The uptake of COVID-19 vaccines has varied considerably across European countries. This study investigates people’s decision-making process regarding vaccination by analyzing qualitative interviews (n = 214) with residents from five European countries: Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Switzerland. We identify three factors that shape vaccination decision-making: individual experiences and pre-existing att...
El tiempo es un componente central de la sociedad. En las ciencias sociales es consensuado asumir que el tiempo es una construcción social, resultante de la toma de decisiones guiada por ciertos principios culturales, normativos, éticos, ideológicos y jurídicos que tienen la función de construir una determinada arquitectura temporal que, con el tiempo, se va naturalizando. por los actores sociales. Existen vari...
En este capítulo nos centraremos en el análisis de la relación-tensión entre tiempo y género, a partir primero, de una revisión bibliográfica de la producción en ciencias sociales en la base de datos scopus de los últimos 10 años; y segundo de un análisis realizado en el contexto de pandemia. La búsqueda se realizó a partir de las palabras clave: género y tiempo. Vale decir que no se trata de un estado del arte...
Despite the opportunities for intercultural exchange and diversity in higher education, HEIs continue to grapple with implementing diversity policies and establishing a culture that fosters dialogue and acceptance of diverse perspectives and modes of life. This paper analyzes important trends in the country (Portugal), highlighting key incidents and identified problems, as well as showcasing main practices that...
This working in progress aims to clarify what the ageing academy means, what practical contributions can be drawn from existing studies on the subject, with a view to mapping the main effects that academics identify due to ageing, especially in engineering. By presenting the existing studies on the ageing academy, and the effects and measures to address this issue, it can be assumed that tackling the problem of...
The developments of recent years regarding climate change and dependence on fossil fuels affect not only the planet as such, but the coexistence of all of us - also in cities. Many strategies have already been developed in this regard and many measures for different areas of application have been implemented or launched. In some areas, this effort has already been highly successful, while in other areas a trend...
The pandemic of covid-19 has created the backdrop for a significant change in academic time and, in particular, learning time. This short work in progress paper focuses on the results of a study involving a survey, open interviews with teachers and students and a meeting with students' representatives at one university addressing student's feelings concerning time management throughout Covid 19. The preliminary...
Despite the legislative advancements, studies and reports made on the topic assert that racism is still a prominent issue in Portugal. There are some specific groups that are more prone to suffer racism than others, according to nationality and ethnicity: afro-descendants and roma people (FRA, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2017). This document is a short resume of the contribution prepared for t...
O texto versa sobre a procissão do Senhor dos Passos, uma manifestação religiosa secular que se realiza no quarto domingo da Quaresma na freguesia de Real, Braga. A procissão reconstitui o itinerário dos Passos da Paixão de Cristo (calvários) ao longo da Via Sacra e envolve uma forte dimensão simbólica, social, religiosa e cultural de afirmação identitária da comunidade. Trata-se de uma manifestação religiosa q...
O presente livro reúne textos de estudantes dos vários programas doutorais do Instituto de Ciências Sociais, da Universidade do Minho. Responde aos objetivos autónoma ou em parceria. No seu conjunto, os textos versam sobre temas diversos, seguindo alinhamentos metodológicos diferenciados. Reunimo-los em torno da con- vicção de que o ensino doutoral e, fundamentalmente, as teses doutorais, são elemen- tos chave ...