Bridging the gap between social work practice and community based welfare agencies

This article argues that social work in the UK needs to renegotiate its relationship with community welfare agencies. It begins by examining what we mean by local community and how welfare needs reflect complex non-linear dynamics unique to the local circumstances. It is argued that these are not always recognised in centralised policy agendas. The article broadly draws a parallel between policy issues for the European Community and for the national state. The drive for both is towards uniformity, which potentially fails to acknowledge the unique circumstances at both the national level between nations and the local level between communities.

The focus of the analysis is the lack of engagement with the subtleties of the local within the arena of social work education and practice. With the opportunity presented by the introduction of a new social work degree in the UK, the authors describe how a social work programme in Liverpool undertook a piece of research with the aim of creating an appropriate place for community welfare agencies in practice placements, the academic curriculum and, ultimately, with the next generation of social work practitioners. Eight welfare agencies within the proximity of Liverpool University, an area known as Toxteth, agreed to participate in the research to investigate what kind of placement module would enable local welfare agencies to engage meaningfully in the social work degree. Out of this process emerged a model for research based curriculum development involving local community agencies and academic institutions. More specifically for Liverpool, it placed the notion of social work's relationship with local community welfare at the heart of professional development for qualifying social workers, paving the way in this region of England for closer links between welfare agencies associated with civil society and professional social workers.     

关于民事主体的内涵与外延的立法思考

民事主体制度,是民法理论和立法实践中的重要内容,特别是我国这样的成文法国家,民事主体的立法是关乎整个民法体系的建构和市场经济发展的重要环节。在自然人和法人当然和已然地成为民事主体的内核之情况下,文章对民事主体的内涵和外延在新的历史条件和时代环境下作出新的解释,特别就经济关系和生活关系中大量存在的“非法人团体”是否应该成为“第三主体”作出思考。     

Fostering social capital in an international multi-stakeholder issue network

Scholars have theorized that public relations contributes to societies and communities by bringing attention to pressing public issues and fostering social capital in civil society networks. However, the extant research has studied civil society networks of NGOs, donors, and the media in transitional countries. This study extends the public relations model of civil society in two ways. First, it broadens the scope to an international context. Second, it draws from the multi-stakeholder issue network perspective to conceptualize a civil society network as a space where stakeholders of an issue mix their interests as they collectively address a pressing public issue. The literature on international and multi-stakeholder networks suggest that the international scope and the mixing of interests across sectors may restrict the production of social capital. The results from the social network analysis suggests that the mixing of interests across sectoral and geopolitical boundaries did not restrict the production of social capital. Rather, the patterns of the relationships among those on the core and those on the periphery of the network restricted the production of social capital. Such finding demonstrates how public relations’ functions like relationship building can have profound influences on social capital and civil society networks. The implications for public relations theorizing and research are discussed.     

中国化“资产者公共领域”:从民间商会到市民社会的路径选择

学界对于“市民社会”与“公共领域”之概念工具存在理解歧义与混用,“市民社会”与“公共领域”两者均超越了中国化国家与社会之间互动关系的特殊国情,“资产者公共领域”可能是更实际的学理研究路径。在国家与社会互动关系的领域中间,是一个广泛、深邃的市民社会转型地带,并呈递进式状态,朝着市民社会的终极方向演进。当代中国的国家与社会之间互动关系的学理研究角度应是民间商会基础上的“资产者公共领域”,而非公共领域甚至市民社会。     

论公民美德与市场道德的内在关联

公民美德是公民对构成公民社会的他人及其合法组织的理性认同,市场道德则是市场主体关于市场活动所共有的道德倾向的确认。公民美德与市场道德存在一致性,表现在对个体性、权利的伸张和强调位序以及政府作为的平等诉求。但二者也存在冲突,这主要源于各自依据的原则不同、所造成的社会影响不同。解决二者张力的方式应采取现实且具有建设性的个案方式,而不能幻想提出一个或一整套对任何冲突都通用的指针。     

论受教育权的本质

考察各种有关受教育权本质的观点,受教育权本质可归纳为公民权说、生存权说或社会权说、学习权说和发展权说四种基本理论,受教育权本质具有多重属性,当前解决受教育权纠纷的基本思路应当明确.     

走出纯粹抽象的思想试验

青年马克思所处的时代,黑格尔影响下的德国思想界热衷于在纯思维的领域里进行纯粹抽象的思想试验。马克思借助于对国民经济学的批判以及对黑格尔、费尔巴哈、赫斯和恩格斯等人的思想所进行的创造性转换;一方面在对私有财产的发展的历史过程的考察中初步走出了纯粹抽象的思想试验,但另一方面又在对现实的异化劳动的理论批判中重新回到了黑格尔的思想试验;而在这种走出与返回的理论冲突中,已经内在地孕育着日益增长的现实因素;为马克思后来通过对现实的内在矛盾分析寻找批判现实的力量,从而为真正走出纯粹抽象的思想试验提供了新的理论生长点。     

无近亲属受害人之死亡赔偿请求权

无近亲属或近亲属不明的受害人被伤害致死,其生前所欠医疗费、护理费、交通费、住宿费的债权人,得向加害人行使具有物权性的追偿权;有权接受其遗产者得提出误工费、死亡补偿费赔偿;料理死者后事者享有丧葬费等费用请求权;与受害人间无法定权利义务的扶养人、被扶养人有权享有属于遗产部分的请求权.死亡赔偿是加害人必须承担的责任,国家接受死亡赔偿具有正当性,民政部门作为请求权人具有妥当性.立法建议民政部门接受赔偿后,代为支付上述费用后,所余归国家所有.     

网络的法律地位:行政确认与《民法典》法律界定

网络是人类物质与精神生活的基础性依托,也是法律关系存在条件、存在空间和法律制度变化的重要影响因素。在当下,网络的法律地位缺乏基础性研究。《民法典》的"网络"有四种意指:与报刊并列作为媒体、作为虚拟财产存在空间、作为包含互联网的信息渠道和在线服务平台。《民法典》把网络与报刊并列为媒体一部分,是在具有高位阶法律效力成文法中第一次确认了网络与媒体的关系,确定了网络可以是涉及名誉权纠纷的民事主体,能够享受权利承担义务的网络是有确定责任主体和法定代表人的网络信息服务者。行政法规、部门规章、政策文件和管理制度以五种区分方式对网络的媒体属性部分进行了具有一定法律效力的行政确认,比《民法典》对网络媒体属性部分的界定更为精确。《民法典》中"网络"的法律地位分为作为民事主体、作为法律关系存在空间、作为法律信息公开渠道、作为法律关系特殊要素四种情况,体现了其权利义务的相应程度。     

论商业秘密的民法保护

民法保护是商业秘密法律保护的重要一环,对于保护商业秘密权利人的合法权益,维护正常的市场 竞争环境,具有十分重要的作用。在民法保护中,应当准确界定商业秘密的权利归属,合理划分侵权诉讼 的举证责任,依法判定侵权人应当承担的民事责任。