Ethnic differences in the academic achievement process in Canada

This research examines the extent to which differences in achievement between German-speaking and French-speaking students are accounted for by theoretically related intervening variables and the extent to which the entire achievement process differs across the two ethnic groups. For the two ethnic groups, both main effects and interaction effects have significant consequences for the academic achievement process, even when a number of other variables are controlled. The results suggest that the whole process works to the benefit of the German-speaking students and to the detriment of the French-speaking students.     

大学学科课程研究性教学之原则

研究性教学作为一种新的教学指导思想和教学模式十分适合大学学科课程的教学。在大学学科课程的教学中开展研究性教学要遵循的基本原则包括人本教学原则、权变教学原则、交往教学原则、共同发展教学原则、团队合作竞争教学原则和表现评价教学原则。     

高校哲学社会科学学报“名栏”建设研究综述

自2004年教育部实施高校哲学社会科学学报名栏建设工程以来，广大学报工作者以极大的热情投入名栏工程建设，并在理论上作了有益的探索，主要集中在三个方面：一是何谓“名栏”；二是怎样创建“名栏”；三是怎样应对“名栏”创建过程中的问题。     

哈佛燕京学社75年的汉学贡献

哈佛燕京学社及哈佛燕京图书馆、东亚系,大力开展中美双方互派学者的研究计划,培养出大批中外名人,著名华裔教授取得了极大的成就。哈佛燕京文物收藏之丰富,哈佛燕京图书馆多元之馆藏、特藏及三任馆长与同仁对汉学研究贡献之大,在中国百年现代化的框架中,均有卓越的独特地位。哈佛燕京学社丰富了哈佛和世界的历史文化体系,建树恢宏。     

西南联大群体的新诗研究及其外来影响——以闻一多、朱自清为中心的探讨

抗日战争时期,西南联大中文系教授闻一多和朱自清不断总结新文学创作的艺术经验,作出了创造"现代诗学"的努力,并取得了第一批成果:朱自清的《新诗杂话》和闻一多的系列诗论,为新诗的理论化和系统化提供了坚实的基础。同时,他们的新诗研究深受西方理论的影响,使闻一多和朱自清在"现代诗学"的创造中受益颇多。     

Resources,homophily, and dependence: Organizational attributes and asymmetric ties in human service networks

This paper examines the effects of organizational attributes on power/dependence relations in interorganizational dyads. Exchange and homophily theories are discussed as two alternative perspectives on the processes that give rise to such effects. The data pertain to interagency ties in three community-based networks of youth service agencies and are analyzed via a new strategy of linear modeling dyadic relations. The results of the analysis suggest that size, administrative position, and justice system connections condition the extent to which an agency initiates and receives ties of influence, assistance, and support. Moreover, these relations are more frequent between agencies with similar treatment ideologies and client racial makeup. Finally, size and justice system access are found to reduce agency dependence on a network's administrative core. In the course of the discussion, a number of related issues and findings are discussed.     

Do females necessarily have the same occupational status scores as males? A conceptual and empirical examination of the Duncan Socioeconomic Status Index and Nam-Powers Occupational Status Scores

Social Science researchers have advanced important yet somewhat contradictory conclusions regarding the different economic and occupational reward structures faced by men and women. Income and wage differences between men and women have been shown to be sizable and persistent throughout the occupational hierarchy. Conversely, gender differences in occupational status, commonly scaled by the Duncan Socioeconomic Index, have been shown to be small or nonexistent in most studies. In an attempt to investigate this incongruity, the present study undertakes a comparison of the Duncan SEI and the Nam-Powers Occupational Status Scores in an empirical study of the occupational position of white men and women in 65 large standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs) in 1970. While the findings of earlier studies showing no gender differences in occupational status are for the most part replicated using the Duncan SEI, use of the Nam-Powers scores prompts a much different conclusion. Large status differences between men and women are indicated using this latter scale, differences which are very much in line with income differences commonly cited. We suggest that the Nam-Powers metric should be used instead of the Duncan SEI in studies of occupational status of women and men.     

Confession of prior knowledge about experimental procedures as a function of evaluation apprehension and commitment

Subjects' evaluation apprehension (anxiety about being judged by the experimenter) and commitment to (involvement in) the experiment were manipulated in an experimental study of subjects' honesty in postexperimental interviews. Previous studies have shown that subjects are typically dishonest in postexperimental interviews by refusing to admit prior knowledge of the experiment imparted to them by a confederate. It was found that both high apprehension and low commitment lead to greater subject honesty. Other features of the experimental design were successful in inducing subjects to be generally more honest than their counterparts in previous confederate tip-off studies.     

Durkheim and pierce on suicide and economic change

This paper is an attempt to build upon Pierce's important finding, a confirmation of Durkheim, that any form of economic disruption or change increases suicide. In this paper, certain aspects of Pierce's method are criticized. The analysis of an expanded and updated data set, using analytic techniques designed for time-series data, suggests that economic disruption per se is not as relevant to the suicide rate as are economic hardship and economic deterioration or improvement.