Decency and the Liberal International (Dis)Order: Moral Limits and the Possibilities of a Global Pluralist Politics

This article analyzes the tension between the liberal ideals of freedom and equality and cultural difference. It argues that decency has become intertwined with the fragility of the liberal international order by providing a problematic threshold of international justice. The idea is that as global pressures mount for protecting the human dignity of persons/peoples, they also congeal or harden decency’s political and social constraints (impartiality, neutrality, and basic rights enforcement) on engaging others. Decency as a moral threshold of international justice, the article claims, has become static or a self-reinforcing limitation. This contradictory decency/dignity dynamic of the liberal international order not only explains how states have aggressively asserted their interests by absorbing these constraints, but also how politics can limit the pragmatic potential to bridge the various social gaps in values and belief systems. This article seeks to conceptualize a pluralist ethos that shows how such constraints can be reimagined as, or turned into, the conditions of possibility/freedom that transition us to a global pluralist politics. It concludes with a discussion of the refugee crisis and Islamism, showing how both cases resonate the felt stigmatization and alienation within the liberal international order.     

Classroom sex composition and first-grade school outcomes: The role of classroom behavior

Using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (N = 21,409; 10,452 girls and 10,957 boys; mean age = 7.24 years), the association between first-grade classroom sex composition (CSC), measured as the percentage of female students, and end of the year academic (reading, mathematics) and socio-emotional (externalizing problems, internalizing problems, self-control, interpersonal skills) outcomes was examined. Using multilevel modeling techniques and controlling for prior achievement levels, CSC was positively associated with children’s reading achievement at the end of first grade; students performed better in reading in classes with a higher percentage of female students. CSC was also associated with three of the socio-emotional outcomes; controlling for prior levels, students in classrooms with a higher percentage of girls had better self-control and interpersonal skills and fewer internalizing problems. Classroom behavior mediated the effects of CSC on reading achievement and the socio-emotional outcomes. Implications for the composition of first-grade classrooms are discussed.     

浅议英语学习中的文化差异

东西方文化存在着很大的差异,对西方文化不了解,势必造成英语学习的障碍乃至交际的失误。     

试析蒙古高原二元对立的政治格局

蒙古高原特殊的地理环境 ,使这里成为游牧民族生息繁衍的摇篮。在高原内部 ,由于自然环境与地缘政治的差异 ,又分为漠南与漠北两个相互独立的地理单元。以此为基础 ,在蒙古高原上出现了一次次二元对立的政治格局     

青海羌族文化述略

本文借助考古资料,叙说了青海古代文化中的羌族文化系列,并对其文化特征的差异性作了分析。     

探析俄汉礼节语言的民族文化差异

俄汉礼节语言的民族差异是两种文化价值观差异的反映。在汉文化中,独特的中华传统和民族文化形成了中国特色的复杂的礼节语言体系。在俄文化中,礼节语言明显带有简单化、模式化和抽象化的特点,这同俄罗斯民族的思维方式密切相关。     

“文化族别化”的当代困境及其反思

民族识别工作中以客观的民族文化特征作为民族分类的主要依据,导致了人们对民族文化具有独特性、民族之间的文化具有差异性的强调,最终导致了"文化族别化"。"文化族别化"不能解释不同群体之间普遍存在的交往、交流、交融的客观事实,又将地域性的文化转化为具有明确民族归属的民族文化。对"文化族别化"这种社会认识面临的困境展开讨论和反思,有利于申明民族之间存在广泛的文化交流和客观联系。更为重要的是,承认民族之间的交流和联系比刻意地强调民族之间存在的差异更加重要。     

论民族视角的经济研究

本文提出把民族作为中国少数民族经济或民族经济学的分析框架。民族生存的自然环境和民族认同的文化特质构成民族概念的内在规定,并呈现为民族经济生活自然差异和文化差异二重性。把握民族经济生活差异二重性是建构学科理论框架的关键。     

甘肃省农业经济效益的地区差异及成因分析

以西部大开发战略实施以来的2001-2014年为研究时段,运用基尼系数、泰尔指数、灰色关联模型对甘肃省农业经济效益区域差异及时空演化特征进行单指标和多指标综合测度,并对其影响因素进行探讨.研究表明:甘肃省农业经济效益绝对差异呈加快扩大趋势,而相对差异和极化程度阶段性波动降低;宏观地域分异特征十分明显,北高南低、西高东低的空间格局10多年来未发生明显改变;历史发展基础、农业生产条件是农业经济效益格局演化的内部因素,而农业产业结构和区域发展政策是其外部推手.     

现代汉语语气词意义主观性的主体差异--以《雷雨》为例

文章旨在探讨说话人在使用现代汉语语气词表达主观意义时的主体差异。研究表明:表达主观意义的语言手段多种多样,说话人为了实现交际目的需对其进行选择,这种语言选择会受到各种主客观因素和话语功能的影响。文章尝试以语言主观性为理论基础, 建立现代汉语语气词意义主观性的分析模式,然后对《雷雨》中语气词意义主观性的主体差异进行了个案分析。