New frontiers facing urban sociology at the Millennium

The article examines some of the major challenges facing urban sociology at century's end given its traditions and lineages. These challenges arise out of the intersection of major macrosocial trends and their particular spatial patterns. The city and the metropolitan region emerge as one of the strategic sites where these macrosocial trends materialize and hence can be constituted as an object of study. Among these trends are globalization and the rise of the new information technologies, the intensifying of transnational and translocal dynamics, and the strengthening presence and voice of specific types of socio‐cultural diversity. Each one of these trends has its own specific conditionalities, contents and consequences for cities, and for theory and research. Cities are also sites where each of these trends interacts with the others in distinct, often complex manners, in a way they do not in just about any other setting. The city emerges once again as a strategic lens for the study of major macrosocial transformations as it was in the origins of sociology. Can urban sociology address these challenges and in so doing once again produce some of the analytic tools for understanding the broader transformation?     

试论中国政府形象构建的路径选择——以全球化为背景

良好的政府形象是政府巩固统治合法性的基础,是社会稳定和发展的必要条件,也是政府赢得国际良好声誉的保障。在全球化背景下,政府形象本身所承载的价值也被提升和扩展到全球,因此政府形象构建面临着前所未有的压力和挑战。就我国政府形象构建而言,应进一步增强形象塑造意识,着力构建能力型政府和开放型透明政府,以构建起理想的政府形象体系。     

论法律价值移植

目前,不发达国家学习和引进西方法律制度时,主要侧重引进西方法制技术方面的因素,而忽视了对于法律观念的引进。而任何法律制度都是法律价值观和制度本身有机的整体,只引进机制,而不引进法律价值观,则是舍本求末。移植法律必须注意植入与之相适应的法律精神、意识和观念。从而迅速缩小不发达国家与发达国家的差距,促进不发达国家的法制现代化建设。     

论全球化浪潮中的社会主义历史进程

斯大林社会主义模式超然于全球化,其失败是必然的;中国特色社会主义只能在参与全球化进程中求得巩固与发展;社会主义与资本主义将长期"对立共生",要正确认清未来社会主义的发展前程.     

Strangers in a Strange Land: Shock,Disappointment, and Adjustments Experiences of Expatriates in Central Asia

Increasing globalization is driving an increase in diversity and interaction. A more mobile and international workforce frequently requires that individuals try to understand the norms of their “new” society. This paper provides a preliminary exploration of the types of issues and concerns raised by expatriates working in a new foreign environment. In particular, the paper uses a hybrid survey/interview methodology to identify specific issues raised by expatriates working in Kazakhstan, Central Asia.

21 世纪乡村研究的新挑战:一个社会学的视角

全球性的社会变迁给不同的行动者群体带来了新的复杂关系,农业人口和农业生产也不可避免地被卷入这种新的关系,从而给“乡土性”带来了很多变化。这些变化体现在如全球和当地行动者的多样性,农村空间和农业空间的不对等,自然的价值对农村环境的重要性,商品网络和价值谈判以及移民和移居问题等等方面。在这样的背景下,农村发展社会学的性质和主题也在不断变化着,因此给研究者们提出继续研究“农村”领域还是研究“农村发展”的问题。     

Home(land) Décor: China Adoptive Parents’ Consumption of Chinese Cultural Objects for Display in their Homes

American parents of children adopted from China frequently consume Chinese cultural objects for display in their homes. While parents defend this consumption for display as an effort to validate their children’s ethno-cultural origins, they also reveal how it signifies and solidifies their own identifications with Chinese culture. As part of a larger research project examining China adoptive parents’ evolving “Chinese” identities, this paper asks: Which parents “become ‘Chinese’” through the consumption and display of Chinese cultural objects, and why? To answer this question, I conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with 91 Americans in the China adoption process and ethnographic fieldwork at two different field-sites: Families with Children from China (FCC) Chinese cultural celebrations and Chinese culture camps organized by/for China adoptive families. Focusing on the emergent and personal meanings that parents give to Chinese cultural objects, I demonstrate how these meanings both structure parents’ consumption and yield a display differential. In doing so, I reveal that white European-American parents and mothers are most likely to engage in this consumption and display, thereby amending the three types of ethno-cultural identity consumption represented in the literature. Specifically, I expose the central role of race in ethno-cultural identity consumption; demonstrate that the collective category of reference for ethno-cultural identity consumption is not always an ethnic category (in this case, such consumption refers to a gendered category); and illustrate the ways in which global ethno-cultural identity consumption both appeals to and satisfies distinctly local constructs.     

道德的民族性和世界性的关系

在国际交往日益频繁的时代背景下,道德既具有民族性,又具有世界性。道德的民族性和道德的世界性既针锋相对,又融会贯通。社会主义初级阶段的道德建设,就要把道德的民族性与道德的世界性结合起来,培养具有民族特色和时代精神的新道德,即中国特色社会主义道德体系。     

产业全球化与战略全球化的有效契合

全球化战略已经成为各国最优秀公司关注的共同焦点,随着各国经济间相互依赖的加强,全球经济一体化的进程将加速前行。互联网时代的到来已经把地球变成了一个村落。而代表各国经济最活跃的支柱性要素——企业,如何在全球化的浪潮中把握机遇更好地生存、发展、壮大,已不仅仅是企业所关心的事务,同时也是整个国家、民族所必须关注的核心问题。因为未来国家民族的兴衰赖系于此。本文论述了产业全球化的动因,全球战略的特征及演进的各阶段, 综合比较了跨国战略和全球战略的差异性,阐述了战略全球化同产业全球化同步协调演进的必要性。