Bonding and Bridging Social Capital Development by Social Workers

ABSTRACT

Developing service users’ bonding and bridging social capital is an increasingly recognized role of social workers. A survey of 570 Chinese service users, sampled from 41 social service units in Hong Kong, provided data for the study. Results demonstrated convergent and discriminant validity in a confirmatory factor model about the measurement of bonding and bridging social capital development, mutuality, and assistance to the community. This evidence for the validity and usefulness of social capital development endorses social workers’ role in developing service users’ social capital. Further research needs to assess the generalizability of the present findings in other sociocultural settings.     

美国与当代中拉关系

本文论述近年来中国与拉丁美洲国家关系的发展状况,指出:中国发展与拉美的关系坚持“三互”——政治上互信、经济上互利、文化上互动,以推动“三多”——政治多极化、市场多元化、文化多样化。主观上,中国不想和美国对抗,中国加强与拉美互动并非针对美国;客观上,中国在拉美地区的影响力远小于美国,对美国在拉美的主导权不构成威胁。所以,美国国内有些人对中拉关系的发展作出过度反应,客观上不利于中拉、中美关系的健康发展。     

浅谈多媒体技术的交互性

本文从分析传统单向教学模式交互不足的现状入手，以此对比地阐述了多媒体的关键特性──交互性在教学中的重要功能     

技术联盟形成机制分析

运用数量分析方法,对技术交换和共享研发信息的技术联盟形成过程、稳定性给出定量描述,研究表明追求利润和获得竞争优势的市场激励机制使企业走向技术交换和共享研发信息。通过模型证明,技术联盟外企业的期望利润要低于技术联盟内企业的期望利润、技术联盟比价格卡特尔具有更大的稳定性。     

法律教育和思想政治教育互补性的理性思考

从教育的目的和方法来看,法律教育和思想政治教育有着各自的差异和不足,又存在着互补性,深入探究其内在规律,努力实现法律教育和思想政治教育在功能上的互补,这对于全面提高素质教育的实效性有着极为现实的意义。     

Organization–public relationships: An exploration of the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group

This study explored the organization–public relationship (OPR) within the context of the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group (SPOG) and the local community in Sundre, Alberta, Canada. A qualitative orientation was adopted because of the case study's focus on the individual experience of the relationship and the interest was to explore how the relationship was perceived by the people involved. Key relational elements such as trust, transparency, dialogue, control mutuality, commitment and satisfaction were examined in relation to the importance for relationship building and maintenance. In-depth interviews were conducted with both SPOG industry and community members (N = 18). The results indicated that after a crisis transparency was critical for rebuilding trust which was the foundation for the development of the industry–community relationship. Other relational elements were also considered important for maintaining healthy OPRs, but were considered secondary in relation to trust.     

New neighbours in a time of change: local pragmatics and the perception of asylum centres in rural Denmark

Asylum centres in rural areas are an increasingly common mode of managing asylum seekers in Denmark. These centres’ arrival occurs in a context of protracted rural crisis, as demographic and economic changes reshape local communities. Yet research on these processes remains scarce, issues concerning asylum and the rural being seldom conceived together. At the same time, majority population attitudes towards refugees are often depicted through the opposed poles of xenophobia and humanitarianism. Based on ethnographic research, this article examines the meanings and consequences of asylum centres for rural Danish communities. Drawing on anthropological theory on the mutuality of social life we argue that asylum centres become embedded in pre-existing relations within local communities and between them and the centralising Danish welfare state. Local communities sometimes were initially sceptical about asylum centres, but they generally developed a collective, pragmatic approach towards them in contrast to the divided, ideological cast of national debates on asylum. By shifting focus from the national to the local, from the urban to the rural, and from the migrants to the neighbouring communities, a less polarising and more everyday mode of relating to the arrival of asylum seekers becomes visible.     

Developing Effectiveness in the Therapeutic Use of Self

Traditional technique guided the effective psychotherapist more toward restraint of self than active use of self. Contemporary trends in technique are moving more toward encouraging the therapist to be aware of and use his or her real self in the relationship with clients, in other words to loosen the rigors of anonymity and neutrality in service of genuine relating and its attendant growth-enhancing potential. The authors of this paper offer the argument that the application of what you know as a psychotherapist (that is the accumulation of knowledge and techniques from professional education and training) can only be helpful and effective if you are aware of how who you are as a person in the room with the client (that is the accumulation of your own personality traits, personal belief systems, and psychology in the relational matrix with the client) is influencing the therapy. Support for this argument from the clinical literature provides the theoretical bases for three processes outlined in the paper which will guide the effective psychotherapist in integrating the personal self with the professional and technical self: 1) inventory of self; 2) development of self-knowledge; and 3) acceptance of risks to self.     

"文人相轻"新论

"文人相轻"的实质并非"各以所长,相轻所短",而是文人之间的相互嫉妒.所谓"贵古贱今"、"贱同思古",也是"文人相轻"的表现,实质上也是文人的嫉妒心理的反映."文人相轻"作为文人嫉妒心理的表现形式,与竞争心理相联系,既有消极作用,也有积极作用.作为社会主义时代的文人,应该抛弃"文人相轻"的陋习,提倡"文人相亲"的新风,互相学习,共同提高.     

Control mutuality,social media,and organization-public relationships: A study of local animal welfare organizations’ donors

Using an online survey and qualitative analysis, this study examined the role of control mutuality in social media engagement to provide insight for social media strategy creation for nonprofit organizations. Guided by OPR and relationship management literature, insights and implications contribute to scholarly discussions of control mutuality and relationship management.