Intergenerational relationships in Chinese transnational families: A typology study

ABSTRACT

Using latent class analysis, this study examined the overall patterns of multifaceted intergenerational relationships of 604 parent-child dyads in 292 transnational families in Beijing, China. Three family relation types emerged: local obligatory (27%, with reciprocal support and ambivalent feelings), distant discordant (27%, with weak associations and high conflict), and distant intimate (46%, with highest filial ratings and emotional quality). Parents’ health and children’s marital status, socioeconomic status, childcare responsibilities, and sibling numbers were associated with different relation types. The findings are helpful for social workers to identify subgroups of older adults in transnational families who are at risk of having inadequate support.     

“行走”中的城市设计

城市在不断的生长、变化,每个城市都有"成长的烦恼",如何在不断地成长中把握自己,需要我们去不断地反思总结。每座城市都有变得伟大的潜质,城市设计就是去创造难忘的地点、具有活力或宁静的空间,释放其内在的品质,在不失去城市文化、城市意向的同时来适应发展变迁。     

Reconfigured Everyday Lives of Children from Divorced-Parent Families in Singapore

With the termination of a marriage, children involved inevitably experience dramatic changes in different facets of their lives. This article makes use of narrative accounts of divorced single parents to investigate how their marital dissolution has impacted and changed their children's lives. Empirical data was collected through semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 25 Singaporean divorced parents. Within the policy and social context of Singapore society, I highlight transformations in three specific aspects of the children's lives: one, the reconfigurations of familial relationships and formation of a new family unit; two, the creation of and adaptation to new family practices and routine; three, the adoption of new social identity following parental divorce. This article hopes to present a more nuanced understanding of the divorce experience by emphasizing both the precarious and productive aspects in the children's lives, contra to the existing divorce literature that typically focuses on the former.     

井田制研究与近代中国——20世纪前半期的井田制研究及其意义

长期以来,土地制度是中国社会的基础。而作为其源头的"井田制"不仅仅作为一个"历史"事实,同时还作为"理想"与"现实"贯穿于历史的始终,成为中国传统学术中的经典问题。进入近代之后,在救亡压力与西方文明的冲击下,传统上对于井田制之"历史"、"理想"、"现实"三维度统一的理解也分裂了,呈现为"理想—现实"(今文经学)与"历史—现实"(古文经学)的两个极端。而在进入民国之后,在西方社会科学的影响之下,众多学者们开始在新的意义上探索井田制之三维度的新关联,同时也是试图通过重新理解传统,来探索中国走向现代社会的方向。20世纪20年代有胡适和柳诒徵对于"历史"维度与"理想"维度的分别探索,30-40年代则有郭沫若、高耘晖等开始在社会理论的基础上重新统一"历史"、"理想"、"现实"三维度的尝试。在这些尝试中,"历史"与"理想"维度间的张力继续成为问题焦点。这些重要研究深化了井田制新研究的各个侧面,为我们今后进一步探究井田制的意义,并在此基础上深入理解中国社会的现状与未来奠定了基础。     

经济全球化背景下的中国地方政府转型与职能定位

中国从1978年推行对外开放政策以来,一改过去那种被动纳入全球化的方式,开始以一种积极的姿态主动地参与到世界经济全球化的进程中来,不仅极大地促进了中国经济社会的迅猛发展,而且也在很大程度上推动了中国政府,特别是各级地方政府以提供公共服务为目标的政府转型,进而导致中国地方政府职能的全新定位。     

环境运动促进生态和谐与社会和谐的现实结合

构建社会主义和谐社会,是中国共产党提出的一个崭新的命题,是一项重大的战略决策。如何将生态和谐现实地融入到整个社会和谐的体系之中,是当前我们所面临的重大问题。其中民间机制尤其是环境运动在这方面的作用是不容忽视的,它通过对政府机制的补充,有效地促使了生态和谐现实地融入到社会和谐的整体中。     

论王韬的海外旅游活动及影响

近代时期,王韬前往欧洲和日本旅游,亲身接触外国的先进文化,对于开阔视野,形成近代化意识,奠定其著名思想家的地位,具有重要意义。     

Writing resistance together

This piece of writing is a joint initiative by the participants in the Gender, Work and Organization writing workshop organized in Helsinki, Finland, in June 2019. This is a particular form of writing differently. We engage in collective writing and embody what it means to write resistance to established academic practices and conventions together. This is a form of emancipatory initiative where we care for each other as writers and as human beings. There are many author voices and we aim to keep the text open and dialogical. As such, this piece of writing is about suppressed thoughts and feelings that our collective picket line allows us to express. In order to maintain the open‐ended nature of the text, and perhaps also to retain some ‘dirtiness’ that is essential to writing, the article has not been language checked throughout by a native speaker of English.     

Benevolence-dominant,authoritarianism-dominant,and classical paternalistic leadership: Testing their relationships with subordinate performance

We propose a new typology of paternalistic leadership styles based on how leaders demonstrate authoritarianism and benevolence, the two essential components of this type of leadership. Benevolence-dominant paternalistic leadership refers to leaders' sole dependence on the use of benevolence without their strong assertion of authority, whereas authoritarianism-dominant paternalistic leadership is based mainly on authoritarianism itself; classical paternalistic leadership, which best fits early observations of paternalistic leaders, refers to the salient combination of both leadership components. We used two distinct samples and methods to test this typology and the association with subordinate performance. Across the two studies, a field investigation with Taiwanese military supervisor-subordinate dyads and a hypothetical scenario experiment with U.S. working adults, we found a positive relationship between classical paternalistic leadership and subordinate performance as strong as that between benevolence-dominant paternalistic leadership and performance. Our findings echo the phenomenon that paternalistic leaders tend to combine benevolence with authoritarianism to affect subordinate performance.     

Blocking Rumor by Cut

In this paper, a rumor blocking problem is studied with an objective function which is neither submodular or supermodular. We will prove that this problem is NP-hard and give a data-dependent approximation with sandwich method. In addition, we show that every set function has a pair of monotone nondecreasing modular functions as upper bound and lower bound, respectively.