全面建设小康社会与新世纪共青团工作

社会发展的每一个新阶段 ,都对青年提出新的更高的要求 ,也为青年的成长成才带来了机遇和挑战。党的十六大确定的全面建设小康社会的目标 ,要求各级共青团组织紧紧围绕这一奋斗目标 ,动员和组织广大团员青年在完善社会主义市场经济体制、实施科教兴国和可持续发展战略、推动经济结构战略性调整中建功立业 ,引导广大团员青年做建设小康社会的生力军和主力军。     

社会资本理论视野下的中国公民社会

当前,中国社会存在着普遍信任度缺失、弱关系网络资源严重不足、自组织不充足和不规范等特征。建构公民身份意识、培育社会信任、发展民间组织、促进政府与民间组织之间的合作对提升社会资本的存量和质量,实现增量发展,促进由政治统治型向社会治理型的过渡,培育当代中国公民社会成长具有重要的意义。     

“五种‘社会形态’”说对马克思原著的误读

所谓＂五种‘社会形态’＂说,是对马克思原著文本＂社会形态＂、＂经济的社会形态＂论述原著的误读。＂读懂＂马克思新唯物主义史观的《〈政治经济学批判〉序言》对＂现代资产阶级的生产方式＂起源＂累进的＂＂经济的社会形态＂范畴,在中国社会历史发展实际的科学研究中,才能发展中国历史学。     

挑战与应战:公民社会下的村级党组织领导

农村基层党组织是党的路线、方针、政策在农村的贯彻者、宣传者和执行者。但是,在公民社会兴起的大潮中特别是村民民主自治进程的不断推进,使村级党组织的领导核心地位受到了前所未有的挑战。提升执政能力,巩固党在农村公民社会发育中的领导地位;扩大党组织的覆盖面,拓展党在农村公民社会发育中的领导空间;明确村级党组织的功能定位,创新党在农村公民社会发育中的领导方式,是公民社会兴起下村级党组织实现领导方式创新的重要途径。     

谈因人民内部矛盾引发的群体性事件预防措施

群体性事件是我国转型时期社会矛盾的外在反映,应当从动力机制的调整、利益关系的协调、民主法制的加强、科学价值体系的构建等多个方面进行综合治理。只有这样,才能有效化解群体性事件,推动我国社会的和谐、健康、稳定发展。     

论和谐社会的公正概念

公正作为一个社会制度的伦理评价标准,对于建设和谐社会具有重大的现实意义。社会主义建设的重要目标就是社会公正,然而,目前我国社会存在着诸多不公正因素和现象,因此从学理上梳清公正问题,就要结合当前的社会现实,从公正信仰、公正诉求、政治、经济、道德等层面来阐述这一重大问题,以便更好地构建和谐社会。     

Sen’s capability approach and microcredit: lessons from a Malaysian case

This article examines a case study from Malaysia, the Credit Union Malaysia, to illustrate how the capability framework and institutions have practical value within the scope of microcredit, and how the constraints that the disadvantaged face can be relaxed through the use of microcredit. The capability approach provides an analytical framework to describe how a microcredit scheme can overcome the problems posed by conversion factors in order to enlarge the space of capabilities available to individuals.     

Language,NGOs and inclusion: the donor perspective

Listening to communities is valued by UK’s Department of International Development (DFID) for contributing to “beneficiary” empowerment and programme efficiency. This article is based on interviews with elite DFID officials to explore their understandings on how they expect NGOs to engage with local languages and the role of language intermediaries. It uncovers their perceptions of the ways that languages and cultural knowledge shape NGO relationships with communities. It finds that the officials assume that listening is unproblematic for NGOs, and ask few questions about translation and interpretation. The article concludes by reflecting on policy implications and directions for further research.     

How democratic decentralisation facilitates,sustains, and interrupts market-driven development in India

Democratic decentralisation has emerged as an instrument to implement market-driven development, and elected bodies now extend commercial inputs for commodity production and link households to firms. However, the nature of market-driven development under this condition is understudied. This article focuses on an Indian case where, while access to market inputs was shaped by political capital with elected leaders, narrowing market participation, leaders – now market intermediaries – fostered trust in firms, helping sustain market participation. Conflicts over electoral politics interrupted market production. Markets rely on state institutions and are intertwined with politics, contrary to market proponents’ claims that markets stand above society and are unmediated spaces of exchange.     

Participatory modelling and development practice: artisanal fishers in Nicaragua

Development plans with insufficient knowledge about local realities, and that do not share technical or planning details with the target communities, bedevil development practice. This study used a form of participatory modelling in three fishing communities in Nicaragua to enable fishers to explore their economy and the potential impacts of fishery-based development projects. Co-designing a model of the fishing economy in the form of a board game created a forum in which facilitators and participants could arrive at a shared understanding of local fishing practices and the costs and benefits of strategies for addressing the fishers’ priorities.