当前农村已婚妇女外出就业动因的社会学分析--以潘村的个案研究为例

笔者通过对安徽省西南部地区潘村的调查研究,发现该村近年来已婚妇女外出就业人口呈明显上升趋势,这是当前流行的“农业女性化”观点所无法解释的。本文试图分析她们外出就业的动力机制。     

家政哲学的学术解析

当代中国家政学的研究,是对传统儒家家庭思想中的思维原则及方法的认识与反思,是对传统儒家家庭思想向现代家庭思想转变中出现的问题之哲学层面的认识与反思。     

Acculturation and fear of crime among Hispanics

Fear of crime has attracted significant attention in academic research. One area that has largely been overlooked concerns fear of crime correlates among Hispanics, the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. Their unique cultural background as immigrants make them different from Non-Hispanic Whites and African Americans, and they all go through the acculturation process to some degree. However, the influence of acculturation has seldom been incorporated into the analysis. The current study attempts to use the acculturation thesis to examine two different types of fear among Hispanic residents in Houston, Texas. The findings suggest that acculturation is a significant predictor of crime-specific fear at home, but not of fear of crime in the neighborhood.     

Comment on Dennis P. Culhane et al.’s “public shelter admission rates in Philadelphia and New York City: The implications of turnover for sheltered population counts”

The article here extended reflects on the excessively narrow debate over the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)' cost-benefit transfer balance which had been raging for a quarter-century before the 2007–2009 financial crisis. That crisis has cast a new light on the actual costs of GSE operations and exposed the unsustainability of some of their benefits for homeownership. After injecting afew new findings into the traditional debate, this comment adds some of what has transpired in recent years and what may be inferred from it so far. Doing so brings additional analysis to bear on the article's conclusion that “the GSEs might not be justified” and “Maybe it is time for them to exit” although most politicians in the past have been disinclined to show them the door.     

Comment on James H. Carr and Michelle Mulcahy's “Twenty years of housing policy: what's new,what's changed,what's ahead?”

Housing policy in the post Great Recession (GR) era faces tremendous uncertainties, but clearly there will be more sensitivity around risk, quality, and transparency in capital markets. The post-GR domestic policy environment and economy are likely to impose several overarching constraints, including less access to world capital markets for financing housing, more restrictive assessments of risk, and increasing restraints on federal domestic spending particularly for non-entitlement programs. Carr and Mulcahy provide a substantial agenda of liberal-progressive policies that focus on the predatory and risky practices of loan originators and promote expansion of home ownership for low-income households. If we are indeed on the brink of an era of austerity, the housing policy debate will need to focus on priorities for contraction rather than expansion in housing programs, and on tenure-neutral policies rather than promoting home ownership.     

House or home? Constituent preferences over legislator effort allocation

In many political systems legislators face a fundamental trade‐off between allocating effort to constituency service and to national policy‐making activities, respectively. How do voters want their elected representatives to solve this trade‐off? This article provides new insights into this question by developing a conjoint analysis approach to estimating voters’ preferences over their legislator's effort allocation. This approach is applied in Britain, where it is found that effort allocation has a significant effect on voter evaluations of legislators, even in a political system where other legislator attributes – in particular, party affiliation – might be expected to predominate. This effect is nonlinear, with voters generally preferring a moderate balance of constituency and national policy work. Preferences over legislator effort allocation are not well‐explained by self‐interest or more broadly by instrumental considerations. They are, however, associated with voters’ local‐cosmopolitan orientation, suggesting that heuristic reasoning based on underlying social dispositions may be more important in determining preferences over representative activities.     

近代城市发展与义冢、丙舍问题--以上海为个案

上海开埠后，租界当局借口卫生与公共建设的需要，无视中国传统的习俗和有关协议，一再清理界内的义冢与丙舍，招致了国人的强烈抵制，但其管理思路毕竟反映了近代城市发展的客观要求，民国时期，上海地方当局正式将殡葬纳入城市发展规划，文明的殡葬服务方式逐渐为市民所接受。     

高职高专公共事业类专业两年制课程体系改革研究的基本思路

高职高专公共事业类专业两年制课程体系的改革,需要把学科体系变为能力体系,把专业学科为本位变为以职业岗位和工作能力为本位,也就是说,要以就业市场为导向设置课程,其特色具体体现在：各专业根据自身特点,主要根据就业岗位群的职业工作任务核心能力标准,在此基础上分析知识构成,遵循高等教育学习规律设置专业基础课、专业课程和专业延展课程,构建专业核心能力和延展能力培养课程集群,形成将“模块式”与“三段式”综合集成的能力本位为主的新型高职教育课程体系。