Family Functioning and School Success in At-Risk, Inner-City Adolescents

The relation between family functioning and school success was examined in 211 at risk, African American, inner city adolescents attending middle school (grades 6–8). Interviews with adolescents and caregivers yielded data on family cohesion, parental monitoring, and school engagement; school records provided data on grade point average. Results showed that both family cohesion and parental monitoring predicted school engagement, but neither family characteristic predicted GPA. Important gender differences also emerged. For boys only, the relation between family cohesion and school engagement was stronger when parental monitoring was high. For girls only, the effects of cohesion and monitoring on school engagement were additive: girls with both high family cohesion and high parental monitoring were most likely to be engaged in school. These findings extend the research base on family protective factors for antisocial behavior in young adolescents. Implications for future examination of family process characteristics in high-risk adolescents are discussed. This work is based on the dissertation research of the first author submitted to the Department of Psychology at Fordham University. Research Associate, Hudson Valley Cerebral Palsy, Patterson, NY. Professional Training: PhD, Developmental Psychology, Fordham University. Major interests include etiology and treatment research on developmental disabilities and psychological health problems in children and adolescents. Senior Research Associate, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, New York, NY. Professional Training: PhD, Clinical Psychology, Temple University. Major interests include development of family-based interventions for adolescent drug use and delinquency, adherence and process research on family intervention models. Research Associate, National Clinical Assessment Authority, London, England. Professional Training: PhD, Developmental Psychology, Fordham University. Major interests include mental health services research and program evaluation. Professor and Director, Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL. Professional Training: EdD, Counseling Psychology and Family Therapy, Northern Illinois University. Major interests include developing, testing, and disseminating family-based treatment for adolescent substance abuse and related behvioral problems.     

当代中国少数民族风俗习惯政策述评

尊重少数民族的风俗习惯是当代中国民族政策的重要内容之一,贯彻执行这一政策,对于增强各民族的团结,调动各民族人民建设社会主义的积极性,建立和谐的社会主义民族关系具有重要的意义.新中国建立以来,少数民族的风俗习惯在我国法律和政策中得到前所未有的重视和尊重.近年,随着国际和国内形势的变化,以及少数民族自身的发展,我国少数民族风俗习惯政策也面临着一系列新情况和新问题,因此,应在梳理既往政策内容的同时,结合当前贯彻少数民族风俗习惯政策中出现的新情况,提出完善这一政策的建议.     

Introduction: The Progressive Dilemma in British Politics

This special edition reflects on the contemporary relevance of the insights and concerns of David Marquand's book The Progressive Dilemma. In this Introduction, the editors set the scene for these reflections. They consider the structural changes that have occurred in politics since the 1990s: the impact of globalisation, the erosion of class identities, the rise of ‘identity politics’ and the continued fragmentation of the party system. There has been no reconciliation between the parties of the centre‐left, nor any re‐examination of the ‘liberal tradition’ and the potential for a new synthesis with revisionist social democracy. On the one hand, Corbynism is a radicalised metropolitan species of liberalism, while on the other there are plenty in Labour who stress the need for the party to re‐engage with the traditional, socially conservative values of the working class in a new ‘postliberal’ appeal. Yet the authors argue that those who broadly identify with progressive causes in British politics—animated by the various overlapping strands of social liberalism, social democracy and liberal socialism—have still to work out how to address the historic failings that Marquand so eloquently exposed, to create a new and inspiring intellectual vision that unites and energises the left and centre‐left.     

States of distinction: gender,Japan and the international political economy

This article looks at the question of how to understand the link between the changing position of women and gender relations and the changes in the global political economy. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the authors argue that states compete for respectability and distinction on the world stage, and that they deploy particular material articulations of gender and class relations as forms of symbolic capital for the nation. The authors demonstrate this using Japan as an example, tracing changes in the condition and representation of women between 1856 and 1945, as Japan's position in the global hierarchy of nations moved from a subordinated through a resisting to a colonising country. The authors suggest that women and gender relations are central to understanding international relations, and they propose a conceptual framework for analysing the significance of women and gender in the global political economy     

新世纪中国涉外税收立法面临的挑战与对策

面对WTO规则给中国涉外税法带来的冲击、网络贸易给税收执行带来的新课题、立法对于转让定价的外延设定过小、对避税行为缺乏法律制约等因素的存在,从多视角对我国涉外税收政策面临的严峻挑战进行评析,进而对如何调整我国涉外税收立法价值取向进行了探讨。     

韩中女性参政对两国社会发展的影响

女性的政治参与是指提高女性的政治意识、社会意识、历史意识,培养女性政治家,使女性获得进入议会内阁以及行政各部门的权利。第四次世界妇女大会召开后,韩中两国女性的政治参与度都有不同程度的提高,韩国的女性国会议员人数和中国两会女代表人数均有增加,但女性的参政议政依然呈现三多三少现象,处于核心领导层的女性很少,这种情况不但在中国存在,韩国也是如此。为了改变这种现象,首先要从法律层面使女性参政制度化,其次要通过教育培训培养女政治家,再次要积极促进持续的文化交流,取长补短,提高女性自身的本领,担当起促进东北亚,乃至世界女性发展的重任。     

我国公益信托发展中的税法缺失

公益信托是为实现公益目的和公众利益而设立的信托。我国公益信托无法满足社会对公益事业的强烈需求，税法的缺失是我国公益事业发展之路上难以逾越的障碍。逐渐完善税收制度，尤其是增加对公益信托的税收激励，是促进公益信托在我国顺利发展的行之有效的途径。     

沃尔泽多元主义正义观及其局限

沃尔泽在《正义诸领域》中以一种不同于传统自由主义的方式，对正义的分配作了一种广泛的、平等主义的、多元主义的解释。他倡导的多元分配正义是为了消除局部领域内的简单平等，并进而追求所有领域内的复合平等。