domingo, abril 25, 2010 Percepcao e Preconceito Olhe o texto abaixo:The XXXXXXXXXX are an idle, thriftless people and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in resources but they have little. Their goods which they value at two dollars they trade for something that costs seventy-five cents. Things sell on an average at 300 percent their price in the USA. This is in part due to heavy duties which the government has laid on imports. These duties and the expense associated great distance keep all merchants except for the rich from engaging in trade.The women dress in European style with bare arms and short skirts. They wear bright colors, necklaces and earrings and pointed shoes of leather. The women have black or very brown hair which is long on their backs and sometimes in braids, though married women sometimes use a high comb. Their complexions are various depending upon the amount of European blood they can lay claim to. This also settles the question of social rank. The upper class can be distinguished not only by their complexion, dress and manners, but also by their speech. From this upper class, they go down by regular shades growing more dark and muddy. Generally speaking each person's caste is decided by the quality of the blood...Yet the least drop of European blood, if it be only of a quadroon or octoroon is sufficient to raise one from the position of a serf, and entitle him to wear a suit of clothes....The fondness for dress among the women is excessive, and is sometimes their ruin. A present of a necklace or pair of earrings gains the favor of the greater part. Nothing is more common than seeing a woman living in a house of only two rooms but dressed to the hilt. They spend whole days examining fine clothes and ornaments and frequently making purchases at a rate that would open the eyes of a women in the USThe above is a more or less faithful transcription or perhaps transliteration from the description of a 19th century visitor. Can you guess where? 19:21 0 Comentarios(Adicionar Comentario) |0 KudosTraduzirCom o suporte deInglesAlbanesArabeBulgaroCatalaoChinesCroataTchecoDinamarquesHolandesEstonianoFilipinoFinlandesFrancesGalegoAlemaoGregoHebraicoHindiHungaroIndonesioItalianoJaponesCoreanoLetaoLituanoMaltesNorueguesPolonesPortuguesRomenoRussoServioEslovacoEslovenoEspanholSuecoTailandesTurcoUcranianoVietnamitaEditarRemover domingo, abril 18, 2010 Individuation Individuation. Not a pretty word but one that Durkheim used in describing the direction he saw society heading at the beginning of the 20th century. Basically, he noted that individuals living in a group, collective or society that evolves with an ever increasing division of labor leads to more and more roles that each person can assume and validate as pertinent to their own identity and social recognition. He also noted that increasing individuation results in anomie, a social lack of connections which in turn correlates with suicide as he pertinently show in the classic work entitled Suicide.I raise this sociological perspective (some might say gibberish) because I have been thinking about kids, my granddaughters, Brazilian and US society. For a long time, I have been making a small contribution to Hope Unlimited based in Campinas. They strive to take in mortally at risk children and provide them