Transition and Adjustment to Professional Identity as a Newly Qualified Social Worker

This article discusses the lived experience of professional identity during the transition from student to newly qualified practitioner. Current literature emphasises the first year of practice as an important time of transition to a job-role as student social workers move into postqualification practice. However, little research has explored how professional identity is experienced during this significant transition period. A phenomenological research project was undertaken with 17 newly qualified social workers in Australia. Three in-depth semistructured interviews were conducted with each participant across the first 12 months postqualification period. Participants described how they resolved personal, relational, and professional questions about becoming and being a qualified social worker. The findings indicate a need for educators, employers, supervisors and the profession to consider how to better integrate professional identity within curricula, policy, and systems of support, including supervision.     

Working‐age people with disability and labour force participation: Geographic variations in Australia

To examine geographic variation in labour force participation rate (LFPR) of working‐age people with disability in Australia and associated factors. This study uses Australian Census 2016 data at Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2) and engages multiple linear regression to explore the relationship between the dependent variable,= LFPR of people with disability, and diverse independent variables that reflect collective characteristics of people with disability and their non‐disabled peers within SA2. While LFPRs for people with disability varied greatly by SA2, people with disability had considerably lower LFPR than their non‐disabled peers in all areas. The LFPRs tended to be higher in SA2s with higher percentages of people with disability who had completed year 12 or gained post‐school education, with higher household income, and where a higher proportion of people with disability mainly spoke English at home. These results indicate that where people live matters. Geographic variation in LFPR for people with disability is associated with geographic variation in their educational attainment and other social and community characteristics of the areas in which they live. This study contributes towards gaining a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of the factors that influence LFPR of people with disability in relation to their local community environment.     

Cohort patterns in adult literacy skills: How are new generations doing?

Skills are core elements of the socio-economic prospects of individuals, while they also improve national productivity, growth and social cohesion. Understanding how skills evolve over time and what drives their evolution has become a policy priority of many European countries. Using the 1994–1998 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) and the 2012 Survey on Adult Skills (PIAAC) we build synthetic cohorts and examine how the population gains, loses or preserves cognitive skills (literacy) over time. While, as expected, deterioration in the level of skills due to ageing is common to almost all the European countries studied, for some of them concerns arise for the occurrence of skill deterioration across generations, especially among less well-educated and medium-educated individuals. Certain countries appear to be doing a poorer job in providing the necessary literacy skills over successive generations.     

欠发达地区新型农村合作医疗筹资问题研究——以甘肃为例

在调研和梳理国内文献的基础上,对目前甘肃省新农舍筹资出现的问题进行分析,研究结论：制度设计上存在中央、地方政府和农民在筹资过程中博弈关系,导致筹资机制的可操作性低,存在地方财政压力大、农民工游离在新型农村合作医疗制度之外、筹资成本太高和农民对合作医疗制度的公平性缺乏信心等现实性问题。提出筹资标准合理化、筹资模式高效化和以立法形式来保障筹资,提高新农合筹资的能力。     

论列宁关于利用资本主义文明成果的思想

在对待资本主义文明成果问题上,列宁认为,应该利用这些文明成果以恢复和发展苏俄的经济文化。他反对抽象地把社会主义与资本主义对立起来,认为利用资本主义文明成果是有原则地退却。其目的是为了求得苏维埃政权的生存和发展。     

The new PR of states: How nation branding practices affect the security function of public diplomacy

This paper investigates how the role of public relations practice in public diplomacy is undergoing a transformation as a consequence of the influence from nation branding. A case study of the Danish government's response to the so-called Cartoon Crisis illustrates how the threat from international terrorism to national security initially served as a catalyst for new public diplomacy initiatives. But as the initiatives were implemented within a framework of nation branding the focus on risk reduction became subjected to a marketing logic and a new focus on economic objectives took over. The paper points to a possible future status of public diplomacy under the influence of nation branding: Public diplomacy may maintain a function pertinent to national security but as this function is incapable of managing real risks it will only serve as auto-communication that legitimizes security policy towards a domestic audience. In the public diplomacy efforts towards transnational publics the link to national security will completely disappear whereby the public relations of states is transformed to the marketing of states.     

非均衡性：新生代农民工市民化的路径分析

新生代农民工的市民化作为解决新生代农民工问题的重要手段,对于统筹城乡社会和谐发展,维护农民工权益具有重要的现实意义,但新生代农民工在市民化的过程中具有非均衡性的特征。新生代农民工市民化的非均衡源于不同利益主体需求的非均衡,在具体的路径选择上,新生代农民工市民化可以从市民化的对象、市民化的区域以及市民化的内容的非均衡循序渐进式地推进。     

中国内地青少年赌博问题及防治

随着中国内地对外开放的不断深入,赌博违法活动也日益猖獗,特别是青少年赌博问题也逐渐引起社会关注。通过对相关法律档和媒体案例进行分析．首先介绍了内地青少年赌博的特点和演变的新趋势;其次从家庭、朋辈、社区、媒体宣传等方面讨论了诱发青少年赌博的环境因素;再次从立法滞后、执法弱化、整治模式化、惩治欠规范等层面分析青少年赌博所面对的监管困境：最后针对目前的社会控制力量的薄弱环节提出防治对策：如青少年周围环境的维护和净化,加快立法进程,增强执法力度,调整治安整治策略,完善司法监管体系。促进跨境博彩资讯沟通和社会各界的合作等,以有效遏制青少年赌博问题的蔓延。     

劳动法视域下新生代农民工权利缺失问题

中国经济崛起和城市化进程过程中农民工的贡献有目共睹,城市让生活更美好的诱惑使得中国的新老两代农民工从农村流入城市,2008年1月1日的《劳动合同法》和《劳动争议调解仲裁法》让社会看到了改善农民工权利状况的希望,然而新生代农民工的权利保护尤其是作为一名劳动者的权利保护的现状依然不如人意,没有救济的权利不是真正的权利、迟来的正义是非正义,每年岁末对于农民工权益的突击性保障并不能从根本上解决问题,把包括农民工权益保障的社会问题纳入法治框架内、通过探析新生代农民工权利阙如问题及原因进而发现从制度层面进行解决才是解决农民工权益保障问题的根本途径。     

Who runs the mill? The distribution of power in Swedish social service agencies

The aim of the article is to describe how significant actors in Swedish social service agencies perceive their own and other groups' influence over central areas of their agencies, and also to investigate the correspondence between these actors' perceptions of influence and what is said about the distribution of influence in the legislation and in the literature on social service organisations. The investigation is based on a questionnaire sent to politicians, managers and social workers in Swedish municipalities.

The analysis shows a concordance between the actors' own perceptions of their influence, and the ‘real’ distribution of influence, as perceived by the same actor groups. The general picture is that the politicians feel they have a strong influence on policy, delegation and, partly, also on organisational issues, but it is noteworthy that the top managers feel they have a stronger influence over all these areas. Social workers' influence is limited to the choice of working methods and operational procedures. The results indicate that some core elements of the New Public Management (NPM) model of governance exist in Swedish municipalities and seem to be generally accepted among significant actors. However, the results raise important questions about who should be held accountable for neglect and mismanagement and for failure in implementation of reforms in the social services.