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    Conjugation of Professional Function in Social Work’s Involvement in Public Crisis Governance: Based on the Prevention & Control Governance amid COVID-19 Pandemic in China
    WANG Sibin
    SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT, 2020, 20 (6): 5-11,21. 
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    Governance during the public crisis is a process-oriented governance involving multiple entities. The system of public crisis governance exists in advance and social work’s involvement is a process of joining the system through cooperation and collaboration with other subjects, especially key entities that take governance responsibilities. In this paper, the process and mechanism of the combination, cooperation and synergy of this relationship is named as conjugation. The essence of conjugation is mutual embedding, combination, cooperation and coupling. It includes not only the cooperation and collaborative services of social work and other subjects, but also the advocacy of innovative governance actions. Conjugation is an important mechanism and feature for the development of social work and the play of professional functions.
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    The Origin, Framework and Prospect of Existentialist Social Work: Professional Responsibility in the Uncertain Age
    YANG Zeng
    SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT, 2020, 20 (6): 12-21. 
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    Because of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic, people have to face unprecedented uncertainty.It has become the professional responsibility of social work to assist people in coping with setbacks, turning crisis into opportunity and finding hope in the times of uncertainty.In this regard, existentialism provides a theoretical resource of great enlightening significance.In contrast to traditional perceptions, existentialism not only provides a modern view of the human being that is consistent with social work ethics, but also prompts social workers to consciously realize their positions and responsibilities in their helping relationships.Therefore, using existentialism, social work can not only learn from the aid framework and process that has been generalized, but also explore how to deepen professional relations, achieve professional mission, and accomplish professional responsibility.
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    Service to Empower: A Practical Way of Embedding Social Work in “Village to Residence”Community Governance
    FANG Yaming, ZHOU Wenyi
    SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT, 2020, 20 (6): 22-31. 
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    The “village to residence”community is the product of the dual role of urbanization development and government policy, which has vigorously promoted the process of urbanization. However, due to the connection of system mechanism and public service, “village to residence” community also has problems such as lagging management concept and mode, insufficient financial and resource investment, and lack of public service supply. Due to the different social capital and actual conditions, the effective experience and methods of urban mature community governance are difficult to be simply copied into the “village to residence” community governance. So it is urgent to introduce new governance methods and social resources to boost the “village to residence” community to improve governance efficiency. In the process of promoting the community governance of “village to residence” community, we should give full play to the unique advantages of social work empowerment, integrate the resources inside and outside the community, promote the collaborative governance of multiple subjects, and promote the realization of urban and rural integrated development and social co-construction and sharing pattern.
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    Experience of Being Bullied and Self-Efficacy: The “New”Perspective of School Social Work Practice
    XIE Han, LI Bin
    SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT, 2020, 20 (6): 32-38. 
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    Previous survey found that roughly 20% to 32% of students reported that they had been bullied at school. Incidents of school bullying are increasingly frequent, which require the special concern of school social workers. This study selects a total of 1491 students from 9 primary and secondary schools in W city as the sample, and collects data using the measurements of victimized experience and Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Children. The findings include: (1) 20.7% of students reported that they had been bullied at school; (2) The experience of being bullied has a significant negative effect on the students’ academic, social, and emotionalself-efficacy; and (3) The experience of being bullied has a greater negative effect on girls’ self-efficacy than boys in secondary schools. Therefore, school social work need to do their utmost to reduce and remove the occurrence of school bullying, especially protecting girls in secondary schools from being bullied, and to improve the level of self-efficacy of the bullied students in a targeted manner.
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    International and National Children Development Research in the Last Decade: Visualization Analysis Based on CiteSpace
    QI Di, SHEN Jiafei
    SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT, 2020, 20 (6): 39-49,59. 
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    Childhood is a key period in one’s life development, whose quality will have a life-long impact. In order to understand the current research status in the field of "children development" in the past ten years, relevant literature collected in the core collection of www.cnki.net and Web of Science has been taken as the research object, while CiteSpace has been used to analyze the general profile, keywords knowledge mapping, research classification, research hotspots and frontiers of the field. The research findings are as following: internationally, research emphasis in the field of “children development” has been put in the fields of sociology and psychology, and children’s cognition, memory, and peer relationships have got more attention; meanwhilerelated research in China has focused on education, paying more attention to the development of children’s education. Foreign scholars focus on the whole group of children while Chinese scholars pay more attention to the development of children in difficulties such as left-behind children and migrant children. In the future children development should have more cross-disciplinary researches and deal with children development issues from multiple disciplinary perspectives to expand the research content of children development. What’s more, research targets should be more on general children rather than children in difficulties.
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    People’s Mediation from the View of “ Tradition-Modernity” Relationship
    YANG Min, ZHAO Lulu
    SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT, 2020, 20 (6): 50-59. 
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    Tradition is the companion of modernity and has always been associated with the process of modernity. Over the past 40 years, especially since the Reform and Opening up, great changes have taken place in China’s society from “Rural China”, “Unit China” to “Urban-Rural China” and “community China”, the traditional system of People’s mediation must also produce its own realistic legitimacy again. With the change of urban-rural dual structure and the emergence of more and more urban-rural social mix, social governance is also sinking down to the grass-roots level, thus forming the community of social governance and the rise of community civilmediation. Meanwhile, the grassroots characteristics of thetraditional civil mediation have been renewed, and a new glue of social unity has been born, which promotes the self-education and self-regulation of residents. Most importantly, the introduction of professional resources greatly expands the available resources of community civilmediation. So in the melting pot of grass-roots social changes and community governance innovation that the traditional “Oriental Flower” has been refined from the modern “Oriental Experience”. In the continuous exploration of the people’s mediation system in the new era, the modernization of social governance will continue to bring forth a new chapter of “Oriental Experience”.
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    Research on Multi-ethnic Community Interpersonal Trust Building: Inter-embedded Development of Mongolian and Han Cohabited C Community
    LI Min, LIANG Yuxin
    SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT, 2020, 20 (6): 60-69. 
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    Trust is a key factor for ethnic communities to develop into inter-embedded communities. Based on a questionnaire survey, the study found that Mongolian and Han cohabited C community has a higher trust and expectation in terms of interpersonal trust, higher trust among the same ethnic groups, higher trust in community workers andinstrumental trust in the majority;Trust building mainly arises fromculture. Ethnicity, age, residence time, individual experience, community involvement, neighbor interaction and institution culture are the main factors influencing community interpersonal trust building. Community organization participation and neighborhood interaction are significantly related to community interpersonal trust. Based on regional development pattern, strategies such as constructing community public space, cultivating community social organization, promoting national cultural communication are proposed in order to build interpersonal trust and promote mixed communities’ development into inter-embedded ones.
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    Analysis and Countermeasures of Migrant Workers’ Social Mentality in Urban Integration: Based on the Perspective of Iceberg Theory
    XIE Jianshe, ZHU Xiaolian
    SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT, 2020, 20 (6): 70-77. 
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    A healthy social mentality is the psychological foundation for migrant workers to integrate into the city, and it is also the spiritual support for their foothold in urban life. With the development of urbanization, the mentality of migrant workers is unbalanced in the process of urban integration. This paper analyzes the status quo of urban integration of migrant workers based on the iceberg theory, and finds that migrant workers often face two “icebergs” in the process of urban integration. One of the “hidden icebergs” is the ideal “self” and the other, a “dominant iceberg”, is the “self” in reality. The social mentality of migrant workers has shown various dynamic development phenomena along with the process of urban integration, showing a more complex and diverse mentality imbalance, and restricting migrant workers’ integration into the city. The integration of workers into the city has proposed the use of iceberg theory to explore themselves, explore the positive value of migrant workers’ own negative mentality, find the positive motivation behind migrant workers’ bad mentality, reconstruct the positive channeling mechanism for migrant workers’ negative emotions, and eliminate stereotypes on migrant workers Impressions and strengthening of humanistic care and other measures to solve the social mentality of migrant workers and further improve their urban integration.
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    Hierarchical Governance and Organizational Legitimacy: The Dual Logic and Realization Methods for Social Organizations to Coordinate Response to Emergencies
    LI Ling'ou
    SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT, 2020, 20 (6): 78-88. 
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    Currently social organizations in China face governance challenges in structure, institution and competence etc. It reflects the dual logic behind the dilemma of organizational action: the bureaucratic governance of the external environment and the organizational legitimacy of the internal foundation. The discussion is problem-orientedand hierarchical governance and organizational legitimacy are both taken as perspectives. It proposes that social organizations can construct internal governance community in collaborative governance of emergencies from the aspects of profession, community and internet, to reconcile the conflicts of hierarchical constraints and organizational legitimacy and realize their governance vision.
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    Power from Below, Welfare Legislation and Regulation: The Study of Piven and Cloward’s Welfare Thought
    FENG Baobin
    SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT, 2020, 20 (6): 89-96. 
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    Piven and Cloward discussed the construction of welfare state in the United States along the social class perspective. They pointed out that the protest movements of the people at the bottom was the main force to promote the welfare legislation in the United States, and in return the welfare legislation became the regulation power to the people at the bottom. Through interpretation the relevant works of Piven and Cloward, this paper reveals the mechanism of the underclass protests affecting welfare legislation and the dialectical relationship between the welfare legislative relief function and the control function. According to Piven and Cloward, the protests is the manifestation of the power from below. In economic crisis, the bottom-level protest movements influence American electoral politics and affect the United States welfare legislation. Piven and Cloward did not deny the relief function of welfare, but further pointed out that welfare governance has the risk of causing social isolation of the people at the bottom and eliminating the legislation's relief function. Piven and Cloward’s theoretical perspective is helpful to understanding our country's welfare legislation, grass-roots governance practice and research.
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