Middle School Children's Perceptions on Welfare and Poverty: An Exploratory, Qualitative Study

This study was undertaken to determine how middle school children assess the effects of welfare reform on their daily lives. The study consisted of thirty interviews with children and their mothers recruited from a middle school in a large, metropolitan area. From the children's perspective, multiple jobs and evening/night hours interfered with the child-parent relationship. Other consequences included grades going down and not getting to school on time. All the children stated that mothers should work, but most children felt mothers should only work when their children are in school. Welfare and poverty were issues about which children were teased at school.     

The University: An Agent of Social Change?

Can universities be agents of progressive social change? How would we know if a university was acting as an agent of social change? Drawing on four case studies, I raise a number of questions to problematize our understanding of the university as an agent of social change. I outline a number of contributing factors that appear to explain successful cases. I conclude by arguing the relevancy of these cases for larger, and more traditional, sociological projects.     

发展政府与政府的科学发展

在中央提出科学发展观之后，各个领域都面临一个科学发展的问题。政府作为社会治理的主体，在推进科学发展上具有更为重要的作用，因此科学发展观要求政府自身必须首先科学发展。政府的科学发展必然包括政府自身的发展和面向社会治理能力的发展。果有善治则必有善政，因此必须大力发展政府，构建中国特色的发展政府学，借鉴全球发展政府的理论成果，研究中国政府发展的规律，为中国各级政府的改革和全面履行科学发展观职能提供理论及实践指导。     

市场竞争条件下成人高等教育发展的困境与突破

改革开放以来，我国经济体制从计划走向市场，并逐步趋于完善。经济体制的转变带来了成人高等教育活动的变革。市场竞争条件下成人高等教育发展呈现出竞争性、合作性、品牌化、多样性和适应性等特征。然而，我国成人高等教育却存在着地位不明、竞争力弱、质量偏低、单一化、趋同化等问题。我们只有对成人高等教育进行系统改革，才能建立与现代市场经济体系相适应的成人高等教育体系。     

Effects of Marriage and Children on Financial Risk Tolerance: A Synthesis of Family Development and Prospect Theory

Family development and prospect theory were used as a framework to predict variability in individuals' subjective financial risk tolerance within distinct family structures. Gender, age, and income were expected to interact with the main effects of family structure (marital status and children). Theory-generated hypotheses were examined in Study 1 (data from university housing respondents, n = 76) and Study 2 (the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances, n = 4,305). One family structure main effect (child presence) was significant for investment risk tolerance in both studies. Family structure interactions (marital status × age and child × income) were significant for employment risk (Study 1), and child × age was significant for investment risk in Study 2.     

基于SWOT分析的我国服务贸易发展战略思考

随着国际服务贸易发展,各国都将发展本国服务业作为参与国际竞争的战略重点。我国服务贸易发展水平落后,优势依然集中在劳动力和自然资源方面。中国加入WTO后,服务业对外开放,面临内外威胁,但是服务贸易的自由化也同时为我国发展服务贸易提供了机遇。在SWOT分析基础上,本文根据我国服务贸易的优势、劣势以及面临的机遇和威胁,提出了服务贸易发展战略的思考。     

阿盟发展缺失及其对上合组织的启示

阿拉伯国家联盟是当今世界成立最早的几个地区性国际组织之一。在其六十多年的发展历程中,从维护阿拉伯国家整体利益来看,其成绩并不理想。本文对阿盟的发展缺失的表现及其原因进行了分析,并探索了其对上海合作组织完善和发展过程中的启示。     

解放思想之“法宝”意义探析

解放思想是发展中国特色社会主义的一大法宝。对这个新概括可从以下三个视角予以解读:解放思想是打破僵化、保障发展的思想利器,是开拓创新、推进发展的精神动力,是开辟航程、引领发展的经验凝结。坚持这个法宝,对于推动中国特色社会主义实现科学发展具有重大现实意义。     

从《醒世姻缘传》看汉语句式结构的层面渗透

汉语句式结构框架在其产生之后并非静止不动，除其自身的丰富发展之外，它还向不同的语法结构层面渗透，汉语词、词组、句子在结构关系上所具有的一致性由此产生。明末清初白话小说《醒世姻缘传》中的比拟句、“把”字句等就充分显示了汉语句式结构的这种中间过渡状态。     

论“连云港优先发展战略”

阐述了“连云港优先发展战略”的意义，认为该战略的提出和实施，是对江苏既往发展方式深刻反思后的选择，是实现江苏区域共同发展的必然要求，是对连云港未来发展趋势的准确把握。进而提出了“连云港优先发展战略”的“扩大开放、港口带动、新型工业化、城市化与城市现代化、联动开发”5大基本构架。