论社会资本与农村社区文化建设——基于CGSS2005调查数据的分析和思考

农村社区文化作为新农村建设的一个重要方面,己不仅仅是一种文化娱乐、文化设施,还影响和包容着人们的行为规范、信仰观念、人际关系等。基于一项全国性调查数据(CGSS2005)的分析显示,当前我国农村社区文化活动从绝对数量和相对数量上看都非常的匮乏。相关分析显示,农村社区社会资本与社区文化的发展状况之间存在显著的正相关关系,加强农村社区文化建设不仅有利于增进农村社区社会资本、强化社区认同感、增进地缘关系和人际关系,而且对于使村民超越个体私利形成具有集体责任感和归属感的农村社区具有重要作用。     

满族传统婚姻家庭法文化研究

满族作为中华民族56个民族大家庭中的一员,在悠久的历史长河中留下了光辉的足迹,扮演了十分重要的角色。它不仅建立了一个中央政权,还统治中国长达二百余年,为中华民族的政治统一、领土完整、经济发展和文化进步做出了巨大贡献。如今随着社会的交流、融合和发展,居住在城市的满族人的民族特点正在逐渐消亡,因此寻找满族曾经的痕迹和拯救满族的传统文化具有深远的意义,力图从法文化分析的角度出发来剖析满族传统婚姻家庭中各种制度背后所蕴含的文化理念。     

论公安文化的特征与作用

人民公安机关在长期革命斗争实践中，形成了丰富的具有公安特色的公安文化，对推动公安工作和加强公安队伍建设发挥了积极的作用。新形势下要总结和研究什么是公安文化，公安文化有何特征，公安文化对公安工作有哪些作用，从而全面贯彻落实江泽民同志“三个代表”的指导思想。     

东北文化环境对民营企业家成长的影响解析

东北地区辽宁、吉林、黑龙江三省其经济地理特征及文化、体制背景具有很强的同质性。对东北地区民营企业家的问卷调查,刻画了东北地区的文化环境对民营企业家成长发育的影响。东北地区特定的历史地理环境、制度环境所形成的东北区域文化决定了东北地区民营企业家产生与发展的特殊环境及其特殊性。企业家群体与社会文化环境之间形成良性互动与循环,是企业家成长与区域经济发展的基础性条件。     

试论政治文化变迁与当代中国法治进程

当代中国政治文化的变迁推动和影响了中国法治的进程,对中国法治的实现具有重要意义。当代中国政治文化从封闭保守到开放改革的变迁推动了法律领域的思想解放运动和法制建设的恢复和发展;政治文化从革命到建设的变迁推动了中国革命型法制到建设型法制的发展,推动了有中国特色社会主义法律体系的初步建立和完善;政治文化从“人治”到“法治”的变迁推动了“依法治国,建设社会主义法治国家”治国方略和目标的确立;“和谐”政治文化的构建对我国法治建设提出了新的要求,促进了法治理念的更新,正在并将进一步推动我国法治建设的发展。     

Religion and the Media in a Battle for Ideological Hegemony: the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and TV Globo in Brazil

Abstract – Starting out from a celebrated 1995 controversy which arose from a late-night incident on Brazilian TV, the relationships between neo-Pentecostalism and established culture are explored. Taking into account traditions of legal rhetoric and of political adherence, the paper shows that what appears at one level as a religious conflict is at another level a conflict over political power, over the rhetoric and imagery of power, and for control of the popular imaginary.     

Revisiting the role of civic organizations in Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan: Confidence,membership, and democratic practice

In many emerging and authoritarian countries, civil society organizations that focus on political or sensitive policy issues are being cracked down upon, while service-oriented ones are given a relatively greater ability to operate. What might the consequence of this be for democratic practice given the important role civic organizations play in this process? We examine this question by considering whether the absence of confidence in a country's governing institutions is related to membership in service-rather than governance-focused civic organizations, and how such membership is associated with elite-challenging, political activities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. We find that individuals who have no confidence in state institutions are less likely to seek membership in governance-focused civic organizations, but not necessarily in service-focused ones. At the same time, membership in both types of civic organizations is associated with participation in political activities, while beliefs that a country is run democratically decreases it. This suggests that a variety of civic organizational types, even those without an explicit governance-focus, contingent on perceptions of democratic governance and other covariates held constant, enhance democratic practice.     

Nordic Cultural Baselines: Accounting for Domestic Convergence and Foreign Policy Divergence

The five Nordic countries converged remarkably when developing domestic institutions, but they diverged significantly when developing foreign policies. Grid-group theory prescribes four contending cultures—hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism, and fatalism—and offers a basis for understanding the structure of political coalitions and conflicts. Surveys from the five Nordic countries measuring cultural baselines are used to estimate the degree of convergence and divergence. The countries converge with reference to high agreement with egalitarianism, individualism, and hierarchy, and disagreement with fatalism. This concords with the historically strong regime of social democracy in this region. The five countries diverge with reference to their foreign policy in that they polarize along two dimensions. To the east, there is increasing fatalism associated with countries not being members of NATO; to the north, there is increasing egalitarianism associated with countries not being members of the European Union. Given the importance of popular support through referenda, an eventual accession of Norway and Iceland to the EU cannot happen unless egalitarianism diminishes among their publics.     

论当代东南亚华人文化与当地主流文化的双向互动

东南亚华人因深远的中华文化背景而长期保留其民族特征 ,但因与当地居民杂居混血 ,以及当地文化的巨大冲击 ,其文化正日益接纳当地成份 ,从而形成传统性与当地化交融并存的局面。另一方面 ,以融汇外来文化著称的东南亚文化 ,也正经历着适应与涵化华人文化的过程。华人文化与东南亚当地文化的双向互动由此而产生。     

功能主义"法律史解释"及其限度——评瞿同祖《中国法律与中国社会》

《中国法律与中国社会》的功能主义倾向集中体现于其整体文化观,即历时性向度的"古代法整体论"和共时性向度的"法律的社会决定论"。经由历时性问题共时性化而达致的整体文化观不仅因看不到社会/法律变迁、"小传统"与"大传统"的互动博弈而有失之专断的简单化缺陷,而且其法律史解释也因其梅因式单线进化论和"尾随西方"的现代化模式之前设的存在而具有较大的主观性。法律的功能分析与整体文化观、单线进化论前设之间也存有张力。