西方环境社会学的理论发展及其借鉴

西方环境社会学经过近30年的学科发展其理论已渐趋成熟,既受到主流社会学家的理论关注,同时也在积极的汲取和借鉴科学社会学、风险社会以及新社会运动理论等的知识成果。尽管目前还存在着诸如理论边界不明晰、理论表述形式过于抽象等问题,但其理论进步是显而易见的。对此我们应当报以客观的理论态度,吸收其合理的内容,以推动我国环境社会学的理论建设。     

马克思早期政治哲学中的主体性维度——对马克思博士论文的思考

马克思哲学一直以来被西方社会视为一种认知理论,由于缺乏价值方面的关怀而在与西方政治哲学进行对话的过程中长期处于失语状态。事实上,马克思的哲学恰恰体现了规范与认知的统一,它作为一种以解放全人类为终极关怀的政治哲学始终内在地包含着以人为核心的主体性维度,这在马克思最初的博士论文中就已经有所展现。尽管早期马克思还没有认识到作为现实的个人的重要性,但马克思在《博士论文》中通过对伊壁鸠鲁的原子论进行详细系统的阐述已经充分表达了他认为人民作为主体应当树立自我意识、反思生活、反抗强制、追求独立自由的主张。     

Is Nature‐Oriented Tourism a Pro‐Environmental Practice?: Examining Tourism–Environmentalism Alignments Through Discourse Networks and Intersectoral Relationships

A key tenet of ecotourism is that interacting with nature through tourism cultivates environmental awareness and responsibility. We examine this assumption by analyzing discourse networks and organizational networks that connect tourism and environmentalism in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Using a combination of interviews, field observation, and web‐based data, we ask: Is there an alignment of tourism and environmental discourse regarding human interaction with and use of coastal environments? Are there meaningful organizational ties between tourism and environmental organizations? We conclude that there is little indication that nature‐oriented tourism is working to produce substantial changes to our broader political ecology.     

Cold wars and hot issues: management of responsibilities

This paper provides a review of the Ninth International Conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development (Asia Chapter) that took place in Shanghai, China on 11–14 November 2010. In addition to providing a brief review of the pre-conference workshops and keynote addresses, this paper presents the outcomes of the conference using four main themes: (1) corporate training; (2) the development of key personnel; (3) career development and work-life balance; and (4) organizational learning and learning organization. In conclusion, the authors share their thoughts on the contributions of international conferences to the field of human resource development.     

When Futures Meet the Present

In this essay, I respond to Mische's work on projection and the research of future action. Further, I suggest a tri-partite framework of mechanisms—one I have termed "political semiosis"—that allows historical actors to materially and figuratively reorient and realign the past, present, and future in projects of transformation.     

高校政治理论课教学要在“活”字上做文章

高校政治理论课的内容要“讲活”，授课方法要“灵活”，课堂气氛要“搞活”，教育资料要“鲜活”，互动交流要“激活”。     

Organic food and the plural moralities of food provisioning

The aim of this paper is twofold. The first aim is to unfold the moral complexity of organic food consumption as part of household food provisioning. By acknowledging this complexity, and the difficulty of determining what is ‘good’ and ‘right’ in food provisioning, the idea is to allow for a better understanding of how organic food may, or may not, fit in with the various concerns of food provisioning. The second aim is to analyse how food provisioners handle this complexity so that food provisioning can proceed as an ordinary everyday activity.The paper analyses empirical material from a study of household food provisioning in Denmark. Theoretically, it draws on French pragmatic sociology as represented by the work of Boltanski and Thévenot on moral conventions and regimes of engagement. The analysis illustrates that food provisioning involves several competing sets of moral conventions and that the status of organic food in relation to these is often uncertain and contested. However, it also identifies among provisioners different strategies for handling this moral complexity in ordinary everyday life. The paper calls for some modesty in trying to change consumer behaviour in favour of organic products. Providing consumers with more information about organic food may not make it easier to determine what is ‘good’ and ‘right’ when buying food. It may only add to the complexity of food provisioning and thus to the need for compromise and pragmatism.     

中国教育社会学研究的最新动向及评述

中国的社会科学界,最近似乎进入了一个"继往开来"的时代,许多学科都在作学科的回顾与前瞻,教育社会学也不例外,毕竟是处在中国社会科学这个大环境中。本文以2006年以来中国教育社会学界的学术活动为背景,整理了教育社会学研究的最新动向与进展,既肯定取得的成就,同时也指出了存在的问题与不足。     

Tweeting democracy? Examining Twitter as an online public relations strategy for congressional campaigns’

Considering the integral relationship between public relations and democracy (Martinelli, 2011) coupled with the growing use of social media for democratic aims (Smith, 2011) the current study examines the effectiveness of Twitter as a public relations communications tool for congressional campaigns. Specifically, as a means of testing Twitter's effectiveness in informing and engaging voters, congressional candidate and political party Twitter use for all 435 U.S. House of Representatives races (N = 1284) are compared with 2010 election outcomes. Results indicate that candidates’ Twitter use significantly increased their odds of winning, controlling for incumbency and Party ID. Additionally, significant differences between incumbents’ and challengers’ Twitter use during the election cycle emerged, which has important implications for public relations practices aimed at achieving democratic outcomes.