An exploratory study of early professional experiences and job burnout among BSW graduates in China

Although previous studies have addressed turnover issues among social workers in Western countries, this study explores the early professional experiences (during the first 3 working years) and job burnout among BSW graduates in China and identifies factors influencing their decisions to leave social work jobs. Using semi-structured interviews with 15 BSW graduates in the Shenzhen metropolitan area, this research identifies the primary reasons new social workers leave the profession. Data analysis revealed three themes: personal struggles, work environment issues, and social support factors. This exploratory study highlights the professional experiences and burnout among BSW graduates in China and has implications for social work education and professional practices.     

Totally tall sounds totally younger: Intensification at the socio‐semantics interface

In two social perception experiments, we explore the relationship between the social meaning and the semantic/pragmatic properties of the intensifier totally in American English. In Experiment 1, we show that totally is perceived as a more salient index of social identity categories – measured in terms of Age, Solidarity and Status attributes – when it targets a scalar dimension grounded in the speaker's attitude, as opposed to when it occurs in contexts where the scale is provided by the subsequent predicate. In Experiment 2, we show that the social indexicality of totally is even more salient in contexts in which the intensifier, by virtue of its pragmatic contribution, invites a stance of heightened proximity and convergence between the interlocutors. These results point to a principled connection between the semantic, pragmatic and personality‐based social meanings of totally, providing new insights into the dynamics whereby different layers of meaning conspire to determine what an expression ‘says’ when deployed in interaction.     

Doin’ Meth or Doin’ Math: What Client Constructions of Social Class Mean for Social Work Practice

The voices of people experiencing poverty are underrepresented in social work research, public policy development, and practice interventions. This study explored the social class attributions of clients receiving poverty-related services through qualitative interviews. Findings reveal dynamic contributions of individual, environmental, and structural factors of social class positioning and significant stress and stigmatization associated with experiencing economic hardship. Participants indicate a sense of lived contradiction, viewing social class to be the result of fate while simultaneously endorsing individualistic attributions of poverty. Results have implications for social work research and practice, as well as poverty-related policy and program development.     

The social security number: A small device underpinning big systems

The possession and use of a personal social security number helps to structure people's daily lives. However, despite its fundamental normative importance, the social security number remains a little‐known entity. Increasingly universal and yet diverse in form, it is a legal and technical norm which is as much a mechanism for surveillance and monitoring as it is a necessary instrument for giving effect to social rights. Analysis of this constituent element of social security systems permits as assessment of some of the technical difficulties presented by the ever‐increasing movement of people and data. Overcoming these technical difficulties should permit to envisage a first technical step towards realizing a universal and global social security system.     

虚拟社会分层——兼与现实社会分层比较

人类历次科技革命都对社会形态产生了巨大影响,今天信息技术革命对社会形态的显著影响表现为虚拟社会的兴起,使得社会存在两副社会结构:现实社会结构与虚拟社会结构。论题基于社会分层视角,对虚拟社会结构展开实证研究,将虚拟社会结构分为五个阶层,并对照其现实社会分层位置,研究发现虚拟社会分层将那些现实社会底层推向虚拟社会上层,而现实社会上层则处于虚拟社会底层。这种阶层位置倒置对现实社会秩序产生强烈的冲击,这也正是今天社会治理的重要面向。     

人口红利的经济社会代价与可持续发展

本文分析了人口红利背后的经济社会代价，意在提请人们注意，人口红利是一把双刃剑，在看到人口红利好处的同时，也要洞察其背后的隐患，不能盲目乐观。我们的真正目的不是要事受人口红利，而是要摆脱对它的依赖。只有利用好人口红利期，在人口机会窗关闭前积极求变，才能实现可持续发展。     

社会参与在鲁迅文学活动价值生成中的意义

社会参与意识在鲁迅文学活动价值生成中具有怎样的意义？从人们对这个问题的不同回答中能窥见文学创作观念、文学批评观念以及整个社会精神文化的变迁。正确认识社会参与意识在文学活动中的意义也有利于当前的文学创作和批评。     

完善农村社会保障体系 化解农村老人生活困境——吉林省农村老龄人口社会保障问题的调查与思考

吉林省农村老龄人口人数多，增长快，是吉林省农村面临的重大问题。本文通过调查分析了农村老人社会保障存在的问题，并提出对策。     

英汉同传中定语从句的传译技巧

本文探讨同传中“顺句驱动”在合理分配注意力中的作用,进而分析英汉同传中传译定语从句时使用“顺句驱动”的可行性,并提出五种具体技巧。     

中国医疗改革：道德与正义的考量

我国医疗体制改革是在中国农村和城市全面改革的大背景下进行的。中国改革取得成功的深层动因是允许个人功利的追求。这一背景也深刻影响到了医疗体制改革。医疗体制改革的重要趋向就是医院的市场化。市场化使得医院几乎成为单纯商业化运作的事业，因而市场正义成为医疗公正的取向。这是医疗改革失败的深层精神原因。走出这一困境就必须加大政府投入，使得医院从市场正义回归社会公平的正义；并在克服商业化倾向的同时，还需要有人道主义精神的重建。