流动人口新年返乡互动实践

通过实地调研考察流动农民新年返乡期间的交往互动,讨论留守社区层次上的互动实践为当地社会关系过程带来的变动和涵义。针对返乡流动农民的典型互动过程的分析表明,广泛参与社会互动的流动农民和村民,将策略性地选择互动的卷入程度,因此同时出现了留守社区中具有吸引力以及遭受冷落的互动情境。流动农民新年返乡期间的交往互动是具有社会结果意义的实践,重构了留守社区的社会关联。     

The Baby Elmo Program: Improving teen father-child interactions within juvenile justice facilities

The aim of the Baby Elmo Program is to establish a low-cost, sustainable parenting and structured visitation program for non-custodial incarcerated teen parents. The program is taught and supervised by probation staff in juvenile detention facilities and unlike traditional programs, this intervention is not based on increasing the teen's abstract parenting knowledge, but rather in building a relationship between the teen and his child. The sessions target the interactional quality of the relationship by introducing relationship, communication, and socio-emotional enhancing techniques. Because the intervention is conducted in the context of parent-child visits, it fosters hands-on learning and increases the opportunity for contact between these young parents and their children, a benefit in itself. Twenty father-infant dyads, with infants ranging in age from 6 to 36 months, participated in the present preliminary evaluation of the program. Individual growth curve analyses showed significant gains in five of six measures of emotional responsiveness with the age of infant as a significant covariate. These results indicate improvements in positive high quality interactions and communication during sessions between infants and their incarcerated parents and this increase in the interactional quality of the relationship increases the likelihood that the incarcerated teen and child will form and maintain a positive relationship with one another.     

交往：“加强民族交往交流交融”的逻辑起点——兼及武陵地区民俗类国家级非遗交往功能问题

马克思主义的“交往”范畴,立足于哲学人类学思维范式的应用,重视日常生活化“接地气”的交往功能。“民族交往交流交融”理论的落脚点在“交”,即“相互交汇,有所接触”的“交往”。这样通过“民族群体间的交往交流交融”日常生活的应用理解,阐释“民族交往交流交融”概念的核心要义及其逻辑起点。风俗习惯在人们社会交往活动过程中产生与传承,直接影响着人们日常生活的交往活动。重庆国家级民俗类非遗的秀山花灯,当代以来舞台化精品打造历史经验收获不少,但我们可能更应注意的是其民间交往功能存在的问题,政府主导的秀山花灯春节“跳花灯”习俗活动,成为本地“加强民族交往交流交融”的民间文化交往功能重要载体,有助于美丽乡村公共文化建设愿景的达成。     

On Random and Gibbsian Particle Motions for Point Processes Evolving in Space and Time

This article presents an analysis of space-time interdependencies of spatial point processes considering random and deterministic Gibbsian point motions caused by repulsion effects between particles. Two deterministic models of Gibbsian motions are considered by formulating a constant (i.e., Strauss-like) and a linear interaction motion functions. Given that theoretical development of continuous space-time stochastic processes are mathematically intractable, we have mainly based our analysis on numerical simulations. Our results suggest that to fully understand such complex dynamics, the analysis of purely spatial patterns should be combined with their interactions in the space-time domain. Otherwise, analysis of pure spacial patterns may not fully explain the real mechanism generating such dynamical configurations. We highlight that adding movement to sedentary points opens new areas of application and research to study biological phenomena, where particles not only evolve through time but also can change spatial positions in terms of their neighbor locations.     

基于多智能体的城市群政府合作建模与仿真——嵌入并反馈于一个异构性社会网络

以社会网络视阈下的城市群政府合作过程中的多期进化博弈为例,通过概念模型、数学模型和计算机模型的完整建模过程,在微观主体互动层面建立一个考虑个体成本收益差异的非对称进化博弈系统(并同时考虑全体博弈互动和部分博弈互动的交互),在宏观社会结构层面建立一个实现节点之间连接概率定制化的异构性社会网络模型(且同时考虑全局信息交互和局部信息交互的更替),并通过多智能体系统(特别是交互意愿变量的引入)实现了微观互动(博弈行为)和宏观涌现(网络结构)之间的双向反馈和动态交互.在构建模拟系统的基础上,设计并运行了一系列的实验方案,对仿真模型及模拟结果进行信度检验,并结合多次模拟实验样本数据的统计分析,考察全局交互比例,局部连接概率等网络结构变量、合作收益、惩罚措施等博弈参数变量、以及决策个性等主体属性变量对城市群政府博弈形势与合作水平的动态影响,为促进城市群政府合作和区域一体化进程提供决策依据和政策参考,也是政治学与公共行政学科计算实验研究的一次创新尝试.     

Issue contention and consumers’ reactions to corporate social responsibility: Challenging the dyadic assumptions

Two experiments (one fictitious on environmental CSR and one real-life on a company’s social advocacy on gun violence) were conducted to examine how issue contention affects consumers’ reactions to corporate social responsibility (CSR). Results of the two experiments suggest that while issue contention does not lower consumers’ agency, it makes consumers less likely to engage the organization based on their values and beliefs (i.e., symbolic avoidance) regardless of the organization’s viewpoints. The results also suggest that this effect does not directly extend to actual purchase intention, which indicates that actual purchase intention is confounded by both symbolic interactions and tangible factors such as price and corporate expertise. Results of the two experiments provide important implications for public relations research, challenging the dyadic assumptions of organization-public interactions and relationships and calling for further attention on inter-publics and inter-organizations dynamics.     

The relational costs of crossing class lines

How do low socioeconomic status students navigate cross-class interactions in extremely unequal contexts? Previous research has described the high costs of college integration for underprivileged students, which in turn, negatively impact academic performance and general wellbeing. These studies tend to concentrate on cultural capital costs, such as catching up with assumed middle-class or elite capital and dealing with two worlds. Less has been said about social capital costs, the costs of making friends, especially more privileged friends. Through 61 in-depth interviews with various types of students as part of a broader ethnographic fieldwork, this article analyses the experiences of low-income scholarship holders in an elite institution in a very unequal society, Colombia. Rather than isolating themselves or resorting to safe homophilic relations, they faced their new elite environment engaging with the hidden relational cost of making friends with more affluent students. In so doing, they had to overcome fears and experiences of discrimination and micro-aggressions, as well as cultural and economic capital barriers, and employed either camouflaging or disclosure strategies, sometimes becoming culturally and socially omnivorous. Symbolic belonging to the institution and the acquisition of middle-class cultural capital were among the benefits that made overcoming the costs worthy. Our results shed light on what institutions can do to reduce the costs for underprivileged students and, theoretically, unveil an important mechanism and barrier for social mobility: building cross-class ties.     

Serving two masters: Commitment profiles of employees in the German military reserve

Research on commitment has highlighted the importance of understanding multiple commitments to similar objects, and there is a desire to clarify the attendant complex interactions by applying a person-centred approach to commitment. Although there is a rich body of knowledge on commitment, questions regarding possible conflicts among the various types of commitment remain unanswered. Specifically, we know little about the effects of commitment to objects with similar characteristics (e.g. organizations) across domains (e.g. civil vs military). We draw on a sample of individuals in the German military reserve (N = 303) who serve voluntarily as soldiers in the armed forces and parallel work in civil organizations. We test hypotheses regarding the presence of different commitment profiles. We identified five commitment profiles and evidence for both within- and cross-domain effects of the antecedents and outcomes of commitment.     

Making sense of the parenting ‘soft/hard split’

This paper explores the common parenting style tension around nurture versus limit-setting often evident when working with families with a symptomatic child. Firstly it will delve into the parenting ‘soft/hard split’ with an overview of the literature on parenting styles. Next, it summarises the appearance of this phenomenon in the family therapy literature during its formative days, noting how Bowen, Minuchin, Haley, MRI (Bateson), and the Milan associates respond to this parent presentation in their approaches. Next, the paper outlines recent iterations of these family therapy interventions. An expanded discussion follows on Bowen theory's understanding of the parenting tension triangle. The article then outlines elements of the author's qualitative research study of parents' experience of adolescents' mental health treatment where the ‘soft/hard split’ emerged as a repeating theme. Finally, a clinical intervention based on Bowen theory, the Parent Hope Project, is outlined for how it addresses the parenting ‘soft/hard split.’ The goal is to contribute to understanding this phenomenon and its implications for clinical practice.