What Do Movements Mean? The Value of Participant-Observation

Participant-observation can teach us much about the everyday meanings of doing social activism. I conceptualize these implicit meanings in relation to work in the sociology of culture, and social movement studies, and give examples from activists' everyday interaction. A participant-observer's forays into implicit meanings illuminate three dimensions of activists' experiences: the ways activists practice democratic citizenship in their groups, the ways they build group ties, and the ways they define the meaning of activism itself. By probing these implicit meanings, we can address questions that concern many social movement scholars. We increase our understanding of how movements grow, accomodate conflict, and build alliances, and we can specify which insights are useful in theories of contemporary or new social movements.     

中国西部开发与美国西部开发的对比研究

通过对美国西部开发和中国西部开发的对比及借鉴美国西部的经济开发策略,对中国西部的经济发展提出了采取“梯度转移”与有条件的“增长极核发展”相结合的经济发展战略模式的建议。     

Worldviews or Social Groups as the Source of Moral Value Attitudes: Implications for the Culture Wars Thesis

Individual moral value attitudes are typically explained by reference to social experiences as indicated by social group variables. Contrary to this view, the emergent culture wars perspective claims that two worldviews that transcend social groups are ultimately and fundamentally responsible for moral value attitudes. Although this relationship has been claimed for the general population, it has not been investigated with national representative data. This paper contrasts the worldview and social group explanations by examining the relative importance of the worldviews implicated in the culture wars literature and the social groups found to be important in previous research. I find social groups to be more important than worldviews, but that worldviews also have explanatory power. I conclude with a discussion about possible clarifications of the culture wars thesis.     

Call My Bluff: Multiple Interpretations of an Organizational Process

This paper attempts to illustrate the value of interpreting organizational processes from a variety of perspectives. It demonstrates that this approach reflects the natural richness of organization and avoids the rather blinkered search for single-paradigm explanations. It does not seek to offer the answer, but rather some possible insights. By combining both actor and researcher frames, it sheds light upon a particular process of social interaction within an organization. Both the context, an NHS trust hospital, and the content, a significant change scenario, brings richness and relevance to the debate.
The paper outlines the macro and micro context before focusing on the interpretative methodological approach. The research involved collecting and analysing over thirty hours of taped, semi-structured interview discourse with senior and middle management and some junior staff. After describing the change initiative, an attempt at multi-skilling and the response of recipient actors to the proposals, the paper outlines three readings which seek to explain the events that occurred. The reader is invited to play the game 'Call my Bluff' and to choose the scenario that represents the most plausible explanation. The three interpretative frames employed are a managerial, a cultural and a political perspective. The paper concludes by raising some important issues in research, organizational change and the NHS.     

动静观与中国传统体育

中国传统哲学动静观或主动,或主静,或强调动静对立统一,均对中国传统体育产生了深刻的影响。在中国传统哲学不同动静现的影响下,中国传统养生体育形成了动养之法、静养之法和动静结合的养生方法;中国武术则在把握动静范畴的基础上,从辩证的动静关系入手,创立了多种多样的武术理论和武术技能技巧。从总体特征上看,由于中国传统哲学乃至中国传统文化都以主静为主,在其影响下,中国传统体育总体上形成了贵柔主静的特点,并相应地导致了养生体育发展完备而竞技体育发展相对滞后的状况。在当前西方体育文化的冲击下,中国传统体育有必要进行改革以适应新的时代发展。     

产业集聚提升邯郸区域经济中心竞争力的研究

在全面建设邯郸四省交界区域经济中心,加速推进城市化进程的今天,产业集聚以其特有的优势使产业根植化、网络化,并成为影响资本流向的主导力量,正日益成为加快我市区域经济发展并获得竞争优势的最直接有效的途径。     

城市生态景观的地方性研究

在“人人共有的城市”年代,城市生态景观不仅作为一种生活环境,也展示出特殊旅游资源吸引着游客。城市生态景观的地方性对于游者有着强烈的吸引力。其表现要点主要有自然环境的利用、城市建筑设计、历史文化保护、标志物与特色空间建设以及城市文化建设等五个方面。     

论统筹区域发展的金融立法

统筹区域发展是艰巨、复杂、长期的事业,亟需以科学发展观为指导,借鉴国际经验,以法律来保障实施。现行金融法律在统筹区域发展上存在不足,我国需要从立法宗旨、基本原则、立法结构和主要内容、法律执行、法律监督以及法律责任几方面共同构建统筹区域发展的金融法律。     

中国传统和合文化及其现代启示

作为建设社会主义和谐社会的重要内生性资源,中国传统和合文化中"和而不同"的辩证世界观、"以和为贵"的价值取向、"中和"的方法论原则以及注重道德教化的作用、强调人的内心和谐的思想,对建设社会主义和谐社会具有重要的借鉴价值.从传统和合文化中,我们可以获得以下启示:建设社会主义和谐社会,首先要从世界观和方法论相统一的高度构建符合时代特点和中国国情的和谐哲学;其次,要遵循合规律性与合目的性的统一、理论和实践的具体的历史的统一的原则,以和谐哲学作为方法论指导,在实践中正确处理和协调人与自然、人与社会、人与人之间的矛盾,实现人与自然的和生、人与社会的和立、人与人的和处;再次,要坚持以人为本的原则,关注人的精神世界,实现人的内心和谐.     

东北民俗文化:区域社会转型的精神动力

东北民俗文化不仅仅是一种可供开发和挖掘的传统文化资源,还可以为区域社会转型提供文化认同的基础,减缓社会转型带来的风险、震荡和不确定性。最为重要的是,以创新精神和包容精神为代表的地方民俗文化特质,为区域社会转型提供了精神支撑。东北民俗文化的本质是区域民众理解他们在当代世界中位置的一种途径和方式,是区域民众理解宇宙和现在的凭藉与根基。重新认识和寻找东北地区的创新精神与包容精神,找回失去的区域文化认同,完成民俗文化的创新,以民俗文化的发明与创新带动技术创新和制度创新,从而实现社会转型的平稳过渡,也许是东北区域社会转型的可行路径。