Promoting choice and control in residential services for people with learning disabilities

This paper discusses the gap between policy goals and practice in residential services for people with learning disabilities. Drawing on a nine month ethnographic study of three residential services, it outlines a range of obstacles to the promotion of choice and control that were routinely observed in the culture and working practices of the services. Issues discussed include conflicting service values and agendas, inspection regimes, an attention to the bigger decisions in a person's life when empowerment could more quickly and effectively be promoted at the level of everyday practice, problems of communication and interpretation and the pervasiveness of teaching. We offer a range of suggestions as to how these obstacles might be tackled.     

激发权能理论:一个文献的综述

上世纪80年代以来,“激发权能”不仅成为众多学科和实践领域最为热门的话语之一,而且成为国际社会科学领域具有很强解释力的新兴理论。从构成要素看,激发权能理论是由权力、无权、去权、激发权能等核心概念构筑而成的。在诠释核心概念的基础上,对激发权能理论进行较为系统的梳理,最后就激发权能的维度加以分析。     

消费者增权还是消费者去权——中国城市宏观消费模式转型的重新审视

文章分析了西方有关消费者增权的文献,认为西方学者所持的消费者增权模式主要是一种信息供给型模式。文章力图超越信息供给型消费者增权模式的局限,提出制度供给型消费者增权模式,并从制度供给型消费者增权的角度出发,重新审视了中国城市宏观消费模式转型的性质和路径,提出消费模式的进一步改革,必须朝着有利于消费者增权的方向迈进。而且这种增权应该是人民大众的增权,而不是少数群体的增权,更不是以牺牲人民大众的消费者权力而达到少数既得利益群体的增权。