Cars before Kids: Automobility and the Illusion of School Traffic Safety

La sécurité routière constitue une question d'intérêt public très discutée, et ses pratiques fortement débattues exigent une analyse sociologique et l'attention systématique des politiques publiques. Dans cette étude, les auteurs analysent les programmes de sécurité routière dans les écoles primaires de Vancouver, en Colombie‐Britannique. Ils illustrent comment de tels programmes supposent une politique de la responsabilité visant grandement les enfants et les parents pour en faire des personnes sécuritaires sur la route dans un environnement institutionnel qui ne fournit pourtant aux programmes qu'un soutien et des fonds sporadiques pour administrer les risques de la circulation. Alors que ce contexte de programmes de sécurité routière à l'école aide à maintenir une certaine « illusion de sécurité», elle ne remet pas fondamentalement en question la structure dominante actuelle de la mobilité et les problèmes qui y sont inhérents. Traffic safety is a contested public issue and highly negotiated practice that requires sociological analysis and systematic public policy attention. In our case study, we examine elementary school traffic safety programs in Vancouver, British Columbia. We illustrate how such programs assume a politics of responsibility that largely targets children and parents for traffic safekeeping within an institutional environment that gives programs only sporadic support and funding to manage traffic risks. While this context of school traffic safety programs helps to maintain an “illusion of safety,” it does not challenge the current auto‐dominant mobility structure and its inherent problems.     

Assessment and Action Records: Will they Promote Good Parenting?

Correspondence to Theo Knight, Department of Applied Community Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, 799 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, Manchester M20 2RR. Summary In this article the authors seek to provide a critical lookat Looking After children: Good Parenting and Good Outcomes(Department of Health, 1995). They welcome the sentiments underpinningthis major contribution, which recognizes the many disadvantagesfaced by children and young people who are looked after by localauthorities, and acknowledge that local authorities have notbeen positive parents of those in their care. The writers alsoacknowledge the thoroughness which has gone into the detailof the Action and Assessment Records contained in the abovepack. What is questioned is the normative view of parentingand family life which is seen to be at the heart of these documentsand the lack of consideration of the resourcing of action plans.The checklist approach is criticized for the way in which itwill enhance the bureaucratic nature of being in public care,which in turn affects the relative power positions of parentsand children in relation to the local authority and which willimpact on the development of a partnership model of care. Thewriters conclude that children and young people in care arebut one group of young people facing disadvantage and deprivationin British society. An examination of their plight and how toaddress it need to be based within a clear framework of children'srights and a recognition of the power adults hold over them.     

在中国的苦乐生活(英文)

老外?在中国?单身女人?她们在生活中遇过哪些困难,是如何应对的,又怎样享受"单身"的乐趣呢?本刊记者将为您讲述她们的故事……     

奶油去皱 靓丽青春(英文)

许多奶油生产商都声称自己的产品有祛皱奇效,而事实并非如此。皱纹不可能根除,只有通过激光治疗,皮肤才会明显变光滑,而其功效也只能维持较短的时间。一些含有维生素A化合物的奶油产品可以帮助您润洁皮肤,减少皱纹。无论年轻与否,您都可以培养良好的生活习惯,防止强烈阳光和环境污染对您皮肤的侵害。     

Male culture and purdah for women: the social construction of what women think women think

La présente communication étudie le caractère problématique des concepts de culture dominante dans la mesure où ils s'appliquent à la femme. Elle examine les divergences entre des comportements normatifs dans les campagnes de ľInde du Nord, qui prônent ľemmurement féminin, et ce que font réellement les femmes dans des situations présentant un choix concret, telles que de nouvelles possibilités ďemploi. La communication suggère que la recherche dans la science sociale, concue selon des théories et des pertinences masculines, et posant des questions qui présupposent des définitions masculines de la condition féminine, finit par faire partie des mécanismes qui perpétuent chez la femme une notion fausse de la pensée féminine.
This paper explores the problematic character of concepts of dominant culture when applied to women. It examines the discrepancies between normative patterns which extol secluded domesticity for women in rural North India, and what women actually do in concrete choice situations such as new job opportunities. The paper suggests that social science research, designed in terms of male theories and relevances, and posing questions which take for granted male definitions of the female situation, becomes, in effect, part of the mechanisms which perpetuate the ideological construction of what women think women think.     

朱夏莲的职场人生(英文)

朱夏莲常说:"不要预先计划你的生活,你应当顺其自然地发展。"在一般人看来,身居要职的领导通常雷厉风行,敢作敢为,而作为世界知名的惠誉(北京)信用评级有限公司高级主管的朱夏莲却显得平易而随和。她轻松自如地"驰骋疆场",对中国各大银行的信用评级进行监察,作为公司的财经代言人频频出现在相关电视节目中,并在一些报刊上发表评论。     

姐弟恋,你能接受吗?(英文)

80后爱上70后,90男则喜欢80女,如今,越来越多的姐弟恋在都市发生。虽然"姐弟恋"已不再是新生事物,但如今的"姐弟恋"却被冠上了"时尚"的标签,成了新潮的情感活动。人们是如何看待"姐弟恋"的呢?