“文化古镇、经济强镇、三辣之乡”——林亭口镇总体规划分析

建设社会主义新农村是我国现代化进程中的重大历史任务．是一项涉及方方面面的宏大工程。统筹城乡发展，做好旧村改造，是天津市新农村建设的重要内容。     

我家那处老宅

1929年，我出生于河北抚宁县香营村老宅，一直住了80多年。去年，香营旧村改造，建成“香营新村”，全村300多户悉数迁入新村新楼，旧址夷为平地。我家祖孙八代人住过的200多年老宅，一夜之间消失，但怀念之情，时时萦回脑际。挥之不去。     

唐家岭静悄悄

旧村整治改造,再一次把唐家岭推到了公众视线的聚光灯下.落脚地被拆,昔日"蚁族聚集地"的租客们不得不再次努力寻找着下一个容身之所.     

“三旧”改造政策分析——以东莞市为例

2009年8月广东省政府《关于推进“三旧”改造促进节约集约用地的若干意见》出台,标志着“三旧”改造在广东省正式推开。本文以东莞市为例,分析了“三旧”改造政策的实施过程及其创新点,并运用博弈论对“三旧”改造政策进行了综合评价,进而探讨了政策的实施前景。研究发现,在“三旧”政策框架下,城市中心区及发展条件较好的工业区的改造意愿和改造可行性将增强,而市区外围、低效厂房和偏远旧村则将成为政策死角。针对这些问题,应进行市镇协调、平衡开发等补充政策。     

旧工业区、旧村屋土地政府收购模式研究——以深圳市宝安区为例

旧城改造是实现环境改善、土地集约化利用的必选之路,尤其是对于深圳这样一座寸土寸金的城市.近期,深圳市宝安区开展了旧工业区,旧村屋的政府收购模式的试点工作,本文阐述了旧工业区、旧村屋的政府收购模式产生的背景和试点工作所取得的成就,分析了政府收购模式的特点和成功的经验,并提出政府收购模式推广的相关意见,如完善法律、建立市场化的评估制度、加大宣传和群众参与等.     

对房地产开发主导下的旧城改造的思考

当前，中国城市化处于快速发展时期，受土地资源供给的制约，城市大发展与大转型并存：一方面是新城建设紧锣密鼓，另一方面是旧城改造，包括棚户区、城中村改造如火如茶。当前，房地产开发已成为旧城改造的主要形式，在利益驱动下，     

“有问题找社工”——香港的社会服务机构

邻里间频繁往来、守望相助的场面，曾是香港电影中的经典一幕，但如今只有在少数旧村屋中可以看到这样的场景。     

城中村改造的原理及模式研究

随着经济的不断发展和对城市化质量要求的提高,城中村改造成为我国城市化进程中不可回避的问题。城中村的改造是一个系统的社会综合治理工程,主要涉及政府作用、改造模式、改造主体、资金来源、土地权属变更、拆迁补偿方式、流动人口住房问题等多方面,如何合理的进行城中村改造?关键在于对以上多方面问题的优化协调。本文试图在阐述城中村改造原理的基础上,将处于不同成长阶段的城中村划分为三类——成熟型城中村、成长型城中村和初生成型城中村,然后围绕成熟型城中村提出改造的思路。     

“城中村”改造问题研究

随着经济的不断发展,社会的不断进步,我国加快了城市化的进程。在这个过程中,城中村成为最为普遍的一个问题。要想提高城市化质量,就必须加强对城中村的改造,合理安顿居民,解决土地产权和各方利益纠纷。本文针对当前我国城中村改造过程中存在的主要问题及原因进行了分析,并针对性地提出解决措施,以期为提高城市化质量做出贡献。     

主动城市化与被动城市化的比较研究

本文在对我国城市化质量进行分析的基础上，回顾总结现有城市化模式，指出我国的城市化模式有主动城市化与被动城市化之分，接着具体阐述了现行不同城市化模式的概念与内涵，并对比研究被动城市化和主动城市化在形成动力机制、表征以及存在问题等方面的差异。最后，以实现可持续发展城市化为目标，根据不同城市化模式其自身所特有的问题提出深层次城市化的建议和对策。     

“Empowered Criminals and Global Subjects”: Transnational Norms and Sexual Minorities in India

In this paper, I comparatively examine the influence of transnational advocacy on legal struggles around sex work and homosexuality in contemporary India. While transnational scholars of sexuality understand globalization as a contradictory and uneven process, there has been little attention to how this unevenness is manifest in the realm of sexual rights and law. Based on qualitative research, I show how transnational discourses on health—in particular, HIV/AIDS interventions—and on human rights interact unevenly with national discourses on sexuality. Whereas discourses regarding HIV/AIDS enable sex workers to mobilize at the national level, global anti-trafficking discourses effectively reduce sex workers to “victims.” For Indian LGBTQ groups, discourses regarding the HIV/AIDS epidemic and global human rights enable these groups to problematize the anti-sodomy law in national politics. However, national legal discourses effectively reduce LGBQ individuals to “criminals,” and legal advancements in this arena are uneven. Focusing on this unevenness produced by transnational advocacy this paper highlights how sexual rights are articulated in context of asymmetric and uneven globalizations.     

Intergenerational Interaction Between Institutionalised Older Persons and Biologically Unrelated University Students

ABSTRACT

Most studies on older persons focus mainly on what the aged can no longer do and on the impact that this has on the community and specifically on their carers. In contrast to this, this research focused on the value of friendship between older persons living in a retirement home and students whom they did not know prior to their interaction in the project. Friendship, in this instance, is viewed as a multidimensional facet of social support. Participatory action research was used to describe the relationship between the students and the older persons, and the illustrative method, as a qualitative research method, was used to analyse the data, obtained from students' reports, observations and interviews. The results are used to propose guidelines for the transfer to other contexts of the intergenerational involvement of biologically unrelated students     

中学教师工作压力与职业倦怠的成因分析及解决方法

职业倦怠问题是目前中学教师培养乃至于学校发展中所遇到的无法回避的问题之一。研究中学教师的职业倦怠的成因对于解决教师职业倦怠问题,促进教师素质培养和学校发展具有十分重要的意义。文章通过研究和分析教师职业倦怠问题的原因探讨了如何解决教师职业倦怠问题。     

Rhotacization and the ‘Beijing Smooth Operator’: The social meaning of a linguistic variable1

Recent sociolinguistic studies on style have focused much attention on the construction of social meaning in situated discursive practices. Despite a general recognition that the linguistic resources used are often already imbued with social meanings, little research has been done on what these meanings may be. Focusing on rhotacization, a sociolinguistic variable in Beijing Mandarin, this article explores its imbued social meanings and sociocultural associations. I demonstrate that rhotacization takes on semiotic saliency through co‐occurrence with key Beijing cultural terms and frequent use in written representations of authentic Beijing‐ness. Furthermore, this feature is associated with the ‘Beijing Smooth Operator,’ a salient male local character type, and is ideologically construed as reflecting its characterological attributes. The findings of this study shed light on the meaning potential of a linguistic variable, rhotacization in this case, which can enhance understanding of the possibilities and constraints for its use and meaning in new contexts.     

Migration and the search for a better way of life: a critical exploration of lifestyle migration

For the past few years, the term 'lifestyle migration' has been used to refer to an increasing number of people who take the decision to migrate based on their belief that there is a more fulfilling way of life available to them elsewhere. Lifestyle migration is thus a growing, disparate phenomenon, with important but little understood implications for both societies and individuals. This article outlines and explores in detail a series of mobilities that have in common relative affluence and this search for a better lifestyle. We attempt to define the limits of the term lifestyle migration, the characteristics of the lifestyle sought, and the place of this form of migration in the contemporary world. In this manner, we map the various migrations that can be considered under this broad rubric, recognising the similarities and differences in their migration trajectories. Further to this, drawing on the sociological literature on lifestyle, we provide an initial theoretical conceptualisation of this phenomenon, attempting to explain its recent escalation in various guises, and investigating the historical, sociological, and individualised conditions that inspire this migration. This article is thus the first step in defining a broader programme for the study of lifestyle migration. We contend that the study of this migration is especially important in the current era given the impact such moves have on places and people at both ends of the migratory chain.     

Teaching Community Organizing

Abstract

In this article, our experiences as professor and students will form the basis of reflection on the use of innovative teaching methods in a community organizing course. Based on student evaluations and participant observation, we discuss the role of creativity in enhancing the learning experience in a case example of this one course. Findings indicate that reliance on innovative teaching methods provides students with the opportunity to exercise their creativity. In turn, this creativity has a potentially positive impact on community practice.     

NGOs and the Democratization of Ecuadorian Water Governance: Insights from the Multi-Stakeholder Platform <Emphasis Type="Italic">el Foro de los Recursos Hídricos</Emphasis>

NGOs have taken up an increasing number of roles and responsibilities in Latin American societies. Based on a study of the multi-stakeholder platform, the Water Resources Forum in Ecuador, this paper shows how through the creation of a broad network of NGOs, academics, grassroots water users organizations and governmental actors; this platform has been able to contribute to the democratization of water governance. This paper analyses the international and national socio-political context in which this platform developed and traces the history and strategies that marked its development. Based on this, it argues that NGOs can play an important role in the development of more democratic and inclusive public policy making in water governance, but that the capacity of NGOs to bring about change greatly depends on the socio-political context and on the networks they are able to forge with grassroots organizations, state agencies, funders and other third sector actors.     

Cultural diversity for health professions

The purpose of this article is to help focus attention on why clinical health professionals need to be concerned about cultural diversity. It is not intended to be an exhaustive report on cultural diversity. Rather, attention is focused on the practitioner and how this provider can and should use and understand cultural diversity. While most of the examples in this article come from the press in the United States, the information has a much broader, universal and global implication.     

Beyond the Time Crunch: New Directions in the Sociology of Time and Work

The sociology of work is particularly poised to study the meaning of time within institutions and organizations at its most sociological manifestation – the point where groups of people come together to accomplish joint goals. Previous work has offered useful concepts to help us understand temporality and tempography, home and work balance, temporal practices and mindsets towards time. Most of this work, however, which directly or peripherally treats time in the workplace, has focussed on the work–life balance. The actual temporal experiences of workers, however, are relatively absent in this literature. In this review article, I outline previous contributions from sociologists of work and offer ways in which work from the broader literature on the sociology of time can enhance this field. I address how future research should focus on how “time work” is accomplished in workplaces and on issues of class and gender.     

Leaving Behind What We are Not: Applying a Systems Thinking Perspective to Present Unlearning as an Enabler for Finding the Best Version of the Self

In response to criticism on the concept of ‘unlearning’, we suggested that unlearning on an individual level should be defined as the reduction of the influence of old knowledge on cognitive and/or behavioural processes. In this article, we apply a systems thinking perspective on this definition to explore how far this kind of unlearning can possibly go and what happens if this process is inward-directed, i.e. affects the cognitive and behavioural patterns that define who we are. We take a knowledge perspective on the concept of the self and suggest that unlearning could trigger a disequilibrium, which in turn, enables a deep learning process and guides us to what is referred to as ideal or best version of the self. This does not only have implications for the individual level but it can initiate fundamental change processes in organizations.