关系型家庭:城市中老年家庭的生活特征与个体化悖论

在个体崛起与社会风险并存的外部环境中,家庭生活的价值观念呈现多元化的特征,这一多元化的价值观念深嵌在家庭文化内涵中。 在中老年家庭的日常生活中,伦理性价值是维系家庭稳定的基本要素,情感性价值是家庭成员的生活体验,工具性价值是协调个人、家庭与社会三者之间关系的平衡器,这一以家庭的伦理性价值为核心并协调个人与家庭以及个人与社会之间权变关系的家庭生活方式可以称为“关系型家庭”。 与西方家庭的个体化相比,中国家庭生活变迁既呈现人口学意义上明显的个体化趋势,又突出伦理价值、情感性价值以及工具性价值在家庭中的重要功能,这是中国家庭生活变迁的独特内涵。     

清代浙南畲民科举权争取与东南地区的民族融合

清朝统治者为了推行教化、巩固疆域,把少数民族纳入到科举考试行列中,但是居于东南地区汉民腹地的畲民却是经过积极主动争取才获得参与科举考试的权益。较晚定居于东南地区的畲民在对抗当地士人阻考时,多采取呈诉官府、强调族群性以与清朝统治者特殊的族群背景相关照,借助地方官员支持以争取科举权的策略。地方官员为了解决民族纠纷,更好地管理地方社会,强调了“版图之内”的多民族国家认同,促使畲民更好地从制度、文化等多方面融入整个国家体系和地域社会。这一现象深刻地反映了各民族与国家之间的互动关系,在多维度的互动过程中,各民族与国家之间在利益诉求方面实现了统一。     

易地扶贫搬迁情况分析与思考

基于中西部8省(自治区)16县2 019户建档立卡搬迁户问卷调查数据,对建档立卡搬迁户的总体情况进行了分析。研究发现,建档立卡搬迁户生存环境较差,收入水平偏低,生产和生活不便且开发难度大,饮水困难、不安全现象突出。因生存性困难或发展性困难而需要搬迁的农户比例为92.67%,暂时不需要搬迁的农户比例为7.33%。建档立卡搬迁户搬迁意愿强烈但仍有疑惑,且有部分搬迁支付意愿。现有政策能够基本满足人均住房面积的要求,但对后续政策的需求强烈。建议加强易地扶贫搬迁政策的宣传工作,易地扶贫搬迁要根据轻重缓急分类施策,搬迁方式需要符合贫困家庭的生计能力,在严格控制标准的基础上,因地制宜地进行住房建设,加强搬迁后的后续扶持政策。     

精准扶贫中农民争当贫困户的行为及其阐释——基于武汉近郊Q村的实地调查

国家精准扶贫的“资源输入”却遭遇农户“争当贫困户”的意外性后果,本文基于武汉市近郊Q村的调研发现：(1)面对国家精准扶贫的“资源输入”,一方面农民会有不服从社会章程的行为,另一方面他们在个人算计理应使他们采取其它行动时却循章而为。(2)农户“争当贫困户”并不是简单出于自利的考虑,而是多重因素共同影响的结果：首先,农户生计脆弱而又缺乏保障的客观现实为其行为提供了道义性,而国家保障和改善民生的制度理念以及投入的加大,为其行为提供合法性的同时也刺激了农户的行为;其次,在政策的具体实践过程中产生了瞄准目标偏离的现象,这激化了农户基于平均主义心态的社会不公感和相对剥夺感,而当农户的权利意识自觉时,农户出现“争当贫困户”的心态与行为。一个制度必须有一套相一致的理念来支撑,当下农村之所以出现“争夺贫困户”的现象,是国家的期望与农民的理念之间的存在难以弥合张力的表现。     

新疆罗布人的人生礼仪及其文化内涵——基于轮台县草湖乡的田野调查

在漫长的历史长河中,罗布人创造了独具特色的传统文化,孕育了浓郁醇厚的民族风情。人生礼仪是罗布人传统文化中的重要组成部分,主要包括起名仪式、摇篮庆典、割礼、婚礼、葬礼等礼仪。从形式上看,罗布人的人生礼仪与周边地区的其他维吾尔族大致相似,但仪式的内容却有着很多完全不一样的特点。在人生礼仪上表现出来的社会伦理观、渔猎生活以及歌谣对唱习俗,不仅反映了他们在生活进程中自然形成的生活习惯与文化传统,而且体现了罗布人独特的历史风貌和文化意义。     

Children and Society Policy Review: Health Policy Affecting Children and Young People

The Health and Social Care Act comes into force in April 2013. It changes the organisation of the health service and accelerates the integration of health and social care. New relationships between primary and secondary healthcare will develop and the culture of clinical and cost effectiveness will expand into social care; work on children in public care is in the vanguard of this change. However, this is not an organisational change designed for children and there are considerable anxieties about how it will impact on the delivery of health care. The issues for children in public care need to stay high on the national agenda and in local fora.     

Moving to and Living in a Retirement Home

Abstract

Bad health combined witii deteriorating physical functions force many elderly people to move to a retirement home. The primary focus of this study was to investigate the resident's experience of safety and security. From a sample of 57 residents, 12 persons volunteered to participate in the interview. Data were analyzed with qualitative content analysis. The standard and design of the participant's previous home made mobility difficult and this affected their sense of security. This motivated them to move into an environment where they felt more secure. The environment at the retirement home was predominantly described as secure and safe. The finding shows that the participants felt that safety and security were more important than independence.     

Abstracts

A burgeoning literature on narrative identity has emerged during the last decades simultaneously with a “performative turn” in the methodology of qualitative social research; both changes indicate a move away from the paradigm of “representation” that emphasizes linear and singular interpretation of “facts” and toward an acknowledgment of the complexity of the social world preferring a dialogic space, open for multiple interpretations and voices. This article aims to explicate how a nonrepresentational narrative stage performance, “We Are All the Same,” by a group of people who had suffered from mental illness opened up space that made transformation possible.     

A Qualitative Exploratory Study on the Service Delivery System for the New Long-Term Care Insurance System in Korea

ABSTRACT

To cope with the rapid growth in its aging population, the Korean government introduced a new social long-term care insurance (LTCI) system for elderly people beginning in July 2008. This study aims to understand how National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) staff and home-visiting service providers experienced and evaluated the new service delivery system. A total of 26 semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted with NHIC staff primarily responsible for the functional assessment of the elderly and the home-visiting service providers responsible for providing direct services to elderly clients. In summary, interviewees had negative experiences with the new service delivery system such as difficulties in carrying out their roles. The findings suggest that Korea's new LTCI service delivery system faces challenges and that a more active role for the Korean government, especially regarding the introduction of a proper care management system, is needed to address the issues. Future research with larger sample sizes is needed to examine and understand the issues in detail.