https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/3215 2026-06-21T04:57:27Z 2026-06-21T04:57:27Z https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/46990 2026-06-15T13:26:14Z 2026-04-27T00:00:00Z

Título: Dinâmicas do ciclo vítima–agressor no cyberbullying entre adolescentes de escolas privadas de alto padrão em São Paulo e a construção de um modelo institucional de prevenção e combate à violência sistemática escolar Abstract: In the context of contemporary youth sociability, increasingly mediated by digital platforms, understanding cyberbullying has become an urgent concern. This urgency is particularly evident in high-income private schools attended by upper-class adolescents with substantial economic resources and a significant accumulation of social and symbolic capital. Within these elite environments—marked by intense competition for prestige, constant peer surveillance through digital networks, and strong pressures for recognition—practices of exposure, humiliation, and retaliation assume specific configurations, closely intertwined with the dynamics of distinction that structure these social spaces. It is within this context that this dissertation is situated. Its central objective is to investigate how moral disengagement and the desire for revenge influence the transition from victim to aggressor in cyberbullying, as well as to analyze the implications of this transition for identity formation, power relations, and the online and offline social networks of these adolescents. The study is theoretically grounded in five core frameworks. Bandura’s concept of moral disengagement provides insight into how adolescents legitimize retaliatory behavior by suspending ethical restraints through socially shared justifications. Bourdieu’s theoretical perspective enables the interpretation of elite schools as fields of symbolic struggle, in which capitals, hierarchies, and mechanisms of distinction shape belonging and trajectories of conflict. Bauman’s analysis illuminates the logic of visibility and fluidity in digital interactions, wherein public humiliation acquires social value by being transformed into performance before an audience. Coleman’s contribution highlights how the weakening of trust networks and social capital reduces collective constraints and amplifies incentives for aggression. Finally, Paulo Freire offers analytical tools to understand how institutional silencing and the lack of recognition of suffering foster revenge as a socially intelligible response. Methodologically, the research adopts a mixed-methods design with a quantitative emphasis. Data were collected in two waves between 2023 and 2025 across five high-income private schools, involving a total of 818 adolescents. Anonymous questionnaires were administered, including sections on victimization and perpetration in digital environments, perceptions of norms and school climate, patterns of social media use, and repertoires of retaliation. Open-ended items captured individual narratives concerning conflict, public exposure, status, perceived injustices, and expectations of response. The findings indicate that the victim-to-aggressor transition cannot be explained solely by individual experiences of suffering, but rather is embedded in relational and institutional dynamics characteristic of elite schools, where symbolic performance pressures are particularly strong. Retaliation emerges as a strategy primarily when schools fail to adequately acknowledge incidents, when support networks are fragile, or when the digital audience—whether silent or encouraging—offers prestige and opportunities for social repositioning. In more cohesive and dialogical school environments, equipped with clear and consistent protocols, a significant reduction in this transition is observed. The study concludes that, in this context, cyberbullying operates as a social practice that regulates internal hierarchies, reinforces distinctions, and organizes youth identities under the logic of visibility and competition. As an applied contribution, this dissertation proposes guiding principles for an institutional protocol of response, mediation, and documentation, aimed at interrupting cycles of revenge, restoring social bonds, and strengthening networks of care within the school environment Tipo: Tese

2026-04-27T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/46916 2026-05-26T17:26:52Z 2026-03-20T00:00:00Z

Título: Fronteiras, diante da vida, da morte e da espera: travessias de jovens em mobilidade nos corredores migratórios Brasil-México Abstract: The contexts of human (im)mobility have changed over recent decades, and Latin America has undergone profound transformations in these processes, especially because some countries in the region have ceased to be merely senders of migrants and have become receivers (Álvarez Velasco, 2021) of different types of mobility, corresponding to distinct migratory modalities and temporalities. These changes have occurred simultaneously with a period marked by a consistent securitarian turn, in which measures and practices are deployed to block, contain, or even prevent the mobility of these populations across the American continent. Thus, the perception of a “multiplication of borders” (Mezzadra, 2015) is notable, while at the same time being reworked by different social actors who participate in these dynamics. Despite the growing criminalization of migration, people continue to move, even though these mobilities are produced under multiple inequalities (Sheller, 2018) and as a result of policies of death (Mbembe, 2018). This thesis addresses borders and their multiple configurations and, likewise, explores the intimate relationship between life, death, and waiting in the experiences of (im)mobility of people who are compelled to undertake irregularized migratory journeys. In the case analyzed here, individuals depart from Brazil in an attempt to reach the “Global North,” particularly the United States, but find themselves in situations of waiting (Khosravi, 2021a; Miranda, 2021) in Mexico. The central objective of this investigation is to analyze how and under what conditions young migrants (Borelli & Paiva, 2022) from the “Global South” undertake migratory journeys (Knowles, 2017) through different corridors connecting Brazil and Mexico and, eventually, reach the United States. This study assumes that migratory corridors become spaces of dispute (Álvarez Velasco; Pedone; Miranda, 2021) and that one of their constitutive elements is the production of migrant struggles, even when these are not organized or driven by explicit political intentionality (Mezzadra, 2012a; Domenech & Dias, 2020) or politically institutionalized. This is a struggle over space (Massey, 2004), interconnected with a struggle for the right to movement (Papadopoulos; Stephenson; Tsianos, 2008), which is ultimately a struggle for life (Varela-Huerta, 2019), for a minimally “livable” life (Butler, 2020; Varela Huerta, 2019). To develop this analysis, a “multiscalar ethnography” (Xiang & Lindquist, 2014) and a “multi-sited ethnography” (Marcus, 1995) were conducted, focusing on the city of São Paulo (SP/Brazil) and the city of Tapachula (Chiapas/Mexico), where fieldwork was carried out between 2021 and 2024. The investigation is grounded in contexts marked by tensions and convergences (Feldman-Bianco, 2018) between mobility and immobility, movement and control, criminality and migration, as well as between human rights and humanitarianism. Rather than analyzing specific migration policies or strictly local dynamics, the study examines how Brazil is embedded in these processes, based on an analysis of migrations that pass through São Paulo and connect with other territories within Brazil and beyond, such as Tapachula. The study seeks to understand the asymmetries and inequalities present in the mobilities of migrants along these routes, which are increasingly fragmented (Collyer, 2007), dangerous, and irregularized. One of the hypotheses advanced is the creation of a “wall of visas” (Cintra & Martuscelli, 2025) and the unequal distribution of citizenship (Ruseishvili & Surak, 2024). The results demonstrate that processes of “illegalization” of migratory status, as well as the production of migrant “illegality” (De Genova, 2002), operate in a multiscalar and highly interconnected manner, even across geographically distant territories. These dynamics extend to spaces far removed from national borders and particularly distant from the Mexico–United States border, such as Brazil and the city of São Paulo. Such contexts reinforce Brazil’s role in the configuration and production of global spaces of migratory transit Tipo: Tese

2026-03-20T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/46893 2026-06-16T18:24:04Z 2026-03-27T00:00:00Z

Título: Sob o signo do diamante: cultura, gênero e raça no processo migratório dos moradores de São João da Chapada Diamantina para Carapicuíba Abstract: The thesis aims to discuss the construction of the cultural identity of the São João community during the migration process to the metropolitan area of São Paulo. To this end, I utilized life stories and documents from the migrants themselves who formed the community in Carapicuíba starting in 1970, which is currently expanding. Through interviews and analyses supported by relevant literature on the subject, the research demonstrates that the São João migration process, based on the cultural structures found in São João, northern Minas Gerais, produced a new cultural identity in São Paulo. The discussions engage in dialogues with various authors and address themes related to social and cultural relations, set against the backdrop of the social changes brought about by migrations and the metropolitan expansion of São Paulo Tipo: Tese

2026-03-27T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/46797 2026-04-29T10:47:21Z 2026-03-19T00:00:00Z

Título: Mobilizações contra o racismo no Linkedin: um estudo de caso sobre a mudança na política de anúncios de vagas afirmativas no Brasil Abstract: Digital platforms developed by companies commonly referred to as big techs have played a central role in the economy, entertainment, and the labor market, and have consequently exerted a significant influence on users’ lives and choices through their products and services. Within this context—ranging from algorithmic programming to terms of service, advertising policies, and user interactions—digital platforms can be understood as dispositifs that reproduce social logics and biases, as observed in the case of racism and in both online and offline forms of resistance to it. This study aims to reconstruct the process of user mobilization on the LinkedIn platform against its job advertising policy, which in 2022 excluded an affirmative action job posting restricted to Black and Indigenous people, published by the Center for the Analysis of Liberty and Authoritarianism (LAUT). The proposal is to answer the following question: how was the mobilization organized that changed LinkedIn’s job posting policy and enabled the publication of affirmative action job opportunities for Black people in Brazil? To this end, the study employs content analysis methodology (Bardin, 2020), based on the examination of posts and manifestos produced at the time of the episode, as well as structured qualitative interviews with representatives of organizations participating in the mobilization, in order to test two hypotheses: that polarization around affirmative action in the labor market is present even on a platform perceived as moderate due to its professional focus; and that the movement formed around the LAUT case functioned as a regulatory and oversight force over the platform. Qualitative content analysis identified the paths taken to establish dialogue with the platform, the factors that made the mobilization effective, the ways in which companies became involved in the mobilization, the tone of the dialogue established, and the effectiveness of using the platform itself as a tool for mobilization Tipo: Dissertação

2026-03-19T00:00:00Z