How Have Other Journals Compared to “The Top Seven” Journals in Family Social Science with Respect to LGBT-Related Research and Reviews? A Comment on “A Content Analysis of LGBT Research in Top Family Journals 2000–2015”? An Editorial Analysis

Van Eeden-Moorefield, Few-Demo, Benson, Bible, and Lummer (2018) recently reviewed the content of seven family social science journals with respect to theory and methods used in 153 articles featuring LGBT research or reviews of LGBT research. They concluded that less than three percent of 6,832 articles published in those journals between 2000 and 2015 were LGBT-related and that most had not used explicit theory and had used purposive cross-sectional samples consisting mostly of White and middle-class participants. During the tenure of the present editor, between 2010 and 2017, Marriage & Family Review featured 14 research reports, reviews, or commentary on LGBT-related issues out of 250 articles, not counting brief editorials or biographies between 2010 and 2017, an odds ratio of over 2.0 compared to the other “top-tier” journals. Likewise, the Journal of Family Theory & Review published at least 15 articles, mainly reviews or commentaries, on LGBT-related issues between 2009 and 2017. Articles in Marriage & Family Review and Journal of Family Theory & Review were more likely to be reviews of the literature, or feature explicit theory, to be qualitative in methodology, or to involve interviews or surveys, while other characteristics were similar to those in the other seven journals. Thus, even if some mainstream family journals did not publish often on LGBT-related issues, other important family science journals have done so. Furthermore, there are numerous scholarly journals that welcome LGBT-related research and reviews almost exclusively.     

Negotiating Symbolic Boundaries in Conflict Resolution: Religion and Ethnicity in Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict

This article is an inquiry into understanding why supranational religious identity often fails to act as a conflict resolution tool in religiously homogenous ethnic conflicts. Narrowing its focus down to the role of religious elites as potential peacemakers in such conflict zones, it proposes the divergence in their conceptualizations of religious and ethnic identities as an explanatory factor. Building on 62 in-depth interviews conducted in Turkey with Sunni Muslim Kurdish and Turkish religious elites, it identifies a three-fold typology of religious and ethnic identities, as conceptualized by these elites: 1) religio-ethnic; 2) ethno-religious; 3) religious. After exemplifying each category with interview data it demonstrates the role these distinctions play in preventing the successful implementation of “Muslim fraternity” as a solution to the Kurdish conflict in Turkey. With these findings, the article contributes to both the literature on religion in conflict resolution and that on identity formation and boundary making. While it invites the former to turn its gaze from macro-level structural factors to meso- and micro-level cultural factors in analyzing religious elite involvement in conflict resolution, it invites the latter to stop employing “ethnicity” as an all-encompassing term (that covers a vast array of identity markers including religion) and focus, instead, on the gradations between religion and ethnicity as sources of identity.     

The Influence of Career Planning on Career Thoughts in STEM‐Interested Undergraduates

Undergraduate career planning courses have shown efficacy in decreasing students’ negative career thoughts; however, universities have minimally applied these courses to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) populations. This study compared the influence of a STEM‐focused career planning course for undecided STEM students with a seminar course for decided STEM majors. An analysis of covariance with covariate adjustment revealed that undecided career planning students had lower adjusted mean scores on a measure of negative career thinking than the decided STEM majors after the first semester of college. The results provide support for the efficacy of STEM‐focused career planning courses and measuring negative career thoughts with STEM undergraduates.     

Anxiety and depression among college students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): Cross-informant,sex, and subtype differences

Objective: This study examined symptoms of anxiety and depression among college students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Participants: Data were collected between March 2011 and March 2016 from 150 college students with ADHD and 150 college students without ADHD. Method: Participants with ADHD were compared to a sex- and ethnicity-matched control group. For the ADHD group, parent and self-report of anxiety and depression were also compared. Results: College students with ADHD self-reported significantly higher anxiety and depressive symptoms than did students without ADHD. Scores on parent-report measures of anxiety and depressive symptoms were significantly higher than scores on self-report measures. Significant sex differences were found for participants with ADHD, with females showing higher depressive and anxiety symptoms than males. Parent-reported anxiety symptoms were higher for those with inattentive type ADHD compared to combined type ADHD. Conclusion: The current study highlights the importance of multi-informant assessment in ADHD evaluations for college-aged adults.     

Perceived social standing among Asian immigrants in the US: Do reasons for immigration matter?

We investigate the association between a subjective measure of social status and the reasons for immigration among Asian immigrants in the US. We use data from the National Latino and Asian American Study to test several hypotheses about this association. Our analyses show the positive effect on perceived social standing of migrating for better education, the negative effect of migrating to seek employment, and the negative impact of refugee status. Migrating for family reunification can be associated with various circumstances, which lead to differing outcomes. The results suggest that the notion that immigrants arrive in the US with limited resources and few skills and move slowly up the socioeconomic ladder must be reassessed in light of the complex social context and factors such as ethnicity, gender, divergent immigration paths, and a range of associated circumstances.     

欧元十年:回顾、展望与借鉴

欧元诞生十年来在国际上的影响越来越大,逐步成长为仅次于美元的第二大国际货币。随着欧盟疆域扩大,欧元区也得到不断的扩张,欧元区不断增强的经济实力将进一步推动欧元国际化,给美元带来更大的竞争压力。本文回顾了十年来欧元在国际金融市场的进展,分析了欧元作为国际货币的发展前景,讨论了欧元与美元竞争格局,并研究了欧元及其国际化对中国的借鉴意义,随着中国两岸四地经济金融融合度提高,建议应当逐步实现货币的统一。     

论康德美学中的图式

康德在纯粹理性批判的认识论范畴内提出了图式理论,用以协调感性与知性;同时,康德在其关学中也运用了图式概念,这一点却很少为人们所重视.康德美学中的图式有两方面的意义:一是协调功能,二是典范功能.图式作为一个重要的认识论和美学范畴,为我们考察康德及其之后的美学和艺术问题提供了独特的视角.     

创新乡村治理机制，推进新农村建设——南京“赵坝现象”的调查与思考

建设社会主义新农村关键在于构建一个能够有效整合农村各种发展资源的乡村治理机制。江苏省南京市赵坝在探索新农村建设过程中通过基层组织治理变革和创新,创立了农民议会、党支部、水产养殖专业合作社、农民俱乐部四位一体的治理机制,破解了新农村建设治理的结构困境与矛盾,激发了农民建设新农村的主体意识,实现了多元治理的组织架构,促进了新农村建设的蓬勃开展,为探索新农村的治理机制,推进新农村建设提供了诸多的经验和启示,     

1903:一枝独秀与众声喧哗——中国近代文学史上的关键性年份

在中国近代文学史上,1903年是一个关键性的年份.是年,新小说创作如火山喷发,高潮迭起,晚清最具影响力的新小说家几乎都在这一年亮相,竞相推出自己的拳头产品;白话文运动和国语运动蓬勃发展,白话报刊成为一种不可小觑的社会存在,白话文著述和白话文学作品蔚为大观;文坛与诗坛热闹非凡,革命派与改良派针锋相对,新派与旧派营垒分明.1903年的文学界,呈现出新小说创作一枝独秀,而报界、文坛和诗坛众声喧哗的热闹局面.1903年,中国文学在近代化的路途中继续阔步前行.     

软实力新论:构成、功能和发展规律——兼论中美软实力的比较

近年来,学术界对软实力的研究产生了浓厚的兴趣,但理论研究明显不足.软实力究竟由什么构成,在国家成长进程中发挥什么样的功能,软实力自身发展有哪些不一样的规律,这些都需要进行深刻的理论思考.学术界从约瑟夫·奈的软实力概念出发,往往把文化、价值观念、制度等直接就视为国家的软实力,但实际上这些东西本身并不是软实力,而是软实力资源.只有当一个国家运用这些资源来达到某种目的时,它们才能转化为国家的软实力.这些资源的权重值、运用资源的能力以及人们对它们的态度等构成了衡量软实力性质、程度的重要参考值.不同的态度决定了软实力的功能性质.也正是这些因素决定了软实力自身发展的特殊规律.