Precarious lives and resistant possibilities: the labour of people with learning disabilities in times of austerity

This paper draws on feminist and queer philosophers? discussions of precarity and employment, too often absent from disability studies, to explore the working lives of people with learning disabilities in England in a time of austerity. Recent policy shifts from welfare to work welcome more disabled people into the job market. The reality is that disabled people remain under-represented in labour statistics and are conspicuously absent in cultures of work. We live in neoliberal-able times where we all find ourselves precarious. But, people with learning disabilities experience high levels of uncertainty in every aspect of their lives, including work, relationships and community living. Our research reveals an important analytical finding: that when people with learning disabilities are supported in imaginative and novel ways they are able to work effectively and cohesively participate in their local communities (even in a time of cuts to welfare). We conclude by acknowledging that we are witnessing a global politics of precarity and austerity. Our urgent task is to redress the unequal spread of precaritization across our society that risks leaving people with learning disabilities experiencing disproportionately perilous lives. One of our key recommendations is that it makes no economic sense (never mind moral sense) to pull funding from organisations that support people with intellectual disabilities to work.     

Accounting for the Performance of Environmentally Significant Behavior: The Symbolic Significance of Recycling

The scientific community has pronounced climate change unequivocal and its consequences disastrous. Yet Americans' behavioral response to the global social problem of environmental degradation has been largely confined to the individual act of recycling. This article examines why Americans are not doing more to address climate change and other environmental issues. Taking a cognitive sociological perspective, I describe how Americans think about environmental issues and pro‐environmental behavior. I draw on Swidler's concept of a “cultural tool kit,” to examine the cultural narratives Americans use to account for the small amount of pro‐environmental behavior they perform. The act of recycling functions as a synecdoche for pro‐environmental behavior in general, allowing individuals to over‐claim the significance of a modest amount of pro‐environmental behavior. I argue that Americans' failure to engage with environmental issues at a collective level is rooted in the individualized culture of American environmentalism.     

The classing gaze and its gendering effects: (dis)‐respectability,emotional (in)‐competency,and the counselling experiences of domestically violent Taiwanese men

Research on domestically violent men typically takes an oppositional logic of gender. While the significance of class in researching domestically violent men is identified, class and gender are often treated as separate entities that do not complicate each other. Drawing upon group observations and in‐depth interviews, this paper identifies how intersections of class and gender manifest in the counselling experiences of domestically violent Taiwanese men. From a Bourdieusian feminist analysis, the authors analyse (1) how class distinctions serve to (re)produce gendered hierarchy; (2) how contradictory experiences of gender reveal a relational understanding of class; and (3) how the gendered nature of domestically violent men is inscribed with a meaning of (working) class specificity for maintaining middle‐class ‘purity’. In analysing men's multiple and conflicting experiences, this paper contributes to research on domestically violent men by showing how class and gender are actively constructed and not produced in a monolithic/invariant way.     

西方女性主义翻译理论述评

西方女性主义与翻译研究的结合在上世纪 70年代开始便给传统翻译理论和实践观念带来了强烈的冲击 ,产生了丰硕的理论成果。然而与国内文艺理论界对女性主义理论的广泛介绍和深入研究相比 ,女性主义翻译理论的介绍明显滞后 ,与当前国内深入讨论的后殖民翻译研究的情形也无法相提并论 ,实质性的深入研究更是罕见。尝试对西方女性主义翻译研究进行全面地介绍 ,以便能引起国内译学界的重视 ,促进这一方面的深入研究     

中国经济社会协调发展的经济社会学分析

经济社会协调发展是经济社会学的一个基本观点,经济社会学研究的一个重要目的和归宿点是为了促进经济社会的协调发展。深入研究分析科学发展观中的新表述、新思想、新观念、新目标、新要求,科学发展观就是一种经济社会协调和谐发展的理论,而其中所蕴涵的＂一核心四维度（价值核心、内容维、空间维、时间维、方法维）＂系统结构,就体现了经济社会学理论中系统观、时空观、进程观的有机统一,对经济社会发展协调发展理论进行了重大创新和发展。     

探索文明的进路——西方媒介社会学的历史、现状与趋势

为更好地讨论和发展媒介社会学,赋予其更广阔的理论与实践内涵,文章为媒介社会学划定了一个大致的学科领域范围。并在此基础上梳理了西方媒介社会学的理论渊源和十大理论成果,认为媒介社会学的发展应该超越单纯的传播学分支学科概念,成为理解传播现象和推进社会理论的潜在范式。同时指出,对于媒介符号充斥的现代社会中人的生存状态以及社会组织方式的研究是媒介社会学的关注焦点,也引领着其未来发展趋势。     

诚信文化：社会中介组织发展的瓶颈

诚信是一种特殊的文化。主要由诚信文化的符号、价值观、规范和物质形态等构成。社会中介组织的诚信文化缺失已成为其良性发展的瓶颈。社会中介组织诚信文化缺失主要体现为:提供虚假信息;失信行为的惩罚机制和内部自律机制不健全;提供“不实”的房屋、企业和“人”等。构建诚信文化,促进社会中介组织的良性发展需要从诚信信息、诚信制度、诚信管理、诚信教育、诚信环境等五方面进行。     

西方环境社会学的理论发展及其借鉴

西方环境社会学经过近30年的学科发展其理论已渐趋成熟,既受到主流社会学家的理论关注,同时也在积极的汲取和借鉴科学社会学、风险社会以及新社会运动理论等的知识成果。尽管目前还存在着诸如理论边界不明晰、理论表述形式过于抽象等问题,但其理论进步是显而易见的。对此我们应当报以客观的理论态度,吸收其合理的内容,以推动我国环境社会学的理论建设。     

新时期女性散文中女性主题的存在形态考察

新时期女性散文是当代女性作家创作中最为成功的部分之一,也是诸种文体中女性主义意识表达最为直接的部分。自20世纪80年代以来,其女性主义意识的拓展,主要是从女性的自我处境表达、自我确认、自我反省三个方向展开的,具有女性意识的先进性。但近十年来,消费文化的泛滥成为影响女性散文进一步发展的负因素,散文中的女性主义意识有消退的迹象。     

Cosmopolitan sociology and the classical canon: Ferdinand Tönnies and the emergence of global Gesellschaft

How relevant are figures from the classical sociological canon for present day efforts to found cosmopolitan forms of sociological thought? According to the critique of Ulrich Beck, the classical sociologists remain far too wedded to nation‐state‐centred ways of thinking to play an important role in the development of cosmopolitan sociology. This paper argues that such a critique fails to account for the ways in which certain classical sociologists were attuned to the emerging cosmopolitical conditions of their own time, were not wholly wedded to nation‐state‐based conceptualizations, and thus can function as both groundings of, and inspirations for, cosmopolitan sociological endeavours. The apparently unpromising case of Tönnies is focused on, the paper showing how he outlined an account of how and why a planet‐spanning condition of Gesellschaft developed a position which diverges from and counterpoints Marx's analysis of similar phenomena in important ways. The stereotype of Tönnies as an arch‐conservative is also dissolved, allowing him to be considered as one of the most important antecedents of contemporary cosmopolitan sociological practice and a canonical figure still relevant for present‐day purposes.