群体性事件的根源分析及其化解——基于社会运行机制的分析

当前我国群体性事件频发,成为影响社会稳定和发展的突出问题。以社会运行机制为分析视角,比较传统社会和现代社会发展运行机制,我国现代社会单纯依靠经济发展作为社会控制力的唯一支撑,这种社会运行机制所导致的社会结构性压力严重和社会控制力低下是当前群体性事件多发的根本原因。因此,必须实现社会制度的公正,重建社会信仰体系,实现科学发展。     

新时期农村群体性事件的对策研究

现阶段我国农村的群体性事件,总体上属于人民内部矛盾,具有非对抗性、非政治性和人民内部性。对于人民内部矛盾,原则上应按人民内部矛盾来处理,要采用民主的方法、法制的方法、说服教育等方法来妥善解决,尤其是要加强制度建设,从制度上减少不稳定因素,维护农村社会稳定。     

“情境”视阈下公安院校思想政治教学创新实践研究

在中国当前高校的思想政治教育教学研究中,以情境视角加以介入的研究才刚刚起步,而将情境视角融入于公安院校的思想政治教育教学更是凤毛麟角。本文在人本主义理论的情境视阈下,以认知行为理论为指导,尝试将小组工作方法应用于公安院校思想政治教育教学实践,为公安院校思想政治教育教学实践提供一种新的可能。     

处置边境地区群体性械斗事件研究

公安边防部队作为维护边境地区社会治安稳定的职能部门,处置边境地区群体性械斗事件是其重要任务之一。该文以对群体性械斗事件的思考为出发点,分析了边境地区群体性械斗事件的主要种类、特点和公安边防部队处置群体性械斗事件的薄弱环节,并在此基础上提出几点对策的思考,即加强情报信息工作,不断完善预案,提升干警法律素质及战术水平等。为公安边防部队提高处置群体性械斗事件能力,维护边境地区和谐稳定提供参考。     

Citizenship and inclusion: rethinking the analytical category of noncitizenship

The paper problematises the category of noncitizenship. It traces its trajectory in accounts of inclusive citizenship and argues that it is difficult to theorise it as a distinct theoretical category outside of citizenship. To support this argument, the paper distinguishes between a pluralist, political and democratic variant of accounts of inclusive citizenship and it shows how they all end up reducing noncitizenship to a journey to citizenship. To overcome this limit, the paper develops the idea of subversive politicisation and suggests that injustices and inequalities can be challenged without falling back on the vocabulary of citizenship.     

构建依法化解群体性事件纠纷机制的思考[1]

群体性事件是在经济转型期各种社会矛盾相互碰撞集中爆发的外在形式,其主要分为因经济发展不平衡、政治诉求难以满足和经济利益冲突转化为政治诉求引发的群体性事件等三种类型。国际社会有着成熟的处置群体性纠纷的方法和经验,在借鉴相关经验的基础上,应当通过建立社会调解机制、新型社会组织参与机制和信访运行机制,探索构建我国群体性事件的纠纷解决机制。     

政府在环境纠纷处理中的角色回归与职能矫正

我国经济高速发展30多年,环境欠账积弊日深,随着公众环境意识的提升,因环境问题而引发的群体性事件不断增多且形势日益严峻,不容忽视。环境群体性事件不断发生或得不到很好解决的根本原因在于地方政府在环境治理中的角色偏差和职能错位。要杜绝因政府角色偏差和职能错位导致的合谋行为,就必须加强监管,矫正政府在环境群体性事件中的角色偏差,进一步将职能从经济职能转移到社会服务上来,以保障环境群体性事件的解决和环境治理的效果。     

Introducing the Journal of Civil Society: An editorial statement

Abstract

The comparative strength of Scandinavian democracy is perceived to depend on its close connection with a widespread and membership-based associational life that cultivates orientations and behaviour in harmony with an active, egalitarian citizenship. However, at the end of the twentieth century, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish governmental audits simultaneously revealed that the integrated Scandinavian model of democracy appeared not only to be diverging but threatened by individualization, segregation, and globalization. By a critical examination of various research findings, this article argues that Scandinavian civil society in certain respects is undergoing severe transformations that may explain more general tendencies of Scandinavian democracy. The changes of the civil society are not only internal, such as a shift from members to volunteers. Also externally, substantial changes are taking place, these partly due to governance structures and runaway parties, and causing some civic actors to move from the input side to the output side of the political system; others are shaping their critical role by speaking a global human rights language. Even though Scandinavian civil society has become more diverse, it is still undoubtedly embedded in Scandinavian democracy. However, its role as a trustworthy ally of an integrated democracy should no longer be taken for granted.     

Differences in the usefulness of communication channels,as experienced by gender and ethnic groups during their university selection process

Abstract

Recruiting students to enrol at a particular institution is becoming a competitive and challenging process for higher education institutions. Therefore, institutions should create efficient and effective ways of providing relevant information to prospective students during their process of selecting an institution. The major communication channels that prospective students consult during their selection process, and the usefulness thereof for students, are important knowledge imperatives for higher education institutions. In this study, 12 different channels of communication, considered by students during a typical higher education institution selection process, were investigated. A non-probability convenience sample of 1 241 first-year students from six higher education institutions in South Africa was drawn. Findings suggest that female students attach a significantly higher value to nine of the 12 communication channels, compared to their male counterparts. There were also differences between the ethnic groups in terms of the usefulness of events on campus, high school teachers, open days and campus visits, as well as university publications. Higher education institutions can use the results to develop communication strategies that are more student oriented, in order to reinforce their image and to reach students more effectively through the appropriate communication channels.     

‘Narcoballads’: The Psychology and Recruitment Process of the ‘Narco’

There have been several studies conducted about racist groups, gangs, cults, terrorist and other criminal organisations, but very little has been written about the psychology and recruitment process of the ‘narcotrafficker’. This is because like most criminal organisations, they tend to be secretive and difficult to penetrate by law enforcement, academics and others who wish to study them. Using an audio‐recorded content analysis of ‘narcocorridos’ — ballads glorifying the activities of the ‘narcos’ and describing their successes' — as well as Social Identity and Group theories, the author describes some of the techniques used to recruit individuals into drug cartels; the labels, stereotypes and images of the in-group versus the out-group and the similarities in the socialisation and recruitment process of other criminal organisations. This study shows the recruitment of individuals into drug cartels follow similar patterns to other criminal organisations including the need for power, belonging, respect, security and pride.