韩国古代建国神话概述

韩国古代建国神话包括古朝鲜檀君神话、高句丽朱蒙神话、新罗朴赫居世神话、伽国金首露王神话等。在这些神话中,有很多共性元素,如天降、卵生、天父地母等。这些共性元素反映了韩国原始初民的天神崇拜、日神崇拜和最初的阴阳观念;卵生与稻作文化又有着息息相关的关系,韩国建国神话中普遍出现的卵生说印证了以稻作生产交流为途径的中韩文化交流。     

中国的内陆型与濒海型神话

由于中国的内陆地区与濒海地区有着不同的地理环境与自然条件,因此,所创造的神话在内容上具有完全不同的特点,这主要反映在天地结构的观念、世界图式的构拟、日月星辰的运行和理想国的景观特征上。内陆型神话中的天地结构是天圆地方、四极撑拄的盖天式结构,而濒海型神话中想象的天地则是乘气而立、载水而行的浑天式结构。内陆民族想象的日月运行是出于山而入于山的单日型神话,而濒海民族的日月神话则是出于汤谷、息于虞渊的多日型神话。内陆民族想象中的理想国带有明显的山区或平原的景观特点,而濒海神话中的理想国则往往是洲岛型环境。内陆型神话对理想国的描述,同时意味着对宇宙中心的确定与想象,这个中心可以是地理中心,也可以是宗教与政治中心;而濒海型神话中的理想国,则更多的是对六合之外的探究与幻想。     

A Modernization Myth: Public Management Reform and Leadership Behavior in the Irish Public Service

To assess whether public service modernisation in Ireland is a ‘useful myth’, we examine aggregate indicators of leadership behaviours and the interview responses of recognised ‘change agents’ to assess whether there is a gap between the rhetoric and reality of follower engagement in pursuit of a transformative vision that official rhetoric highlights as a potentiality in this sector. The persistence of such a gap can be explained in terms of the usefulness of this potentiality myth in legitimising the leading role top-level public servants play in reform processes in this country although this may have declined during the current recession.     

Mythological representation in popular culture today

Abstract

Mythologies that reside and operate within popular culture representations and the mass communications media reveal valuable insights into the way in which audiences are conditioned to interact with the social world. These myths require critical attention, and an understanding of contemporary myths should be established, as myths (being residents of the popular mass media) are decoded on a near constant basis by audiences.

This article addresses selected mythological representations in popular culture mass media, in order to examine the nature and societal functions of myths. Part of the importance of deconstructing contemporary myths is constituted by the myth's fictional content. While myths function to inform individuals of acceptable societal behaviour and contribute to an ordered social environment, they can also function negatively to represent negative connotative meanings about certain social groups or issues.

The importance of myth is therefore paramount, but the wealth of mythical nuances that could potentially receive critical attention is multitudinous. This article aims simply to uncover some insights into mass media mythological functionalities as a starting point for investigation.     

The remythologisation of white collective identities in post-apartheid South African film by myth and counter myth

Abstract

Since 1994 a collection of films, referred to here as post-apartheid South African history film, has thematically represented South Africa's apartheid history, and in so doing has engaged with the representation of the white figure in ways which suggest a reformulation of collective South African white identity construction. Part of this process is the phenomenon of the remythologisation, or the counter myth construction, of whiteness as an identity on film. Such mythic representations frequently describe the white figure as connected to aspects of guilt (whether individual or collective), remorse and forgiveness. Often the mythic construction of whiteness on film is delivered in a seemingly oversimplified binary fashion, reducing the representation of white identity in the post-apartheid South African situation to one that is robbed of complexities and nuances.     

Between Psychoanalysis and Political Philosophy: Towards a Critical Theory of Political Myth

Abstract

This paper focuses on a specific aspect of political imaginaries: political myth. What are political myths? What role do they play within today's commoditized political imaginaries? What are the conditions for setting up a critique of them? We will address these questions, by putting forward a theory of political myth which situates itself between psycho analysis and political philosophy, in line with the tradition of critical theory that many still associate with the name of the Frankfurt School. We will first discuss the notion of political myth by illustrating the contribution of both disciplines to its understanding and then, through a discussion of the notion of social unconscious, we will apply this analysis to a contemporary example of political myth, that of a clash of civilizations.     

红塔集团开发天文地理旅游项目的建议

红塔集团在抓住西部开发机遇,发展特色旅游业,具有深远战略意义.尤其应开创发掘天文资源,服务地方旅游.中国古代天象体系是一个天、地、人的和谐系统;等级森严的华夏天人观产生了龙的传人的巨大凝聚力.现代天文学研究表明,天体的音乐、天体的舞蹈等发现,这是古代星座神话天象体系置换变形的自然结果.     

Sex,Gender, Multidimensional Value Space,and Social Cultural Resistance—Afrocentrism

This article examines the applicability of the theory of multidimensional value space by Lynn A. Curtis and the theory of social cultural resistance—Afrocentrism by Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie for explaining so-called Black crime and Black juvenile delinquency in general and Black female crime and Black female juvenile delinquency in particular. It notes that the increase in so-called Black crime and Black juvenile delinquency in general and Black female crime and Black female juvenile delinquency in particular may be illusion, not fact. This article notes that perception, at times illusion, may have, and frequently does have, real outcomes, including criminal justice outcomes and delinquency outcomes. It notes that the so-called Black racial monolith is a fiction that race and ethnicity are distinct entities, as are sex and gender that the so-called Black racial monolith consists of distinct Black ethnic identities. The article notes that Black crime, female and male, and adult and juvenile delinquency may be manifestations of primary psychopathy, secondary psychopathy, and dyssocial psychopathy, as noted in the theory of social cultural resistance—Afrocentrism.     

"基本法律神话"的破灭——评《法与现代心智》

作为美国法律现实主义的重要代表人物之一的杰罗姆·弗兰克,在《法与现代心智》一书中阐释了他对法律确定性问题的解答,主张"法律在很大程度上曾经是,现在是,而且将永远是含混的和有变化的".也正是因为他这一激进的观点以及探寻问题的方式,《法与现代心智》在学术界引起广泛关注,进而促进了学者对司法实践的研究.然而,从弗兰克的整体学术关怀来看,法不确定性并不是弗兰克的最终追求,更多的是为了突破人们对法律的旧有理解框架,追寻一种"看得见"的正义,进而达至一个个人潜能可以最大化,每个人都有幸福的一生的社会.     

Implicit judgments of rape cases: an experiment on the determinants and consequences of implicit evaluations in a rape case

Implicit evaluations reflect people’s gut response toward an attitude object and are based on associative processes. They are the starting ground for more reflective processes and subsequent explicit evaluations. The present research examined determinants and consequences of implicit evaluations in a rape case. Situational (i.e. specifics of the rape case) and personal factors (i.e. rape myth acceptance) were demonstrated to influence both explicit and implicit judgments of the rape case. Moreover, sex of participant influenced participants’ implicit evaluations but affected explicit judgments only indirectly via the implicit evaluation. People’s gut response was shown to affect their explicit judgment of the case, and this effect was particularly pronounced for people with a low need for cognition (i.e. people who do not like to engage in effortful processing). The discussion focuses on the role of implicit cognition and implicit biases in judicial decision-making.