华侨华人:作为研究对象的"特殊性"及其与中国的关系

本文指出了自中国改革开放以来国内外对于华侨华人研究日趋关注的现象,认为这主要是由持不同立场的学者对华侨华人与中国关系的认识引起的.文章从四个方面探讨了华侨华人的"特殊性"及其与中国的关系,认为对于华侨华人"特殊性"的认识,有助于更好地理解华侨华人作为移民群体所具有的个案意义,从而引发对移民所具有的"普遍性"的思考,同时也有助于进一步消除关于华侨华人研究的政治敏感性,并拓宽华侨华人研究的视野.     

建立合作和谐的劳动关系构建社会主义和谐社会

劳动生存利益是人类社会共生共存的基础,劳动关系是一切社会关系的基础,劳动关系的和谐是社会和谐的前提.严重不均衡的劳动关系状况会影响一个国家的经济发展和国际竞争力,影响一个国家的政治稳定和社会发展.由于制度缺失,我国劳动关系已出现严重的不均衡,必须用科学发展观重新审视我国的劳动政策,着力加强和谐劳动关系的制度建设,培养适应市场经济要求,能真正承担责任、履行义务的劳动关系主体.     

企业文化建设的理论反思

建设中国特色社会主义企业文化,要以“三个代表”重要思想为指导,立足于中国加入WTO后所面临的机遇与挑战,围绕“以人为中心”,坚持借鉴、发展和创新的原则。同时,还要关注企业文化建设中企业内部利益关系的调整问题。     

从不均衡走向均衡 --构建和谐的劳动关系

对于劳动关系失衡这个问题,必须提高到加强执政党执政能力和工会生死存亡的高度加以认识.中国工会自上世纪90年代中期以来,受到的冲击和挑战进入到改革开放以来最为严峻的时期;就党和政府对工会的关注和支持力度而言,现在也是建国以来最好的历史时期之一;面对复杂多变的现实,工会要加强自身的改革和建设,积极应对、抓住机会、避开风险、扬长避短、发挥自身的优势.     

企业民主管理的二元解释:利益需求与心理需求

企业民主管理的依据应该在企业最基本的人际关系中寻找。企业存在劳动关系,从而存在利益差异,企业民主管理可以缓和劳动关系双方的利益冲突;企业存在社会分工,从而存在心理差异,企业民主管理可以在一定程度上满足企业不同成员的心理需求。劳动关系导致的利益差异和社会分工导致的心理差异虽然是企业民主管理存在的必要条件,但并不是企业民主管理存在的充分条件。     

Inequalities and crime

The study of inequalities undergirds much of criminology. At times, however, we may take the impact of inequalities for granted and miss opportunities to problematize the strong link between inequalities and crime. In this address, I maintain that it is important to step back and recognize that economic, race, ethnic, gender, and other inequalities are at the core of criminology. More explicit consensus about the centrality of the link between inequalities and crime will allow for our field to speak to the major social and political issues of our time and will strengthen the field. In this address, I highlight some fruitful avenues of research on inequalities and crime. I then argue that the concept of intersecting inequalities can provide additional connective tissue between research focused on economic, race, ethnic, and gender inequalities. By drawing on recent evaluations of the concept in other fields, I discuss key issues that must be addressed in employing an intersecting inequalities approach and then suggest solutions. I conclude that use of an intersecting inequalities approach has the potential to uncover important insights and span research areas, thereby pushing forward our understanding of the impact of economic, race, ethnic, gender, and other inequalities on crime and victimization.     

Race,Plea, and Charge Reduction: An Assessment of Racial Disparities in the Plea Process

With the growing recognition of the salience of prosecutorial discretion, attention to biases in the earlier phases of case processing is increasing. Still, few studies have considered the influence of defendant race and race/sex within the plea process. The present study uses a sample of felony cases to assess the influence of race and race/sex on the mode of disposition, similarities and differences in the factors that predict the likelihood of a plea across race, and potential racial disparities in the plea value received pertaining to a charge reduction. The findings suggest that blacks, and black males in particular, are less likely to plea, and are expected to receive a lower value for their plea. Also, the factors that predict the likelihood of a plea are substantively different across race. Conditioning effects of race and sex are found in the likelihood of a plea and probabilities of a charge reduction.     

Widowers and their sisters-in-law: family crises,horizontally organised relationships and affinal relatives in the nineteenth century

The period around 1800 was characterised by a remarkable intensification of horizontally organised relationships and horizontally structured interactions such as sibling relations and cousin marriages. At the same time, in-laws stepped onto the historical stage. The aim of this contribution is to shed light on the importance of affinal relatives – above all that of deceased wives’ sisters as preferred spouses – and to reconstruct the difficulties that widowers had to cope with in terms of domestic organisation.

As nineteenth-century marriage dispensation records reveal, the number of marriage applications by widowers and their sisters-in-law was particularly high in the German-speaking world. And though research has already been carried out on the broad-based societal and political debate in Great Britain touched off by the “Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill” of 1835, this same constellation within the Catholic context has so far received relatively little attention. Very often, the death of a wife caused the entire household to slide into a situation of crisis, especially if small children were present. In a large number of the cases in which this happened, the wife’s sister ended up moving into the widower’s household. She took care of the household and the children and also took on agricultural and/or business-related responsibilities.

In many cases, it was an obvious next step for widowers and their sisters-in-law to plan their marriage. During the 1830s and 1840s, however, it was very difficult for such bridal couples to obtain the necessary papal dispensation. Therefore, the extensive source material from this period provides revealing insights into the domestic organisation of widowers’ households. It also highlights a close intertwining of social, economic and emotional aspects – for which reason the legally mandated separation of the couple in the case of a rejected dispensation application could become a dramatic matter indeed.     

The Mechanics of Cultural Diplomacy: A Comparative Case Study Analysis from the European Context

The National Institutes for Culture have not attracted much scholarly attention examining their managerial practices. The aim of this article is to explore how the state expresses its agency over the Cultural Institutes of six European countries: the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, and Greece. Agency presents varying modalities, making instrumentalism more multifaceted than has been implied so far. The authors are introducing here a framework of five “touchpoints” to capture and analyze instrumentalism in cultural diplomacy. Funding, agenda setting, evaluation, hierarchy, and appointment power constitute the typical system of interactions between the Cultural Institutes and their reporting authorities.     

关于法学实践性教学的课堂内探索--以亲属法学为例

现行法学教育的教学方法在很大程度上存在着简单化、与实践脱节及教学手段单一的问题 ,以至学生学习机械、被动 ,严重影响学习兴趣 ,教学效果也不甚理想。作者尝试着将实践性教学方法引进亲属法学的课堂内 ,强调学生在学习中的主动性和互动性 ,鼓励讨论、质疑、带着问题学习的学习方式 ,启发学生思考问题的能力 ,培养和训练学生实际解决问题的能力 ,从而掌握本学科的基本理论和专业知识 ,具备运用所学知识认识和处理相关问题的技能。