费孝通制度思想的价值来源及其嬗变

费孝通在多次学术总结和回顾中给予“制度”足够重视,文章基于费孝通学术研究的核心是制度这一假设,从四个方面阐述费孝通制度思想的价值来源及其嬗变：将传统文化作为研究对象到吸收传统文化精神;从马凌诺斯基功能论“有用性”到布朗功能主义结构性的兼顾;美国实用主义实用价值的吸收到对社会学芝加哥学派方法的运用;当时的社会实际需要社会学“实践性”应用。     

弘扬传统孝道文化,关注农村养老问题

传统孝道的道德内涵,如养亲、敬亲等规定,是传统孝道文化中的道德精华;传统孝道的推广手段,如宣传教化、榜样引导、以法助孝、以政保孝是行之有效的道德教化手段。在解决当前农村养老问题时,应该继承和借鉴传统孝道文化中的优秀道德资源。     

贵州乡村旅游文化资源与乡村人口传统文化素质探析

本文从人口学、社会学及民族学等学科视角,以学界鲜有涉足的“人口传统文化素质”作为切入点。探究贵州乡村旅游与乡村人口传统文化素质的互动关系．以及如何通过提高乡村人口传统文化素质来促进贵州乡村文化旅游资源的开发。以期为贵州旅游事业与乡村人口的全面发展提供有益思路。     

传统节日文化生存发展策略——写在传统节日法定化之后

当前,中国传统节日文化要得以生存与发展,有三个方面的工作是紧迫和重要的:提升对传统节日的"文化自觉",这是中国传统节日文化的生存之本,这方面媒体、学校教育、家庭、社区均有着重要的责任;重建传统节日的符号体系,在这方面,企业、商家和政府肩负着重要的使命;转换传统节日的参与模式,将封闭型的"血缘共同体参与模式"转换为适应现代生活的开放型的"业缘共同体参与模式",这对中国传统节日文化的生存与发展有着现实而又长远的意义,这方面,各类社会组织起着重要的作用.     

马克思主义中国化与中国传统文化的辩证关系

马克思主义作为西方的社会哲学思潮,能在中国传统文化中立足,并生根发芽,这绝不是偶然的文化事件和历史事件,它们彼此之间肯定有着契合之处。当前,在新的历史大环境下,探究马克思主义中国化与中国传统文化的文化关联性,将对我国特色的社会主义事业的发展,提供最可靠的理论保障。通过分析马克思主义与中国传统文化的共通之处和相互之间的影响,来对马克思主义中国化与中国传统文化的辩证关系进行有效梳理和讨论。     

Recalling the ‘Islam of the parents’ liberal and secular Muslims redefining the contours of religious authenticity

Scholarship on Islam in Europe has largely invested in examining the generational dynamics in the lived religious experiences of Muslims. Within this perspective, the idea of a generation gap, which revolves around a distinction between ‘tradition’ and ‘religion’, has figured as an important account in assessing some of these religious transformations. Drawing on fieldwork with Belgian Muslims of Moroccan origin, this paper seeks to nuance this perspective by exploring accounts wherein this ‘traditional’ Islam of the parents is actively reclaimed. This was especially the case for respondents who were quite critical of Islamic revivalist trends. In many of these stories, the parents’ Islam was understood as tolerant and open, in a way that was consonant with ‘tradition’. By focusing on these narratives, a first aim of the paper is to understand how genealogy and ancestry figure as distinct criteria in determining the ‘real Islam’. A second aim is to complicate the understanding of the liberal and modern self, and its relationship to the past.     

Scrutinizing an algorithmic technique: the Bayes classifier as interested reading of reality

ABSTRACT

This paper outlines the notion of ‘algorithmic technique’ as a middle ground between concrete, implemented algorithms and the broader study and theorization of software. Algorithmic techniques specify principles and methods for doing things in the medium of software and they thus constitute units of knowledge and expertise in the domain of software making. I suggest that algorithmic techniques are a suitable object of study for the humanities and social science since they capture the central technical principles behind actual software, but can generally be described in accessible language. To make my case, I focus on the field of information ordering and, first, discuss the wider historical trajectory of formal or ‘mechanical’ reasoning applied to matters of commerce and government before, second, moving to the investigation of a particular algorithmic technique, the Bayes classifier. This technique is explicated through a reading of the original work of M. E. Maron in the early 1960 and presented as a means to subject empirical, ‘datafied’ reality to an interested reading that confers meaning to each variable in relation to an operational goal. After a discussion of the Bayes classifier in relation to the question of power, the paper concludes by coming back to its initial motive and argues for increased attention to algorithmic techniques in the study of software.     

Improved estimation methods for unrelated question randomized response techniques

The randomized response technique (RRT) is an important tool, commonly used to avoid biased answers in survey on sensitive issues by preserving the respondents’ privacy. In this paper, we introduce a data collection method for survey on sensitive issues combining both the unrelated-question RRT and the direct question design. The direct questioning method is utilized to obtain responses to a non sensitive question that is related to the innocuous question from the unrelated-question RRT. These responses serve as additional information that can be used to improve the estimation of the prevalence of the sensitive behavior. Furthermore, we propose two new methods for the estimation of the proportion of respondents possessing the sensitive attribute under a missing data setup. More specifically, we develop the weighted estimator and the weighted conditional likelihood estimator. The performances of our estimators are studied numerically and compared with that of an existing one. Both proposed estimators are more efficient than the Greenberg's estimator. We illustrate our methods using real data from a survey study on illegal use of cable TV service in Taiwan.     

Identity Work,Techniques of Neutralization,and Deviance: Exploring the Relationship Among Older Adult Gamblers

This study investigates the value of techniques of neutralization in understanding how people involved in marginal to widely deviant behaviors perform identity work. Based on 33 in‐depth interviews with older adult gamblers, we show how techniques of neutralization are used to align personal and social identities. We describe the techniques of neutralizations our participants use along a continuum of gambling involvement, showing how techniques differ in variety and content and are contingent on larger narratives about appropriate behaviors, identities, and selves operating in contemporary society. Our research helps to refine sociologists' understandings of relationships between levels of involvement in deviant behaviors and identity work.     

论血缘文化的锁定及其突破——中国传统伦理的近现代转换

血缘是中国文化的最本质要素,它建构、锁定了以家庭为核心,以"家国一体"为主要构架的中国伦理;在承载几千年的历史使命之后,在遭遇西方文明的碰撞之时,血缘文化及其建构的中国伦理在合法性上遭受了质疑;从过去的封建小农经济到今天的大工业社会,中国伦理的失范与重建成为一代代学人所共同关注的核心。