New Books

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Sexuality Research

1，        AS BEAUTIFUL AS A JADE FLOWER – Vulva’s image in traditional China, by Pan Suiming

2,  Job mobility of Brothel-based Female Sex Workers in Current Northeast China: the process from xiagang worker (lay-offs) to sex worker, by Pan Suiming and Huang Yingying

3，Account and Critique of China’s Laws and Regulations Forbidding Prostitution from 1981 to 2004,  by Pan Suiming

4,  Social Construction of Male Sexuality in China, by Pan Suiming

5,  Social Constructions of Male Visiting Female Sex Workers and HIV Risk in Current China， by Pan Suiming

6,  Sex Revolution in China：A report of its accomplishment on a compared study between 2000 and 2006, by Pan Suiming

Methodology

7,  Research Ethics in Social Surveys in China: Methodological Reflections，by Huang Yingying and Pan Suiming

Abstract

Social surveys must be conducted within the framework of research ethics, on which due emphasis has not been laid in China. The basic principles of internationally established research ethics are respect, beneficence and justice. While most literature in China and abroad deals with ethics merely in the sense of moral rights, social sciences research should go further to understand, from the perspective of methodology, the positive role of observing research ethics on the improvement of survey quality. The significance of research ethics roots from notions such as “interaction,” “exchange” and “subjective construction” in social investigations. It is necessary for every social survey with “human” as the research object to follow three fundamental research ethics, i.e. informed consent, equality and respect, harmlessness and benefit. Moreover, surveyors are supposed to genuinely put themselves in the place of surveyees and treat them without prejudice. Adhering to these ethics is conducive to promoting interactions in investigations and improving survey quality. It is a compulsory requirement that research ethics should be observed in every social survey.

8, Qualitative method: the Different natures of ‘common theme-seeking’, ‘differences-seeking’ and ‘Seeking for a holistic approach ’---- by Huang Yingying, Pan Suiming and Wangdong

Abstract

The authors point out in the paper that different research methods should be understood in a spectrum, but not according to their different data collection procedure. Common theme-seeking is a way to identify the commonality of the subjects under a certain topic. It mimics an open-ended questionnaire that lacks of test. Thus, it is more like a quantitative method. Difference-seeking method, however, aims to explore the diversities among the subjects under a certain topic and more links to qualitative understanding. Comparatively, a holistic approach is regarded as the best way for qualitative study which emphasizes the subject as a whole under certain time-space contexts. The paper argues that categorizing these three different ways could help to better understand the difference and existing arguments around qualitative and quantitative method.

Key word: qualitative study, methodology, common theme-seeking method, differences-

seeking method and seeking for a holistic approach method