Social Work as a Research-Based Profession： Opportunities, Prerequisites and Restrictions

The concept of research-based social work is introduced and discussed from the point of view of preconditions for its realization. Attention is paid both to the academic research of social work and to opportunities for developing a knowledge-producing social work practice. Both of these are seen as essential elements of a research-based profession. On the one hand, the academic research is necessary for development of social work as a research-based professional system, and on the other hand, a knowledge-producing practice, conducted by research-oriented practitioners, can only be realized within such a system. Historically, social work has been partly developed as a knowledge-applying instead of a knowledge-producing profession, although the central founding pioneers emphasized the importance of an own-knowledge basis and theory formation, as well as the idea of knowledge-producing practice based on a corresponding professional identity. The future of social work as a professional system in modern society may depend decisively on how it develops a research-based professional identity, not only in the sense of academic research but also through practitioners with research orientation. These are practitioners who would be capable of research-based working in terms of creative knowledge production, thus of developing social work as a credible research-based profession. This can be created only through education in which the development of necessary professional skills is linked to advanced academic meta-skills. There are good reasons to suspect that a three-year education is too short for this.

Respect for Differences,Practice Social Responsibility

Development is founded on responsibility, and trend is led by standard. The standardization of social responsibility has a great impact on the promotion of social responsibility. However, considering the differences in society, environment, law, culture and economic conditions between developing and developed countries, good practices of social responsibility standards should be done without imposing one single solution or single-model approach.

Sunny Sisters Spreading Sunshine Report on Practice of Coporate Social Responsibility from Sunny Sisters

In August in order to collect matenal for our magazine China Standardization, Ms. Zhao Hongchun （the ctdef editor of our press） and I went to SAC to meet Mr. Ji Enning who is responsible for the service standatdization in the service deparanent of SAC. As we wanted to understand the service standardization and the implementation in corporate social responsibility in China, we asked him to recommend a few enterprises that did an excellent job in implementation of social responsibility. The first enterprise he recommended to us was Jinan Yangguang Dajie Co.,

The Inherent Logic and Developmental Tendency of the Practice of Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics:A Structural Analytical Framework for the Questions of “Where Did China Come From?” and “Where Should China Go?”

The practice of more than 30 years of building socialism with Chinese characteristics contains within it a five-step evolution： ＂functional thinking → government leadership theoretical guidance → hybrid structure → the people in the principal position＂; in the course of the further development of the practice of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, the important responsibility and mission of Chinese Communists （exercising governance for the people） and the new expectations of the people （innovative practice） determine that its basic tendency should be to carry out reform and breakthroughs at three levels： ＂deep structures → core institutions → operational means,＂ embodied in ＂structural adjustment → restructuring → change of methods →construction of order.＂

Should Government Dictate Students’ Social Practice Activities?

Recently,Chongqing in southwest China announced its education authorities would organize social practice activities for local college students.

Literary Signs:A Social Practice

This paper argues that literature is a social practical mode of production, as Marx argued.Besides, the paper continues to demonstrate that the tools of literary production, namely linguistic signs, are actually reflections of social life, which distinguish literature from other spiritual productions.Finally, the paper presents some further thoughts about the practice of literary signs, looking into the understandings of literature by Croce and Stolovich.

Reconstituting China's Social Security System——A Survey of the Seminaron Theory and Practice of Social Welfare

As China’s market-oriented economic reforms deepen, an urgent task lying ahead of us is to develop, standardize and improve the system of social security. What, however, is meant by a unified, standardized and perfect social security system? How can we institute such a system? These questions remain urgently in need of study.This then was the setting of a national seminar on "The Theory and Practice of