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Background: Favorable quality of life (QOL) has been associated with diets with better nutritional quality. Objective: To identify dietary patterns and estimate their association with QOL among university faculty. Method: Cross-sectional study with faculty members (n=112) from a university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Information on socioeconomic, work, health, lifestyle, QOL, and psychological distress characteristics were obtained using a self-administered questionnaire. Dietary intake was assessed by means of a food frequency questionnaire. Dietary patterns were identified by factor analysis with principal component extraction and their association with QOL scores was estimated using multiple linear regression models. Results: 65% were women, 45% were ≥45 years old, and 43% were overweight. The mean general QOL score was 70.0. Four dietary patterns were identified: “snack”, “fast food”, “controlled”, and “basic”. The “controlled” pattern, including butter/margarine, bread, fruit juice, dairy, and caffeinated beverages, was directly associated with general QOL and “social relationships” and “psychological” domains, the latter was also directly associated with the “snack” pattern, composed by vegetables, meats, fruits, caffeinated beverages, and butter/margarine. Conclusions: The eating patterns that most explained faculty food consumption presented low nutritional quality, while the pattern with limited carbohydrate content was associated with better general QOL. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The implementation of quota policies in federal educational institutions increased the heterogeneity of socioeconomic status of students. The objective of this study is to analyze whether the academic performance of the most economically and socially vulnerable students is inferior to the others. The academic performance of students of integrated courses was analyzed using descriptive statistics and machine learning techniques. In the first one, the students were classified as qutota and non-quota students and the results showed that the performance of both is similar. The machine learning analysis found socioeconomics situations where students tend to have a lower performance compared to other students. The obtained rules in this analysis can justify closer pedagogical monitoring for students who fit into them, preventing evasion and improving the performance of these students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study identifies the effects and impacts of the re-creation of the Northeast (Sudene) and Amazon (Sudam) Development Superintendencies, under the Growth Acceleration Program, on the socioeconomic development of the municipalities served. For this, we used dynamic panel data and differences-in-differences models, with information from Brazilian municipalities, from 2005 to 2014. The indicator of socioeconomic development was the Firjan Municipal Development Index, both for general perspective and dimensions (education, health, employment and income). Overall, results indicated that the superintendencies had a positive impact on general and educational developments, with observation of positive effects for health. However, although the beneficiary regions are most in need of regional development policies in Brazil, the restructuring of the superintendencies, with the proposed projects and objectives, was not able to fully meet these needs as no positive impacts on employment and income were identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The socioeconomic and environmental problems resulting from disordered occupation on the outskirts of cities propitiate dire living conditions. In this scenario, it is important to develop studies that describe people's living conditions and the degree of environmental degradation to which they are subject. Thus, this study aims to diagnose the socioeconomic and environmental aspects of the residents living on the bank of the Santa Cruz stream that is located in the peripheral area of the municipality of Breves, Pará. The study is a quantitative and descriptive research in which a questionnaire was used to collect information on the socioeconomic and environmental profile of 257 families living in the Santa Cruz stream. The results showed that the majority of the inhabitants (57.30%) have incomplete Elementary School; 72.36% receive less than 1 minimum wage, the main occupation is informal work, 77.82% live in houses built of wood, 68.09% of households use the water from the stream for domestic use, 48.64% of households have a sanitary destination for dry cesspits and 13, 62% the sanitary destination is direct in the stream. In this context, residents live in a favorable conditions to social exclusion, unhealthiness and diseases, due to the poor socioeconomic, environmental and infrastructure conditions. Therefore, that the diagnosis of living conditions of the resident population of the stream, experience conditions of misery and abandonment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A study was conducted in order to characterize the goat production system and the phenotype of creole goat in the physiographic sub-province Volcanoes of Colima. Twenty-two questionnaires including qualitative and quantitative variables related to the producer, the unit and the production system were applied and also, 371 goats in reproductive age were observed to carry out a faneroptic characterization. Data was analysed with descriptive statistics and principal component and hierarchical cluster analysis. Production units were oriented to meat production and had an average area and flock of 10.90 ha and 36 heads respectively. There is no re-productive management, 95% of producers dewormed their animals while vaccination was only implemented by 55% of them. In 95% of the farms labor was provided by the family, 32% had a paved access road and 77% electricity. Producers had an average age of 55 years, low level of schooling and 14 years of experience in goat breeding. None of the producers had access to formal credit and only 5% had access to technical assistance. On average 15 goats per producer were traded per year with an average price of $33.50/kg. In the region prevailed goats with a combined white-brown coat, short and uniform hair, spiral-shaped horns, straight front-nasal profile, hanging ears, black mucous membrane, without the presence of wattles and beards. They also presented to a greater extent globular-shape udders, with a poorly marked median suspensory ligament and nipples with vertical implantation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze which are the symbols that the National Transplant System (STN) produces to build a favorable environment for organ and tissue donation. The study is based on the analysis of symbolism in advertising discourses of Brazilian organizations that promote organ and tissue donation. A theoretical plan is presented to discuss the principles at the base of the economy of symbolic exchanges within a social logic. The article argues that this process stimulates altruistic behavior and aims to avoid the mercantile behavior around organ and tissue donation. In the empirical plan, a semiotic analysis in organ donation advertise campaigns was conducted, observing that public and private actors use a set of symbols aiming to establish subjective truths that stimulate the donation in opposition to mercantile behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aims of the study were: To compare motor performance of boys and girls from different socioeconomic status and to verify the associations among motor performance, socioeconomic status, sex, and body mass index. Participated in the study children from high (N=45) and low (N=43) socioeconomic status aged between 7-10 years (M = 8.7, SD = 1.0). Children from high socioeconomic status demonstrated higher motor performance; while differences between sex were not observed. Girls from low socioeconomic status demonstrated better object control performance as compared to boys; while a similar performance was observed for locomotion. A linear regression analysis indicated that the prediction model with socioeconomic status and body mass index was significant [r² = 0.607 F(3,84) = 45.8 p <0.001]. Socioeconomic status was the motor performance' strongest predictor. Association studies are needed to better explain the motor performance in different contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To describe some aspects of nutritional care and food practices in relation to received nutritional guidelines. Methods: Cross-sectional study with elderly of both sexes in the city of Campinas-SP, Brazil, using a questionnaire and the variables: demographic and socioeconomic, nutritional care, assessment of the quality of the received nutritional guidance and food intake. Inclusion criteria were: 60 years and older, having high blood pressure (hypertension) and diabetes mellitus, living in Campinas and agreeing to participate. Results: A sample of 150 elderly was studied, 66.7% were female with mean age 69.9 years (SD ± 7.5). Men had been in regular nutritional counselling in the last 12 months more than women (68% and 32%). Although most elderly reported having received nutritional guidelines, daily recommended intake was not followed for whole foods (88%), vegetables (71%), fruit (27%); they did not restrict salt (67%) and animal fat (65%) and even 65% did not accomplish meal intervals. Educational material with nutritional guidance was received by 80% of men and 64% of women. However, 50% of women and 62% of men reported having doubts about the guidelines. Conclusion: Low compliance with nutritional recommendations indicates the need to improve health professionals training in counselling patients regarding food intake. This finding reinforces the importance of the performance of a multidisciplinary health team that motivates seniors to adhere to treatment, thus enabling better control of chronic diseases and the prevention of secondary complications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nutritional therapy in home environment contributes to the recovery of health status of patients and presents lower cost when compared to hospital enteral nutrition. However, in clinical practice, patients and their families have difficulties to perform procedures related to enteral nutrition. This study aimed to identify the epidemiological and nutritional profiles of enteral nutrition users. This is a cross-sectional study with questionnaires applied and anthropometric measurements for the understanding of socioeconomic profile, nutritional and variables associated with the use of this therapeutic modality. Only 31.6 % of users leave the hospital with counter-conference instruments. The diseases of prevalent base were neurological disorders (63%). The average usage time of therapy was 28 weeks with predominant use (53%) of industrialized formulations provided by the municipality (37%). Through the application of the Subjective Global Assessment, 66.7% of the subjects were classified as moderately malnourished. Results point to the need for effective integration between different levels of health care and the need of further studies on the profile of home enteral nutrition in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Entrepreneurship is a socioeconomic phenomenon that has been valued for its influence on the growth and development of regional and national economies. The main promoter of this phenomenon are entrepreneurs, subjects endowed with multiple features that make up their profiles. They are dynamic and results oriented, benefitting from the fruits of their own personal efforts. Entrepreneurial education is highlighted as one of the most efficient ways to promote an entrepreneurial culture and train new entrepreneurs. However, some difficulty has been observed in assessing the effectiveness of teaching and learning this subject. The objective of this study was to analyze, by means of multivariate techniques, an instrument whose function is to measure the learning of Entrepreneurship, verifying the change in entrepreneur profiles of 407 college students participating or not in an entrepreneurial training process. The results showed that students who participated in Entrepreneurship educational training activities showed significant changes in their entrepreneurial profiles. The main contributions showed growth in the Self-realization, Planner, Innovative and Risks Assumed dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The people have total dependence of natural resources existing on planet Earth. The big challenge is make the growing of population can live in harmony with the planet. In this context emerged the concept of sustainability, which is in essence the use of natural resources with the maintenance of economic, social and environmental sustainable. Like all change begins with the first step, this study shows how the city of Luís Alves, located within the State of Santa Catarina, goes hand in hand with the principle of sustainability in banana cultivation. After analyzing data on social, economic and environmental, it is seen that, contrary to what is often believed, agriculture can be a means of environmental preservation and not degradation. The objective of this study is to analyze whether the cultivation of banana in the municipality of Luis Alves achieves economic and social dimensions of the Principle of Sustainability. In preparing the article used the deductive method, operated by the techniques of cataloging and bibliographic review. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This review describes from a historiographical perspective, some planning backgrounds. It makes an overview of the major moments of the topic occurred in the former Soviet Union, Europe and Latin America. It is shown how the development of planning has been determined by aspects of political nature associated with the type of State (universalist/minimalist), the model of development (socialist/capitalist in its various strands), the political regime (democratic/ authoritarian), and the relationships among social actors with different degrees of power. Finally, the article takes into consideration some epistemological elements of planning and the main currents that coexist nowadays, showing the predominance of retraction of the State in the autonomous and sovereign planning of social affairs, the continuity of developmental conceptions focused on economic growth that expresses a lack of understanding of the social problems, and evidence the change in the role of the State toward options that legitimize the governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Different approaches have been used to study border relations. Among them, the recent analysis based on territorial porosity suggests that border flows are the result of the current globalizing trend. The objective of this study was to understand the territorial dynamics of the subspace of the twin cities of Tabatinga (Brazil) and Leticia (Colombia), on the basis of an analysis of the norms and laws regulating the border flows and its impact on the economic and social development of the region. The study of the legal framework governing border flows made it possible to analyze the evolution of territorial porosity, its contribuition to regional development, and the increased closeness between neighboring societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of medicinal plants is present in the culture of all nations, it's commonly trade at the open street markets. The bad conditions showed on the sell places, associated with the belief that "the natural cannot be bad", can result in problems to the health of the consumers. We aimed to characterize the socioeconomic profile of the sellers of herbal medicine from Lagoa Nova/RN, describing their methods of stock and exposure, also their beliefs into the use of these therapeutic resources. Interviews were held oriented by structured forms. From the total of the interviewees, sixty per cent were black, twenty per cent were mixed-race and forty per cent were white. The males predominated with sixty per cent of the interviewees. The transmission of ethno botanical knowledge and the point of sale were mostly familiar, reaching eighty per cent. The structure conditions and the hygiene in the point of sale were precarious. The interviewees did not know about the potential risks to the health to the consumers in the inappropriate use of the herbal medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Amazon and Amazonas state in particular, can be considered one of the last frontiers of the transition process of alimentary habits. The replacement of the traditional diet for a * supermarket diet* is striking in all regions of the Amazon. In order to analyze the relationship between the transition alimentary habits, health, aging and urban network in the Amazon this article outlines a case study in the city of Tefe, Amazonas State, Brazil. Tefé is characterized as a hub city by IBGE and of territorial responsibility by NEBECAB, which means the city organizes a micro - urban network. It is hypothesized that the shape of the urban network and the relationship of rural production surrounding the cities are key elements to understand the geography of food in the Amazon. Another hypothesis is related to social development policies which resulted in a monetization of economic dynamics. With the universal retirement intensified the transition of the alimentary habits, hence the importance of analyzing how this transition occurs among the elderly , especially women who are traditionally responsible for cooking is important to understand the geography of food in the region. We used data from field research conducted in May 2012 and April 2013, derived from forms that aimed to understand the socio-economic conditions of the elderly and their housing. Data analysis identified that the meal which shows more clearly the transition to the *supermarket diet * is the breakfast and that access to retirement pension makes it possible to buy supermarket products . When comparing the results it can be highlighted that the population of lower income have less or no access to fruits and breakfast is less varied, showing the social and economic injustice implicity in the changes in eating habits, unfortunately common scenario for small cities in the state Amazonas, Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to problematize the history of knowledge production in the field of Social Psychology in Brazil. The data for analysis were the summaries of the Working Groups of Symposia of the Brazilian National Association of Research and Post-Graduation in Psychology since its beginning in 1988 until 2010, available on the official website of this association. In our analysis, we selected the statements that compose the discursive field of Social Psychology in Brazil. These discursive formations are mainly the social movements, politics and economy. By discussing these three points, we can visualize some practices of knowledge fields concerning the object of study of Social Psychology that have been sustained and legitimized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study had as subject of study the Program Integration Generations (INTEGERA) of the Institute Camillo Filho (ICF) in Teresina (PI), with cutout in thematic workshops and detached subjects. The general objective: the perception of the elderly about their old ages and contribution of the INTEGERA in the experience of active aging. Therefore, as a method of research was used the qualitative approach. Thus, the resources, such as literature, documentary analysis, oral testimony, direct observation inspired in ethnography were used as a research technique applied. As instruments of data collection, we used the socioeconomic questionnaire and the interview script. The research sample was composed of ten active elderly students of both sexes and egressed from the program INTEGERA. Among the results of this study were listed: it is necessary to conduct studies about active aging referring to subjectivity experienced by the elderly because of the existence of several old ages; that the subjects, despite experiencing behaviors that lead to active aging in academic spaces, they don't know the principles neither the determinants of active aging, these latter signify their experiences of active aging just like maintenance of functional capacity, body and mind's health. We believe that active aging can be desired individually, but must constitute to all people as Human Rights Policy, as preconized by the World Health Organization, through various spaces, especially in open universities for elderly people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The street fairs are dynamic spaces, essential for socio-economic integration between communities, especially in small towns. Among the products available are medicinal plants, important therapeutic resources for the poorest portion of the population. We aimed to determine the socioeconomic and cultural characteristics of the herbalist in Currais Novos/RN. The activity is predominantly practiced by men, low income and education. The trade of medicinal plants is the main source of income for 67.0% of the respondents and the data points tend to the extinction of the activity at the street fair of Currais Novos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work will focus on the cultural dynamics of the Paneleiras from Goiabeiras, Vitória - ES, Brazil, and their connections with the political and economic dimensions, reflecting on these social actors, as a professional category and as producers of an immaterial heritage recognized by agencies and their struggle for socioeconomic recognition - aligned with the capitalist logic and the material needs that they have. It was found that the interpretation of the dynamics of the Culture of Clay cannot be restricted to the analysis of isolated pans made by the Paneleiras or of the "place", but has to put both together as "pan-Paneleiras-place", as well as its relations with the State's Government, the Municipality, the IPHAN and the economic sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Right to health litigation in Brazil raises a debate regarding its distributive effects in a resource constrained setting. Several studies have found that a significant proportion of litigation features individual claimants who live in the most affluent states, cities and districts of Brazil and are usually represented by private lawyers, whose fees are beyond the reach of most of the poor population. For some, this is an indication that the distributive effects of litigation are very likely negative because litigation tends to benefit a privileged socio-economic group and may force health authorities to divert to them resources from comprehensive health programs that benefit the majority of the population. Others, however, argue that courts can nonetheless provide an important institutional voice for the poor and promote health equity when they manage to access them. The main problem for this *prolitigation camp* is thus to enhance access to Justice. Our aim is to analyze lawsuits in which litigants are represented by public attorneys in right to health litigation in the city of São Paulo to inquire if at least this type of litigation is reaching out to the neediest citizens. This study analyzes three indicators: the income of litigants, the Human Development Index and the Health Need Index of the areas where they live. Our conclusion is that although public attorneys seem to represent mostly low income people, other indicators suggest that there are still important obstacles for public attorneys to reach the neediest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recognizing the importance of social security in the arena of Brazilian social policies, especially for small municipalities, the main objective of this paper was to evaluate the impact of social security benefits on efficiency in promoting socioeconomic development among small municipalities in the state of Minas Gerais. Thus, the study uses the technique of data envelopment analysis in two stages. The survey results showed that the benefits paid by social security had a positive effect in the promotion the efficiency of municipal socioeconomic development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Brazil to undergo external interference in its configuration led to a social and economic framework of regional inequalities that accentuates every attempt to integrate the territories, mainly by adopting a model in which appropriates natural resources available at minimal cost to the capital, forming different territories from the imposition of capital itself. In this sense the text is in scope for reflection on the consequences of this dynamic for Amazon, after the integration of the Amazon to the national economic triggered the redefinition of social relations transforming the zone configuration to constitute a territory ruled by the coexistence and rationalities dispute as to ownership of land, the use of natural resources and the expectation of social reproduction. The period of economic history guided along the lines of Amazon dual cedes space to complex relationships in the value of trade in which the subjects live on the capital expansion in the territory. Instead of the Amazon border region becomes a territory boundaries, conditioned by the capital team that relies adversity to establish its different forms in the configuration necessary for their reproduction and growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: to assess the adequacy of prenatal care and the satisfaction and gestational risks of pregnant women with a history of premature deliveries. Methods: a cross-sectional study with 1239 pregnant women, 259 with a history of premature deliveries when being attended by the Brazilian National Health Service (SUS) in RJ in 2007/2008. Demographic and socio-economic information, the obstetric history, adequacy of prenatal care and satisfaction with prenatal care were variables gathered using interviews and the prenatal records. The x2 test was used to compare the group with the history of premature deliveries with the groups with low risk or no history of premature delivery. Results: there were no differences in terms of the adequacy of prenatal health care among pregnant women with a history of premature deliveries compared with those with low gestational risk. Women were dissatisfied with the waiting times for consultations, the opening times of health units and the explanations given by health workers. Conclusions: a history of premature delivery did not improve the quality of prenatal care for these pregnant women. The health units experienced a number of problems, in the view of the women, regarding their functioning. The explanations given by health workers regarding the risk of premature delivery did not meet the expectations of the women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a short survey of the work of Ignacy Sachs - one of the pioneers of structuralist development economics and an outstanding economist dedicated to environmental economics. Sachs is PoHsh and a disciple of Michael Kalecki, but he is aiso a Brazilian and a French, given his strong ties with these rwo countries. He knows the importance of markets in the coordination of the economy, but, as a de-velopmental economist, he atttibutes a key role to economic planning, Only through the dehberate action of the state it will be possible to achieve economic growth, reduction of inequalities, and protection of the environmsnts - only through de-liberate action way men and women will be able to conduct the Spaceship Earth to economic, social and environmental development and assure a decent work to ali. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper performatively decentres the role of mainstream gay consumption in contemporary thought about the economic and social lives of lesbians and gay men in the Global North. It is simultaneously critical and reparative in outlook. This paper critically engages with writing on homonormativity from the last decade, suggesting that this work presents 'homonormativity' as an all-encompassing structure that becomes politically unassailable. In parallel with an analysis of contemporary lesbian and gay life as being complicit in the reproduction of various normativities, this paper takes the innovative and reparative stance of considering how such spaces and practices also produce interdependent relationships across social difference. Drawing on the work of Gibson-Graham (2006, 'A Postcapitalist Politics', University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN) this paper considers the prospects for outlining the diversity of lesbian and gay economic practices, with the performative ambition of making existing noncapitalist practices more visible and viable. To this end, the paper examines a number of gay spaces and practices to consider the different forms of enterprise, transactions, and labour that take place within them. On the basis of its preliminary inventory of diverse gay economic practices and spaces, this paper proposes that there are many aspects of contemporary urban gay life that already offer alternatives to the homonormative practices of neoliberalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This investigation was about an educational approach based on the History of Science and experimentation involving scientific concepts in the area of Astronomy, highlighting the reproduction of the original experiment performed by Eratosthenes in the third century B.C., designed to measure the Earth radius. It was found that the realized activities contributed significantly to the success of High School students from two public schools of Sergipe - the State College State Secretary Francisco Rosa Santos in Aracaju, Sergipe and the Federal Institute, campus of São Cristovão - since these activities had aroused the students' interest for the construction of new scientific knowledge, and they improved their comprehension of some aspects related to Science and Astronomy in particular, as its empirical character and its historical development, therefore immersed in a specific social, economic and cultural context. The approach allowed for a greater involvement of participating students and it improved studentteacher relationship. The evaluations identified that a significant learning of the discussed concepts involving Physics and Astronomy had occurred, such as latitude, longitude, equinox, solstice, midday sun, among other concepts treated in an interdisciplinary manner with other disciplines such as Geography, History and Mathematics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: to identify the prevalence and factors associated with anemia in children of Karapotó ethnic backgrounds. Methods: a cross-sectional study of hemoglobin dosage levels using a portable Hemocue photometer to collect measurements of weight and height along with socioeconomic data for 99 children between 6 and 59 months of age, all of Karapotó ethnicity. The association between the prevalence of anemia and variables related to children, mothers and families were analyzed, using chi -square tests or Fisher Exact Tests. Results: the prevalence of anemia in the children was 57.6%, the prevalences of low height for age range, low weight-to-height ratios and low weight for age range in the children were 15.6%, 3.0% and 2.0% respectively. The occurrence of anemia was associated with younger children, those that spent less studying time with their mother, a large number of family members, those with fewer personal possessions and those that lived outside the group's home area or village ("desaldeados"). Conclusions: the results show that anemia is a serious health problem among Karapotó children, especially the "desaldeados ", coinciding with problems of childhood obesity and stunted growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O principal objetivo deste trabalho é identificar se os consumidores em São Paulo possuem tendências etnocêntricas. Em seguida, a CETSCALE é analisada dentro do contexto brasileiro. O trabalho apresenta uma revisão da literatura sobre o conceito de etnocentrismo. Uma metodologia quantitativa e descritiva foi empregada e duas bases de dados foram obtidas, uma compreendendo 275 e outra somando 200 entrevistados da cidade de São Paulo. O instrumento usado para a coleta de dados foi um questionário estruturado com perguntas fechadas. Os principais resultados se referem a amostras moderadamente etnocêntricas -- quando comparadas com estudos realizados em outros países -- em todas as variáveis demográficas relacionadas. As análises indicaram que existem diferenças entre o nível de etnocentrismo dos consumidores quando eles são segregados em grupos por idade e diferentes classes econômicas. As classes socioeconômicas mais baixas são significativamente mais etnocêntricas do que a classe socioeconômica mais alta. Entre as classes mais baixas, as pessoas mais velhas receberam as pontuações mais altas de etnocentrismo. As observações finais são apresentadas, com algumas implicações e recomendações para pesquisas futuras. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

National Policy, and analyses the effectiveness of Gorutuba Irrigation Public Project, in the north of Minas Gerais. The methodology is the ex post facto evaluation. Throught a quasi experimental model, by means of multivariate statistics, the Porteirinha municipality, beneficiated by irrigation project, compared with non beneficiary municipalities (control group). The Porteirinha municipality was jointed in the cluster 6, with other 13 municipals, all of the North of Minas Gerais state, what can be interpreted as an evidence of the model for control group construcion's good performance. This research showed that irrigation project partially reaches expected results. The results of this study reinforce the importance of irrigated agriculture for regional development through the impacts in the agricultural production, in employment generation and population growth. Although the indicators of municipalities reflected the occurrence of economic growth, there was no improving of social indicators of Porteirinha (municipality benefited). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A discussion around the complexity of Public Administration Theory favored the contextualization of the included tentative case study which is supplied with an instrument in search for better practices. The expectations of a public serving spirit, from the inclusion of costs on the retirement acts analysis -- delimited by the Brazilian reality of the RJ state Audit Court, preoccupied with the activity of public servers in charge of the related legal determinations compliance, inferring that the "task" besides of a technically trustful instruments, can also be a source de self esteem, due to its social merit. Its benefit toward the quality of public management, in terms of austerity and ethical zeal for the people, has oriented the theoretical debate and the instrumental construction toward a sense of sheltering theory and practice interaction. Away from managerialism, does not relegate legally instituted duties on costs. Final considerations recognize the labyrinth of Administration theories, transforming its entanglement into an instigating investigation on that challenging science-art of listening to people, respecting the res publica which belongs to him, as a permanent struggle for comprehension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among rights related to intellectual property, the geographical indication (GI) comes up as mean to stimulate the socioeconomic development of a society. Some countries, especially in Europe, for long have been using legal protection provided by GI certification as a way to make their products more competitive, contributing to the development of less favored regions. In Brazil, the subject is, still, recent and needs to be studied in order to be better understood. This justifies a comprehensive review. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The environment is essential for life. However, the model of human exploration, mainly for economic reasons, is predatory. More and more, the ecological crisis and the social risks are growing. In this sense, the environmental protections cannot be evidenced as exclusive task of the state. The citizen must effectively participate in environmental preservation, inclusively through judicial instruments. Therefore, the Popular Environmental Action is an important mechanism of defense of diffuses interests. Although the environmental, citizenship is insipient. With the objective of promoting environmental awareness and dialogue between generations, through solidarity values, this study discusses the theoretical model of the Environmental Rule of Law and the integrated environment. Thus, this research intent to analyze the Popular Environmental Action and the solidarity support of the Environmental Rule of Law, looking for the effects of the judicial participation of the population in the environmental management. The methodology is bibliographic, descriptive and exploratory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Would the Social Economy enterprises present a set of actions more environmentally sustainable than their capitalist equivalents? Or, has the growing political and social importance of sustainability already left a positive landmark in the business? These questions guided the case study in which we compared the forms of use of natural resources, notably water and soil, contrasting Social Economy enterprises - cooperative producing ecological rice in Rio Grande do Sul State and agroecological consortia based on the production of cotton in Ceará State - with capitalist companies of the same branches of agricultural production. The research conducted through interviews, field observations, and secondary data shows that the environmentally virtuous actions differ by type of enterprise and not by type of product grown, and the social economy organizations, in those cases studied, were effectively more virtuous than the capitalist enterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a capitalist society, organizational decisions, usually aimed at the economic dimension, triggered or exacerbated the socio-environmental problems in many countries. In the search for solutions to such problems arises in the 1980s the concept of sustainable development proposing to meet the needs of present generations without compromising the care of the needs of future generations (COMISSÃO MUNDIAL SOBRE MEIO AMBIENTE E DESENVOLVIMENTO, 1988). Considered a subjective concept and open to interpretation, sustainable development, includes support of three essential dimensions: the economic, the social and the environmental one. Thus, under the organizational perspective, to make decisions that contribute to sustainability, has become at least a big challenge, because beyond the economic dimension, decision makers must deal simultaneously with the social and environmental dimensions. This shows that there are levels of decisions defined as simple, average, and complex and that these levels tend to influence or compromise the achievement of sustainability differently, depending on the service satisfactory or not of the dimensions. Faced with this challenge this paper, while theoretical essay aims to present an understanding of sustainability through the level of complexity of organizational decisions. To achieve this goal, it is proposed the relevant criteria that compose each dimension of sustainability, identifying the relationships (systemic) that may occur between the criteria for organizational decision making. As a result of crossing between levels of complexity of decisions and the dimensions of sustainability, a structure of a complex matrix of decisions was obtained to address sustainability. The qualitative matrix shows how the decision-maker or researcher may classify the decisions considered relevant and how he can make complex decisions that integrate satisfactorily the three dimensions of sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an interview with Jaime Reis, researcher and coordinator of the Instituto de Ciências Sociais of the Universidade de Lisboa (Social Sciences Institute of the University of Lisbon), Portugal and president of the European Economic History Review. Topics like history of economics, socioeconomics and statistical methods applied on social science are discussed.

Graffiti: discurse of resistance based on Foucault. The goal of this article is to observe how graffiti has altered discourses at the present moment. The paper is theoretically based on Foucault's philosophical historical perspective focusing specifically on the phase of studies on power in its genealogical axis. The presupposition is that power, from the economic and political aspect, does not have only one visible face which imposes laws and norms through social control. We understand that power is best understood as a power struggle in which the subject does not always accept the regulations passively and thus unleashes actions of resistance. If institutionalized power controls publications and urban practices on the streets, creating graffiti becomes a form of counter-power and resistance. Society also reacts to this type of invasion, which is publicly visible, and tries to impede this \"defacement\" of buildings and walls. As a form of protection the creators of graffiti write in code and also insert a voice of protest against a society that is so controlled. If at first, the practice of creating graffiti was due to political resistance and then a form of demarcating territory and also as a demonstration of daring, now it is possible to detect a socio-economic concern. We base our study on Foucault (1995, 2003, 2010). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to study the territoriality and the formation of territorial clusters.The idea goes beyond the purely economic territory. A territorial strategy requires the use of the opportunities and synergies between entrepreneurs, institutions and society. Promoting and encouraging territorial clusters are not enough to stimulate the process of socioeconomic development, but it is a decisive step to strengthening cooperation among economic agents and building new territoriality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent decades, in both Europe and USA, economic sociology has moved away from strict concentration on individual firms, markets, and their representations in economic theory toward more generous and creative treatments of interpersonal relations and of economic activity in a wide variety of settings. The study of interpersonal care, both paid and unpaid, illustrates these trends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study was to verify the eventual association between man-dog relationship and the animal welfare. Relationships among raising conditions of 60 dogs, owner's progressiveness and attitude and animal welfare were studied through multiple correspondence analysis. The investigation model used in the research was of the exploratory type of descriptive character with field research. Data were collected at households through an inquiry. Residences were selected according to a systematic sampling procedure covering type of residence and socioeconomical levels. Behavior, peacefulness state and body state evaluations were the three indicators used for measuring animal welfare. Dogs simultaneously tame, peaceful and with ideal body condition were considered to experience appropriate welfare. Only 43.3% of the canine population could be classified as under appropriate welfare during interviews. Among the three used indicators, corporal condition and state of peacefulness were shown to best characterize poor welfare rather than appropriate welfare. Results suggested that progressiveness, positive attitude and the owner's attention and care to provide a good life quality to his dog, did not imply in its adequate welfare, in 56.6% of studied population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to make a brief presentation of the intellectual history of criticmusical José Ramos Tinhorão from the analysis of some of his articles from the column "Popular Music", published among the years of 1974 and 1982. These articles, which used the release of records of popular music as a pretext to show the problems of socio-economic culture of the moment are representative of a particular political culture of this time, nationalist and Marxist. Thus, help us to understand the national-popular ideology in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyze the role of landowners in agrarian associations in Catalunya (Spain) from 1850 to 1936, when the Spanish Civil War started. Up to the nineteenth century they enjoyed a preeminent social position, but as industrialization continued to grow their economic and social status declined, especially after the late nineteenth century crisis. Facing this situation, from the end of the nineteenth century they promoted important efforts for social mobilization and tried to obtain control of the peasantry through agrarian cooperatives and other associations. Nevertheless, as a consequence of the increasing struggle with the peasantry, landowners changed their strategy, and in the 1930s concentrated their collective action on the defense of property. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author presents Sociology as a critical science of reality, as well as a permanent institutionalized control of social relations with a critical intention and in a scientific manner, combining the theoretical and the practical reason. As a science of reciprocity, Sociology is tasked with questioning ideologized visions of the world (Weltanschauungen) like the absoluticized economic reason in economism. It is a primarily analytical science and, as commonly understood, with responsibilities to society - therefore Sociology combines critique and doubt to design new conceptual possibilities and new options for social action to open new horizons, based on perceptions. But it is also a discipline made by those that have to apply to themselves the same criticism used by analyzing realities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Structural change, institutional development and sustained economic growth: a comment on the Irish experience. It is discussed the recent Irish experience of sustained economic growth, in which a social pact, the entry in the European Union and the opening of the economy have all played a paramount role. Some remarks on the sustainability of such an experience are also made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article contends that efforts to expand the justiciability of economic, social, and cultural (ESC) rights before supranational tribunals may not always be the best way to increase respect for these rights on the ground. In the Inter-American System, the authors maintain that human rights lawyers will best advance social justice and ESC rights when they use supranational litigation as a subsidiary tool to support advocacy efforts led by domestic social movements, a role that may often entail litigating ESC claims strategically within the framework of civil and political violations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazilian Science and Technology Policy has been guided by an idea that a "critical mass" of specialized human resources and basic research would lead, almost automatically, to technological development. Such cognitive model, based on science neutrality and technological determinism and defended by conservative forces, has been maintained by the current left wing government: its members have not previously matured a proposal for the S&T area coherent with the economic and social transformations they intend to launch. This work focuses the research-production relationship (or university-enterprise) that is in the core of that hegemonic cognitive model and aims to criticize institutional arrangements, such as S&T Parks and Enterprise Incubators, implemented to stimulate this relationship. Structural and institutional obstacles, inherent to the Brazilian peripheral condition, that have been hindering the research-production relationship and make these arrangements almost innocuous are analyzed through arguments of deductive and inductive (based on empirical data) nature. Doing so, this work also offers elements to deconstruct the present cognitive model and conceive an alternative policy framework that could lead to a S&T policy coherent with those economic and social transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with the new economic sociology's (NES) occasional contribution to the sociology of sustainable development. Beginning in the 1980s, the NES proposes to understand the economy as a social totality, including the sustainable development approach. Moreover, by considering the economy from the perspective of institutions, organizations, networks and governance modes, this view once again places the economy at the heart of society, which would be a minor development if this conception were already acknowledged by our society and even by our disciplines. Our documental research is conducted in two stages. The first part discusses the emergence of NES. In the second part we examine various approaches that propose the reconstruction of the economy as a sociological subject. Finally, we raise questions regarding what is possible to apprehend from these approaches, looking for a better understanding of the sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper relates two distinct themes: entrepreneurship and ethnicity. They are normally treated by different academic traditions: economists and businessmen deal with the first, while anthropologists, sociologists and historians usually investigate the latter. Due to the recent development of areas like Organizational Culture and Economic Sociology, approximations between these two themes have occurred, allowing a conjoint treatment of them in the field defined as ethnic entrepreneurship. Studies in this new area recognize that many resources and job possibilities for immigrants are available at their own communities, where networks of social capital pervade. More than driving definite conclusions, this work explores some insights in this area, taking São Paulo's historical socio-economic experience as reference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The socioeconomic aims established by the United Nations (ODM) have the purpose of fighting extreme poverty, famine, inequalities, infant mortality, several diseases (AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria), difficulty of access to basic education, environment depredation and poor countries difficulties in obtaining means of access to the market and new information as well as communication technologies. These are broad purposes with well-defined aims and concerned about the several spheres of social life. Many of these purposes have been followed up by UNO through its various organisms such as UNICEF, UNESCO, FAO and CEPAL since the 1950s. One of the singularities concerning the current proposal of the United Nations has to be read based on a process that points to the weakening of the national State power to be ahead of the actions which aim to reach the purposes followed until 2015. It is considered then, that a visible hitch in the way of implementing the measures that aim to fight extreme inequality and the several forms of exclusion, is the way the United Nations have declared as irreversible the difficulty of the public authorities to be the agent of the implementation of these socioeconomic aims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the transformations that occurred through the 1990's in the social conditions at the São Paulo metropolis as a whole and at its different spaces. Although that decade had negative economic results, indicators of several social dimensions suggest an improvement on the average material conditions for the major part of the city. However, our results also point out to the maintenance of the pre-existent spatial inequalities, as well as for an apparent rise of the income inequalities. Our main goal is to present and discuss evidences of these processes, dialoguing with the academic debates about social conditions in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]