Using complexity theory in kinship practice

This reflective discussion draws on data from a collaborative enquiry into kinship or family and friends practice. It introduces perspectives from complexity and chaos theory as a way of re‐examining the challenges of kinship practice. The discussion highlights the enduring challenges for practitioners, not least, managing anxiety and uncertainty, sustaining continuity and containment, becoming experienced and taking account of the complex developmental needs of the children and their families. The discussion particularly raises questions about appropriate settings for practitioners to undertake such a demanding area of child and family social work.     

Coming Out and the Potential for Growth in Sexual Minorities: The Role of Social Reactions and Internalized Homonegativity

Coming out is a significant and sometimes difficult process in the lives of sexual minorities, but disclosure can also affect wellbeing in positive ways, including reduced distress and greater relationship satisfaction. This study investigates the possibility of stress-related growth and depreciation following coming out. To obtain a diverse sample with varying coming-out experiences, data were collected from undergraduate students as well as from online sources, including lesbian, gay, and bisexual support groups and Pride groups. Regression analyses indicated that negative social reactions to coming out predicted both growth and depreciation, although they more strongly predicted depreciation. Positive social reactions were positively related to stress-related growth, while internalized homonegativity was inversely associated with growth. Although the two sample sources (online and campus) differed in some ways, sample source was not a significant predictor in the regressions, nor was it indicated as a moderator in exploratory ANOVA analyses.     

马克思的科学哲学及其当代意义

围绕三大问题：1）马克思有没有科学哲学？2）如何建构马克思的科学哲学？3）马克思的科学哲学有哪些独特的见解？它们对于当代科学哲学的发展有何意义？展开讨论,认为：马克思有科学哲学;人们应该从当代科学哲学问题和马克思原著出发来建构马克思的科学哲学;马克思科学哲学的总体特点是反对实证主义,坚持经验主义和理性主义相结合。在科学哲学问题上,马克思坚持整体论的科学划界标准;承认科学有其独特的方法;赞成科学实在论,相信科学理论的真理性;主张自然科学和人文科学的统一;承认社会科学也有规律。马克思的科学哲学对于当代科学哲学发展有着重要意义。     

论教育基本问题的“五元”性——当代教育改革与发展的哲学反思

本文基于教育实践领域的矛盾现象,做自下而上的哲学反思。聚焦人与物、人与人、人与己、人与神及知与行这五类古今中外教育领域的根源性问题,通过剖析各类教育问题共同基点的五元性,发挥教育哲学的批判功能,帮助人们树立一种与构建和谐社会相适应的新的教育价值观。     

A sociology of bullying: Placing youth aggression in social context

In this paper we review the sociological literature on peer aggression among adolescents and demonstrate how it can form the basis of a new subfield in sociology on the subject of bullying. Although sociologists have mostly avoided the term bullying in classic works on adolescent aggression, these studies suggest that institutional social control, status hierarchies and social inequalities provide important social context for youth aggression. While historically they have not been in dialog with each other, when taken together sociological research on youth status relations and social networks, systemic bias, school culture and social ecology can lay the foundation of a sociology of bullying. We suggest that if sociologists see this work as shedding light on issues of bullying, they can begin to play a larger role in the shaping of the national conversation on bullying and influence anti-bullying programs in schools to take better account of the social dimensions of bullying.     

新型集体经济的社会主义优越性和发展前景

在中国经济发展的新阶段,面临着许多棘手的大问题,如中国弱势群体的民生问题、破解中国城乡二元结构问题、中国城市化和农村城镇化问题、中国农民组织化问题以及“国计”与“民生”关系问题等等。研究表明,集体经济尤其是新型集体经济都与这些重大问题的有效解决具有密切关系,这些重大问题的推进解决都离不开新型集体经济的深度参与,甚至成为解决这些问题的主导力量或生力军。说明新型集体经济具有极大的社会主义优越性和潜在的发展前景。     

The Attitudes of Social Work Students Toward End-of-Life Care Planning

This study examined the attitudes of social work students toward end-of-life care planning, as well as their degree of willingness to engage in this area of social work practice. Factors associated with their attitudes were measured through structured surveys completed by 102 social work students (N = 102) at a school of social work in the southeast. Results indicated that these social work students tended to have positive attitudes toward end-of-life care planning in general. Moreover, these attitudes were positively associated with preference for pain relief treatment, higher levels of comfort when discussing death, more emphasis on self-determination, and apprehension of conflicts of self-determination. The results of this study underscored the increased societal need for recognition of personal preferences in end-of-life care, higher levels of comfort when discussing death, and an increased commitment of social workers' to maintaining the ethical principle of the client's right to self-determination in end-of-life planning. While this is not surprising, it points to a continuing need to re-assess where the field stands in its preparation of social work professionals who will work closely with people who are dying and their families.     

近代自然法论者的自由观及其方法论局限

17世纪以来的近代自然法论者如霍布斯、洛克以及卢梭和康德等,真正开始根据人自身内自然的、精神的和道德的自由本性来解释和建构理性的政治共同体。然而由于他们静止地固执于某种单一的人类本性,或者自然的、或者道德的、或者理性的自由本性来认识和解释个人、国家及法律的实践准则,将个人自身内作为有机整体存在的自然、道德及理性三种必然性自由本性分离或对立起来,因而在理论或实践上造成一种自由排斥、僭越或压迫另外一种自由,在方法论上则造成事实、价值及逻辑三种必然性原则的相互对立和分离、或者相互混淆和僭越。     

试析中国与东盟关系中的矛盾与问题

自1991年中国与东盟开启对话以来,双边关系不断深化,在政治、经济等多个领域实现了合作、互利、共赢。但是近几年,南海问题的加速升温、台湾当局的"南向政策"及其影响、中国与东盟经贸关系中的竞争与利益冲突、"中国威胁论"加剧了东盟国家复杂的心态等问题与矛盾影响着中国与东盟的团结与合作。重视并采取适当的方式处理双边关系中的主要矛盾和问题,有利于巩固并加强中国与东盟的友好合作关系。     

网络问政：中国共产党执政能力建设的新课题

网络问政是互联网时代的有效执政方式,也是现代执政党实现科学、有效执政的必然选择。网络问政能力已经成为现代执政党的核心执政能力之一。网络问政在中国才刚刚起步,但国外已有先例,其实质是执政党对待网络民意的态度问题。在互联网日渐发达和普及率持续走高的今天,积极借鉴、吸收国外网络问政的经验、教训,已经成为中国共产党加强自身核心执政能力建设的新课题。对执政的中国共产党而言,重视网络民意,是实现网络问政的前提;引导网络民意,是实现网络问政的保证;回应网络民意,是实现网络问政的根本;构建网络反腐新模式,是加强廉政能力建设的应有之举。