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1 de setembro de 2010 por Mauricio Serafim
Categorias: academia, administracao, ciencia, religiao
  • [Redes sociais e sistema de dádiva] Neste texto, minha preocupação é de contribuir para o debate numa perspectiva sócio-histórica, procurando demonstrar que a preocupação com o tema não nasce arbitrariamente, mas resulta de uma busca progressiva de elaboração de um pensamento complexo e prático sobre a realidade social. Tal busca encontra-se presente em diversos momentos da construção de um pensamento sociológico antiutilitarista e humanizante que, desde fins do século XIX, vem valorizando a força da associação entre os homens como recurso explicativo poderoso dos movimentos coletivos e espontâneos. Isto é, como recurso teórico de valor prático na construção de esferas públicas democráticas a partir da sociedade civil, fora das esferas doEstado e do mercado. redessociais sociologiaeconomica socialnetworks social_networks dadiva antropologia
  • [Para reescrever a biografia de Marcel Mauss] Escrito por Marcel Fournier. Existe um “mistério Mauss”: a questão é entender como Mauss tornou-se o “pai da antropologia moderna” contribuindo de maneira original ao desenvolvimento das ciências humanas. Após a publicação da primeira biografia de Marcel Mauss (Paris, Fayard), da edição de seus Escritos políticos (Écrits politiques, Paris, Fayard) e de sua correspondência com Durkheim (Paris, PUF), proponho uma reflexão sob dois aspectos: 1) a situação da biografia nas ciências sociais; e 2) as dificuldades em escrever uma biografia de Marcel Mauss (1872-1950). Essas dificuldades ­ inúmeras são de ordem metodológica (coleta e interpretação de dados) e teórica (teoria da ação). A questão que o biógrafo levanta, no início de suas pesquisas, “Fracasso ou êxito de uma vida?” transforma-se, ao final do trabalho, na seguinte pergunta: “Fracasso ou êxito de uma biografia?”. dadiva gift antropologia
  • [A sociologia de Marcel Mauss] Escrito por Paulo Henrique Martins. Marcel Mauss é mais conhecido como antropólogo e etnólogo. Muitos ficam surpreendidos ao saber que ele também tem uma relevante contribuição sociológica, que é comprovada tanto por ter sido um dos principais animadores, juntamente com Durkheim, da revista Année Sociologique, como por ter sido o principal sistematizador da teoria da dádiva, que vem sendo resgatada como um modelo interpretativo de grande actualidade para se pensar os fundamentos da solidariedade e da aliança nas sociedades contemporâneas. Um das contribuições centrais de Mauss para a sociologia foi demonstrar que o valor das coisas não pode ser superior ao valor da relação e que o simbolismo é fundamental para a vida social. Ele chegou a esta compreensão a partir da constatação de que as modalidades de trocas nas sociedades arcaicas não são apenas coisas do passado, tendo importância fundamental para se compreender a sociedade moderna. dadiva gift antropologia
  • [MARCEL MAUSS OU A DÁDIVA DE SI] Artigo de Marcel Fournier. Conferência proferida na 16a reunião nacional da ANPOCS. Caxambu, outubro de 1992. dadiva antropologia gift
  • [The spiritual gift as the basis for the counter-economy] Interesting article within the context of christian theology. Here is the first part which usefully distinguishes three modalities of exchange, how they are interconnected, and how the capital-nation-state can only be overcome if tackled together. religiao economia sociologiaeconomica economia-religiao
  • [A percepção da Teoria da Dádiva em um modelo contemporâneo de fazer sociológico] O artigo tem como escopo a discussão da aplicabilidade da Teoria da Dádiva em pesquisas sociológicas atualmente. dadiva artigos sociologiaeconomica sociology gift

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Categorias: academia, administracao, ciencia, religiao

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23 de junho de 2010 por Mauricio Serafim
Categorias: academia, administracao, ciencia, religiao
  • [Social Capital: A review from an ethics perspective] In this paper we extend previous reviews of the social capital literature to encompass an ethics perspective. First, we update previous reviews of social capital. Social capital continues to gain currency in both academic and practical circles, despite relatively little critical reflection on the implications of promoting this popular concept. Our work goes some way to rectifying this paucity in understanding what has been termed the ‗dark side‘ of social capital. In particular, we review the social capital concept from the perspective of three theories of business ethics: utilitarianism, justice and ethic of care. While the utilitarian perspective closely parallels accounts of social capital‘s rationale, the concept‘s operation is mirrored very closely by the assumptions underpinning the ethic of care, while the dark side of social capital is commonly given voice in justice-based critiques. We conclude by considering the implications of our analysis. socialcapital social_capital capital_social artigos etica system:filetype:pdf system:media:document
  • [Civic Capital as the Missing Link] This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs that help cooperation—which for clarity we label civic capital. We argue that this definition differentiates social capital from human capital and satisfies the properties of the standard notion of capital. We then argue that civic capital can explain why differences in economic performance persist over centuries and discuss how the effect of civic capital can be distinguished empirically from other variables that affect economic performance and its persistence, including institutions and geography. socialcapital social_capital ecn_civil capital_social capital_civil economia economics artigos system:filetype:pdf system:media:document
  • [BBC - Thinking Allowed, Social Capital] A new concept came along, ‘social capital’, and it revolutionised the way people are governed and communities are planned. The only trouble is …it’s completely wrong. That is the contention of sociologist Ben Fine. He claims that ‘social capital’ is part of a mindset that sees everything as quantifiable assets akin to money or commercial resources. Are communities, neighbourhoods and the people more complicated than that? Laurie Taylor discusses an idea which has had a huge impact on social science and beyond, and asks whether it is time to abandon the assumption that people have social qualities that can be weighed and measured. David Halpern from the Institute for Government defends the concept. socialcapital social_capital capital_social podcast
  • [Ética do bem comum e o interesse público] O presente estudo sobre o Princípio do Bem Comum, que é um dos temas centrais da Ética Social, será feito sob a perspectiva filosófica aristotélico-tomista, aproveitando a tradição da filosofia grega e escolástico-medieval, que Wilhelm Leibniz3 denominou de philosophia perennis (“Discurso de Metafísica” – 1686). etica admpublica bem_comum interesse filosofia system:filetype:pdf system:media:document
  • [Religiosity and Personal Well-Being: People Can Be Happy With or Without Religion] Despite all economic and social transitions that have occurred in the last centuries we still find that people go to church. Somehow religious beliefs have not vanished over time. Since there is no material reward for going to church or praying religiosity has to create utility through other means. It could raise peoples’ personal well-being. In this paper we use information from the World Values Survey about subjective happiness and life satisfaction. We relate this information to revealed religiosity and measure if religiosity makes people happier. We use different methods and also control for economic factors, family matters, health, and democracy. The key finding is that there seems to be a U-shaped relationship between personal well-being and religiosity, especially so for happiness. This result is consistent throughout all our estimations. Our analysis also gives hints that higher income might lead to higher subjective well-being. happiness felicidade artigos pesquisa academia religiao religion
  • [Social Connections, Networks, and Social Capital Erosion: Evidence from Surveys and Field Experiments] Measuring trust, a cognitive social capital that can significantly affect cooperation among individuals and groups to take collective actions for joint benefits, is an important empirical research. This study aimed to understand the determinants of social capital with specific focus on the effect of individuals’ bonding social capital and bridging social capital. It explored the methods of measuring trust and identified the determining factors affecting trust/trustworthiness among village members in southwestern China’s Yunnan province. socialcapital social_capital capital_social networks redessociais artigos pesquisa
  • [Multilevel Challenges and Opportunities in Social Capital Research -- Payne et al., 10.1177/0149206310372413 -- Journal of Management] Social capital refers to the resources derived from social relationships. Although the concept of social capital has been applied at the individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis, researchers have yet to fully embrace social capital’s potential as a multilevel lens through which we might better understand management and organizational phenomena. With a central objective of advancing social capital’s potential as a multilevel theoretical perspective, the authors make two contributions to the management literature. First, the authors comprehensively review two decades of management research to highlight how social capital has been empirically applied across levels of analysis. Second, based on the shortcomings and challenges revealed through the literature review, the authors identify and discuss avenues for future multilevel research, including suggestions for both macro and micro researchers. socialcapital social_capital capital_social artigos pesquisa
  • [Capital social e implicancia de la participación en organizaciones religiosas en la inclusión social de ciudadanos cordobeses] El trabajo analiza la participación del tejido asociativo del capital social de la ciudad de Córdoba, y su relación con la implicancia socio-política de sus miembros, entendida como la dimensión política de la inclusión social. A partir de datos obtenidos por un cuestionario semi-estructurado realizado a 428 ciudadanos mayores de 18 años, se analizan específicamente las características socio-demográficas de los participantes en organizaciones católicas, evangélicas y otras organizaciones, las prácticas internas y externas a la organización realizadas durante el último año, y la percepción de eficacia resultante de sus prácticas. Finalmente, se reflexiona sobre el carácter ego-centrado de las normas de ciudadanía promovidas por organizaciones religiosas y las formas excluyentes de ciertas formas de participación organizacional. socialcapital social_capital capital_social religiao orgtheory organization organizational_theory
  • [Desarrollo local y Análisis de Redes Sociales: el valor de las relaciones como factor del desarrollo socioeconómico] El nuevo modelo de desarrollo basado en lo local se asienta en la importancia que cobran los actores y las interacciones de estos para articular propuestas colectivas de adaptación, como lo ha puesto de manifiesto importantes aportaciones teórico-metodológicas, entre las que destaca el Sistema Productivo Local. Desde no hace mucho tiempo, el turismo se ha venido defendiendo como uno de los instrumentos apropiados para articular procesos de desarrollo local, en el que los actores y sus relaciones se convierten en elementos esenciales. Se hace necesario la configuración de modelos analíticos que realmente permitan poner de manifiesto que existe una asociación entre las redes de actores y el nivel de desarrollo, que es precisamente lo que aporta este trabajo. Es decir, la correlación que existe entre las características estructurales de las redes de actores y el nivel de desarrollo turístico de los territorios. social_capital socialnetworks redessociais desenvolvimento_ecn system:filetype:pdf system:media:document
  • [Cómo son las redes de los indivíduos en situación de pobreza en el Brasil urbano] Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación reciente sobre las redes sociales de individuos pobres que viven en Sao Paulo, Brasil. La investigación ha levantado y analizado las redes de 209 individuos pobres que habitan siete espacios de la ciudad sometidos a distintos grados de segregación residencial, así como treinta individuos de la clase media. El presente trabajo presenta las principales características de las redes, así como explora el patrón de intensa variabilidad observada en las redes, incluso entre los individuos pobres. Los resultados indican la existencia de patrones claros de variación de las redes según su tamaño, estructura e inserción urbana, además de la sociabilidad que contienen, lo que permitió la construcción de una tipología de las redes y de las sociabilidades. redessociais socialnetworks social_networks pobreza

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18 de junho de 2010 por Mauricio Serafim
Categorias: academia, administracao, ciencia, religiao
  • [The Relational Economy: A Buddhist and Feminist Analysis by Julie Nelson] Writings on the topic of Buddhism and economics seem to be characterized by two very different attitudes towards economic life. The first, drawing from historical Buddhist teachings in primarily pre-industrial contexts, takes a largely positive view of commerce. The second, in which a modern influence is considerably more apparent, is suspicious of economics at a "systemic" level, and takes an antagonistic stance towards contemporary corporations and markets. This essay argues that the latter view is based on an unhelpful assimilation of a modern Western belief – the belief that economic systems are non-relational – and proposes a richer understanding. economia economics economia-religiao reciprocidade religion religiao artigos
  • [Trust in Others: Does Religion Matter? - Review of Social Economy] Though the recent literature offers intuitively appealing bases for, and evidence of, a linkage among religious beliefs, religious participation and economic outcomes, evidence on a relationship between religion and trust is mixed. By allowing for an attendance effect, disaggregating Protestant denominations, and using a more extensive data set, probit models of the General Social Survey (GSS), 1975 through 2000, show that black Protestants, Pentecostals, fundamentalist Protestants, and Catholics, trust others less than individuals who do not claim a preference for a particular denomination. For conservative denominations the effect of religion is through affiliation, not attendance. In contrast, liberal Protestants trust others more and this effect is reinforced by attendance. The impact of religion on moderate Protestants is only through attendance, as frequency of attendance increases trust of others while the denomination effect is insignificant. artigos religiao religion trust sociology sociedade economia economia-religiao
  • [Trust in Others: Does Religion Matter? - Review of Social Economy] Though the recent literature offers intuitively appealing bases for, and evidence of, a linkage among religious beliefs, religious participation and economic outcomes, evidence on a relationship between religion and trust is mixed. By allowing for an attendance effect, disaggregating Protestant denominations, and using a more extensive data set, probit models of the General Social Survey (GSS), 1975 through 2000, show that black Protestants, Pentecostals, fundamentalist Protestants, and Catholics, trust others less than individuals who do not claim a preference for a particular denomination. For conservative denominations the effect of religion is through affiliation, not attendance. In contrast, liberal Protestants trust others more and this effect is reinforced by attendance. The impact of religion on moderate Protestants is only through attendance, as frequency of attendance increases trust of others while the denomination effect is insignificant. artigos religiao religion trust sociology sociedade economia economia-religiao
  • [David Stark - The Sense of Dissonance] David Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University where he is Chair of the Department of Sociology and also directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. His most recent book, The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life, was published by Princeton University Press in 2009. Stark studies how organizations and their members search for what is valuable. Dissonance – disagreement about the principles of worth – can lead to discovery. To study the organizational basis for innovation, he has carried out ethnographic field research in Hungarian factories before and after 1989, in new media start-ups in Manhattan before and after the dot.com crash, and in a World Financial Center trading room before and after the attack on September 11th. networks socecn sociology social_networks autores
  • [Social capital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] The term "capital" is used by analogy with other forms of economic capital, as social capital is argued to have similar (although less measurable) benefits. However, the analogy with capital is misleading to the extent that, unlike traditional forms of capital, social capital is not depleted by use, but in fact depleted by non-use ("use it or lose it"). In this respect, it is similar to the now well-established economic concept of human capital. social_capital socialnetworks community socialcapital capital_social
  • [What Does 'Social Capital' Mean?] The paper begins with an investigation of two metaphors central to the 'social capital' framework – 'glue' and 'capital'. Both are found to be inappropriate descriptions of the kinds of human relationships supposedly being alluded to by the term 'social capital'. While the inappropriateness of the term 'glue' is not a major threat to the discourse, the case of 'capital' is more serious. The rest of the paper is devoted to unravelling the connotations of 'capital' and the implications of applying it to relationships where the kinds of calculations necessary for sound economic performance have no place. The paper concludes by asking, but not answering, the question: Why, if 'social capital' cannot diminish poverty, is it being posited as a substitute for the welfare state, the only institution that does address poverty (if minimally)? socialcapital social_capital capital_social artigos
  • [Spirituality and Performance in Organizations: A Literature Review] The purpose of this article is to review spirituality at work literature and to explore how spirituality improves employees’ performances and organizational effectiveness. The article reviews about 140 articles on workplace spirituality to review their findings on how spirituality supports organizational performance. Three different perspectives are introduced on how spirituality benefits employees and supports organizational performance based on the extant literature: (a) Spirituality enhances employee well-being and quality of life; (b) Spirituality provides employees a sense of purpose and meaning at work; (c) Spirituality provides employees a sense of interconnectedness and community. The article introduces potential benefits and caveats of bringing spirituality into the workplace; providing recommendations and suggestions for practitioners to incorporate spirituality positively in organizations. academia artigos espiritualidade estudos_organizacionais orgtheory organization organizational_theory
  • [UJAM] Para fazer música. musica music tools
  • [The Meaning(s) of Happiness] The research finds that the meaning of happiness shifts as people age: Whereas younger people are more likely to associate happiness with excitement, older people are more likely to associate happiness with feeling peaceful—a change driven by increasing feelings of connectedness (to others and to the present moment) as one ages. happiness felicidade academia artigos pesquisa system:filetype:pdf system:media:document
  • [Social Capital, Health and Community Action: Implication for Health Promotion. By Malin Eriksson] The increase in studies on social capital and health since 1995 indicates interest in the social determinants of health and a call for the use of theory in public health and epidemiology. This paper by Malin Eriksson aims to explore the relationship between social capital and health and to contribute to the theoretical framework of the role of social capital for health and health promotion. socialcapital capital_social social_capital saúde

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8 de junho de 2010 por Mauricio Serafim
Categorias: academia, administracao, ciencia, religiao

Privacidade

22 de fevereiro de 2010 por Mauricio Serafim
Categorias: comportamento, cultura, religiao, sociedade

Não se iludam. A privacidade, a existência de um espaço meu e dos meus, onde a multidão não entra, é talvez a maior conquista da civilização judaico-cristã. Destruir essa barreira sempre foi e sempre será o princípio da tirania.

A sempre provocativa pensata de João Pereira Coutinho. Leia-a na íntegra aqui.

Teologia e organizações

22 de dezembro de 2009 por Mauricio Serafim
Categorias: academia, administracao, religiao

Teologia e organizações

Faz algum tempo que trabalho com a hipótese de que muitos conceitos usados na Administração são conceitos teológicos/religiosos secularizados. Por exemplo, a idéia de eficácia organizacional tem sua origem na ética protestante, como nos ensina Max Weber. Essa hipótese era muito particular, fruto de minha experiência no campo com organizações religiosas.

Para a minha surpresa (nem tanto, porque brincamos na academia que quando achamos que uma idéia é original é porque não fizemos uma pesquisa bibliográfica decente) recebi a chamada de trabalhos para um workshop intitulado “Teologia e Organizações” (veja logo abaixo), da Critical Management Studies, divisão da Academy of Management, a principal associação acadêmica em Administração do mundo.

No texto chamam a atenção para o tema do encontro da Academy of Management de 2010, ‘Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research’, que possui um forte cunho teológico.

Enquanto isso, no Brasil, religião e administração juntos podemparecer tão exóticos quanto um koala.

Call for abstracts (deadline January 15) CMS Division Academy of Management, Montreal:

THEOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION

Conveners:
Bent M. Sørensen (bem.lpf@cbs.dk)
Sverre Spoelstra (sverre.spoelstra@fek.lu.se)

The CMS Division of the AOM will conduct a research workshop immediately prior to the 2010 Academy of Management meetings in Montreal in August 2010. The workshop will begin mid-morning of Wednesday Aug 4 and run till the evening of Thursday Aug 5.  We are coordinating a stream called Theology and Organization in this workshop, and seek submissions from interested researchers.

‘All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state’, Carl Schmitt once wrote, ‘are secularized theological concepts’. The same might also be said about concepts of the modern theory of management and organization. Leadership theory, for example, revolves around theological concepts such as charisma, spirit, inspiration, sacrifice, and humility.

A less obvious example concerns our concept of work. Theologically understood, work was, in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the burden imposed upon man after he had been expelled from Paradise: playfulness now became strictly separated from what was done under the sweat of his brow. One of today’s organizational utopias is an attempt to put work and play together again.

The theological roots of other organizational concepts – such as hierarchy, authority, corporation, community, representation, and vision – appear even less self-evident, which only shows how naturalized theological concepts have become in organization studies and, indeed, in common parlance. The European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) colloquium choose for the 2009 conference an overtly theological theme, ‘Passion for creativity and innovation’, without feeling obliged to acknowledge that both passion and creativity are in fact theological concepts. The AOM theme for 2010, ‘Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research’, goes one step further with this explicit theological footnote to its (theological) theme:

‘Compassion means caring for others as much as caring for oneself, as in the golden rule of “do unto others as you would have done unto yourself” or “love your neighbor as yourself.” All major religions consider compassion to be among the greatest of all virtues.’

This workshop stream encourages thinking through organizations by means of theological concepts (could be ‘compassion’, as in this year’s AOM theme). That is to say, we invite contributions that draw upon theological concepts in making sense of organizational issues, beyond the level of metaphorical analogy or sociological description.
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