埃及农村的婚礼

今天埃及的农村不同于过去:村中安上了电灯,变得昼夜通明;汽车开进了村庄,缩短了城乡之问的距离;电视机和其他娱乐用品也进了村庄,使勤劳的村民变得喜欢熬夜,他们过去本是在做完宵礼后就入睡的。随着埃及农村中的这些变化,村民们在各种活动中所遵循的某些习俗也发生了变化。譬如,今天举办婚礼的过程就与过去的     

纪念亨利·赛瑞斯

正当H·赛瑞斯最后一本论文集即将与同行和朋友们见面之时,他突然中断了对中亚,特别是对蒙古和中国北方近千年历史的研究,走完了人生的旅程。他一生曾精确地翻译了大量的蒙古文献,写过不少有关的文化历史评论文章,出版过一些这方面的专著。人们简直难以相信,从此以后再也无法看到他的新作了。赛瑞斯出生在比利时,至今那儿还有他的几位亲属,他晚年在美国弗吉尼亚州阿林顿定居,他的逝世,不仅使美国及世界各地的朋友和笔友感到悲痛,而且在比利时、匈牙利也引起一些人的哀伤。在匈牙利,     

希特勒是怎样上台的?

历史学家指出,历史的演变常常取决于一些偶然的事件和人物。 在当代世界史中最大的事莫过于希特勒和他的纳粹党在德国当政了。这事的影响可说是直到冷战结束始在现实政治中消退。但是并没有什么必     

Public Policies and Services for the Aged in Japan

No abstract available for this article.     

青春期是个“风暴期”吗

关于亲子关系的观点青春期是生命历程中的一个阶段,这个阶段在西方心理学、社会学和人类学中具有特殊的意义。向就业或升学的急迫转折以及性关系的开始,对其作理论探索使同一性发展的问题成为研究的热点。那时,青春期的一项重要任务,被称为确定独立于父母的感情(Furnham和Stacey,1991)。人们普遍认为,这种增长的独立性的转折,必需一个将亲子关系描绘成冲突和充斥误解的“风暴和压力”的时期。东方关于青春期和亲子关系的观点,支持这种认识的证据还不很清楚。一方面临床文献     

Women's scores on the sexual inhibition/sexual excitation scales (SIS/SES): gender similarities and differences

The Sexual Inhibition/Sexual Excitation Scales (SIS/SES) assess individual propensities to become sexually aroused and to inhibit arousal. Prior analyses of men's SIS/SES data (Janssen, Vorst, Finn, & Bancroft, 2002a) yielded one excitation factor (SES) and two inhibitory factors (SIS1/Threat of Performance Failure and SIS2/Threat of Performance Consequences). The current study utilized a dataset of 2,045 undergraduates (1,067 women and 978 men) to examine the psychometric properties of women's SIS/SES scores. Women scored higher on sexual inhibition and lower on sexual excitation compared with men. The convergent/discriminant validity of women's SIS/SES scores globally resembled men's, but showed stronger associations with other sexuality - related measures and less pronounced relationships with measures of general behavioral approach/avoidance. The test-retest reliability of men's and women's SIS/SES scores were similar, but individual items exhibited differential relevance to men's and women's arousal. An exploratory factor analysis of women's scores was utilized to further examine shared and unshared themes.     

Exploring commonality and difference in in-depth interviewing: a case-study of researching British Asian women

This paper draws on the experience of researching British South Asian women's lives in London as a female British Asian researcher to explore how cultural commonality and difference is shaped by agency and interaction in the research process. It examines these issues through a discussion of how the shared cultural identity of the researcher and the interviewees emerged as both a point of commonality and difference in the research process; with the researcher being ;positioned' in terms of both as a result of the interviewees' agency in interpreting their cultural commonality. In particular, issues of 'Indianness' and religion emerged as points on which interviewees exercised agency and interpreted the researcher's cultural identity. This was the basis on which they claimed commonality or difference and this assessment consequently impacted on their interaction with the researcher. The article suggests that more attention needs to be given to how assumptions made by interviewees regarding the cultural identity of the researcher through their agency and interaction in the research process shapes interview dynamics.     

Understanding intimate partner violence against women in the rural South

Most U.S. intimate partner violence (IPV) research to date has been limited to women residing in urban areas, with the small body of research focusing on rural populations being primarily qualitative. In this case-control study of Southern rural women, while many factors are consistent with those found in urban settings, unlike findings elsewhere, IPV risk appears to increase with age, and race showed no increased risk. Furthermore, in rural areas where guns are more acceptable than in other parts of the United States, partners of IPV victims are considerably more likely to carry weapons than partners of nonabused women. Given the geographic limitations to police and medical response to severe IPV in a rural setting, an improved understanding of IPV risk among this population can aid health care providers in ascertaining risk before it escalates further.