Parallels in propaganda? A comparative historical analysis of Islamic State and the Nazi Party

ABSTRACT

This article responds to calls for more comparative historical studies in public relations history across nations and cultures with a comparative analysis of the propaganda operations of Islamic State with the Nazi Party. This comparative historical approach aims to reduce the uncertainty associated with extremist terrorism and bring a historic-communicative perspective to an organization that politicians and commentators arguably overestimate in what has been described as the “epistemological crisis” of Western counterterrorism. This investigation attempts a methodological expansion of public relations historiography by applying the theoretical approach of historical institutionalism as basis for comparison between the two institutions alongside conventional content and artefact analysis. The project identifies ten parallels in propaganda and concludes that some of these commonalities – including a focus on engaging and recruiting young people, for example – can provide historically-derived guidance on counter terrorism responses in the communicative sphere.     

Indebted Relationships: Child Support Arrears and Nonresident Fathers' Involvement With Children

Low‐income, nonresident fathers owe a disproportionate amount of child support arrears, creating potential challenges for these fathers and their family relationships. This article uses mediation analysis to provide new evidence about how and why child support debt is related to paternal involvement using information from 1,017 nonresident fathers in the Fragile Families Study. Results show that child support arrears are associated with nonresident fathers having significantly less contact with children, being less engaged with them in daily activities, and providing less frequent in‐kind support 9 years after the birth. This negative association between child support debt and father involvement is most strongly and consistently mediated by the quality of the relationship between the biological parents. Although child support policies are designed to facilitate fathers' economic and emotional support, these results suggest that the accruement of child support debt may serve as an important barrier to father involvement.     

重温毛泽东的学习观——基于建设马克思主义学习型政党的思考

毛泽东的学习观是毛泽东思想的重要组成部分,其主要和基本的内容包括:学习之意义、学习之内涵和学风建设。其中,学风问题是毛泽东学习观的核心部分,他关于学风建设的突出贡献,就是确立了党的实事求是的思想路线,也是毛泽东思想活的灵魂,在中国共产党的学习和思想建设史上具有里程碑意义。重温毛泽东的学习观,不仅是学习型政党建设的逻辑起点和现实关切,也是价值思考。     

《书目答问》与《四库全书总目》之比较研究

《书目答问》与《四库全书总目》在体例、书目的选择与分类、著述思想等方面都存在很大不同,这些不同反映了同光时期的学术体系相对于乾嘉时期而言已经出现了某种突破和创新,具有十分明显的学术转型意义。透过《书目答问》与《四库全书总目》的比较,能够清晰把握中国传统学术现代转型的具体内涵。     

大学生素质多维发展路径选择

公众参与是加快我国行政法民主化建设的重要方式,文章力图从研究我国公众参与行政法治建设的现状出发,全面分析公众参与行政法治建设存在的若干不足之处,通过总结公众参与对行政法治民主化建设的积极意义,提出公众参与行政法治制度建设的有效途径,从而加快我国行政法治法民主化建设的进程。     

Variation in the Relationship Between Education and Marriage: Marriage Market Mismatch?

Educational expansion has led to greater diversity in the social backgrounds of college students. We ask how schooling interacts with this diversity to influence marriage formation among men and women. Relying on data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N = 3208), we use a propensity score approach to group men and women into social strata and multilevel event history models to test differences in the effects of college attendance across strata. We find a statistically significant, positive trend in the effects of college attendance across strata, with the largest effects of college on first marriage among the more advantaged and the smallest-indeed, negative-effects among the least advantaged men and women. These findings appear consistent with a mismatch in the marriage market between individuals' education and their social backgrounds.     

Transactional and Cascading Relations Between Early Spanking and Children's Social‐Emotional Development

The authors tested a series of models linking spanking and child social‐emotional outcomes using a sample of 3,870 families from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study. Spanking was measured by the number of times the focal child was spanked by the mother at ages 1, 3, and 5. Internalizing and externalizing symptoms were assessed using the Child Behavior Checklist at ages 3 and 5. Child emotionality was used to index child behavior at age 1. A series of nested transactional and cascade models was tested through structural equation modeling. The final model supported transactional effects between spanking and child externalizing behaviors over child ages 1, 3, and 5. In addition, one cascade effect was found: Spanking at age 1 was related to greater externalizing behavior at age 3, which was related to greater internalizing behavior at age 5. Implications for family theory and future research are discussed.     

The struggle over class,identity, and language: A case study of South Korean transnational families1

Globalization, while deterritorializing identity and culture, generates new practices and subjectivities that must be understood with reference to relationships between identity, language, and class in multiple markets. Through interviews and ethnographic observations focusing on children's language learning practices, this article examines how transnational South Korean families locate themselves in relation to the phenomenon of jogi yuhak, ‘early study abroad.’ It focuses on two graduate student families’ struggle over securing their social position by portraying themselves as different from other transnational Korean families through investing in alternate forms of linguistic capital. This reflects their contradictory and shifting subjectivities as they negotiate between foregrounding their roles as moral and intellectual elites vs. acting as materialistic parents. These transnational families’ struggles and conflicts underline how globalization in general, and jogi yuhak as a transnational strategy in particular, affects individuals’ subjectivities at the intersection of class, language, and transnationalism. ???? ????? ??? ???? ??? ?????? ???, ??? ?? ????? ??? ???, ??, ??? ?????? ??? ?? ?? ???? ?? ??? ??? ??? ????? ??. ??? ??? ?? ??? ??? ?? ? ??? ????? ?? ??? ?? ??? ???? ?? ?? ???? ? ???? ??? ???? ??? ??? ?????? ??? ??? ????? ??? ??? ????. ??? ???? ?? ? ??? ??? ???? ??? ??? ??? ???? ??? ??? ???? ???? ??? ??? ?? ????? ?????? ??????? ??? ????? ????. ??, ???? ?? ????? ???, ?? ?????? ??? ?? ??? ????? ?? ???? ?? ??? ?? ????? ?????? ???? ????? ????? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ????. ?? ???? ???? ??? ??? ????? ????, ??? ???? ?????? ????? ????, ?? ??? ?????? ?????? ??? ??? ??? ??? ????? ????. [Korean]     

Parent–Child Relationships in Stepfather Families and Adolescent Adjustment: A Latent Class Analysis

In the current study the authors drew on Waves I and III from Add Health to examine the closeness of parent–adolescent relationships in married mother–stepfather families (N = 1,934). They used latent class analysis to identify family constellations defined by adolescents' relationships with all of their parents: mothers, stepfathers, and biological nonresident fathers. In particular, the authors (a) identified the most common underlying patterns of adolescent–parent relationships in stepfamilies; (b) determined the background characteristics that predict membership in these groups; and (c) examined how adolescents in these groups fare with respect to depressive symptoms, delinquency, and substance use. The results indicate that adolescents' relationships can be represented with 4 latent classes. Adolescents in these classes differ on measures of adjustment, and many of these differences persist into the early adult years.     

Paths to Intimate Relationship Quality From Parent–Adolescent Relations and Mental Health

Using a developmental systems perspective and public‐use longitudinal data from participants currently in a romantic relationship at Wave 4 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n = 2,970), the current study explored direct and indirect paths from parent–adolescent relationship quality to young adult intimate relationship quality. Structural equation modeling tested whether mental health (depressive symptoms and self‐esteem) in the transition to adulthood mediated the association between parent–adolescent relations and young adult intimate relations. The results indicated that higher quality parent–adolescent relations predicted higher self‐esteem and lower depressive symptoms during the transition to adulthood as well as higher young adult intimate relationship quality, controlling for adolescent mental health and parent–young adult relationship quality. Higher self‐esteem during the transition to adulthood was associated with greater intimate relationship quality, whereas greater depressive symptomatology predicted reduced intimate relationship quality. One significant indirect path emerged: parent–adolescent relationship quality → self‐esteem → intimate relationship quality.