Pragmatic decisions in the evaluation of consumer satisfaction with mental health treatment

This article examines pragmatic choices which must be made in conducting consumer satisfaction assessment of mental health treatment. It is argued that choices involving sample, format, and procedure for examining satisfaction may influence the results of such research, and must be considered when creating or evaluating these efforts. These choices are examined in detail.     

On the limiting properties of social indicators

Characteristics of the population and economic measures that constitute traditional social indicators are compared with more recent “quality of life” measures to demonstrate that social indicators are always value statements at the policy level. The possibility of alternative perspectives is illustrated. It is suggested that an awareness of the assumptions implicit in any given indicator is as important as the data they provide.     

法律经济学的分析与搭售合理性的认知

法律经济分析对于法律内在运行逻辑的认识非常重要.在芝加哥学派理论之前,搭售通常被认为是延伸垄断力量,获取双倍垄断利润的方式,美国在搭售上的相关判决也都表明了对这种主要依据经验规则进行判断的认识方式的支持.而芝加哥学派通过法律经济分析方法所构建的单一利益模型表明,在现实生活中广泛存在的搭售具有相当的合理性,搭售并不是垄断力量有效率的运用方式,而仅仅是价格歧视的实现工具.随着芝加哥学派理论的发展,搭售在质量保证、产品风险分担等等方面的合理性都被进一步发掘出来.尽管芝加哥学派的理论也受到了其他经济学家的批判,并被证明是不完善的,但其通过经济学模型的构建来解释搭售的存在合理性则无疑增强了对现实问题的解释力.     

费孝通制度思想的价值来源及其嬗变

费孝通在多次学术总结和回顾中给予“制度”足够重视,文章基于费孝通学术研究的核心是制度这一假设,从四个方面阐述费孝通制度思想的价值来源及其嬗变：将传统文化作为研究对象到吸收传统文化精神;从马凌诺斯基功能论“有用性”到布朗功能主义结构性的兼顾;美国实用主义实用价值的吸收到对社会学芝加哥学派方法的运用;当时的社会实际需要社会学“实践性”应用。     

映时荷花别样红——浅谈中国现代舞的欣赏

诞生于19世纪末的美国芝加哥学派,是对美国社会生活和思想文化影响最大的哲学学派,它的众多理论研究不仅在世界社会学史上独树一帜,而且对传播学也不无教益。这里从传播理论研究的角度,就该学派对传播学的重要贡献进行分析,试图通过对其相关理论观点的分析,肯定其价值同时对其实用主义的根植予以揭示。     

Urban forest cover of the Chicago region and its relation to household density and income

Urban forests and herbaceous open space play a vital role in the environmental and aesthetic health of cities, yet they are rarely identified in land-use inventories of urban areas. To provide information on urban forests and other vegetative land cover in Illinois cities, Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data from June 27, 1988, were classified for the Chicago metropolitan region (9,717 km²). Ten land-cover classes were identified, including two types of forestland (occupying 5.8% of the total area), residential land with trees (14.6%) or without trees (7.8%), cropland (37.5%), two types of grassland (7.7%), urban with impervious surfaces (23.1%), water (1.6%), and miscellaneous vegetation (2.1%). Correlation analyses indicated that household income and household density are strongly related to land covers in the region, particularly those with tree cover and urbanized land. Population changes for 1980–1985 and 1985–2010 (projected) show a pattern of increasing density in the urbanized zone concurrent with continued urban sprawl, primarily into current cropland.     

The Chicago School,So-Called

Many sociologists believe in the myth of a Chicago School, a unified and coherent body of thought and research practice carried on at the University of Chicago from the 1920s through the 1960s. Chicago never constituted such a coherent system and is better understood as a school of activity, a group of people who cooperated in the day-to-day running of a major department.     

The public and private purposes of case records

Social welfare agencies have official reasons and requirements for the construction of case records. Sociologists have detected a set of unofficial reasons that shape case records in practice. This paper suggests that case records that record the lives of children in child welfare systems are written, inter alia, to deny the failure of interventions, to justify the refusal to serve “bad clients,” and to justify the decision to extend hegemony over “good” clients.     

Hands: Visible and Invisible

Theoretical work in linguistics, mathematics, and physics has created changes in academic problem formulation. This meta-analysis presents the nature of the new academic environment using precepts from New Historicism to suggest connections with the New Economy. The marketplace is often the court of last appeal in conflict resolution. This can be as basic as determining a fair price for a goose in a farmers' market to the disposition of pension funds in an international merger. Economist Lawrence Summers provides insights into theory and practice. Game theory leads from John Nash's equilibrium point to modeling in economics. A University of Chicago economist discusses the application of market reforms to Chile. He worked with Chilean economists called The Chicago Boys. A call for unification, which includes economics, follows.