Immigration and violence: The offsetting effects of immigrant concentration on Latino violence

Despite longstanding interest in the effects of immigration on American society, there are few studies that examine the relationship between immigration and crime. Drawing from social disorganization theory and community resource/social capital perspectives, this study examines the effects of Latino immigration on Latino violence. Data on violence (i.e., homicide, robbery, and Violent Index) and the structural conditions of Latino populations are drawn from the California Arrest Data (CAL), New York State Arrest Data (NYSAD), and U.S. Census data for approximately 400 census places during the 1999–2001 period. Findings suggest that immigrant concentration has no direct effect on Latino homicide or Violent Index rates but may reduce Latino robbery. Immigration also appears to have multiple, offsetting indirect effects on Latino violence that work through social disorganization and community resource measures. These results suggest that (1) immigrant concentration does not contribute to Latino violence and may even reduce some forms of violence, (2) immigration simultaneously stabilizes and destabilizes structural conditions in Latino populations, and (3) it is useful to examine both the direct and indirect effects of immigration on crime.     

治理能力与社会机会——基于世界治理指标的实证研究

社会机会能够提高人类的发展水平,促进社会成员个人发展质量的提高.社会成员对社会机会的广泛共享是经济社会协调发展的基本取向,也是政府治理行为追求的重要目标之一.通过对各国政府治理能力和社会机会水平之间关系的实证研究发现,治理能力的提升有助于社会机会的扩大,能够促进全社会成员共享经济和社会发展的成果.     

浅论思想政治工作的语言艺术

思想政治工作必须改变严肃刻板的形象,讲究语言艺术,使之变得形象生动、新鲜活泼。文章对 思想政治工作中语言艺术的作用、要求及方法做了初步探讨。     

Not a lonely crowd? Social connectedness,religious service attendance,and the spiritual but not religious

Using the 2006–2014 General Social Survey and 2006–2012 Portraits of American Life Study, I find that on three dimensions of social connectedness: social interaction frequency, core discussion network size, and number of close ties, that religious service attenders are more connected than religious non-attenders and then either spiritual nor religious, but there are few differences between attenders and the spiritual but not religious. Difference-in-differences and fixed-effects models show little evidence that switches between categories are associated with changes in connectedness, and additional models show that prior social connectedness explains only a small amount of future switches. This paper challenges assumptions that the non-religious are a homogenous group lacking the benefits provided though the social networks of religious congregations and has implications for research on what it means to be spiritual, measuring religion and spirituality, and understanding the role of formal organizations in social life.     

移动舆论场:高校宣传思想工作的新场域

作为意识形态领域的新兴角力场,移动舆论场在改变高校师生生活方式和价值取向的同时,也对新时期高校宣传思想工作提出了新的挑战.要占领意识形态高地,高校必须科学认识移动舆论场的内涵,积极研究和判断形势,利用好移动舆论场的情境创设、具象传播、动态调节、隐性型塑、社交渗透等方面优势,通过思维转变、话语转型和载体融合,切实增强高校宣传思想工作的有效性.     

思想政治工作与建设社会主义核心价值体系的基本规律研究

改革开放以来,中国共产党不断创新思想政治工作,坚持走思想政治工作科学化的发展道路,从广度和深度上大大推进了社会主义核心价值体系建设,体现了思想政治工作科学化与建设社会主义核心价值体系规律性的统一,主要体现在：思想政治工作的逻辑结构与核心价值体系建设理路的统一,思想政治工作工具理性和价值理性的统一,思想政治教育与社会主义核心价值体系建设制度管理的统一,以及解构与构建的统一。加强对创新思想政治工作与建设社会主义核心价值体系的规律性研究,是推进党的思想政治工作科学化的重要认识前提。     

中国社会工作专业人才培养模式初探

中国社会工作专业人才培养模式的讨论与优化对建构一支结构合理、素质优良的社会工作人才队伍有重要作用,对满足社会需要、促进社会发展也有不可估量的影响。国内社会工作专业人才培养模式存在很多缺陷。中国要想发展专业的社工队伍就要改革现有的人才培养模式,应依托需求发展社工教育、实行正规教育与短期培训有机结合,并进行分层分类发展的社会工作专业人才培养模式,从而达到加速社会工作专业职业化和本土化进程,促进社会工作良性发展,满足社会需求的目的。     

中国近代出版业的实绩

出版业是以生产精神产品为主,以积累和传播文化为目的的特殊行业。中国古代图书出版与收藏,主要局限于上层社会与文人士绅的圈子,与普通大众无缘。中国出版业在近代完成了它的转型。在近代中国“救国救民”的时代主题下,出版具有了传播西学、救亡图存、开启民智的特殊功能和社会价值。资本主义经营方式的全面推进,带来了出版业的发展和繁荣,使出版业成为国民经济的一个重要部门。近代出版业对提高国民素质及文化生活质量起到了重要作用。     

Classroom sex composition and first-grade school outcomes: The role of classroom behavior

Using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (N = 21,409; 10,452 girls and 10,957 boys; mean age = 7.24 years), the association between first-grade classroom sex composition (CSC), measured as the percentage of female students, and end of the year academic (reading, mathematics) and socio-emotional (externalizing problems, internalizing problems, self-control, interpersonal skills) outcomes was examined. Using multilevel modeling techniques and controlling for prior achievement levels, CSC was positively associated with children’s reading achievement at the end of first grade; students performed better in reading in classes with a higher percentage of female students. CSC was also associated with three of the socio-emotional outcomes; controlling for prior levels, students in classrooms with a higher percentage of girls had better self-control and interpersonal skills and fewer internalizing problems. Classroom behavior mediated the effects of CSC on reading achievement and the socio-emotional outcomes. Implications for the composition of first-grade classrooms are discussed.     

国外关于企业社会责任的理论评介

通过对近年来国外学者关于企业社会责任理论文献的回顾,将国外有关其起源,内涵和表现的理论做一个综合的介绍,并回顾了其两个基本“流派”或两方面观点的争论,通过对这两个流派基本观点的阐述指出他们的观点是根本对立的,不过近年来这两个流派的观点也出现了融合的趋势。