Parenting,Uncertainty, and Expert Advice: How Privileged American Families Work with Private Counselors in Their Children's College Race

This article uses privileged families who hire Independent Educational Consultants (IECs) as an instance to examine how privileged parents collaborate with individuals whom they consider educational experts to support their children in the college race. We argue that advantaged parents' anxieties about their children have created a market for IECs who provide expert advice in order to mitigate the uncertainties that these parents experience and to manage various goals that they want to achieve at an important turning point in their children's lives. Drawing primarily on interviews with parents who work with IECs, we introduce the concept of “collaborative cultivation” to analyze the processes whereby advantaged parents rely on the expertise and expert status of private counselors to cope with their and their children's vulnerability in the college race while at the same time preparing their children for the unknown future. The parental method of “concerted cultivation” reveals how elite parents rely on individuals they perceive as experts to establish “bridges” between their own social worlds and the academic worlds that appear to beyond their control. This bridging labor points to the myriad cultural beliefs enacted to justify the child‐rearing goals that privileged parents wish to accomplish by working with IECs.     

民族地区特色小镇发展评价体系研究——广西中渡镇的实证

本文以民族地区特色小镇发展为目标层,针对其“重申报、轻发展”问题,选取环境资源、资本资源、基础设施、特色产业发展、政府支持和民生改善作为准则层,再细分为14个中间指标和45个执行指标,构建“目标层-准则层-指标层”评价体系。接着,运用模糊综合评价将这一评价体系应用于广西中渡镇。研究表明,中渡镇依托“一体两翼”资源,主推“旅游+”复合发展模式,特色产业亮点突出,但淡、旺季明显,特色产业效益有待提升,可优化游客结构和来源地,打造一体化“旅游带”,提振区域知名度。民族地区特色小镇发展评价体系的应用,要强化特色,避免同质性发展,结合政策优势构建更“接地气”的评价体系。     

卢梭的人民主权论与中国近代的民主进程

卢梭的人民主权论是中国近代民主政治进程中最为重要的思想资源,戊戌变法、辛亥革命以后中国社会流行的民权观念,主要是卢梭的人民主权论影响的结果.在卢梭的人民主权论影响下,平等以及使民众成为国家主人成为中国近代思想家所能理解到的人民主权的全部.中国近代思想界所以接受卢梭的人民主权论,在很大程度上是由于卢梭的思想学说与中国传统思想方式之间的契合.卢梭的人民主权论为中国近代的政治变革提供了可靠的思想武器,同时,其理论局限性对于中国近代的民主化过程也产生了消极的影响.     

马舍雷与《在延安文艺座谈会上的讲话》——对话中的中西马克思主义文论

包括皮埃尔·马舍雷在内的西方马克思主义理论家在对中国当代文论产生了重要影响的同时也受到某些中国马克思主义文论思想的启示.毛泽东<在延安文艺座谈会上的讲话>被马舍雷作为重要理论资源融入其对于文学反映论的思考中,其间又难免误解,考察在中西马克思主义文论视域中的对话和阐释,对于思考马克思主义文论建设来说具有启示意义.     

"体验"的经济价值及其产业发展——以环都市乡村休闲产业为例

体验是企业以服务为舞台,以商品为道具,以消费者为中心,创造能够使消费者参与、值得回忆的消费活动.体验经济有非物质性、高增值性、互动性、非生产性等特点.体验经济在我国各地蓬勃发展的环都市乡村休闲产业中得到了初步体现,这是因为乡村休闲有着明显的体验特质,较好地满足了人们不断增长的体验需求.从传统旅游产业重点强调"观光"到现代乡村休闲产业着意凸显"体验",不仅仅是一种视角的转换,而是强调充分挖掘体验经济的价值内涵,对乡村休闲产业发展具有重要的实践意义,也是拓展乡村休闲产业发展空间的战略选择.     

理论与实践相结合 建设和完善古文献学科——孙钦善教授学术访谈录

一、治学历程及对古典文献学科体系的认识 黄丽丽(以下简称"黄"):孙老师,首先要祝贺您,您被中国校友会网、<大学>杂志和21世纪人才报等联合完成的<2007中国杰出社会科学家研究报告>遴选入建国以来首届"505位中国杰出社会科学家名单".     

“狂飙突进”时代的偏激——对五四作家心理状态的审视与反思

五四作家普遍表现出偏激情绪 ,其心理根源于作家们严重的焦虑和孤独与强烈的叛逆。而作家们的这种心理又是当时社会现实与作家个人经历、天赋禀性的产物。作家们的偏激情绪产生了激进的思想和激烈的言论 ,一方面以其狂飙突进的气势猛烈攻击封建传统与旧文化 ,另一方面由于潜在的农民文化心理的作用而不可避免地留下不少缺憾。同时 ,这种偏激情绪在文学创作中也产生了一定的影响     

《自然辩证法》的“自然”:生态伦理学的自然本体论

在《自然辩证法》中,恩格斯从自在自然和属人自然两个维度对自然的内核进行了科学和哲学双重解读。从自在自然看,自然具有自组织性、先在性和系统性、有机性,是惯常行程的自我生成,具有存在论意义。因而生态伦理学应该走出对人的"固恋","扩大道德共同体的边界",把自然纳入伦理的怀抱。从属人自然看,自然是人本学的自然与社会的自然的耦合,是对象性活动中的人化生成,具有对象性意义。劳动的对象性决定了人对自然的依赖性,决定了保全自然的逻辑必然性。如此,恩格斯对自然的本质规定性的理解,既超越了非人类中心主义的"无文明的生态",又超越了人类中心主义的"无生态的文明";它为生态伦理学的成立提供了充分的"自然本体论证明"。     

Impact of metabolic status on the association of serum vitamin D with hypogonadism and lower urinary tract symptoms/benign prostatic hyperplasia

Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of metabolic status on associations of serum vitamin D with hypogonadism and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS)/benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).

Patients and methods: A total of 612 men underwent physical examination, biochemical/hormonal blood testing, and transrectal prostate ultrasound. Moreover, the subjects filled out standard questionnaires for identification and grading of LUTS and hypogonadism symptoms. Parameters were statistically compared with independent t-tests and correlation analyses.

Results: Vitamin D levels positively correlated with total testosterone (TT) but not with prostate volume or International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS). Patients with metabolic syndrome had significantly lower vitamin D levels, which were not correlated with TT, prostate volume, or IPSS. However, vitamin D was positively correlated with TT, and negatively correlated with prostate volume and quality-of-life IPSS in subjects without metabolic syndrome.

Conclusion: The clinical usefulness of vitamin D for treatment of hypogonadism or LUTS/BPH varies according to metabolic status.     

Additive mixed effect model for recurrent gap time data

Gap times between recurrent events are often of primary interest in medical and observational studies. The additive hazards model, focusing on risk differences rather than risk ratios, has been widely used in practice. However, the marginal additive hazards model does not take the dependence among gap times into account. In this paper, we propose an additive mixed effect model to analyze gap time data, and the proposed model includes a subject-specific random effect to account for the dependence among the gap times. Estimating equation approaches are developed for parameter estimation, and the asymptotic properties of the resulting estimators are established. In addition, some graphical and numerical procedures are presented for model checking. The finite sample behavior of the proposed methods is evaluated through simulation studies, and an application to a data set from a clinic study on chronic granulomatous disease is provided.