The Black Body in Donald Pierson’s Thesis “Negroes in Brazil”

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-283
Author(s):  
Dulce Filgueira de Almeida ◽  
Craig Cook
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Black Body ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Document ◽  
The Social ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Biological Aspects ◽  
Object Of Study

This article aims to present the way the black body is approached in Donald Pierson’s (1900-1995) doctoral thesis. The question to be investigated is: how does one of the first studies on racial issues carried out in Brazil treat the black body? The theoretical framework was defined by authors from the social sciences. The thesis was considered as a historical document. A content analysis was made based on the following codes: the work’s physical structure, notes on the second and the first introductions, and approaches about the body. The results suggest that the black body did not properly qualify as an object of study, but it reveals an element that identifies both biological aspects and the movement of black bodies. It is concluded that resuming the investigation initiated by Pierson about blacks in Bahia is relevant because it allows the understanding of black body markers in the Brazilian context.

The Rhetorical Construction of "the Teacher"

1991 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Nespor ◽  
Liz Barber
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Harvard Educational Review ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
Rhetorical Construction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Textual Strategies

Authors in the field of education inevitably use rhetorical strategies that embody particular,and often implicit, theoretical, epistemological, and political positions. In this article, Jan Nespor and Liz Barber critically examine the rhetorical structure of a 1987 article published in the Harvard Educational Review — Lee S. Shulman's "Knowledge and Teaching:Foundations of the New Reform." The authors examine various textual strategies — such as"the phenomenological hook," "appropriating a constituency," and "moving on" — that Shulman used to construct "the teacher" as an object of study. Through a detailed analysis of this widely cited article, Nespor and Barber address broader issues of representation and power in the social sciences, and conclude with a call for "a more 'critical literacy' among the readers and writers of research texts."

scholarly journals Predictors Employee Performance In Indonesian Manufacturing Company Using Path Anlysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-180
Author(s):  
Agustina Ekasari ◽  
Jasanta Peranginangin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Research Finding ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Manufacturing Company

This research aims to find path analysis that influencing emloyee performance in Indonesia manufacturing company. Design of this research is quantitative methode, There is 150 questionaires spreaded to manufacturing company. This research using multivariate anlysis with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The result of this paper will described the important factors to build employee performance in manufacturing company. This study will strengtened the previous research about employee performance in manufacturing company. This research finding provides conceptual framework job satisfaction and employee performance. there are six hypotheses developed in this study, there are Four accepted hypotheses and two rejected hypotheses. This research will contributed to the body of knowledge, particularly in human resource management science.

scholarly journals Looking Like People; Feeling Like People: The Black Body, Dress and Aesthetic Therapy in the Caribbean

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 857-872
Author(s):  
Marsha Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
New World ◽  
Black Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Therapeutic Discourse ◽  
Black Caribbean ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Bodily Practice ◽  
Instrumental Role

In the Caribbean, the practice of getting dressed matters because it is a practice of attending to the body. Under a colonial regime, black bodies were ill-treated and selves were negated. Clothing played an instrumental role in the abuse of bodies and the stripping of a sense of wellbeing. Attire was one key way of demarcating master and slave and rendering some members of society null and void. Enslaved Africans, who were forcibly brought across the Atlantic to the New World, were considered chattel or commodities rather than people and clothes functioned in a way that reinforced that notion. Yet, dress became a strategy of subversion – of making chattel, property or ‘non-people’ look like people. The enslaved recognised that, through clothes, it was possible to look and feel free. Today that legacy remains. Clothing is seen not only as that which can make a people ‘look like people’ but also feel like people – clothing sets up a specific structure of feeling. This paper pivots on notions of looking and feeling like people while deploying Joanne Entwistle’s conceptual framework of dress as situated bodily practice. The article locates its investigation in the Caribbean, examining the philosophy and practice of Trinidadian clothing designer Robert Young. The article establishes him as a source of aesthetic therapeutic solutions in the Caribbean. It argues that his clothing designs produce a therapeutic discourse on the Black Caribbean body – a discourse, which facilitates a practice of getting dressed that gives a sense of agency, self-empowerment and psychic security even if that sense is embodied temporarily; lasting perhaps only as long as the garment is worn.

Quale modello di partecipazione per la ricerca sociale? Riflessivitŕ nel rapporto tra ricercatore e attore sociale

2012 ◽  
pp. 127-153
Author(s):  
Silvia Cataldi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Essential Questions ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Relationship

The article begins with a brief overview of how the relationship between researcher and object of study has been approached in social sciences. The goal is to reflect further on the process of this study and to raise two essential questions: what kind of relationship develops between the researcher and the social actor? And what kind of participation is required from the social actor? To answer these questions the article proposes identifying four different models of participation, the effects of which are analyzed by rediscovering all the practices that include a particular involvement of the social actor in the research process.

scholarly journals Sonolência diurna excessiva e os efeitos do trabalho na saúde de trabalhadores de enfermagem

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-301
Author(s):  
Kellen Da Silva ◽  
Ariane Naidon Cattani ◽  
Maiara Carmosina Hirt ◽  
Anahlú Peserico ◽  
Rosângela Marion Da Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Excessive Daytime Sleepiness ◽  
Daytime Sleepiness ◽  
Predictive Analytics ◽  
The Body ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Hospital Data ◽  
Physical Damage ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Social

Objetivo: Analizar la somnolencia diurna excesiva y los efectos del trabajo en la salud de trabajadores de enfermería actuantes em la Unidad de Recuperación Post-Anestésica.Método: Estudio transversal, realizado con 39 trabajadores de enfermería de una Unidad de Recuperación Post-Anestésica de un Hospital Universitario. Los instrumentos de recolección de datos fueron el cuestionario de caracterización sociolaboral, la Escala de Somnolencia de Epworth y la Escala de Evaluación de los Daños Relacionados al Trabajo. Los datos fueron analizados con ayuda de Predictive Analytics Software, de la SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), a través de pruebas estadísticas.Resultados: Indican que los daños físicos presentaron mayor promedio (2,33 ± 1,15), predominando dolores en el cuerpo, espalda y piernas, dicho una clasificación grave, lo cual potencia el sufrimiento en el trabajo. En cuanto a la presencia de somnolencia diurna excesiva, el 41% de los trabajadores la presentaron. No se identificó asociación significativa entre la somnolencia diurna excesiva y los efectos del trabajo en la salud de trabajadores de enfermería.Conclusión: Este estudio podrá auxiliar en la planificación de acciones con el objetivo de minimizar los daños relacionados al trabajo y promover la salud del trabajador. Objective: To analyze excessive daytime sleepiness and the effects of work on the health of nursing workers working in the Post-Anesthetic Recovery Unit.Method: A cross-sectional study carried out with 39 nursing workers from a Post-Anesthetic Recovery Unit of a University Hospital. Data collection instruments were the socio-labor characterization questionnaire, the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and the Work-Related Damage Assessment Scale. The data were analyzed with the aid of Predictive Analytics Software, SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), through statistical tests.Results: Indicate that physical damage presented a higher mean (2.33 ± 1.15), and pain in the body, back and legs predominated, a severe classification, which potentiates suffering at work. As to the presence of excessive daytime sleepiness, 41% of the workers presented. No significant association was identified between excessive daytime sleepiness and the effects of work on the health of nursing workers.Conclusion: This study may help in the planning of actions with the intention of minimizing the damages related to work and promoting the health of the worker. Objetivo: Analisar a sonolência diurna excessiva e os efeitos do trabalho na saúde de trabalhadores de enfermagem atuantes na Unidade de Recuperação Pós-Anestésica.Método: Estudo transversal, realizado com 39 trabalhadores de enfermagem de uma Unidade de Recuperação Pós-Anestésica de um Hospital Universitário. Os instrumentos de coleta de dados foram o questionário de caracterização sociolaboral, a Escala de Sonolência de Epworth e a Escala de Avaliação dos Danos Relacionados ao Trabalho. Os dados foram analisados com auxílio do Predictive Analytics Software, da SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), por meio de testes estatísticos.Resultados: Indicam que os danos físicos apresentaram maior média (2,33±1,15), sendo que dores no corpo, costas e pernas predominaram, dito uma classificação grave, o qual potencializa o sofrimento no trabalho. Quanto à presença de sonolência diurna excessiva, 41% dos trabalhadores apresentaram. Não foi identificada associação significativa entre a sonolência diurna excessiva e os efeitos do trabalho na saúde de trabalhadores de enfermagem.Conclusão: Este estudo poderá auxiliar no planejamento de ações com o intuito de minimizar os danos relacionados ao trabalho e promover a saúde do trabalhador.

scholarly journals Body, Habit, Custom and Labour

Social Change ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-199
Author(s):  
Shriddha Shah
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The Social ◽  
World Theory ◽  
Private And Public

Theories in the modern age in philosophy, as well as in the discourse of the social sciences, are pervaded with the presuppositions of the dualisms of mind and world, theory and practice, private and public. These theoretical dualisms make it impossible to have an account of the interconnected nature of the experience of individuals and societies. The philosophical theoretical vocabulary to take account of the relations between these dualisms has been effaced with the legacy of Cartesian dualism. I argue that through a conceptual analysis of the body, as has been posited by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and the related concepts of habit, custom and labour, we can reclaim some concepts that allow a mediation of these dualisms. In this article, I make a conceptual analysis of the epistemic, metaphysical and social–political interrelations between these concepts and argue for the relational role they play in our philosophical theoretical discourse.

scholarly journals O CORPO E O CONTROLE DA NATUREZA NA CONTEMPORÂNEIDADE: POSSÍVEIS IMPLICAÇÕES PARA A FORMAÇÃO DOCENTE EM EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Guenther Carlos Feitosa De Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Body Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Professional Field ◽  
Biological Aspects ◽  
The Relationship

The body becomes the object of intense study and investigations with the modernity. But he was not the object of indifference. Even with the denial of the bodily pleasures that the average age undertook, the body was object of attention and normalization, being understood in a double meaning, the sacred and the profane. The relation body and nature gains different contours with the birth of modern science, giving rise to new dualities, between matter and spirit or psyche. Such dualities have produced enduring and persistent meanings in bodily practices and body conceptions. Physical Education as an area of knowledge and intervention that has in the body culture its privileged object, inherits and re-signifies such conceptions, reproducing or breaking with dualistic practices and understandings of the relation body and nature. This essay seeks to discuss the relationships between body and nature as well as its implications for the formation of the academic and professional field of Physical Education. We seek to reflect on the social-historical constructions on the body, especially those centered on biological aspects. We understand that the relationship body nature is an important point of understanding the uniqueness and continuities on the conceptions of body. In this way we undertake a qualitative, historical and sociological analysis centered on authors who elucidate these questions, such as: Corbin, Courtine e Vigarello (2010), Gélis (2010), Suassuna et al. (2005), Vaz (1999), Csordas (2008) and Le Breton (2003). Based on the elements discussed by the authors, we identify ruptures and continuities in relation to conceptions and practices with the body, remaining a desire for the split between body and spirit/mind.

scholarly journals Embodying Charismatic Affect(If): the Example of Bruce Lee (Translation into Russian)

Corpus Mundi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-49
Author(s):  
David Hugh Kendall Brown
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Change ◽  
The Body ◽  
Bruce Lee ◽  
The Social ◽  
Moving Body ◽  
Affective Interaction

While the concept of charisma is widely used in the social sciences, its embodied nature is less thoroughly explored and theorised. This paper revisits the key embodied characteristics of Weber's sociology of charisma and re-interprets these using Shilling's (2005, 2013) umbrella notions of the body as a source and location of and means for society as a way of analysing the idea of the charismatic body as a force for social change. It then draws on a range of embodied concepts to illuminate how charisma is significant channel of infra and inter-corporeal affective interaction between “leaders” and their followers. In particular, Freund's (2009) social synaesthesia and bio-agency, Massumi's (2002) perspective of affect and the moving body, Thrift's (2010) charismatic celebrity, allure and glamour, Mellor and Shilling's (1997) sensual solidarities, and Seyfert's (2012) conception of affectif. To develop and illustrate this perspective of the charismatically affective body in action, the life of film star and martial artist Bruce Lee (1940–1973) is utilised.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Diagnoses: A Source of Immanent Value and Novelty

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Marsha Rosengarten
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
Sensory Awareness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Do So

Although the body is fundamental to observation and feeling, its experience of infection is regarded by the biomedical sciences and, for the most part, the social sciences as relatively obtuse. The body is situated as a mere object of inquiry, as if its intricate and highly complex dynamics indicate that it is no more than an imperfect animated machine and, concomitantly, infection simply a change to its normative mechanisms. In this Position Piece, I ask: what might be afforded to the problematic diagnosis of communicable infection and to global health strategies of containment if the body were appreciated as an active participant in diagnoses? To do so, I take up the ‘pluralist panpsychist’ proposition that bodies think. Counter to the view that thinking is the preserve of the human mind and that value is an ‘after’ ascribed to a given fact or situation, I experiment with the idea that the body’s sensory awareness can be thought as a creative source of immanent values. Drawing on a series of empirical examples primarily focused on the perceived novelty of COVID-19, I offer a preliminary sketch of how revaluing the body as involved in decision-making and novelty might enrich the scope of biomedical and social diagnoses.

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