Monitoring and evaluation of loveLife's AIDS prevention and advocacy activities in South Africa, 1999–2001

loveLife is the largest effort ever launched in South Africa to change adolescent sexual behaviour with the aim of reducing the rate of HIV infection among 15–20 year olds by 50%, reducing other STIs, and reducing the incidence of teenage pregnancy. loveLife combines high-powered media awareness and education, development of adolescent-friendly reproductive health services, and outreach and support programmes. The 5-year research and evaluation plan includes a multi-year comprehensive observational study, tracking change in a range of behavioural indicators and in sexual health outcomes. In its first 2 years, loveLife reached more than 4 million youth. Sixty-two percent of youth and 59% of their parents/guardians recognize the brand, while the vast majority of parents (97%) and youth (89%) exposed to loveLife, identified loveLife as being positive. Challenges in the next years are the continued roll out of the programme, and the development of institutional support and behaviour change.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews: Rosemary Crompton (ed), Restructuring Gender Relations and Employment: The Decline of the Male Breadwinner Susan Eisenberg, We’ll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working in Construction Fiona M. Wilson, Organizational Behaviour: A Critical Introduction Rohan Collier, Equality in Managing Service Delivery Joyce K. Fletcher, Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power and Relational Practice at Work Miriam Glucksmann, Cottons and Casuals : The Gendered Organisation of Labour in Time and Space     

Border Crossings and Diasporic Identities: Media Use and Leisure Practices of an Ethnic Minority

The diaspora of peoples whose origins were in the Indian subcontinent (South Asia) and who are now living in Western countries (especially the U.S. and UK) provides an interesting example of processes of negotiation of new hybrid cultures and identities, using new technologies, such as the Internet, and older technologies like the video player, cable or satellite television, radio, and telephone. These developments may require a revision of the classic sociological picture of assimilation as a zero sum model of acculturation, in which the acculturation of immigrants and their children involves the gradual replacement of their ethnic culture by that of the culture of the host nation. The electronic media, in the context of policies of multiculturalism, may lead to an accentuation of religio-ethnic differences. Contrary to previous assumptions, middle-class immigrants may be more inclined to resist cultural assimilation than their lower-class counterparts.     

论高校图书馆文化与大学生成才

阐述了高校图书馆文化的内涵及其特征 ,并从高校图书馆文化建设的五个层面 ,论述了高校图书馆文化建设对大学生成才的重要作用 ,提出了加强高校图书馆文化的基本策略。     

论企业逃债的法律问题

本文对我国企业逃债的主要手段和方法进行了一定概括 ,进而指出企业逃债的严重危害性。然后 ,在阐述我国治理企业逃债的现有法律制度并对其评价的基础上 ,提出立法建议     

戏剧与北京的民俗文化

从民俗文化学的意义上说,民俗作为一种文化是无处不在的。戏剧与北京的民俗文化表现为一种互动关系,一方面是民俗活动需要戏剧的参与,戏剧融入到民俗文化中;另一方面是民俗对戏剧的渗入,梨园的演出习俗就是其表现之一。同时,民俗文化也在一定程度上影响到戏剧的风格。     

永远的清泉--简论温庭筠的词创作

温庭筠的词创作以其众多的表现手法,艺术构思上的显著特点,含蓄清空的抒情方式,以及遣词造句之功与音乐性,开拓了词的创作道路,并对后世词的发展以悠远的影响。     

藏族传统文化对青藏高原地理环境的解说

在藏族传统文化中 ,青藏高原藏族居住区域被命名为“神圣雪域”。藏族通过想象、语言、神话及象征符号将地理上的高原解释为“人类学的高原” ,使之成为神圣化的精神家园。因而 ,藏族传统文化中的青藏高原自然面貌与人文景观和谐地组合为一体 ,成为相互依存的完美整体。神圣生敬畏 ,敬畏生珍爱。对高原家乡神圣化的功能作用是珍爱保护它 ,是藏族人保护高原环境、美化家园的一种崇高愿望。通过自然禁忌行为和规范加强了对高原生态环境的保护     

谈传统文化对企业管理模式的影响

在企业管理中 ,各国的企业管理模式不尽相同。本文认为 ,不同的文化传统塑造了各具特色的企业管理模式 ,文章选取了美国、日本和中国这三个典型个案 ,具体分析了文化传统对企业管理模式的影响     

网络化的课程CAI设计开发

介绍素质教育带给教育改革和课程改革巨大影响的基础上 ,详细地论述网络课程设计与开发的意义、基本过程及关键环节 ,文章认为具备了易用性、高效性、专业性及可扩充性等特点的网络课程对于实现自主创新性教育有极大的推进作用。