Freedom within bars: maximum security prisoners’ negotiations of identity through rap

This paper examines the construction of prisoners’ identity through rap in England’s high security prisons. While hip hop studies has often addressed rap’s connection to the social practices of criminalized youths, prison rap cultures have received scant attention. This paper draws on a series of rap workshops and interviews with prisoners to investigate the experiences of black prisoners in high security prisons and how identities are produced and negotiated through rap. Rap is associated with the production of a range of identities and identifications, enabling prisoners to accommodate themselves to the conditions of their incarceration and to challenge aspects of the criminal justice system that they experience as unfair or illegitimate.     

旧词新义说“山寨”

本文以近一两年来流行热语"山寨"为研究对象,通过语料分析与社会公众的诠释相互参证的方法,推衍出"山寨"一词在新义中所包含的社会、文化含义,并试图挖掘隐藏在新鲜语言事实背后的语言发展规律.     

The Perceptions of Women’s Roles and Progress: A Study of Malay Women

This study examines the general perceptions of women towards their roles, their interpretation of progress, as well as the facilitating factors and barriers to their progress. Questionnaires were distributed to 1,000 Malay women in Malaysia from rural and urban areas, from various age and income groups. Interviews were also carried out on the selected sample. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods of analyses, the results showed that women were perceived to play a strong, influential, and supportive role in their families. The results also showed how women perceive progress. These findings are discussed in relation to culture, socialization, values and norms of the Malay society.     

Caesarean delivery before 39 weeks associated with selecting an auspicious time for birth in Taiwan

BackgroundCaesarean delivery before 39 weeks of gestation increases the risk of morbidity among infants. Taiwan has one of the highest caesarean rates in the world, but little attention has been paid to this issue. This study aimed to describe the rate of caesarean delivery before 39 weeks gestation among women who did not have labour signs and had a non-emergency caesarean delivery in Taiwan and to examine whether the phenomenon was associated with the Chinese cultural practice of selecting an auspicious time for birth.MethodsWe recruited women at 15–28 weeks of pregnancy at 5 hospitals in northern Taiwan and followed them at 4 or 5 weeks after delivery using structured questionnaires. This analysis included 150 primiparous mothers with a singleton pregnancy who had a non-emergency caesarean delivery without the presence of labour signs.ResultsNinety-three of these women (62.0%) had caesarean deliveries before 39 weeks of gestation. Logistic regression analysis showed that women who had selected an auspicious time for delivery (OR = 2.82, 95% CI: 1.15–6.95) and delivered in medical centres (OR = 5.26, 95% CI: 2.25–12.26) were more likely to deliver before 39 weeks of gestation.ConclusionNon-emergency caesarean delivery before 39 weeks of gestation was common among the study women, and was related to the Chinese cultural practice of selecting an auspicious time for birth. Further studies are needed to examine the risks and benefits associated with timing of caesarean delivery in Taiwan in order to generate a consensus among obstetricians and give pregnant women appropriate information.     

开封伊斯兰教研究

本文探讨了开封伊斯兰教的地位,对伊斯兰教传入开封的时间采用了更有根据的"可能是唐,确切为宋"的提法,并为此主张将马依泽、所非尔、革哇默定三大世家的传说放在北宋中原与西域交通这个特定时间、特定空间的范围内考查。本文还概括出开封清真寺区别于他处清真寺的四个特点,对开封经堂教育、特别是经堂教育经学发展的历史进行了重点研究,进行了初步分期。介绍了民国以来与开封伊斯兰教有关的六位人物和三本著述。最后列举了现在能知道的开封伊斯兰教有关碑文的名称。     

组织文化度量:本土模型的构建与实证研究

本文旨在构建本土化的组织文化度量模型,并检验模型的有效性.作者在质性研究的基础上,从"组织对利益相关者的价值判断"与"组织对管理行为的价值判断"两个角度来构建我国组织文化度量模型.前者由组织对股东、客户、员工、社会大众等组织利益相关者价值判断维度构成,后者由组织文化动力特征、效率特征、秩序特征与和谐特征四个子模块构成.在验证性因子分析中,假设模型得到了很好的验证.本文最后比较了本土化模型与国外已有的重要模型在研究逻辑和方法上的差异,并对我国企业文化建设实践提出了若干建议.     

企业文化内部传播渠道个人感知量表的建构

通过对企业文化内部传播渠道的文献调研和企业访谈获得了量表的初始条目,在预测试和正式测试两个阶段,采用探索性因子分析、相关分析等技术对量表进行了检验和修改,得出了沟通、CEO榜样作用、直接上级榜样作用、同事榜样作用、英雄人物与故事、奖惩、活动七个因子,数据分析结果表明,量表具有良好的同质信度、折半信度、结构效度和预测效度.     

品牌个性维度的本土化研究

品牌个性维度一直是营销理论研究和营销实践领域中的一个热点课题。Jenniffer Aaker于1997年首次系统地发展了基于美国的品牌个性维度及量表,日本和西班牙的品牌个性维度及量表也相继诞生。然而,中国的本土化品牌个性维度及量表却仍然是一个空白。本文首先采用了西方的词汇法、因子分析和特质论作为方法论基础,以来自中文语言、中国的品牌为内容,经中国消费者的实证研究发展出中国的品牌个性维度及量表,并从中国传统文化角度阐释了中国的品牌个性维度——“仁、智、勇、乐、雅”。然后本文对中国的品牌个性维度与美国、日本的品牌个性维度进行了跨文化比较研究。     

Culture and Crisis Communication: Nestle India's Maggi Noodles Case

Extant theoretical paradigms in the field of crisis communication are organization-centric and do not adequately recognize the role of culture. The purpose of this essay is to analyze a crisis faced by Nestle India using the framework of global public relations which defines culture broadly to include political, economic, media, societal, and activist cultures. Our analysis revealed that a multinational corporation with over a century of presence in the country struggled to align itself to the complexities of the cultures of the host country. In the case of Nestle India, whereas environmental variables such as political economy and Westernization of urban India boosted the growth of its instant noodles, the multinational also struggled to cope with the rise of media corporatization, activist pressure and the vagaries of regulatory enforcement not to speak of cultural nationalism. It is evident that Nestlé's crisis response was governed more by its traditional corporate culture than by an ability to keep pace with the changing demands of its environment, leading to the amplification of an issue into a crisis. The study concludes that multinationals that ignore culture will be forced to pay a heavy price both in terms of reputation and the bottom line.