Television and Violence in the Economy of Memory

The present paper aims to consider the cultural function of television as a technology for the creation of a public memory. The television system records past images, preserves them, and broadcasts various historical programs. A viewer owns the public memory jointly, through watching/consuming programs. However, the process of production and consumption of programs is linked with the exclusion of other historical memories from the public space. After all, the creation of public memories in depth is related to social power. Through the analysis in concrete terms of a series of programs of Project X and the second episode of the Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK; Japan Broadcasting Corporation) series, Special Edition: Judging War, the relationship between the organization of public memories and social power is explored. Project X depicts the challenges of engineers of middle standing who initiated new industrial and technological developments in the 1960s and 1970s. Special Edition: Judging War is based on coverage of the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery. This program was subjected to revision on the eve of its broadcast. What forms of expression were eliminated? These two programs should help us define more clearly what the Japanese media selects for incorporation into the public memory.     

Value,attitude, and belief determinants of willingness to accept a facility for the homeless

Basic values, attitudes toward the homeless, and specific beliefs about a proposed facility were examined, along with the NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) phenomenon, to explore if, and to what degree, these factors affect community acceptance or rejection of a facility for the homeless. Previously designed Protestant ethic (PE) and Humanitarian-Egalitarian (HE) scales were used to measure two basic values (Katz & Hass, 1988). Scales to measure attitudes toward the homeless and beliefs about a planned facility were developed. As predicted, values, attitudes, and beliefs correlated with each other and were related to plan acceptance, so that HE, pro-homeless attitudes, and positive beliefs about the plan were positively related to acceptance, and PE, anti-homeless attitudes, and negative beliefs about the plan were positively related to rejection. Also as predicted, four proximity measures were all related to acceptance of the plan.     

新世纪学校体育改革的特征

新世纪学校体育的改革应反映时代的特征。本文就新世纪学校体育改革所反映的健身性、主体性、基础性、娱乐性、人文性等几个方面的特性进行初步探讨。     

试论“思想家的小说”的作者吴敬梓的思想

吴敬梓的思想内涵十分丰赡 ,传统思想中的儒家思想和魏晋六朝风尚对他的影响至大 ,而时代思潮中的颜李学说以及自然科学学风也同样影响了他。吴敬梓之所以受到这些思想的影响 ,是与他的家庭传统和生活实践密切相关的。而研究他的思想必须从他所创造的艺术形象着手 ,重视形象思维的特性。     

体系与冲突——1854年修约交涉再审视

18 5 4年中西修约交涉是中国近代史上的一个关键之点 ,其结果直接影响了中国以后的历史发展进程 ,而其过程又体现了当时中西两种完全不同的国际关系观念与体制的冲突     

论养老保险基金参与公司治理

通过对国有企业改制中公司治理方面出现的问题的分析 ,从养老保险基金参与对公司治理方面进行探讨 ,提出改进上市公司治理机制的现实政策选择 ,这有利于我国证券市场的发展和完善 ,有利于我国国有企业的改革     

论党的阶级基础与群众基础

马克思主义建党学说强调阶级基础与群众基础的统一 ,中国共产党在领导中国革命和建设的过程中 ,之所以能够与时俱进 ,是同实践这一伟大思想分不开的     

辛亥革命与中国教育近代化

辛亥革命推翻了清王朝的统治,结束了延续两千多年的封建专制制度,极大地推动了中国教育近代化的步伐.民国初年,在蔡元培和他的同事们领导下所进行的教育改革确立了新的教育宗旨,制订颁布了<壬子.癸丑学制>,力图清除封建主义的影响,改变价值取向的单一.这一切不仅在指导思想和学校制度层面为中国教育近代化奠定了一个新的基础,而且在实践层面有力地促进了普通教育和实业教育的发展,使清末以来各级各类教育发展极不平衡的局面得到较大改变,初步形成了严格意义上的近代教育体制.     

论非自愿移民的历史地位与作用

非自愿移民是在国际移民理论研究中受排斥的领域 ,显然极不正常。非自愿移民是中国移民史的主流形态 ,非自愿移民在中国社会经济发展中起了重要作用。有中国特色的移民理论是中国移民实践全部历史经验的继承与发展     

开征环境污染税的理论和现实思考

随着我国工业经济的发展和人口的持续增加 ,环境污染愈益成为影响和制约我国经济可持续发展的重要问题。近年来 ,理论界和实务界一直在探索有关环境保护的有效手段。其中 ,开征环境保护税成为保护环境、促进经济可持续发展的一个重要方略。本文在分析我国适时开征环境保护税的理论依据和实践效应的基础上 ,评析了我国现行有关环境保护的税费政策 ,并借鉴西方国家的可行作法和有益经验 ,对我国适时开征环境保护税提出了初步设想