下一次经济危机：数字资本主义与全球警察国家

跨国资本家和全球精英相信,世界经济已经从2008年金融危机中复苏,但也有充分的理由相信,另一场重大危机即将来临。数字化和第四次工业革命技术正在推动新一轮的全球资本主义重组,然而,它们也加剧了引发危机的潜在结构性条件,特别是过度累积。跨国投资者为全球资本主义的快速数字化投入了数十亿美元,作为其剩余积累资本的最新出路,并对冲他们对全球警察国家新投资机会的押注。全球警察国家的概念,使我们能够确定全球资本主义转型的经济维度如何以新的方式与这一转型的政治、思想和军事维度相交。全球资本主义对社会控制和镇压的政治需要和面对停滞时保持积累的经济需要是一致的。当下一次危机来临时,左派和抵抗力量必须能够抓住主动权,并在全球警察国家进行反击。     

Racial disparity in Minnesota's child protection system

Minnesota has been recognized by several studies as a state with a significant amount of racial disparity in its child protection system. This study, using 2001 data from Minnesota's Social Services Information Service, was conducted to determine at which of the six decision points in Minnesota's child welfare system racial disparities are statistically significant. The authors employ a nested model to examine a child's journey through the Minnesota child protection system. Using binary logistic regression, they are able to determine the odds that a child belonging to a particular racial or ethnic group would progress to the next decision point.     

Challenges and dilemmas facing community development corporations in the United States

In the United States, Community Development Corporations (CDCs)are one of the prime vehicles for delivering housing to low-incomehouseholds. Beyond the difficulties involved with securing theneeded resources to develop, rehabilitate and manage housing,CDCs are facing a series of challenges and dilemmas that couldthreaten their viability. This article discusses some of thekey challenges and dilemmas facing CDCs and offers a numberof suggestions for how they might be best confronted.     

Sex and Sexuality in China. Edited by Elaine Jeffreys

Survey data from samples of undergraduates at a small Southern university indicate significant increases in rates of premarital intercourse, significant decreases in average age at first experience, and significant increases in average number of partners between 1970 and 1981. Although attitudes toward premarital intercourse and behavior (i.e., reported coitus) were interrelated, this relationship was significantly stronger for women (V = .676) than for men (V = .325). Although differences between men and women still exist, these differences are much more evident in attitudes than in behavior. Women are still more conservative than men in their attitudes toward the kinds of relationships in which premarital coitus is personally acceptable. Some explanations for this continuing ideological difference are presented.     

Emotion Socialization by Mothers and Fathers: Coherence among Behaviors and Associations with Parent Attitudes and Children's Social Competence

This study examined inter‐relations among different types of parental emotion socialization behaviors in 88 mothers and 76 fathers (co‐residing with participating mothers) of eight‐year‐old children. Parents completed questionnaires assessing emotion socialization behaviors, emotion‐related attitudes, and their children's social functioning. An observed parent–child emotion discourse task and a child social problem‐solving interview were also performed. Parent gender differences and concordance within couples in emotion socialization behaviors were identified for some but not all behaviors. Fathers' reactions to child emotion, family expressiveness, and fathers' emotion coaching during discussion cohered, and a model was supported in which the commonality among these behaviors was predicted by fathers' emotion‐coaching attitudes, and was associated with children's social competence. A cohesive structure for the emotion socialization construct was less clear for mothers, although attitudes predicted all three types of emotion socialization behavior (reactions, expressiveness, and coaching). Implications for developmental theory and for parent‐focused interventions are discussed.     

When it pays to be friendly: employment relationships and emotional labour in hairstyling

This article examines worker‐client relationships in hairstyling. Data are drawn from interviews with 15 hourly‐paid and 32 self‐employed hairstylists and a self‐administered survey. Relations of employment are found to be central to the deployment of emotional labour. Self‐employed owner‐operators are highly dependent on clients, rely on deep‐acting, enact favours, and are prone to emotional breaking points when they fail to realise their ‘congealed service’. In contrast, hourly‐paid stylists perform surface acting, resist unpaid favours and experience fewer breaking points. Methodologically this article demonstrates the importance of comparative employment relations analysis (CERA) for exposing the relationship between employment structures and labour process experiences.     

Successful Social Work Educators Engaged in Practice

Abstract

Engaging in practice can be costly to social work educators facing university tenure and promotion reviews, in which practice is neither expected nor valued highly. Yet, maintaining a practice contributes to the relevance of an educator's efforts to prepare students to practice. Handling the resulting dilemmas can be difficult. Data from 104 educators evaluated as effective researchers, teachers, and practitioners show that all three areas must be related closely, that beginning educators must accept the need to do research but not omit practice, and that personal costs are to be expected. Outcomes of professional recognition and personal satisfaction are deemed ample.     

Homeless in the Mind: A Case-History of Personal Life in and out of a Close Orthodox Community

A sociogenetic theoretical framework is applied to Berger, Berger} and Kellner’s (1973) concept of cultural homelessness, extending its use beyond the sociological effects of modernity to the psychological development of persons who are closely tied to their collective-cultural contexts. The theory is grounded in the bi-directionality of cultural transmission, and the construction of culture in different cultural members. The construction of internal personal cultures is brought about by the individual with the support of social others. The processes by which cultural messages are internalized and externalize back into the culture explain how feeling at home or not at home are normal aspects of socialization. An illustrative example of a retrospective case-history of a woman’s feeling of homelessness in an ultra-orthodox community shows how the individual internalizes and transforms cultural norms. Examples of further applications of the theoretical principles are presented, and implications of feelings of homelessness for understanding the normal processes of socialization.