Conflict and the separateness of peoples: investigating the relationship between multiplicity,inequality and war

ABSTRACT

The discipline-defining claim that anarchy leads inevitably to security-competition and war between states is unsustainable. This article investigates whether the concept of multiplicity can offer a reintegrated account of insecurity in world politics. As highlighted by rational choice approaches, substantive conflicts of interest are a necessary condition for organized violence to be a permanent possibility within, across and between societies. A materialist argument is presented that the most enduring incompatible interests arise from clashes over the rules of economic appropriation and redistribution, and the appropriate boundaries between social groups. Historically, unevenness and the possibility for exploitation have created structural pressures towards simultaneous social stratification and the institutionalization of inter-societal warfare. Because of the central importance of social boundaries for structural inequalities, multiplicity has profound implications for both patterns of organized violence and the fundamental issue in the study of politics: who gets what, when and how.     

男女平等的法律并不是最好的法律——以女性从政和婚姻诉讼为视角

从性别的视角来考察法律发现,现代法律与过去法律相比,一个最大的进步,就是消除了歧视妇女的条款。而现代法律的一个最大缺陷,则是忽视了两性区别,用毫无性差的法律规定男女同权、男女平等,其结果是男女根本不可能平等。因而,这种男女平等,实际上是用形式上的平等掩饰了事实的不能平等,是一种包装了的男女不平等。所以,男女平等的法律,并不是最好的法律。只有体现性别差异、补充女性能力、实现男女无利差的法律,才是最好的法律。     

Navigating the First Year of College: Siblings,Parents, and First-Generation Students’ Experiences

Although college education is a key to upward mobility, students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to enter and complete college than their more advantaged peers. Prior literature has illuminated how cultural capital contributes to these disparities. An alternative conceptualization of cultural capital, however, suggests that it can also play a role in social mobility. In this study, we build on and extend the literature on cultural mobility by proposing that exposure to education can benefit not only individuals but also families. We examine the influence of older siblings who attended college on the experiences of younger college-going siblings in families where neither parent has completed college (i.e., first-generation families). We find that students rarely rely on their older siblings as sources of information and advice, except in a few instances where older siblings attended the same institution. However, both the topics and nature of conversations between parents and students differ between families with and without older college-educated siblings. The primary benefit of having college-educated siblings is thus related to students’ engagement with and support received from parents. These findings have important implications for cultural capital research and understanding experiences of first-generation college students.     

Parametric Versus Nonparametric Inference on Zenga Index of Inequality: Issues and Evidence From Survey Data

Recent growing disparities suggests to move from inequality measures based on comparing the incomes of the less fortunate with the overall mean, as the Gini, to the new Zenga index, which instead contrasts the means of the less and the more wealthy subpopulations. After providing a thorough analysis of the theoretical and practical aspects of obtaining parametric and non-parametric confidence intervals for the Zenga inequality measure, we develop a cross-regional study based on the Swiss Income and Consumption Survey, wave 2005. Results show that coverage accuracy and average length of confidence intervals improve when the parametric model offers a good fit to the data.     

构建教育产业运行机制的理论初探

从理论上分析了为什么教育产业运行机制的建立需要人力资本环境的成熟、教育市场调节机制的完善及健全的法制     

论江泽民对邓小平教育理论的丰富和发展

党的十三届四中全会以来 ,江泽民同志率领党的第三代中央领导集体 ,高举邓小平理论伟大旗帜 ,解放思想 ,联系实际 ,从教育的地位、性质和办学方向、培养目标、师资和教育创新等方面丰富和发展了邓小平教育理论 ,把我国教育事业全面推进到了一个新的快速发展阶段     

雷沛鸿与韦善美的教育理念和教育追求

雷沛鸿与韦善美所处的时代不同，但他们两人的教育理念和教育追求脉息相通。雷沛鸿因韦善美而彰显，韦善美因倡导研究雷沛鸿而扬名。     

创新教育与教育创新

创新教育是时代对高等教育的要求。创新教育是素质教育的重点。创新教育的主要内容是培养学生的创新精神、创新能力。创新教育的实施在于教育创新 ,这要在办学思想、办学模式、教学内容、教学方法的管理上落实。     

关于一类不等式证明的研究

在数学的教与学过程中 ,关于不等式问题的证明是其内容的重要部分之一 ,又由于数学具有独特的思维方法和新颖的解题技巧这种特点 ,因此笔者首先针对一个具体的不等式采用灵活的论证手段对其加以证明 ,随后又采用将特殊推为一般这种方法 ,将其可行性适当推广成一类不等式 ,而且广泛采用高等数学中积分学的有关知识对其进行证明 ,从而验证了这类不等式的正确性和求证方法的高度灵活性。