Contesting Community Online: Virtual Imagery among Dutch Orthodox Protestant Homosexuals

Whereas substantial scholarly attention has been paid to the online presentation of self, symbolic interactionist approaches are largely absent in the literature on virtual communities. Instead, recurrent questions are whether communities can exist online and whether specific online venues qualify as communities. This article aims to move beyond these dichotomous questions by studying how different meanings attached to an online venue can be understood from offline experiences. In a case study of a Dutch forum for orthodox Protestant homosexuals, two types of understanding of online community emerged from an analysis of fifteen in‐depth interviews. Users struggling with stigmatization in offline life seek empathic support and have an encompassing sense of online community—the forum as “refuge.” For users dealing with practical everyday questions, online contacts are part of so‐called personal communities and help ameliorate offline life—the forum as “springboard.” Apart from demonstrating that online forums can serve as Goffmanian backstages in two distinct ways, these results indicate it is fruitful to take a symbolic interactionist approach to uncover relationships between offline and online social life.     

服务外包差异化发展的机理与案例研究

我国服务外包示范城市已形成全国性布局,但各城市发展特色并不鲜明,实施差异化发展战略旨在抓住国际产业转移的机遇,加快承接国际服务外包步伐,避免示范城市之间发展战略趋同化或低级化,实现示范城市服务外包业良性竞争和协调发展。本文阐述了服务外包差异化发展的机理,IT服务外包案例和我国企业承接国际服务外包的对策。     

国内外城市社区健康教育研究

社区健康教育是社区卫生服务的重要内容,也是健康教育的重要组成部分。重点介绍社区健康教育的意义、国内外的城市社区健康教育研究的主要内容和不足,对发展我国城市社区健康教育具有十分重要的意义。     

关于21世纪生态城市的构想

城市既是人类生存的重要场所,又是人类发展的重要基地。因此,城市的可持续发展不仅对城市本身具有重要意义,而且对全人类的生存和发展产生重要影响。随着人们对生活环境质量要求的不断提高,建设生态城市已经成为当今城市持续发展的必然选择。如何建设生态城市已经成为各地十分关心的问题,生态城市的建设不仅要有一个科学的高水平、高质量的生态城市规划,而且要精心做好生态城市设计,在规划、设计和实施建设中要充分利用自然生态基础。     

城镇化发展的"市县模式":湖北省个案

湖北省荆门市农民进城买房定居的案例说明,以地市级城市和县级城关镇为关键环节的农民自发城镇化发展模式具有相当强的生命力,“市县模式”应该成为中国特色城镇化发展的可选之路。为积极稳妥地推进以“市县模式”为核心的城镇化进程,一方面需要增强城镇的人口吸纳能力,保障进城买房定居农民的生存发展权;另一方面必须坚持农村土地家庭承包责任制不动摇,为进城买房农民提供一个稳定的大后方和补给线。     

比较视角的西三角城市群综合发展水平测度

选取六项大类指标将西三角城市群与我国三大城市群综合发展水平进行比较,结果表明,西三角城市群虽从地理角度构成了城市群形态,但发展还不成熟,缺乏应有的系统效应。加快发展西三角城市群,应加快城市群交通网络系统建设,重视政府宏观调控,优先发展旅游业和物流服务业。     

Collective empowerment: A comparative study of community work in Mumbai and Stockholm

Mumbai and Stockholm are worlds apart in terms of public services, infrastructures and standard of living. However, both cities have known common problems of social exclusion and marginalisation related to neo‐liberal globalisation. Social workers are facing similar challenges regarding collective empowerment as a strategy for community work. This comparative study explored how collective empowerment is undertaken by community workers. The research participants were 13 informants from community‐work organisations in the two settings. Semi‐structured interviews were used and were analysed with the help of Atlas‐ti 6.2 (ATLAS.ti Scientific Software Development GmbH D‐10623 Berlin Germany). Social work in Mumbai is in a context of extreme poverty and mainly within the informal sector, whereas in Stockholm most social work is done in relation to a public welfare model. In Stockholm, interventions are aimed towards strengthening social networks, without direct aim at social change. In Mumbai, community workers organise people for collective empowerment to strengthen marginalised groups and achieve social change.     

Child Rights Practice among the Indigenous Communities in Bangladesh

The objective of this article was to explore the practice of child rights among the indigenous communities of Bangladesh. We used a mixed method approach to collect data from four ethnic communities in the Bandarban District of the Chittagong Division in Bangladesh. We questioned children, parents, community members, local leaders, and service providers of those communities on a number of child rights issues, for example, child education, child labor, child recreation and culture, parents' guidance to children for capacity development, and access to child rights at home and in the community according to Convention on the Rights of the Child treaty. The results showed that while the community was aware of child rights, financial vulnerability and a lack of social support meant that these rights could not be upheld in practice. The paper urges improvement of social support, including income generation activities for indigenous communities.     

Using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to Predict Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties on Positive and Negative Affect Among Adolescents in Disadvantaged Communities

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) was used to predict the positive and negative affects of emotional and behavioral difficulties among adolescent boys and girls aged between 14 and 21 years living in disadvantaged communities. A total of 316 adolescents—181 boys and 135 girls—living in the Seri Pantai and Pantai Ria Public Housing Projects in Kuala Lumpur were invited to complete the questionnaire. The results showed that conduct and peer problems were the most prevalent emotional and behavioral difficulties experienced by these adolescents. As expected, the emotional symptoms were more common among the girls than the boys. A further analysis showed that emotional symptoms, peer problems, and low prosocial behavior were predictors of the negative affect of emotional and behavioral difficulties while negative emotional symptoms and high hyperactivity were predictors of a positive affect. The findings suggested that three subscales of SDQ are required to produce a negative affect, and two subscales of SDQ for a positive affect.     

走向法庭还是走上街头：超越维权困境的一条行动路径

制度外抗争与制度内法律维权有着显著不同的结果和制度逻辑。现有文献中的“依法抗争”或“以法抗争”可以通过制度外或者制度边缘的集体行动获得政府及时的反应,但却有着多重困境：机会困境、风险困境、组织困境、制度困境。制度内法律维权可以很大程度上破解这些困境,但也有着该模式下独特的结果困境：费时费力而又缺乏即时直接的回报困扰或者阻碍制度内法律维权者去为了获得长期的有益于整个群体的普遍性制度化后果采取行动。但本研究中的业主维权行动在一定程度上破解了这一困境。他们的制度内维权行动让法律在实践中最大可能地运转了起来,从而超越了传统维权的困境。独特的政治机会结构和制度内维权本身所具有的特征,促进一些群体走向法庭,而非走上街头。