Fostering social capital in an international multi-stakeholder issue network

Scholars have theorized that public relations contributes to societies and communities by bringing attention to pressing public issues and fostering social capital in civil society networks. However, the extant research has studied civil society networks of NGOs, donors, and the media in transitional countries. This study extends the public relations model of civil society in two ways. First, it broadens the scope to an international context. Second, it draws from the multi-stakeholder issue network perspective to conceptualize a civil society network as a space where stakeholders of an issue mix their interests as they collectively address a pressing public issue. The literature on international and multi-stakeholder networks suggest that the international scope and the mixing of interests across sectors may restrict the production of social capital. The results from the social network analysis suggests that the mixing of interests across sectoral and geopolitical boundaries did not restrict the production of social capital. Rather, the patterns of the relationships among those on the core and those on the periphery of the network restricted the production of social capital. Such finding demonstrates how public relations’ functions like relationship building can have profound influences on social capital and civil society networks. The implications for public relations theorizing and research are discussed.     

Let the right one in: A Bourdieusian analysis of gender inequality in universities’ senior management

This article examines the lack of gender diversity in senior management positions in professional staff in universities. These results are analysed via a Bourdieusian analysis of economic, social, cultural and symbolic capital. Through a purposeful sample of senior professional staff working in universities in three countries: Australia, Canada and the UK, six career‐enhancing strategies needed for career success were determined. The article critiques the resource‐based view of career capital and argues that capitals accumulation for career success can be understood by considering the concepts of symbolic violence and habitus as a way of understanding intra‐cohort differences. It proposes that by considering both the subjective and objective cultural constructs via habitus, and by acknowledging the importance of symbolic capital and symbolic violence towards women, this may be one way of increasing female representation in senior management.     

What are you thinking? Acculturation as an activating event for negative evaluative beliefs among Latinos/as

Negative evaluative beliefs and other cognitive structures have been tied to psychological distress across various populations but have not been sufficiently incorporated into acculturation models. The current study examines the relationships between acculturation and various activating events and mediating sources of support related to negative evaluative beliefs among people of Mexican descent (N = 319). Overall, model variables explained 26% of the variance in negative evaluative beliefs. Acculturation, marital commitment, and social capital associated with friends were negatively related to negative evaluative beliefs. Conversely, single relationship status, marital reward value, psychosocial stressors, and bridging social capital were positively related, and likely serve as activating events for negative evaluative beliefs. Identifying mechanisms related to psychological distress as well as supportive structures may help in constructing interventions that will address the specific needs of different groups. Future research should continue to explore appraisal and associated beliefs in acculturation models to understand why acculturative experiences may become stressful.     

Women Who Work: The limits of the neoliberal feminist paradigm

This article examines Ivanka Trump's Women Who Work, arguing that it represents the newest permutation of the neoliberal feminist subject. After providing an overview of the recent emergence of neoliberal feminism, I explain why the book should be considered part of the wider cultural landscape in which this variant of feminism has increasingly become commonsensical. I then turn to demonstrate how Women Who Work construes the ideal female subject not only as generic human capital but also incites her to invest in herself constantly, where activities ranging from professional workshops through hobbies to friendships are understood as practices that appreciate the value of the self. The conversion of women into generic rather than gendered human capital remains, however, incomplete, since the ideal of a happy work–family balance continues to serve as a push back to the wholesale erasure of traditional notions of sexual difference. Finally, I highlight that neoliberal feminism is erasing other long‐standing divisions and political differences. Not only does the private–public divide collapse, but so, too, does the distinction between one's private self and one's public enterprise as the self itself becomes an enterprise. This dual process of collapse and reconfiguration shapes the newest neoliberal feminist subject, the main protagonist of Trump's Women Who Work.     

责任伦理学视角下的中国食品安全问题

食品安全问题的产生有着很多复杂的原因。从表面上看,食品安全问题的直接起因是食品生产者技术操作不规范的结果,但食品安全生产过程中的这种不规范折射出的是我国食品生产过程中道德价值和伦理关怀的缺失。在这一意义上,责任伦理学理论能够为我们提供一个全新的审视食品安全问题的维度,能够更好地帮助我们解读我国食品安全的现状,进而能在价值和精神等层次上为我们构建食品安全责任体系指明方向。     

中国社会保障公共支出省际比较研究

在借鉴社会保障制度比较研究的经典理论和模型的基础上,本文依据中国31个省份的年度截面数据对影响各省社会保障公共支出水平的因素进行了统计分析和模型检验。研究结果发现,中国各省级政府的社会保障公共支出水平存在着巨大的差异。政府力量是造成各省社会保障公共支出水平差异的首要因素,其次是单位体制因素,再次是经济发展水平因素。     

论农村人力资本投资与农村经济发展

随着知识经济的出现,农村经济的快速发展,资金、物质等传统影响经济增长的要素作用开始下降,人力资本上升为经济发展的主导动因,农村迫切需要高素质的劳动力.但当前农村劳动者文化素质普遍较低、生产力低下,人力资本的匮乏,开发人力资本的机制不合理等因素,严重影响了农村经济持续稳定的快速发展.因此加大农村人力资本的投资,建立合理的投资机制将对促进农村经济以及整个国民经济的发展起着重要的作用.     

企业集团人力资本投资的影响因素及其决策分析

企业集团是一种不同于一般企业的组织形式 ,其人力资本投资与一般企业相比有不同的特征和影响因素。企业集团人力资本投资决策的正确与否 ,直接关系到企业集团的生存与发展。本文运用基于模糊集理论的人力资本投资决策模型 ,进行了实际应用分析 ,并提出了相应的决策方法和途径。     

试论公安决策民主化、科学化、法制化

公安决策是公安机关为履行其职能,针对预期目标所进行的方案设计、选择和实施活动的过程。目 前,我国公安机关决策存在一定的滞后性。发扬民主,充分调动决策参与者的积极性、创造性,建立完整科学的公安 决策体制,遵守科学的公安决策程序,并以法律规范决策行为是实现公安科学管理的必由之路。     

美国网络安全战略分析

从克林顿时代起,美国政府高度重视网络安全战略,将其视为国家安全战略的重要组成部分。该战略经历了从重视网络防御、网络攻防结合,到全球网络威慑的演变。网络安全战略演变的实质,就是逐步确立美国的制网权战略。为保证网络安全战略的实施,美国形成了组织管理保障、技术保障、法律法规保障和执行保障等体系。美国网络安全战略引发了网络军备竞赛,给国际法造成了严重挑战。本文通过对美国网络安全战略的分析,剖析其特点和实质,希望对我国网络安全建设有所启示。