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Article
Publication date: 1 December 2003

Tackling violence in schools: the role of UNESCO/Brazil

Jorge Werthein

Violence is still an alarming issue in Brazil, a country profoundly affected by social inequality. Since 1997, studies from UNESCO in Brazil have highlighted this worrying…

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Violence is still an alarming issue in Brazil, a country profoundly affected by social inequality. Since 1997, studies from UNESCO in Brazil have highlighted this worrying situation for youngsters from 15 to 24 years old, who are the portion of the population most exposed to violence, whether as victims, or agents. In terms of deaths that are caused by the so‐called external factors (i.e. homicides, traffic accidents and suicides), the quantitative data corresponding to the youth age groups are so high that they place Brazilian indices as the third highest in the world. In the light of the above, this paper provides a brief overview of the literature on the issue of violence in schools. In addition to that, the paper from the Director of the UNESCO Brasilia Office also analyses the series of studies and researches that UNESCO has been undertaking over the past years, an effort which would culminate into one of its most successful strategies to foster social inclusion through a community perspective, the “Making Room” program.

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Journal of Educational Administration, vol. 41 no. 6
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09578230310504616
ISSN: 0957-8234

Keywords

  • Violence
  • Brazil
  • Schools
  • Social problems
  • Social programmes

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Publication date: 11 November 2019

The Lan House Phenomenon: Exploring the Uses and Symbolic Functions of the Internet Among the Low-Income Brazilian Youth

Juliana Maria (da Silva) Trammel

Brazil has one of the largest millennial populations in the world and offers a key case study of an important slice of time: the adolescence of millennials in the 2000s…

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Brazil has one of the largest millennial populations in the world and offers a key case study of an important slice of time: the adolescence of millennials in the 2000s. This case study offers important insight into a unique Brazilian dynamic, the LAN house phenomenon: a Brazilian solution to spreading digital technologies to the economically disadvantaged. This chapter explores the social roles and functions LAN houses played to the Brazilian youth, ages 12–15, in the 2000s, when they were first introduced in Brazil. Three research questions guided this investigation.

RQ1. What were the main uses and gratifications of LAN house use among the youth in Brazil in the early 2000s?

RQ2. What was the social construction of “Internet” and “LAN house” among the Brazilian user of LAN houses and its potential to foster advancement?

RQ3. What key roles do LAN houses play today?

RQ1. What were the main uses and gratifications of LAN house use among the youth in Brazil in the early 2000s?

RQ2. What was the social construction of “Internet” and “LAN house” among the Brazilian user of LAN houses and its potential to foster advancement?

RQ3. What key roles do LAN houses play today?

Two distinct methods of the study were employed: a survey and textual analysis. The results showed that Brazilian youth used the LAN houses to check Orkut (a social network site), e-mails and the Microsoft System Network (MSN chat), download music and play games. The internet was mostly perceived to have a negative influence, have bad content and serve as a distraction. With the changes in telecommunication and mobile use, the LAN houses have diversified their services, still offering opportunities for gaming and socialization, but also catering to older and working class by providing services such as government document digitalization and preparation. This case study has implications or the introduction of digital technologies to adolescent populations in the growing economies and developing nations.

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Mediated Millennials
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2050-206020190000019011
ISBN: 978-1-83909-078-3

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  • LAN House
  • internet
  • Brazilian youth
  • internet cafés
  • Orkut
  • social media

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Publication date: 24 September 2015

Young Collegians: Between the Physical and Numerical Territories, Different Processes of Individuation

Elmir de Almeida, Marilena Nakano, Maria Elena Villar e Villar and Vanderlei Mariano

The paper presents final results of a comparative research on young Brazilian collegians in the 18–24-year-old age bracket. The objective was to understand the…

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Purpose

The paper presents final results of a comparative research on young Brazilian collegians in the 18–24-year-old age bracket. The objective was to understand the interactions and ways in which they transit within the physical and digital Web spaces and, within their transits, set up “circulatory territories,” deepen and enrich their secondary socialization setups and sociability, as well as their processes of individuation within the historic condition in which youth lives.

Methodology/approach

The study is supported by conceptual contributions offered by the sociology of youth, circulatory territory, socialization, sociability, and individuation. Research was carried out with students of two different universities: a public/state one and a public/municipal/foundational one situated in different urban centers of the southeastern region of the country. Procedures were qualitative and quantitative – closed questions forms, interviews, registries in field notebooks, etc.

Findings

The results of the investigation demonstrate: (a) that the representatives of the two student collectives studied circulate in physical and digital territories, setting up circulatory territories; (b) there are also different youth lifestyles, either due to social positions and the fact that they possess social capital, or because of differences and inequalities referring to gender, race/ethnicity (whites and non-whites), living situations.

Originality/value

In this manner, the study indicates the importance of questioning the homogenized image of connected youth since some collegians’ lives are limited due to their condition as young workers, while others live their youth condition as a social moratorium, being able to produce other manners of being and of living in the world.

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Technology and Youth: Growing Up in a Digital World
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1537-466120150000019005
ISBN: 978-1-78560-265-8

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  • Circulative processes
  • individuation
  • to experience and young college students

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Publication date: 11 November 2019

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Mediated Millennials
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2050-206020190000019012
ISBN: 978-1-83909-078-3

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Book part
Publication date: 27 November 2015

Access to Higher Education in Brazil: The Evolution of the Last 15 Years

Cibele Yahn de Andrade

Enrollment in higher education in Brazil has been steadily growing and has reached 7 million recently. However, still only 21% of the population with age between 18 and 24…

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Enrollment in higher education in Brazil has been steadily growing and has reached 7 million recently. However, still only 21% of the population with age between 18 and 24 attend a higher education course. In this paper, we analyze how family income and race (defined in Brazil by self-declared skin color) affect the equity of access to higher education.

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Mitigating Inequality: Higher Education Research, Policy, and Practice in an Era of Massification and Stratification
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-358X20150000011002
ISBN: 978-1-78560-291-7

Keywords

  • Access
  • higher education
  • equity
  • inequality
  • public policies

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Book part
Publication date: 30 May 2017

Prelims

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Brazil
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2050-206020170000013001
ISBN: 978-1-78635-785-4

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Case study
Publication date: 2 May 2017

Cosac Naify: a small Brazilian publishing house goes abroad

Henrique Pacheco, Angela da Rocha and Jorge Ferreira da Silva

The case describes the efforts of a small Brazilian publishing house to export its products to foreign markets. In fact, after several years of losses, the firm has…

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Synopsis

The case describes the efforts of a small Brazilian publishing house to export its products to foreign markets. In fact, after several years of losses, the firm has undergone substantial restructuring and hired a new CEO, reaching modest profitability. The challenge faced by the new management team includes, in addition to keeping the firm financially healthy, to develop an international orientation, to mobilize the resources, and to develop a new strategy to go international.

Research methodology

The case uses primary and secondary sources, including articles from business magazines and newspapers, company site, and data from Brazilian trade organizations, Brazilian federal government, International Trade Center, International Publishers Association, and an interview with the new CEO of the firm, in charge of developing its international activities. The use of different sources permitted triangulation.

Relevant courses and levels

The case is designed for use in undergraduate and graduate programs in courses related to international marketing, international business, entrepreneurship, and international entrepreneurship.

Theoretical bases

The case can be used to discuss the role of networks in the internationalization of the firm and the issue of distance to foreign markets (Ghemawat, 2001), using Ghemawats CAGE model. The case can also be utilized to examine barriers to the internationalization of smaller firms (Leonidou et al., 2007; Kahiya, 2013).

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The CASE Journal, vol. 13 no. 3
Type: Case Study
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/TCJ-07-2016-0057
ISSN: 1544-9106

Keywords

  • Networks
  • Brazil
  • Internationalization
  • Emerging economy
  • Small firm
  • Barriers to internationalization
  • Cultural distance
  • Publishing
  • Geographic distance

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Article
Publication date: 1 April 1992

COMMUNICATION FACTORS RELATED TO CLOSER INTERNATIONAL TIES: AN EXTENSION OF A MODEL IN BRAZIL

J. David Johnson and Omar Souki Oliveira

Central to the study of intercultural communication has been the question of what promotes closer ties between nations. This research replicates and extends a model that…

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Central to the study of intercultural communication has been the question of what promotes closer ties between nations. This research replicates and extends a model that specifies three factors (perceptions of homophily, shared interests, and threats), drawn from social distance and systems perspectives, that are posited to have an influence on the desire for closer ties between Brazil and the U.S. Each of the factors have previously been identified as occupying central positions in the development of international relationships. This research extends this model by explicitly incorporating a range of communication channels which are impacted by these factors and which are also hypothesized to effect the desire for closer ties. The results were supportive of the model, with excellent goodness of fit measures for the specified model to the observed data. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for conflict management.

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International Journal of Conflict Management, vol. 3 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb022715
ISSN: 1044-4068

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Book part
Publication date: 11 November 2019

Introduction to Volume 19: “Millennials and Media”

Aneka Khilnani, Jeremy Schulz, Laura Robinson, John Baldwin, Heloisa Pait, Apryl Williams, Jenny Davis and Gabe Ignatow

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Mediated Millennials
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2050-206020190000019001
ISBN: 978-1-83909-078-3

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Book part
Publication date: 18 April 2017

Recruiting Inclusiveness: Intersectionality, Social Movements, and Youth Online

Thomas Elliott, Jennifer Earl and Thomas V. Maher

The majority of research on intersectionality and social movements has focused on agenda-setting or internal identity processes. However, little research has focused on…

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The majority of research on intersectionality and social movements has focused on agenda-setting or internal identity processes. However, little research has focused on the ways in which social movements present themselves as intersectional, particularly in recruitment, which is important for building inclusive movements. In this chapter, we begin to outline a theory of movement recruitment based around intersectional identities that draws on work on coalitional recruitment and concepts from framing. In particular, we argue that “identity bridging,” which occurs when two or more identities are linked during recruitment attempts, is a potential tool for inclusive and intersectional recruitment. We evaluate the extent to which movements engage in this style of recruitment using data on intersectional youth identities acknowledged on web-addressable advocacy spaces. Youth are at a critical moment in their identity development, and so it is especially important to engage them in ways that respect their developing intersectional identities. We find that, overall, most movement sites do not engage in identity bridging, and those that do rarely move beyond bridging the youth identities with one other aspect of identity. Based on our theory, this would help to explain why so many movements struggle with issues of inclusivity.

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Non-State Violent Actors and Social Movement Organizations
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-786X20170000041019
ISBN: 978-1-78714-190-2

Keywords

  • Social movements
  • intersectionality
  • recruitment
  • micro-mobilization
  • youth

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