Between Neo-liberalism and Neo-indigenismo: Reconstructing National Identity in Mexico

Heightened integration with the US coupled with the rise of an indigenous movement have challenged and strained long-held images regarding the US and the indigenous within Mexico. As a result, Mexico finds itself facing the difficult task of re-evaluating and reconstructing its national identity. This paper explores the traditional images of the US and the Indian shaping national identity in Mexico and the challenges posed today by neo-liberalism and neo-indigenismo. It sets out a range of current issues, explores the linkages and contradictions, and examines the state of national reform. Fundamentally, the paper strives to raise important theoretical questions and hence set the stage for further research into these issues.     

When Futures Meet the Present

In this essay, I respond to Mische's work on projection and the research of future action. Further, I suggest a tri-partite framework of mechanisms—one I have termed "political semiosis"—that allows historical actors to materially and figuratively reorient and realign the past, present, and future in projects of transformation.     

对职业院校辅导员工作的探讨

辅导员是班级学习活动的组织者、领导者和教育者，同时，也是学生身心健康发展的引导者。本文从班级良好氛围的营造、学生综合素质与能力的培养、学生思想工作的开展等方面，阐述了如何做好职业院校辅导员工作。     

乡(镇)林业站在集体林权制度改革后的职能定位

在分析乡(镇)林业站建设历程与职能的基础上,针对林改后出现的林农增收与公益林保护,林权分散、资金投入不足与规模经营、扩大再生产,森林粗放式经营与林业产业升级等的矛盾与问题,提出乡(镇)林业站在林改后应调整职能,并从生态公益林的管理与保护性开发利用、商品林的经营、林产品的生产与销售等方面阐述了林改后乡(镇)林业站职能调整的具体内容。     

一个被忽视、被误解的女性——解读《瑞普·凡·温克尔》中温克尔太太的形象

《瑞普·凡·温克尔》（Rip Van Winkle）是美国著名作家华盛顿.欧文的短篇经典之作。自从该篇小说问世以来,人们的主要焦点几乎都集中在男主人公瑞普.凡.温克尔的身上,而对女主人公的探讨大多局限于贬义的层面上,即＂悍妇＂形象。从心理分析女性主义和集体无意识的视觉再次解读温克尔太太的形象,力争还她勤劳、能干、务实、不畏强权、敢于反抗的真实面。     

Social Policy from Olson to Ostrom: A Case Study of Dutch Disability Insurance

Social policy development and reform in corporatist welfare states often follows a pattern of subsequent collectivization and de‐collectivization. This has to do, the article argues, with the social problems these phases address. Early social policy development forms a response to Olson‐type collective action problems that organized actors (labour and employers' organizations) in the field experience: state‐obliged benefits solve free rider problems, while bipartite administration allows labour and employers' organizations to organize their constituencies. This solution to Olson‐type collective action problems, however, also constitutes an Ostrom‐type collective action problem. Such a system functions as a common pool resource. Individual benefit take‐up is experienced as free and the costs of benefit take‐up are collectivized in the common pool. The article illustrates this pattern with reference to Dutch disability insurance.     

Assessing participants’ perceptions on group-based principles for action in community-based health enhancing physical activity programmes: The APEF tool

In community-based health enhancing physical activity (CBHEPA) programmes, group-based principles for action such as active participation, enjoyment, and fostering group processes are widely advocated. However, not much is known about participants’ perceptions of these principles as there are no assessment tools available. Therefore, this article describes the development of the APEF (Active Participation, Enjoyment, and Fostering group processes) tool and reports on its implementation in a Dutch CBHEPA programme. Indicators for the principles have been identified from literature research, interviews with professionals, and secondary analysis of three group interviews with 11 practitioners. To address the identified indicators, the APEF tool was developed, pretested, and used in 10 focus groups with 76 participants.The APEF tool consists of eight statements about group-based principles for action, on which CBHEPA participants vote, followed by in-depth discussion. The voting procedure engages participants. Spider diagrams visualise participants’ perceptions of group-based principles.The APEF tool addresses the challenge of relating group level outcomes to individual outcomes such as physical activity behaviour. The tool facilitates as well as evaluates group-based principles for action, it stimulates dialogue and is culturally sensitive, but it needs strong facilitating skills to manage group dynamics.     

校长领导行为对小学教师集体效能的影响

为了探讨校长领导行为与小学教师集体效能之间的关系，采用校长领导行为描述问卷与教师集体效能量表作为研究工具，随机调查了37所学校的466名小学教师。结论发现：1．关心人与教师集体效能之间存在显著正相关，但关心任务与教师集体效能之间的相关未达到显著水平。2．在对教师集体效能的回归模型中，关心人进入到预测教师集体效能总分和教学任务分析的回归模型，而校长领导行为对教学能力评价具有一定的预测作用。     

Structuration d’un champ d’action publique : l’intervention publique sur les copropriétés dégradées

This article focuses on the social construction of the problem, which emerged in France during the 1980s, of dilapidated condominium apartment buildings and on the public policy instruments that have been used. A sociology of organized action serves to analyze this twofold process, which has resulted from the formation of networks of persons unfamiliar with the legal aspects of condominium ownership. Linking the periphery to the center, these networks have crystallized around norms ensuing from housing policy. The concept of “field” in the Weberian sense explains this crystallization, and also applies to the symmetrical process of conserving civil law on joint ownership. Parties attached to this normative system denied the problem of dilapidated condominiums, when it was presented to them. By pursuing a social activity based on applying and producing rules, individuals in the networks related to housing policy and persons concerned by condominium ownership contributed to maintaining and, too, revitalizing rules and norms.     

Women's Work in the Home

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