Distributive justice and willingness to pay for municipality child care

With the aim of investigating factors affecting willingness to pay for municipality child care, a survey was undertaken in Sweden of 1840 parents living in five municipalities of different sizes. On the basis of the greed-efficiency-fairness hypothesis (Wilke, 1991) which is supported by results from experimental social dilemma research, it was hypothesized that perceived fairness of how the quality of child care is distributed (equal, proportional to need, or proportional to payment) as well as of method of payment (collectively by taxes or proportional to use by fees) would be important determinants of willingness to pay. Results showed that perceived fairness of how quality of child care is distributed played some role but that other factors had stronger effects. Perhaps also reflecting fairness considerations, willingness to pay by fees was on average higher than willingness to pay by taxes. Predicted from previous research, willingness to pay by taxes was furthermore found to increase with income and degree of use. However, willingness to pay by taxes showed an increase rather than the predicted decrease with municipality size.     

社会科学界要珍惜和培养无形合作精神

无形合作是人们对学术争论的一种褒扬性表述 ,它对促进学术交流、推动理论的发展有积极意义。目前我国社会科学界在这方面做得还不够。建立学术争鸣的政策保障机制对促进学术争鸣有积极作用 ;在学术争论中要有正确的目的 ,要从团结和澄清事实的愿望出发开展学术争论 ;在学术争论中要培养高尚的道德风尚 ;要注意营造学术争鸣的气氛。     

网络文化必须承担反邪教的责任

网络既是一种经济运行方式,又是一种文化现象。网络文化既区别于传统文化,又是在传统文化基础上的文化裂变,具有体系的开放性、形式的结构性、内容的动态性和制约的松散性等特性,全方位地冲击和影响了传统文化。针对"法轮功"等邪教组织的网络"信息轰炸"、"文化殖民"、"信息恐怖"和"信息欺诈"的威胁与挑战,在互联网为代表的信息技术时代,深化反邪教斗争中,必须以"三个代表"重要理论和科学发展观为指导,更好地确立反邪教网络文化理念;拓展平台,积极开展丰富多彩的反邪教网络文化活动;突出重点,建设权威网站,打造反邪教网络文化精品;科学整合资源,建设反邪教网络文化体系。     

诱惑侦查的经济分析

引入经济分析的方法,通过对诱惑侦查的成本与收益关系的分析,得出具有效益的诱惑侦查的实施范围,这种理性的分析方法对于我们探讨诱惑侦查的合法性问题具有一定的借鉴意义。     

知识产权犯罪动因论析

随着信息时代的到来,网络膨胀着社会各方面的发展,知识经济潮头涌现。知识产权犯罪作为知识经济的消极衍生物,处于滋生蔓延状态。知识产权犯罪具有复杂的政治、经济、社会、文化以及心理原因,这些原因有机整合为一个原因体系。     

Back to Basics Mexican Style: Radical Catholicism and Survival on the Margins1

Abstract— The significance of radical Catholic movements among the urban poor in Latin American cities has been the subject of much debate over recent years, though Mexican cases have received less attention. This paper argues that their practical, material objectives cannot be understood in isolation from the holistic religious and moral community in which participants project for themselves. It is also argued that the social justice sought within the base communities is as much a product of a long, if varied, radical, Christian tradition as it is of the particular circumstances of political and economic marginalisation in contemporary Mexican cities.     

Peer pressure and adolescent substance use

Peer influence is regarded as one of the strongest determinants of juvenile delinquency and particularly adolescent substance use. A commonly held view is that social pressure from friends to use drugs and alcohol is a major contributor to substance use. Yet the notion of peer pressure, implied by the association between peer-group associations and drug behavior, is seldom tested empirically. As a crucial test of the group pressure model, this research examines the role of peer pressure in mediating the effect of differential association on individual use. Moreover, few studies examine the nature of the relationship between peers and substance use as it relates to the processes leading toand from use. Drawing on differential association and social learning theories, our research specifies the social processes (socialization, group pressure, social selection, and rationalization) which dictate particular causal pathways leading to and from substance use and then estimates the reciprocal influences among differential association, social pressure from peers, attitudes favorable toward substance use, and individual use. Using the 1977–1979 National Youth Survey panel data, we estimate a covariance structural equation model allowing for correlated measurement error. In the cross-sectional analyses, we find no main effects of overt peer pressure on substance use. Estimation of the reciprocal effects model also reveals that overt peer pressure does not significantly influence substance use and does not mediate the effect of differential association. Instead, the influences of socialization, social selection, and rationalization play significant roles in understanding substance use.An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1994 American Society of Criminology meetings in Miami, Florida.     

传统发展理念的内在矛盾

传统发展理念由于其包含一系列内在矛盾而使自身陷入困境并导致了发展危机。这主要表现在:发展至上主义的迷醉及其对生存家园的遗忘;技术乐观主义的虚妄及其对有限理性的消失;人类中心主义的偏执及其对天人关系的僭越;消费享乐主义的滥觞及其对生态伦理的缺席。在揭示传统发展理念深层矛盾困境的同时,昭示当代人应自觉走出其设定的内部陷阱,从而为建构通向未来科学的发展观扫清理念上的障碍。     

作为知识社会学个案的我国“法律文化”研究

学界在谈论法律文化研究在我国兴起的原因之时,多将其归咎于国外法律文化研究的引入,这固然不错,但笔者以为,恐怕更深层次的原因还在于特定时代背景下的现实需求使然;法律文化研究在我国的出现,是基于特定“社会居所”的现实欲求和历史思索以及学术共同体内部渴望打破旧有研究格局的需要等多重诱因作用的结果,国外法律文化研究的传入,某种意义上仅仅是开放了法学界希望从更为广阔的角度来理解和解说法律实践的特定接受趋向,同时赋予国内的法律文化研究一种“学术合法性的追认”,并未产生太大实质性学术影响。     

论罪刑法定原则的社会基础

罪刑法定原则的立法化 ,当然离不了学者们的创构与证成 ,但是关键还在于社会的现实需要。在一定意义上讲 ,罪刑法定原则的立法化与社会的现实结构紧密相关。在中国 ,伴随着一元化社会结构的是源远流长的刑事类推制度 ,而随着市民社会的兴起和二元化社会结构的成长 ,罪刑法定原则终于实现了立法化。