Globalization debates: bringing in microencounters

Resistance is not only a response to, but also an integral component of neoliberal globalization. Public debates and most scholarly discourse have focused on macroresistance, which signals a new dynamic in globalization, but to the neglect of microresistance. Macroresistance may be best grasped as a political intervention by a coalition of heterogeneous citizens' groups in a globalizing economy, often in the guise of movements, networks and even state policies. Not surprisingly, the least understood type of resistance is the more latent, often undeclared, diffuse and sometimes localized, micro variant. Microresistance is constituted by countless diverse acts and beliefs that send forth streams of doubt and questions concerning the viability and sustainability of neoliberal globalization. Studying microresistance suggests that a large part of the resistance to neoliberal globalization is scattered and differentiated, private and intimate, personal as well as public, as evidenced in Japan after the bubble burst. In so far as this resistance is local yet parallel to responses in different countries and regions, the emergent pattern is potentially freighted with macrosignificance. The analytical challenge is to come to grips with the interplay of micro- and macroresistances. Fundamentally, a priority in research is to uncover the whole series of mediations among resistances, which are central to the historical transformation known as globalization.     

The Relative Contribution of Health Status and Quality of Life Domains in Subjective Health in Old Age

To analyze the influence of different health status dimensions and quality of life (QoL) domains on older adults’ subjective health, and to assess the role that residential satisfaction plays in these relationships. A QoL survey was conducted on a representative sample of the community-dwelling older adult population in Madrid province (Spain). Logistic regression models were applied to studying: the health status dimensions associated with satisfaction with health; the relationship between satisfaction with health and other QoL domains; and, the influence of these domains on satisfaction with life. Sociodemographic and residential characteristics were included in all the models. The determinants of satisfaction with health in the first model were: mobility, usual activities, morbidity, and satisfaction with neighborhood. QoL domains associated with health were: leisure activities, neighborhood, and finances. Satisfaction with life was explained by these three domains, along with age, family and health. In sum, leisure, neighborhood, and finances showed a positive effect on satisfaction with health and with life.     

Die Geld-zur��ck-Garantie �C Mehr als nur ein Qualit?tsindikator?

Money-back guarantees have become an increasingly popular tool for marketing managers??mainly because they are regarded as an effective means to signal product quality. However, from an academic perspective there is sparse empirical evidence on whether such a signaling effect really exists and, most importantly, whether it influences consumer decision making. Hence, the objective of the paper is to empirically analyze the consequences of money-back guarantees on consumer buying behavior in a holistic theoretical framework accounting for both cognitive and affective consumer responses. Our results reveal that the existence of the rather cognitively driven signaling effect of a money-back guarantee is contingent on several factors: Besides the type of the product (search versus experience good), it particularly depends on consumer knowledge as well as on whether a money-back guarantee is offered for a strong or for a rather weak brand. In addition, we show that a money-back guarantee also induces affective consumer responses which additionally contribute to consumer buying behavior. These responses are mainly due to the guarantee??s insurance function reducing consumer uncertainty about product features.     

我国医护人员职业倦怠研究近况

随着生活节奏的加快和就业压力的增大,社会已越来越关注职业倦怠,而医护人埙因为其职业特点又是职业倦怠的高发群体。本文介绍了我国医护人员职业倦怠的表现,分析其产生的原因,提出了预防医护人员产生职业倦怠的对策。     

Pareto efficiency in multiple referendum

We consider situations of multiple referendum: finitely many yes-or-no issues have to be socially assessed from a set of approval ballots, where voters approve as many issues as they want. Each approval ballot is extended to a complete preorder over the set of outcomes by means of a preference extension. We characterize, under a mild richness condition, the largest domain of top-consistent and separable preference extensions for which issue-wise majority voting is Pareto efficient, i.e., always yields out a Pareto-optimal outcome. Top-consistency means that voters’ ballots are their unique most preferred outcome. It appears that the size of this domain becomes negligible relative to the size of the full domain as the number of issues increases.     

《法苑珠林校注》校勘补遗

《法苑珠林》是研究佛教文化最为重要的文献之一,中华书局出版的《法苑珠林校注》是一部上乘的古籍整理著作,但其中偶有一些词句因为失校而影响文意的正确理解,今提出16条校勘意见,供研究者参考。     

地位焦虑、物质主义与炫耀性消费——中国人物质主义倾向的现状、前因及后果

通过对369份有效样本的层级回归进行实证检验,结果显示:中国人确实存在较高的物质主义倾向,且在人口统计因素上存在差异,其中男性比女性具有更高的物质主义倾向;家庭收入越高,物质主义倾向也越高;不同教育程度和年龄对物质主义倾向的影响不够显著.在中国社会转型背景下,人们的地位焦虑与物质主义倾向显著正相关;物质主义倾向与中国人的炫耀性消费显著正相关;物质主义倾向在地位焦虑与炫耀性消费之间起着中介作用.     

北京网络游戏用户策略对媒体融合的启示

网络游戏作为一种文化内容和经济利益相结合的传播载体,一直在用户的培养和维系上具有独特的观念和策略.传统媒体与新媒体的融合应该学习这种新的观念和策略来培养"用户".以北京市的部分重点网络游戏企业为案例,对媒介融合的"用户"观念进行分析,通过梳理其用户策略,提出应从用户关系、 内容生产以及体验创新三个方面加以借鉴和应用,打造一个能够拓展用户生产内容、 发展社交关系并且获得精细体验及人性化服务的平台.