Educational gradient of health in rural China

The aim of this paper is to examine whether and how rural residents’ educational attainment is associated with their self-rated health in China. Taking advantage of the National Exercise Facility Survey that was collected between December 2015 and March 2016, we find that educational attainment has a significant and positive correlation with self-rated health, net of the effects of age, gender, and geographical region. This correlation is mediated by factors such as perceived importance of exercise and healthy lifestyle. Relatively, people’s cognitive knowledge about health-related information and material resource access fail to play a significant mediating role. The findings highlight the non-material and non-cognitive attributes of educational attainment in shaping the gradient of health in the rural setting of China. Interventions that expand formal education to the mass and optimize teaching contents may offer an effective means to balance the health gradient.     

Providing Mental Health Services to Older People Living in Rural Communities

Summary

Rural dwelling elders who experience mental health problems often have difficulty finding help since rural communities often lack adequate mental health service providers. This paper reports on the initial phase of a 5-year, interdisciplinary clinical research study that is testing the effectiveness of providing a home delivered, therapeutic psychosocial intervention, aimed at improving the emotional well-being and the quality of life of medically frail elders who live in rural communities. In the early phases of this study, the clinical research team encountered a number of interesting and often unanticipated challenges as it attempted to recruit study participants and provide services to them. In this article, we examine these challenges and share what we have learned so far about providing mental health services to elderly persons living in rural environments.     

中国农村社会学研究现状与前景展望——“第七届农村社会学论坛”观点综述

“第七届农村社会学论坛”于2016年5月21－22日在西北农林科技大学成功举办。这次论坛主要围绕现代乡村文化建设与公共空间重建、乡村的现代命运及其未来发展趋势、国家治理下的基层社会治理困境与逻辑、农村公共事务治理及社区发展转型、农村社会发展和社会治理等议题展开讨论交流。     

农村邻避型环境群体性事件引入行政诉讼禁令判决的分析

行政诉讼禁令判决,是指根据行政相对人的申请,人民法院作出的,要求行政机关不得实施某项行政行为的判决,是法院为制止违法行政行为可能造成的潜在性风险的一种预防性的判决方式。我国农村邻避型环境群体性事件中,现有权利救济机制存在环境司法治理模式边缘化、政府环境风险监管责任乏力以及事后救济难以恢复生态环境等缺陷,因此,亟有必要在农村邻避型环境群体性事件中引入行政诉讼禁令判决并进行相应的制度构建,从而达到防范环境风险、树立司法权威和保障农民环境权益的目的。     

理论观照与实践反思:乡村振兴道路背景下产业融合探究

为从全球性现代化的视野观察中国现代化道路,通过在湖北西部（鄂西南、鄂西北）、渝东南、贵州（六盘水、遵义、黔东北等）等地烟草行业综合体建设进行调查,对城乡融合发展中的产业融合进行综合考察和研究。研究认为,中国的乡村振兴从“战略”提升为“道路”,表明中国式“两条腿走路”的三农现代化道路认知正式成形,乡村振兴道路在本质上讲是“农村就地现代化道路”,以农业为基础的农村就地现代化道路的关键是农村产业的融合发展;走乡村振兴道路,必须坚持政府是“主导”、乡村是“主场”、就地现代化是“主道”、产业融合发展是“主业”、内生发展是“主流”、三农工作队伍是“主体”、城乡等值发展是“主向”,再从土地流转关系、政策法规、主导产业培育、共享经济平台建设等方面,培育和推进乡村振兴中的产业融合工程。     

乡村治理与发展的协调路径

在乡村地区治理导向不断强化和发展自主权相对弱化的普遍趋势下,乡村振兴战略的提出凸显了治理和发展之间关系的不协调性。事实上,治理与发展关系的不协调并非现阶段独有的特征,而是具有理论意义和实践意义上的普遍性。另外,治理与发展关系的不协调程度不仅与基层组织体制的变动息息相关,从而呈现出不协调程度演变的阶段性;还与区域差异、地方差异以及村庄的类型有关,从而呈现出不协调程度的地方性。因此,要协调好乡村振兴过程中治理与发展的关系,就需要在认识到治理与发展不协调关系的普遍性、阶段性和地方性的基础上,按照权责利一致的原则理清乡村振兴中治理和发展关系再协调的基本思路。     

Rhetoric and Reality of Economic Self-sufficiency Among Rural,Low-Income Mothers: A Longitudinal Study

This study examined the contributions of maternal labor force participation and marital status on economic self-sufficiency over time for rural mothers. Data were from 174 rural families participating in three waves of data collection in Rural Families Speak. χ ² and multiple logistic regression were utilized. Results revealed only one-third of mothers moved toward economic self-sufficiency over three years. Maternal education, employment status, and weekly work hours were associated with improved economic well-being. Compared to single-parent families, unmarried-couple and married-couple families had increased odds of improving economically. In an analysis of all mothers with partners, married or unmarried, martial status was not significant in economic improvement. Findings suggest the role of marriage in welfare reform for rural families should be reconsidered.

生命周期理论与中国农村妇女的生命文化周期探构

20世纪后半叶,生命周期理论被广泛推广到经济社会的各个行业领域和各种职业人生的规划。中国是一个人口和土地面积大国,行政、地理、历史、文化区域交错,各个区域妇女的生存发展状况总体有共同性,但不同区域有所不同。农村妇女的生命周期与家庭紧密联系,以家庭生命周期理论作为主要参考,可以发现20世纪40年代出生的目前是60～70岁农村妇女和20世纪60年代出生的目前是45～55岁农村妇女的生命周期各为八个阶段。分析其特点,带有明显的时代特征。     

Revisiting the model of creative destruction: St. Jacobs,Ontario, a decade later

Ten years ago, the model of creative destruction was developed to predict the fate of communities that base their development on the commodification of rural heritage (Mitchell, C.J.A., 1998. Entrepreneurialism, commodification and creative destruction: a model of post-modern community development. Journal of Rural Studies 14, 273–286). Its application to the village of St. Jacobs, Canada, demonstrated that entrepreneurial investment had fostered the creation of a setting for aestheticized consumption. In this paper we demonstrate that creative destruction has continued to unfold in the village over the course of the past decade. The evolutionary path taken is assessed in light of current literature on rural space. It is concluded that to fully understand the transformative process, one must integrate the demands of myriad sub-cultures, whose social relations, ideologies and actions will contribute to the development of a contested landscape of consumption. This finding necessitates that modifications be made to the model and its various stages. The most significant is recognition that the “heritage-scape” is an interim state of landscape change; one that displaces the productivist landscape of the industrial period, and precedes the creation of the “neo-productivist” leisure-scape of post-industrialism. Whether or not such a “final” state is achieved is dictated by the power struggle that inevitably arises amongst sub-cultures engaged in the transformation of rural space.     

中国农村养老模式研究综述——基于CSSCI期刊(2000~2013)的研究

老龄事业是全面建设小康社会和实现中华民族伟大复兴中国梦的重要方面,未富先老、未备先老、抚养比高是我国农村进入老龄化社会的主要矛盾,而养老模式的合理建构是应对老龄化的突破口,引发学界高度关注。基于中文社会科学引文索引(CSSCI)2000²013年期刊文章,分析和梳理学界对养老模式有价值的探讨,从而为顶层政策设计和地方发挥裁量权提供理论和现实依据。由一元向多元发展是我国养老模式的必然趋势。家庭养老、社区居家养老、社会养老以及多层次的养老是养老相关主要模式。现有研究视角涉及多个学科,以发展何种养老模式为重点和养老模式如何组合是学者研究探讨的重点。未来养老保障基本围绕家庭养老为主体、社区居家为依托展开,而社会化养老是必然趋势。在养老模式的具体层面、统筹层面、价值层面、制度文化建设等方面有进一步拓展的空间。