sens. Les productions fumistes (essentiellement des poèmes et des caricatures, comme dans l’Album zutique, notre corpus principal) sont fondées sur une économie du rébus. Exemplifiée par le sonnet de Rimbaud intitulé « Voyelles », cette économie, qui crée des « documents », des textes inséparables de leur matière, introduit l’économie artistique du vingtième siècle – en particulier, au mode de perception cinématographique tel que fabriqué par le fumiste Émile Cohl.This thesis focuses on a particular period in literary history that goes under the name of fumism. This “fumist” moment, which occurred during the years 1860-1880 in Paris, introduces a new economy of meaning that, in the latter part of the nineteenth century, leads to a transformation in reader’s changing perceptual and intellectual habits. In the perspective of institutionalized literary history, critics conceive fumist productions as “fumisteries” (which might be rendered as “nonsense”) and lump this ephemeral movement or literary school (“l’École fumiste”) together with decadent and symbolist literary movements, reducing it to so-called mystification contests organized by the comedian named Sapeck and the writer Alphonse Allais, both designated as leaders of “l’École fumiste” around 1880. Yet, rather than viewing fumist productions as aimless provocations and assimilating Rimbaud’s work as an example of this “fumisterie” and decadence, this thesis examines the underlying presuppositions of language that are operative in the novel understanding of literature it entails. In this perspective, “fumism,” as a theory of discourse and literary practice, signals the emergence of a new vision of language and literary production. Against this background, this thesis presents a detailed historical reading of fumism in the context of literary debates in late nineteenth-century France. At the same time, this study shows how the reception of fumist works leads to a transformed economy of meaning and, above all, to a reconfiguration of literary understanding. As this study details, fumist productions (essentially poems and caricatures that can be viewed in the Album zutique, the main corpus) are based on rebuses. Remarkably exemplified by Rimbaud’s controversial sonnet “Voyelles”, this new meaning economy creates what are termed “documents”, which place the materiality of the text on a par with its potential meanings. In interpreting this transformation, the thesis concludes by demonstrating how this new understanding of meaning lays the groundwork for the artistic economy of the twentieth century – in particular, with regard to the dynamic mode of perception introduced by the father of the animated film, the fumist Emile Cohl.
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Boucher, Cynthia. "Prolégomènes à une interprétation de la figure du zombie." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11976.
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Aucune figure, au XXe siècle et aujourd'hui, n'est comparable au zombie. Sa prolifération et sa réitération en font un cas d'étude exceptionnel. Or, une figure est inséparable des discours qui la voient naître. Il existe un subtil et profond arrimage entre la production d'une figure, son interprétation et l'économie de sens qui la voit naître. Ma modeste ambition, dans ce mémoire, s'insère dans une réflexion à caractère épistémologique où les enjeux narratifs et les notions critiques encadrant le phénomène zombie seront interrogés. De même, afin de faire émerger cette économie de sens, les modalités de sens de la métaphore doivent être cernées. Ce mémoire est donc une série de prolégomènes nécessaires à l'intelligence d'un important problème contemporain : l'interprétation d'une figure telle que le zombie.
Le premier chapitre est une synthèse des manifestations de la figure et de sa compréhension. Les années 60 opèrent une importante transformation dans le corpus filmique zombie (et d'horreur) qui s'incarne dans Night of the Living Dead, de George Romero. Le second chapitre s'intéresse aux enjeux narratifs et aux notions critiques qui encadrent le phénomène zombie. La distinction entre thématique et esthétisme s'incarne alors dans la séparation stricte entre forme et contenu et se fait sentir dans les interprétations offertes du phénomène de l'horreur et dont les études sur le zombie sont tributaires. Cela fait, je rappellerai la vision de Todorov et d'Ingarden sur la représentation afin de cerner les enjeux véritables d'une interprétation. En définitive, la question sera de savoir si le zombie peut être pris à la lettre. Le troisième chapitre sera le moment d'interroger la métaphore afin qu'émergent les modalités de sens qui lui sont inhérentes. Ce chapitre se divisera en deux parties qui reprennent les moments essentiels de la métaphore : sa production et sa lecture. Pour ce faire, je parcourrai la tradition théorique sur la métaphore afin de saisir la portée de l'affirmation poétique qui établit un rapport métaphorique entre les zombies et les humains. Quelle est la signification de cette affirmation qui assume et guide la mise en récit d'une figure (le zombie), et qui assume et guide une lecture métaphorique de l'être humain? En guise de conclusion, je réfléchirai sur les modalités de la lecture en vue d'une interprétation de la figure du zombie. En ce sens, j'explorerai cette inséparabilité entre la manière, c'est-à-dire la métaphore, et son contenu, c'est-à-dire ses interprétations.No figure, in the Twentieth Century, and today, is comparable to the zombie. Its proliferation and reiteration make it an exceptional case study. Yet a figure is inseparable from the discourses that give birth to it. There is a profound and subtle correlation between the figure’s productions and interpretation, as well as the economy of meaning generating it. My modest ambition, in this thesis, is anchored in an epistemological reflection in which the narrative stakes and the critical notions framing the zombie phenomenon will be examined. For that economy of sense to emerge, the metaphor’s modalities of meaning must be grasped. Thus, this thesis takes the form of a series of prolegomena necessary for understanding an important contemporary problem: the interpretation of a figure such as that of the zombie. The first chapter presents a synthesis of the figure’s manifestations. The 60s bring an important transformation in the zombie (and horror) corpus that is conveyed in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. The second chapter focuses on narrative issues and critical notions framing the zombie phenomenon. The strict separation between form and content shapes the horror discourse and many of its interpretations from which Zombie Studies emerge. Subsequently, I revisit Todorov’s and Ingarden’s thought about representation in order to grasp the fundamental issues of interpretation. Ultimately, the question concerns knowing whether the zombie can be taken à la lettre. The third chapter examines metaphor’s inherent modalities of meaning. This chapter is divided into two sections that represent the essential aspects of metaphor: production and reading. In this connection, I refer to the theoretical tradition on metaphor so as to discern the nature of the poetic affirmation that, through metaphor, links zombies and humans. What does this affirmation signify, as it takes up and guides both the zombie figure’s narrative and the metaphorical reading of the human being? In conclusion, I reflect on the modalities of reading underlying interpretations of the zombie figure. In this sense, I will explore the inextricable link between the mode - that is, the metaphor - and its content or, rather, interpretations.
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Jeffery, Lyn. "Selling selves meanings of the market in the People's Republic of China /." Diss., 2001. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/49668398.html.
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Kozel, Philip M. "Exchanging entailments: The contested meaning of commodity exchange." 2004. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3152718.
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Many economists have heralded markets as institutions promoting individual freedom, liberty and expanding wealth while others have condemned them for generating avarice, economic inequality and crises. Exchanging Entailments critically evaluates how prominent economic theorists link these various associations, called here entailments, to the exchange process and the theoretical and policy implications which result. In contrast, Exchanging Entailments argues that what commodity exchange entails always depends upon the broader constellation of social relations and beliefs situating it within any particular context. Aristotle pioneered such an insight by arguing exchange may positively or negatively impact society depending upon the beliefs and norms motivating the buying and selling of commodities. Adam Smith famously linked exchange motivated by individual gain with liberty, freedom and expanding wealth but also produced a knowledge of what ‘constrained’ exchange entails which constitute rhetorical motifs resonating within much of economic discourse today. Marx challenged the representation of Smith's understanding of exchange popular as ‘one-sided’ and provided an immanent critique, demonstrating that the very rationale behind linking freedom, liberty and economic expansion to exchange also implies unfreedom, dependence, and economic crisis. Such a dialectic haunts commodity exchange within any social context, providing fodder for the celebrants and critics of markets alike. Besides exploring the significance of exchange within ‘traditional’ liberal bounds, Marx also articulated various class processes behind the production of commodities and merchant capital to exchange, reformulating its meaning in the process. Exchanging Entailments concludes with an exploration into the role ascribed to commodity exchange within the globalization debates today and maintains that the rhetoric Smith developed surrounding exchange play no some role in the debate. Many pro-globalization theorists, while employing a very different theory, still echo Smith's associations of trade with wealth and harmony. Many critics of the international economic environment also rely upon his exchange entailments as well, albeit unwittingly, with they associate the ills of today with restricted exchange and/or favoritism in trade agreements. To challenge the constrained terrain upon which the globalization debate takes place, a crucial need exists today to challenge the rhetoric behind what exchange supposedly entails for society.
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Cozzolino, Elizabeth Anne. "The social and relational meaning of child support." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26565.
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In this Thesis, I investigate the social meaning of child support payments for members of separated families. Drawing on 21 interviews with members of separated families, I explore how payments from one parent to another shape family relationships. I focus on three main topics: how child support payments are different from other forms of money in the ways that they are discussed, earmarked and spent; what child support payments reveal about cultural expectations of motherhood and fatherhood; and how respondents regard the fairness and efficacy of state child support policy. I argue that child support payments reinforce class and gender inequality. Child support reifies mothers’ disproportionate responsibility for children and uneven child support enforcement further subjects the poor to the coercive power of the state.text
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Terhorst, Laura Carlotta. "Degrowth and the meaning of freedom." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/22980.
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While the belief in progress through economic growth dominates the world, a small group of
academics and activists are calling for radical changes in the way we produce and consume to
fight the environmental crisis. But their voices are not being heard. In order to deepen the
understanding of the marginalization of degrowth ideas, the aim of this dissertation was to
understand how conceptions of freedom can influence people’s attitudes towards degrowth
principles. Through a theoretical analysis of degrowth principles in regard to three different
conceptualization of freedom, this dissertation demonstrates that degrowth principles are not
compatible with conventional concepts of freedom, but rather seem to align with the alternative
conception of freedom as non-domination, postulated by Pettit (1997) and Skinner (2002). In
the empirical part of this dissertation those theoretical assumptions were investigated though
semi-structured interviews with five degrowth activists from Spain, Portugal and Germany. The
thematic analysis of these five interviews revealed that the five activists conceptualize freedom
beyond conventional concepts. Instead, their views on the nature of freedom seem to align with
the concept of freedom as non-domination. Whilst the findings of this qualitative research
cannot be generalized, they do implicate that conventional concepts of freedom could indeed
prevent our societies from entering in a discussion about degrowth.Ao mesmo tempo que a crença no progresso através do crescimento económico domina o mundo, um pequeno grupo de académicos e ativistas apela a mudanças radicais na forma como produzimos e consumimos para combater a crise ecológica. Mas as suas vozes não estão a ser ouvidas. Para aprofundar a compreensão da marginalização das ideias de decrescimento, o objetivo desta dissertação era compreender como as conceções de liberdade podem influenciar as atitudes em relação aos princípios de decrescimento. Através de uma análise teórica dos princípios de decrescimento em relação a três conceções diferentes de liberdade, esta dissertação demonstrou que os princípios de decrescimento não são compatíveis com os conceitos convencionais de liberdade, mas sim alinhados com a conceção alternativa de liberdade como não-domínio, postulada por Pettit (1997) e Skinner (2002). Na parte empírica desta dissertação, esses pressupostos teóricos foram investigados através de entrevistas semiestruturadas com cinco ativistas do decrescimento de Espanha, Portugal e Alemanha. A análise temática destas cinco entrevistas revelou que os cinco ativistas conceptualizam a liberdade para além dos conceitos convencionais. Em vez disso, as suas opiniões sobre a natureza da liberdade parecem alinhar-se com o conceito de liberdade como não-domínio. Embora os resultados da sua investigação qualitativa não possam ser generalizados, implicam que os conceitos convencionais de liberdade poderiam de facto obstruir as nossas sociedades de entrar numa discussão sobre o decrescimento.
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Kamara, Abu. "International Students and the Politics of Growth." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/15860.
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Kamara, Abu
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The international student population in Canada has increased significantly in the last decade. While we know a lot about the experiences of international students in general, we don’t know a lot about the specific experiences of international students in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Given that universities in the region have identified international student recruitment as part of their internationalization strategies, expanding our knowledge about international students’ experiences in Halifax not only has strong implications for universities, but also for provincial and local governments who see them as potential immigrants. Consequently, key research objectives for this study were to expand our understanding of the personal experiences of international students in Halifax, and to identify gatekeepers whose actions impact the experiences of international students. Two studies were designed using qualitative methodology. Study I investigated the personal experiences of international students in Halifax, Nova Scotia, while the main objective for Study II was to identify gatekeepers in the city whose actions are shaping the contexts of international student experiences. Interviews were conducted with international students from Saint Mary’s University, Mount Saint Vincent University, and Dalhousie University using a semi structured, open-ended interview method. The data was transcribed and coded using grounded theory method. Results from Study I suggest that while international students regularly turn to formal support networks, such as the international student center for immigration and employment related assistance, the majority of students interviewed for this dissertation also expressed strong preference for informal support networks. Specific individuals identified by study participants as belonging to informal support networks included friends, family members, and members of on-and off-campus organizations. Results from Study II suggest that internationalization in Canada is providing new ways for universities to help address local economic and demographic concerns. In sum, results from Study I suggest that international students rely on both formal and informal support networks to address the challenges they are facing in Canada, while findings from Study II suggest that demographic needs, and the expansion of the knowledge economy will continue to push universities to bigger and more central roles in the growth of cities.
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Chiu, Shih-yung, and 邱詩詠. "Economic growth or distribution equality ― the meaning of absolute income, relative income and happiness." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71168428834028830018.
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碩士東吳大學
經濟學系
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There are quite few papers researching on the relevant of income and happiness at present, but from the foreign literatures this subject has already been paid more and more attention to. This article uses the data of Taiwan Social Change Survey in 2001 in Taiwan to analyze the factors influencing happiness, and simulates the happiness change under the different economic growth and income distribution, and then makes the relevant policy analysis. For some one, absolute income and relative income will influence personal utility, namely subject happy feeling. For the whole society, the economic growth will bring the increase of the absolute income, and different way of income distribution then brings the effect of relative income. That makes the economic growth and economic distribution and happiness appear rather complicated and affected relationship with each other. Therefore, this tries to analyze by the way of empirical analysis and simulation. The empirical analysis results of this article shows that (1) women are happier than men; (2) the age and happiness have the U pattern relationship which refers the middle age people are less happy than others; (3) the effect of marital status to happiness is not significant in statistics; (4) people educated more years are happier; (5) the person with religious belief is happier than the person without religious belief; (6) the experience of unemployment has significant effect in statistics to happiness; (7) people with higher income are happier, but there exists the relationship of marginal utility decline (because the coefficient of income square is negative), and the effect of compare with upward (average of higher than one’s income) and downward (average of lower than one’s income) are both negative. That means as the person higher than one’s income is raising, it will make oneself feel relatively unhappy, and the same as the person lower. But the effect of the average of lower people is not significant in statistics. Besides, the expected income of the same background people has the negative effect, too. If we don’t consider the negative effect of downward comparison, the more equality of income distribution, the higher of total happiness change of society we have. This gives redistribution of income legitimacy. But if we consider the negative effect of downward comparison, no matter which way of growth or distribution, the total happiness change of society is decreasing. And then this way of the middle and high income people who get the extra raising income of economic growth averagely makes the less decreasing level of the total happiness of society. This results show that doing nothing government may be the most suitable for the society.
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Chen, Yun-Ju, and 陳韻如. "The meaning of Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement in Abenomics-take agriculture as the foundation." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5gc4qz.
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碩士淡江大學
亞洲研究所碩士班
103
The purpose of the study is to understand the background and the reason why Japan joining the TPP under the Abenomics. In addition, finding out the meaning of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement（TPP）in Abenomics according to the experience of TPP US-Japan agricultural talks in 2014. Signing free trade agreements is neither a subjective question of right and wrong nor a presence of justice and morality. It is totally a offense and defense negotiation based on national economy and people''s livelihood between contracting parties. Therefore, the essence of free trade agreements is to find a mutually beneficial balance between contracting parties. The core of the negotiation of free trade agreements is all about national economy and people''s livelihood. In this study, we cited every livelihood data of Japan after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came into power the second time, and compare the difference of the budget planned by the ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries of Japan between 2013 and 2014. Thereby, inspecting the policy achievements of Shinzo Abe and agricultural deployment of Japan after joining TPP. Conclusions 1.The regional trade organization mode of national economy has already brought out an serious issue that Japan has to face under the condition of competing economic policy strategies：joining the TPP and negotiating with other parties. 2.Multilateral free trade agreements have fully demonstrated the function of integration. The Japan-ASEAN FTA have done that, and TPP is no exception. In addition to agricultural products and tariff issues, another key issue in the TPP talks is to find out how to restructure a new integration platform between the US and Japan. 3.Japan not only joined the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership in 2013 and leaned closer to US-led economic organizations, but also looked forward to protect its agriculture framework to a certain extent by TPP from the perspective of Abenomics. Overall, the meaning of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreemen（TPP）in Abenomics is participating in the TPP is enough to touch the new economic growth strategy, and Japan should strengthen its own industrial revolution through the involvement of the TPP.
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CHANG, YUNG-HAN, and 張永和. "A Study on Economic and Cutural Meaning ofWater Resources Management of Taiwan –The Case of Chuo-shui River." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/dmxw3r.
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碩士大葉大學
國際企業管理學系碩士在職專班
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This study was designed to investigate the application and management of the water resources of Taiwan. This study used Case Study method. Chuo-shui River was choiced. To explore the economic and cultural implications between the Eight-Fort shenzhen and the Chichi dam. Basically, Chuo-shui River just like a mother to raise two children, one for agriculture, one industrial, two children are very competitive and are winning glory for Taiwan to earn foreign exchange. Early output is from the agricultural products, the later stage is from industrialization products. Regardless of the production of agricultural or industrial products, require the use of water resources, and the mother is always selfless dedication to its children, through early Eight-Fort shenzhen to irrigated agriculture, the Chichi dam to support the industry. From the economic point of view, although agriculture and industry were at different times have contributed to Taiwan, the industrial output value was much greater than agriculture. But the cultural point of view, agriculture is warm, industry is cold; agriculture is grateful, industry is relentless; agriculture is thanks giving; industry only interest in benefit. GNP is not equal to National Welfare. There are culture except of economy.
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Tseng, Ying-chung, and 曾應鐘. "The study Hakka's meaning life from the immigration, changing career, social- economic turnaround--as a case of Guoshing Township." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33717910688847137587.
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碩士南華大學
生死學研究所
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This research is investigating a wandering character, Hakkanese. It''s about the process which they are seeking for the new country and their dream land, and also the life significance during the immigration, career changing and the process of turning over. It uses the method of depth interview by looking back oneself of the Hakka descendant or ancestors'' life stories. By such a method, it tries to explore the situation behind their experiences and understand the purpose of immigration, the way of development, the way to breakthrough the poorness, and the process of standing film to be the basic foundation for the future. There are five study conclusions: 一、Works hard in the hometown, reclaims busily of ancestor heritage, and takes risks to establish the foundation. 二、Cultivates the barren hill, endures the pain, and sets the foundation for the family. 三、Feels the lack of ability overcomes the impossibility, than turns over finally. 四、Stands firmly at the beginning, establishes the foundation through three generations, and gains the happiness. 五、Feels grateful and gives something back, originally cultivates the barren hill, now hopes for the recovery. There are two research suggestions: 一、Help to establish the genealogical table of life significance so as to promote the Hakka spirit. 二、Help those people who can not change career or turn over, so they can work with an aggressive and positive attitude.
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Mqedlana, Lwandlekazi Vuyokazi. "Contestation on the meanings of and their effect on interpretation of the notion of Local Economic Development." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/17202.
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Thesis (M.M. (Public and Development Management))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, 2014.Despite sustained efforts to implement Local Economic Development (LED) in South Africa, this has not met with the success that was hoped for. In part, this stems from the diverse conceptualizations and interpretations of LED. The research report sought to interrogate these diverse interpretations and meanings with the objective of establishing the impact that such ‘differences’ might have on the policy and actual implementation of LED in rural and urban municipalities in South Africa. To achieve this objective, the project utilized a qualitative survey, focusing on the cases of the urban-based UMhlathuze Local Municipality and the ruralbased Richmond Local Municipality. The study found that the diverse global and national ‘differences’ surrounding LED discourse have impacted significantly on how LED policies and strategies are implemented in South Africa. This includes a significant level of confusion regarding the most suitable implementation strategy. The study concludes that consensus on the definition of LED and the theoretical framework that informs LED should be reached within the South African policy context.