Peer Predictability

Abstract

This action research and general system theory based qualitative inquiry examined adolescents' dependence on predicting the behavior of their peers as a strategy for enhancing their sense of safety at school and avoiding violence. A total of 95 adolescents in 9th through 12th grades from two small rural schools and one large suburban school in New York State participated in the study. Results indicated that students depend on Peer Predictability to feel safe during the school day when adults fail to predictably supervise or intervene in areas or interactions which adolescents perceive as potentially threatening. Familiarity leading to predictability allowed students to evaluate peers for the possibility of emotional or physical violence. This article presents quotes from the students that capture their unique experience.     

Durkheim and the Reflexive Condition of Modernity

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In this essay, Durkheim's work is approached from a double vantage point. One vantage point looks at Durkheim's work with a post-classical attitude that inter sects the ontological recasting of the social in the work of Castoriadis. It is in the context of social opening that will concentrate on Durkheim's work as it presents a model of reflexivity that concentrates on the historical development of the modern period. Durkheim's model of reflexivity also opens onto the other vantage point of political modernity, which is viewed as a particular constellation of the circulation of power, especially in nation-states, open forms of reflexivity, and democracy, in contrast to another political modernity that revolves around closed socially reflexive forms of totalitarianism and terrorism. Durkheim's work can be a fruitful point of departure for an analysis of political modernity because his theorisation occurs in a way that opens onto the historical development of its mode of reflexivity.     

The Moral Efficacy of Aesthetic Experience: Figures of Meaning in the Moral Field

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This paper proposes to analyse the process that makes paths of action meaningful. It argues that this process is one of "figuration". The term "figuration" intends to outline how the experience of moral meaning is one that already positively marks out a field and to identify and analyse the mechanisms used for such marking and selection. It is my contention that these mechanisms predate the persuasion to a moral path; they are the process through which this path is constructed as meaningful. This thesis is elucidated through an analysis of the tactics of meaning in Kant's moral theory. Kant turns to aesthetics as a means of corroboration for his moral theory, but he also attempts to limit the scope of the interactions between his aesthetic and moral theory. For instance, when he writes on the topic of form in aesthetic taste or outlines the technical specifications of aesthetic judgment, it is arguably the arcane peculiarities of his system that are met. For this reason, Kant insists on the merely analogical relations between beauty and morality. However, it is also possible to see how certain aspects of Kant's aesthetic theory execute wider, and potentially more important, functions for his practical philosophy, such as providing meaningful orientation for the ascetic moral attitude of his duty-ethics. In this respect, certain figures of Kant's aesthetic theory may well be viewed as complementing the dependence in his moral philosophy, in the important sections on moral pedagogy and methodology, on appeals to heroic models and stories as ways of shaping and inculcating the moral disposition. This paper considers these aspects of interaction between Kant's aesthetic and moral philosophies as both (1) a problem for the consistency of his philosophy given his avowed exclusion of aesthetic and religious elements of meaning in his duty-ethics; and (2) as a case study for the new, schematic analysis of "moral figuration" outlined in the paper.     

第三人欺诈与第三人胁迫

传统民法对第三人欺诈与第三人胁迫采取区分式的立法模式。在第三人欺诈情形,排除意思表示人针对善意相对人撤销其意思表示的权利;在第三人胁迫情形,则赋予意思表示人以无限制的撤销其意思表示的权利。区分模式忽视对交易安全的保障,造成法律制度内部的冲突。对第三人欺诈与第三人胁迫设立统一规则的模式具有诸多优点,在最近的民法理论中得到越来越多的支持。在未来中国民法典的编纂中,应对第三人欺诈与第三人胁迫采纳统一的规则模式,承认在无信赖利益保护需求时,被欺诈人与被胁迫人享有撤销权。     

Horizontal Effect and the Constitutional Constraint

This article offers a new interpretation – the ‘constitutional constraint’ model – of the duty the Human Rights Act imposes on the courts to give horizontal effect to European Convention rights through the common law. The model requires courts to develop the common law compatibly with the Convention, but only where compatibility can be achieved by incremental development. We argue that models requiring more than incremental development are unsustainable; that deep constitutional norms compel the constraint of incrementalism, which is preserved under the HRA; and that by virtue of section 2 of the HRA, Convention rights function as principles rather than hard‐edged rights in this context. This further undermines the idea that the courts must strictly apply Convention rights and cannot allow them to be overridden by non‐Convention factors. The final section explores the nature of incrementalism in this context and the impact of the model on the doctrine of judicial precedent.     

探索与前进:论小额速裁程序的构建

从我国近二十年来社会发展的状况和司法实践的需求来看,"普通———简易"的一审诉讼程序类型已经越来越凸显其粗陋之处。近年来,急速膨胀的司法需求迫使人民法院纷纷展开简化诉讼程序、提高司法效率的探索,小额速裁的探索便是其中一种。小额速裁的本质要求是在兼顾公平正义的基础上进一步提高诉讼效率,因此小额速裁的设计必须把握公正与效率之间的平衡。     

论诉讼时效的适用范围

在任何一种时效的立法模式中,权利人的败诉(无胜诉权)都是必然现象。所谓胜诉权消灭仅为时效完成时发生的程序上的效果而非时效的目的,故诉讼时效的客体不应是胜诉权而是因时效届满受到影响的某种实体权利。在各种请求权中,除物权请求权不适用诉讼时效之外,人格权上请求权、身份权上请求权以及知识产权上请求权中,凡以财产给付为内容的债权请求权,当然适用诉讼时效,凡不以财产给付为内容的请求权,则原则上不适用诉讼时效,而形成权等程序性权利以及继承权等资格性权利均不得适用诉讼时效。故如果将消除影响、恢复名誉、赔礼道歉三种请求权视为债权,则诉讼时效的适用范围仅为债权。     

The Chocolate Conundrum: A Simple Simulation of a Canonical Management Problem

This article describes an exercise that simulates one of the most famous of all human management problems: the “tragedy of the commons.” Coined by Garret Hardin in 1968, the term refers to any situation in which people acting rationally to meet their individual interests wind up depleting a shared resource to the detriment of all participants. Because these patterns arise in many real‐world situations — from global warming and natural resource management to free‐rider problems in markets and organizations — this exercise may interest a broad range of negotiation scholars, teachers, and practitioners. The Chocolate Conundrum is a simple exercise that uses candy to demonstrate the tension between individual and collective interests that arises in all social dilemmas. Because these dynamics also arise in many real situations, the exercise can be a powerful teaching tool for instructors in management, public policy, sociology, economics, and many other social science disciplines. Unlike some other simulations of collective action problems, this exercise is simple to administer, requires no computation or tallying of results, and works with a broad range of audiences and group sizes.     

论我国警察行政调查制度的不足与完善

警察机关对治安信息进行收集和处理的活动,势必会影响到相对人的合法权益,由于没有统一的行政程序法,警察行政调查自由裁量权被滥用的案件时有发生,因此有必要建立统一的行政程序法,并进一步完善司法审查制度,来规范警察行政调查的自由裁量权。     

商品房预售合同登记备案制度的再思考

1995年我国以立法的形式规定了商品房预售合同登记备案制度,但由于立法没有明确该制度的性质,并且对该制度法律条款设计得过于简单,从而引起理论层面不同的理解和实践层面对该制度操作的地方差异。结合纠纷现实,分析我国商品房预售合同登记备案制度相关法律法规的规定以及学者们的观点,并对比我国现行《物权法》的预告制度,重新对商品房预售合同登记备案制度进行制度价值定位,提出完善商品房预售合同登记备案制度的具体措施。