清末学制转轨中的蒙学教育及其发展

清末随民族危机加剧、国民观念的引入,普及教育、义务教育成为教育要旨。“蒙学”教育随即由传统的“父兄谋之”转向由国家操持,传统蒙学课业及训蒙方式亦受到否定。随外来学制的引入,清朝试图调节既有学制与新式学制对接,在对传统蒙学的处理上,游移于中西之间,态度数次更易,经历了较为曲折的发展过程。     

公民道德建设中的法律作用

公民道德建设是提高民族素质、形成良好社会风尚的基础,也是建设社会主义和谐社会的重要内容,必须长抓不懈.在公民道德建设中,我们应将公民道德建设与法制建设相结合,发挥法律普遍性、明确性、强制裁性的优势,在新形势下加大社会主义法制建设力度,促进、保障公民道德建设健康发展,从而将公民道德建设推向新的更高的水平.     

明清之际启蒙思想家论风俗、教化和国运兴衰

中国历代的英明统治者和有识之士都重视风俗和教化在国家治理和社会控制中的作用,并有大量论述。顾炎武、王夫之和唐甄等明清之际的启蒙思想家深刻反思和总结明亡的惨痛教训,认为明代、特别是明末风俗和教化衰坏和士习窳败是其中的重要原因。他们在全面考察中国历代风习变迁、教化行废与国运兴衰关系的基础上,继承和发展中国儒家重视以风教治国的思想,从不同角度和层面对风俗(气)变迁与国家兴衰、行教化与正风俗、振士风与兴国运等问题进行了新的理论思考与阐发。他们的思想不仅具有重要理论价值,也有积极的现实借鉴意义。     

《圣经》《论语》知识论之比较

《圣经》、《论语》的知识论,以建立在认知和价值观基础上的解释模式,从原初存在的出发,将道德作为知识论的价值核心,将知识的"真"联系价值上的"善",最终使知识化为信念。《圣经》、《论语》以不同的价值判断体系揭示了人的知性存在,主张在对"道"的人生体悟和经验中,将求知修身融于人有限的生命,最终将人的物质生命提升至精神世界,实现生命的价值。     

Strengthening Purity: Moral Purity as a Mediator of Direct and Extended Cross-Group Friendships on Sexual Prejudice

The present research investigated whether enhanced perceptions of moral purity drive the effects of intergroup cross-group friendships on the intentions to interact with homosexuals. High-school students (N = 639) reported their direct and extended cross-group friendships with homosexuals as well as their beliefs regarding the moral character of the sexual minority. Participants further reported their desire to interact with homosexuals in the future. Results showed that both face-to-face encounters and extended contact with homosexuals increased their perceived moral purity, which in turn fostered more positive behavioral intentions. Results further revealed the specific role of moral purity in this sense, as differential perceptions along other moral domains (autonomy and community) had no mediation effects on behavioral tendencies toward homosexuals. The importance of these findings for improving intergroup relations is discussed, together with the importance of integrating research on intergroup contact and morality.     

Preschool Policymaking by Stealth: Application of an Alternative Framework for the Policy Process

This study uses the design and passage of universal preschool in two states, Oklahoma and West Virginia, to present an alternative framework for understanding the policy process, Policymaking by Stealth, and demonstrate its usefulness both in expanding the understanding of the politics of public preschool and as a tool for social work policy practice. An overview of the current state of preschool policy in the United States and the political history of federal preschool policy is presented first to provide context to the analysis, followed by an introduction to the analytic framework, and then a formal analysis of the policy passage processes in the two states via the lens of Policymaking by Stealth. The contributions of this new framework to the study of the policy process in general and the practice of policymaking in complex political contexts are discussed.     

The U.S. Economic Polity,Social Identity,and International Human Rights

In this essay, I provide some complementary perspectives on certain themes that emerge in Judith Blau's (2016) timely and insightful article, “Human Rights: What the United States Might Learn from the Rest of the World and, Yes, from American Sociology.” In response, I offer some very brief reflections structured through two prisms by which we might think further about the United States and human rights. These perspectives pick up on the core issue of Blau's article, the U.S. rejection of socioeconomic rights, and how this issue in turn relates first to the “social identity” of the United States as a whole, and second to the role of the political economy in states' recognition of human rights.     

From salons to the native reserve: reformulating the “native question” through pictorial photography in 1950s South Africa

The article provides a critical reflection on the practice of photographic salon exhibitions in the 1950s. In South Africa and abroad, there was a resurgence of photographic societies from the early 1950s that encouraged amateur photographers to create images based on a distinct visual grammar, thereby offering them not only an opportunity to display their work but to compete amongst each other. Subsequently, salon exhibitions produced work that would be judged on its pictorial rather than strict representational value thereby depoliticising the exhibition space. On the other hand, this article seeks to place this practice in the realm of racial segregation under apartheid by considering the deployment of the “black subject” in the native rural reserve in Joseph Denfield’s (1911–1967) work. Through a study of his ethnographic photographs which were exhibited internationally in this period as pictorial work, as well as his intellectualisation of his practice as native photography, it argues that the space of the salon allowed him to pose the “native question” pictorially, that is, provided a discourse through which the “native” could be “known” and ordered.     

改变道德习俗:生活德育的最佳切入路径

习俗有道德习俗与非道德习俗之分。道德习俗对人德性生成有巨大影响。这样,生活德育的最佳切入路径在改变道德习俗,其中,学校生活德育的最佳切入路径是改变学校的道德习俗;家庭和社会生活德育的最佳切入路径是改变本国、本地区的道德习俗。     

少数民族传统道德与社会主义精神文明研究

本文论述了少数民族传统道德与社会主义精神文明的关系。作者认为,中国少数民族在长期的历史发展过程中,在许多历史著述、民间文学以及社会实践中,凝聚了许多优秀的道德传统。文章分析了少数民族传统道德的特点,强调加强少数民族传统道德研究,对于丰富中华民族传统道德的内涵,促进社会主义物质文明和精神文明建设,实现党的十六大提出的全面建设小康社会的奋斗目标,具有极其重要的理论意义和现实意义。