“Who generates this city”? Socialist strategy in contemporary London

This essay, based on a “militant ethnography” of the attempts of the small radical grassroots activist group, Our London (a pseudonym), to mobilize a collective oppositional politics through activities around an election campaign, engages critically with E. Laclau and C. Mouffe's arguments on discourse and collectivity in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (London: Verso, 1985). I argue, on the basis of my findings, that while their model does provide insights that help describe the process of building collectivity from among disparate perspectives and identities, we need to go beyond a focus on discourse alone and consider the ways politics is shaped by material contexts. This is necessary if we are to understand the continued appeal of class politics as well as the difficulties in mobilizing collectivity in highly unequal and fragmented cities. From an activist perspective, the essay also highlights how developing a conception of collective interests and a critique of overarching systems of exploitation can be important in building political unity.     

入世对党风廉政建设和反腐败斗争的影响

中国加入世贸组织 ,标志着我国对外开放进入了一个新阶段 ,对正处于急速发展中的我国经济、政治、文化、国际地位等诸多方面都将产生深刻的影响 ,同时也会影响到我们正在强化中的党风廉政建设和反腐败工作 ,我们应抓住入世的有利时机 ,进一步加大从源头上预防和治理腐败工作的力度 ,铲除腐败现象蔓延的土壤和条件     

预期违约与不安抗辩制度的研究

探讨预期违约与不安抗辩制度的渊源和特征 ,比较研究两种制度的法律内涵 ,指出预期违约与不安抗辩制度相互独立 ,不可替代 ,各有优劣。分析《中华人民共和国合同法》所确立的预期违约与不安抗辩制度 ,是在借鉴吸收国外立法经验基础上的历史性突破 ,标志着我国合同制度的进一步完善     

唐代淄青镇的特点

平卢淄青镇是唐代的一个重要藩镇,它的建立、灭亡及内部环境都呈现出一定特色:它是由原平卢军南下青齐地区而建,内部稳定,而迅速败亡的原因主要是人民反对割据。     

企业的合约经济理论探索和统计检验

对企业本质的认识是微观经济学中的一个重要问题,其对中国的国企改革有着重要意义。本文中,我们对企业的合约本质进行了经济理论探索和统计检验,并突出关注企业的激励合约问题。     

中国就业市场中的性别歧视——对公众认知率的研究

调查结果表明:女性更关注工作过程中的性别歧视和职业隔离的性别歧视现象,女性仅对应聘过程中的性别歧视现象如女性的相貌、身高等要求、外来打工妹的应聘两个问题的认知率高于男性;女性对性骚扰性别歧视认知率与男性没有显著差异;公众对各种性别歧视现象的总体认知水平不高.     

浅析我国西部地区的三次经济大开发

抗日战争和“三线”建设是现代西部进行的以工业开发为主要内容的两个大开发时期 ,对于改变中国工业布局集中分布在沿海和长江中下游地区的极不合理的状况虽有重要意义 ,但两次开发从决策、规划到实施均是毁多于益 ,尤以成本效益方面为甚。而第三次工业西进与前两次相比具有完全不同的动因和背景 ,是我国经济发展客观规律的内在要求 ,特别是西部地区自身也具备了经济大发展的各种条件。     

Art in Social Movements: Shantytown Women's Protest in Pinochet's Chile

How social movements use art is an understudied question in the social movements literature. Ethnographic research on the use of art by the prodemocracy movement in Pinochet's Chile suggests that art plays a very important role in social movements, which use it for framing, to attract resources, to communicate information about themselves, to foster useful emotions, and as a symbol (for communicating a coherent identity, marking membership, and cementing commitment to the movement).     

L'Intervention Sociologique After Twenty-Five Years: Can It Translate into English?

The sociological intervention is a research method developed in France by Alain Touraine in 1976 to explore social movement action. Since then it has undergone significant development, both in terms of the type of social experience explored and the broader research program framing it. Despite its importance, the intervention remains little known and virtually untested within English-language sociology. This article examines key dimensions of this research method through discussing several examples, and argues that the intervention has much to offer English-language sociologists concerned with questions of agency and reflexivity, relationship, narrative and experience.     

Hearts and Minds and Morality: Analyzing Moral Vocabularies in Qualitative Studies

A strategy of analyzing the moral vocabulary of a social movement or subculture is proposed by which ethnographies and other qualitative works may place the moral and ethical concepts used by respondents into a broader sociological context. Through examining the moral resources, the status hierarchy which the specific moral resources within a given moral vocabulary form, and the historical and cultural contexts within which these moral resources exist, it is argued that it becomes possible to analyze and anticipate the moral claims and form of discourse which will be produced by a specific movement and/or subculture. It is also argued that this method may be used to predict how the opposition to a movement and/or subculture is perceived through the formation of an antithetical moral vocabulary.