Dynamic models and attainment in the workplace

The two most marked trends in recent stratification studies are: (1) the shift away from a statical approach to attainment and toward a dynamical representation of achievement, and (2) the shift away from the assumption that achievement is largely a matter of individual characteristics, and toward the view that achievement is the outcome of an employer-employee exchange of productive resources for earnings and status. This paper forges a link between these parallel trends by elaborating on previous formulations of dynamic models of achievement and applying the results to the analysis of earnings attainment in an internal labor market. The modeling section of the paper joins within a single framework the growing interest in ascertaining how a given structure of opportunity shapes achievement and in determining the different points in the career line at which individual background and resource variables impact attainment. Special attention is devoted to the problems facing researchers who wish to bring a dynamic conceptualization of achievement to cross-sectional or otherwise deficient data. Although the empirical application of the various models is largely meant to be illustrative, it is of interest in its own right because it goes substantially beyond previous efforts in this area.     

The success of protest groups: Multivariate analyses

This paper reviews earlier research and presents new analytical findings regarding the outcomes of social movements. Using the resource mobilization/management approach, empirical propositions that seek to explain protest group success or failure are tested. Based upon data gathered from a sample of 53 US protest groups, the causal models explained the majority of the variance in degree of success between these groups. Our findings indicate that protest groups which threaten to replace or destroy established groups are usually unsuccessful, and those having many strong alliances tend to be more successful than groups fighting alone. The use of violence does not greatly aid the prediction of group outcome because of the unpredictable, ambivalent reaction to violence by established groups.     

On the mode of administering a questionnaire and responses to open-ended items

Concurrently administered personal and telephone surveys are compared to measure differences between the modes for identical questions. Speed of questioning is found to be greater in telephone interviews than personal interviews. The faster pace of telephone interviews is linked to shorter answers to open-ended items on the telephone. The tendency to reduce such responses is disproportionately exhibited by younger, affluent respondents who tend to provide detailed responses in personal interviews.     

建立教育实习基地的实践与思考

本文主要就高等师范院校的实习方式进行探讨,并以我院为例,说明了建立教育实习基地和专业教育教学研究试验基地是解决高等师范院校实习难和提高教育实习质量行之有效的方法     

英语俚语汉译初探

英语俚语难以辨认和理解,因而在翻译中其意义和风格难以得以充分传达。为了保证其意义和风格在译文中充分再现,译者必须准确理解原文,再现原文特色以及说话者的个性     

浅析我国再就业工程所面临的问题及对策思路

随着我国企业改革的不断深化,全国各地不断涌现一大批下岗待业人员和为数众多的失业者。如若得不到妥善安置,势必影响企业深化改革的顺利进行和社会的稳定。再就业工程为一项旨在帮助下岗和失业职工重返工作岗位的宠大工程,已引起社会各界的重视。再就业工程在实施的两年多时间里,取得了一定成效,但也面临许多问题,要顺利解决这些问题,必须要有新的思路和对策     

会议口译准备简论

人们对口译的研究常常强调口译的过程和技巧,但是对于一次具体的会议口译,会前的准备工作往往起关键作用。文章将具体谈论如何准备会议口译。     

刑事悬赏性质的法律分析

刑事悬赏是公安机关在刑事案件侦查中普遍采用的一种法律行为。从刑事悬赏发布主体属性来分析,刑事悬赏的法律属性应当理解为一种行政行为。这种界定可以有效厘清公安机关与个人发布的悬赏之间的区别,明确刑事悬赏的法律监督机制和确定刑事悬赏的法律救济途径等问题。     

政府监管家装建材市场的系统分析

目前,家装建材市场“鱼目混珠”现象屡见不鲜,对公众生命以及国家财产安全造成了严重的威胁。政府部门监管的缺位是建材业不良竞争泛滥的重要因素,文章从目前家装建材市场的现状着手,分析了政府监管存在的误区,并且从政府职能部门自身、法律法规和市场监管体系建设以及行业协会自律等方面提出了一系列对策建议。