谋求民生改善和社会改革的更大进展——“十二五”期间社会发展阶段性特征探析

＂十二五＂时期是全面建设小康社会的关键时期,是深化改革开放、加快转变经济发展方式的攻坚时期。此期间我国社会发展具有五个阶段性特征：社会结构的调整进入突破阶段;社会事业的发展将进入起飞阶段;社会矛盾的化解进入攻坚阶段;社会心理的调适进入自觉阶段;社会管理的运作进入创新阶段。这些阶段性特征是科学制定和实施＂十二五＂规划和社会政策,谋求民生改善和社会改革取得更大进展的现实条件。     

析社会转型中新闻从业者的角色冲突与紧张

中国社会的整体转型,新闻业的变革,以及＂后新闻业时代＂的开启,是新闻从业者角色冲突与紧张的社会环境因素。运用社会学的＂地位＂和＂角色＂及相关理论分析其角色认知变迁、过多角色期待带来的角色混乱、角色追求的分化、角色认同的缺失等,由此可探讨出其角色冲突与紧张的主要缘由。     

从法律角度浅谈运动员的社会保障

伴随中国近年来体育事业的蓬勃发展,职业运动员队伍已经超过十万人,并在逐年递增。由于职业的特殊性、高风险性,他们从业过程中以及退役之后的社会保障问题非常值得关注。应当从立法、社会保障法律及制度体系构建方面加强对职业运动员的社会保障工作。     

Between Chaos and Diversity: Is Social Memory Studies a Field?

Is (or are) memory studies, social or otherwise, a field? If so, does anything hold it together beyond the mere use of the phrase “collective memory”? Memory studies is simultaneously still in its charismatic phase, though it no longer has a right to be, as well as highly resistant to efforts to escape from it, though it clearly needs to do so. To be a field, it needs a memory of its own.     

Probiotics in Tanzania: a multi-partner development project

This article critically examines an HIV/AIDS development and research project in Mwanza, Tanzania. A group of women produce a type of probiotic yoghurt that has provided evidence of lowering the incidence of HIV infection. The yoghurt is consumed by the women, their family members, and local citizens living with HIV/AIDS; surplus is sold within the community. While the project's multi-partner, multi-disciplinary composition allows for varied expertise and insights, it also requires open and collaborative dialogue. This article discusses the project's challenges, positive outcomes, and some of the socio-cultural issues that need to be addressed if it expands in size and/or scope.     

Social(ist) engineering. Taming the devils of the Polish Bieszczady

This article explores the background of social engineering in the Bieszczady in the 1950s and 1960s, when a revolutionary political leadership ventured to impose a new socialist order in an area ravaged by war and ethnic cleansing. The article addresses two questions: first, what were the conditions that resulted in the failure of socialist engineering in the Bieszczady, and second, what were the consequences of this failure for relationships at the local level? One thesis put forward is that the relative weakness of the Polish state vis-à-vis the local setting left plenty of room for local residents to develop a dynamic social order of their own.     

思想政治工作要注重社会心理研究

社会心理研究在思想政治工作中占有极其重要的地位,对增强思想政治工作科学性、前瞻性和时效性具有重要作用。当前思想政治常规工作中,对社会心理仍缺乏深入细致的研究,以致其价值与功能难以有效发挥,滞后于实践的发展。在新的历史条件下,要注重党风与社会心理关系、大众文化与社会心理关系以及社会心理的对策性等方面研究,以进一步拓展思想政治工作新视野,发挥思想政治工作新效能,提高思想政治工作的可操作性。     

我是谁?:流动少年的多元身份认同

在社会环境急剧变迁的当今中国社会,个体的认同不再是赋予和给定的,而处在不断的解构和建构的过程中。本文通过对北京市"城中村"流动少年多元身份认同的定性与定量研究,发现在城乡身份方面,大多数流动少年认为自己是"农村人",但同时也出现了"城市化了的"流动少年。流动少年的籍贯身份并不是确定无疑的,它受到情境和文化等多元因素的影响。而在社会表征性身份方面,流动少年并不认同"农民工子女"称谓,对"流动人口子女"身份也提出了质疑。多元异质的流动少年群体可以统合在"外地人"的社会范畴身份之中。     

我国社会和谐稳定的时序分析及模拟预警——运用社会指标理论和方法施行前馈控制可能性探索

根据中共十六届四中全会明确提出要“建立健全社会预警体系”的要求,我们尝试建立了一套对社会和谐稳定进行监测评估的预警指标体系。根据这一指标体系,采集了1985-2002年的有关数据,对社会和谐稳定状况进行了时间序列分析,以此来印证我们曾经经历的社会过程和本指标体系的实证效果,以期能够为各级政府提供一种预警工具,从而增强对社会和谐稳定的前馈控制能力。     

TRANSITORY MOBILITY,CULTURAL HETEROGENEITY,AND VICTIMIZATION RISK AMONG YOUNG MEN OF COLOR: INSIGHTS FROM AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY IN CAPE TOWN,SOUTH AFRICA

The coupling of racial and economic stratification has been found to result in a range of adverse outcomes for youth of color, including disproportionate exposure to violence and victimization. Primary explanations of these patterns, particularly at the micro‐level, have focused on the impact of street culture. In this article, we draw from a multiyear ethnography in Cape Town, South Africa, to offer a theoretical elaboration of the place of culture in contributing to victimization risks among urban minority young men. The study is based on data collected from a sample of 26 young men of color who lived on the Cape Flats between 2003 and 2006. Using grounded theory methods, we suggest the import of unequal access to spatial mobility as a multifaceted means by which culture mediates young men's risks for victimization in disadvantaged communities. We find that transitory mobility—conceptualized as youth's temporary access to cultural spaces outside their segregated residential neighborhoods—is an important source of cultural heterogeneity in townships that can intensify the strength of local social identities and outgroup antipathies directed at those whose mobility is perceived as a cultural threat. Transitorily mobile young men's cultural repertoires are a key facet of street efficacy that can either insulate them from risk or heighten their vulnerabilities. Our findings are suggestive of important sources of variation in young men's victimization outcomes in disadvantaged communities, offering insights about factors that shape risks beyond those linked to the victim–offender overlap in high‐risk settings.