The Experience of Gender Change in Public Sector Organizations

The state has a twofold relationship to gender change in society, through its overall steering capacity and through the gendered character of its constituent agencies. It is therefore important to understand the experience of gender change in state organizations. The findings from a study of gender relations in ten public‐sector worksites in New South Wales, Australia are presented. There is a widespread consciousness of gender change linked with new labour processes, restructuring and new patterns of management. These changes are uneven and limits to change are visible. Gender is recognized as an organizational problem in specific circumstances, most visibly where men’s resistance to change appears. A number of mechanisms limit the consciousness of gender as a problem. Several trends, including the current strength of neo‐liberalism, converge to make the gender‐neutral workplace the principal goal of gender reform in the public‐sector workplace. This, however, limits the state’s steering capacity in regard to societal gender relations.     

A state of limbo: the politics of waiting in neo‐liberal Latvia

This article presents an ethnographic study of politics of waiting in a post‐Soviet context. While activation has been explored in sociological and anthropological literature as a neo‐liberal governmental technology and its application in post‐socialist context has also been compellingly documented, waiting as a political artefact has only recently been receiving increased scholarly attention. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at a state‐run unemployment office in Riga, this article shows how, alongside activation, state welfare policies also produce passivity and waiting. Engaging with the small but developing field of sociological literature on the politics of waiting, I argue that, rather than interpreting it as a clash between ‘neo‐liberal’ and ‘Soviet’ regimes, we should understand the double‐move of activation and imposition of waiting as a key mechanism of neo‐liberal biopolitics. This article thus extends the existing theorizations of the temporal politics of neo‐liberalism.     

Changing men,changing times – fathers and sons from an experimental gender equality study

The aim of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework for addressing intergenerational transmission, historical change and agency. The framework will be employed to analyse the findings from a longitudinal follow‐up study over two generations of men, where couples from Norway participated in an experimental research study, the Work‐Sharing Couples Project, which aimed to promote egalitarian work–family adaptations in the early 1970s. The original study was based on both spouses working part‐time and shift parenting. The follow‐up study concluded that the untraditional work–family arrangement had not been passed on to the sons. The article develops a multidimensional analysis of the work–family adaptations of men in two generations: the untraditional adaptation of fathers in the 1970s; and the neo‐traditional adaptations of sons in the 2000s. In developing a four‐dimensional approach to intergenerational transmission and social change, the article contributes to the study of intergenerational transmission through the comparison of situated agency in different generations and time/spaces. Taking into account different aspects of time and space, personal biography, discursive and material structures of opportunity, and intergenerational dynamics at the family level as well as at social level, the article contributes to theorizing longitudinal qualitative research by linking the micro‐level to the macro‐level.     

Being Judged,Being Assessed: Young People’s Perspective of Assessment in Youth Justice and Education

Research from the Economic and Social Research Council programme on Pathways Into and Out of Crime prioritised young people’s ‘voices’ in exploring experiences of crime and a range of intervention services. Drawing on data from interviews with 110 young people, this paper explores their perspectives of professional assessment. Embedded within neo‐liberal youth welfare policies are a number of contradictions. Policies encourage ‘individualisation’, ‘responsiblisation’ and ‘self‐realisation’ while also needing to maintain control and regulation of ‘risky’ populations. This paper explores the implication of these contradictions through examining the experiences of young people being assessed in youth justice and education. The impact on their identities as neo‐liberal citizens is discussed in the conclusion.     

制度视角的国家(地区)间经济横向波动研究

制度是有时效性的 ,制度变迁是非连续的 ,制度结构的高效和低效的循环导致一国经济增长的波动。一些国家 (地区 )高效的制度结构及其经济高增长的示范效应会引起相关国家 (地区 )进行制度的学习和引进 ,这种制度的横向传播引起相关国家间互相关联的经济横向波动。本文研究了经济横向波动的制度传播途径和机理 ,并用模型对这种横向波动进行了分析。本文的研究表明 ,制度的相互影响和传播是相关国家 (地区 )间经济横向波动的先导性、基础性原因。     

论新诗的职能单一对诗体建设的负面影响

受时代的制约 ,特别是受意识形态的影响 ,新诗的职能总是被世俗化、实用化和简单化 ,总是片面强调诗的社会教化职能或个体抒情功能 ,对诗的审美功能和语言游戏功能极端忽视 ,对写什么太重视 ,太轻视怎么写 ,过分强调内容大于形式 ,主题先行式写作盛行 ,很多诗人成也题材败也题材。八九十年代的诗人争当的是诗意的先锋而非诗艺的先锋。新诗的职能单一严重影响了新诗诗体的建设。     

曾国藩的心物观

曾国藩是理学的虔诚信仰者和笃实践履者,一生勤治理学.其对理学的贡献不在学理而在实用.本文重在探讨曾国藩理学思想中的"心"这一核心概念,通过分析心与理、气、性、物、境、欲等的关系,从哲学层面揭示曾国藩理学思想的丰富性和实用性,而这也是前人较少涉猎之处.     

论列宁的农业合作制理论

列宁关于对小农经济进行社会主义改造的思想经历了从共耕制到合作制的战略转变。在新经济政策条件下,合作制成为引导农民走向社会主义的必由之路,合作制的发展就是社会主义的发展。合作制在生产经营方面比共耕制具有优越性,实质是使农业朝市场化、社会化、现代化方向发展,符合客观经济规律。列宁的合作制理论是对马克思主义的发展,有重大理论和现实意义。     

新管理主义的评估问题剖析与“第四代评估”理论的借鉴--基于场域视角

高等教育作为一个场域有其自身的关系构型和惯习，本文依据布迪厄场域理论对我国新管理主义的教育评估问题进行了剖析，使我们清楚地认识到新管理主义的评估对高等教育场域的负面影响。“第四代评估”作为西方最新的评估理论，它与高等教育场域的可持续发展有着内在的联系，其全新的哲学范式与建构主义的方法论为我国教育评估问题的破解提供了路径。     

Partnership and participation: contradictions and tensions in the social policy space

Partnerships and participation seem to be the order of the day. Yet, for many community organisations, this way of ordering the social policy space is contradictory, creating practice tensions that increase the complexity of local service systems. Such changes impact community organisations in a politics that needs to be made visible if they are to be able to act in the interests of their members and service users. We therefore outline the social policy space currently constituted by four major discourses: neo‐liberalism, managerialism, new paternalism and network governance as they intersect and interact chaotically, reshaping participation and partnerships between government, community service organisations and local communities. We then examine how policy as a technology or set of mechanisms is discursively creating contradictions and practice tensions within which community organisations engage for social justice.