Network domains in social networking sites: expectations,meanings, and social capital

This paper examines why the use of social networking sites (SNSs) leads to different results in cultivating bridging and bonding social capital for different groups of people. Based on in-depth interviews of 45 university students in Hong Kong, I find that Mainland Chinese students studying in Hong Kong actively use SNSs for seeking practical information about offline matters, and they obtain substantial enacted support from other Mainland students of the same university through SNS use. As a result, they accumulate both bridging and bonding social capital. Local Hong Kong students, however, use SNSs mainly for social information seeking and are only able to accrue limited bridging social capital through SNS use. Drawing on the theory of network domains, I argue that the different offline network structures in which students are located – namely, homogeneous and closed networks versus heterogeneous and open networks – explain this difference. Students with closed offline networks have defined expectations of online ties; they think of their online activities as practical and leading to real changes in their status among peers. Those with open networks have indefinite expectations of their online audience; thus, they interpret online activities differently, thinking of them as recreational, and they are playful in their online behaviour. These different outcomes of online activities consequently lead to diverse results in social capital accrual.     

江苏省宿迁市耕地生态足迹初探

运用生态足迹模型和相关统计年鉴数据,计算了宿迁市2006年的耕地生态足迹。结果表明：2006年宿迁市耕地生态足迹为0.73332hm2/人,而耕地生态承载力为0.38504hm2/人,生态赤字为0.34828hm2/人,这说明宿迁市的耕地利用已经超出了生态承载力的范围,处于不可持续发展的状态。     

广州服务全国的战略路径研究

国务院颁布实施的《珠江三角洲地区改革发展规划纲要（2008—2020年）》赋予了广州重大的历史使命,从国家战略层面明确提出要强化广州国家中心城市地位,把广州建设成为服务全国,面向世界的国际大都市。新的发展定位要求广州要肩负起服务全国的使命。在此背景下,本文分析了广州服务全国的基础现状,提出了广州服务全国的发展目标与战略,最后就广州服务全国提出五大战略路径。     

包头地区所见明清蒙古族葬俗

黄教传入蒙古草原后,包头地区明清时期蒙古族葬俗呈现多样化,在本民族原始的方式中掺入了佛教的因素和汉人的习俗。     

嵌入于村庄的“单位”——农村“新集体化”进程中的“单位化”现象

伴随着社会的发展与变迁,上世纪在城市社会中所存在的"单位化"现象,在当前时期看来逐步退去其自身的晕轮。但是与此同时,在集体化程度较高、集体经济发展较快的村庄,这种"单位化"现象却在悄然出现。由此形成了"单位化"在城市与农村之中截然不同的发展逻辑,这种行动路径的改变主要源于"单位化"实践场域的转变,由城市转变为农村的实践。在"新集体化"的村庄,其"单位化"延续着城市传统"单位化"的特征,但同时又受着乡土社会的影响,展现出了自身新的活力与特征,从而形成了更富有农村特色的"单位化"。这种改变不仅是在形式上转变,同时也在内容、功能性、行动逻辑上发生了新的转向。     

资源型城市转型中的市矿协同发展机理研究——以淮南市为例

资源型城市转型,城市与矿业企业统筹协同发展,是矿业城市可持续发展的必由之路,市矿协同发展系统四大子系统的运行、涨落、控制、协同,决定着城市的经济发展、城乡环境变化、社会生活改变,淮南市的实证分析,为市矿协同发展提供了有力的佐证。     

住宅特征价格分析——以广州为例

以广州二手交易的596个高层楼盘、3703个交易样本为研究基础，采用特征价格法测度了影响广州市住宅价格的主要因素，它们分别是与商业中心的距离、与山江公园的距离、与地铁的距离、噪音、户型间隔、装修档次、朝向、楼层、楼龄、阳台数量10项因素，并给出了影响因素的隐含价值。     

“Like My Status”

This paper engages with the relatively new area of research into teenage girls and online social networks, focusing on the experiences and views of Israelis. In particular, we examine how Israeli girls construct social relationships on Facebook. Adopting a feminist interpretive approach, this qualitative study is based on focus group interviews with Israeli girls aged between twelve and eighteen from diverse cultural, economic, and social backgrounds. The girls clearly distinguish between different circles of social closeness on Facebook, with each circle marked by different relationships, dynamics, and expectations. The study's findings beg the question of whether social networks allow Israeli girls to exercise control, power, choice, and agency in their social world, or whether they remain informed by existing social structures that shape and restrict their choices and actions. The significance of these findings is discussed in the contexts of feminism, girl power, and Neoliberal discourse.     

20世纪夏史与夏文化探索综论

我国历史上有一个夏朝,这为中国古代史学家所坚信。然而在近现代一些国内外学者对于夏的存在却发生了怀疑,这样有关夏代历史的探索就因关系到我们古代文明和国家起源重大问题而具有特殊的学术意义。由于传世文献中有关夏的记载数量少且零碎,并多属后人追记,所以探索夏文化主要依靠考古学来进行。这是继王国维提出“二重证据法”之后,在古史研究方法论上取得的可喜成就。     

战国时期楚"夷陵城"考辨

"夷陵城"建城的历史悠久,始于战国时期,这在大量的文献和史籍中屡有记载.然而,夷陵城究竟在何地?这是由于史籍中记载不清,再是2000多年前夷陵古城又早已被毁于战火之中.故千百年来,探索古夷陵城故址在何处的工作一直是历代学术界研究的重要课题.本文拟从历史、考古、地名等学科研究入手,并在综合了前人研究的基础上对夷陵城所在位置进行考证,夷陵城其位置就在西陵峡口处左岸前坪一带.