缩小收入差距构建和谐新疆

新疆是一个多民族聚居地区,是我国西北的战略屏障,是我国对外开放的重要门户,也是我国战略资源的重要基地;同时,新疆是经济基础较弱,地区收入差距较大、贫困人数较多的欠发达地区。在这样背景下,缩小地区收入差距、消除贫困,构建社会主义和谐新疆,对于我国保持社会稳定、经济持续快速发展、构建社会主义和谐社会方面具有特殊重要的意义和现实价值。     

哈萨克民间信仰及习俗

每一个民族都有世代创造、延续的传统文化财富,其中民间信仰是重要质点之一,具有其它文化元素不可替代的重要功能,它深深地植根于广大民间,时刻影响和支配人们的心理及行为。同时民间信仰也是与其他民族文化相区别、自我认识的重要标志之一。     

Divorce as risky behavior

Given that divorce often represents a high-stakes income gamble, we ask how individual levels of risk tolerance affect the decision to divorce. We extend the orthodox divorce model by assuming that individuals are risk averse, that marriage is risky, and that divorce is even riskier. The model predicts that conditional on the expected gains to marriage and divorce, the probability of divorce increases with relative risk tolerance because risk averse individuals require compensation for the additional risk that is inherent in divorce. To implement the model empirically, we use data for first-married women and men from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate a probit model of divorce in which a measure of risk tolerance is among the covariates. The estimates reveal that a 1-point increase in risk tolerance raises the predicted probability of divorce by 4.3% for a representative man and by 11.4% for a representative woman. These findings are consistent with the notion that divorce entails a greater income gamble for women than for men.     

Counting Child Domestic Servants in Latin America

This paper summarizes trends in the use of child domestic servants in six Latin American countries using IPUMS-International census samples for 1960 to 2000. Child domestics are among the most vulnerable of child workers, and the most invisible. They may be treated kindly and allowed to attend school, or they may be secluded in their employers' home, overworked, verbally abused, beaten, and unable to leave or report their difficulties to kin. Estimates and imputations are based on labor force and relationship-to-head variables. We find that domestic service makes up a substantial fraction of girls' employment in some countries. We also analyze trends in live-in versus live-out status and school enrollment of child domestic servants. While all child workers are disadvantaged in enrollment relative to non-workers, domestics are sometimes better off than non-domestic workers. In some samples, live-ins are more likely to go to school than live-out child domestics. In others, they are substantially worse off.     

The eighteenth-century vagrant contractor

This article traces the salient developments in poor law and vagrancy law that led to the counties of England and Wales being obliged to shoulder the financial burden of the mobile poor throughout the eighteenth century. It shows that despite the lack of statutory authority many, probably most, counties contracted with a new type of official to implement the conveyance of vagrants under vagrancy legislation in an attempt to counter suspected negligence and profiteering by constables. It shows, with particular reference to Middlesex and the West Riding, that the terms and conditions of these contracts varied considerably, and describes arrangements for the vagrants. The article also suggests reasons why the mobile poor formed an increasing segment of the population well into the nineteenth century and finds that by then the contractors were suspected of the same faults as the constables before them, leading to the abandonment of the contractor system.     

塔里木盆地区域城市化的现状分析

正一、塔里木盆地区域城市化特征及现状分析塔里木盆地位于新疆维吾尔自治区南部,它是中国最大的内陆盆地,也是一个大型封闭性山间盆地。盆地面积达53万平方公里,约占新疆总面积的64%。中部是我国最大的沙漠——塔克拉玛干大沙漠,面积为32.4×104平方公里,占盆地总面积的57%,可利用的土地面积较小。塔里木盆地行政区域涵盖了巴音郭楞蒙古自治州、阿克苏地区、克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治     

走红网络的塔吉克族女特警

大眼睛、长睫毛、高鼻梁,身穿特警制服,真正的英姿飒爽……近日,塔吉克族姑娘迪丽热巴·牙合甫的一组照片因为展现出了新疆少数民族女特警的靓丽风采,从而迅速在网络上走红,赢得无数网友关注。这些照片其实是迪丽热巴·牙合甫在微博发给好友的,但没想到会被网友们纷纷转载,并使自己成为＂网络红人＂。今年24岁的迪丽热巴·牙合甫,家住喀什地区塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县,母亲是教大提琴演奏的音乐老师,父亲做个体生意,弟弟在上海读大学。     

乘风破浪正有时——第二次中央新疆工作座谈会精神解读

在第一次中央新疆工作座谈会召开四周年之际,在新疆的反恐问题日益凸显、形势日益复杂之时,中央召开第二次新疆工作座谈会,具有特别重要的意义。     

定位自我：自传式记忆、文化记忆和亚裔美国人的经历

个人的和社会的 大多数社会记忆的概念和理论都是在反对将记忆作为个人能力的概念中出现的。事实上,自莫里斯·哈布瓦赫（Maurice Halbwachs）以来,西方社会记忆的概念史可被视作在反对个人主义和以自我为中心的理解记忆中发展起来的,这种理解方式自洛克之后就成为思维和个人认同哲学的基础。