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Social Mobility and Personal Trust: On the strength of trust and the strategy of getting jobs for rural migrants                                                                    Zhai, Xuewei ·    ·

Abstract: M.S. Granovetter’s hypothesis of “strong tie” and “weak tie” has been used in researching on the rural migrants in China. This paper argues that the patterns of social interaction in traditional China are unavailable to be analyzed with the concepts in pairs theoretically. Based on the statistics and interview materials, most of the rural migrants having jobs are favored with their in-groups. In order to explain these phenomena, the concepts of “strong trust” and “weak trust” are constructed. Compared with the two different concepts in pairs, “weak tie” is suitable for explaining the vertical and horizontal mobility, and the “strong trust” can explain why so many peasant workers from one village or one place are working in the same cities, communities or enterprises.

My Family Man, My Man and Outsider: Chinese family firm’s staffing model

Zhang,Qiang  ·    ·

Abstract：Despite the growing concern for cronism in Chinese family firms, relatively little convincing theory was proposed by economists. Chinese family firm involves tremendous knowledge cross many disciplines that beyond the scope of economics and management. I adopt the sociological and psychological perspective of trust, examining a few famous scholars’ theory or model of family firm’s staffing. Then, I explore entrepreneur’s view of staffing in which the traditional view of value of “my family man”、 “my man” and “outsider”, plays an inestimable role in the owner’s deep minds, and establish a Chinese family firm’s staffing model.

The Theoretical Explanation and Modern Content of the Structure of Grade                                                                                                                                    Bu, Changli ·       ·

Abstract: Fei Xiao-Tong put forward the structure of grade to illustrating interpersonal relationship of the traditional society in China. This text deepens his theoretical explanation and raises a new point of view, that the traditional structure of grade takes the center of self, reflects the Confucian school ethic and the form of allocation of natural resources, It would play an important role in modern China if we tack the modern content to traditional content.

Knowledge Meets with Gender: Feminist debates on methodological issues   

Wu, Xiaoying

Abstract: This paper examines feminist debates on methodological issues of sociology, and explores the ways in which knowledge is gendered in feminist perspectives. Most of the feminists agree that a distinctively feminist methodology is needed but any kinds of methods are welcomed in feminist sociological research, and here most important thing is perspective. Many feminist sociologists criticize the dichotomy of quantitative and qualitative methods and call for the replacement of patriarchal research with a reflective and participatory research, although they often reject quantitative in favor of qualitative methods practically. Feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint and feminist postmodernism provide three different types of explanation on relationship between knowledge and gender, which imply it’s two sides of the same goal for feminists to liberate method and liberate gender.

The Relationship between the Market Economy and the Civil Society: A critical dispute  

Tao, Chuanjin

Abstract：There is one simplified optimistic view about the relationship between the market economy and the civil society, which thinks that the former is the active or even necessary propeller to the civil society. This point of view neglects the fact that there might be different logic operations between the market economy and the civil society. It also underestimates the possibility for the market economy to develop into a kind of violence to the civil society. The article questions and disputes this point of view from two aspects, theoretical reasoning and the basic facts from the western and eastern societies. Furthermore, this article p oints out that the only way out for the civil society is the liberation of the civil social itself.

A discussion about the problem of the body                                  Zheng, Zhen

Abstract: On the basis of critically assimilating the achievement of the Phenomenology, Existentialism and the Theory of Practice etc., we try to discuss some important propositions around the problem of the body; these propositions such as temporality and spatiality, sense and practice, possibility and power can help us to understand the nature of the body. Through these discussions we want to expound a theoretical position of anti-dualism with outlining a corresponding theory of the body, and make it clear that the body that is Being-in-the-world has the indispensable significance for human’s existence.

Gendered Caregiving in the Families with Elderly Parents: Based on the case study in Hong Kong                           Huanghe, Mingxiong, Zhou, Houping & Gong, Shumei

       Abstrat：Based on the liveing experiences of 11 primary caregivers， this paper find that gender is crucial for adult children to serve as primary caregivers to their elderly parents.  First， male and female adult children have different views of their roles as primary caregivers.  According to their views， sons are fulfilling the expectations of their elderly parents in providing care to them， whereas daughters are trying their best to provide their elderly parents with quality care.  Secondly， although the feminization of caregiving tasks make the female children as “ideal” caregivers， the taboo on “gender” and “sexualities” still offers a challenge to female children caregivers. Thirdly， the possible ways to release the boundary on gendered family caregiving are also discussed in the interpretations of primary caregivers.

An analysis on the important changes of poverty alleviation in urban China since 1978                                                                                             Hong, Dayong

Abstract: This is a paper that focuses on the poverty alleviation in urban China since 1978. The author argues that the reform of state-owned enterprises is the beginning of urban poverty alleviation, and analyses some important changes on the issue of urban poverty alleviation since then: from supporting the loss-makers to relieving the poverty of the staff directly; from moral anti-poverty to institutional poverty-relief; from isolation of relief systems to integration of relief systems; from basic life relief to synthesized support, from negative orientation to positive orientation, from neglecting the role of community to emphasizing that of community. The author points out that all of these changes will shape profoundly the direction, policies, systems and contents of Chinese urban poverty alleviation in future.

An Analysis on the Situation of Inter-Migrants in China basing on the Fifth National Population Census                                                          Qiao, Xiaochun

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyze the internal immigrants who have left their household registration areas (countryside, town, and street) for over six months. Based on the Fifth National Population Census, we found that there were 144.39 million cross-countryside-town-street immigrants, 78.76 million cross-county-city immigrants, and 42.42 million cross-province immigrants in the Mainland China, which accounted for 11.6%, 6.3%, and 3.4% of the total population in China respectively. The highest proportions for the cross-province immigrants appeared in the areas of Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Xinjiang, and Tianjin. The highest proportions for the cross-province emigrants appeared in the areas of Jiangxi, Sichun, Anhui, Hunan, Guangxi, Hubei, and Guizhou.

Different Education Patterns of the Handicapped Children in Different Community Environments Liu, Limin

Abstract：Despite an increase in the population of handicapped children and their families, little is known about their social living conditions. Based on the private conversations in survey of the Status of Handicapped Children in Beijing, this article shows different attitudes and different education patterns of the handicapped children between urban and rural areas. And, it points out it is the unique community environment and system environment that leads to the difference.

A Study on the Implementation Mechanism of the Environmental Policy: A frame of system Analysis                                                                 Lin, Mei

Abstract: The known research of environment sociology lacks of the ones from the implementation mechanism of the environmental policy. Based on the implementation process of “Pingyuan xinghong, Tuitian huanhu and Yimin jianzhen” policy in Dongting Lake District, this paper explores five mechanisms in the implementation process of the environmental policy. They are the mechanism of policy remaking, the mechanism of cognizance/aim difference, the mechanism of rule conflict, the mechanism of organization reference and the mechanism of implementation supervision. The paper also studies the conditions in which these mechanisms exist and are brought into play. As a matter of fact, the five mechanisms can be applied into the implementation process of other social policies.