PSYCHOLOGY OF SOCIAL GROUPS

Author: ARRIBAS GALARRAGA SILVIA.
Year: 2004.
University: PAÍS VASCO [www.ehu.es].
Place of defense: E.U. MAGISTERIO DE SAN SEBASTIÁN.
Place of preparation: E.U. MAGISTERIO DE SAN SEBASTIÁN.

Summary: This paper presents a theoretical model in which bidirectional relate beliefs about the usefulness of the practice of physical activity and sport (PAFYD), the motivational orientation, the fun and satisfaction, and considers the impact of these variables both on the type of PAYFD as on the change in the type of practice, or even the abandonment of the same. There is also the influence that the type of PAFYD or failure to perform is with regard to the beliefs about its usefulness. In developing the research gives a detailed description of the study population reason for emphasizing the demographics (gender, age, etc.), issues its own PAFYD (type of practice, time and frequency of practice, major motives practice and neglect ..), as well as the link with different psychosocial variables (beliefs about the utility of PAFYD, fun, satisfaction and motivational orientation).

Author: GIMENO GIMENEZ LEONOR.
Year: 2004.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FAC. CC.PP. Y SOCIOLOGÍA (COMPLUTENSE).

Summary: This thesis explores the racist dimension of the encounter between natives and immigrants in Spain, which has not seemed to have been scanned with a psicosociológica understanding and interpretation of processes that capture the dimension of this experience. A review of studies psicosociológicos or sociological on racism in Spain between 1990 and today, showed that most often sidestep the controversy over the concept of race and its impact on the processes of stigma, prejudice and racism, and that notions of xenophobia and racism used in its everyday sense not systematic. Therefore, the main objective of this thesis: discern the presence of racist dimensions and understand its contents in the encounter between indigenous people and immigrant populations in Spain, in the light of concepts that capture the nature of processes and built from reality. What developed over five parties. In presenting the first description of the problem: the dimensions of the problem among minorities encounter in the European Union and Spain "and in the second part of the thesis reviewed the current status of" The psychosocial research on racism, "paying particular attention to aqueilas input addressing "intersubjective production of racism from different disciplines flows psicosociológicas or next. The third part describes the structure of the empirical study: objectives, assumptions of the theory and proposed definition of racism, methodology, which has translated the theoretical model, using a model of integration of quantitative and qualitative methods. In the quarter compiled the results of all information on the production of racist speech in every social status of the indigenous population of Spain. And finally presented an integration of the results and that the investigation took place in the field of theory psicosociológica.

Author: GALÁN FAJARDO ELENA.
Year: 2004.
University: EXTREMADURA [www.unex.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE BIBLIOTECONOMÍA Y DOCUMENTACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CC. DE LA INFORMACIÓN.

Summary: The thesis aims to explore in fiction television formats and its creative process, focusing on the characterization of the characters and the use of stereotypes. To that end, a tour of the most relevant formats fiction cast in Spain since the year 1957 until the present, in order to locate the 'professional drama series'. The study period runs from 1998-2003 and specifically examines two sets: Commissioner and the Central Hospital. The methodology used is the one hand, qualitative (interviews with screenwriters and coordinator of the series) and quantitative (chips quantitative analysis and processing of data) obtaining a series of results. Among the most important are detected social stereotypes, gender, a close relationship between reality and fiction in the frames of argument analyzed, a process widely at the time to characterize the characters and a trend towards new issues and conflicts of the late nineties in Spanish television landscape.

Author: CASTILLO MORENO M. ESTHER.
Year: 2005.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.

Summary: The overall objective of the research on which is based the theory is the study of the meaning and importance of the work for a sample of a few hundred people living in Puebla, in the light of the rich and complex cultural heritage and the Mexican part of the changes in the contemporary world of work and industrial relations in Mexico. In the first part, he examines the historical development of the culture of work in Mexico from precolonial times to the emergence of neo-liberalism in the Mexican socioeconomy. In the second, looks basically the collective responses to the questions under investigation are made through a comprehensive questionnaire paper and pencil. The analysis of the information gathered shows the high importance of work in Mexico (especially as instrumental value) and the close relationship between employment status on the one hand and the meaning given to work, the emotional impact of the work experience and psychological well-being of the other.

Author: MARTINS GOULART PATRÍCIA.
Year: 2005.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.

Summary: The thesis is divided into two parts: In the first, it looks at genealigía of Brazilian culture of contemporary work in Mexico, developed over three distinct stages: 1 - The "portuguesización" of Brazil (from the years 1530 to 1930) 2 - The "Americanization" of Brazil (from the years 1930 to 1990) 3 - The "Brasilización West" (from 1990 to present). The second explores the psychosocial dimension of work experience in contemporary Brazil, "by an empirical study carried out on a sample of 680 people in southern Brazil. The basic tool of the study consists of a comprehensive questionnaire paper and pencil, which includes sets of items and closed a set of open questions. Its main topics are the meaning of work, the perceived impact of their own work experience and viewing and coping's own job prospects. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the responses shows that the meaning of work and work experience are strongly influenced by the state occupational and underemployment is a source of uncertainty and psychological discomfort.

Author: BERNAD I GARCIA JOAN CARLES.
Year: 2006.
University: VALENCIA [www.uv.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAT DE PSICOLOGIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAT DE PSICOLOGIA.