消费社会、流行文化与媒介影响力分析

时尚杂志背后是消费社会这个庞大的社会背景,对消费文化中时尚期刊的研究表明了媒介与消费社会、流行文化的关系。时尚期刊的媒介影响力在矛盾中不断扩张并在全球化背景下形成时尚传播链。     

熵理论与和谐社会

熵理论揭示了任何事物和过程都是有序和无序的辩证统一,人类社会的发展也是有序和无序的辩证统一。构建和谐社会的实质就是克服无序(不和谐)、创建有序(和谐),实现安定有序。这是建设中国特色社会主义的重大任务。     

农民工上向社会流动空间分析

对于整个中国社会而言,农民工阶层的上向社会流动是事关城乡协调发展实现共同富裕、优化社会结构、保持社会稳定、扩大内需拉动经济发展等宏观目标得以实现的重要因素之一。因而我国必须尽快解决农民工阶层"凝固化"倾向所带来的社会问题,令广大的农民工上向社会流动为全社会带来更大的价值。     

试论社会与社群的概念界限

应当以R·M·迈基文 (Maciver)的community和society的定义为基本出发点 ,结合卡尔·马克思对gesellschaftlich和sozial的哲学理解和当代学者所作的阐释 ,对社会与社群两个概念做重新规定并论证两者应有的相互关系 ;同时应尽快改变我国长期以来用一个汉语名词翻译commu nity和society两个重要概念的现状 ,建立以society为特有研究对象的学科体系     

Fostering social capital in an international multi-stakeholder issue network

Scholars have theorized that public relations contributes to societies and communities by bringing attention to pressing public issues and fostering social capital in civil society networks. However, the extant research has studied civil society networks of NGOs, donors, and the media in transitional countries. This study extends the public relations model of civil society in two ways. First, it broadens the scope to an international context. Second, it draws from the multi-stakeholder issue network perspective to conceptualize a civil society network as a space where stakeholders of an issue mix their interests as they collectively address a pressing public issue. The literature on international and multi-stakeholder networks suggest that the international scope and the mixing of interests across sectors may restrict the production of social capital. The results from the social network analysis suggests that the mixing of interests across sectoral and geopolitical boundaries did not restrict the production of social capital. Rather, the patterns of the relationships among those on the core and those on the periphery of the network restricted the production of social capital. Such finding demonstrates how public relations’ functions like relationship building can have profound influences on social capital and civil society networks. The implications for public relations theorizing and research are discussed.     

消费文化的道德规约

在消费社会里,人类的消费活动、消费过程文化意义越来越浓厚,消费文化对人类消费活动的引领作用亦随之明显。文化自身承载着意义,拥有教育功能和批判精神。拟使消费文化发挥更多的积极的导向作用,不仅要发挥文化的积极意义和批判精神,还应强调消费文化的真正正义,使消费文化释放出更多的“正能量”,表现出一种道德担当。在一个人均资源并不丰厚的国度里,消费既包含文化,也包含道德规约;既包括文化牵引,也涵盖道德自觉。     

Data Science: A Powerful Catalyst for Cross-Sector Collaborations to Transform the Future of Global Health—Developing a New Interactive Relational Mapping Tool (Demo)

ABSTRACT

The increasingly complex and rapidly changing global health and socioeconomic landscape requires fundamentally new ways of thinking, acting, and collaborating to solve growing systems challenges. Cross-sectoral collaborations between governments, businesses, international organizations, private investors, academia, and nonprofits are essential for lasting success in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and securing a prosperous future for the health and well-being of all people (United Nations, n.d United Nations. (n.d.). SDGs: Sustainable development knowledge platform. Sustainable Development United Nations. Retrieved from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/ [Google Scholar].). Our aim is to use data science and innovative technologies to map diverse stakeholders and their initiatives around SDGs and specific health targets—with particular focus on SDG 3 (Good Health & Well Being) and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals)—to accelerate cross-sector and multidisciplinary collaborations. Initially, the mapping tool focuses on Geneva, Switzerland as the world center of global health diplomacy with over 80 key stakeholders and influencers present. As we develop the next level pilot, we aim to build on users’ interests, with a potential focus on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as one of the emerging and most pressing global health issues that requires new collaborative approaches. Building on this pilot, we can later expand beyond only SDG 3 to other SDGs.     

Market/society: mapping conceptions of power,ideology and subjectivity in Polanyi,Hayek, Foucault,Lukács

ABSTRACT

In light of discussions around the common anniversary of the publication of Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation and F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, this article puts these texts – iconic representations of social democratic and neoliberal political theory – into conversation with Michel Foucault’s subsequent, influential critique of neoliberalism, The Birth of Biopolitics. There are interesting points of contact in the way each text constructs its argument, even as they arrive at distinct positions vis-à-vis the material and subjective nature of market society, while nevertheless sharing an opposition to Marxian approaches. Yet the work of Polanyi and Hayek’s Marxian contemporary, Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness, offers precisely a critical framework for understanding the relationship between markets, liberty and society in which the material and the subjective need not be read as antagonistic. It is thus also examined here, in an effort to shed light on how discussions of contemporary neoliberalism are framed.     

有秩序的和谐社会——爱因斯坦的社会观

爱因斯坦是20世纪最伟大的物理学家和哲学家,他所创立的科学理论深刻地改变了人类的宇宙观,他对社会的认识和理解也思想深邃、见解独到。爱因斯坦的社会观,不仅深受他的个人经历和科学思想的影响,而且与他的哲学思想有着直接的关系,是他的宇宙宗教的上帝概念在社会领域中的自然延伸。因此,爱因斯坦是在他的宇宙宗教“上帝”概念的基础上,为了避免和消除他所经历和感受到的种种社会不幸,主张构建一个“有秩序的和谐”社会。这种有秩序的和谐社会,具体表现为“和谐的人”和“健康的社会”的统一。在爱因斯坦的社会观中,既有真知灼见,也有时代局限和主观失误。     

Globalization and Collective Labor Rights

The impact of globalization has been a perennial source of contention, and issues regarding labor rights have been a visible aspect of this struggle. Despite the popular controversy about a potential “race to the bottom” regarding globalization and labor rights, the empirical record on these linkages remains mixed. Moreover, despite the multifaceted nature of globalization, extant literature in this area has focused purely on several specific facets of economic globalization, such as trade and FDI. We focus on two additional aspects of globalization, social and political integration, as well as a broadly based measure of economic globalization, and examine how they influence collective labor rights—both in terms of labor laws, as well as their enforcement in practice—in the developing world from 1986 to 2002. We find that all three facets of globalization are negatively related to labor rights. Specifically, social, political, and economic globalization are related to the decoupling of labor practices from extant labor laws; that is, labor practices deteriorate while labor laws remain largely unaffected.