Toward a sociology of global comparative placemaking

I call for a globally informed sociology of comparative placemaking that integrates historical and contemporary processes and includes the ephemeral, institutional, and personal. By placemaking, I am referring to the explicit or tacit cooperation among people to create, maintain, and give meaning to places in space through bodily occupation given differential resources and constraints. I review select place, space, and community-based literature about urban, Black, migrant, LGBTQ, and international populations to think about how we can build upon and integrate multiple theoretical, methodological, and epistemological insights to form an explicit placemaking research agenda. A US focus on neighborhoods contrasts with a comparative examination of global urban networks, social polarization, and transformation of the built environment in the interdisciplinary field of global urban studies (Ren, 2018). I argue for a placemaking research agenda that bridges insight from US Urban Sociology with Global Urban Studies to consider how various structures and actors constrain and facilitate place projects. With a globally reaching and comparatively informed sociology of placemaking, we can illuminate our multi-structured story of place and agency in context. We can answer questions about how and why we co-create and are simultaneously disciplined by the process of creation.     

An Interview with Joyce Edward: Exemplary Clinician, Advocate, and Scholar

Over the years, noteworthy social workers have been interviewed for the Clinical Social Work Journal. This article features an interview with Joyce Edward who is recognized for her many extraordinary contributions to clinical social work. Joyce has co-written or co-edited three exceptional books for the social work clinician, she has been an esteemed teacher and a vocal activist for quality mental health care. In this interview Joyce reflects on family influences, her work as a social caseworker, the psychoanalytic luminaries with whom she trained, her concerns about the clinical education of today's social work students, and finally, her perspective on managed mental health care.     

谈网络条件下高校思想政治工作者的素质

在网络时代,面对互联网的各种影响,高校学生思想政治工作者应提高自身素质,改进教育模式,只有这样才能做好大学生的思想政治教育工作。     

Empathy and professional attitude in social workers and non-trained aides

The purpose of this study was to investigate empathic communication and professional attitude in vocational groups representing different levels of professional training. A further aim was to elucidate some aspects of the impact of the clients. Four groups of professionals participated, three with degrees as social workers and one with only short professional training. Three groups worked with committed drug addicts, one group with somatically ill patients. The 110 subjects were tested with a video-test of professional attitude and empathic communication. Different response patterns were found in the different groups. The group with short training had the highest proportion of unprofessional responses. The group of social workers working with somatically ill patients showed the highest amount of empathic communication. Furthermore, there was a distinction among the kind of unprofessional responses used by the different groups. Hypotheses on the causes of these differences and implications for future research are discussed.     

‘The Effect of Social Networks at Origin Communities on Migrant Remittances: Evidence from Nang Rong District’

The literature on the effect of social networks on migrant remittances has ignored the influence of a household’s embeddedness in social networks in the origin community. This paper, using multilevel statistical modeling and social survey data from Nang Rong district in Thailand, examines how remittances between migrants and origin households are associated with social networks. Social network measures come from data on sibling and rice harvest network ties. Rice harvesting is very important to the rural economy, and households participating in the network are privy to vital sources of news and information that spread through the network. Results support the notion that migrants remit less to households that are isolates in the rice-harvesting network, which is theorized to be associated with access to information about employment options.     

社会边缘群体对社会稳定的影响及对策--以哈尔滨建筑业农民工为例

社会稳定和社会边缘群体的生存状况紧密相连.建筑业农民工群体是中国社会边缘群体的重要组成部分,必须通过实证研究分析他们的生存状态及其与社会稳定之间的关系.通过抽样方法和问卷调查,从经济状况、社会分配、社会心理和社会控制等四个方面透视哈尔滨市建筑业农民工群体的生活状况,目前还不是影响社会稳定的因素.但从长期来看,若不注重研究并改善其境遇,则可能成为社会稳定的隐患.鉴于此,必须综合利用农民工社会保障制度、工会组织、技能培训、改善食宿和安全条件以及多样化的休闲途径,来保证这一群体的生活质量和合法权益,以维护社会稳定.     

陕西省人口迁移动向及其与经济发展的关系研究

文章从空间结构、个人特征等方面分析了陕西省人口迁移的状况及特点,研究人口迁移与经济发展的关系,指出迁移人口实际上已经构成了陕西社会经济发展的重要组成部分。人口的合理有序迁移流动,有利于陕西的社会、经济发展,有利于充裕的劳动力资源在市场环境中得到合理配置及充分利用,并就此问题提出了相关的政策建议。     

民族地区城市流动儿童入学准备水平测评与干预——以贵州省为例

在新型城镇化背景下,民族地区城市流动儿童入学准备具有其特殊性,相关问题亟待研究和解决。通过随机和分层抽样法,在贵州省黔东南苗族侗族自治州、黔南布依族苗族自治州和黔西南布依族苗族自治州等三个少数民族自治州选取100名学龄前流动儿童及21名学龄前非流动儿童作为被试,进而运用儿童入学准备综合测评工具对被试进行逐一测评。研究结果表明:非流动组和流动组儿童入学准备水平总分(M非流动组=40.95±6.88,M流动组=31.17±8.96),即非流动组入学准备水平总分高于流动组儿童。在入学准备的5个方面测试上,流动组在动作技能维度总分略高于非流动组,且不存在显著性差异;而在学习方式、认知与一般认知、情绪与社会性、言语能力等4个维度,流动组均低于非流动组且存在显著性差异或边缘显著。针对民族地区城市流动儿童入学准备中存在的问题,需加强社会各界的关注与扶持,充分利用家庭资源,坚持普及学前教育,持续推进普惠性幼儿园建设进程,完善学前教育入学准备评估体系。     

农民工市民化的成本与收益：研究评述与理论框架构建

农民工市民化不仅存在成本,收益也不容忽视。在成本与收益进行比较分析后,才能更加合理地分摊市民化的成本,推进高质高效的市民化。首先,从农民工市民化的成本、收益、成本与收益的关系、成本分摊机制等方面对已有文献进行了梳理总结。其次,首次总结了农民工市民化成本与收益关系中的两大矛盾：农民工个人福利最大化与社会福利最大化不一致的矛盾、农民工市民化成本与收益同期不匹配的矛盾,并构建了一个以矛盾为导向的分摊成本与收益的理论框架。最后,分析了以往文献中存在的问题,并对未来的研究提出了展望。     

基于ROS平台的机械臂精确控制研究

基于我国东部农民工城市创业数据的分析,考察农民工城市创业历程（包括初次创业和调查时点的此次创业）是否受其人力资本的影响。结果表明：人力资本对于农民工进入初次创业与进入此次创业转折点均有显著影响。由此,应尽快制定与完善相关政策（包括加强学历教育、职业教育与创业教育等）,帮助农民工开启城市创业,并促使创业者尽快实现由生存型创业向发展型创业的转化。