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Mills, Anne. "Personal best stories : a biographical approach." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/369990/.
Повний текст джерелаBradley, Alan. "Biographical disruption or reinforcement? : men's life histories of emotional distress." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2006. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/39836/.
Повний текст джерелаPearce, Julian Mark. "A biographical study of men with chronic low back pain." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2012. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/348803/.
Повний текст джерелаBastable, Mary E. "Social theory and embodied knowledge : An auto/biographical approach." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2003. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1297.
Повний текст джерелаHenriette, Bering. "An Even Playing Field? : Patterns of Differentiation in the Biographical Backgrounds of American College Athletes." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-415110.
Повний текст джерелаWilson, Sarah 1965. "Should children conceived through the use of donor insemination have access to biographical information concerning the donor?" Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23441.
Повний текст джерелаShearer, Helen Dianne, and n/a. "Intercultural Personhood: A 'Mainstream' Australian Biographical Case Study." Griffith University. School of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040921.082235.
Повний текст джерелаSaar, Maarja. "The answers you seek will never be found at home : Reflexivity, biographical narratives and lifestyle migration among highly-skilled Estonians." Doctoral thesis, Södertörns högskola, Sociologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-32794.
Повний текст джерелаThis thesis focuses on issues around reflexivity and highly skilled migration. Reflexivity has been an underused concept in migration studies and incurporating it has been long overdue. By reflexivity this thesis understands the capacity of an actor to evaluate his or her position in relation to social structures, to take action in managing those structures and, finally, to critically revise both the position and action taken. There are multiple reasons as to why incorporating reflexivity is a useful endeavor to migration studies. On one hand, using reflexive types in order to understand different migration motivations offers an alternative to otherwise mainly class based explanations behind migration objectives. Migration research has long relied on the idea that migration motivations can be coupled with societal and class background. Similarly, return migration has been described almost unanimously as a result of a homing desire. Both positions, as claimed in this thesis, are oversimplifications. On the other hand, I argue that, reflexivity helps to analyze the importance of class or even society on migration in 21th century. This is why I suggest to analyze all three in concurrence – migration, reflexivity and class. In the following pages I analyze how reflexivity can be operationalized for studying migration. So far, reflexivity has been either used as background concept – mobility studies or for explaining particular kind of migration – lifestyle migration. I argue, that with careful operationalization reflexivity could be useful tool for explaining wide-variety of migrations – family, labour, lifestyle etc. Three articles in this thesis focus on providing such operationalizations, analyzing the relationship between migration motivations and reflexivity. Finally, the first article in this thesis analyzes the background of my particular group of migrants – Estonian highly skilled migrants and positions them in relation to other groups in Estonian society. Moreover, the article also underlines that self-development and lifestyle, if you will, is an important motivation for Eastern European migrants as well.
Osmun, William R. "Hiring the “Other”—A Biographical Narrative Inquiry of Progressive Human Resource Professionals." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1558953727028898.
Повний текст джерелаTerenzi, Seixas Clarissa. "Histoires de vieux : Un regard sur le quotidien des personnes âgées au Brésil." Phd thesis, Université René Descartes - Paris V, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00742473.
Повний текст джерелаRitter, Helen. ""My dearest Mum": a biographical journey based on my mother's letters from Australia to England 1968-1985." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2005. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/637.
Повний текст джерелаAlford, John David. "Journeys : personal morphogenesis : a study of the interplay between structural, cultural, familial and biographical factors affecting mature students' decisions to undertake an Open Access course for possible entry to university." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1995. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36193/.
Повний текст джерелаHolm, Marie-Louise. "Fleshing out the self : Reimagining intersexed and trans embodied lives through (auto)biographical accounts of the past." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-137432.
Повний текст джерелаDenna avhandling undersöker hur nuvarande sätt att föreställa sig möjligheter för intersexuella och transpersoners liv inom medicinska sammanhang kan informeras av och omföreställas genom historiska livserfarenheter hos intersexuella och transindivider, som de har artikulerats i självbiografiska berättelser. Postmoderna, queer, intersex- och transforskare och aktivister har kritiserat existerande normer för intersex- och transhälsovård för att begränsa möjligheterna för olika förkroppsligande liv genom att artikulera vissa former av förkroppsligande och subjektivitet som mer sannolikt att möjliggöra ett levbart liv än andra. Detta har ofta gjorts i ett medicinskt-juridiskt sammanhang genom att hänvisa till förflutna erfarenheter av levbarhet kring förkroppsligande och genusifierande situationer som skiljer sig från privilegierade positioner. Med utgångspunkt i denna kritik, återupptar denna avhandling frågor om hur intersexuella och transpersoner kan bli förkroppsligade och ha relationer till andra, genom att reflektera kring de första tre fjärdedelarna av nittonhundratalet när de nuvarande normerna för vård och diagnostiska kategorier uppstod, men ännu inte blivit etablerade. Med utgångspunkt i en unik uppsättning av historiskt källmaterial från Danska Justitiedepartementet och Medicinsk-Etiska Rådets arkiv, återges intersexuella och transpersoners livshistorier från egna och medicinsk-etiska experters berättelser skrivna i relation till ansökningar av förändring av juridiskt kön och medicinsk transition. Genom denna process har livshistorier upprepande gånger blivit omartikulerade för att bli en användbar grund för diagnos och beslutsfattande. Samtidigt är dessa livshistorier uppöppnade än en gång i en omartikulation med fokus på deras komplexitet och mångfald.
Ralehoko, Refilwe Vincent. "Account-giving in the narrative of farming in isiXhosa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1706.
Повний текст джерелаThe purpose of this study is to examine message production and image restoration in the narratives of isiXhosa-speaking farming communities. According to Gergen (1994), narrative forms – such as the stability narrative, progressive narrative and regressive narrative – are linguistic tools that have important social functions to fulfil. Gergen (1994) further indicates that self-narratives are social processes in which individuals are realised on the personal perspective or experience. The self-narratives used and analysed in this study portray the contemporary, truth-based elements of a well-formed narrative. Narrative accounts are also embedded within social action; they render events socially visible and typically establish expectations for future events because the events of daily life are immersed in narrative. The study starts by laying the foundation for the reasons why human beings tell stories and why stories are so important in people’s daily lives, since most people begin their encounters with stories at childhood. Possibly because of this intimate and long-standing acquaintance with stories from childhood, stories also serve as critical means by which human beings make themselves intelligible within the social world. This study further examines the motivations and conditions for account-giving in isiXhosa. Accounts are similar to narratives and can be retained at the level of private reflections for others to read, to be educated and to learn from and to refer to from time to time. Gergen (1994) considers self-narratives as forms of social accounting or public discourse. In this sense, narratives are conversational resources, their construction open to continuous alteration as interaction progresses. The study elaborates on this phenomenon, especially in the narrative accounts of the various isiXhosa stories that were collected and analysed. What emerges from the analyses is that the individual characters whose stories are told are portrayed as moving through their experience, dealing with some conflict or problem in their lives and, at the same time, searching for a resolution. It also emerges from the collection of these various isiXhosa narratives that they sharpen our understanding of the major stressful situations in each person’s mind and how the individual reasons about the difficulties encountered in life. The narratives prove, in this regard, to be a cultural resource that serves social purposes, such as self-identification, self-justification, self criticism and social solidification. In this sense then, for an account to be true, it has to be goal-orientated and relate to people’s day-to-day lives. The study finds that the social-interactive aspects of account-giving involve severe reproach forms, including personal attacks and derogatory aspects, which elicit defensive reactions resulting in negative interpersonal and emotional consequences.
Charpenel, Marion. ""Le privé est politique !" : sociologie des mémoires féministes en France." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014IEPP0034.
Повний текст джерелаThis thesis investigates the ways feminist activists evoke the past in present-day France. Drawing on Halbwach’s sociology of memory and on collective action theory, this work aims to shed light on how shared visions of the past can arise from a social movement as open and plural as the feminist one. Based on biographical and projective interviews, on ethnographic fieldwork and on written archives, this thesis endeavours to demonstrate that there are three main conditions that allow for the existence of a feminist collective memory. First, owing to a consensus within this space about the need to make women more visible in history, a feminist “duty to remember” gives political reasons for the activists to regularly enact the past through collective action. Second, at a meso level, feminist groups may agree on certain representations of the past depending on current political debates and on internal power relationships. However, these convergences are so context-sensitive that it prevents them from constructing a feminist “official history”. Finally, at a micro level, the personal stories of each militant are expressed in comparable accounts and narrative forms. It is the statement "the personal is political" that allows for a common interpretation of the past, hinging on the assertion of oneself as an autonomous subject. Indeed, since the 1970s, feminist movements have developed collective practices that have encouraged activists to regularly tell their biographical story within feminist “spaces of the speakable”. The thesis demonstrates that it is this process of mutual framing of biographical accounts that leads to the homogenization of the activists’ memories
Gavelienė, Larisa. "Vyrų, patyrusių stuburo traumą, biografinio ,,darbo“ patirtys taikant meno terapiją." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130614_085143-06169.
Повний текст джерелаTopicalityoftheresearch. Approximately 80 percentofpatientswhohavesufferedspinalcordinjuries are men, teenagersoryoungadults. Majorityofthem are active, socialpersonswhoserehabilitationaimafterthespinalcordinjuryis to return to normallifeintheirfamilies, withtheirfriends, andcontemporaries. Scientistsstatethatthetraditionalman's role inthesociety - suchfeaturesasdiligence, controlofemotions, independence, poweranddomination - preventsthemfromsearchingforhelp. Moreover, thetraditionalmasculinitycharacteristics, includingindependence, success at work, isrelated to thegeneralself-evaluation,thus, changesmayhavesignificanteffect. Thetheoreticpartpresentstheconceptofidentity, theoriesexplainingpersonalidentity, theconceptofsufferingtrajectory. Attentionispaid to non-hegemonicdiscussionofmasculinity, theperspectiveofmasculinityanddisabilitycrossing. Onthebasisoftheauthors' insightsattempts are made to describeseparateformsofmasculinity. Thebiographicalperspectiveofmenwhohavesuffered spine trauma isanalyzedasaneventrearrangingandrestructuringtheirentirelife, changemen’sidentity. Socialworkandteamworkinrehabilitationinstitutions are analyzed. Theworksurveysthephysiologicalprocessesexplainingtheconsequencesofspinalcordinjurywithoutwhichthepsychologicalaspectscannot be explained. Thefinalworkanalyzestheexperienceofmenwhohavesuffered spine trauma, theirbiographicalsituation. Objectoftheresearch – to revealthebiographicalworkexperienceofmenwhohavesuffered spine trauma byapplying art... [to full text]
Zárate, Vásquez Julio Sebastián. "Entre la incertidumbre y el individualismo. Ética científica de la adversidad y nanotecnología en el Perú." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/115204.
Повний текст джерелаHacer ciencia en el Perú es enfrentarse a la adversidad. En una coyuntura que se caracteriza por suprecariedad institucional y en la que, al mismo tiempo, se ha comenzado a demandar inversión en ciencia, tecnología e innovación, cabe preguntarse por los modos en que los actores superan día a día estas dificultades. En ese sentido, la propuesta consiste en acercarse a estos actores del conocimiento a partir del estudio de un caso particular: el de los expertos en nanotecnología. La hipótesis propuesta es que, para superar dichas adversidades, los expertos han desarrollado ciertos mecanismos individuales y colectivos que tienen como base una ética científica particular que se expresa a través del interés individual por generar y acceder a más conocimientos. A partir de ello, se intentará caracterizar el panorama institucional de la ciencia y la tecnología en relación con la investigación científica.
Andrade, Márcia Andréa Rodrigues. "Pessoas idosas vivendo com HIV em Goiás: um estudo de gênero, sexualidade e subjetividades." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7648.
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This thesis is about aging, HIV and gender in the context of subjectivity. In a first moment, it looks to the importance of aging for the sociological studies, as well to the formation of the categories of elderly people and people living with HIV. Then, it analyses the subjectivity of elderly people. For doing that, a qualitative sociological research and a bibliographical review of authors who explore the topic were realized. It was possible to point out the limits of the discursive construction of the erotization process of the old age, in a critique of the gerontological discourse of multisensorial sexuality as well of the discourse of HIV feminization. To go deep in the debate, the thesis explores the idea of biographical rupture, which proposes a reordering of the everyday life. By understanding subjectivity through biographical ruptures, it was possible to dialogue with the logic of affective, marital and family experiences, the way of facing HIV, stigmas, secrets, corporeity and sexuality, bringing the unequal gender relations to the debate. The empirical analysis of these questions relies on field work and interviews, done between October 2014 and June 2015 with 15 elderly people over 60 years of age who receive regular treatment at the Hospital of Tropical Diseases Dr. Anuar Auad, in Goiânia, Brazil. The thesis concludes that old age and the way of facing HIV are heterogeneous. The unequal gender relations exercise a fundamental role in the subjectivity, since they produce different reactions to risk, marital life and the way how elderly people face HIV, which leads to a reflection about the production of differences. The living experience with HIV has given to the interviewees a constant learning for the recognition and reordering of the life ruptures. The understanding of the thesis is that the dilemmas of elderly people living with HIV are not individuals, but a responsibility of all the society.
Esta tese versa sobre Envelhecimento, HIV e Gênero no contexto da subjetividade. Em um primeiro momento, se examina a importância do envelhecimento para os estudos sociológicos, assim como a construção das categorias de idoso e de pessoas vivendo com HIV. Em seguida, se analisa a subjetividade dos idosos. Para isso, foram realizadas uma pesquisa sociológica qualitativa e uma revisão bibliográfica de autores que tratam do assunto. Foi possível apontar os limites da construção discursiva do processo de erotização da velhice, em uma crítica ao discurso gerontológico da sexualidade multissensorial, assim como ao discurso da feminização do HIV. Para se aprofundar no debate acerca da subjetividade dos idosos que vivem com HIV, se trabalha com a ideia de Ruptura Biográfica, que propõe um reordenamento da vida cotidiana. Ao compreender a subjetividade por meio das rupturas biográficas, foi possível dialogar com a lógica das experiências afetivas, conjugais e familiares, o modo de encarar o HIV, os estigmas, os segredos, a corporeidade e a sexualidade, trazendo para o debate as relações desiguais de gênero. A análise empírica dessas questões se fundamenta na observação de campo e em entrevistas, realizadas entre os meses de outubro de 2014 e junho de 2015, com quinze idosos (as) acima de 60 anos que fazem tratamento regular no Hospital de Doenças Tropicais Dr. Anuar Auad, em Goiânia. A tese conclui que a velhice e o modo de encarar o HIV são heterogêneos. As relações desiguais de gênero exercem papel fundamental na subjetividade, pois produzem reações diferentes ao risco, à conjugalidade e ao modo como os idosos encaram o HIV, o que proporciona uma reflexão sobre a produção das diferenças. A experiência de viver com o HIV propiciou aos interlocutores um aprendizado constante para o reconhecimento e o reordenamento das rupturas da vida. O entendimento da tese é que os dilemas dos idosos que vivem com HIV não são individuais, e sim, uma responsabilidade de toda a sociedade
Bastide, Loïs. "Habiter le transnational : politiques de l'espace, travail globalisé et subjectivités entre Java, Kuala Lumpur et Singapour." Thesis, Lyon, École normale supérieure, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011ENSL0664.
Повний текст джерелаThe thesis deals with the migration of Indonesian workers to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Singapore. The argument draws on a theoretical approach which attempts to blend the contribution of pragmatism with the analysis of structure effects in order to describe the formation of transnationalisms in the region and to scrutinize the nature of the social spaces which are assembled along these migration trails. By constructing a socio-antrhopological approach, operationalized during a twenty-months fieldwork, we aimed to capture migration as close as possible from lived experiences, yet without giving up the description of the broader social, political, cultural and historical contexts which allow to remain sensitive to their specificities while locating them in the context of global political and economic dynamics. While these migrations are both developing and being increasingly institutionalized, the choice of a multi-sited ethnography, distributed in the three countries, allowed to build a shifting and de-centered point of view, and to remain always as close as possible to situated experiences. In this perspective, the thesis tries to show the emergence of transnationalisms and transnational social spaces at the intersection between the production of a globalized labor and national politics – space politics -, where new subjectivation processes are being shaped. While socialities are increasingly disembbedded from local contexts, lived spaces are also increasingly transnationalized, so that capturing these new social dynamics now supposes to describe new ways of inhabiting the transnational
Amor, Ndjabo Monique. "L'expérience de l'incapacité motrice à Yaoundé au Cameroun : une analyse des perturbations biographiques." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018REN20073/document.
Повний текст джерелаThe occurrence of a motor disability is a major event that is not limited to corporal dimensions, but also involves social dimensions. Individuals are faced with biographical disruptions characterized by breaches and bifurcations in their lifetrajectories and by the loss of place and role in social life. The occurrence of disability calls for a reorganization of living conditions and of the day-to-day life when returning to their usual environment after a stay in a rehabilitation centre. Experiencing motor disability thus makes it possible to grasp the social dynamics of life trajectories and the resources solicited by persons with motor disability in the process of their social reconstruction.Based on interviews conducted with men and women with motor disabilities and living at home in Yaoundé (Cameroon), this thesis aims at analysing the interactions between motor disability and social environment in the reorganization of their life trajectories and in their different activities following the onset of disability. By adopting a social model of the handicap, it highlights the biographical disruptions and the resources needed in the different trajectories to maintain and adapt their identity. It allows a situated analysis of the mechanisms of production of disability from the experience of individuals
Blorville, Gwenhaël. "Les formes d'adhésion au discours sur les créatifs culturels : approche sociologique de la diffusion d'une croyance dans le capitalisme vert." Thesis, Tours, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOUR2009/document.
Повний текст джерелаThis thesis deals with the forms of adherence to the discourse on « Cultural Creatives », grasped as a strap of dogmatic transmission of « green capitalism ». At the crossroads of sociology of commitment, ecology and the study of beliefs, the thesis first traces social construction within the social configuration of « green capitalism », of reformist entrepreneurial movement. Appearing in the early 1990s, this movement is engaged in a work of interweaving between New Age values and other ecologies specific to the economic field. In a second phase, the field survey, which is based on the production of biographical interviews with a cast committed to the dissemination of this discourse, shows how the putting into practice of this ideology is the subject of positioning a continuum going from an area of belief to a utilitarian one, resulting in ultimate heterogeneous socialisations
Fraccaro, Deborah. "Le capital social comme ressource intégrative d’une société locale." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040050.
Повний текст джерелаThe research work presented in this doctoral thesis analysed the solidaristic bonds generated by spontaneous voluntary actions within a territorial community. Such bonds form a distinctive social resource conceptualized as “solidaristic social capital”, meant as a public good that benefits the social well-being of a local society. Three main aspects of this resource were investigated: 1) its specificities; 2) the process of its micro-foundation; 3) its theoretical implications for a theory of society. As for the first aspect, a survey of voluntary actions was conducted in two provinces in North-Eastern Italy (Trento and Treviso). Data showed a variety of types of actions producing solidaristic bonds, carried out by a heterogeneous set of social groups. In order to explain the generative process of social capital, a series of biographical interviews were conducted, which shed light on the life stories of promoters of voluntary actions, as well as on the limitations of the rational choice theory in accounting for the complexity of their motivations. Finally, the main theoretical implications of the notion of social capital were discussed, focusing on its nature as a public good and on its contribution to a theory of civil society and social cohesion. On the one hand, the solidaristic social capital emerged as a source that helps strengthen social bonds. On the other, this notion might play a crucial role in the theoretical elaborations based on the associationalistic approach to civil society and on individualistic models of community type of social cohesion
Treloar, Adrienne Elizabeth Bonfonti. "Biographical "disruption" in first-time mothers' reflections on the transition to motherhood." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2426.
Повний текст джерелаDumas-Frégeau, Myriam. "Récits de vie d’hommes ayant vécu une situation de détresse sociale : quels facteurs à l’œuvre dans leurs parcours vers un mieux-être?" Thèse, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22760.
Повний текст джерелаGeorge, Hugo. "Une étude des conditions d’effectuation du travail artistique : organisation par projet et pluriactivité dans le monde des arts numériques montréalais." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22235.
Повний текст джерелаBak, Geert. "Negotiating Difference: Steiner Education as an Alternative Tradition within the Australian Education Landscape." Thesis, 2021. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/42217/.
Повний текст джерелаWorm, Arne. "Fluchtmigration." Doctoral thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-002E-E5DC-F.
Повний текст джерелаPereira, Sofia Barros Rodrigues de Castro. "Vidas que se contam: os impactos da experiência EFA nas trajetórias de imigrantes e de descendentes de imigrantes." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/14152.
Повний текст джерелаThis research aims to understand the impact of Adult Education and Training Courses (EFA B3) in the life trajectories of immigrants and descendants of immigrants with low educational and professional qualifications, who acquired a double certification - school and professional - through these training courses. We intend to understand the changes and the impacts that the EFA B3 courses have in their life trajectories, taking into account personal, social and professional dimensions. In terms of methodology, after the characterization of the universe of immigrants and descendants of immigrants with certified EFA training courses, we conducted biographical interviews with the purpose of putting the life trajectories of these immigrants and their descendants in history, considering the discontinuities inherent to life in contemporary societies where the challenges of (re) adaptation of life trajectories are constant. The intersection of the stories collected with long-term observation on the ground showed that measuring the impacts - subjectively - by only taking into account the professional dimension is reductive. What is at stake in adult education and training cannot be seen exclusively in terms of their insertion - or not - in the labour market. The analysis of collected evidence showed that personal and social dimension cannot be neglected as they will have long-term impacts, not only in the lives of the interviewed immigrants and descendants of immigrants, but also in the lives of their children - especially those who are of school age.