The power of dirt: an exploration of secular defilement in Anglo-Canadian culture

Dans cette communication nous établirons que les seuils culturellement établis distinguant le pur de l'impur constituent une dimension centrale de la construction d'identités et leur maintien. De plus, dans des cultures caractérisées par des formes structurées d'inégalité, ceux qui occupent des positions avantageuses sont positionnés de manière à réaffirmer leur situation au moyen de la gestion de violations d'identité, c'est-à-dire de souillure. Afin de développer cette thèse nous examinerons attentivement la dynamique des relations culturelles impliquées par les relations entre les sexes et l'inégalité des sexes. En particulier nous présenterons des données qui nous permettront de définir des seuils de répugnance par sexe.
In this essay we contend that the culturally defined boundaries distinguishing the pure from the impure constitute a central dimension of identity construction and maintenance. Moreover, in cultures characterized by forms of structured social inequality, those occupying positions of advantage and domination are positioned to reaffirm their situation through the management of identity violation, i.e. defilement. To develop this thesis we focus on the cultural identity dynamics of gender relations and gender inequality. In particular, we present data which permit us to define thresholds of repugnance and finicality by gender.     

中温、宽电流、免搅拌缎面镍电镀工艺的研究

提出了一种长效型电镀缎面镍工艺 ,采用自行研制的缎面镍WD - 2 0系列添加剂 ,在中温、宽电流、免搅拌条件下 ,得到了外观均匀的缎面镍镀层 .同时 ,对各种工艺参数对镀层质量、镀层表面形貌的影响进行了研究 .研究结果表明 ,添加剂对镀液中镍粒子的电化学形为有一定的影响 .     

IN SEARCH OF WORKING-CLASS IDEOLOGY: A TEST OF TWO PERSPECTIVES*

This article begins as a test of two types of explanation of working-class consciousness. The first focuses upon structural factors. The second identifies nonwork variables as the critical determinant of workers' consciousness. Based on information collected from manual workers in two plants in Edmonton, Canada, the present research finds that neither perspective emerges as a significant determinant of worker ideology. The second part of the article addresses this issue and offers an explanation of the failure to account for much of the variation in workers' ideological thinking.     

A NORMAL APPROXIMATION TO THE FISHER DISTRIBUTION

A simple normal approximation is given for the joint probability density function of the polar co-ordinates (θ, ψ) of a random vector following the Fisher distribution with arbitrary mean direction (θ₀, ψ₀). The approximation leads to simple inference procedures which are particularly useful in regression models. Conditions for the adequacy of the approximation are investigated and summarized in tabular form.     

Uniform stochastic ordering and related inequalities

Stochastic order between univariate random variates may be called uniform when such order persists under conditioning to a broad family of intervals. The ordering is local when it holds for any finite interval (a, b), however small. Local order in multivariate settings has been described by Whitt (1980, 1981), by Karlin and Rinott (1980), and by others. The prevalence of uniform and local order in a variety of simple stochastic-process settings is displayed, and inequalities arising from such orderings developed.