The Family Group Within the Nursing Home:

An ongoing monthly family group was implemented in an intermediate care facility in hopes of improving communication between staff and families of long term care residents. Other objectives of the group were to provide families with information about policies and procedures, education about the aging process, and to facilitate an informal support group network where families could share problems and concerns. The feedback and evaluation process indicated that sharing feelings of anger, quiet, frustration and other emotions helped the families deal with the responsibilities of institutionalizing a relative and helped to facilitate better communication between staff and family members.     

AGING,RETIREMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY IN A MODEL OF INTEREST GROUPS

The assessment of the degree of genetic variation in a natural population, and the nature of that variation, is of central importance in both theoretical and applied population studies. Two “variance” results in population genetics theory are presented. For the first, expressions are found for the expected difference in the estimates of genetic variation in a population obtained by two investigators sampling from the same population in the same generation. The second result concerns the question of whether the degree of genetic variation in a population is best estimated by using the number of alleles observed in a sample of genes or by the number of polymorphic sites observed in the sample. For some combinations of the actual degree of variation and the sample size the former is preferred while for other combinations the latter is preferred. The reason for this is discussed.     

汉语诗歌节奏的形成

从汉语诗歌节奏的形成可以看出汉语诗歌节奏究竟是什么节奏。作为汉语自然节奏单位的节拍群主要是由顿歇划分出来的 ,汉语诗歌节奏就是通过对这种节拍群的有规律的分解与组合而形成的。汉语诗歌节奏的形成与西语诗歌节奏的形成既有共同性 ,又各有独特性。     

Socio-economic re-structuring and employment: the case of minority ethnic groups

The consequences of major changes in employment, due to the decline of manufacturing and the growth of the service sector, have not been well-documented, nor theorized, in the sociology of ethnic relations, even in recent studies. For example, Blumer's classic argument that economic development adapts to 'race relations', rather than the reverse as predicted by the modernization school, has not been either empirically resolved or conceptually applied to the UK. By adapting data from the Labour Force Survey and the Census, the paper begins to fill this gap with a detailed account of three main minority ethnic groups, and a separate analysis of male and female employment. It is demonstrated that, contrary to assumptions that members of the minority ethnic groups suffered most from de-industrialization, they actually did rather well, and in some cases did better than the majority population. These findings are re-conceptualized as collective social mobility, as part of a review of a number of conceptual frameworks in the light of the data.     

Halfway There? Policy,Politics and Outcomes in Community Care

The community care reforms which followed the 1989 White Paper "Caring for People"were apparently focused on addressing the needs of people requiring long-term care, and on achieving improved outcomes and better quality of life.
The agenda set out by the White Paper was for community care in the next decade and beyond. Half way through this decade, we question the extent to which the objectives of promoting choice and independence for users and carers have been achieved. The paper draws particularly on a programme of monitoring conducted jointly by the Nuffield Institute for Health and the King's Fund, based on national and local focus groups meeting over a two-year period. It proposes a framework for evaluation which consists of four components: the definition of desired outcomes; specification of service systems necessary to deliver such outcomes; promotion of access to services; and the development of supporting operational policies and resource allocation mechanisms.
This framework offers a substantial step beyond much of the monitoring of the community care reforms which has taken place to date. This has assessed progress largely in terms of the establishment of new systems and processes. We conclude that such changes were essential building blocks for delivering better-quality community care services, and in the short term it may have been legitimate to view their establishment as proxies for progress towards delivering user-centred services. However, monitoring and evaluation should now be increasingly oriented towards ensuring that these changes are in fact producing the desired service outputs and urn outcomes. We propose that our framework offers one such way forward.     

Latent classes and group membership

A technique for analyzing group membership data, such as interlocking directorates, based on the assumption of latent classes of individuals, is described and illustrated with two data sets. The technique partitions individuals and/or groups into homogeneous sets and can be used to create measures of structural centrality for groups and for individuals.     

"四方"研究百年

百年(1900-1999)来学者们对"四方"(东、西、南、北)字源、词义、彼此组合构词的方式、语法功能都有所研究,只是当前要进一步拓展"四方"研究的视野,尤其是"四方"词义虚化的原因和途径、"四方"的句法功能、方言、少数民族语言、外族语言中"四方"表达方式的研究更需要加强,这些研究的加强将推动语言类型学和语言哲学的研究.     

南岛语民族的起源及其与中国南方民族的历史关系

本文对今天分布在东南亚海岛地区的南岛语民族的起源及其与中国南方民族的历史关系进行了探讨,认为南岛语民族先民的主体来自中国南方,与中国古籍中记载的分布在东南沿海的百越民族和分布在云南的土著民族的先民有着共同的渊源关系。今天的南岛语民族主要是由从中国云南乃至西南地区先后迁徙出去的"原始马来人"和从中国东南和华南沿海地区迁徙出去的"续至马来人",与当时分布在东南亚各地的黑色人种进一步融合后形成的。     

Conceptual Framework of Coalitions in an Organizational Context

Summary

Organizations are forming coalitions in their struggle to survive with fewer resources. Under the “Contract With America,” funds for human services are expected to be increasingly cut back. Organizational actors will continue to coalesce because of their compelling interests to serve disadvantaged populations in our communities. This article uses the political-economy perspective in presenting a conceptual framework of coalitions in organizational settings. We need access to various perspectives and models of coalition building in order to provide direction for organizational groups as they attempt to change the sociopolitical structures in which they must operate.     

论对我国弱势群体权利保护的法理思考

弱势群体从法律意义上讲是指在社会转型时期，因社会制度安排等非个人因素而导致的在生存、就业或合法权益保障方面处于弱势地位，需要由国家通过法定形式予以救济的人群共同体。弱势群体“弱势”的实质是权利弱势。弱势群体权利保护的法律理念应为：公平、正义、秩序和发展权。