An Examination of the Persistence of the Residual Child Welfare System in the United States: Addressing Charges of Radical Theoretical Myopia with Implications for Social Work Practice

The United States follows what has been termed a “residual” approach to its public child welfare system. This article describes the residual model and contrasts it with the policies of other industrialized nations. It also explores the causes and persistence of the residual model in the United States through the lens of structural-functionalist theory. By doing so, this article attempts to respond to critics of structural social work who maintain that it is overly reliant on conflict theory and has nothing to offer in terms of distinct practice methods. Suggestions for a structurally informed social work practice are made.     

汉语学语前全聋儿童形声字正字法意识及其发展研究

正字法意识是对书写系统组合规则的意识,在形声字中表现为声旁表音意识和形旁表意意识。采取纸笔测验,对某市两所聋校二、四、六年级82名学语前全聋儿童的声旁意识和形旁意识进行测试,探讨聋童形声字正字法意识及其发展特点后发现：学语前全聋儿童具有形声字正字法意识;声旁意识与形旁意识随年级升高而提高,声旁意识呈显著性年级差异,但形旁意识无显著性年级差异;声旁意识和形旁意识的发展关系密切;学语前全聋儿童形声字的正字法意识受语音的影响;现代汉字中85％以上都属于形声字。这一研究结论对探讨学语前全聋儿童汉字识别的认知过程与聋生汉字教学具有重要的理论与实践指导意义。     

The aging male in the 21st century

Background.?Prostate cancer incidence varies significantly among different ethnic groups. However, the report concerning the clinical outcome after radical prostatectomy (RP) in the low incidence Asian population is still limited. We aimed to compare the clinical outcome in patient treated with RP among different ethnic groups and to identify significant prognostic factors in Taiwanese patients.

Methods.?A total of 341 patients with clinical localized prostate cancer undergoing curative RP in three medical centers in Taiwan were included in this study. Ethnic group comparison was performed using the CaPSURE, SEARCH databases from United States (US) and one large European series. The Kaplan–Meier analysis and Cox proportional hazard model were used to identify significant predictors for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) recurrence.

Results.?Compared to the Caucasian white population in the US and Europe studies, the Taiwanese population have higher age at surgery and higher pre-operative PSA level. With mean and median follow-up of 39.1 months and 31.0 months (range 5–120 months), 127 men (37.2%) had PSA recurrence which was significant higher than the Western series. Significant predictors for PSA recurrence identified in the post-operative overall model were PSA level, pathological Gleason Score, pathological tumor stage and lymph node metastasis.

Conclusions.?The clinical outcome of Taiwanese male with prostate cancer post-RP appears inferior to the Western country, which is largely due to delay surgery at higher PSA level. Earlier diagnosis and treatment may improve the cancer control of RP.     

When Feminists Don't Fit The Case of Pauline Hanson

The rise of the Far Right is a global phenomenon traditionally viewed as antithetical to feminism. However, in Australia from 1996–2001 Far Right politics was dominated by a woman, Pauline Hanson, thus calling into question the dynamics between organized feminism and the Far Right. A significant problem for Australian feminists trying to understand Hanson is that her ideology, activities and life-style are internally contradictory. This article draws on American analyses of similar women and examines the contradictions in Hanson's political philosophy and activism with a view to challenging current Australian feminist analysis of this controversial political woman.     

Implications and challenges for social work education in Greece in the time of austerity

Following a discussion of the implications of one of the largest fiscal adjustments in modern times the paper identifies current challenges to social work practice and social work education in Greece and discusses the future of social work with radicalism as one of the central themes emerging during the crisis. It is argued that while at the moment radical social work has barely found any support from Greek social work practitioners, the implications of the socioeconomic crisis have given a significant boost to radical and critical social work on the educational front. It is further argued that in order to enhance these developments future efforts should concentrate on providing an effective guide for everyday practices that acknowledge the particularities of the specific context and will also include humane and holistic value-based approaches as well as the promotion of emancipatory values such as authenticity. In a progressively depoliticized public sphere that fosters the spread of individualism the above elements might be a critical step toward a more politically engaged social work education.     

民族主义立场的激进表达和艺术的超常发挥——对联华影业公司1933年出品的《小玩意》的当下读解

孙瑜不仅是中国左翼电影的滥觞和开创者、最高代表人之一,而且,他和他的作品为20世纪30年代中国左翼电影在整体性质、表现模式和艺术风格上提供了典型性范本。民族经济实力的增强、反强权和抗日救亡理念的传播构成《小玩意》中激进的民族主义立场的主要来源。影片的前半部分带有浓重的旧市民电影模式痕迹,但随着人物性格与主演阮玲玉个性气质的合二为一,影片后半部分"母子相见"和"情人相见"两场戏的处理,是左翼电影强大的艺术感染力得以迸发的成功范例。     

组织学习、技术合作与跨国公司在华突破性创新

考察了组织学习和技术合作对跨国公司在华突破性创新的驱动机制,基于165家在华跨国公司中高层管理者填写的调查问卷,采用因子分析、路径分析和结构方程模型对研究假设进行检验。结果表明,组织学习同时促进了跨国公司在华的突破性产品创新和过程创新;技术合作则对创新绩效产生了负向影响;过程创新对产品创新具有正向驱动效应。     

协作研发与在位企业突破性技术创新及代际知识桥的中介作用——以汽车行业为例

鉴于代际知识桥对企业突破性技术创新的作用可能不同,以65家汽车行业整车在位企业为样本,对其2009~2019年的面板数据进行负二项回归分析后发现:协作研发能够直接提升在位企业的突破性技术创新绩效,且显性代际知识桥与隐性代际知识桥在其间均可发挥积极中介作用;旧技术创新绩效对协作研发与突破性技术创新绩效的关系会产生积极作用,对显性代际知识桥与突破性技术创新绩效的关系会产生消极作用,但均不显著;旧技术创新绩效对隐性代际知识桥与突破性技术创新绩效的关系会产生显著消极作用。     

对西方自由主义视角下“语言消亡”不同诠释的批判

无同化的极端语言变革与有同化的极端语言变革是两种相异的语言消亡案例.通过分析研究西方自由主义人士对两种"语言消亡"的相缪反应发现,自由主义者对语言消亡造成的个体身份认同、交流利益与世界文化及语言多样性方面损失的关注并不能帮助我们理解他们在语言保护上倡导的所谓自由正义的追求.对"语言消亡"的研究及理解不应停留在语言变革本身或语言变革的代价上,应追其根由,分析统治与歧视对"语言消亡"的致因作用.     

Social work as art revisited

In this article we revisit 'social work as art', noting that it is just over 20 years since England's book on the subject provided a direction for the profession's early defence against empiricism. Those who picked up the ball handed to them by England tended to focus discussions of social work's 'art' on its soft side, embedding it in notions of 'creativity', 'meaning', 'self-expression', 'intuition' and 'quality', all of which were said to characterise the 'aesthetic dimensions' of social work practice as a counterpoint to the rising tide of hard empiricism, proceduralism and managerialism. Within these 'aesthetic dimensions', proponents of social work as art sought to resolve tensions through advocating a value-based 'artistic' approach to care. Against this we argue that art is struggle and resolution, soft and hard, joy and grief. Further, we posit that social work's art lies not in the social worker as artist but rather in social work as the 'work' of art, which is implicitly a 'non-productivist' endeavour. In a fundamental sense we argue that it is the art of social work and not the social worker that assembles what is practice, that provides bounds and lets everything stand in relation to everything else. This enables us to construct a speculative 'radical agonistics' for social work that draws attention to the relation between art, truth and event. In so doing, we substitute a subjectivist reading of social work as art with an ontological analysis drawing on Heidegger's phenomenology, supplemented by the work of Alain Badiou, to cast social work as art first, as artistic attunement, and second, as an art in the service of a politics of liberation.