论傣族谷物神话与谷物祭祀

对傣族的谷物起源神话、季节起源神话和耕作神话进行较详细的记录和比较,分析了谷物神话与傣族农业祭祀的关系。     

以人为本:生产力发展的起始点和归宿点

作者指出,人的需要是生产力得以发展的内在动力;人的潜能是生产力发展的决定性因素;人的全面发展是生产力发展的根本性标志和最终目的;人的主体性则是生产力标准的内在灵魂;以人为本既是生产力发展的始点,又是生产力发展的终点,是科学的生产力发展观。     

外来人口的职业流动与就业适应——以武汉市为例的实证研究

运用武汉市2000年人口普查资料和2005年外来人口就业的调查资料,研究城市外来劳动力的职业过程及其适应性。由于其择业过程受到政策的限制和明显的歧视,外来劳动力进城后通常职业变动频繁,表现出不断寻求最小歧视和最大收益岗位的特征。但是,外来人口在职业流动中职业地位的变化并不大。外来人口要想真正适应城市生活,为城市文化所接纳,除了需要提供相应政策、制度以外,还需要解决一个质的匹配问题,也就是他们能否满足城市经济生活所必需的知识和技能积累。     

农村独生子女家庭养老风险分析

受独生子女及其家庭本身特征和农村社会经济现实状况的深刻影响,独生子女家庭客观上已经形成在养老上的固有风险。子女的唯一性弱化了养老风险的分散功能,子女的流动、生命存活风险以及因人格缺陷而产生的道德风险都会直接导致赡养风险的发生,老年父母自我养老能力的不足将使其晚年生活更加艰难。为规避和化解其养老风险,应该以政府责任体现为主,独生子女家庭提升自身养老能力为辅。     

大城市流动人口非居民化居住特征研究——以上海浦东新区为例

本文主要采用第五次人口普查数据,对上海浦东新区流动人口的居住状况进行分析和研究。研究表明流动人口在大城市具有明显的非居民化的居住特征,表现在居住场所集中于城市边缘,居住地更换频繁,居住质量差和居民身份认同感缺乏。为了保障流动人口在大城市的居住健康和大城市整体的健康发展,促进流动人口在城市的居住和谐,有必要采取措施,宏观调控城市的人口规模,适当建造流动人口公寓,制定流动人口的居住标准,增强流动人口的居民身份认同,增进本地人口与外来人口的居住融合。     

HRD as design science

The aim of this study was to explore the evaluation practices of a sample of organizations in England and Wales who had signalled some commitment to training and evaluation by embarking on the UK's Investors in People (IiP) standard. A questionnaire survey was sent to 1,000 firms and usable responses were received from 394 organizations. It was found that formative and delayed evaluations were used less frequently than immediate and context (needs analysis) evaluations. In the majority of cases the responsibility for evaluation was that of managers and the most frequently used methods were informal feedback and questionnaires. Operational reasons for evaluating training were cited more frequently than strategic ones. Information derived from evaluations was used mostly for feedback to individuals and to inform the training process and less for return on investment decisions. There were some statistically significant effects of organizational size on evaluation practice. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for evaluation theory and research and HRD practice and policy.     

Independence as a stigmatizing value for older people considering relocation to a residential home

Based on older people's perspectives, the aim of this article is to reveal how the culture of independence influences the decision-making process preceding relocation to a residential home. Since there is a predominant ideology of ageing in place in Sweden like in many other welfare states, the focus is on how a continued life in ordinary housing is justified versus how relocation to a residential home is excused. Twenty-one older people have been included in open semi-structured interviews and in follow-up contacts. The findings show that the value of independence, originally intended to protect the position of older people, in practice led to stigmatizing processes. In order to bridge the gap between values and declining capacities, expectations and actions, older people develop individual-oriented, family-oriented, and public-oriented justifications and excuses, so-called ‘accounts.’     

The characteristics and management of elder abuse: evidence and lessons from a UK case study

Despite older people representing a significant majority of victims of abuse in the UK and Europe, evidence about its characteristics and management is limited. This article reports on an analysis of adult protection referrals for older people over an eight year period in two English local authorities. It extends understanding of the characteristics of elder abuse and identifies lessons for its effective management. Findings suggest that older people are at particular risk of multiple and physical abuse. Those living alone are especially vulnerable to financial abuse and those living in a care home to multiple abuse. The most common sites of abuse were the person's own home or a care home. Just two fifths of abuse referrals were confirmed, with the vast majority involving multi-agency consultation and most resulting in ongoing monitoring. Findings also suggest that risk is a product of the intersection of dependency and setting and that information about user and carer need—especially the nature of disability—could enhance the quality of adult protection data and safeguarding responses. The study underscores the need for adult protection legislation and of committing professional resources to the prevention, identification, assessment and management of elder abuse across Europe.     

Riotous Citizens: Ethnic Conflict in Multicultural Britain

Forest struggles and movements in India were a part of the rich tradition of anti-colonial struggle. In North Bengal, the recorded history of forest movements dates back to the 1960s and the movements themselves have been continuous ever since. However, despite the sincere efforts of those movements the livelihood opportunities of the forest dwellers worsened daily. The 1972 Wildlife Act together with the 1980 Forest Conservation Act strengthened further the oppressive structure of the forest bureaucracy. After the introduction of the Joint Forest Management Programme in the 1990s backed by the 1988 Forest Policy in India, it was expected that the forest dwellers would become more empowered economically and socially in lieu of their participation in the forest protection activities. But this failed miserably in the region and in 2000, against such a backdrop, a movement was started to demand land and livelihood rights for the forest dwellers. Following the Notification of the Forest Rights Act (2006) the movement has gained a new momentum while continuing its struggle against the biased implementation of the Act. This article presents a brief account of the movement in order to assess its significance and changing focuses over the years.     

再现少数民族：官方媒体中的少数民族形象建构——基于《人民日报}30年少数民族报道的分析（1979～2010）

《人民日报》近30年来关于少数民族的报道总体数量偏少,侧重于告知信息。《人民日报》通过“中立”为主的立场,重点关注少数民族政治和经济方面的内容,尤其是生产方式方面的报道。在报道中多采用事实叙述的方式,采用肯定成就、民族团结、样板号召等策略,使得少数民族在报道中总体呈现出开放发展的形象。