殡葬文化与精神文明建设

一个社会有四类主要的民俗活动,即婚、丧、节、寿;殡葬文化是在治丧民俗活动中建立起来的一类文化,它构成社会精神文明的一个重要组成部分;建立优秀的殡葬文化是建设精神文明的必要前提.     

我国法治社会形成中的主要因素分析

我国法治社会形成过程中,有多种因素在起作用。社会现状,这是探讨法治社会形成、发展的客观依据,也是客观条件;法文化传统,这是法治社会具有民族特色的历史资源,它是一种客观存在,但由于人们对它的认识和态度的不同,便表现为不同的主观因素;市场经济,这是法治社会基础性的推动力量,但在市场经济成熟过程中出现的一些问题,又加重了建构法治社会的任务;精神文明建设,这是造就法治社会合格主体的有效途径,它重在建设,要常抓不懈才能见效;法治国家。它与法治社会相互促进、相辅相成,二者虽有区别,但其建构过程不能截然分开。     

创新是实现民族伟大复兴的灵魂

江泽民同志的创新理论包括理论创新和知识创新；体制创新和制度创新；科技创新和化创新。全面贯彻落实江泽民同志的创新思想就要认真学习创新理论和方法；进一步解放思想；大力培育既有数量又有质量的创新人才；营造有利于创新的社会环境和氛围；领导干部要成为创新的模范。     

论依法治国进程中的法律文化建设

在推进依法治国 ,建设社会主义法治国家的进程中 ,应当把法律文化的建设放在与制度变革同等重要的地位。文章分析了中国法律文化缺乏法治因素的原因 ;中国传统法律文化对依法治国进程的负面影响 ;并对如何建设顺应建设法治国家目标的法律文化进行了探讨     

意音文字存在的民族语言文化条件

文字选择的背后隐藏了一个民族在语言文化方面的重要信息 ,一个民族的特殊语言文化背景在很大程度上规定了自然文字的发生发展方向。从特定的民族语言文化背景看 ,决定意音文字存在的民族语言文化条件是 :1 该意音文字所记录的方言很复杂 ;2 用该意音文字所书写的古代文本很丰富 ;3 该意音文字是原生的 ;4 该意音文字所记录的是权威语言。目前汉字和彝文满足了这些条件 ,并且汉字已经走入一种超稳定状态。当然拼音文字也有其优势 ,拼音文字应该与汉字并行而不取代汉字。     

简论我国稻作文化中的生殖崇拜内涵

生殖崇拜作为世界文化史上一个普遍存在的现象，在我国稻作文化中有着诸多的反映，它往往与人们祈盼谷物丰收的活动紧密联系在一起。本文从对鱼、蛙、龙、鸟及一些相关崇拜事象入手，简要论述了我国稻作文化中的生殖崇拜内涵。     

伦理实体:道德教化的社会环境支持

人们在讨论道德教化问题时,一般都认为只要制定一套合理的道德原则和道德规范,教育人们遵守执行,就能提高人们的道德水平。而实际上,道德教化是人的内在心灵的整体生长,所以需要社会的伦理环境的支持、营养。因此使人们的生活共同体成为伦理实体,对道德教化来说是绝对必需的。     

Back to the factory: the continuing salience of industrial workplace history

ABSTRACT

Factories remain significant sites of employment, crucial to capitalism. In the twentieth century, scholars registered achievements in documenting their history, but since the late 1980s, and for a generation, the field lost impetus within labour history although insights continued to accumulate through work in adjacent disciplines. The factory has not featured on the agenda of ‘transnational’ and ‘global’ labour history, but we suggest that it can and should contribute to that broader global project, reinvigorating labour history, not least by contributing a dimension close to workers’ everyday experience.     

Striking hard rock veins. Multinational Corporations and Miners’ Unions in Mexico and the United States, 1906-1952

ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes simultaneous strikes during the first half of the 20th century in North America. The transformation of production in copper, lead, zinc, and silver mining districts determined the formation of a working class that operated between Mexico and the United States. Therefore, the labor conflicts combined market circumstances and management-imposed homologation of work structures across firm divisions with the international coordination of miners. The paper describes the emergence, growth, and demise of a regional industrial system.     

The fate of the Assyrian minority in early independent Iraq: a test case of political violence based on rational primordialism

Analyzing ethno-national conflicts is usually not easy in that not all quantitative scientific tools are useful to the student of a conflict based on primordial elements. The burden of studying the outcome of a conflict is all the more complex given that the two conflicting groups might be at two different stages of their political development at any given time during the course of the conflict. In the case of the fate of the [Eastern Christian] Assyrian community in early independent Iraq, the political rationale for decisions taken by each party was drawn from different sociological, historical and political realms. Decisions in times of conflict and their political and historical ramifications are not always rational, since they draw upon primordial/communal considerations rather than the accurate reading of the overall true strategic scene.

The violence was an outcome of a combination of primordial differences and rational choice. The Iraqis sought to establish a new sovereign state with minimal disturbances from its Christian minority that they perceived as not belonging to the new nation. As for the Assyrians, they chose violence believing that at least some superpowers would support them. Historically, this rational decision based upon a primordial dispute turned out to be a mistake primarily because of lack of external support, weak internal cohesion of the group, and feeble leadership.