Doing gender in the ‘new office’

This paper investigates how gender is performed in the context of an office setting designed to promote intensive, fluid networking. We draw on an ethnographically oriented study of the move of staff into a new office building constructed primarily from glass, and incorporating open plan offices, diverse collective areas and walking routes. Although the designers aimed to invoke changes in the behaviour of all staff, they conceptualized these changes in masculine terms. We therefore analyse the gender norms materialized by the workspaces of the ‘new office’ and how women responded to these. We suggest that the new office encourages an image of the ideal worker which brings together ways of acting and interacting that have been characterized as both masculine and feminine — active movement and spontaneous encounters, but also intensive face‐to‐face interaction and deep relationship‐building. Women are driven into this mode of working in an uncompromising, almost aggressive way, but a straightforward gender‐based dynamic does not emerge in their responses, with conventional gender characteristics being reshuffled and recombined.     

我国新型农村养老保险制度的SWOT分析

文章从新农保的“新”字入题,试图借鉴管理学SWOT研究分析方法,从我国当前新型农村养老保险制度发展所面临的发展机遇、环境挑战、自身优势以及存在的问题四个方面内容展开探讨,并在此基础之上,从优化制度运行环境与制度自身完善两个方面对如何推动“新农保”制度建设提出了对策和建议。     

新会计准则下会计监督体系的改革与创新

实践证明,新会计准则的实施在总体上是顺利的.但与旧准则体系相比,新会计准则尤其是涉及公允价值引入的多项会计准则的内容变化很大,且操作性较差,给企业和会计人员提供了更多的"机会".这种变化对目前会计监督体系提出了严峻挑战.为此,本文提出了更新监督理念、优化会计监督模式、转变监督重点、创新监督方式、整合人力资源等建议.     

从文化视角看中国的“新民乐”

作为传统音乐与现代音乐相结合的一种新音乐形式,中国"新民乐"受到社会各界人士的广泛关注.它的出现,在一定程度上顺应了社会发展的某种客观规律,其是非曲直应放在社会文化背景下去讨论和探究.中国"新民乐"在自身发展的同时,应注意对本民族文化信息的传递,符合民族文化发展的长远利益."新民乐"的发展尚有待于进一步完善,以及文化界和音乐理论界的关注与指导.     

新媒体视野中的网络音乐文化及其美学特征

以数字技术为代表的新媒体不仅改变了音乐生产和传播方式,同时也改变了音乐生产和艺术消费.对网络音乐的存在方式及美学特征进行分析,可以引起大众对新媒体与艺术相结合的关注和兴趣,推动新媒体艺术的发展.     

一种新的右手定则替代佛莱铭左手及右手定则

大凡读过高中的人,都知道佛莱铭左手和右手定则,这种左、右定则很容易记错,有时要将手扭歪才能判定其方向,很难运用．为了方便学生记忆及方便判定方向,设法设计出一种新的右手定则,可以同时判定磁场对电流的作用力及磁场中导线所产生的感生电流的方向,显然这种右手定则是一个创新．     

为文不惟怜风月 一枝一叶总关情——浅谈恰白·次旦平措与新时期初的西藏文学

恰白·次旦平措先生的文学创作,始终浸透着对现实的强烈关怀和热情赞颂以及对历史本身的深入感悟,是现实主义精神的体现,也是历史沉思的诗性表达,在内容上,其作品突破宗教拘囿、古典规限,涌动着个人的真实体验与现代气息,予以人积极、乐观,宏大、壮丽的审美观感.其作品既是其对历史发展、社会实践的自觉意识的反映,也是其人文主义、朴素唯物主义思想的审美表现.     

The socioeconomic consequences of dropping out of high school: Evidence from an analysis of siblings

There is widespread belief that dropping out of high school leads to economic hardship. This belief rests on tenuous evidence. High school dropouts likely face an increased risk of economic hardship because of differences beyond a high school diploma. In particular, dropouts are more likely to come from disadvantaged backgrounds and thus face an elevated risk of economic hardship. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 Cohort, I estimate the consequences of dropping out by comparing dropouts to their siblings who completed high school. I also present OLS regression estimates using the same data. OLS regression estimates are consistently higher than sibling fixed effects estimates with the largest discrepancy occurring between estimates of the effect of dropping out on income-to-poverty ratio. However, the sibling fixed effect estimates reveal that dropping out has an effect on economic hardship net of unobserved background characteristics that are shared by siblings. I conclude with a discussion of how recent policy shifts affect the economic standing of low-ability students and suggest avenues for future research.     

Students’ health engagement and affective relations in Danish upper secondary school

To increase our understanding of the dynamics of young people’s embodied engagement in health, this article analyses Danish upper secondary school students’ understandings and practices of health and the role of the school environment in these dynamics. Participatory, visual and narrative data were collected during fieldwork with 37 students aged 16–17. Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy of the body is applied to analyse the affective relations and emerging body-health assemblages within the students’ school life, which generated force and vitality (here conceptualised as health). Through becoming within sensuous, social and political body-health assemblages, the students attempted to curb school stress, sustain social belonging in an individualistic school environment and both reproduce affirming power discourses and subvert their territorialisation. The study proposes an analytical shift in perspective on young people’s health away from an individualistic ‘components approach’ towards a relational understanding, and suggests that students’ health at school relates to collectivity, quality, rhythm and co-produced engagement, rather than individuality, quantity, rules and performance, which increasingly characterise Danish health discourse and school policy.     

Deciphering blog users: young adults’ personalities,motivations, and perceived importance of blog features

The present study examines the cyberpsychology of blog readership as well as the digital content preferences of the Millennial generation by examining the links between college students’ personality traits, motivations to read blogs, and preferred blog features. Results indicate that personality influences motivations for reading blogs, which in turn helps predict perceived importance of blog characteristics. Notably, extraversion and neuroticism were related to reading blogs for social interaction; extraversion negatively predicted use of blogs to meet identity needs; openness was related to blog reading for entertainment purposes; and conscientiousness was positively associated with information seeking via blogs. Additionally, motivations for blog readership as explanatory mechanisms for the relationships found between personality traits and perceived importance of blog features are discussed.