荀子对儒家道德教化思想发展的理论贡献

荀子继承了儒家重视道德教化的传统，对道德教化问题进行了较为系统的论述。他在中国思想史上第一次明确提出并使用了“教化”这一概念，从人类社会生活的需要出发对道德教化的必要性进行了论证，提出并论证了礼法并用的道德教化方法，突出了师友在道德教教化中的作用。在儒家道德教化思想的发展和完善中，荀子做出了重要的理论贡献。     

论我国青少年道德教育的视域转换

时代特点和新时期青少年思想道德建设的形势和任务,要求弘扬青少年的主体性。青少年道德教育的实践反思,确证了道德教育与道德学习的辨证关系。我国青少年道德教育要实现从“重教”向“重学”的视域转换,由“教会顺从”转向促进青少年主体性道德人格的生成,由成人化设计转向为青少年量身定做,由重说教转向重青少年的体验,由单向控制型师生关系转向多(双)向互动交往型师生关系。     

拓宽德育课外延--公安院校实施素质教育的有益尝试

随着教育改革的深入发展,素质教育已被广大教育工作考所接受并形成了共识,在从理论层面走向实践操作层面过程中,我们探索着拓宽德育课的外延功能,尝试着素质教育的改革.在"警"字上大做文章,选择人民警察职业道德教育作为进行素质教育的切入点,紧紧扣住铸造警魂这一核心,在全面提高公安院校学生的综合素质方面进行有益的尝试.     

做实践"三个代表"的促进派

结合教育工作的实际,学习江泽民同志的"三个代表"论述和"七·一"讲话,是教育工作者的使命和责任.代表先进生产力的发展是保持党的先进性的基础,而在党的建设上体现代表先进生产力发展要求不断吸收新鲜血液,提高党的社会影响力和凝聚力.     

Ethnic Minorities, Social Integration and Crime

This article first discusses various dimensions of the social integration of minorities into society. The Netherlands is taken as an example, although research from other countries (such as the US and Sweden) is also taken into consideration. Useful concepts in this regard include the level to which these groups have social, informative and cultural capital that can help them to integrate into the dominant society. The second part considers the theoretical links between integration and criminal behaviour. The author assumes that the fundamental causal processes that lead to the development of criminality and other negative behaviour are independent of country of origin, ethnic group or the country of residence. In other words – that these processes, as they emerge in social control theory, have a universal character. In the second place, she assumes that differences in crime between ethnic groups are linked to group differences in socio-economic integration in the host country and in culture-related variables. Furthermore, there are also differences in the criminality of allochtonous youth within ethnic groups. These are similarly assumed to be linked to differences in commitment to social institutions such as family and school and to differences in accepting specific Western norms and values.     

Social and emotional detachment in Dutch children

Characteristics associated with psychopathy were, along with the symptoms of aggressive and antisocial behaviour, rated by parents in a community sample of 2535 four-to-eighteen-year-old Dutch children in 2003. An analysis of principal components suggested two dimensions of psychopathic characteristics. The first dimension comprised egocentric characteristics and the second unemotional characteristics. Regression analyses further showed that antisocial behaviour could be predicted by egocentric characteristics, while aggressive behaviour could be predicted by the interaction of egocentric and unemotional characteristics. To avoid unnecessary stigmatisation of youngsters, it is proposed to label the egocentric dimension as the 'social detachment' factor and the unemotional dimension as the 'emotional detachment' factor.     

Moral Convictions Often Override Concerns About Procedural Fairness: A Reply to Napier and Tyler

Napier and Tyler (this issue) question whether moral convictions about outcomes really override the influence of procedural fairness (PF) on fairness judgments and decision acceptance. The empirical answer to this question is “yes.” When people have strong moral convictions about outcomes, perceptions of outcome fairness and decision acceptance are primarily shaped by whether the morally “correct” outcomes are achieved. Pre-decision perceptions of PF have surprisingly little or no effect on these judgments. That said, pre-outcome perceptions of PF sometimes predict post-outcome perceptions of PF, even when people have morally vested outcome preferences. We provide further details supporting the validity and superiority of our data analytic approach and argue that our original conclusions were justified.

The relationship of punishment- and victim-based moral orientation to prosocial, externalizing, and norm trespassing behaviour in delinquent and non-delinquent adolescents: a validation study of the Moral Orientation Measure

This study examined the reliability and validity of the Moral Orientation Measure (MOM), which was administered to 75 juvenile delinquents and 579 non-delinquent adolescents from lower socio-economic and educational backgrounds. Confirmatory factor analysis of a two-factor model, with punishment- and victim-based moral orientation as factors, showed an adequate fit to the data, indicating construct validity of the MOM. Moderate associations between moral orientation and sociomoral reasoning, as well as empathy, were also considered indicative of construct validity. Additional evidence for construct validity was found in only small associations between moral orientation and social desirability and verbal intelligence. Stronger victim-based orientation proved to be associated with less norm trespassing behaviour in non-delinquent adolescents and more prosocial behaviour in juvenile delinquents, which was considered indicative of concurrent validity. The results of this study strengthen the case for the MOM as a reliable and valid instrument to assess moral development in adolescents at risk of behavioural maladjustment, showing that moral orientation is differently associated with morally relevant behaviour in delinquent and non-delinquent adolescents.

Going Local. Voting for independent local Parties in the Netherlands 1986-2010

ABSTRACT

This paper examines why the support of independent local parties has grown substantially in the Netherlands. These are parties that run in municipal council elections, but do not run in elections at higher levels, specifically the national level. Such parties saw their support double in the Netherlands between 1986 and 2010. Parties of this type have also grown in other Western European states. This paper examines two possible explanations: declining political trust on the level of voters and, on the supply side, the rise of parties that are not rooted at the local level. The evidence shows that the rise of independent local parties reflects the rise of national political parties that do not run in many municipal elections. This article examines the case of the Netherlands, pooling five surveys from the 1986–2010 period.