The significance of national pride and national identity to the attitude toward the single European currency: A Europe-wide comparison

The purpose of this paper is to explain the attitude toward the euro on the basis of different aspects of national identity. It is demonstrated that national identity and national pride both entail multi-dimensional constructs. Where national identity is concerned, in most countries a dimension of pure categorization (patriotism) can be distinguished from a dimension of discrimination (nationalism). The third dimension encountered is that of “European patriotism”. National pride can express itself, first, in terms of cultural–historical pride and, second, in terms of economic–political pride. Where the attitude toward the euro is concerned, the stance of European patriotism and the nationalistic stance have particular explanatory force. The former fosters a positive attitude toward the euro, while the latter has a negative impact on the attitude toward the euro. National patriotism, on the other hand, bears no relation to the attitude toward the European Monetary Union.PsycINFO classification code: 2960; 3020     

“Outside and Inside, Male and Female” Reconsidered

This paper reconsiders Judith Kestenberg's classic work Outside and Inside, Male and Female in the light of subsequent work on gender identity and psycho-sexual development. Kestenberg argued that the fear of internal genital sensations was common to both men and women and an obstacle to sexual development. An understanding of the fears and phantasies men and women have about their bodies which they project onto each other is an important aspect of therapeutic work, which the author believes does not receive adequate attention. Through two case examples she shows where Kestenberg's theory is still valid and where it needs to be revised. While Kestenberg could assume a normative heterosexuality, the author suggests we must now reexamine our theories in the light of challenges presented by homosexuality, bisexuality and transexuality.     

Men's Identities and Sociolinguistic Variation: The Case of Fraternity Men

The variation patterns of the variable (ING) in an American college fraternity are explained by analyzing individual men's contextualized discourse. While most of the fraternity men predictably use a lower rate of the 'vernacular' variant in weekly meetings, several men use a higher rate. I argue that all of the men index alignment roles associated with power, but that these alignment roles are powerful in different, specifiable ways. Qualitative discourse analysis shows that the men with high rates of the vernacular variant use (ING) to index working-class cultural models and confrontational stances, as part of identity displays based on physical, rather than structural, power. Thus, the variable has several potential abstract social meanings, but specific interactional meanings can only be constructed in contextualized practice.     

Oppositional identities and rhetoric in divorce

Using data gathered through participant observation and in-depth interviews, this article considers the phenomenon of non-mutual divorce in terms of the oppositional identities that divorcing partners establish through discourse. Divorcing partners describe feelings of mutual ambivalence prior to divorce, but they almost always transform themselves into dumpers (initiators/leavers) and dumped partners once their divorces begin. Most importantly, divorcing people establish these identities by invoking a cultural rhetoric of individualism on one side and a cultural rhetoric of commitment on the other. Although the two identities and their associated rhetorics are transitional, emerging only at the moment when one partner declares I want out and subsiding once the divorce is accomplished, they are significant means by which divorcing partners resolve ambivalence, account for their divorces, and impose a general sense of order onto the dissolution process.     

我国新生代农民工身份认同的现状及影响因素研究

本文基于问卷调查以及半结构化访谈法,从新生代农民工的主体视角对新生代农民工群体特征、务农经验、自我认知和未来发展、对城市生活的认同度及生活消费方式等方面考察了新生代农民工的身份认同状况及影响因素。研究发现,新生代农民工有非制度化的市民身份认同心理,而该认同心理受个人收入与家庭背景、社会保障权益以及社会接纳氛围等现实因素的影响。     

疏离与融入：文化视野中的移民身份认同

移民问题实质上是一个有关身份认同的文化问题。文化视野中的移民身份转换和认同经历了疏离阶段对“我是谁”的追问,以及融入阶段对“我们”的重新建构的复杂过程,并最终不得不面对移民城市杂糅文化语境中多重身份认同的新焦虑。     

“两个中心”建设与中华民族共同体意识建构——历史语境与现实意义

近年来,随着县级融媒体中心与新时代文明实践中心建设的发展,越来越多的地区开始打破以往“两个中心”建设发展各自为政的状态,开启了“两个中心”深度融合的局面。本研究从新闻传播学的角度出发,结合社会学、政治学等其他学科理论,试对共同建设“两个中心”对中华民族共同体意识建构所具有的作用进行分析,并对建设路径提出建议。研究发现“两个中心”建设有着共同的现实指向与目标,那便是面向基层社会治理,促成社会认同,二者相互推动,相互促进。进而在建设路径上,“两个中心”的建设应自上而下与自下而上相结合,促进建设工作有序开展,同时深度融合,推进思想宣传工作的共建共治共享,最后扎根群众,为中华民族共同体提供实践话语。     

萨勒斯山中的野玫瑰——《乐观者的女儿》中陪衬人物菲伊的形象分析

20世纪的美国南方文学经历了从“南方文艺复兴”的辉煌到后现代文学对“南方神话”的颠覆。第二代作家尤多拉·威尔蒂的著名小说《乐观者的女儿》中的陪衬人物菲伊就鲜明地反映了20世纪中期南方社会在经济一体化、工业文明与消费文化长驱直入的情况下,女权主义思想与后现代思潮的冲击下发生的深刻变化,即历史意识的解体、地方情结的消散、女性意识的觉醒。通过菲伊这一形象,威尔蒂敏感地把握住了时代的变迁。作为陪衬人物,菲伊与女主人公之间的对比与冲突,则生动体现了作者本人面对传统逐渐消亡、价值取向多元化的矛盾心情及观念的转变。