The social logic of political choice: Picking a political party in the context of immediate social circles

The Social Logic of Politics places social learning at the center of political choice. People develop their political preferences, knowledge, values, perceptions of ability, and decisions about political behavior in interactions with others, usually members of their social circles. Political attitudes and goals are not derivatives of exogenous economic preferences. They are not the results of careful calculations, in which optimization of personal needs guides the mode of reasoning. This theoretical stance draws sustenance from recent work across the social science, even as it harkens back to established, if neglected principles of political analysis. My thanks to Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck for his encouragement and for the critical comments of several anonymous referees and to Josip Dasović and Jennifer Fitzgerald, my co-authors of Partisan Families: the Social Logic of Bounded Partisanship in Germany and Britain (Zuckerman et al. 2007). Material from that book appears in this essay.     

An Examination of Three Models of the Relationships between Parental Attachments and Adolescents’ Social Functioning and Depressive Symptoms

Three models of attachment relationships—the hierarchy model, the integrative model and the independent model—were compared in order to elucidate which best described the relationship between attachments to fathers versus mothers and its developmental consequences among 1,289 eighth grade students in Taiwan. These consequences included adolescents’ social support from family and friends, social expectations in peer interaction, self-worth, and depressive symptoms. The models can be summarized as follows: the hierarchy model assumes that paternal attachment is influenced by the level of maternal attachment; the integrative model assumes that the combined effects of secure attachments to mother and to father best predict the child’s development; and the independent model suggests that maternal and paternal attachments have differential influences on the child’s developmental outcomes. Our results indicate that the independent model best describes adolescents’ attachment relationships with parents and their subsequent developmental consequences. Moreover, gender differences were found in adolescent’s report of attachment to mother and father in relation with the outcome variables. Yih-Lan Liu is an associate professor at National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C. She received her Ph.D degree 1996 from University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A. Her major research interests include parent-child interaction, attachment relationships, ego development and adolescent development and psychosocial adjustment.     

论中国共产党执政为民理念在不同时期的创新性

中国共产党执政为民理念是以马克思主义的执政理念为指导形成的，并伴随时代的发展而不断创新，从全心全意为人民服务到共同富裕和代表最广大人民群众的根本利益，再到以人为本，尽管在不同的历史时期有不同的表述形式，但其核心价值理念始终未变，对完成特定时期的执政目标具有重要的指导作用。     

双重制度逻辑与县级人大常委会的成长——一种新制度主义视角的解析

就中国县级人大常委会这个新组织而言，其运作和成长的制度环境主要是具有内在紧张关系的双重制度逻辑并存，即自上而下和自下而上的责任逻辑。因此，中国县级人大常委会的组织运作和成长是在平衡矛盾性的制度逻辑、应对制度环境约束中进行的。     

论邓小平教育理论与人的现代化

邓小平教育理论是邓小平理论的重要组成部分,也是中国教育改革和人的现代化的重要理论。人的现代化依赖于教育现代化,教育现代化是人的现代化的基础,“四有”新人是人的现代化的具体目标,“三个面向”是实现人的现代化的途径。     

自由意志与法律意志

针对沉默权立法论争中的“自由意志”问题,从实际出发来探讨自由意志与法律意志这对命题,有益于我国建设法治社会的立法实践。     

Epistemic Reasoning and Adolescent Egocentrism: Relations to Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in Problem Youth

This investigation addressed the question of how two forms of social cognitive reasoning – epistemic reasoning and adolescent egocentrism – interface with externalizing and internalizing forms of psychopathology during adolescence. Adolescents’ epistemic reasoning (i.e., types of belief entitlement, or degree of doubt, held by an individual when confronted with contradictory sides of an issue), and imaginary audience and personal fable ideation, were assessed in a sample of 29 adolescent boys with behavioral problems and 30 of their peers without behavioral problems. To assess internalizing and externalizing symptomatology, teachers completed the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL-TRF). Results revealed that, compared to those without behavior problems, boys with behavioral problems were lower in epistemic reasoning. Further analyses revealed consistent relations between dimensions of social cognitive reasoning to specific forms of psychopathology. These findings suggest that social cognitive reasoning, particularly epistemic doubt, is important in understanding problem behaviors among typical and atypical adolescents.

试述越南社会民俗的特点及其成因

本文认为越南社会民俗文化具有三个方面的特点:一是明显受到中国民俗的影响;二是浓厚的越南民族特色的特征;三是多元文化的民间习俗。越南本土文化的发展及其对外来文化的兼容、改造与异化是造成其民俗社会特点的主要原因。     

以素质教育为主题推进教育事业的全面发展

《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十一个五年规划的建议》对科教兴国和人才强国战略作了重要部署。为了保证人才强国战略的实施,《建议》重申了坚持教育优先发展、全面实施素质教育的方针。为了贯彻这一方针,必须落实科学发展观,以素质教育为主题,着力完成“普及、发展、提高”三大任务,推进教育事业全面协调可持续发展。     

社会工作视阈下青少年情绪问题的归因及其处遇

社会工作作为一门助人自助的专业,发展出了专门的青少年社会工作领域。当前青少年情绪普遍存在精神疾患增多、自我概念低落、缺乏自我控制等问题,究其原因可归纳为个体发展障碍、家庭与社区变迁、朋辈亚文化与学校、大众传媒以及社会转型等多方面的影响。从社会工作的角度开展个案、团体、学校与社区以及社会政策的综合处遇,是解决青少年情绪问题的有效途径。