Intergenerational class mobility in contemporary Britain: political concerns and empirical findings

In Britain in recent years social mobility has become a topic of central political concern, primarily as a result of the effort made by New Labour to make equality of opportunity rather than equality of condition a focus of policy. Questions of the level, pattern and trend of mobility thus bear directly on the relevance of New Labour's policy analysis, and in turn are likely be crucial to the evaluation of its performance in government. However, politically motivated discussion of social mobility often reveals an inadequate grasp of both empirical and analytical issues. We provide new evidence relevant to the assessment of social mobility - in particular, intergenerational class mobility - in contemporary Britain through cross-cohort analyses based on the NCDS and BCS datasets which we can relate to earlier cross-sectional analyses based on the GHS. We find that, contrary to what seems now widely supposed, there is no evidence that absolute mobility rates are falling; but, for men, the balance of upward and downward movement is becoming less favourable. This is overwhelmingly the result of class structural change. Relative mobility rates, for both men and women, remain essentially constant, although there are possible indications of a declining propensity for long-range mobility. We conclude that under present day structural conditions there can be no return to the generally rising rates of upward mobility that characterized the middle decades of the twentieth century - unless this is achieved through changing relative rates in the direction of greater equality or, that is, of greater fluidity. But this would then produce rising rates of downward mobility to exactly the same extent - an outcome apparently unappreciated by, and unlikely to be congenial to, politicians preoccupied with winning the electoral 'middle ground'.     

Disability studies after the ontological turn: a return to the material world and material bodies without a return to essentialism

Over recent decades, poststructuralist theories have allowed critical disability scholars to challenge essentialist understandings of the human species and to contest discourses which divide humans into ‘normal’/‘impaired’ subjects with respect to a wide – and ever expanding – range of corporeal and cognitive traits. For critics, however, these theories are deeply flawed. By focusing primarily on language, poststructuralism shifts our critical attention away from the often harsh material realities of life for disabled people. This has led some to turn to critical realism and to effectively re-essentialise impairment. In this article, I wish to consider an alternative approach. I suggest that the recent ‘ontological turn’ in social theory has seen the emergence of new-materialist approaches – including Deleuze and Guattari’s ontology of assemblage and methodology of assemblage analysis – which allow us to consider disability as a material phenomenon without a return to essentialism.     

超越“范式”：国际问题研究的路径探微

当代国际政治理论的发展演变表现出一种对国际政治现象进行多重视角、多种层次研究的趋势，它给予人们的一个重要启示就是，没有一种能够解释一切的理论。但反过来说，不同的理论针对不同的对象也具有各不相同的解释力。我们必须认识到任何单一的理论都不可能解释国家对外行为的全部复杂性，必须提出一种综合的分析框架，结合现实主义、自由主义和建构主义各自精到的阐述，从历史、经济、政治、文化的视角来进行阐述和分析。     

CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE CORPORATE UNIVERSITY

This essay is about the fate of Cultural Studies in the new context of the market-based reform of Higher Education and the resurgence of liberal capitalism. As the global corporate demand for educational services increases, universities are becoming more like businesses. The trend toward a corporate style university can be seen in the way that its educational mission is being subordinated to the criteria of the flexible labour market. Neo-Liberal forms of governance introduce economic calculation into what were previously social and bureaucratic domains. The emergence of Cultural Studies in the 1960s was a challenge from the New Left to both the humanities and to the historic national mission of the university. The rise of the corporate university and its Benthamite utilitarianism in the 1980s confronted Cultural Studies with its own hiatus. The essay argues that we need to revisit Cultural Studies’ early rejection of humanism and work out a new kind of'humanism without guarantees, if we are to adequately confront this conjuncture and find the moral and intellectual resources to restore Cultural Studies as a critical and engaged practice.     

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.     

论宗教改革时期的德意志史学研究

1517年,马丁.路德（Martin Luther,1483-1546）首先在德意志发动了宗教改革运动,这场改革运动对德意志有全方位的影响。在宗教改革时期,德意志的史学研究取得了一定的成就,具有鲜明的特色,诸如注重对中世纪传统的继承、具有强烈的民族主义色彩和宗教实用主义色彩等。在此期间,一些伟大的历史学家也应运而生,诸如弗拉齐乌斯.马蒂亚斯、约翰.斯来丹等,这些历史学家的著作和思想对于近代史学的发展,有其独特的历史贡献。     

简论梵学研究与西藏的梵文文献

梵学起源于古印度，流行于南亚及世界各地。梵藏翻译已有1400多年的历史。作为民族文化交流史上规模最大、持续时间最长的梵藏翻译活动，对藏族文学艺术、语言文字、哲学思想及社会文化各个层面都产生过深远的影响。西藏种类繁多的梵文文献是藏族传统文化的一个重要组成部分。文章通过梵藏文献史料探讨海内外梵学研究史迹，简要分析、论述拉丁转写梵文与藏文撰写梵文之间的特点和异同，说明梵文文献研究最早起始于我国内地和西藏，文化交流是促进人类共同进步的一种力量。     

Single Parent Families

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试论当代哲学研究的信息转向

文章就当代哲学研究中的研究转向现象进行了详细描述和深入分析，探讨了转向的原因是哲学研究主题的变换，即哲学研究历史上和现在以及今后的转向是哲学研究核心目标变换在哲学研究中的反映，同时指出当今哲学研究的背景是信息时代，信息转向是当今哲学研究的重大事件，对人类哲学发展将产生深刻影响。     

“四清”运动研究综述

该论文综述了国内外学术界对“四清”运动的研究概况。介绍了“四清”运动的历史资料、出版著作以及学术论文，分析和总结了“四清”运动的起源、过程、经验教训、’历史评价和反思等问题。