Portugal atravessa uma situação de crise económica e social (índices crescentes de desemprego, baixos rendimentos familiares, população imigrante significativa, população idosa) que aumenta a pressão sobre os serviços sociais. Confrontadas com a diminuição da capacidade dos sistemas estatais de cuidado continuarem a providenciar este apoio, as pessoas (re) tomam vias informais para lidar com o problema.

Previous research has suggested that the framing of diversity policies or mandates influences how decision-makers evaluate highly qualified minority and female candidates. Specifically, in two studies that utilized an undergraduate population and a field sample of human resource professionals, legalistically worded diversity messages that stressed the legal consequences of discrimination and value diversity messages that stressed the enrichment of work and social groups through its diverse members, both resulted in positive initial evaluations of minority and female targets.

For understanding systems of reasoning and arguing about psychoanalysis in interviews and French newspaper articles, Moscovici (1961, 1976, 2008) proposed the model of systems and metasystems. In the first part of the seminar, this model will be presented and a tentative explanation will be offered for the disappearance of the model in the scientific literature.

Bio:Raquel Rego, Doutorada em sociologia pela Université Lille 1 e simultaneamente pelo ISCTE-IUL em 2007. Autora do livro Dirigeants Associatifs: Engagement et Professionalisation, publicado pela Harmattan em 2010 e primeira autora da entrada «professional associations» da International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, editada por Helmut K. Anheier e Stefan Toepler e publicada pela Springer em 2009.

In some advanced industrial nations, immigrants appear to record superior health status to native-born citizens in, while in others, immigrants appear disadvantaged.

Neste seminário lançam-se as bases de um projeto maior onde procuramos compreender como se constrói o reconhecimento e a fama de indivíduos, objetos, marcas e instituições.

Short abstract: Which kind of decisions are passed by Cabinet in coalition governments? What motivates ministerial action? Do what extent do these actions answer to unforeseen external pressures?