Comment on Bermingham's Summary of the U.N.'s Year 2000 Replacement Migration,Is it a Solution to Declining Population and Aging?

The UN's solicitousness for developed countries because of the possibility of their being depopulated seems disingenuous. In fact, developed countries are typically the losers from vast immigrant flows, and the underdeveloped countries that rid themselves of excess population are the gainers.     

从学龄人口变动看未来山东省基础教育与师范教育的发展

本文对山东省学龄人口的变动趋势作了预测,同时对未来山东省中小学的教师需求量进行了测算,据此,对未来山东省基础教育与师范教育的发展作了展望.     

国际投资法应对气候变化之合法性分析

国际投资法应对气候变化的深层合法性理由主要包括三个方面,一是风险预防原则的需要,二是部门法律与社会问题之间关系所决定的国际投资法作为部门法跨域调整气候变化问题的内在需求,三是使国际投资法应对气候变化得以实现的前提——国际合作,具有现实可能性。这些理由使国际投资法应对气候变化问题成为必须和可能。     

传统乡村管理文化现代转换中的变与不变——以清代广东潮普地区乡村管理为解析中心

针对难治的广东潮普地区乡村社会,清代中央政府、地方县府、民间社会共同进行管理,虽然存在着中央与地方、官府与民众之间的矛盾与冲突,但也不乏它们之间的相得与相补,这使得乡村社会基本上保持了稳定发展。尽管现代乡村管理发生巨大变迁,但传统乡村善治的基本内核仍未改变,此即传统乡村管理文化现代转换中的变与不变。     

Beyond the Activist Ghetto: A Deductive Blockmodelling Approach to Understanding the Relationship between Contact with Environmental Organisations and Public Attitudes and Behaviour

Current research on the behavioural impacts of social movements tends to focus on their influence on those most intensely involved. Consequently it overlooks the impacts that social movement organisations might have on those outside the activist ghetto. To begin to address this gap in the literature, this article examines the relationship between contact with environmental organisations and public attitudes and behaviour. Monitoring the electricity use of 72 households has facilitated analysis of its association with their environmental attitudes and contact with environmental organisations. Although standard statistical approaches fail to uncover a relationship between contact with environmental organisations and attitudes and behaviour, a deductive blockmodelling approach tells a different story. Low household electricity use is associated with households sharing pro-environmental attitudes and contact with environmental organisations. High energy use is associated with households not sharing any of these; and moderate energy use is associated with a moderate degree of sharing. Our findings reveal the need for systematic studies of environmental movement organisations' impact on the public's pro-environmental behaviours.     

Voices from the stories untold: Lesbian,gay, bisexual,trans, and queer college students' experiences with campus climate

ABSTRACT

Twelve self-identified college students within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) spectrum were interviewed on campus climate perceptions and their experiences of discrimination and isolation at their university. Thematic analysis was conducted to identify themes from the data. This process resulted in the emergence of three themes, identified as discrimination, isolation, and avoidance. The most salient experiences of discrimination and isolation reported by participants came from within LGBTQ organizations or from lesbian or gay male individuals that participants sought out for social support. LGBTQ intra-community discrimination was considered to be particularly damaging to participants' sense of belonging and involvement within the LGBTQ community. Discrimination and isolation from straight-identified organizations or individuals was reported mostly in the context of fraternities/sororities and religious organizations. Furthermore, actions by members of these latter groups caused participants to avoid these groups out of expectations of negative interactions. These results inform empirical research to bring awareness to acts of discrimination that continue to take place within the university toward LGBTQ students. Specific implications for social work practice with LGBTQ college students and future research on diverse LGBTQ populations and resources are discussed.     

Social media and political discussion: when online presence silences offline conversation

ABSTRACT

This paper explores the relationship between the use of social media, attitudinal strength, perceived opinion agreement with social ties, and willingness to discuss a political issue in different online and offline contexts. Unlike the anonymous environment of some Internet forums, social media are closely tied to the relationships and activities of everyday life. Social media increasingly make ties from offline contexts persistent online, and, because of the ambient nature of these technologies, awareness of the opinions, interests, and activities of social ties has become pervasive. As such, the use of social media is likely to affect everyday conversation about political issues in on- and offline contexts, including the home, workplace, social gatherings with friends, community meetings, and on social network sites (SNSs). Based on a national probability survey, we find that the use of SNSs (i.e., Facebook and Twitter) has a direct, negative relationship to deliberation in many offline settings. Some uses of these platforms are associated with having a lower, perceived opinion agreement with social ties. As part of a spiral of silence, this further reduces the willingness of social media users to join political conversations in some offline settings. Only those with the strongest attitudes on an issue are immune.     

US labour unions and green transitions: depth,breadth, and worker agency

ABSTRACT

The goal of this article is to interpret and analyse two ambitious and prominent cases of labour environmentalism in the USA – the par excellence example of liberal capitalism. In order to capture the nuances, contradictions, and varieties of labour environmentalism, I employ an analytical scheme based on three dimensions. The first dimension (depth) explores the social and environmental commitments manifested in these cases, the second dimension (breadth) explores their spatiality, and the third dimension (agency) explores the degree to which these initiatives reflect a proactive as opposed to a reactive labour environmentalism.     

民间傩仪式的空间特性与傩艺人人神角色的偏移——傩艺人身份的艺术人类学探究

从民族文化传统的感知维度上来看,与时间对跳傩艺人之人神沟通者身份的具体内涵及身份转换的规约性相比,傩仪式独有的空间特性对傩艺人人神角色转换的规约性更深刻更凸显。在跳傩仪式中,傩艺人的身份因为仪式空间属性的规约也具有了空间性,角色的扮演也随着跳傩仪式空间属性的改变而发生偏移。当仪式空间属性神圣的时候,跳傩艺人体认到的是他们作为驱疫降福之神灵的意识;而当仪式空间属性世俗的时候,他们也能够从属神的意识回归到属人的意识,从而实现仪式过程中人神之间的互动,完成娱神娱人的仪式功能。也正是在人与神之角色的偏移和不同承担过程中,傩艺人人神沟通者身份的具体内涵才得以呈现,而傩神信仰于当地百姓日常生活和精神追求之间的深层关联也得到凸显。     

论气候变化背景下的国际水合作

国际水合作不仅已经成为通行的国际实践,而且已经逐步被确立为国际习惯法上的义务。为了应对气候变化对跨界水资源的影响,作为法律义务的国际水合作有强化的趋势,而作为实践的国际水合作也在不断深化。我国应以此为契机,加强国际水合作,实现我国跨界水资源的公平与可持续利用。