The Role of Mothers’ and Adolescents’ Perceptions of Ethnic-racial Socialization in Shaping Ethnic-racial Identity Among Early Adolescent Boys and Girls

The current study examined relationships between adolescents’ and mothers’ reports of ethnic-racial socialization and adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity. The sample included 170 sixth graders (49% boys, 51% girls) and their mothers, all of whom identified as Black, Puerto Rican, Dominican, or Chinese. Two dimensions of ethnic-racial socialization (cultural socialization and preparation for bias) were evaluated alongside three dimensions of ethnic-racial identity (exploration, affirmation and belonging, and behavioral engagement). Mothers’ reports of their cultural socialization predicted adolescents’ reports, but only adolescents’ reports predicted adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity processes. Mothers’ reports of preparation for bias predicted boys’ but not girls’ reports of preparation for bias. Again, only adolescents’ reports of preparation for bias predicted their ethnic-racial identity. Thus, several gender differences in relationships emerged, with mothers’ and adolescents’ perceptions of cultural socialization, in particular, playing a more important role in girls’ than in boys’ identity processes. We discuss the implications of these findings for future research.

The political context and Duverger's theory: Evidence at the district level

A central tenet of electoral systems' research is that more parties should get votes in districts with large magnitudes than in districts with smaller magnitudes. This proposition is largely untested at the district level, even though that is the level at which relevant pressures are expected to work. At the aggregate level, research has found that there are systematic deviations from Duverger's law related to incentives from ethnolinguistic fragmentation, institutions, and strategic voting. This analysis confirms that many of these results hold at the district level, which is the most appropriate level for testing Duverger's law. District level party-system fragmentation patterns in 44 countries support Duverger's basic hypotheses. The effect of electoral institutions is contingent, however, upon the presence of social cleavages that generate pressures for additional parties, the establishment of patterns of party-system competition that help voters evaluate contenders' viability, and the absence of competing incentives generated by districts of varying magnitudes. These effects are robust to different specifications of social heterogeneity. However, we find no evidence that institutional features like federalism or presidentialism reduce the strategic effects of district level factors.     

The logic of competitive influence-seeking: Russia,Ukraine, and the conflict in Donbas

The crisis in Ukraine since late 2013 has seen four successive internationally mediated agreements that have been at best partially implemented. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and 42 key informant interviews sides, we explain this outcome with reference to the logic of competitive influence-seeking: Russia is currently unable to achieve a friendly and stable regime in Kyiv and thus hedges against the consolidation of an unfriendly pro-Western and stable regime by maintaining its control over parts of eastern Ukraine and solidifying the dependence of local regimes there on Russian support. This gives Russia the opportunity to maintain the current status quo or settle for re-integration terms through which Russia can sustain long-term influence over Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy. We conclude by reflecting on the consequences of competitive influence-seeking in the post-Soviet space: the likely persistence of low-intensity conflict in Ukraine; the further consolidation of territorial divisions in other post-Soviet conflicts; and the need for policy-makers in Russia and the West to prioritize the management of the consequent instability.     

纳尔逊·格雷本的"旅游人类学"

近几十年来,随着旅游业的蓬勃发展,许多国家对旅游业的研究,从各个方面得到了深入的发展,并上升到一定的理论高度.在一些西方国家里,一些旅游业研究的学者提出了"旅游人类学"这一新的学说,使旅游业的研究又上了一个更高的台阶,拓宽了研究的领域,促进了旅游业的新发展.纳尔逊·格雷本(Nelson Graburn)是美国加州大学柏克利分校的人类学家,他的旅游人类学理论有独到的思想观点和模式,引起了人类学界的广泛关注.     

Consanguinity as capital in rights assertions: Japanese-Filipino children in the Philippines

This paper examines the material dimensions of ethnic identity claims by Japanese-Filipino children in the Philippines and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating on their behalf. Most Japanese-Filipino clients of NGOs in the Philippines were raised by their Filipino families with little knowledge of their Japanese fathers and little or no lived experience of Japan. Although these children and young adults are often called “multi-cultural” by NGO workers, they frequently grow up with no connection to Japan other than an awareness of their Japanese parentage and Japanese cultural products equally accessible to most Filipinos. I argue that filiation can be leveraged to gain access to resources not only through the legal implications that are provided by biological relationships, but also through symbolically salient claims for belonging to a nation or people by virtue of descent. This consanguineal capital should primarily be understood in politically symbolic terms, mobilized in processes of claims-making and based on notions of “blood” and belonging and their frequent conflation with ethnicity.     

佐科维执政初期印尼华人社会状况初探

印尼总统佐科维自2014年10月上台以来,重视与中国发展政治与经贸关系,与中国缔结全面战略伙伴关系。在族群政策方面,他采用公平对待各族裔、各宗教的政策,继续改善包括华人在内的少数族裔的地位,华人的政治参与、经济参与和社会文化权利都有所提升。在此背景下,外界认为印尼华人正处在历史的最佳时期。但在较好的现状和光明的前景下,依然存在影响华人生存状况的隐忧。印尼经济发展疲软、政府控制力偏弱以及歧视华人的社会基础深厚,是造成隐忧频现的原因。如果佐科维政府的经济改革仍不奏效,政府对社会现状持续失控,针对华人的大规模骚乱事件仍将有可能发生。     

马来西亚华人与马来人共生态势初探

独立以来,马来西亚的华人和马来人之间形成了事实上的共生状态。马来西亚华人与马来人虽有族群间矛盾,但两者已基本上形成彼此忍让、相互共处的局面。这种共生态势,主要表现在两者在政治上合作、经济上渗透和文化上交流。共生态在马来西亚华人与马来人的关系中具有重要的意义。     

再探中泰傈僳族研究现状之比较

自从傈僳族迁徙到泰国后,特别是20世纪六七十年代以来,很多学者对其进行了深入研究,相继出版和发表了大量相关的书籍和文章。本文从社会经济、宗教、教育等方面对这些研究成果进行简要梳理,并在此基础上对国外与泰国学者对泰国傈僳族的研究现状和我国学者对国内傈僳族的研究现状作一些比较。     

民族地区乡村汉族移民社会关系的建构——以宁夏南部的几个汉族移民家族为例

通过对宁夏南部几个汉族移民家族的田野调查,从社会关系建构的视角,我们发现,民族地区乡村汉族移民建构社会关系的主要方式有：原有社会关系的＂移植＂、通过＂认家门＂的方式融入当地大户汉族人家的家族内部、以＂结亲、联姻＂的方式与当地汉族大家族建立紧密联系以及通过密切的经济往来主动与当地回族建立良好关系等。     

失范与有序:西部民族地区毒品犯罪治理——基于甘肃省临夏回族自治州毒品问题的实证研究(一)

西部民族地区毒品犯罪有着深刻的背景和缘由,关涉政治、经济、文化及社会诸多层面,需对其进行综合治理。严格涉毒财产调查,严厉打击零星贩毒,重视宗教在毒品犯罪治理中的作用,学习借鉴国内外成功的禁毒模式,积极探索戒毒康复新模式,切实帮助西部民族地区群众脱贫致富等,实现刚性治理与柔性治理并重、显性治理与隐性治理同行的治理新模式,以期从失范状态走向有序境地。