Gender,Ethnicity, and Education as Privileges: Exploring the Generalizability of the Existential Guilt Reaction

Two cross-sectional questionnaire studies were conducted to replicate and extend previous research on the existential guilt reaction. In Study I, gender was considered as a privilege. Male student participants (N = 141) were confronted with the low proportion of women in high-ranking positions and asked to appraise this situation. Self-reported behavior, behavioral intentions, and appeal to authorities aimed at advancing equal opportunities for both genders served as criterion variables. Path analyses were performed to explore the correlation structure among the variables. Self-reported behavior depended most strongly on behavioral intentions and on belief in control. Behavioral intentions depended most strongly on existential guilt. This effect accords to previous existential guilt research. Ethnicity and education were considered as privileges in Study II. Privileged Paraguayan students (N = 80) were confronted with the disadvantageous living conditions of Indians and Campesinos. They were asked to appraise the situation. Behavioral intentions and appeal to authorities directed at improving the living conditions of Indians and Campesinos served as criteria. As in Study I, existential guilt was the strongest predictor of behavioral intentions. Study II revealed the role of values in the process of existential guilt and prosocial behavior. This is a new research finding. Indirect effects of the two values of universalism and benevolence on behavioral intentions were obtained. The effect of universalism was mediated by existential guilt and moral outrage, the effect of benevolence was mediated by injustice and existential guilt. Tradition had a negative indirect effect on behavioral intentions. This effect was mediated by justification of deprivation and probably means that adherence to tradition eases the justification of traditionally existing social inequalities in a society.     

Down to Earth: Race and Substance in the Andes

Abstract — The racial identities of Indians and mestizos in a highland Peruvian region are closely associated with their relative positions to the earth. The agricultural Indians are closer to the earth and the town-dwelling mestizos are further from it. This distinction is maintained and reinforced through the use of material objects in everyday life, especially earthen objects (adobe bricks, clay pots, dirt roads) and to earth-touching objects (shoes, floors). This distinction accords with the relativity and fluidity of racial identities of individuals. The origins of this notion are traced to political and religious ideology in colonial and post-colonial Peru.     

西部大开发中大型工业企业发展战略研究

大型工业企业是西部经济发展的重要物质基础和主导力量,然而西部大型工业企业存在着产业层次低、企业规模小、缺乏市场竞争力、经济效益低等问题。针对这些问题,本提出了西部地区大型工业企业进一步的发展战略和可操作性对策。     

Alliance of Civilizations： The global peace project of the 21st century

The Alliance of Civilizations was established in 2005, at the initiative of the Governments of Spain and Turkey; under the auspices of the United Nations for inter civilizations dialogue to bridge the gap between the West and Muslim world. This article analyzes advantage and disadvantage sides of the success of this initiative.     

西江经济带发展的战略选择

打造西江黄金水道是广西的重大战略决策,推动西江经济带发展,是推动区域经济协调发展的必然选择。西江经济带发展的战略选择主要有:整体推进基础设施建设一体化战略、区域产业集群化战略、城镇发展规模化战略、开发开放生态化战略、协调合作机制化战略。     

马来西亚印度人的由来及其困境研究

印度人是马来西亚的第三大民族,但与马来西亚其他民族相比,印度人是一个长期被忽视的群体.本文拟对马来西亚的印度人作一概述,分析其移民马来半岛的历史,并对独立后马来西亚印度人在政治、经济、民族教育等方面所面临的困境作一探讨.     

慢病毒载体介导的西尼罗河病毒prME蛋白的表达

将西尼罗河病毒(WNV)的主要免疫原性基因prME插入HIV-1慢病毒载体pHR中,构建了转移质粒pHR-WNV/prME。在脂质体介导下,将该质粒与p△8.2、pVSV/G共转染293T细胞,48h后收获细胞上清。将上清转导正常的293T细胞,通过报告基因荧光观察、间接免疫荧光检测。结果表明,利用HIV-1慢病毒载体系统包装得到了假型病毒,可以高效转导293T细胞,并实现了WNVprME基因在被转导细胞中的表达,从而为基于慢病毒载体的WNV新型疫苗的研制奠定基础。     

西方法理学的生成

西方法理学在法学史的意义上被称为西方法律思想史,是生成于西方特定时空环境和独有的哲理基础上的法律思辩。若泛泛而论,作为法的一般理论的西方法理学甚至先于法学而出现。但是严格说来却是十九世纪法学分化的结果,法学是其原生形态。考察词源,西语“法理学”、“法哲学”虽为同义语,其意蕴却有所不同,中经复杂的语言流转,嬗变出现代汉语“法理学”的名称。     

Marriage and household in the Belgrade elite at the beginning of the 20th century: The Novaković family

Building on Ahmad ibn Yusuf b. al-Qadi al-Timbuktawi's treatise entitled Hatk al-Sitr Amma Alayhi Sudani Tunis min al-Kufr (Piercing the Veil: Being an Account of the Infidel Religions of the Blacks of Tunis) this paper examines the implications of the Hausa non-Muslim Bori cult practice in Ottoman Tunis on enslaved West Africans' retentions of religious and family values from their original homelands. Specifically, the paper traces and analyses the evolution of Bori cult practice in the Tunisian milieu and places it in its proper historical and diasporic contexts. To this end, the paper goes beyond questions that are not central to al-Timbuktawi's condemnation of the enslaved West African community of Tunis, but which nonetheless attracts the attention of scholars interested in the diasporic and historical significance of Bori cult practice in the Maghreb.