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.     

Humor and satire in politics: Introducing cultural sociology to the field

The landscape of political humor and satire is changing rapidly, and it is becoming an increasingly relevant aspect of our culture. Although scholars have been actively trying to capture this change, majority of the existing frameworks for understanding humor and satire in politics still reduce these phenomena to mere genres or rhetoric tools. In addition, they provide insufficient accounts concerning the reception of humor and satire, and neglect to interpret and explain what they communicate. In the article, a general understanding of humor and satire outside of a political context, followed by an overview of studies discussing humor and satire in politics through their applications in social movements, as leadership tools, and through their manifestations in mass media has been presented. Lastly, a cultural sociological perspective to the field has been introduced. It has been argued that approaching humor and satire in politics through a structural hermeneutic method of the Strong Program will enable us to recognize and treat political humor and satire as autonomous and complex cultural systems which carry an internal power to move people.     

20世纪30年代初胡秋原的庸俗社会学批判

庸俗社会学的木质，在于无视艺术规律，取消中间环节，把文艺这一精神现象与人类社会的基础性结构直接关联，从而对文艺的性质、功能作出简单性规定和强制性要求。胡秋原是中国文论界从学理的层面．对庸俗社会学作出深入剖析的第一人。其理论资源，来自于普列汉诺夫的“中介论”。他对弗里契《艺术社会学》“图式化”弊端之批评，亦发时人所未见。其地球“自转”与“公转”之喻，表明了他对文学“自律”与“他律”关系的洞见与把握，并给后人以启发。＋     

美学方法论和艺术本质观--从东、西方古典美学看艺术的审美本质

本文从美学方法论的角度 ,以对东西方古典美学艺术本质观的论述为基础 ,结合当前的文艺实践 ,对艺术本质给予了现时代的规定。本文认为 ,西方古典美学和艺术思想的基本特征 ,是以纯哲学和社会学的方法研究艺术 ,把艺术规定为是一种特殊的认识活动 ,将摹拟、再现、认识看作是艺术的本质特征 ;而中国古典美学则主要是以伦理学与哲学的辩证统一、艺术哲学和艺术心理学相统一的方法观察和研究艺术 ,把情感看作艺术的特质 ,将抒情、写意规定为是艺术的基本特征。东西方古典美学各自在艺术本质问题上的合理性和片面性 ,以及当今东西方艺术发展的趋势 ,说明对艺术本质的思考和探求 ,既不能单纯执着于表现主义 ,也不能固守于理智主义 ,而是应该扬弃其各自的片面性 ,对东西方古典美学的艺术本质观 ,在现时代的规定下进行辩证的综合     

论鲁迅对唐代小说研究的贡献

本文分析了鲁迅关于唐代小说的历史地位、唐代小说的题材内容和艺术特色、唐代小说对后世创作的影响等几方面的真知灼见,总结了鲁迅对唐人小说研究的杰出贡献,从中更深地体会鲁迅科学严谨的治学精神和进步的文　　艺思想。     

托尔斯泰与中国古典文化思想述略

本文通过阐述托尔斯泰与中国古典文化思想的关系,旨在批判继承中国古典文化思想,弘扬中国传统文化的精华,使当今中国现代化建设不重蹈西方现代社会人文精神失落的覆辙。     

明清诗话对诗“气”认识之探索

明清诗话将多变而冗杂的诗之"气"理解为大自然或人体之气,充分体现出中华民族特有的创作心理与倾向,是一种成熟而务实的诗歌理论心态。在对诗气的探索之中,有如寻求隔水蒹葭之伊人,挫折中折射出了一缕淡淡的迷茫。然而正是在这百折不挠的探寻之中,才使人深切地感受到:其探索的过程和经验,实为后人诗歌创作竖起了一面泽被百代、可资多方借鉴的铜镜。     

Social identities and political cleavages: the role of political context

Summary. Using a novel method, the paper investigates the influence of social group identities on attitudes and on voting in a variety of political contexts. Examining the major regions of Britain, Canada and the USA, we find considerable national and regional diversity in the nature of social cleavages. For example, social class and race had widely different effects across societies, but within societies their effects on attitudes and on voting were very similar. However, despite that, age and religion had a similar effect on attitudes across societies; the effects on voting varied considerably. The significant within-country differences underline the importance of using region, rather than country, as the unit of analysis. More importantly, these results highlight the role of political context, especially competing cleavages and the structure of party competition, in the establishment of politically relevant social cleavages.     

古代文集编辑探源

别集、总集均属于古代集。它们的编辑，尤其是别集的编辑有一个演进的过程：先秦时期章多以单篇流传；两汉之际，史家录作品由依类分别记录，到逐类记录；东汉末至建安时，别集雏形已形成。魏晋以降，出现以姓氏标明为集的《诸葛氏集》。最早的总集是晋挚虞的《章流别集》，而不是刘向所编的《楚辞》。     

论明代诗话的发展与专门化

明代诗话是在前代诗话的基础上发展起来的,它对明诗的发展及清代诗话的形成起过积极的作用.明代诗话是中国诗话的发展期,在中国诗话史上占有重要的地位.明代诗话的发展可分为初期、中期和后期三个阶段:初期诗话以讲诗法为主;中期诗话主要是宣扬复古主义;后期诗话已成为专门之学,其中心议题是彻底批判复古思潮,宣扬个性解放.明人在宋、元诗话的基础上,把宋诗话的综合之学发展成为专门之学;他们还发扬元诗话偏重诗法的优点,把它充实提高,使之成为系统的诗学理论,创造了具有鲜明特色的明诗话.明代诗话的时代特色主要表现在时代性、针对性、理论化、系统化及专门化五个方面.