The correlation between caregiver burden and social support among schizophrenics caregivers/Urban cultural capital and the integration of the new-generation migrant workers

Content introduction：

SSDPP FALL 2013 COLLOQUIUM

STUDENT TALKS

Time: Dec. 4, 3-5pm

Location: 2026 The North Main Building

Language: Chinese

Speaker 1: DONG Xuehan (MA student of SSDPP)

Topic: The correlation between caregiver burden and social support among schizophrenics caregivers

Abstract:

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, debilitating mental illness that affects about 1% of the population, corresponding to more than 7.8 million people in China. Schizophrenia brings not only suffering to the patients, but also heavy burden to the caregivers. The study assessed 471 patients and caregivers respectively, and explored the correlation between caregiver burden and social support among schizophrenics caregivers in China, so as to provide evidence for the intervention to alleviate the burden on caregivers of patients with schizophrenia.

Discussants: WANG Yang& WANG Xiaohua

Speaker 2: LI Zhengang (PhD student of SSDPP)

Topic: Urban cultural capital and the integration of the new-generation migrant workers

Abstract:

How to help the new-generation migrant workers to adapt to urban life has become an urgent issue for government policy, as well as a hot topic for academic research. In this study, I go beyond the traditional explanations for migrant workers’ poor integration into the urban society (i.e. a human capital explanation, a social capital explanation and an institutional explanation) and highlight the importance of cultural capital. Following the insights of Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital, I construct a new concept of urban cultural capital, to analyze the relationship between city cultural capital and the integration of generation of migrant workers. At the same time, I explore the ways in which the new-generation migrant workers acquire urban cultural capital drawing upon theories of re-socialization. Mixed research method will be used for this study.

Discussants:  NAN Fang& TIAN Ming