Is it Safe to Talk About Systems Again Yet?

The following article makes a case for the social sciences to renew their interest in systems, drawing on ideas circulating in organisational and community psychology, industry, engineering, biology and ecology, the new physics, management, evaluation, religion and spirituality, policy-making, human services professions, and service-user and community movements. It charts a different kind of systemic thinking in striking contrast to traditional mechanistic social systems theory. Sociology’s current resiling from systems theory is explained as a legacy of its loyal service in the ‘battlefield’ of the post WW2 critique of authoritarian structural-functionalist positivist systems and the hard-won interpretive turn to issues of process, diversity, conflict, change and a critical and ‘qualitative’ epistemology. A new transdisciplinary mental architecture of self-organising processes for complex living systems is offered which integrates understandings of both ‘structural systems’ and the ‘processual systemic’ in individual psychology, organisational sociology, and in action research as its epistemology.

Arresting the Collapse of the City Through Systemic Education: A Case Study of Melbourne

Though it is claimed that Melbourne is one of the most liveable cities in the world, a systemic examination, based not on mechanistic and utilitarian foundations but on a humanist, systemic science reveals that a variety of modalities of its social fabric are threatened and will drive the city to eventual collapse. As usual, the worst impacted are the most defenceless: the poor, the elderly and especially the young. We propose that an education that emphasises vision and ethics and that integrates the humanities with the natural sciences in a systemic approach should be the prime instrument of intervention. We describe a new Master of Arts degree designed on these principles to re-orientate young professionals towards the community and away from big business and commerce.

Involved in Praxis and Analytical at a Distance

Lately, society has pressed for more direct societal relevance of social research. The argument of this special issue is that engaged research is an answer to the demand for a social science that matters. We define engaged research as a praxis where researchers actively engage in a social field in the pursuit of solving important local problems, while at the same time combining this with a scientific knowledge generation process. In other words, we discuss the conditions for research when researchers “go native” to solve problems and reflect along with participants. We have been able to find several sources of arguments supporting such a research strategy, but our search for methodological guidance on how to act as an engaged researcher has been in vain. What does it take for a researcher to do engaged research? The set of articles in this special issue all address certain aspects of this challenge. Some discuss the researcher’s path towards deep field engagement, whereas others discover various challenges and skills involved in engagement, and the task of developing scientific knowledge based on engaged research.     

少儿跳水运动员协调能力的培养

阐述了少儿协调能力在跳水训练中的重要性，并从自身的实践和观察中得出：在最初选材时应非常重视少儿的协调性，后天的培养过程中要从专项技术的角度出发训练协调性。     

精神分析与西方的现代性--评《灵魂的秘密--精神分析的社会和文化史》

伊利·泽拉特斯基的<灵魂的秘密--精神分析的社会和文化史>一书,将精神分析放到历史中去,研究其与社会、政治和文化的相互作用.该书作者认为,由于精神分析理论与被称为个人生活的社会生活新领域相互呼应,精神分析运动扮演了第二次工业革命中的加尔文主义,正是这一过程促使资本主义经济进入了基于大众消费的现代形式,由此,精神分析也促使现代性在社会和文化的各个领域普遍地建立起来.然而作者不该仅仅根据经济基础的改变就对精神分析的前途持悲观态度,因为在当今社会的某些领域,精神分析还以某种形式保持着生命力.     

浅议居住分异和混合居住

针对居住分异是社会发展的问题,目前在我国已越来越明显,论述了混合居住的推进可有效控制居住分异,促进社会融合,促进城市社会和谐发展。     

湘西矮寨苗语四音格词研究

矮寨苗语四膏格词的特征是：在语音上以重叠和二、四音节声调的搭配来体现韵律和谐；在结构上注重并列对称；在语义上突出概括、增量；在语法功能上多受限制，一般不带修饰语和宾语．也不做修饰语。矮寨苗语四音格词的形成机制主要遵循相似、对称、羡余、类推等原则。矮寨苗语四音格词受汉语的强烈影响，其特点和使用向与汉语趋同的方向演变。     

天山北坡经济带工农互动发展初探

作为新疆经济发展水平最高的区域，城镇最为密集的天山北坡经济带，其工农关联发展状况如何直接关系到区域城乡协调发展进程。在对经济带工农业发展状况进行科学判断的基础上，提出了天山北坡经济带工农互动发展的具体实施途径，以期为该区域的城乡协调发展提供理论支撑。图1，表4，参13。     

惯性和反转策略套利对股市的影响

整理惯性和反转策略的业务流程，构建了其收益率的理论模型，提出并证明了回报率预算定理和风险预算定理。分析表明，惯性和反转策略的套利行为使得目标市场的回报率区间下移，下移的幅度极限为市场最大的个股收益率；而且成倍放大市场总风险，减少社会福利。     

从人类文化系统看基督教与科学的关系

科学和宗教作为人类文化系统中最有影响力的两个子系统，它们之间的关系直接影响着人类文化系统的和谐与发展。历史上它们冲突不断，如何让二者携手为我们人类文化系统的完善而发展，对于今天来说有着极其重大的意义。