浅析青年参与可持续消费的必要性和方法

国际社会普遍认为,贫困和过度消费导致人类无节制地开发和破坏自然资源,造成环境恶化。倡导可持续消费,让青年了解和参与可持续消费,是遏制环境恶化、实现可持续发展的重要一环。     

论我国自然人破产制度的建立——从法经济学的角度分析

对于我国破产法是否应当包括自然人破产制度,学界观点不一。从《破产法》(草案)中可看出,合伙的破产能力得到了认可,但却未赋予自然人有破产能力。对于这一问题笔者试从法经济学的角度加以分析,主张在我国应建立自然人破产制度。     

关于农宅建设的调查与思考

农村住宅的现状是与村庄的历史文化、风俗习惯、社会活动、地理环境、经济发展紧密相连的。建国以后，由于村庄社会结构的变迁，村民住宅在不同的历史时期表现出了不同的特征。近年来，农宅在快速增长的过程中产生了一些问题，产生这些问题的原因应从农民自身的经济、文化和社会生活中去寻找，作者在文中提出了解决农宅问题的建议。     

The manufacturing of Islamic lifestyles in Tajikistan through the prism of Dushanbe's bazaars

ABSTRACT

This article traces the multiple ways of ‘manufacturing’ Islamic lifestyles in the urban environment of Tajikistan's capital city, Dushanbe. The city's bazaars serve as a lens through which to observe the conjunction of its booming trade business with Dubai alongside its growing Islamic commodity culture and a religious reformism that is inspired by the materiality and non-materiality of a progressive and hybrid Dubai Islam. Bringing together long-distance trade, urban consumption practices and new forms of public piety in the mobile livelihood of three bazaar traders and sellers, the article provides insights into how the commodification of Islam informs notions of urbanity and modernity in Tajikistan. These notions correspond to the launching of urban renewal and the meta-narrative of Dushanbe's future as a modern city on the rise. Furthermore, the article illustrates the ways in which Dushanbe's Muslims turn bazaars into an urban laboratory for religious agency and cultural identities.     

The role of leisure activities and social attitudes in the mass media consumption of a sample of South African adults: A psychographic approach

Abstract

This study, the second in a two-article series, explores the interplay between attitudes, behaviour and media consumption in a sample of South African adults. Participants aged 16 years and older were drawn from a subsample of data collected during the 2007A South African Advertising Research Foundation (SAARF) All Media and Products Survey (AMPS®). Utilising statistical comparison of psychographic typologies, this study confirmed the existence of significant, albeit weak, relationships between mass media consumption, social attitudes and leisure interests/activities in this sample. Analyses of demographic variables revealed further significant relationships between mass media consumption and home language, work status, the SAARF Lifestages and the SAARF Universal Living Standards Measure (SU-LSM®). The findings are discussed in relation to available empirical literature and the need for advancement of the media psychology sub-discipline in South Africa.     

当前我国城镇居民家庭消费结构分析

改革开放以来,我国城乡居民家庭消费结构实现了质的飞跃,但仍然面临许多问题。只有通过综合运用行政、经济等多种手段去努力寻求突破,才能加快我国城镇居民家庭消费结构的优化和升级。     

Housing and ethopolitics: constructing identities of active consumption and responsible community

Recent developments in social housing policy, including large-scale stock transfers, have been proclaimed as marking ‘the death of council housing’ in the UK. The decline of public housing and new techniques for the governance of social housing provision are symbolic of the transformation of welfarist social regimes in advanced liberal democracies. This paper explores recent social housing policy in the UK and suggests that policy developments reflect changes in technologies for governing the conduct of social housing tenants and practitioners. The ethopolitics (Rose 2001) of social housing are characterized by emerging identities of active, entrepreneurial consumption and the invocation of responsibilized community. The paper examines how ethopower is manifested through technologies of social housing governance and identifies conflicts inherent within this new politics of conduct.     

Comment on Lawrence J. Vale's “beyond the problem projects paradigm: Defining and revitalizing ‘severely distressed’ public housing”

For several decades, manufactured housing has been a crucial source of affordable housing, particularly for rural areas. However, electricity consumption per unit area and per capita are substantially higher for manufactured housing units relative to site built, single-family detached units. This article uses data from the federal Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) to examine patterns of electricity consumption in manufactured housing units over time and to draw comparisons with single-family detached housing units. Regression analysis is used to model annual electricity consumption for manufactured housing units in 1990 and 2005. Temporal trends in key predictors are discussed and contrasted with those for single-family detached units. Findings suggest that the most important predictors of electricity consumption are comparable across the housing types considered and that while manufactured housing units may be gaining in energy efficiency over time, consumption per unit area and per capita are increasing faster than in single-family detached units.     

当代大学生消费社会化的缺失及其对策研究

从人生社会化相关理论视角看,当代大学生中存在的种种非理性消费现象,标志着消费社会化的缺失,其原因在于大学生人生成长过程中家庭与学校的教育缺失,以及社会负面宣传的影响,可行的对策,是构建家庭、学校、社会环境三位一体的消费教育体系。     

消费文化的形成根源与平民化趋向

关于消费社会的研究已引起了人们对消费文化的关注。消费文化的形成,与构成西方文化的基督教文化和古希腊文化有着紧密的联系。在欧洲人对外扩张的过程中,消费文化在世界范围内迅速传播,商品经济助长了这种传播的势头。当今社会,消费文化不再是贵族的特权,在中产阶级中也已经广泛流传,并且大有向平民渗透之势。