Relationships matter: the problems and prospects for social workers' relationships with young children in care

One of the key lessons learnt in the UK from the Laming Inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbié was the importance of social workers developing consistent and long-term relationships with young children in whose lives they are involved. This issue is now informing policy developments, including the proposed Social Work Practices which, based on a similar model to General Practitioner practices, aim to provide a lead professional to act as a parental figure and an advocate for every child in care. This paper begins by confirming the importance of developing relationships between social workers and young children, but questions the ability of the new policy developments to facilitate these. Drawing upon data from research involving interviews with social workers, the paper outlines the factors which hinder social workers' relationships with young children and argues that while the new proposals address some of the more surface structural and organizational factors, they do not address the deeper factors regarding attitudes, values and emotional competence which are crucial if social workers are to successfully build relationships with young children in care.     

当代大学生婚恋观特点及其相关因素研究

本研究运用整群抽样法,采用大学生婚恋观问卷对366名在校大学生进行测查,结果发现：（1）绝大多数当代大学生的择偶标准主要强调内在因素,尤其是性格与气质、品德、感情、共同语言以及健康状况等,而不太看重家庭背景、职业、学历等外在因素。（2）大部分当代大学生对婚外性行为持否定态度,重视恋爱与婚姻中的忠贞,认为在选择婚恋对象时有必要征求家人意见;但同时也对婚前性行为、离婚和独身等持宽容态度。（3）不同性别和专业当代大学生的婚恋观存在一定的群体差异。     

《大公报》对军国民教育思潮的宣传——以清末民初为主

军国民教育是通过对青年学生及国民灌输军事知识和尚武精神,强健体魄,振奋民族精神,最终达到“寓兵于民”、“强兵富国”之目的的一种教育。《大公报》能顺应时代潮流,反映时代要求,努力介绍和推动军国民教育主张,表现了其作为新闻媒体的积极作用。本文通过对民初《大公报》军国民教育主张产生的历史条件、具体内容及评价的探讨,意欲理清该报对这一思潮的态度和主张。     

Wealth: Determinants of Savings Net Worth and Housing Net Worth of Pre-Retired Households

The objectives of this study are to determine effects of household members' characteristics, financial resources, and attitude toward intergenerational support on change in savings net worth and change in housing net worth. Subsamples of White respondents, Black respondents, and Hispanic respondents were analyzed to identify the effects of race or ethnicity on the dependent variables. Attitude toward intergenerational support was the intervening variable. Change in labor income had a positive impact on change in savings net worth for all three racial or ethnic groups. An additional child in a household and an older age of the household head were likely to decrease the change in savings net worth. Effects of the remaining variables differed by subsample. The effects of labor and nonlabor income were different for the change in savings net worth but not for the change in housing net worth. Some different effects for variables across the three racial or ethnic groups were noted.     

Radical change or more of the same? Public attitudes towards social citizenship in New Zealand since neoliberal reform

International empirical evidence, including that from Australia, suggests that neoliberal reform has not changed public attitudes towards the social rights of citizenship as much as one might predict. But do these international findings hold true for New Zealand, whose institutions were more rapidly transformed by neoliberal reform than similar countries? Drawing upon public opinion data regarding economic protectionism and the welfare state over the past two decades, this paper argues that while some significant changes have emerged there is no overwhelming evidence of a paradigmatic shift in public attitudes towards social citizenship rights as a result of New Zealand's neoliberal reform. Indeed, New Zealand's experience appears as ambiguous and ambivalent as that of Australia, albeit different policy and historical settings have produced some differences in public attitudes.     

Four Decades of Trends in Attitudes Toward Family Issues in the United States: The 1960s Through the 1990s

This article examines trends in family attitudes and values across the last 4 decades of the 20th century, with particular emphasis on the past 2 decades. The article focuses on attitudes toward a wide range of family issues, including the roles of men and women, marriage, divorce, childlessness, premarital sex, extramarital sex, unmarried cohabitation, and unmarried childbearing. More generally, the article considers trends in 3 broad contemporary values: freedom; equality; and commitment to family, marriage, and children. Five data sets are used for the article: Monitoring the Future, General Social Survey, International Social Science Project, Intergenerational Panel Study of Parents and Children, and the National Survey of Families and Households. These 5 data sets reveal substantial and persistent long‐term trends toward the endorsement of gender equality in families, which may have plateaued at very high levels in recent years. There have also been important and continuing long‐term trends toward individual autonomy and tolerance toward a diversity of personal and family behaviors as reflected in increased acceptance of divorce, premarital sex, unmarried cohabitation, remaining single, and choosing to be childless. At the same time, marriage and family life remain important in the cultural ethos, with large and relatively stable fractions of young people believing that marriage and family life are important and planning marriage and the bearing and rearing of children.     

西方性别角色态度研究述评

20世纪 70年代以来 ,西方性别角色态度研究有以下特点 :测量量表多样化 ;研究的概念复杂化 ;跨文化研究 ;性别角色态度发生变化。西方性别角色态度的最新发展是矛盾的性别主义理论的产生     

在京壮族语言文字使用情况及语言态度问卷调查分析——兼与广西地区壮族比较

文章在调查所得数据基础上,对北京地区壮族人语言文字使用情况及语言态度进行分析解释,兼与现有的对广西地区壮族的各项调查结果进行对比,对壮族语言文字的传承与发展提出相关建议。     

嘉靖《保宁府志》俗字考释

以嘉靖《保宁府志》为研究对象，考释其中俗字“女占”“ ”“ ”“熳”“ ”和“ ”，结合历代俗字文献进行研究，以展现其流变概貌，推动汉语俗字研究的发展，为大型辞书的编纂与修订提供材料。     

Does Contact Matter?: The Relative Importance of Contact in Predicting Anti-Gay Prejudice in Jamaica

ABSTRACT

Jamaica has been called one of the world’s most anti-gay countries. However, little empirical research has investigated methods of reducing this prejudice. Intergroup contact—(positive) interaction with someone from a different social group—is one of the most widely tested and strongly favored methods of reducing prejudice. However, the role of contact in this specific context is not clear, particularly the relative importance of contact compared to other variables that predict (less) prejudice. This current cross-sectional research investigated that question using a large, representative sample of Jamaican participants (N = 942). As in prior research, contact predicted less anti-gay prejudice, and the (negative) relationship between contact and anti-gay behaviors was mediated by intergroup anxiety and attitudes, even when other important predictors were taken into account. However, contact was a less important predictor than gender, education, or religiosity. Implications for intergroup contact and prejudice-reduction strategies in Jamaica are discussed.