政治社会学的研究对象及基本内容评述

政治社会学的研究对象 ,是政治的社会基础 ,以及政治与社会的互动关系。而政治社会学的基本内容 ,则是政治社会学研究对象的具体化 ,是政治与社会之间的基本关系在各个具体领域的表现及其本质规律的揭示     

关于建立"中国转型社会学"学科的设想——兼评90年代中国社会转型研究

本文从我国社会转型期的社会实践和社会学理论发展出发,认为现在已具备了建立一门作为"转型学"分支学科的"中国转型社会学"或社会转型学的条件,指出建立这一学科具有重要的现实意义和学科意义.文章继而对"中国转型社会学"的理论与应用研究进行了学术梳理和定位,还对"中国转型社会学"的研究与发展的技术、经济社会和文化背景作了学理分析和前景展望.最后,提出了中国社会学家应抓住转型期社会创新所提供的学术创新的机会,发挥社会学家的想像力与社会观察力,以实现社会学者的社会责任和历史使命.     

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.     

The Chicago School,So-Called

Many sociologists believe in the myth of a Chicago School, a unified and coherent body of thought and research practice carried on at the University of Chicago from the 1920s through the 1960s. Chicago never constituted such a coherent system and is better understood as a school of activity, a group of people who cooperated in the day-to-day running of a major department.     

"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.     

论邓小平同志关于民族团结、维护祖国统一的理论

邓小平民族理论中关于民族团结、维护祖国统一的理论论述很多.其中,民族团结是我国民族工作的根本性任务,是我国社会稳定和民族发展的前提;维护祖国统一、反对民族分裂、是各民族的共同意志等论述,则是邓小平关于民族团结和统一的重要理论.     

Visions in monochrome: families, marriage and the individualization thesis

This paper takes issue with the way in which the individualization thesis--in which it is assumed that close relationships have become tenuous and fragile--has become so dominant in 'new' sociological theorizing about family life. Although others have criticized this thesis, in this paper the main criticism derives from empirical research findings carried out with members of transnational families living in Britain whose values and practices do not fit easily with ideas of individualization. It is argued that we need a much more complex and less linear notion of how families change across generations and in time.     

美国等西方国家应用ethnic group的实证分析

英文 ethnic group一词传入中国并以“族群”、“民族”等中文概念广为流行 ,但是这一词语在美国等西方国家是如何应用以及应用于哪些群体却很少引起人们的关注。本文从美国等西方国家学界与官方应用 ethnic group的实证为例 ,论述和分析了西方国家应用这一词语的确指对象及其在理论和实践方面的矛盾。同时分析了 ethnic group作为西方“族际政治”话语的社会背景和作用。以期说明在引进这一概念和应用于本土实践时需要全面认识其含义 ,从而实现符合中国国情的科学吸收与借鉴。     

Elites and popular nationalism

Much current theory concerning nationalism holds that elites commonly create or cause popular nationalism. In part, that thesis may be due to an overwhelming emphasis in research on nationalism on positive cases: cases where nationalism has appeared, ignoring cases where it has not. In this article, I challenge the thesis by showing numerous historical cases in which elites have promoted nationalisms that ordinary people have not adopted, or in which ordinary people have adopted a nationalism before it was taken up by elites. Even if elites do not create popular nationalism, however, they can and do shape its expression in a variety of ways, such as organizing it, providing relevant information, or providing opportunity or incentive for it. I show this through historical examples.     

Paul Willis and the Scientific Imperative: An Evaluation of Learning to Labour

This article evaluates the methodological philosophy and strategy of Paul Willis's classic, Learning to Labour. We use King, Keohane, and Verba's Designing Social Inquiry as a litmus test, showing how Willis's work meets, diverges from, and innovatively reconstructs good social science research. Drawing from Learning to Labour and Willis's writings on methodological issues, as well as key texts on the science of sociology, this article evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of a reflexive method and the potential this method holds for qualitative work in sociology.