Proceedings of the 2013 International Academic Workshop on Social Science

Session: Social human science

27 articles
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How Does Interactive Social Support in Healthcare Communities Promote Customer Well-Being

Tang Yao, Qi Zhang, Qi Qiu, Qiuying Zheng
This study developed the kinds of social support patients actually obtain on Internet. With data collected from published posts in online health care communities, the authors identify three kinds of support (emotional support, informational support, and companionship) that underlie online social support...
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Scenic Zones' Construction and Tourists' Aesthetic Imagination--A Reflection on “Better Imagining than Seeing”

Jie Ma
The widely spread old saying that better imagining than seeing, reflects regretful feeling of tourists, which not only affects the enthusiasm of tourists, but also the development of tourism. This paper analyses the main reasons for this phenomenon, among which the lack of aesthetic imagination of tourists...
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STUDY ON CARBON STORAGE OF URBAN GARDEN VEGETATION------A CASE STUDY OF JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY

Yue Dai, Shaobo Guo, Yonghong Wu
In the process of exploiting low carbon economy, carbon storage plays an important role in counteracting greenhouse gases. Even though various researches have been done on carbon storage of forests and soil, the study of urban gardening is only 1.27%. But the proportion is increasing in recent years....
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Research about the casting technique of Chu-style bronze tripod

Yanling Yuan, Peiyao He
According to the different shape characteristics, the Chu-style tripods can be divided into five categories: tripod with rim bent outside, tripod with string-rim, tripod with rim bent inside, flat-bottomed tripod, water-heating tripod. The main casting technique of Chu-style tripods is multiple casting....
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McCarthyism and Its Influence on the Reporting Career of Edgar Snow

Yong Chen
Edgar Snow’s Red Star over China, together with other reports on red China and Chinese revolution, plus his red China experiences, has brought him much trouble during the McCarthy era. The unfair treatment or even persecution done to him comes from four major aspects: FBI, Congress, right-wing media...
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Analysis of the Ice-snow and Frozen Disasters in Hohhot Grid On November 9, 2012

Hongfeng Xing
on November 9, 2012 the Hohhot region of sleet process lasted about 14 hours, which caused harm to the local city distribution network. The local power grid transmission line icing history occurred in the city of northwest side of Mount Dazing foothills northeast and southwest Huo Zai Gou, Naho Wetland...
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Public Attitudes about Urban Lawns:Social Opportunities Provided by Urban Lawns in Lund, Sweden

Xili Han, Olivette R.Burton, Catharina Sternudd, Dihua Li
Since the 19th century, urban lawns have gradually taken center stage to become one of the main sources of greening in many cities around the world. The current published research on planting technology, maintenance techniques, the impact of lawn maintenance, preferences for manicured lawns and the biodiversity...
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The Value and Perfection of China’s Inter-Party Consultative Democracy

Jufang Song
The paper describes what China’s inter-party consultative democracy is, and tries to find out the value and perfection of it. The method of real cases, comparative and systematic analysis is used to figure out the key five elements of China’s inter-party consultative democracy. It’s emphasized that China’s...
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Evaluation on the citizenization of migrant workers and its spatial differences in Hangzhou

Zhengwen Shi, Yizhou Wu, Dan Xu, He Huang
China is undergoing a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization and a great number of migrant workers are moving into the city. However, their transformation is not complete with the geographical move. The paper is focused on two stages of migrant workers, which are geographical migration and...
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The Department-based Job Duties Analysis

Yingzhen Zhou, Jiangwei Li
In the present management theory and practice, the job duties analysis is mainly based on the position analysis. However, this kind of analytical method often exacerbates the problems in business management. Especially in China, with such a special economic and social environment, it is even harder to...
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Post-Disaster Tourist Behavior: Motivation and Intention

Kuo Zhang, Li Zuo
Focusing on the popular Chinese tourist destination of Sichuan in the aftermath of the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, this study attempts to explore domestic tourists’ motivations and intentions to visit a post-disaster destination. Based on a questionnaire survey, this study identifies six push factors...
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Does God have many names

Fei Wang, Xuan Zhang
It is a controversial topic about “God”, people always argue if God has many names or there are many Gods on the earth, if there is God what does it look like, if we believe God, what it means for us. This article tries to use a critical thinking to discuss religious pluralism in contemporary world.
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The Hebei Agricultural Production Vulnerability Assessment

Rufei Zhang, Lijun Liu
In this paper, the agricultural production of Hebei Province as the research object, By analyzing the relationship between agricultural production and natural disaster losses strength, Set up a elastic coefficient model of production vulnerable and use production and vulnerable elastic analysis method....
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Construction of a Questionnaire of the Attitude towards Homosexuality among Chinese College Students

Rui Jiang, Chuang Gao
Objectives: To develop a questionnaire of the attitude towards homosexuality, which can be adapted to college students, and discuss its reliability and validity. Methods: Through the reference of massive relevant studies and the current questionnaires towards homosexuality in China, the questionnaire...
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Analysis of Recognition of the Chinese animation derivatives-- Based on a survey of the audience of different ages

Junyi Hua
This paper is divided into four parts. Firstly, Based on the survey of some representative places in China, I carry on the data analysis and find abnormal phenomenon. Secondly, I ask a question: the youth group and children group pay more attention and have a higher frequency of consumption of animation...
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Analysis on News Media with “Positive Energy”How the News Media Reported the “Positive Energy” in Current Environment

Yan Zhang, Ligang Liu
This paper is mainly involved in the interpretation of the “Positive Energy” under the sight of Journalism and Communication. And then ,this essay provide numerous methods to deal with the problems of “Positive Energy”for medias via Sociological Methods. Finally, the innovation of this paper is that...
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A Study of the Impact of Social Media Characteristics on Customer Adoption Intention of Social Media

Yongbing Jiao, Jian Yang, Shanling Xu
Recent research on the factors affecting customer adoption of social media has been conducted by many scholars, but no research can be found to be carried out from the perspective of social media characteristics. The purpose of this study is to fill this void. Our conceptual framework incorporates customer...
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A comparative study on career maturity of the college students in Korea and China

Lexin Bao, Wei Lu
This paper study aims to make a comparison of career maturity between Korea and China by questionnaire survey. Based on the Korean version of the Career Attitude Maturity Inventory (CAMI), a Chinese version has been developed. The sampling is 901 college students. The difference of culture not only on...
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The Research on Vocational Skills Training for Chinese New Generation Migrant Workers in the Context of Balancing Urban and Rural Development

Jiabing Tian, Linbo Zhou
this paper tries to solve the problem of vocational skills training for Chinese migrant workers to promote the process of social integration and urbanization. From the perspective of balancing urban and rural development, the author has done some meaningful exploration with current literature and national...
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New Immigrant Teachers -Social Assimilation Among School Staff

Ilana Levenberg, Dorit Patkin, Yael Sarfaty
The present study explored the extent of support provided by the school staff and management to mathematics teachers who immigrated to Israel from various countries. The attitudes of these teachers towards mathematics education in Israel were examined. The immigrant teachers' statements illustrate a...
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Persons Placed in Social Protection Institutions as Subjects of Clinical Research by International and Serbian Regulations

Nina Planojevi, Dragica Živojinovi
Subject of the paper is analysis of the position of persons placed in social protection institutions as subjects of clinical research. In its first part, authors determine who belongs to the category of these subjects and what reasons make them vulnerable, more sensitive than other people in this context....
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The Urban Space Narrated By Guangzhou East Garden As A Fragment

Zheng Li
This paper elaborate on how Guangzhou East Garden describe the urban space as a fragment .In the paper, a deep analysis was devoted on analyze the relationship among the East Garden, river, streets and social space. Specific measurements were carried out on several historical maps. The conclusion is...
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The Comparison of Chinese and American Interpersonal Relationships

Ping Hu, Yan Tan
In the course of globalization, the relationships between Chinese and American become closer and closer, and the communication between citizens of both countries is more and more frequent. However, because the culture of Chinese is much different from that of American, so do their attitude towards their...
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On Scientific-Technological Ethics

Li-Lin Peng
Ethics and morality is old and constantly updated topic. In the modern science and technology rapid development situation, study of ethics of science and technology is relatively backward. The times call for advanced and reasonable ethics of science and technology. Basic concepts and characteristics...
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Study on Risk Prevention Mechanism of the Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products - Based on the Perspective of Peasant Special Cooperative Organizations

Yanfen Dou, Yan Jiang, Qiang Miao
The paper analyzes the cooperatives’ effectiveness in ensuring the quality and safety of agricultural products, discusses specific mechanism design problems of peasant special cooperative organizations’ preventing the risk of the quality and safety of agricultural products and puts forward to the main...
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Social and Economic Issues of Home Staying Women in China--A Case Study in a Village of Jiangsu Province

Sicong Zhang, Qiuyang Ding
In China, many cities are creating large labor demands, which however leaves many females staying at their home villages. This could be a serious bottleneck to the enhancement of overall economy and living quality in China. In this paper, a study to home staying women in a village of Chinese Jiangsu...
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Research on Cultural Ecosystem Protection and Recovery in Ecological Resettlement of Poverty Relief

Haibao Wang
The cultural ecosystem is a part with the enormous ecological function values in the social ecosystem of the region and town. This paper puts forward the viewpoint that the new resettlement site removed and constructed due to the needs of the ecological environmental protection and poverty relief and...