在中国做“海外中国研究”——中国研究的立场与进路

从海外中国研究到中国研究的转变过程, 实际上也即意味着作为研究客体的中国向作为研究主体的中国的转变过程. 如何面对作为“西学”的海外中国研究在“中国研究”中的地位, 并在此基础上形成中国研究的立场与进路, 应该成为国内中国研究的题中之意. 中国研究的立场是中国主位的, 实现这一立场, 其具体进路在于中国研究是问题取向、经验取向, 最终应该是以认识及理解中国为取向的, 因而, 在这种研究进路下, 中国研究的学术的主体性只能在认识和理解中国的过程中作为“副产品”出现。     

试论北京辅仁大学的国学教育

北京辅仁大学作为一所私立天主教大学,以弘扬中国优秀传统文化为办学宗旨。校长陈垣通过多种方式网罗了一大批国学名师,为学校的国学教育奠定了重要的师资基础。辅仁大学为了强化国学教育采取了一些富有特色的举措,学校因此成为当时中国国学教育的重镇,这些措施在今天的大学教育中仍不失其借鉴意义。     

德国古典哲学与现代思维范式的逻辑关联--论黑格尔的独到贡献

德国古典哲学是由近代认识论思维范式向现代人类学思维范式转换的过渡和中介。作为德国古典哲学集大成者的黑格尔哲学,从人学指向的出发点、辩证方法、理论面向实际的合理内容等诸方面都生动体现了这一哲学与现代人类学思维范式的逻辑关联。在这方面,黑格尔的独特贡献是无可替代的。     

马克思主义哲学的人学致思理路

关于人学的理论研究已经成为我国学术界的一大理论热点 ,本文着重探讨了人学理论研究对于哲学发展的意义。总结概括目前国内学术研究的基本观点 ,无论是等同论、并列论、兼容论 ,都无法深刻阐释人学研究对于哲学的理论意义 ,同样也不能完全揭示哲学所蕴涵的人学底蕴。为此 ,笔者从哲学致思理路转换的角度切入 ,探讨了马克思主义哲学的变革之路 ,从中概括出了马克思主义哲学的人学理路     

西部学报编辑主体现代意识的特征及其策略研究

学报编辑主体的现代意识是指符合现时代编辑出版和社会发展要求的理念或意识,它是与时俱进的编辑理念,求真务实的品牌意识以及无私奉献的创新精神的统一.其构成要件是开放意识、信息意识、前瞻意识、策划意识、品牌意识、质量意识、效益意识、创新意识等等.西部学报编辑主体现代意识具有低层次性、不平衡性和片面性特征.要强化西部欠发达地区学报编辑主体的现代意识,应从主、客观两大方面着手.     

“Difficult,Messy, Nasty,and Sensational”

Feminist publishing played an important role in the feminist art movement of the 1970s and into the 1980s, and Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics was a key journal in this landscape. This paper argues that Heresies is important not only because it was a forum for some of the most influential feminist art women of the period, but because it experimented with an editorial structure that required participants to reckon with the discomforts of difference. Editors of the periodical took seriously the feminist critique of hierarchically structured organizational cultures and both promoted and practiced collective publishing. Moreover, through an emphasis on editorial statements, I consider how Heresies gives expression to the affective entanglements of the women involved in Heresies' specific form of collaboration and collective feminist politics. An examination of the editorials as sites of affective intensity helps to come to an understanding not of what women were thinking, writing, and making, but how they may have felt about their work and their relationships with women with whom they worked.     

A Psychometric Review of Measures Assessing Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities

ABSTRACT

Discrimination against sexual minorities is widespread and has deleterious consequences on victims’ psychological and physical wellbeing. However, a review of the psychometric properties of instruments measuring lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) discrimination has not been conducted. The results of this review, which involved evaluating 162 articles, reveal that most have suboptimal psychometric properties. Specifically, myriad scales possess questionable content validity as (1) items are not created in collaboration with sexual minorities; (2) measures possess a small number of items and, thus, may not sufficiently represent the domain of interest; and (3) scales are “adapted” from measures designed to examine race- and gender-based discrimination. Additional limitations include (1) summed scores are computed, often in the absence of scale score reliability metrics; (2) summed scores operate from the questionable assumption that diverse forms of discrimination are necessarily interrelated; (3) the dimensionality of instruments presumed to consist of subscales is seldom tested; (4) tests of criterion-related validity are routinely omitted; and (5) formal tests of measures’ construct validity are seldom provided, necessitating that one infer validity based on the results obtained. The absence of “gold standard” measures, the attendant difficulty in formulating a coherent picture of this body of research, and suggestions for psychometric improvements are noted.     

Design priorities and disciplinary perspectives: the case of the US National Children's Study

Summary.  The National Children's Study (NCS), which was undertaken in 2000 by collaboration between several US federal government agencies, is one of the largest and boldest longitudinal studies of children's health ever undertaken. One of the key design issues has been the nature of the NCS sample. The paper describes the nature of the choices and the reasons for the decision that the NCS be based on a national probability sample. Designed as a study of the environmental influences on children's health and development, the NCS is expected to identify, enrol and follow about 100000 children from their birth to the age of 21 years. A broad definition of relevant environments of interest, and a full partnership between government, university and medical scientists, introduces considerable challenges in the design of the study.     

Family support as a working style in child protection in Italy: A comparative study on social workers' child welfare attitudes

Comparative studies on child protection decision-making highlight the implications and determinants of differences in child welfare systems internationally and reinforce discussions regarding child protection practices and family support when a child is exposed to inadequate parental care. To date, Italian child protection studies have highlighted a system characterised by a strong degree of variability related to the absence of practices shared nationally. Differently, this comparative study focuses more on similarities within the Italian context, seeking to understand how they influence practices. The opinions of 188 Italian social workers with respect to the substantiation of maltreatment, risk assessment and intervention recommendations were compared with the results of a recent study involving practitioners in Israel, Northern Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands. The main outcomes show that Italian social workers prefer a family support orientation, meaning that children are usually removed from their home only if necessary and generally with the aim of reunification with their families. The study also reveals that Italian professionals are more in favour of residential care than foster care.     

Parenting is genetically influenced: What does that mean for research into child and adolescent social development?

Individual differences in child and adolescent social development are due to a combination of variation in genetic propensity and environmental conditions. That is, variation in social domains like bullying-victimization, loneliness and pro- and antisocial behaviour is genetically influenced to a substantial extent. That is not to say that social contexts also do not play an important role in shaping social development. Indeed, parenting and parent–child relationship quality have been associated with various aspects of social development. What complicates matters is that environmental conditions – including parenting – are under genetic influence as well. Genetic influence on parenting has not received sufficient attention in the literature on social development although it likely biases estimates of parental effects on offspring social development. To change this situation, I review recent twin and molecular research on genetic influence on parenting and discuss why genetically-informed studies improve and enrich contemporary research into social development. The aim of this topic review is to provide an accessible introduction to genetics of parenting and encourage genetically-informed research into social development.