The Impact of Advertising and Media on the Arab Culture: The Case of the Arab Spring,Public Spheres,and Social Media

The Arab world has experienced some unprecedented social movements, labeled by the media as the Arab Spring. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of public policy, advertising, media, and public spheres on the Arab Spring. The media and economic policies enacted in the Arab world in the 1990s played a significant role in changing consumer culture in the Arab region, resulting in significant changes in public policy. Two studies were conducted to test how the change in consumer culture along with new public polices in the region contributed to the uprisings.     

Adolescent Co-occurring Disorders Treatment: Clinicians' Attitudes,Values, and Knowledge

This study examined community-based clinicians’ (N = 294) attitudes, background/experiences, values, and knowledge relating to issues of co-occurring disorders, which occur at a high rate among adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system. Study results reveal that clinicians self-rate their clinical values and attitudes at or above the expected level of competency, but they concede that their skill and knowledge levels are not adequate. Comparison measures reveal that employment setting conditions, geographic region, hours worked per week, and strongly held convictions about the importance of integrated mental health and substance use disorders service delivery distinguish clinicians’ co-occurring disorders knowledge levels. Implications are offered.     

Emancipative values in Georgia: An individual level analysis

The main interest of the study is to determine whether and how an individual's perceived economic situation is related to emancipative values in Georgia. The analysis employs individual-level survey data from nationwide public opinion surveys conducted by the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) in 2010 and 2011 in Georgia. Several dimensions of emancipative values are examined: gender equality, tolerance, participation, autonomy, interpersonal trust, satisfaction with life and religion. Level of education and age are brought in as alternative factors accounting for value change. The results are ambiguous and only partially confirm validity of the emancipative theory of democracy on an individual level in Georgia.     

Exploring Millennial Generation in Task Values and Sector Choice: A Case of Employment in Planning

This study investigates task values and motivations of “millennial” generation of planners and identifies important factors affecting their public sector choices. Multinomial logistic regression comparing the task values and specializations in private and nonprofit sectors with public sector was performed. Millennial generations in public sector value communication and implementation tasks where at young workers in private and nonprofit sector place importance on tasks related to administration and plan and policy development. The finding indicates private companies give favorable opportunities to the young workers to take leadership role in projects and appreciate their management skills to operate the programs and plans.     

Public service ethics,values and spirituality in developing and transitional countries: Challenges and opportunities

Concerns over the unethical conduct of leaders and public officials have led to the renaissance of interest in public service ethics and values. Although national and organizational systems and structures have been instituted to either eradicate or ameliorate unethical behaviours in the public service of countries, the practice still persists with devastating consequences. As one way forward, spirituality has been touted as having the potential of stimulating the moral thoughts of individuals who are dealing with ethical issues, thereby reducing unethical behaviour and generating positive organizational behaviour. Drawing from the perspectives of developing and transitional countries, this special issue empirically examines the extent to which ethics, values and spirituality can reduce unethical behaviours.     

Opposition to immigration in contemporary Russia

The study examines sources of opposition to immigration in contemporary Russia. It distinguishes between two types of opposition to immigration: exclusionary attitudes based on national membership and exclusionary attitudes based on race or ethnicity, directed exclusively at foreigners with non-Slavic or non-European origins. Findings indicate that a quarter of ethnic Russians can be classified as “racial exclusionists”; they are willing to admit immigrants who share a race/ethnic group with most of Russia’s people but object to the admission of racially/ethnically different immigrants. Another 42% of ethnic Russians are classified as “total exclusionists”; they object to immigration of all foreigners, regardless of their race/ethnicity. Multivariate analysis focuses on the impact of perceived collective vulnerability, human values, and socio-demographic attributes. Opposition to immigration in Russia is further situated within temporal and cross-national comparative perspectives. Apparently, exclusionary attitudes toward immigrants who share a race/ethnicity with most Russians increased between 2006 and 2016.     

国外虚假自白研究的进展

虚假自白是司法心理学研究的重要内容。近十几年来西方虚假自白的研究得到很快的发展。国外虚假自白的分类、实验室中的虚假自白、产生虚假自白的影响因素等方面的研究成果对我国有借鉴意义。了解这些虚假自白的研究进展,借鉴其研究方法和成果,对我国司法心理学的研究有推动促进作用。     

十告九诬：清代诬告盛行之原因剖析

清代诉讼的一个重要特点是诬告现象的普遍,有"无谎不成状"之说。究其原因,可以理解为在清代特定的司法结构之下,百姓的策略行为与官员策略行为的互动导致了清代诬告现象的泛滥,因之也成为清代司法的"顽疾"。就百姓而言,面对官府的"抓大放小"式的司法管理,选择诬告这一策略行为作为回应,以使案件得到官府的受理和重视。就官府而言,诬告犯罪本应是严厉惩治的行为,却因官员规避审判责任的策略行为而被轻纵,这使得百姓诬告的风险降低,从而鼓励了诬告行为的发生。     

虚假诉讼的模型化识别及防范治理——基于诉讼结构的视角

民事诉讼领域里虚假诉讼所涉及的诉讼结构主体,包括原被告、审判方以及关联方:监督方、律师、受害第三者。虚假诉讼原告的直接目的是取得法院生效的民事判决或调解书,最终目的是为自己谋取不正当的利益;虚假诉讼标的基本表现为财产权纠纷;虚假诉讼缺乏真实意义上的诉讼理由。虚假诉讼内涵的七大识别点,显露于构筑其模型的各要素及其相互关系中。防范与治理虚假诉讼,要通过立法与制度,规范诉讼主体、审判方和律师,加强检察机关对虚假诉讼的监督,健全对受害第三者的救济。     

从一个妇女主任的遭遇看村落性别规范

本文通过一个案例剖析村落性别规范的内容、运行逻辑。性别规范有3个层次的内容:(1)日常生活中的言行举止、生活方式,(2)两性分工的内外之别,(3)双重标准的性别规范。通过对村落性别规范运行逻辑的分析,发现村落文化变迁的趋势:村落文化的地域性特征逐渐弱化之后,原有道德规范失去继承,村落社会评价机制发生改变,同时舆论惩罚失去效力,性别规范在村落文化变迁之时也在重新建构。