Assessing LGBT People’s Perceptions of Police Legitimacy

ABSTRACT

Although lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have achieved increased acceptance and access to social institutions in recent years, they have continued to be confronted with persistent homophobic attitudes, including from U.S. law enforcement personnel. Police culture often fosters these beliefs, and consequently results in the under-policing of LGBT citizens when victimized, but over-policing in places of leisure. This relationship is exacerbated when considering the intersectional effect of gender and sexual orientation, undoubtedly impacting legitimacy perceptions due to perceived (and actual) procedural injustice. Using original data collected at an LGBT festival in Arizona (N = 428), the current study examines the relationship between procedural justice and perceptions of police legitimacy among a historically marginalized population. Implications for theory and policy are discussed, with special attention given to contextualizing the findings within the current legitimacy crisis faced by American law enforcement.     

Telling a modest story: accounts of men's upward mobility from the National Child Development Study

While the pattern of social mobility in postwar Britain has been extensively studied, revealing considerable upward mobility, much less is known about the subjective dimension to mobility. In this article, we employ a new sample of in-depth interviews with 50-year old men from the National Child Development Study to examine in detail the link between objective mobility patterns and the way the upwardly mobile narrate their life trajectories. In contrast to the mobility ideology suggested by the Oxford mobility survey of the early 1970s, in which the upwardly mobile recognized and internalized their success as a project of the self, we report how members of this later generation of men with highly successful careers prefer instead to articulate 'modest' life stories. By treating the career as a narrative device, we are able to show how the disavowal of the dominant, linear hierarchical career model by these men allows them to tell particular and distinctive stories which establish their individuality and personhood, while, paradoxically, recognizing the cultural power of the dominant model. In particular, we highlight the use of 'linear contingent' narratives by these men, in which specific events, especially those connected with occupational and geographical transitions, are deployed as contingent thresholds to mark out key shifts and passages in their lives. We then compare their accounts with those of immobile and downwardly men, who instead deploy 'ghostly' stories, preoccupied by the past, or defensive accounts, displaying unease with their failure to live up to the expectations of the linear career model. Having shown that men's accounts of mobility are suffused with an awareness of their need to establish their own individuality through repudiating the social trope of the instrumental careerist, we conclude that the links between career identities and objective mobility patterns are not straightforward and need careful unravelling.     

略论婚姻财产关系法律调整的价值取向——由婚姻法司法解释（三）引起的社会反响谈起

婚姻家庭财产关系的法律调整应当坚持正确的价值取向。本文作者以最高人民法院关于适用婚姻法若干问题的解释（三）施行后的社会反响为背景,就婚姻家庭法的立法目标、婚姻家庭财产关系的特性,以及此类财产关系的法律适用等问题表明了自己的观点,并对上述司法解释第五条提出了商榷性的意见。     

构建文化取向的本土女性心理学初探

女性心理学挑战传统心理学的研究视角、研究方法,成为当代心理学发展的重要动力。中国女性心理学的研究中缺乏本土取向,缺乏文化因素,缺乏性别视角,本土女性心理学的研究还没有发展起来。通过分析社会性别与中国文化的关系,透过中国近代性别视角的转换来理解对女性人格建构的社会心理需求。基于上述分析,提出构建本土女性心理学的三个角度：以中国文化为依托,挖掘本土文化资源;将社会性别意识纳入女性心理学的构建中;注重女性的主体性,推动女性性别意识的觉醒。本土女性心理学的构建将使人们更好地认识性别差异、女性心理和两性关系。     

论当代大学生择业价值取向

随着市场经济的深入发展,有些大学生的择业价值取向模糊,社会责任感不断弱化,严重阻碍了社会的健康发展。当代大学生作为未来社会发展的接班人,应该明确自身的择业方向,并勇于承担社会责任。文章主要分析了当代大学生择业价值取向的现状、原因及对策,帮助大学生树立正确的择业价值观。     

“奖扶制度”并入“新农保”:创新制度的再创新

2004年我国出台了“农村部分计划生育家庭奖励扶助制度”,相对于我国之前实施的社会政策,该政策具有机制创新、理念创新和程序创新等创新性特点,并在实施中取得了一定的成效。但是,根据实地调查的分析,得出“奖扶制度”仍存在覆盖面不广、养老支持力不大、政策可塑性差、政策风险大等问题,从而也影响了政策在当前的生育导向作用。因此,提出将“奖扶制度”并入“新农保”,建立“三权分立”的新制度,将能有效避免奖扶制度中存在的问题,更好地发挥政策功能。     

知识产权战略实施绩效模糊综合评价模型之构建

对知识产权战略实施绩效进行科学合理的评价是知识产权战略管理的一个重要环节。知识产权战略实施绩效具有多维度性、综合性和模糊性的特点,使得模糊综合评价模型应运而生。通过构建模糊综合评价模型,来评价知识产权战略实施的绩效,可以使知识产权战略绩效评价的过程与结果更加趋向实际,并具有科学性、可操作性和很高的可靠性。通过知识产权实施绩效的评价,能为各有关部门的知识产权战略管理,提供重要的决策依据。     

中国石油天然气产业成长:历史沿革与未来取向

以我国经济体制转轨的时间为序,运用产业成长的一般规律,将我国石油天然气产业的成长分为产业萌芽、产业形成与产业扩张三个阶段。在此基础上,通过各阶段的相关特征数据分析,并结合国内外的经济发展形势,认为我国石油天然气产业成长的未来取向应该是上下游一体化的集群发展模式。现阶段,石油天然气产业内部应该注意整合内部资源,加快下游领域的发展;改善产品结构,完善产品市场;注意加大研发投入,提升技术水平。     

中国朝鲜族体育文化的定位及发展战略

中国朝鲜族体育文化的定位,是对现阶段中国朝鲜族体育文化的一种整体评价,应从中国朝鲜族体育的生存现状和民族性入手,探讨中国朝鲜族体育文化定位问题,并在此基础上全方位地制定出中国朝鲜族体育文化发展战略,即社会体育文化发展战略、学校体育文化发展战略、竞技体育文化发展战略、民族传统体育文化发展战略及体育科研发展战略。     

论我国政府绩效评价的价值取向

价值取向在政府绩效评价系统中具有十分重要的作用,它将直接影响到具体评价指标的构建、评价结果的形成与运用。“维护和增进公众利益”是政府对公众的公共受托责任的核心要求,应当作为政府绩效评价的基本价值取向,而增长、公平、民主、稳定则是这一基本价值取向的具体表现,应当作为政府绩效评价的四个具体价值取向。此外,在政府绩效评价过程中,应当辩证地看待和处理好增长与公平、民主与稳定之间的关系。