Insights into proceeds from social investments: beyond numbers fetishism and relativism

How profitable are social investments? It is necessary for social professionals to gain and give insight into the proceeds of their work. Both clients and professionals will benefit from a results-oriented approach. Subsidising agencies and financiers will reap the fruits of such an approach as well. But how can we gather evidence on the proceeds of social investments? In this article we distinguish two mutually complementary ways of gaining evidence. The first is known as evidence-based policy and practice, mainly quantitative research on the effects of social interventions and on the causal relations between interventions and outcome. However, limitations are attached to quantitative research because of disruptive factors, a variety of side effects and the dynamics of social reality. Complementary evidence is therefore needed: practice-based evidence, based primarily on qualitative methods that provide insight into mechanisms and conditions under which effects occur. The practice-based method presumes systematically studying a series of small-scale and mindful practices in order to uncover tacit knowledge of professionals. It is exactly this combination of rigid quantitative research and flexible qualitative methods which does justice to the challenging undertaking of clarifying the proceeds from social investments.     

试论遏制腐败的基本途径

党内腐败现象危害极大。滋生腐败的原因复杂多样 ,因此 ,遏制腐败是一项长期的复杂的艰巨任务。要从源头上预防和遏制腐败 ,加强思想政治教育和党风党纪教育是基础 ;用竞争机制选拔用好干部是核心 ;进一步健全和完善监督机制是关键 ;加强法制建设是保障 ;进一步强化对腐败分子的惩处力度是有力手段。     

论口译实践中“信”的内涵与实现途径

"信"即忠实,就是译语要忠实于原语所表达的意义和意义的表达."信"包含 "达",就是忠实地通顺表达."达"是"信"的要件之一,一般情况下,不"达"之"信",实为不"信",至少是"信"度很低;不"信"则为不"达",因为背离原意的所谓"通顺"毫无意义可言."信"作为翻译的一般标准,同时又是翻译的一种理想状态.口译工作者应在理论和实践上不断摸索、探究,灵活掌握翻译尺度和技巧,从而在最大程度上保证口译工作中"信"的实现.     

传统教学法和交际法在文学阅读课中的结合运用

在分析两种外语教学法利弊的基础上 ,以《美国文学作品选读》课为例 ,介绍了二者结合运用的全过程。     

以一总多 触类而长——评任范松《文艺民族化论稿》的学术特点

任范松先生的文艺批评的整体特征,概括地说,就是"以一总多,触类而长",即在方法论上,是以马克思主义文艺批评方法为主,结合其他批评方式的多元性批评;在认识论上,是围绕朝鲜族文艺而展开的多样化的批评。     

中国商业银行对于巴塞尔协定的因应之道

新资本协议在国际活跃银行中的普遍推行,为中国监管部门和中国跨国银行的经营提供了新的经营管理规律,也赋予了中国商业银行前所未有的发展机遇和挑战。本文在对资本协议的内涵和发展进行剖析的基础上,重点阐述了银行的经营者怎样从实际经营环境出发,采取有效的风险管理策略和运营措施,建立起新协议框架下的业务管理流程。     

论莫里茨·盖格尔与当代美学的几点关联

莫里茨·盖格尔是现象学美学的重要开拓者和创始人，他最早将现象学的方法具体而全面地应用于美学领域，建立了现象学美学的理论框架和系统研究方法。在盖格尔所讨论的美学问题中，最值得注意的是他关于审美经验和审美价值的理论，以及他将现象学与哲学分析结合起来的美学方法。本文试图梳理这三方面与当代美学的联系，并探讨它们对当代美学的几点启示。     

探索大学英语课堂教学的新模式

文章针对目前大学英语教学中存在的一些实际情况，提出要以教学大纲为基础，根据实际情况，提高学生的主动性，贯穿以实践为主的教学思想，探索教学模式。     

苏联模式探析

以高度集中为特点的苏联模式,是在特殊的社会历史条件下形成的,有其存在的历史必然性和合理性,它在特定的历史时期曾发挥过积极的作用,但它不是一种理想的模式,随着历史的发展,其弊端越来越充分地暴露了出来,给社会主义带来了许多危害和灾难,也给我们留下了许多深刻的教训.     

La sociologie clinique comme science rigoureuse et comme pratique sociale

How can clinical sociology be considered from an epistemological point of view, since it deals with social problems not in their overall dimension, but seen as specific situations where concrete people are suffering? This paper is concerned with a two-fold epistemological difficulty: from the one side, studying such problems could involve a therapeutic intervention that exceeds a purely scientific approach; then, has a clinical sociologist to deal with a social therapy? And how far does that (not) involve any political involvement? From the other side, under which conditions could he (she) generalize information coming from his (her) experience as to contribute to social theory (according to Merton's suggestions about theory and research)? An effective contribution to answer such questions can come from the concept of ‘cultural pattern’, as pointed out in this paper.