Proto-industrialisation in a Slave Society: The Case of Minas Gerais

1991 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Cole Libby

As originally proposed in the early 1970s, the proto-industrialisation model was meant to serve as a more complete explanation of that phase in the general transition from agrarian feudalism to industrial capitalism rather vaguely referred to as the period of manufactures. Early proponents emphasised the role of proto-industrialisation in channelling development toward fully-fledged factory system industrialisation. Proto-industrial theories dealing with the complex interplay of economic, social, demographic, cultural and technological processes eliminate many of the uncertainties generated by the original debates over the general process of transition. Certainly, it is no longer possible to deny the contributions of rural/peasant non-agricultural productive activities to the development of early factory industry as a whole, as well as to social changes leading to the emergence of a proletariat.

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Precisvalle ◽  
A. Martucci ◽  
L. Gigli ◽  
J. R. Plaisier ◽  
T. C. Hansen ◽  
...  

AbstractTopaz [Al2SiO4(F,OH)2] is one of the main fluorine-bearing silicates occurring in environments where variably acidic (F)/aqueous (OH) fluids saturate the silicate system. In this work we fully characterized blue topaz from Padre Paraíso (Minas Gerais, Brazil) by means of in situ synchrotron X-Ray and neutron powder diffraction measurements (temperature range 298–1273 K) combined with EDS microanalyses. Understanding the role of OH/F substitution in topaz is important in order to determine the hydrophilicity and the exchange reactions of fluorine by hydroxyl groups, and ultimately to characterize the environmental redox conditions (H2O/F) required for mineral formation. The fluorine content estimated from neutron diffraction data is ~ 1.03 a.f.u (10.34 wt%), in agreement with the chemical data (on average 10.0 wt%). The XOH [OH/(OH + F)] (0.484) is close to the maximum XOH value (0.5), and represents the OH- richest topaz composition so far analysed in the Minas Gerais district. Topaz crystallinity and fluorine content sharply decrease at 1170 K, while mullite phase starts growing. On the basis of this behaviour, we suggest that this temperature may represent the potential initial topaz’s crystallization temperature from supercritical fluids in a pegmatite system. The log(fH2O/fHF)fluid (1.27 (0.06)) is coherent with the fluorine activity calculated for hydrothermal fluids (pegmatitic stage) in equilibrium with the forming mineral (log(fH2O/fHF)fluid = 1.2–6.5) and clearly different from pure magmatic (granitic) residual melts [log(fH2O/fHF)fluid < 1]. The modelled H2O saturated fluids with the F content not exceeding 1 wt% may represent an anomalous water-dominant / fluorine-poor pegmatite lens of the Padre Paraíso Pegmatite Field.


2021 ◽  
pp. 089443932110115
Author(s):  
Benoît Dupont ◽  
Thomas Holt

This volume highlights the central role of the human factor in cybercrime and the need to develop a more interdisciplinary research agenda to understand better the constant evolution of online harms and craft more effective responses. The term “human factor” is understood very broadly and encompasses individual, institutional, and societal dimensions. It covers individual human behaviors and the social structures that enable collective action by groups and communities of various sizes, as well as the different types of institutional assemblages that shape societal responses. This volume is organized around three general themes whose complementary perspectives allow us to map the complex interplay between offenders, machines, and victims, moving beyond static typologies to offer a more dynamic analysis of the cybercrime ecology and its underlying behaviors. The contributions use quantitative and qualitative methodologies and bring together researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, and Canada.


Elenchos ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Ugaglia

Abstract Aristotle’s way of conceiving the relationship between mathematics and other branches of scientific knowledge is completely different from the way a contemporary scientist conceives it. This is one of the causes of the fact that we look at the mathematical passages we find in Aristotle’s works with the wrong expectation. We expect to find more or less stringent proofs, while for the most part Aristotle employs mere analogies. Indeed, this is the primary function of mathematics when employed in a philosophical context: not a demonstrative tool, but a purely analogical model. In the case of the geometrical examples discussed in this paper, the diagrams are not conceived as part of a formalized proof, but as a work in progress. Aristotle is not interested in the final diagram but in the construction viewed in its process of development; namely in the figure a geometer draws, and gradually modifies, when he tries to solve a problem. The way in which the geometer makes use of the elements of his diagram, and the relation between these elements and his inner state of knowledge is the real feature which interests Aristotle. His goal is to use analogy in order to give the reader an idea of the states of mind involved in a more general process of knowing.


2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Hodge ◽  
Wally Barr ◽  
Louise Bowen ◽  
Martina Leeven ◽  
Paul Knox

There is growing evidence of the need for services to address the emotional support needs of people with visual impairments. This article presents findings from a mixed methods evaluation of an emotional support and counselling (ESaC) service delivered within an integrated low vision service, focusing primarily on the qualitative findings. Data collected using a standardised measure of psychological well-being (Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation–Outcome Measure; CORE-OM) show an improvement in the psychological well-being of clients of the service between baseline and follow-up assessment. Qualitative findings from interviews with service users and service providers help to illustrate and explain the experiences underlying the quantitative findings. The ESaC services are shown to be helpful to service users in two particular ways: helping them to normalise their experiences by talking to an impartial listener and helping them to accept and adapt to the physical, emotional and social changes in their lives resulting from their visual impairment.


Languages ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Malin Ågren ◽  
Marie-Eve Michot ◽  
Cyrille Granget ◽  
Sonia Gerolimich ◽  
Pascale Hadermann ◽  
...  

This study focuses on the production of subject–verb (SV) agreement in number in L2 French and investigates the role of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in this particular morphosyntactic domain. CLI is a well-known phenomenon in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research but it has rarely been investigated systematically in relation to SV agreement in French. The participants of the study are 114 learners with Italian, German, Dutch and Swedish as L1. The source languages are all inflectional languages but they vary in terms of morphological richness in the verb paradigm, ranging from very poor (Swedish) to very rich (Italian). The participants performed an oral narrative task contrasting singular and plural contexts of SV agreement. Results indicate a significant difference between L1 groups in terms of correct SV agreement but they also show that the overall presence of rich verb morphology in the L1 does not, on its own, result in a more correct SV agreement. It is when comparing learners at two different proficiency levels that we observe differences in the rate of L2 development, which may be explained as an effect of CLI. Overall, results indicate a complex interplay of different factors, where the role of CLI must be further investigated in future studies in relation to L2 French.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1425-1436
Author(s):  
Dyah Pratiwi ◽  
Dyah Putri Aryati

AbstractThe increasing elderly population in Indonesia continues to grow. The elderly are individuals who experience physiological, psychological, and social changes. Therefore, the elderly is vulnerable to violence. Elder abuse persists in various areas in Indonesia. However, cases of elder abuse are often hidden because they are considered unimportant and the victims do not know where to report it. The purpose of this study was to describe the incidence of acts of violence in the elderly. The methodused in this study was a literature review by searching for articles in the PubMed and Google scolar database with the keyword: Elderly or Aged or Geriatric or Elder and Abuse or Violence with article limits from 2011-2020. There were five articles found. They had been critically reviewed using Strobe instruments. The results based on the five articles analysed showed some characteristics. Most of the respondents were 60-69 years old (50%), female (60%), education literate or primary (63%), married (67%), lived with other (59%), the elderly do not experience violence2.286, elderly experience violence 807, the type of violence that wa soften experienced by the elderly namely psychological violence is found to be (40%). Based on the five articles analysed, it can be concluded that the most violence experienced by the elderly is psychological violence. Therefore, the role of nurses is needed to provide services for families to prevent acts of violence in the elderly.Keywords: Elderly; persecution, violence AbstrakPeningkatan penduduk lansia di Indonesia terus bertambah. Lansia merupakan salah satu individu yang mengalami perubahan secara fisiologis, psikologis dan sosial sehingga lansia rentan mengalami tindakan kekerasan. Kekerasan terhadap lansia masih terjadi diberbagai wilayah di Indonesia. Namun, kasus kekerasan lansia kerap disembunyikan karena dianggap tidak penting dan korban tidak mengetahui lembaga yang dapat menerima laporan. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui gambaran kejadian tindakan kekerasan pada lansia. Metode yang digunakan penelitian ini menggunakan literature review dengan mencari artikel pada database Pubmed dan Googlescholar dengan kata kunci :Elderly OR Aged OR Geriatric OR Elder AND Abuse ORViolencedengan batasan artikel dari 2011-2020 didapatkan 5 artikel yang telah dilakukan telaah kritis dengan menggunakan instrument Strobe. Hasil berdasarkan lima artikel yang dianalisa menunjukkan bahwa data karakteristik usia responden mayoritas 60-69 tahun yaitu (50%), berjenis kelamin perempuan sebanyak (60%), pendidikan literate or primarysebanyak (63%), berstatus menikah yaitu (67%), lived with other sebanyak (59%), lansia yang tidak mengalami kekerasan sebanyak 2.286, lansia yang mengalami kekerasan sebanyak 807 dan jenis kekerasan yang sering dialami lansia yaitu kekerasan psikologis didapatkan (40%). Berdasarkan dari kelima artikel yang dianalisa dapat disimpulkan bahwa kekerasan yang paling banyak dialami lansia yaitu kekerasan psikologis. Oleh sebab itu diperlukan peran perawat untuk memberikan pelayanan bagi keluarga untuk mencegah terjadinya tindakan kekerasan pada lansia.Kata kunci: Kekerasan; penganiayaan; usia lanjut


2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thuc-Doan T. Nguyen ◽  
Russell Belk

This article examines the historical role of marriage and wedding rituals in Vietnam, and how they have changed during Vietnam’s transition to the market. The authors focus on how changes reflect the society’s increasing dependence on the market, how this dependence impacts consumer well-being, and the resulting implications for public policy. Changes in the meanings, function, and structure of wedding ritual consumption are examined. These changes echo shifts in the national economy, social values, social relations, and gender roles in Vietnamese society during the transition. The major findings show that Vietnamese weddings are reflections of (1) the roles of wedding rituals as both antecedents and outcomes of social changes, (2) the nation’s perception and imagination of its condition relative to “modernity,” and (3) the role of China as a threatening “other” seen as impeding Vietnam’s progress toward “modernization.”


2009 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. David Harrison

Community social work was a model of practice that was advocated by many roughly from the late 1970s through the 1980s, in the United Kingdom. The approach faded as the field of social work and social services changed drastically in subsequent years. This study conducted in 2006 and 2007, follows up a 1984 study of community social work advocates to learn how the same people understood the changes that occurred over more than 20 years. A total of 9 of the original 30 participants discussed the important role of social policy and social changes that appear to have led toward more individualized, mechanistic, and often control-oriented services.


Author(s):  
Halima Kadirova ◽  

This scientific article highlights the place and role of the Karakalpak ethnic culture in the development and preservation of the identity of the people. The authors analyze the culture and life of the modern Karakalpak family, which inherits to the next generation the traditional way of life associated with national holidays and traditions, dastans performed by Karakalpak bakhshi (singers), legends and legends of the past, told by the older generation. The article argues that social changes in the global space contribute to the emergence of certain changes in the content of cultural identity, language, art, spiritual categories, which are elements of the basis of the national identity of each nation and various ethno-regional units, which further strengthens the study of this issue under the influence of the process of globalization.


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