检索、道德与暴力：人肉搜索的社会学思考

“人肉搜索”作为一种新的互联网现象具有回应性、集群性和功能多样性的特征,它的发展是以网络虚拟社区为基础,是一种新的方式进行利益表达与社会控制的行动过程。面对这一社会现象,如何把握知识共享与保护隐私的界限,防止多数人参与的网络暴力就成为首先要解决的现实性问题。     

On Theories of Unemployment Persistence: A Quick Look at Recent Developments

ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to supply a theoretical explanation for the persistence of the high unemployment rates found particularly in Europe. For this purpose, the authors briefly review the major contending theories presently available, but conclude that market clearing analyses of the business cycle are ill-suited to the case under examination. In the second section of the paper the authors offer a non-technical summary of the main results of the non-market clearing approach to macroeconomics, and in the third section discuss the microeconomic underpinnings of models with unemployment equilibria.     

虚拟世界中的通货膨胀现象探析

网络游戏的虚拟世界中存在一种类似于现实世界中的通货膨胀现象.虚拟世界的通胀主要表现为游戏中的虚拟货币与商品实际价值持续地下降.由于游戏世界经济体系的不稳定性与脆弱性,虚拟财富的稀缺性持续下降,从而使其相对于真实货币趋于贬值.严重的通胀将危及游戏世界的稳定,因此,游戏设计者应尽力提高和改进游戏世界的经济机制设计,同时将现实世界中一般化的经济与法律支持引入虚拟世界,也是非常有必要的.     

基于ECM的团购网站继续使用行为实证研究

当今网络团购已成为电子商务的新兴力量,大量团购网站涌现。以团购网站为研究对象,基于期望证实模型(ECM)构建了影响团购网站继续使用行为的因素研究模型(该模型包含感知有用、感知经济性、感知愉悦、信任、满意、证实、继续使用意愿等7个因素),并对用户使用团购网站后影响其继续使用行为的因素进行了实证分析和验证。结果显示:用户的预期感受与实际使用后的证实程度对感知经济性、感知有用、满意有显著影响;感知经济性、感知有用、满意等3个因素对用户的继续使用意愿有显著影响,而信任因素对使用意愿的影响不显著。     

Causal Ordering of Basic Psychological Needs and Well-Being

What is the relationship between well-being and satisfaction of basic psychological needs overtime? The basic psychological needs theory is a subtheory of the self-determination theory that elaborates the concept of psychological needs and its relations to psychological health and well-being. The goals of this research was to establish the causal ordering between basic psychological needs and three psychological well-being indicators (subjective well-being, self-esteem and satisfaction with life), in a longitudinal study. We used a cross-lagged two-wave design. A total of 272 university students completed the questionnaire at the beginning and at the end of the semester. Relatedness at time 1 (T₁) had a positive and significant effect on all well-being indicators at time 2 (T₂); competence (T₁) had a positive and significant effect on all indicators except for self-esteem (T₂); finally, autonomy (T₁) did not have a significant effect on any of the well-being indicators (T₂). In conclusion, we confirm the causal ordering of competence and relatedness on well-being, according to the basic psychological needs subtheory. Universities, in general, and teachers, in particular, should promote relations between students and support the need of competence.     

Self-employment and earnings among immigrants in Australia

This article contributes to the small Australian literature on the earnings of immigrants in the self-employment sector. Earnings functions for both the foreign-born and Australian-born are estimated, and the results show that compared with native-born workers, foreign-born workers have higher earnings in the wage/salary sector but lower earnings in the self-employment sector.
Among the foreign-born, the results suggest that self-employed immigrants are less skilled compared with those who are wage/salary employed. Thus, low-skilled immigrants may be forced into self-employment.
There is no evidence of immigrant "catch-up" in the self-employment sector. Among wage/salary workers, however, immigrant wages are characterized by a "catch-up" effect.     

Age,religious beliefs,and sexual attitudes

Age effects on sexual attitudes were examined using the Hendrick and Hendrick (1987a) Sexual Attitude Scale. The study was cross-sectional, including people from various age groups, from young adults to older adults. The religious beliefs variable, which covaries substantially both with age and sexual attitudes, was controlled. Three main questions guided the study: (a) Is the four-factor structure (Permissiveness, Instrumentality, Communion, and Sexual Practices) previously identified in a sample of young students able to accurately account for data gathered over a full range of adult ages, (b) are older adults much less permissive and less instrumentalist than young people, and (c) to what extent are believers less permissive and instrumentalist than young people when age is taken into account? Factor analyses showed that at least five correlated factors were needed to account for the data; the fourth factor, Sexual Practices, divided itself into two distinct factors: Pleasure and Responsibility. Older adults and believers were shown to be less permissive than young people and nonbelievers, and this result held regardless of the participants educational level. As regards to instrumentality, however, the pattern of differences was extremely complex.     

论闻一多文艺思想的嬗变

闻一多在其早期受西方济慈等人的影响 ,认为“以美为艺术之核心” ,主张“纯艺术的艺术”并“纳诗于艺术之轨” ,坚持“做”诗并倡导诗歌的“三美”。然而随着那“不是混着好玩”岁月的流逝并亲身体验“生活的严重”后 ,他转而重视诗的社会价值并彻底摒弃了“唯美主义”的价值取向而站在人民的立场上呼唤“时代的鼓手”。文艺观由“艺术为艺术”变为“艺术为人生” ,从誓做“艺术的忠臣”到成为“人民的忠臣” ,我们在其文艺思想的嬗变过程中 ,看到了社会存在对社会意识的决定作用。     

Social dynamics of the multicultural classroom

Instruction and learning are socially determined activities, where social forces such as classroom atmosphere, social feelings, cultural sentiments, prejudice and stereotyping, interpersonal relations and expectations, as well as the reflection of social reality in subject matter all have a significant influence on the effectiveness of teaching and learning. The effective "multicultural" teacher has to be concerned about each individual student, and also be sensitive to the group and cultural affiliations of each of his or her students. Intercultural relations in the classroom may be a source of knowledge and mutual enrichment between culturally diverse learners if managed proactively by teachers. Frustration, misapprehensions and intercultural conflict are a more likely outcome if teachers do not deal with diversity in a sensitive manner.