Gender and Families: Feminist Perspectives and Family Research

This review provides a selective overview of scholarship on gender and families over the past decade. First, we discuss four characteristics of feminist perspectives to theoretical and methodological issues in social science. Then we describe briefly how feminist sensibility has been reflected in family scholarship over the past decade. We conclude with brief observations on the disjuncture between academic work on gender and the feminist backlash apparent in the contemporary culture.     

悲剧美探索

历代美学家都就悲剧这一重要美学范畴作出探索,马克思、恩格斯在悲剧理论史上竖起了新的丰碑.社会主义历史阶段存在悲剧,这有客观和主观两方面的原因.要认真研究悲剧艺术规律,总结新时期创作经验,充分发挥各种类型悲剧的社会功能.     

‘You Can't Have Well‐being If You're Dead…or Can You?’ Children's Realistic and Logical Approach to Discussing Life,Death and Wellbeing

Well‐being is a popularised and regularly considered aspect of an individual's life. Whilst frequently theorised across disciplines interested in childhood, children's perspectives on well‐being are often missing. This article presents children's views on well‐being, focussing on the extent they consider well‐being to exist after death or near‐death experiences. Through focus‐group discussion, children's conversations reflect their ability for deep philosophical, abstract thinking and contributing to clearer understandings of well‐being across different contexts. Children's pragmatic responses about death when considering well‐being provide a valuable contribution to understanding fear of death whilst arguing for collaborative approaches between adults and children when considering complex issues.     

Negotiating stigma: Understanding mothers' responses to accusations of child neglect

Current child protective service policies encourage family preservation and reunification. Yet little is known about how mothers accused of child neglect experience being labeled neglectful or how this influences compliance with child protective services (CPS) service plans. This paper reports the results of a case study of mothers' perceptions of being labeled neglectful. Drawing on symbolic interactionist theories of identity, interviews with sixteen mothers and sixteen child protective service caseworkers, and content analysis of interview data obtained, this paper describes the strategies mothers employ to resist the stigma of being labeled a neglectful mother, strategies that ultimately put them at odds with child protection goals. Findings suggest that mothers' identity preservation and maintenance have powerful implications for CPS policy.     

Reducing racial disparities and disproportionalities in the child welfare system: Policy perspectives about how to serve the best interests of African American youth

This article examines current debates about how to reduce the overrepresentation of African American youth in the child welfare system and address related disparities. These debates reflect tensions between four long-standing perspectives in child welfare: expedient permanency, cultural continuity, family preservation, and social advantage. For each point of view, proponents' unique framing of the problem, use of research, and preferred intervention strategies are described. The emphasis of current federal policy on expedient permanency and transracial adoption is explored, followed by a detailed review of the literature evaluating the impact of this intervention on child and system-level outcomes. It is argued that conclusive evidence does not exist in support of transracial adoption and the expedient permanency perspective above others. Implications for policy and future research are discussed.     

阶层分化背景下构建社会主义核心价值体系的问题视阈与路径分析

改革开放以来的阶层分化带来的价值范式的嬗变构成了建设社会主义核心价值体系的问题视阈。马克思主义的经典理论文本提供了启发性的阐述,"掌握群众"、"理论要说服人"、"理论要彻底"渐次勾勒了构建社会主义核心价值体系的基本路径。     

黄河流域灾害问题的历史透视

从历史的角度分析了黄河流域的主要灾害问题，并探索了灾害问题的形成原因，指出自然因素是造成灾害的潜在条件，而人类不合理的经济活动对灾害的发展起着推波助澜的作用。根治黄河流域的灾害不仅关系到本区经济的发展和社会的稳定，而且关系到整个中华民族的兴亡，必须给以高度的重视。     

Relational Leadership Theory: Exploring the social processes of leadership and organizing

Relational leadership is a relatively new term in the leadership literature, and because of this, its meaning is open to interpretation. In the present article I describe two perspectives of relational leadership: an entity perspective that focuses on identifying attributes of individuals as they engage in interpersonal relationships, and a relational perspective that views leadership as a process of social construction through which certain understandings of leadership come about and are given privileged ontology. These approaches can be complementary, but their implications for study and practice are quite different. After reviewing leadership research relative to these two perspectives I offer Relational Leadership Theory (RLT) as an overarching framework for the study of leadership as a social influence process through which emergent coordination (e.g., evolving social order) and change (e.g., new approaches, values, attitudes, behaviors, ideologies) are constructed and produced. This framework addresses relationships both as an outcome of investigation (e.g., How are leadership relationships produced?) and a context for action (e.g., How do relational dynamics contribute to structuring?). RLT draws from both entity and relational ontologies and methodologies to more fully explore the relational dynamics of leadership and organizing.     

“中国梦”的多维透视

“中国梦”昭示着对未来的美好愿景,意义重大,需要对其进行多维透视：从内涵之纬看,“中国梦”是“国家富强、民族振兴、人民幸福”,第一要义是实现中华民族的伟大复兴,阶段性目标是“两个百年”的奋斗目标,“中国梦”是中国人的“梦”。从历史之纬看,中华民族追寻“中国梦”经历了五个阶段。从道路之纬看,坚持中国共产党的领导是实现“中国梦”的政治保障,坚持中国特色社会主义道路是实现“中国梦”的关键,坚持走群众路线是实现“中国梦”的可靠保证。从功能之纬看,“中国梦”具有警世作用、激励作用、凝聚作用和导向作用。     

Inter-organizational network structures in Russia: organizational changes from institutional and social embeddedness perspectives

Theory posits that organizations are embedded socially within their environment. The level of embeddedness depends highly on the environmental uncertainty a company and its network partners face. The latest research on transition economies indicates that the institutional framework in these countries is highly relevant for inter-organizational structures (i.e. formalization, standardization, frequency, intensity and reciprocity). As Russia constitutes a good example of high environmental uncertainty, a closer look at organizational changes in general and inter-organizational network structures in particular is taken. This paper extends the theoretical and empirical scope of social and economic theories on inter-organizational structures by formulating a conceptual framework that unites economic rationalism with socially embedded arguments. Contributing to emerging international HRD literature, the objective is to understand better the institutional influences on network structures and thus on organizational change. Moreover, it will be demonstrated how far organizational changes and human resource development is associated with institutional influences on network structures.