Challenges in recruiting parents to participate in child welfare research: implications for study design and research practice

Although research with hard‐to‐reach populations is necessary to deepen the social work knowledge base and improve services to these groups, recruiting members of hard‐to‐reach populations for research projects is often a challenging process. Frequently, non‐probability sampling is used to obtain participants. However, the difficulties and limitations associated with this process in quantitative research are rarely discussed in depth in the literature. Sampling issues can significantly impact a research project, delaying it, extending it or even causing the premature termination of a project. Challenges to recruitment can limit the type of research that is completed, impact the knowledge base or introduce threats to validity through sampling bias. Using a preliminary quantitative study on parental engagement with child protective services as an illustration for the discussion, the challenges of non‐probability sampling with a hard‐to‐reach population and the implications for research practice are explored and discussed. Implications for future research practice are considered.     

从结论看方法：社会学研究的现实性维度思考——关于美国社会学者对中国社会分层研究的讨论*

本文以社会分层研究为例,指出面向现实是社会学研究科学性的根本保证,研究结论就是对现实的反映,而这种反映的真实程度又是由研究方法所决定的,方法的选择和实施则是由研究范式所指导的。范式、方法和结论最终统一在研究的现实性维度之上。     

从制度性底层到结构性底层——由威尔逊《真正的穷人》思考中国底层群体管理问题

美国在急剧的社会转型过程中,形成了以往的社会分层概念体系所不能准确把握的一类群体,即底层群体,他们的本质特征在于与主流社会的就业体系和行为规范体系相断裂。威尔逊敏锐地把握住了这一特征,将聚居区底层群体的形成归因为经济社会体系的结构性转型,颠覆了制度性底层的传统观点,并提出通过形成政治联盟,制定普遍性政策,运用隐秘议程的政治策略建构对底层群体有效的管理机制。本文在借鉴威尔逊理论分析的基础上,结合孙立平的“断裂”论,探析中国底层管理问题。     

巴赫金杂语理论的方法论原则

关注语言的统一与分化、关注对话、关注语言的社会性是巴赫金杂语理论中最主要的方法论原则,这些原则在巴赫金杂语理论的阐述中时而单独起作用,时而交织地起作用。分析这些原则,可以从另一个侧面揭示出杂语理论的本质属性和基本的艺术功能。     

环境社会学研究的生态论思维范式

环境社会学坚持的生态论思维范式认为当今生态问题具有历史普遍性与时代性、渐进性与突发性、客观性与建构性统一的特征,生态论思维范式应坚持实践性、能动性、主体间性、“两个尺度”辩证统一的原则,超越“经济中心论”和“社会中心论”,增强社会决策的生态导向,调动一切环保力量,保护好我们赖以生存的环境。     

Intersubjectivity: Towards a Dialogical Analysis

Intersubjectivity refers to the variety of possible relations between perspectives. It is indispensable for understanding human social behaviour. While theoretical work on intersubjectivity is relatively sophisticated, methodological approaches to studying intersubjectivity lag behind. Most methodologies assume that individuals are the unit of analysis. In order to research intersubjectivity, however, methodologies are needed that take relationships as the unit of analysis. The first aim of this article is to review existing methodologies for studying intersubjectivity. Four methodological approaches are reviewed: comparative self-report, observing behaviour, analysing talk and ethnographic engagement. The second aim of the article is to introduce and contribute to the development of a dialogical method of analysis. The dialogical approach enables the study of intersubjectivity at different levels, as both implicit and explicit, and both within and between individuals and groups. The article concludes with suggestions for using the proposed method for researching intersubjectivity both within individuals and between individuals and groups.     

荣辱观教育的实现方法

进行荣辱观教育是社会主义道德建设的重要任务。荣辱观教育需要坚持正确的荣辱衡量标准,明确义利的辩证统一关系;坚持道德价值的一元与多元的有机结合;坚持原则性与灵活性的结合,使荣辱观教育既具有内在的逻辑性和层次性,又具有现实针对性和可操作性。     

From nation-state to global society: the changing paradigm of contemporary sociology

This paper discusses the strong criticism by Elias against the nation-state paradigm in sociology. Elias pointed his attention on sociologists of the twentieth century but particularly criticizes the analytical model of Parsons (AGIL), which seems to him an abstract combinatory of variables (pattern variables) without any references in social contexts. The sociology in the twentieth century is an apologetic of nation-state and, in Parsons, of the hegemonic role of the United States in the world. In fact, during the twentieth century many authors (historians and sociologists) tried to overcome the nation-state paradigm in the social sciences. The author of the paper analyses the contribution of Toynbee, Braudel, C. Schmitt, Huntington, Wallerstein and Hard–Negri. These attempts are based on different unit analysis: the civilization and its clash in the case of Toynbee and Huntington, the world economy in the case of Braudel and Wallerstein, and power in the case of C. Schmitt and Negri–Hardt. The author appreciates these attempts but his conclusion is that the concept of global society can better serve as unit analysis for a construction of a new paradigm in the social sciences.     

如何解读近30年中国的制度变迁与社会转型——从《李景鹏文集》得到的启迪

当每一位政治学研究者都努力使自己的研究能对政治知识有所贡献,或者说产生学术增量的时候,政治学自然就不断向前发展了。可是,如果我们不善于盘活“知识存量”,譬如对走在我们前头的学者的知识贡献不甚了解,我们就有可能进行重复的难以形成学术增量的研究。《李景鹏文集》对中国近30年经济政治制度变迁和社会转型的解读可以说是独一无二的,文集作者提倡并身体力行：把政治生活看成“力的作用场所”加以考察,使政治学研究能与经济学、社会学、伦理学等相关的学科打通,把“应然’：的研究和“实然”的研究、思辨的研究和实证的研究、静态的研究和动态的研究有机地结合起来,吸收市场经济新观念以优化我国政治学研究工作,等等,很值得年轻的政治学研究者学习借鉴。     

论判断文化是否先进的方式——兼论以社会个体生成论为判断依据的现实可能性

究竟应当如何判断一种文化的先进与否,这个问题既是文化研究和文化哲学研究的难题,也显然由于其答案对现实的规范引导性而具有非常重要的现实意义。以往人们无法对文化的先进性进行确切的判断,主要是由其引用的传统文化定义和其中所隐含的基本立场和方法论视角决定的,因此,只有彻底突破和扬弃这种定义,寻找真正切合实际的文化定义,才有可能找到解决这个问题的科学方式。而社会个体生成论的文化定义则为解决这个难题提供了现实可能性。