Resurgent ethno-nationalism and the renewed demand for Biafra in south-east Nigeria

The renewed demand for Biafra by Igbo people is a rejection of their post-war socio-political and economic condition in Nigeria. Through the processing of primary data, the paper examines this reinvention of Igbo nationalism. It looks at its linkage with the 1999 democratic transition in Nigeria, its implications and management by the government. The paper concludes that the renewed demand for Biafra is caused by perception of inequities and injustice in the distribution of power and resources among the Igbo. Hence a deliberate effort to correct these social problems can assuage ethnic tensions and presumption of political violence in Nigeria.     

Risk,Media, and Stigma at Rocky Flats

Public responses to nuclear technologies are often strongly negative. Events, such as accidents or evidence of unsafe conditions at nuclear facilities, receive extensive and dramatic coverage by the news media. These news stories affect public perceptions of nuclear risks and the geographic areas near nuclear facilities. One result of these perceptions, avoidance behavior, is a form of technological stigma that leads to losses in property values near nuclear facilities. The social amplification of risk is a conceptual framework that attempts to explain how stigma is created through media transmission of information about hazardous places and public perceptions and decisions. This paper examines stigma associated with the U.S. Department of Energy's Rocky Flats facility, a major production plant in the nation's nuclear weapons complex, located near Denver, Colorado. This study, based upon newspaper analyses and a survey of Denver area residents, finds that the social amplification theory provides a reasonable framework for understanding the events and public responses that took place in regard to Rocky Flats during a 6-year period, beginning with an FBI raid of the facility in 1989.     

关注社会公平,构建和谐社会

社会公平是围绕尊重和实现每个人的生存和发展权利而形成的一个多维的社会范畴,主要包括权利公平、机会公平、规则公平、过程公平和分配公平等内容。目前,我国社会存在的社会不公现象是引起社会不和谐的重要原因之一。实现社会公平是构建社会主义和谐社会的一项既重要又紧迫的现实任务。必须继续完善分配制度改革,逐步缩小贫富差距;继续深化教育改革,实现教育公平;完善司法制度,维护司法公正;完善社会保障制度,保障群众的基本生活。     

论社会政策与社会和谐

社会政策以克服贫困和消除社会排斥为基本目标,在维护社会公正、促进社会民主、调整社会结构、增进社会团结等方面发挥着独特的功能。社会政策在中国的发展,源于解决社会变迁中出现的现实问题的强烈需求。为此,需要从科学执政的高度重视社会政策,确立"关注民生"的社会政策目标,积极扩大社会政策覆盖面,并逐步实行社会政策的城乡整合,促进社会整体和谐。     

社会分工视阈下中国古代设计艺术的历史演变

从中国古代手工业发展历史来看,一方面,科技与艺术相结合的设计艺术的发展推动了工业技术的快速发展,技术发展必然带动新的社会需求,新的需求必然细化社会分工;另一方面,细化的社会分工产生新的适应社会需求的新的职业和工种,必然拓宽了设计领域,推动设计艺术的发展。     

社会心理学应着力于社会行为心理的整合研究

当代社会心理学是研究社会行为的内在体验和外在表现发展变化过程及其规律的整合科学。社会心理的外在行为律与社会行为的内在心理律是整合的关节点;社会行为的热点问题是整合的切入点;而聚群心理的外在行为律与聚群行为的内在心理律是优化整合的着力点;交互点是个人、群体、社会几个层面的交叉整合。     

试论发达地区加快实现社保全民化的策略

加快实现社会保险全民化是推动社会保险事业持续快速发展,构建社会主义和谐社会的重要手段。针对困扰先发地区社会保险全民化发展的政策、经济和社会因素,此文以推进社会化管理为突破口,以机制建立为有效保障,对实现社保全民化的策略进行了一些探索。     

减租减息与淮北抗日根据地农民的社会流动

抗日战争时期,党在淮北抗日根据地实行了比较彻底的减租减息,它在经济上削弱了封建剥削,改善了农民的社会生活,促进了根据地土地和阶级关系的变化,引发了根据地农民的社会流动和阶级结构的变化,有利于根据地社会的稳定,为根据地的巩固与扩大奠定了坚实的基础.     

健全我国政府经济职能体系的若干思考

完善我国政府经济职能体系不仅与经济体制改革密切相关,也为和谐社会的构建提供重要保障。我国政府经济职能有个演变的过程,目前的体系在经济调节、市场监管、社会管理、公共服务等方面存在问题,从这四个方面初步探讨健全我国政府经济职能体系的基本思路。     

企业社会责任来源的理论分析

责任、企业责任以及企业社会责任是系列相关概念。责任来源于自由、外部期望和不确定因素,自由意味着责任,期望引发责任,不确定因素直接导致责任产生,责任成就于能力和影响力。企业责任的来源同样如此,企业作为具有意向性的主体,拥有自由抉择的权利和丰富物质资源,决定了企业作为社会公民对社会负有责任。文章具体分析了企业社会责任的理论来源,从协调发展论、权力让渡论和规避国家干预论等角度比较充分地阐释了企业承担社会责任的理论依据。