Vietnamese Youth Gangs in Honolulu

SUMMARY

Traditional theories of the connection between immigrant youth and gangs have not been sufficient in explaining why some are not in gangs. Therefore, this study examines Vietnamese youth gangs in Honolulu and the factors contributing to Vietnamese delinquency and youth gang participation. Twenty-six interviews were conducted with agency, school, police, Vietnamese adults, and Vietnamese youth. Results suggest that though the content of the delinquency model is different for immigrant and nonimmigrant youth, the process is the same. Problems in the home, school, or neighborhood facilitate contact with delinquent youth, and association with delinquent peers increases the likelihood for delinquency and gang involvement. Therefore, participation inyouth gangs depends on peer relationships. This finding is congruent with the perceptions of youth, while adults appear less aware of the effects of peer relationships among youth.     

加强民族文化资源开发是富民兴桂的重要途径

广西具有丰富的民族文化资源 ,进行合理而科学地开发 ,使之转化为精神产品和文化产业 ,不仅有利于社会主义精神文明建设和民族进步 ,而且还有利于民族地区脱贫致富加快发展。因此我们要解放思想 ,深化改革 ,处理好保护与开发的关系 ,加大开发民族文化资源的力度     

市民社会的文化特征

现代社会是一个政治国家与市民社会相互分离而又良性互动的结构体 ,在这个结构体中 ,市民社会是基础性的领域。市民社会是个人的特殊性得到充分表现的世界 ,因此 ,市民社会的文化是一种高扬个体主体性的文化 ,它所努力创造的是一个表现个人的生活意义和生存价值的观念世界。市民社会的文化既不同于传统文化所追求的价值统一性 ,也不同于国家意识形态所欲求的思想一致性 ,而是试图在多元价值目标并存的前提条件下 ,达致社会生活的公共性、个人生活的伦理意义和不同社会主体共同的理想目标     

文化行政体制改革与首都文化产业的发展

本文依据党中央、国务院明确提出的要推进政府机构改革、转变政府职能的政策 ,论述了北京市文化行政体制改革应走的道路 ,并展望了首都文化产业发展的光明前景     

Nomadic by nature? Contradictions and precarious work in Mongolian tourism

ABSTRACT

Mongolia's transition to a democratic, market economy has created widespread change, especially among pastoral herders. Pastoralists have been depicted as archaic and independent ‘nomads’ who exist outside the modern economy. Still, pastoral culture is a key asset in tourism products and advertising. Tourism could provide fair economic benefits, but inclusive growth depends on how shareholders participate. Using interviews with tour company employees, I investigate how tour companies incorporate pastoralists into their products. The results demonstrate several barriers to inclusive growth. Companies feel individually responsible for managing tourism assets, and to maintain the guise of pastoral authenticity, they limit pastoralists’ participation in business through informal and contingent work contracts. These contracts reveal problematic asymmetry and give pastoralists little job security, control, or access to employee benefits. These circumstances oppose inclusive growth paradigms and demonstrate elements of precarious work. The shared interest in maintaining pastoral culture may unify this fragmented industry.     

The Deep Roots of Libya’s Security Fragmentation

Abstract

Six years after the 2011 revolution that toppled the Gaddafi regime, the political transition in Libya is at a standstill. The fragmented security landscape fuels chronic local conflicts, lawlessness, and insecurity, and paralyzes the political transition with destabilizing consequences on its neighbors. What explains the rapid, profound, and lasting security fragmentation that affected post-Gaddafi Libya? Notwithstanding the manifest failures of the international intervention during and after the 2011 conflict, this article argues that the security fragmentation in post-Gaddafi Libya is deeply rooted in domestic economic, cultural, and political factors. In particular, the Libyan economy offers almost no employment opportunities, and the country lacks a unitary government and functioning state institutions that it needs to redistribute its oil wealth. Under these circumstances, Libyans attempt to cope with economic hardship, insecurity, and lawlessness by turning towards their family, tribe, neighborhood, or ethnic group, thereby fueling the fragmentation of security. Libya’s current security fragmentation and instability can be seen as part of the messy historical process of state formation. During this phase, political and security agreements are brokered and institutionalized through localized processes of rebel governance whose realm of possible arrangements are determined by contextual economic, political and cultural constraints.     

Rethinking the Relationship between Religion and Political Tolerance in the US

While there has been numerous empirical works on political tolerance in the United States, many of these studies have not: addressed the role of religion, used adequate measures of religion, incorporated advances in the measurement of political tolerance, and/or included all the psychological and political predictors of political tolerance. Correcting these deficiencies, I present and test a religious model of political tolerance utilizing structural equation modeling. I find that the negative relationship typically demonstrated between both religious commitment and doctrinal orthodoxy to political tolerance does not manifest and that religion is insignificant vis-à-vis political and psychological determinants of political tolerance.

"以人为本"与经济繁荣 --以珠江三角洲为例

全球竞争时代,建立"以人为本"的企业文化对企业发展至关重要.以珠江三角洲地区的企业对待外来员工的恶劣态度为例,该地区经济繁荣背后蕴含着企业文化危机以及与之相连的企业可持续发展危机.学习并创建"以人文本"的企业文化,既是化解企业当下危机的方法,也是增强企业核心竞争力的方法,更是企业界对创建新的中国文化作出的最好贡献.     

政府执行力与行政文化的隐性链接

“执行力”是衡量一个政府管理能力的重要指标。执行力的强弱关系到一个政府管理效率的强弱。如果缺乏强有力的执行效力,政府的公共政策和战略决策只能是无本之木、无源之水。加强政府执行力可以从多重角度考虑,尤其要注意到行政文化对政府执行力的潜在影响。从行政文化的角度出发,创建“执行力文化”,是提高政府执行效力的良好途径。     

“中国和平崛起”与“国际体系和平变迁”——以建构主义“国际体系变迁”理论为依据

2005年4月23日,新加坡内阁资政李光耀在博鳌亚洲年会上作了"为中国和平崛起而实现的共赢方针"的主旨演讲①,这暗示着我们的一些邻国开始正视并参与中国和平崛起的过程.如果这一过程能够顺利进行,中国及其所带动的其它发展中国家,如印度、俄罗斯和巴西等国的崛起将必然给现有的国际体系带来深刻变革.②在主流国际体系变迁理论中,无论是肯尼思·华尔兹的"权力分配论",还是吉尔平的"权力转换理论",抑或是沃勒斯坦的"世界体系理论",都是聚焦在如何通过霸权战争等非和平方式完成国际体系的变迁.如果只把这些理论作为"中国威胁论"的理论依据而加以否认,不跳出其分析框架来重塑国际体系和平变迁的途径,那么中国和平崛起的理论构建中就存在着不足与缺陷.笔者认为,建构主义的"国际体系和平变迁"理论更适于为中国和平崛起及其导致的国际体系和平变迁提供理论依据.