追问盘古——盘古神话来源问题研究之一

盘古神话在先秦乃至秦汉时期的汉文古籍中均没有记载,直到三国时代才出现在徐整的《三五历纪》中。盘古神话源自何处?源自什么民族?这是近百年来学术界争论不休的一个问题。本文及以后将陆续发表的系列研究文章认为,盘古神话来源于华南珠江流域的两粤(广东、广西)地区,来源于华南珠江流域的原住民族——壮侗语民族。     

民族工作时代主题与加快民族发展问题研究

民族工作必须体现时代的精神,党中央在我国社会主义建设的关键时期提出的各民族需“共同团结奋斗,共同繁荣发展”,顺应了时代的要求。少数民族的发展只有在建设中国特色社会主义的共同事业中才能逐步解决。     

加强民族法治建设对促进民族经济发展的时代意义

在市场经济条件下,民族经济发展需要以民族法治建设作保障,促进民族经济持续快速健康协调稳定的发展。按照“十一五规划”的战略目标要求,56个民族的法治意识的增强和提高,对促进民族经济协调发展具有重大的理论和实践意义。     

Transnational queer sociological analysis of sexual identity and civic‐political activism in Hong Kong,Taiwan and mainland China

The sociology of homosexuality lacks engagement with queer theory and postcolonialism and focuses primarily on the global metropoles, thus failing to provide a plausible account of non‐Western non‐normative sexual identities. This research adopts the author’s newly proposed transnational queer sociology to address these deficiencies. First, it critiques the Western model of sexual identity predominantly employed to elucidate non‐Western, non‐normative sexualities. It does so by examining not only the queer flows between West and non‐West but also those among and within non‐Western contexts to produce translocally shared and mutually referenced experiences. Second, the proposed approach combines sociology with queer theory by emphasizing the significant role of material, as well as discursive, analyses in shaping queer identities, desires and practices. This article employs the approach to examine young gay male identities, as revealed in 90 in‐depth interviews conducted in Hong Kong (n = 30), Taiwan (Taipei, n = 30) and mainland China (Shanghai, n = 30) between 2017 and 2019. More specifically, it highlights the interplay between the state and identity by investigating the intersection and intertwining effects of these young men’s sexual and cultural/national identities, revealing three different forms of civic‐political activism. The article both demonstrates the way in which sexuality and the state are mutually constituted and provides nuanced analysis of the heterogeneity of contemporary homosexualities in Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China. In applying a new sociological approach to understanding sexuality, this research joins the growing body of scholarship within sociology that is decentring the Western formation of universal knowledge.     

Making space for ‘the social’: connecting sociology and professional practices in urban lighting design

Lighting is increasingly recognized as a significant social intervention by both lighting professionals and academic social scientists. However, what counts as ‘the social’ is diverse and contested, with consequences for what kind of ‘social’ is performed or invented. Based on a long‐term research programme, we argue that collaboration between sociologists and lighting professionals requires negotiating discourses and practices of ‘the social’. This paper explores the quality and kinds of spaces made for ‘the social’ in professional practices and academic collaborations, focusing on two case studies of urban lighting that demonstrate how the space of ‘the social’ is constrained and impoverished by an institutionalized division between technical and aesthetic lighting. We consider the potential role of sociologists in making more productive spaces for ‘the social’ in urban design, as part of the central sociological task of ‘inventing the social’ (Marres, Guggenheim and Wilkie 2018) in the process of studying it.     

Virgins,Terrorists, and Ten Children: Immigrants' Humorous Play with Ethnic Stereotypes in Bonding with Danes in the Workplace

Drawing on fieldwork in a multi‐ethnic workplace (an industrial kitchen in Denmark), this article explores immigrants' self‐directed ethnic humor in collegial relationships with Danes as it spontaneously develops and plays out in everyday work settings. Approaching ethnic humor from a symbolic interactionist perspective rather than adopting the dominant conflict approach, this article emphasizes the bonding functions of ethnic humor. The article argues that immigrants' engagement in playful behavior with ethnic stereotypes in interactions with Danes is a form of “impression management” in which they defuse ethnic stereotypes and dissociate themselves from them by building joking relationships in the workplace with Danes. A video abstract is available at https://tinyurl.com/esholdt .     

民族地区城镇化发展模式及路径创新——基于四川、广西、贵州等地的调研分析

城镇化是我国民族地区经济社会发展的必经阶段。探索民族地区的城镇化发展模式及创新路径,对于加速民族地区现代化进程、转变民族地区经济增长方式以及实现社会安定团结具有重要的推动作用。文章在对民族地区城镇化发展现状描述的基础之上,归纳概括出城镇化运行的四大矛盾;并全面总结出旅游产业带动型、工业发展助推型、边境贸易推动型、草原牧业发展型四大类型的城镇化发展模式;通过构建民族地区城镇化发展的愿景框架,结合民族地区的发展实际,最终提出坚持绿色低碳,发展城镇化的生态文明建设,强化产城融合,持续释放城镇化的发展活力,深化制度改革,实现城镇化发展质量的提升及保持文化传承,不断彰显城镇化的民族特色等城镇化发展的创新路径。     

论民族生境与民族文化建构

民族学经过一个多世纪的探索,逐步地达成了一个共识,建构一种文化并不是一件轻而易举的事情。文化是指导人类生存发展延续的信息系统,文化的建构是以所处自然生态系统为底本,以并存的社会生态系统为参照,文化这一信息系统不断偏离与回归所处自然生态系统与社会生态系统,在世代延续过程中逐步认知、积累其成败的经验与教训,并在传承的过程中不断地完善和丰富起来。民族以文化为分野,不同民族所处自然环境与社会环境互有差异,这就形成了民族生境的差异性,而民族生境的差异性也同样会建构出不同民族文化事实体系的差异性来。     

《花蓝瑶社会组织》与费孝通学术思想

通过重读《花蓝瑶社会组织》,分析了费孝通先生早年的学术研究动向,指出《花蓝瑶社会组织》第一次披露了金秀大瑶山花蓝瑶的人口、家庭和社会生活状况;第一次运用人类学理论和方法深入剖析了金秀大瑶山族团及族团之间的关系及其发展趋向;第一次成功地运用了“微型社会学”的调查研究方法剖析了花蓝瑶社会。     

铁骑刀光中的西秦长歌——评东乡族作家马自祥的长篇历史小说《阿干歌》

东乡族作家马自祥的长篇历史小说《阿干歌》,＂以小说造史＂的形式,通过历史复原、艺术想象与文化寻根多元互融的创作构建,再现了五胡十六国时期雄阔瑰奇的西秦历史画卷,浓墨重彩地刻画了乞伏鲜卑卓尔不凡的人物群像,并以荡气回肠的阿干悲歌贯穿始终,多层面演绎了这一古老歌谣与日后传承的民间艺术＂花儿＂的渊源关系。