https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/2433 2026-08-02T20:56:27Z https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/25407 Título: Os sons do espaço público e da arquitetura na sociedade da sonorização ativa Autor(es): Pacheco, Cristiano Ricardo de Azevedo Abstract: This thesis proposes a reinterpretation of urban listening, examining how soundscapes and city life are mutually configured. Based on a comparative analysis of the neighborhoods of Aruana, in Aracaju (Brazil), and Solum, in Coimbra (Portugal), the study investigates the relationship between sound, public space, and architecture, arguing that active sound, understood as deliberate intervention in acoustic environments, can profoundly transform the urban experience. Here, sound assumes the role of an epistemological and sensitive operator, and its marginalization is rejected as mere acoustic background or noise. The soundscapes of Aruana and Solum are analyzed as living archives of affections, conflicts, resistance, and collective memories. By prioritizing situated and shared listening, the research proposes to discern the urban sphere through diverse ways of listening and attributing meaning to the territory. The research refutes the hegemony of the visual field in urban planning, exposing the deafness of social sciences towards the sonic dimension. Inspired by authors such as Murray Schafer and Henri Lefebvre, the adopted methodology combines soundwalking, sensory ethnography, and acoustic mapping. The study reveals that urban sounds, which can range from car engines to birdsongs, popular festivals, or the intermittent silence of parks, are active agents in the production of social space. The research unfolds in three interdependent but mutually complementary phases. The first, qualitative in nature, focuses on sensitive wandering through neighborhoods, proposing a reading of the city guided by listening. The second, quantitative, analyzes responses from locally administered surveys, highlighting acoustic perceptions and modes of spatial appropriation. In the third phase, in-depth analysis of soundwalks and brainstorming sessions reveals how participants react critically to acoustic environments, reinterpreting the territory based on the sounds that reverberate within it. The originality of this thesis lies in the creation of a replicable methodological model that combines statistical rigor, interpretative depth, and aesthetic sensitivity. Through the proposal of active sound reinforcement as a tool for urban intervention, it is herein demonstrated that intentionally introduced sounds can reframe spaces, encourage citizen participation, and strengthen emotional bonds with the built environment. In the analyzed neighborhoods, the research reveals significant contrasts in the composition and appropriation of sound environments. While Aruana, where gated communities and street markets predominate, displays a cacophony of commercial, natural, and political sounds, Solum, linked to the academic and heritage fabric, echoes the rhythms of university life and sonic traces of its past. This interpretation attests that urban planning should not only control noise, but also value acoustic diversity as an expression of local identity. The thesis's conclusions demonstrate that urban listening constitutes an interpretative practice that broadens the understanding of space beyond its visible materiality. Sounds both reflect social dynamics and influence modes of occupation, circulation, and coexistence, becoming mediators of territorial relations. The research corroborates that sound can be used as an instrument of identity recognition, activation of collective memory, and political contestation, or, conversely, as a device of exclusion and control, depending on how it is regulated and perceived. Comparative analysis allows us to identify a contrast between muted listening practices, based on indifference and dissolution, as observed in certain areas of Solum, and densified listening, strongly imbued with political and affective meanings, as observed in several areas of the Aruana neighborhood. Thus, the act of active listening constitutes a means of accessing subjective and collective dynamics often rendered invisible in conventional interpretations of the urban environment. Finally, it is herein argued that acoustic planning should not be limited to noise mitigation, but rather take on a proactive and dialogic nature, integrating listening practices as a tool for diagnosis, mediation, and urban intervention. Thus, the thesis proposes that the future of sensitive cities depends on the ability to listen to their sounds with critical and affective attention, recognizing in these traces of belonging, present-day conflicts, and the desire for a more just and shared space. In a world where silence is a privilege and sound intrusion is a widespread phenomenon, this research affirms that the cities of the future must be designed not only for the eyes, but also for the ears, as it is in the acoustic interweaving of everyday life that the sensitive layers of urban life are revealed. 2026-04-29T00:00:00Z https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/25406 Título: Juventudes, igrejas evangélicas e política na periferia Autor(es): Souza Filho, Florival José de Abstract: This thesis analyzes the role of religious socializing institutions - evangelical churches - as mediators of the ways of life and political formation of young people in peripheral urban neighborhoods, taking as a field of research, the neighborhood of Santa Maria, located in the southern zone of the city of Aracaju, capital of the state of Sergipe. According to the sociological literature on youth and its relations with politics and religion, young people living in the peripheries are mostly 'black, poor and poorly educated', and are therefore stigmatized by society. The presence of the churches and their religious leaders end up sharing the space with other institutions of political formation such as political parties; schools; neighborhood associations; non-governmental organizations that operate in different areas of the peripheries. To this end, I analyze the phenomenon of the steady growth of evangelical churches in the peripheries of the city of Aracaju, their speeches, actions and their relationship with politics, aiming to understand their role as mediators of the lifestyles of young believers; involving the contradictions experienced by young people; the role of evangelical leaders; and the consensus and disagreements of young people in relation to progressive and conservative political goals. 2026-02-26T00:00:00Z https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/25405 Título: Modulação algorítmica e psicopolítica: juventude digital na era das plataformas Autor(es): Reiher, Carla Betânia Abstract: This thesis investigates contemporary processes of subjectivation based on the experience of young Instagram users. It starts from the understanding that digital platforms do not operate merely as means of interaction, but as sociotechnical devices that govern practices, affects, desires, and forms of visibility, producing new ways of being and existing in the world. The expansion of digital social networks reveals modes of existence oriented by logics of prediction, performance, comparison, visibility, and social validation. The research is grounded in the articulation between theories of subjectivation and analyses of psychopolitical power, which understand subjectivation as a relational process, historically situated and traversed by regimes of modulation of subjectivities. Instagram is taken as the empirical field due to its centrality as a device for organizing contemporary social experience, whose architecture articulates massive data collection, predictive analysis, and the modulation of behaviors, affects, and desires. The empirical focus involves young people aged between 16 and 24, with different forms of relationship with the platform. The methodological approach is qualitative, based on the application of a questionnaire, in-depth interviews, and direct observation. The analysis shows that, even with different intensities of use, subjects remain crossed by dynamics of self-comparison, visibility, affection, and social validation, mediated by algorithmic architectures that operate directly and in a distributed manner beyond the digital interface. As an analytical result, four ideal types are constructed: the hyperperformative subject, oriented toward exposure and performance; the ambivalent subject, marked by oscillations between engagement and distancing; the captured subject, whose subjectivation is strongly crossed by mechanisms of personalization and algorithmic modulation; and the oblique subject, characterized by low engagement but still traversed by norms of digital culture. The findings indicate that continuous interaction with the digital environment acts as a vector of affective modulation, modulated desire, and reorganization of practices of the self, producing new forms of sociability (shallow sociability) and figures of errant circulation in the digital environment, such as the CyberWalkers. By understanding algorithmic modulation as a technique within a regime of psychopolitical digital modulation, articulated with the logic of performative selfgovernment and performative a-resistance, this thesis contributes to the sociological analysis of contemporary transformations of subjectivity in the context of the digitalization of everyday life and shows how the constitution of the self occurs under technical, affective, and symbolic architectures oriented by processes of prediction, algorithmic modulation, and modulation of affects, associated with regimes of visibility and the search for social validation. 2026-02-25T00:00:00Z https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/25404 Título: Tecendo carreiras: trajetórias e legitimação profissional de designers de moda em Sergipe Autor(es): Costa, Mariana Letícia Abstract: This dissertation examines the processes through which the profession of fashion designer in Brazil is constructed, legitimized, and recognized, with particular emphasis on the peripheral context of Sergipe, departing from the problem of the absence of formal regulation and the subordinate position of local agents in relation to hegemonic centers of consecration, notably the Southeast axis. The study aims to analyze how professional trajectories and institutional conditions are structured within this career, drawing upon the theoretical framework of the sociology of professions, especially Pierre Bourdieu, Eliot Freidson, and Howard Becker, in order to understand mechanisms of credentialing, professional socialization, and autonomy. Methodologically, the research combines a bibliographical review with a prosopographical approach applied to a set of 18 nationally recognized designers, identifying patterns of recruitment and sociodemographic profiles within the elite of the field; additionally, it conducts a qualitative analysis of the trajectories of eight professionals active in Sergipe through in depth interviews, in order to grasp the specificities of a peripheral context. The findings indicate that the national elite is predominantly male 77.8 percent and concentrated in the Southeast region 66.7 percent, with four main trajectory profiles coexisting: heirs to the textile trade, upwardly mobile autodidacts, graduates of private education, and members of the academic elite. In Sergipe, the study observes initial socialization within domestic and artisanal settings, a delayed pursuit of higher education as a symbolic resource for consecration, multiple professional engagements resulting from the fragility of the local market, and what is termed an external validation syndrome, whereby local prestige remains subordinated to recognition in major urban centers. It concludes that fashion design in Brazil exhibits an incomplete process of professionalization: in the absence of state jurisdiction, professional identity is sustained through intense biographical labor, as each agent individually negotiates technical authority and social prestige through networks, symbolic capital, and the management of visibility, thereby revealing informal mechanisms of selection and consecration that structure the field. 2026-02-25T00:00:00Z