西北少数民族地区乡村初级群体及其功能分析

社会群体是人们社会生活中的具体单位,社会群体生活是人们的基本生活方式,因此,群体就成为社会学研究的主要组成部分,社会学如此,民族社会学更如此。处于转型期的西北民族乡村社会,社会群体特别是初级群体依然扮演着极其重要的角色。对其进行功能分析有助于深化对它们的认识。     

西部少数民族地区用人制度改革探析

要坚定不移地推进和完善党政机关用人制度的改革,为其他领域实行人才资源市场化配置创造良好的政治氛围。改革文教、卫生、科研等事业单位的用人制度及工资报酬制度,进一步完善保护知识产权的有关法规,充分发挥本地人才的优势和潜能;发扬学术民主,拓宽民主渠道,为营造良好的学术氛围和各类人才进言献策提供宽松的环境。     

我国各民族交往交流交融的空间生产与实践路径

各民族交往交流交融是铸牢中华民族共同体意识的路径选择。民族社会结构的存在和发展为各民族交往交流交融提供了可实现的行动空间及空间生产基础,运用空间生产理论对民族交往交流交融的空间生产与空间结构进行分析,即各民族交往的物质空间生产是基于共同利益与互惠发展的经济交往、各民族交流的符号空间生产是注重共有价值和情感寄托的文化交流、各民族交融的精神空间生产是强调生活互嵌和共生体验的精神交融。基于此,加强各民族交往交流交融的实践路径应是推动民族地区经济交往,构建以平衡互惠为原则的多民族经济圈;促进民族乡土文化交流,发展以情感共鸣为重心的乡村文化中心;深化各族群众生活交融,规划以结构互嵌为内核的社区公共空间。通过上述路径,达成铸牢中华民族共同体意识的根本目标。     

清末民初桂西北壮汉瑶三族群际接触的 作用机制及当代启示 ——基于高甲布努瑶歌文本的研究

高甲布努瑶歌文本是瑶族用壮族古壮字传抄并以北部壮语方言为主要演述语言的民间口承文献。桂西北壮汉瑶三族交错杂居的分布特征为群际接触提供重要场域,也为民族交往交流交融奠定空间基础。受接触场景中政治、交通、经济与教育等各种因素的影响,清末民初桂西北壮汉瑶三族的群际接触分为积极与消极两种接触情况,其群际接触的中介变量包括群体间的依存关系、群际互动、群际情绪和认知因素等,这些中介变量所凝练出的历史经验对当前推动民族交流交融仍具有重要的启示意义。     

民族地区城市流动儿童入学准备水平测评与干预——以贵州省为例

在新型城镇化背景下,民族地区城市流动儿童入学准备具有其特殊性,相关问题亟待研究和解决。通过随机和分层抽样法,在贵州省黔东南苗族侗族自治州、黔南布依族苗族自治州和黔西南布依族苗族自治州等三个少数民族自治州选取100名学龄前流动儿童及21名学龄前非流动儿童作为被试,进而运用儿童入学准备综合测评工具对被试进行逐一测评。研究结果表明:非流动组和流动组儿童入学准备水平总分(M非流动组=40.95±6.88,M流动组=31.17±8.96),即非流动组入学准备水平总分高于流动组儿童。在入学准备的5个方面测试上,流动组在动作技能维度总分略高于非流动组,且不存在显著性差异;而在学习方式、认知与一般认知、情绪与社会性、言语能力等4个维度,流动组均低于非流动组且存在显著性差异或边缘显著。针对民族地区城市流动儿童入学准备中存在的问题,需加强社会各界的关注与扶持,充分利用家庭资源,坚持普及学前教育,持续推进普惠性幼儿园建设进程,完善学前教育入学准备评估体系。     

Origins and destinies: Immigration to the United States since World War II

Contemporary immigration to the United States and the formation of new ethnic groups are the complex and unintended social consequences of the expansion of the nation to its post-World War II position of global hegemony. Immigrant communities in the United States today are related to a history of American military, political, economic, and cultural involvement and intervention in the sending countries, especially in Asia and the Caribbean Basin, and to the linkages that are formed in the process that open a variety of legal and illegal migration pathways. The 19.8 million foreign-born persons counted in the 1990 U.S. census formed the largest immigrant population in the world, though in relative terms, only 7.9% of the U.S. population was foreign-born, a lower proportion than earlier in this century. Today's immigrants are extraordinarily diverse, a reflection of polar-opposite types of migrations embedded in very different historical and structural contexts. Also, unlike the expanding economy that absorbed earlier flows from Europe, since the 1970s new immigrants have entered an hourglass economy with reduced opportunities for social mobility, particularly among the less educated, and new waves of refugees have entered a welfare state with expanded opportunities for public assistance. This paper seeks to make sense of the new diversity. A typology of contemporary immigrants is presented, and their patterns of settlement, their distinctive social and economic characteristics compared to major native-born racial-ethnic groups, and their different modes of incorporation in—and consequences for—American society are considered.     

我国西南民族地区与东部地区农村发展差距研究

比较分析我国西南民族地区与东部地区农村发展差距及原因,提出缩小农村发展差距的对策。     

The majority legal status of women in southern Africa: implications for women and families

Women in many countries of southern Africa do not have majority status or have only recently gained this right. Majority status grants individuals adult legal status and the right to bring matters to court, own and administer property, have legal custody of children, and contract for marriage. This article summarizes the legal status of women in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Lack of majority status contributes to the ongoing risk of poverty for women and makes them overly dependent on men. Compounding the situation in these countries is the presence of a dual legal system. Improving the situation of women and their families involves targeting changes in the legal system, influencing implementation of laws, educating women about their rights, and giving women needed support to seek their legal rights. The legal status of women must be viewed in the context of historical changes in the economic, educational, political, and cultural developments of society.The research for this paper was conducted during her previous faculty affiliation with the University of Michigan, School of Social Work. Her research interests include the impact of social change on women and families, rural mental health services, and health and mental health linkages. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University and her M.S.W. from the Columbia University School of Social Work.Her research interests are gender, work and family, culture and power, social transformations in rural and peri-urban communities, critical education, women and community politics, history of women, family and kinship issues, and community-based program development and evaluation. She received her M.S.W. from Dalhousie University, Halifax.     

当代少数民族题材小说中民族文化英译的历时性研究——以茅盾文学奖作品为例

文化是人类所创造的精神财富总和,少数民族文化是其重要组成部分.本文借助于茅盾文学奖作品汉英平行语料库,从婚丧习俗、宗教祭祀、民族传说及民族史三个层面,考查当代少数民族题材小说《穆斯林的葬礼》《尘埃落定》和《额尔古纳河右岸》在民族文化英译过程中体现的历时性特征.研究发现,随着时间推移,民族文化信息在英译本中呈现出由缺损向保留逐渐过渡的历时性趋势,表明少数民族文化在英译过程中日益得到更多保留和再现.究其原因,主要有文化全球化背景下的读者需求转变、中西方文学翻译策略的转变及译者主体性差异等三方面因素.     

The Impact of Authoritarian Regimes on Families … and on Therapists

Repressive powers require not only obedience on the part of the oppressed but also denial of the oppressive nature of their submission. While authoritarian governments are the focus of this article, this applies to any oppressive relationship. There is a slippery slope from experiencing the imposed nature of the oppressive rules to adapting to them to denying both internal and external evidence of their existence. To prevent that declining process becomes an urgent priority when totalitarianism appears on the political and interpersonal horizon, as it is to help people coming out of tyranny – therapists included – to recover the words and the agency lost in their previous experiences.