Interfamily economic exchange: A function of culture or economics?

This study explores differences in inter-household exchange of goods and services in Anglo- and Mexican-American families controlling for income level and for ethnicity. The extent of such exchange, its perceived importance to the family's quality of life, satisfaction with the exchange, and the relation of persons in the exchange process are examined. Significant differences are found more often between higher income Anglo- and Mexican-Americans than between low-income families, both in the family providing goods and services for others and in the receipt of them. Higher income Mexican-American families are more likely than their Anglo- counterparts to exchange with relatives. Ethnic effects are more prevalent in higher income households than in low-income households. Economic effects are more predominant than ethnic effects.This study contributes to interregional Agricultural Experiment Station Research Project NC-128, Quality of Life as Influenced by Area of Residence. Cooperating states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Texas.Flora L. Williams' current research interests include income adequacy, financial problems, and indicators of change in economic well-being. She is an Associate Professor, Consumer Sciences and Retailing, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.     

美国小学ESL教学的特色与启示——以密歇根州红杉小学为例

美国是移民国家，它的小学ESL课程根据学生不同的语言文化背景来进行教学。其中，密歇根州红杉小学的ESL教学颇具特色。通过概述其在课程资源开发、教学策略及教学评价方面的特色，希冀对我国小学外语教学的课程资源观、教学策略观以及教学评价观的转变有一定的借鉴与启示作用。     

Mighty Crime Victims: Victims' Rights and Neoliberalism in the American Conjuncture

Over the last 30 years, the victims' rights movement has expanded the role of victims in the American criminal justice system. As a result of this movement, judges, prosecutors and parole boards must now hear victims' views at all stages of the criminal justice process, including plea bargains, and sentencing and parole decisions. Legislative efforts have been spearheaded by victims' families, and legislation has been named after deceased victims. Also, victims' families can now view executions in states across the country. The victims' right movement assumes that the criminal justice system should privilege victims' interests over those of society. In so doing, it denies society as a consideration, which is tantamount to a denial of society itself. This article positions victims' rights' denial of society within the current conjuncture, marked as it is by the contradiction between neoliberalism and American liberalism. Victims' rights' denial of society is an expression of the denial of society implicit in American neoliberalism, which seeks to privilege individual interests over those of society. This paper argues that victims' rights is a powerful element of the neoliberal project for three reasons. First, victims' rights imputes the authority of legal discourse to neoliberalism's denial of society. Second, important actors in the rise of neoliberalism have also worked to establish victims' rights. Finally, victims' rights comprehensively circulates throughout America and offers powerful points of identification that incorporate Americans into the victims' rights formation. I explore the denial of society in three victims' rights practices: naming criminal legislation after crime victims and passing such laws in honour of victims; allowing victims' families to view executions; and prosecutors, judges and police personnel making legal decisions according to victims' wishes. I examine the consonant denial of society in three neoliberal practices – monetarism, supply-side economics and welfare reform – and demonstrate how neoliberal advocates like Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Paul Gann worked to advance victims' rights. I also describe the production, consumption and comprehensive circulation of victims' rights texts. Finally, I consider Cultural Studies' unique contribution to legal studies.     

福建省永春县农村文化产业发展研究

从永春县农村文化产业发展的主要成就、存在的主要问题两个方面,来分析当前永春县农村文化产业发展的现状,并探讨永春县农村文化产业发展的重要意义。最后,提出该县农村文化产业发展的主要对策。     

Travelling concepts and crossing paths: a conceptual history of identity

The concept of identity is ubiquitous in public discourse even though its meaning is often imprecise or nebulous – it is maybe because of this that its contents can be taken for granted. One speaks of individual, personal, group, social, collective and political identity; of identity formation, crisis, diffusion, conflict and politics; a multiple identity may be pathological or a component of an integrated identity; culture and ideology but also knowledge and experience supposedly enrich identity; identity may be rigid or open to development and growth – and so on. Against this background the present paper explores the argumentative uses of the concept of identity in psychoanalysis and in social psychology and sociology.     

应用心理硕士与应用心理学硕士培养方案的比较

应用心理硕士作为新开设的专业性硕士学位,与学术性学位中的应用心理学硕士有相似之处。文章对西南大学应用心理硕士专业学位研究生培养方案与其应用心理学硕士学术学位研究生培养方案进行了比较,剖析了二者的异同。     

邯郸成语典故的文化精神与当代价值

邯郸成语典故大量孕育于春秋战国至两汉时期,是其辉煌时代的一种特有的历史记忆形式,也是其注重事功的学术传统与全民皆商的土风民俗的必然产物。它蕴涵了变革图强、开放包容、厚德重法等主要文化精神,有着不容忽视的当代价值,并且可以通过与当代社会主义文化繁荣发展的密切结合来切实实现其当代价值转换。     

文化品性：中国本土心理学的传统超越

世界心理学正面临着本土化议题的不断挑战,随着西方主流心理学解释力的下降以及与生活现实问题的相互分离,心理学界正在呼唤心理学本土化,中国心理学也顺应时代潮流,加入了心理学本土化改革的大潮中。以中国传统文化为中国心理学研究的框架,开展中国本土心理学研究,将中国心理学赋予中国的文化品性,将是中国本土心理学研究的应有之义,也是...     

Family court ordered “reunification therapy:” junk science in the guise of helping parent/child relationships?

This Commentary addresses the issue of the ethics of mental health professionals recommending or doing what family courts and some others are calling “Reunification Therapy.” This is often being recommended and used across the country, and ordered by family courts, as if it has a scientific basis for successful therapy between an estranged parent and a child who does not wish to re-engage with that parent, often where the child has alleged the parent has abused them physically, sexually, or psychologically. This Commentary challenges the ethics and validity of such approaches and programs.     

受众心理分析视角的网络谣言治理

网络受众是网络谣言传播的主体，其不同的心理状态推动了网络谣言的生成与传播。网络受众的心理状态主要表现为泄愤心理、从众心理、窥私心理、投射心理以及选择心理等多种复杂的心理状态。这些心理状态的成因在于社会主义民主法制不健全、政府公信力低以及受众理性精神不足。唯有通过加强民主法制建设，健全网络法治监管，建立信息发布机制，建立辟谣中介组织以及加强网络媒介素养教育等途径，才能培育成熟的网络受众心理，从而提升网络谣言治理的成效。