Stop the Beat: Quiet Regulation and Cultural Conflict1

This article explores a recent conflict over the youth phenomenon known as “raving” in the City of Chicago. By interviewing participants involved in the conflict, I set out to understand the extent to which the crackdown on raves in Chicago was similar to earlier social reactions to jazz, comic books, rock and roll, and Dead Head culture, as well as to more recent conflicts over punk, rap music, and raves in other cities. While most previous research on cultural conflict has focused on moral crusades, campaigns, and panics, the Chicago conflict represents an example of “quiet regulation.” Opponents refrained from highly visible, morally charged attacks; instead, in the absence of media hype and visible public discourse, public officials justified the crackdown in highly bureaucratic terms—avoiding risk, collecting taxes, enforcing codes. Nonetheless, they also drew on cultural schemas that linked raves and raving with drugs, sex, and deviance. As a result, officials selected a course of regulation that criminalized DJs and discredited the artform. In the absence of a highly visible moral campaign, the rave participants were unable to mobilize and resist the regulation and defend their lifestyle. Sociologists must move beyond highly visible campaigns and crusades and pay greater attention to quiet regulation, both because such regulation is likely to increase in the future and because it has significant consequences for power, cultural expression, and identity.     

加强和改进师德建设是教育之根本

本文以崭新的视角与多种途径论述加强和改进师德建设的相关问题，树立与时俱进的育人为本和德育为先的教育思想至关重要。     

数学化：当代哲学社会科学发展的必然趋势

由于数学所具有的多种功能 ,哲学社会科学不仅可以引进数学的计量方法 ,也可以引进数学中的非计量方法如逻辑方法、思维技巧和有关概念以充实、补充和改善哲学社会科学的研究。哲学社会科学的数学化 ,已经成为当代科学发展的一个重要特点     

换个视角看庄子人生观的积极一面

庄子的人生观是中国古代人生观的一个重要组成部分,从古至今影响了很多人,包括那些对中国的历史和文化作出过重大贡献的人.尽管如此,人们总是认为庄子的人生观是消极的.作者从人生观几个主要方面的问题着手,对庄子的人生观进行了一定的研究,认为庄子重视人在宇宙中的地位,具有人生的理想和目标,并提出了达到其理想和目标的方法,要求人们努力去实行.所以,庄子的人生观并非只是消极.     

Introduction

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论唐君毅早期思想中的生死问题意识

唐君毅作为一位早慧型的哲学家,在早期生活经历中就有了多次对生死离别之事的强烈感受和生命体验;在他早期的思想创造中,这些体验形成了他自觉的生死问题哲学意识和生死哲学思想;这些意识和思想贯彻其终身,构建出一套完整的儒家生死哲学系统。     

浅议加强民族高校财务人员职业道德教育的意义

本文就民族高校财务工作的特点和市场经济发展形势的要求,阐述加强对民族高校财务人员进行职业道德教育的重要性及其意义。     

民族高校德育工作的创新发展

民族高校的德育工作既有普通高校德育工作的共性,又有其民族的特殊性。因此,在德育工作中针对少数民族学生的特点,与时俱进,开拓新思路,探索新方法,加强德育工作的针对性和实效性。     

赫哲族伦理道德初探

赫哲族的伦理道德是赫哲族人民的宝贵精神财富,它在赫哲族人民的精神生活中起着直接的规范性作用。这也表明赫哲族是一个极为讲究伦理道德的民族,其伦理道德既是中华民族传统伦理道德不可分割的组成部分,又具有自身鲜明的特点。赫哲族伦理道德在赫哲族人的生活习俗、民间文学等诸多方面都有十分具体的体现。在社会主义精神文明建设中,对赫哲族伦理道德的特点进行分析,取其精华,弃其糟粕,通过吸收和改造,使赫哲族的传统道德和社会主义道德相统一,是本文研究的主旨。     

A Polynomial Optimization Approach to Principal–Agent Problems

This paper presents a new method for the analysis of moral hazard principal–agent problems. The new approach avoids the stringent assumptions on the distribution of outcomes made by the classical first‐order approach and instead only requires the agent's expected utility to be a rational function of the action. This assumption allows for a reformulation of the agent's utility maximization problem as an equivalent system of equations and inequalities. This reformulation in turn transforms the principal's utility maximization problem into a nonlinear program. Under the additional assumptions that the principal's expected utility is a polynomial and the agent's expected utility is rational in the wage, the final nonlinear program can be solved to global optimality. The paper also shows how to first approximate expected utility functions that are not rational by polynomials, so that the polynomial optimization approach can be applied to compute an approximate solution to nonpolynomial problems. Finally, the paper demonstrates that the polynomial optimization approach extends to principal–agent models with multidimensional action sets.