Defending the Family,Defending the Faith: An Analysis of The Family: A Proclamation to the World,Religious Identity,and the Politics of Same-Sex Marriage in a Mormon Community

In this article, we apply Peter Berger's theory of religion as a social construct to learn how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church) advances a heteronormative view of family relationships in the United States using a document titled The Family: A Proclamation to the World. Furthermore, applying cultural studies theory, we examine how believing Mormons negotiate the tension that arises when their secular values compete with those expressed by Church leaders. We argue that, although the Proclamation addresses a number of issues, the Church offers a closed text that emphasizes war narratives in which same-sex marriage is portrayed as a threat to LDS identity and the heteronormative family. This closed text is further legitimized by emphasis on the authority of Church leaders as oracles of God. The study participants largely accept the dominant narrative, and those who reject it, do so with some trepidation.     

Homemaking,Temporality and Later Life

Abstract

While much literature has focused on the meaning of home, relatively little has been conducted on homemaking in later life. This paper demonstrates the importance of time in conceptualizations of home. Using an extensive case study from a multi-interview study with eight older people in England, it is shown that gardening can form the basis of a temporal framework which structures a life. Importantly, gardening can seem essential in homemaking and a reason not to move to residential living. This paper builds on literature that suggests home is a process and that people’s conceptualization and experience of home develop throughout their lives. As ageing and dying have become long and complicated processes, it is argued older people may find this challenging as this makes it difficult to prepare for the end of life.     

Gezi Park and EuroMaidan: social movements at the borders

Both Turkey and Ukraine are located at the external borders of the European Union (EU), and are seen as important partners of the EU, especially in terms of economic relations and strategic partnership. Both countries experienced en masse protest events in 2013: the Gezi Park protests and EuroMaidan, starting, respectively, in May 2013 and November 2013. Although these protests started initially for different reasons – the brutal eviction of a sit-in organized for protecting the trees in Taksim Gezi Park and the Ukrainian government's abandonment of EU trade agreement talks – and seem spatially, temporally and ideologically separate, they both include claims related to a “more just and transparent system”. Such claims are not purely political and are closely linked to a social dimension, especially in terms of local and European space-making. This article aims to understand the importance of Gezi Park and EuroMaidan within the framework of new social movements in terms of space-making and the perception of human rights, democracy, justice, identitarian politics and consensual social relations as Euro-concepts or European ideals.     

Place attachment among children in a street situation in Pelotas,Brazil

This article explores the processes which affect street children and youths’ relationships with the place called the ‘streets’. The street as a place to live is violent and hostile. However, street dwellers aspire to see the street environment positively. In fact, being able to establish a positive relationship with the street, to become attached to it, is crucial for coping within it. In this research, longitudinal qualitative data concentrating on processes were produced time-geographically with 19 street children and youths in the Brazilian town of Pelotas. The analyses of this research reveal that attachment changes over time instead of remaining static. Examples from the streets demonstrate how the human–environment relationship is shaped by constantly changing encounters of physical, social and mental (f)actors. This article stresses the importance of individual life experiences and goals for the attachment processes and for what positively affects the attachment.     

朱子社仓与道学家的社会理想

社仓是朱子奉行儒家社会理想的一个重要的实践活动.通过对朱熹筹建和推广社仓活动的简要回顾,力图阐明社仓等实践活动和道学家所追求的儒家社会理想的紧密联系.     

公务员责任实现机制探析

行政责任的履行和实现是一个制度化的责任规范过程,是对客观责任进行设置并加以监控的过程,也是取得公务员个人主观责任意识与责任认同并在此基础上作出主动行为选择的过程。行政责任的实现是依赖于一套完整的动力系统实现的,这个动力系统既包括公务员个体主观道德意识、职业价值观所决定的内在动力,也包括对行政责任实施管理和监控的制度所形成的外部动力,只有内部动力与外部动力达成统一和协调,行政责任才能得以有效实现。     

论政府制度正义

政府制度有其基本原则,这一基本原则就是"正义"。政府制度正义包含了两个方面的内容:一是指政府制度的正义性,强调政府制度本身具有道德上的合理性与正当性,具有正义的根据;二是指政府正义理念的制度化,强调政府正义的理念与要求应当具体化为政府制度。政府制度正义,需要具有正义感的每个公务员来共同维持,因此,实现政府制度正义离不开公务员个人正义。     

电子审务的架构与程式——基于民事诉讼程序的研究

信息技术和互联网的发展,对各个领域都产生了一定的影响.民事诉讼活动可以在一定程度上运用网络技术,但需要对适用的范围加以界定.电子审务对于降低诉讼成本,更好保护当事人诉讼权利都具有一定的意义.民事诉讼法的修改应该顺应这一潮流,在立法上保留一定的前瞻性.     

民事简易程序的域外法比较

对两大法系代表性国家的民事简易程序制度从受案范围、启动方式、审理组织、审理方式、裁判形式、小额诉讼程序6个方面对民事简易程序进行了较为系统、全面的比较,以便了解国外完备的民事简易程序制度,同时为我国民事简易程序的完善提供可资借鉴的先进经验。     

迷失的文明 ——析莱辛《野草在唱歌》中殖民权力的分布

莱辛小说《野草在唱歌》为读者提供了殖民时期南部非洲殖民生活的广阔图景。小说运用象征手法,以独特的视角深度剖析各阶层之间等级森严的社会结构,揭示殖民权力与公民权利的冲突。通过分析殖民时期社会经济与法律制度的演变进程,梳理出殖民地时期殖民权力在南部非洲分布的具体状况。欧洲文明迷失在非洲大陆是殖民主义者追逐私利本性驱使下的必然结果,而由此产生的殖民主义与种族制度赋予了殖民者无上的殖民权力的同时,也完全剥夺了非洲殖民地人民的公民权利,使非洲大陆与这块大陆的主人承受了无尽而深重的苦难。