Beyond the dilemmas of multiculturalism: recognition through ‘relational reason’

Recent sociological research has shown that the ideology of multiculturalism, after having been adopted as official policy in many countries, has generated more negative than positive effects (fragmentation of society, separation of minorities, cultural relativism). This article discusses the possible alternatives to multiculturalism, asking whether the path of interculturality can be a solution or not. The idea of interculturality has the advantage of stressing the inter, namely what lies in between different cultures. But it does not yet possess a conceptual and effective means to understand and handle the problems of the public sphere. To go over the failures of multiculturalism and the fragilities of interculturality, a lay approach to the coexistence of cultures is required, which is able to give strength back to Reason, through a new semantics of inter-human diversity. The author suggests the development of ‘relational reason’, beyond the forms of rationality already known. To make human reason relational might be the best way to imagine a social order which is able to humanize the globalizing processes and the increasing migrations.     

死者人格利益法律保护之构建

死者无人格权,但死者具有人格利益。为了维护社会利益和善良风俗,我国法学界和司法实务界对死者人格利益保护也达成了共识。完善死者人格利益应在保护范围、行使主体、法律责任、免责事由及保护期限等方面给予立法规制。     

Defending the Family,Defending the Faith: An Analysis of The Family: A Proclamation to the World,Religious Identity,and the Politics of Same-Sex Marriage in a Mormon Community

In this article, we apply Peter Berger's theory of religion as a social construct to learn how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church) advances a heteronormative view of family relationships in the United States using a document titled The Family: A Proclamation to the World. Furthermore, applying cultural studies theory, we examine how believing Mormons negotiate the tension that arises when their secular values compete with those expressed by Church leaders. We argue that, although the Proclamation addresses a number of issues, the Church offers a closed text that emphasizes war narratives in which same-sex marriage is portrayed as a threat to LDS identity and the heteronormative family. This closed text is further legitimized by emphasis on the authority of Church leaders as oracles of God. The study participants largely accept the dominant narrative, and those who reject it, do so with some trepidation.     

The Diffusion of Tolerance: Birth Cohort Changes in the Effects of Education and Income on Political Tolerance

Political tolerance—the willingness to extend civil liberties to traditionally stigmatized groups—is pivotal to the functioning of democracy and the well‐being of members of stigmatized groups. Although political tolerance has traditionally been more common among American elites, we argue that as tolerance has increased, it has also diffused to less educated and less affluent segments of the population. The relative stability of political attitudes over the life course and the socialization of more recent birth cohorts in contexts of increased tolerance suggest that this diffusion of tolerance occurs across birth cohorts rather than time periods. Using age‐period‐cohort models and more than three and a half decades of repeated cross‐sectional survey data, we find persistent and robust across‐cohort declines in the importance of both income and higher education in determining levels of political tolerance. Declines in the effects of socioeconomic status are evident with tolerance toward all five out‐groups in the analysis—anti‐religionists, gays and lesbians, communists, militarists, and racists—but to varying degrees. These findings fit with a model of changes in public opinion, particularly views of civil and political rights, through processes of cultural diffusion and cohort replacement.     

Gezi Park and EuroMaidan: social movements at the borders

Both Turkey and Ukraine are located at the external borders of the European Union (EU), and are seen as important partners of the EU, especially in terms of economic relations and strategic partnership. Both countries experienced en masse protest events in 2013: the Gezi Park protests and EuroMaidan, starting, respectively, in May 2013 and November 2013. Although these protests started initially for different reasons – the brutal eviction of a sit-in organized for protecting the trees in Taksim Gezi Park and the Ukrainian government's abandonment of EU trade agreement talks – and seem spatially, temporally and ideologically separate, they both include claims related to a “more just and transparent system”. Such claims are not purely political and are closely linked to a social dimension, especially in terms of local and European space-making. This article aims to understand the importance of Gezi Park and EuroMaidan within the framework of new social movements in terms of space-making and the perception of human rights, democracy, justice, identitarian politics and consensual social relations as Euro-concepts or European ideals.     

中韩网络实名制之精神分野与网络管理理念更新

网络实名制身份验证制度的技术性、工具性以及伦理特性压缩了实名制的功能。中韩实名制规范意旨以及社会功能存有分野。韩国实名制旨在治理“恶意回帖”、“网络恶搞”等网络暴力行为,以净化信息网络环境,增进社会福利。我国网络实名制作为转型中国的一种社会现象,不仅对网络形成一定的行政约束力,也反映了公共领域对公共决策等行政活动之监督以及回应。韩国过分倚重实名制之工具性价值、伦理导向却在黑客技术面前不堪一击,引发大规模个人资料外泄,也加深了源起于科技负效应的社会、文化裂痕。我国应调整规制网络暴力之逻辑思路,即加强民事立法的赋权,从个人数据资料保护的角度进行制度建构,在一些需要更多技术营养的社会领域发挥实名制之工具性价值。而对网络市民社会的“声音符号”以及“决策监督”,我们要有更多的远见,以宽容、保护、引导其发展。当法律遭遇新兴科技冲击,人们不仅要处理科技与法律之关系,更要关注科技、法律以及文化三者之间的对话与博弈。     

基于创新型人才培养的《土木工程材料》课程教学模式探究

创新型人才的培养是当前高等教育所面临的紧迫问题。结合土木工程专业《土木工程材料》课程的教学,围绕创新型人才培养目标,从教学理念、教学方式、教学方法以及实践教学等方面进行了一定的探索与实践,从而为探索创新型人才培养的教学模式提供了启示。     

论公务员的信息素养及其培养

信息素养是指个体通过掌握信息知识和信息技术,在信息社会中积极获取、利用、开发信息的修养与能力。公务员信息素养的内容包括信息观念、信息意识、信息能力、信息知识和信息道德。加强公务员信息素养培养,既是社会发展的需要,也是提高公务员信息素养和实施电子政务的需要。通过职前培养和在职培养两种途径,能有效提高公务员的信息素养。     

当代中国网络民族主义的社会政治功能透视

网络民族主义之所以勃兴,是与当代中国社会的深刻变化以及其它社会环境因素的综合效应紧密关联的;它非但以其崭新形态饱受关注,而且对当下社会生活的影响日益显著,并且非自觉地成为我国社会主义民主政治建设的推动力量,它尤其在促进公民意识生成、扩大民众政治参与和推动市民社会建构等层面上发挥了独特作用。     

研究生专业英语教学方法探讨

介绍了研究生专业英语教学的基本要求和目的。结合土木工程系岩土工程、结构工程和工程力学三个专业讲授专业英语的教学实践,阐述了教学过程中所实施的四个要点,教学的方式与方法、考核方法和方式以及教学体会。