L'Intervention Sociologique After Twenty-Five Years: Can It Translate into English?

The sociological intervention is a research method developed in France by Alain Touraine in 1976 to explore social movement action. Since then it has undergone significant development, both in terms of the type of social experience explored and the broader research program framing it. Despite its importance, the intervention remains little known and virtually untested within English-language sociology. This article examines key dimensions of this research method through discussing several examples, and argues that the intervention has much to offer English-language sociologists concerned with questions of agency and reflexivity, relationship, narrative and experience.     

Hearts and Minds and Morality: Analyzing Moral Vocabularies in Qualitative Studies

A strategy of analyzing the moral vocabulary of a social movement or subculture is proposed by which ethnographies and other qualitative works may place the moral and ethical concepts used by respondents into a broader sociological context. Through examining the moral resources, the status hierarchy which the specific moral resources within a given moral vocabulary form, and the historical and cultural contexts within which these moral resources exist, it is argued that it becomes possible to analyze and anticipate the moral claims and form of discourse which will be produced by a specific movement and/or subculture. It is also argued that this method may be used to predict how the opposition to a movement and/or subculture is perceived through the formation of an antithetical moral vocabulary.     

The Boston Area Diary Study and the Moral Citizenship of Care

This paper describes the theoretical foundations, empirical findings, and practical and philosophical implications of the Boston Area Diary Study (BADS), a study of the caring behavior of 44 participants over one calendar year. In particular, the paper presents an identification theory of care and discusses how it shaped the conceptualization, collection, and analysis of the data in a year-long diary study of daily voluntary assistance. The findings from the BADS (1) theoretically confirm the identification theory of care; (2) methodologically capture how individuals perceive and carry out caring behavior as a unity; and (3rpar; empirically document the existence of a moral citizenship in America that is substantially more vigorous than is implied by the usual indicators of civic and political citizenship.     

Global Visions: Global Civil Society and the Lessons of European Environmentalism

To illuminate the obstacles to the development of a global civil society, the experience of the most developed transnational social movement—the environmental movement—in the most developed supranational political system—the European Union—is considered. National differences are shown to be persistent and there is little evidence of Europeanization. It is argued that the impediments to the development of a global civil society are yet greater and that, despite the advent of antiglobalization protests, global civil society remains an aspiration rather thanan accomplished fact     

企业家及企业家网络构建的理论分析——基于社会网络的分析观点

企业的创新活动要由企业家来组织和推动。企业家在推动创新的过程中,必然受其根植的个人网络和社会网络的影响。文章试图通过社会学中社会网络的分析观点指出,企业家网络及其构成很大程度上决定了企业家获取信息与资源的能力。此外,相对于企业家的个人网络而言,企业家的社会网络对企业家的创新行为将产生更为重要的影响,因为通过社会网络企业家能够获取和动员异质性程度更高的信息与资源。     

试谈王明的妇女解放思想

王明的妇女解放思想基本上是运用马克思主义唯物史观、阶级斗争学说,科学地分析了中国妇女解放问题的政治地位以及妇女解放与民族解放、社会解放的辩证统一关系。王明的妇女解放思想不仅较好地继承了马克思主义经典作家关于妇女解放问题的理论,而且结合中国的实际也提出了一些正确的主张,丰富了我党的妇女工作理论。     

文化素质教育:科学教育与人文教育融合的起点

促进科学技术教育 (简称科学教育 )与人文教育的融合 ,是 2 1世纪高等教育改革与发展的必然趋势。本文认为 ,文化素质教育是在新的历史时期促进我国科学教育与人文教育融合的切入点。作者在此基础上对如何在高校推进文化素质教育作了若干探讨     

嬗变中的全球化与中国社会关系嬗变

当中国社会纵向穿越全球化横向空间时,两者的关联度迅速提高,并引起中国社会关系及结构发生深刻变化。那就是:一种非国家层面的(国体与政体关系除外)、对中国社会所有累积性关系产生重大影响的、新型"社会契约关系"正在形成。     

生态经济道德何以可能

生态经济道德何以可能?最根本的社会基础和原因在于当代社会和平与发展两大主题相辅相成和相互凭借的趋势及其道德上的要求。另一个重要的社会基础和原因是生态、经济、道德三位一体的发展趋势及其彼此融合的时代要求。第三个原因则是生态经济的出现和发展及其道德上的要求。