Banking on Families: How Families Generate and Distribute Social Capital

Before we can determine the relevance of social capital to the sociology of family and kinship, we must fill the gaps in our theoretical knowledge. For example, we still do not know how couples, parents, children, and groups generate, accumulate, manage, and deploy social capital. Neither do we know the consequences of social capital for the welfare of families and their individual members. To investigate these areas, we must replace the makeshift measures currently in use with measures that do not confuse social capital with the presumed consequences of access to same. With this attention to theoretical elaboration and careful measurement, we will discover whether the idea of social capital is fruitful or merely decorative.     

在浪漫与反浪漫中塑造完整的世界--论弗罗斯特诗中的乡村和城市

从弗罗斯特对浪漫主义的继承和叛逆两个方面阐述弗罗斯特诗中乡村和城市的特点,以及二者之间的关系.在继承和叛逆中,弗罗斯特塑造了完整的乡村和完整的城市.探索了普遍意义上的人类社会.     

新浪漫派：无名氏小说的流派定位

西方浪漫主义与西方现代主义,西方浪漫主义与中国浪漫主义,西方现代主义与中国现代主义,中国浪漫主义与中国现代主义,彼此之间既有联系又有不同。本文从无名氏创作文本出发,论证了无名氏小说“新浪漫”的流派归属。     

The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? the theory construction movement revisited

Using book publication dates as markers, I divide the movement of (formal) theory construction into two periods. The first period started in 1954 and lasted for about a decade; the second period started in 1965 and ended in 1972. I argue in this paper that the publication of a dozen more books on how to construct scientific theories in the seven years after 1965 marked the beginning of the end of, rather than the end of the beginning of, the theory construction movement in sociology. Although the formal mode of theory construction is dead now, efforts toward theory construction will never end. I conclude by delineating the major features of a new approach to theory construction that has been emerging in sociology.     

研究性教学在社会学课程教学中的探索

社会学是研究社会的学科,是一门实证性、综合性的具体社会科学。在本科生的社会学课程教学中,研究性教学在提高教学效果方面扮演着十分重要的角色。推进社会学通识教育课程的研究性教学,有三种主要途径,分别是：利用沪江大学社会学系的系史资料进行历史分析;开展社会调查课题研究探索现实社会问题;进行社会学的思想实验获取对社会生活的深层理解。实践表明,这样的方式对于学生理解社会学的想象力、运用社会学视角思考问题具有较好的成效。     

The romantic self and the politics of internet commercialization

This essay looks at some examples of ways that certain pre-existing imaginary forms of ‘selfhood’ have been culturally mapped onto historically pivotal moments in the Internet’s development. It focuses less on how technologies have shaped culture than on the reverse: on certain ways that culture has shaped society’s embrace of the Internet. What the Internet is and will come to be, the essay suggests, is partly a matter of who we expect to be when we sit down to use it. Specifically, it looks at two key examples of ways that certain pre-existing imaginary forms of selfhood – ways of understanding oneself as a self – have been culturally mapped onto historically pivotal moments in the Internet’s development: the initial explosion of the Internet in the early 1990s and its supporting ethos exemplified by Wired magazine, and the Open Source Movement in the late 1990s. The essay suggests that significant parts of the culture of computing have been not only individualist, but also composed of two distinct if intertwined strands of individualism, romantic and utilitarian, and that their difference has political significance. Like its ancestor, the 1960s counterculture, the case of the computer culture suggests that romantic individualism stands in a tangential relation to capitalist property relations (and the utilitarian ‘I’ they imply), sometimes working in concert with markets and privatization, as was the case in the early 1990s, and sometimes working to call them into question, as was the case towards the end of the 1990s.     

正确评价科学主义的得与失--论法兰克福学派的工具理性批判

工具理性的确有压抑人的个性化思想和丰富性生活,缺乏批判精神的消极作用.然而,经历过痛苦磨难和深刻教训的人类必须懂得,无论怎样完美的社会和人生理想,若不借助工具理性的力量,就永远只能是乌托邦.即便从改造现实的角度看,人类也不能一举建造出一个尽善尽美的人间天国,因此,理想与现实之间的张力将永久存在.任何想要把理想与现实压缩成一个平面的尝试,都势必将人类引向更加深重的灾难.     

中国古代文学史著述中概念使用问题之反思——以“人民性”、“浪漫主义”、“现实主义”为例

以1950年以来的文学史著述为研究范围,以＂人民性＂、＂浪漫主义＂、＂现实主义＂为研究对象,分析概念的原意、流变及使用中的偏颇性,是有必要性的。应充分理解概念的最初来源和原始语境,有限定性的、合理地使用它们。中国传统文论经典概念的当代转换以及外来概念的恰当使用,这两者的有效结合,是未来文学史研究和撰述的正确方向。     

Religion Imagined: The Conceptual Substructures of American Religious Understandings

Sociologists have increasingly drawn on the cognitive sciences to better theorize how culture works. While this shift has improved understandings of the distinct qualities of practical and discursive modes of cognition, limited consideration has been given to the cognitive structures that scaffold cultural understandings. This article theorizes the influence of “image schemas” in structuring cultural understandings beneath the level of conscious awareness. After outlining how image schemas can be identified in interviews, I reconstruct how 50 religious Americans unconsciously “imagine” religion's role in their lives. Focusing on the implicit rather than respondents' explicit discourse, I identify five image schemas that structure Americans' religious understandings. Although respondents' understandings often appear incoherent and inconsistent at the level of explicit discourse, I show that they are coherent and consistent at the level of implicit image schemas. I then use factor analysis to identify patterns in these implicit understandings across social divisions. I conclude by discussing the promise of image schema analysis for improving studies of religion and other areas, as well as for theorizing how culture works.     

舒曼及其音乐试说

舒曼是德国浪漫主义音乐家 ,自幼酷爱音乐和文学 ,一生创作了大量的音乐作品 ,为丰富人类音乐文化做出了贡献。本文就其音乐创作及特点作了分析。