The organizational shaping of collective identity: The case of lesbian and gay film festivals in New York

Using information gathered during fieldwork on New York lesbian and gay film festival organizations, this paper argues that scholarship on identity has not paid sufficient attention to the organizational mediation of collective identity. The shape of collective identity—how internal instabilities and diversities are accommodated, in this case—depends not only on the emergent characteristics of the “collective,” but also on the resolution of challenges particular to organizational fields. Two very differently conceived lesbian and gay festival organizations, sites at which decision making about collective identity is ongoing and self-conscious, are examined. The analysis traces how each responds to two related tasks: maintaining community legitimacy, which requires racial diversification, and surviving within an altered institutional environment. Rather than imposition from “above” or construction from “below,” the adaptive responses by organizations (to changes in both community expectations and the resource environment) transform the collective identity formulations reaching public visibility. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Colloquium Series of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York, 1995, and at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC, 1995.     

Estimation of noncentrality parameters

We propose some estimators of noncentrality parameters which improve upon usual unbiased estimators under quadratic loss. The distributions we consider are the noncentral chi-square and the noncentral F. However, we give more general results for the family of elliptically contoured distributions and propose a robust dominating estimator.     

废除死刑是我国融入国际社会的必由之路

死刑是剥夺人的最基本的权力—人格权、生命权的法律制度。“死刑存废之争”由来已久。废除死刑是文明社会的共识和当今世界发展的潮流。目前,中国废除死刑的要求非常迫切,从法律的角度看,中国只有废除死刑才能更好地融入国际社会。     

《宠儿》的女性身份解读

国内学者对《宠儿》的研究不少,但涉及到黑人女性身份问题的很少。该文从女性主义和种族的角度出发,运用身份和拉康的镜像理论,对《宠儿》中三个女主人公:塞丝、贝比.萨格斯和丹芙进行分析,揭示《宠儿》中黑人女性对身份的寻求及莫里森对黑人妇女和黑人文化出路问题的探索。     

治安管理处罚方式的新发展

处罚方式是关于具体的处罚手段与类型的法律规定,在治安管理处罚中具有非常重要的作用。随着社会主体多元化,社会关系复杂化,治安管理处罚方式必然要多样化。国外的社区矫正制度尤其值得借鉴。     

大中城市城郊失地农民的现状调查分析（I）

随着中国城市化进程的加快，在社会主体层面上直接表现为农民身份向市民身份的嬗变和转型。基于此背景，结合对某地区失地农民的120份调查问卷分析，从失地农民主体角度探讨他们对失地农民这一强制性身份的认同程度及其影响因素。研究发现，健全的社会保障体系、稳定工作和收入、城市生活方式及思想观念等3个因素最终影响着失地农民的身份认同。其中健全的社会保障体系、稳定工作和收入、城市生活方式及思想观念对失地农民身份认同起着不可替代的作用，且由大到小影响着失地农民的身份认同。     

South African Indian migration in the twenty-first century: towards a theory of ‘triple identity’

This paper is inspired by three issues, namely ongoing research on South Africans of Indian origin, the anecdotal evidence that accumulates through ongoing discussions on a casual level with such people and the increasing interest among researchers about how globalization and transnational movements are impacting upon identity formation among minorities who are seeking employment or a new life in the developed economies of the ‘big five’ English-speaking countries, i.e. the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. It is in countries such as these that a third identity emerges and develops to instill a sense of triple identity. The information here suggests that, when people of Indian origin migrate to one of these countries, they continue to cling to South Africa because it is their country of birth, as well as to India, more for sentimental rather than practical reasons. The topic of this paper reflects a contemporary phenomenon not just among the Indians in South Africa, but also among other diasporas such as Chinese in Latin America, whose new and final emigration destination always seems to be the US. In addition, people of Chinese origin in the countries of Indochina, such as Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, experienced similar patterns of becoming diasporas in Europe, North America and Oceania in the 1970s. However, migration implores them to renegotiate their identities in order to adapt and settle in accordance with their newly adopted host territories. This gives rise to an identity that straddles three countries, which induces the need to examine new ways of identity building in a global transnational economy.     

社会转型时期我国伦理道德体制的重构

随着改革的进一步深入,我国已经进入社会转型的快速运转期。在这一过渡时期,我国伦理道德问题突出,道德理念冲突不断、道德约束力也在不断下降,整个社会的道德责任观念已不再具有强有力的制约功能,社会伦理道德的缺失正严重影响着社会的正常有序运行。在市场化和现代化快速发展的今天,社会分化仍在进一步加剧,为有效实现社会和谐与稳定,构建新的伦理道德体制已经成为时代进步发展的必然要求,伦理道德体制的重建也成为失范社会实现高度整合的必要途径。     

小型制造业信息化发展模式的研究

该文简述了世界制造业面临的挑战及其信息系统的发展 ,提出了我国小型制造业信息化的目的 ,并分析了小型制造业信息化面临的困难。最后提出了小型制造业信息化的群落合作发展模式。在这种模式中 ,一个企业群落应建立包括群落层和企业层的两层式信息系统。为实现群落合作发展模式 ,在每个小型制造业的群落里 ,应建立一个从事信息系统开发和进行信息服务的IT性质的企业实体来实施群落两层信息系统的建设和运行 ,这个IT性质的企业与信息系统共生存 ,为群落中的企业提供全天候的信息服务 ,特别是在条件成熟时为各个企业的信息系统添加新的功能。