Stand By Your Man: Wives' Emotion Work During Men's Unemployment

Recent research on unemployment has not sufficiently acknowledged how unemployment reverberates within families, particularly emotionally. This article uses data from more than 50 in‐depth interviews to illuminate the emotional demands that men's unemployment makes beyond the unemployed individual. It shows that wives of unemployed men do two types of emotion work—self‐focused and other‐focused—and both are aimed toward facilitating husbands' success in the emotionally arduous white‐collar job‐search process. This article extends research on emotion work by suggesting that participants perceive wives' emotion work as a resource with potential economic benefits in the form of unemployed men's reemployment. The findings furthermore suggest that as a resource, wives' emotion work is shaped by the demands of the labor market that their husbands encounter.     

The Influence of Living in Two Places on Conjugal Relations: “Instrumental” Characteristic of Norm of Love in China

This research focuses on dual residences (living in two places) on Chinese married couples, a phenomenon with a unique Chinese social background, based on the analysis of 15 cases sampled in the form of interviews, exploring the influence of having dual residences on husband-wife relations and then further exploring its influence of the norm of love and how it works in China. There are three main conclusions. First, compulsory dual residence is closely connected to the rigorous systems of household registration and job allocation during the planned economy period. Voluntary dual residence is related to utilitarian values, including the pursuit of social status and income, against the background of the market economy. Second, at a time when to be working was the first and foremost goal for both men and women, compulsory dual residence was influenced by mainstream social norms that gave priority to work over relationships. Such recognition weakens the influence of dual residences on husband-wife relations. The influence of voluntarily having dual residences on husband-wife relations is mainly connected with how this situation comes to an end. Third, in China, the norm of love in coexistence with multiple values has not been shown to have a decisive influence no matter how the spouses were selected selection or how husband-wife relations are maintained.     

Joint influence of measurement error and non response on estimation of population mean

In this paper, we propose a method to jointly incorporate measurement error and non response in the estimators of population mean using auxiliary information in simple random sampling. We have not only studied some available estimators but also suggested three new estimators in the presence of two types of non sampling errors occurring jointly: the measurement error and the non response. The expressions for the bias and mean square errors of proposed estimator have been derived. A comparative study is made among the proposed estimators, the Hansen and Hurwitz (1946 Hansen, M.H., Hurwitz, W.N. (1946). The problem of non-response in sample surveys. J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 41:517–529.[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) estimator, the Cochran's (1977 Cochran, W.G. (1977). Sampling Techniques, 3rd Edn. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, Inc. [Google Scholar]) estimator, and the Singh and Kumar (2008 Singh, H.P., Karpe, N. (2008). Estimation of population variance using auxiliary information in the presence of measurement errors. Stat. Trans. New Ser. 9(3):443–470. [Google Scholar]) estimator.     

城乡社会“断裂”与“人口逆淘汰”再思

"人口逆淘汰"问题在人口学研究中已有明确的结论,但从社会学的角度出发,仍有进一步思考的余地。在梳理人口学研究成果的基础之上,从城乡社会"断裂"的社会学角度,对"人口逆淘汰"问题进行再分析、再思考。城乡人口素质差异等"社会统计事实"背后,是城乡社会"断裂"的现实。制度因素如户籍制度和教育健康资源占有与配置等结构因素深刻影响了我国人口素质的提高。     

加强和创新社会管理研究：我国城乡二元结构破除中的社会管理制度创新

中国语境中的“社会管理”和“城乡二元结构”概念具有独特意蕴。我国城乡二元结构背景下的社会管理制度不仅是生成、固化与强化城乡二元结构的罪魁祸首,也是引发诸多社会问题的直接原因,它在新时期正面临着诸多困境。西方发达国家城乡关系演进以及社会管理制度变化的历程表明,推进城乡社会发展一体化和自觉建立市场机制之外的城乡一体化社会管理制度都是历史发展的必然选择。而推进我国城乡社会发展一体化必须探索和创建具有中国特色的城乡一体化社会管理制度。     

二元经济结构下城乡居民收入差距与用电量差距的关联关系研究

在二元经济结构条件下,城乡公共服务差距是影响城乡居民收入差距的因素之一。本文选取城乡居民收入差距、生活用电量差距与反映二元经济结构特征的二元对比系数和二元反差指数四个变量,基于我国1986—2011年的数据和VAR模型,揭示了二元经济结构下城乡居民收入差距与生活用电量差距之间的关系。实证研究结果表明,四个变量间存在长期均衡关系;收入差距与生活用电量差距存在双向的Granger因果关系;生活用电量差距的缩小可抑制收入差距的扩大,且这种抑制作用具有滞后性。最后提出我国在制定电力普遍服务政策的目标与实施标准时,应将缩小城乡收入差距这一社会目标考虑在内。     

走城乡一体化发展之路--对中国二元经济结构的思考

通过对二元经济结构理论的阐述,结合中国国情指出"城乡二元经济结构"最能集中体现我国经济发展的现状,并在分析中国城乡二元经济结构特征的基础上,提出走"城乡一体化"发展道路。     

城乡统筹背景下农民土地权益保障路径探析

农民的土地权益是层次分明、结构有序的权利束,是农民作为农村集体成员的经济、政治、社会等权利的综合体现。随着近年来我国城市化的快速发展,农民土地权益不断受到损害,农民土地权益的大量流失导致社会矛盾加剧。我国农民的失地问题,本质上就是农民依法享有的多种土地权益遭受不同程度限制。通过改革完善相关农民土地权益保障制度,赋予农民永久的农地使用权,统一城乡土地市场,培育农民合作组织,改变农民权益在经济发展进程中受到的不公平待遇,才能真正对农民的土地权益起到保障作用。     

刘庆邦小说的农家女进城书写与城市意象简

刘庆邦通过农家女进城的生存叙事,在人与城的文学构想中,揭示了城乡二元结构下农家女的生存地位、文化身份、家园意识与婚恋诉求等问题。基于为底层代言的现实主义创作,再现了农家女们的生存苦难史与身份卑微史。在进城史亦为心灵史、身份史的同构中,作者刻画了农家女们对于城市爱恨交加的悖反心理。在城市批判中,城市呈现出灰色的文化面影,其历史进步性却因叙事预设而被遮蔽。     

关于社会主义新农村建设过程中农村城市化的思考

长期以来,我国实行的城乡二元结构造成的农村经济社会发展的滞后,已成为现阶段我国社会主义现代化建设的严重制约因素。因此,只有推进二元结构的彻底转化,实现城乡协调发展的互动机制,加速农村城市化的进程,才能从根本上解决长期存在的"三农问题",促进国民经济持续快速健康发展。