When health is wealth: occupationally differentiated patterns of health capital in post-industrial Europe.

This paper explores the general relationship between peoples' health-related practices and their affiliation with different fields in the occupational structure. It argues that 'healthy behaviour' may be particularly induced in the field of service occupations (jobs where one is providing a service, rather than producing a physical product), rendering such practices an emerging capital in the sense advanced by Bourdieu. The paper presents an empirical elaboration of this theoretical argument by assessing comparative European data on health behavioural dispositions. Across occupational class levels, defined according to Esping-Andersen's post-industrial class scheme, service workers display dispositions suggesting greater possessions of health capital than their counterparts in the industrial hierarchy. In a multilevel analysis, considering societal context, the paper furthermore associates such endowments with post-industrial development. Elaborating on the general relationships identified, we suggest the rising importance of individual health investments to be considered as potentially instigating and reinforcing symbolic boundaries (social closure).

Two epochal turns of inequality, their significance, and their dynamics.

At the end of the twentieth century, two historical turns of economic inequality happened. Among the developed countries of the Global North, the secular trend of decreasing intra-national inequality turned into its opposite. At about the same time, the long period of global inequality began to bend down, among households as well as among nations, a turn less noticed but more significant than the reduction of extreme poverty in the South. The foundation of the former turn was the beginning of de-industrialization in the North, and the coming of a post-industrial society, very different from the one predicted. The paper analyzes the trigger of the turn and the central dynamics of the new inequality in the rich North, financialization, and the digital revolution. It then tries to answer two questions about the global turn: Was the decline of global inequality causally connected to the increase of Northern intra-national inequality? Will there be a development of industrial societies in the South? The answer to both is no. What lies ahead is more likely a global convergence of intra-national unequalization, albeit with both different and similar dynamics, as the decline of extreme poverty in the South is leading to inequality increases comparable to those of the North. Post-industrialism has no egalitarian dialectic like that of industrial capitalism, but the dynamics of the twenty-first century inequality are likely to be confronted not only with popular protest movements but also with an emergent scholarly and intellectual Egalitarian Enlightenment.

Você tem sede de quê? Você tem fome de quê? Psicodrama e consumo / What are you thirsty for? What are you hungry for? Psychodrama and consumption

Ensaio sobre a inserção do Psicodrama no campo das psicoterapias na sociedade brasileira contemporânea. Com base em uma discussão sociocultural do sofrimento humano e de suas possibilidades de compreensão, superação e tratamento em diferentes períodos da história recente, argumenta-se em favor do Psicodrama e seu potencial na sociedade contemporânea como discurso de resistência à homogeneização dos modos de existência.(AU)

Focusing primarily in the Brazilian Psychodrama, this essay endorses Psychodrama as a powerful psychotherapeutic method in contemporary society. Considering the social and cultural context in which human suffering has been understood, surpassed and treated in recent times, the author argues that Psychodrama is a resistance discourse facing the homogenization of life styles.(AU)