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- «The sun and the clouds»: meaning, potential and limits of the primary solidarity in Portugal in the context of Southern European welfare systemsPublication . Branco, FranciscoOne of the key elements of the widely recognized distinctive character of the Southern European welfare systems is related to its specific institutional welfare arrangement, namely the role of voluntary sector and family as welfare providers. In this point of view, Southern European families play a meaningful welfare role and the informal support networks of families compensate an important part of the public welfare gaps. Although the recognition of the relevance of the social capital based on the primary solidarity as “watermark” of the South Europe countries, other perspectives underlying the need to elucidate the characteristics and limitations of informal support networks. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the meaning, potential and limits of the primary solidarity in Portugal in the context of Southern European welfare system. Theoretical and empirical bases of this paper are the debates on welfare regimes, with particular attention to the Southern European welfare state discussion, the empirical studies on family dynamics and networks in Portugal and the European and international organisations statistical information.
- Life values and creativity in future psychologists and managers: what differences?Publication . Almeida, Leonor; Nogueira, Sara Ibérico; Nogueira, Alexandra; Costa, JoanaWith this study, we intend to describe comparatively the life values and the creative potential of 89 college students, 38 (42.7%) of Psychology and 51 (57.3%) of Management. The mean age is 20.16 years (SD = 3.133). The instruments used included the Life Values Inventory (Almeida, 2006) and the Test for Creative Thinking- Drawing Production (Ibérico Nogueira & Almeida, 2010), adapted for the Portuguese population. Considering the values variable, there are statistically significant differences in the values Achievement, Creativity, Economic Prosperity, Health and Responsibility in favor of future managers and Concern for Others in favor of future psychologists. Regarding the creativity levels there were not found statistically significant differences between the students of psychology and management. In fact, the average value of creativity is 18.62, well below the mean of the German population (31), the cultural context in which the TCT-DP was developed. No correlations were found between life values and creativity, except for Concern for Others, which negatively (and weakly) correlates with creativity (r = .23, p = .03). Considering the low levels of creative performance, it is important to alert to the need to promote, among students, the creative way of thinking, the generation of new ideas and the intention of assuming and risking a less conventional thinking style.
- “Pobres Diferenciados”: crise económica, classe média e procura do serviço socialPublication . Branco, Francisco José do Nascimento; Silva, Catarina Vieira daO artigo que aqui se apresenta constituiu um dos resultados pre-liminares do trabalho de investigação no âmbito do Doutoramento em Serviço Social “Vidas incertas”: Dinâmicas de vulnerabilização económica e desqualificação social da classe média em Portugal. O objetivo central da pesquisa é a compreen-são dos processos de vulnerabilização económica e desqualificação da classe média no contexto português face à crise económica, tomando como observató-rio a procura do Serviço Social e de estruturas de apoio e suporte social por este “novo e diferenciado público”. Neste artigo analisam-se as abordagens utilizadas pelos Assistentes Sociais no atendimento aos novos públicos diferenciados que integram atualmente a procura das estruturas de apoio e suporte social e o seu impacto potencial na identidade profissional dos assistentes sociais enquanto grupo profissional socialmente situado na classe média.