新生代农民工市民化相关问题的社会学分析

随着我国市场经济的发展和城市化进程的加快,大量的农村剩余劳动力大规模地向城市转移,形成了一个特殊的农民工群体。随着改革的深入,新生的农民工在城市化的建设、社会转型、社会结构调整中日益发挥着重要的作用。他们已经成为我国的产业工人的重要组成部分。但是新生代农民工在市民化的过程中存在很多问题,严重影响了市民化的进程,本文对新生代农民工的市民化问题进行简要探讨和分析。     

新生代农民工融入城市问题与对策——基于社会资本视角

我国未来30多年的时间将是农村人口向城市转移的黄金时期,这一阶段的新生代农民工社会融入将成为城镇化实现的关键环节。从社会资本的视角下研究新生代农民工社会融入,探索了私人关系型社会资本、组织型社会资本和制度型社会资本对新生代农民工社会融入所形成的障碍。在此基础上,就如何构建新型次级社会资本、完善组织型社会资本的利益代表功能及强化制度型社会资本的保障功能三个层面提出了相应的建议。     

农民工市民化与中国的城市化

正农民市民化是中国城市化、现代化过程中的重要一环。不同于其他国家的"一步转移",在国家制度、政策的影响下,中国农村人口的城市化被分割成两个子阶段:第一阶段是从农民(农村剩余劳动力)到城市农民工的过程;第二阶段是从城市农民工到产业工人和市民的职业与身份的变化过程。随着农民第一阶段城市化转移的实现,存量农民工的市民化已经成为目前中国城市化进程中的焦点,也是学术研究必须面对和关注的重大实践与理论问题。     

关于我国新生代农民工市民化问题的探讨

在当前，有大量的新生代农民工希望真正地融入到城市中，但是由于当前我国的政策、制度，城市居民的排斥以及农民工自身原因，使得他们无法实现市民化。因此，对于寻求新生代农民工市民化过程中存在的问题，找到相应的解决对策，对于引导新生代农民工向市民转变具有重要的意义。     

新生代农民工教育培训困境分析

在当前，要想使我国新生代农民工在融入城市过程中真正实现市民化，扎根落户于城市社会中，除了改革现有不利于新生代农民工城市融入的各种制度之外，还要加强对新生代农民工的培训教育，通过政府、企业、新生代农民工自身等多方力量合作，才能让新生代农民工在城市更好地生存和发展，健康地完成从“农”到“非农”的转变。     

留住农民工应剥离附着在户籍上的福利

我国正在由劳动力过剩向劳动力短缺转变,重视新生代农民工群体的诉求,无疑是未来十年城市发展的动力所在。然而,当前的情况是,一些新生代农民工想留在城市,但因为子女教育、父母养老等问题无法在城市安居。新生代农民工该如何融入城市?城市又应该为他们创造什么样的环境?(11月8日《中国青年报》)     

新生代农民工参与城市公共事务问题探讨

新生代农民工绝大部分时间生活、工作在城市,城市公共事务的决策与他们的切身利益密切相关。新生代农民工参与城市公共事务是他们的一项正当性权利。然而,当前我国新生代农民工参与城市公共事务基本上处于缺位状态。协商民主作为一种公共决策模式,为破解我国新生代农民工参与城市公共事务的缺位问题提供了理论指导与实践启示。     

公共财政视角下农民工子女义务教育问题研究

20世纪80年代以来，随着城市化进程的加快，大量农民进城务工，同时越来越多的农民工倾向将子女带到条件更好的城市上学。在农村剩余劳动力向城市转移成为一个必然趋势时，由此产生的农民工子女教育问题是无法回避的。一、农民工子女义务教育的现状目前，我国流动人口规模呈现出快速增长的趋势。根据2000年第五次人口普查资料显示，我国的流动人口已经达到1．21亿人，比1990年增长4．67倍，其中74％为农业户口，     

农民工职业培训公共服务域外经验与启示

改革开放以来,随着城市化、工业化的快速推进,我国大量农村剩余劳动力向非农产业和城镇转移.但是,农民工的职业技能水平还不能满足我国产业发展和劳动力市场需求,因此要开展农民工职业技能培训、提高农民素质.     

农民工融入城市的难与不难——首届全国农民工社会工作服务创新研讨会综述

农民工，一个具有鲜明中国特色的名字，记录和承载着我国改革开放30多年来的变迁与发展。过去很长一段时间，农民工基本被定格为一群工作在城市但家在农村的人。但是，自从新生代农民工逐渐成长并走上社会，他们在城乡间迁徙的特征正逐渐淡去。新生代农民工认为几代人曾经生活过的农村只与他们的父辈有关，他们在城市出生、长大，理所当然也应该是城市居民。然而，这个肯定的答案至今未得到社会的共同认同。     

Regulated freedoms: the market and the state,agriculture and the environment

We argue that a “free” market — that is, a market in which the state does not intervene — is a theoretical impossibility in a state society. In place of the natural economy view of a market apart from the state, we offer a social economy view of the inescapable social structuring of markets through state regulation. Even when states institute policies which prevent “interference” in a market, the enforcement power of the state is no less required. We thus distinguish between two forms of regulation: negative regulation — regulation which prevents interference — and positive regulation — regulation which enables interference. These two forms of regulation make possible two different conceptions of freedom, what Isaiah Berlin once termed “negative freedom” from agency and “positive freedom” to have agency. We argue that positive and negative freedom and positive and negative regulation are inseparable; freedom is always contextual. Through a discussion of the debate between industrial agriculture and environmentalists, we show that both supporters and critics of the “free” market are alike in their advocacy, often unacknowledged, of both negative and positive forms of regulation. Rather then a lessening of regulation, this debate represents the institution of a new regulatory regime out of the contest of interests. We conclude by considering the implications for democracy of the contextual character of freedom.     

Relating the Central and the Local

Although a number of valuable models of central‐local relationships in the nonprofit sector have been developed, particularly in relation to federal structures, there has been a tendency to assume that in any given organizational relationship central‐local structures will follow one common pattern. We argue that wider strategies are available: central dependency along one dimension may run with greater local autonomy along another. Such mixed tight‐loose structures may be of considerable importance in the “boundaryless” organizational environment of the future.     

Disappointing and deviant youth and the rage of the elders

A generalized adult hostility toward youth derives from the complexities of the parent/child relationship, often mirrored in the helper/client and therapist/patient dyads. Parents derive considerable or little narcissistic gain from the accomplishments of their offspring, and conversely, are disappointed or even mortified by their failures. This is particularly true of narcissistically vulnerable parents—helpers and therapists as well—and accounts for widespread attitudes of competition, disparagement, and outright hostility toward young people. In the extreme, the pathological situations of emotional exploitation, incest, and physical abuse occur, but lesser forms of exploitation, such as personally gratifying advocacy, political gain, cultism, and enhancement of professional status, point to similar, but seemingly less destructive, forms of narcissistic gain. Youth may respond by conforming, defying, disappointing, and deviating. Adults may be either pleased, or enraged.     

Private property and the problem of the miraculous: the kramats and the city of Cape Town

This paper seeks to explore the place of kramats the graves of Muslim saints or Auliyah – in the landscape of contemporary Cape Town. The kramat sites have been proclaimed as heritage sites because of their importance as tangible signs of Islam at the Cape. At the same time, the process of the kramats becoming heritage sites has contained moments of intense, often sensational, public contestation. Offering a reading of the discourses surrounding two contested kramats in Cape Town, this paper explores the way kramats mark out a miraculous space in the prosaic modern city and introduce into the post-apartheid evaluation of heritage, alternative conceptions of space and notions of temporality. They are sites of impossibility where, it is claimed, the laws of nature themselves are interrupted to mark the intangible particularities of the site. This paper explores what happens when this miraculous space is subject to the demands of private property and municipal law and the conflicts that arise from this collision of different conceptual and experiential modalities. It considers the effects of the entanglement of legend and history that result from the production of these sites as heritage in a market-driven economy.     

Between the market and the hard place: neoliberalization and the Polish LGBT movement

ABSTRACT

Whilst the fall of state socialism in 1989 opened up a space for the Polish LGBT movement to emerge and develop, over the last three decades the process has taken place against the backdrop of material and ideological constraints of neoliberalization, a point that has been largely overlooked in the scholarship on the Polish LGBT movement. Informed by interviews with Polish LGBT activists this article explores the contradictory ways in which processes of neoliberalization and market logic influence and often constrain the Polish LGBT movement. The argument is that neoliberalization and its logic profusely affect what is possible and desirable for the Polish LGBT movement on a personal, local as well as a national level. The contradictory effects of the processes of neoliberalization combined with the political climate, with minimal or no state support for LGBT organizing, result in a movement that is at the mercy of the market-like environment, under-resourced, dependent almost entirely on voluntary labor and spatially scarce.     

State and Regional Professional Associations—the Case of the CSA and the PSA

The CSA and the PSA share several critical challenges including maintaining a stable membership, providing opportunities for students to present their work while at the same time maintaining their position as an organization of professional sociologists, meeting the needs of a diverse membership and balancing the teaching and research needs of this diverse membership. The need is for the CSA and the PSA to work together to form an even closer partnership.