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The aim of this paper is to propose an approach to a process of ostracism, considering the nature of its starting point, its forms of expression and its evolution in a specific social time and space. The main focus of the analysis is a characterisation of the strategies built by the ostracized subject in order to undermine the mentioned process, namely through the conviviality net he weaves and the related activities he engages in. A detailed diary left by the ostracized subject is the document base on which this article is grounded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following the symbolic and economic hegemony of firm's activity, there's the phenomenon of corporatization. Society is increasingly regarded as a firm with diverse social functions transferred to the private tutelage, under the theoretical and ideological intentions of management and its tools. This paper reflects on the sociological characteristics of the management and reengineering, in order to expose the limits of rationality that both express, as well as the ideological representations that guide business nowadays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]