消费文化的道德规约

在消费社会里,人类的消费活动、消费过程文化意义越来越浓厚,消费文化对人类消费活动的引领作用亦随之明显。文化自身承载着意义,拥有教育功能和批判精神。拟使消费文化发挥更多的积极的导向作用,不仅要发挥文化的积极意义和批判精神,还应强调消费文化的真正正义,使消费文化释放出更多的“正能量”,表现出一种道德担当。在一个人均资源并不丰厚的国度里,消费既包含文化,也包含道德规约;既包括文化牵引,也涵盖道德自觉。     

Three layers of history in recurrent social movements: the case of food reform

Using the understudied genre of food reform movements for illustration, we advocate greater attention to recurrent social movements. Analysis of these movements calls for combining three levels of historical analysis. One links the incidence and character of mobilization to long-term, large-scale historical changes; the second shows how periods of activism are also animated and shaped by specific historical contexts; and the third tracks legacies from earlier to later periods, thus both tracing additional causal influences and connecting separate cases into coherent sequences. The social movements literature includes excellent examples of each type of historical account. Combining types is much less common. Doing so, we contend, offers methodological advantages for scholars comparing and sequencing mobilization around similar problems in different historical periods. We develop the argument from three eras of food protest: Grahamites in the 1830s and early 1840s, dietary reformers and food safety campaigners of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and organic advocates who gained popular support beginning in the late 1960s.     

北京地区农村电力消费模型研究

基于北京农村地区用电消费的实际调查,我们发现农村地区的用电与家庭户均支出、电冰箱保有率、空调拥有率、电热毯保有率有较为密切的相关关系,本文对北京地区的农村用电消费建立了一个研究模型,以此指导农村地区用电市场的开发与建设。     

费瑟斯通消费文化的审美维度

在当代英国著名社会学家费瑟斯通看来,当今社会从某种意义说就是消费社会,消费社会具有后现代特性,在消费社会,日常生活具有审美特性,影像具有重要意义,文化媒介人成为新审美生活方式的创造者和传播者。     

消费：节制与激励及其社会后果

随着经济的发展,人们的消费理念也在不断重塑。为推动可持续发展,需要正确引导人类的消费欲望。通过对我国消费由节制到激励、再到适度节制的转变历程与社会环境的阐述,分析了节制消费与刺激消费的社会影响,指出节制消费有助于保持经济稳定、增加储蓄、平衡财政收支,但对生产力、经济发展、消费品质与劳动力素质提升具有消极影响;而刺激消费有助于促进经济增长与生产力提升,但易引发消费主义,导致过度消费与浪费。基于此,提出构建适度消费、绿色消费与健康消费的消费理念。     

入境旅游市场需要引导消费——以嵩山少林寺为例

从“旅游消费心理”和“旅游环境”两个方面分析旅游消费者的决策心理和郑州市旅游业的资源条件及发展现状。依据知觉、动机、决策等心理学理论,对入境旅游市场的吸引力和少林禅宗文化的影响力进行分析,提出以嵩山少林寺为重点,突出专题旅游资源,抓住龙头打造中原旅游精品,引导旅游消费的基本对策。     

浅析消费社会的异化

消费社会的异化表现为商品使用价值背离,消费价值衰减;由理性消费走向感性消费;炫耀性消费盛行等。消费社会的异化是对可持续发展观的背离,必然引发资源和环境危机。为了消除危机,要合理消费,控制消费主义,最终达到根除消费社会异化的目的。     

谈提高东阳竹编产品附加价值和品牌效应

东阳竹编是我国传统工艺品中的一朵奇葩,但在社会发展的新阶段遭遇困境,因此探讨如何提高东阳竹编在现代经济社会中的应用价值非常具有现实意义。文章通过对产品附加价值功能及对东阳竹编现状的分析,指出了东阳竹编产业的诸多问题所在,并就其附加价值的提升和品牌效应的建立进行合理性提案,给予竹编产业科学发展以指导性建议。     

The 2015 welfare reform of the National Basic Livelihood Security System in South Korea: Effects on economic outcomes

In July 2015, South Korea’s National Basic Livelihood Security System (NBLSS) was reformed for the purposes of eliminating welfare blind spots and reducing poverty. The reform is expected to affect the recipients’ economic behaviours and choices. In this study, we used changes in benefits and eligibility for the NBLSS under the customised benefit system to identify the effects of the change in the NBLSS on a proposed set of economic outcomes – income, labour supply, consumption, savings, poverty reduction. To estimate the effects, we used data from the 10th–12th waves of the Korea Welfare Panel Study and employed a difference‐in‐differences framework integrated with the propensity scores. We found that the NBLSS helps the poor to reduce financial and material hardships through income and consumption increments, but that it does not provide disincentives to the recipients from participating in the labour market or from saving.     

Alcohol consumption among undergraduate social work students at a South African university

ABSTRACT

Alcohol consumption among tertiary level students is a public health problem that can adversely affect students’ performance at university. This study therefore investigated the drinking patterns; reasons for drinking; and the perceived impact of drinking on academic performance of undergraduate social work students at a South African university. Of the 145 students who completed a group administered survey questionnaire, 88% reported using alcohol mainly for social purposes and enjoyment, with two-fifths admitting to participating in binge drinking. Despite these findings, a high proportion (78%) reported not performing poorly on a test or exam due to alcohol consumption in the preceding 12 months. Recommendations are provided for the education and support of social work students as future healthcare professionals.