In search of family-friendly careers? Professional strategies,work conditions and gender differences in work–family conflict

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether women in a dual-earner context acquire family-friendly jobs as a strategy to keep work–family conflict down. The analysis is based on a survey of newly graduated highly educated men and women in five occupations in Sweden (n?≈?2400). The sample was stratified by occupation and gender to minimize the influence of factors other than gender. The results show that women are more family-oriented, but also more career-oriented than men in their professional strategies. In their jobs, women have less control over work and schedules than men but a similar level of work demands. However, women face lower requirements for employer flexibility (e.g. frequent over time) and this is related to their professional strategies. Finally, women report a higher level of work–family conflict than men in the same occupation, but this gender difference becomes non-significant when accounting for women’s lower level of control. In sum, women in this sample clearly aim for both family and career and do not acquire family-friendly jobs, but aim to avoid ‘family-unfriendly’ requirements for constant availability. To some extent, this enables them to limit their work–family conflict but due to their lower control over work, women still experience more conflict than men in the same occupation.     

Controlling the illusion of control: a grounded theory of sports betting advertising in the UK

Sports betting advertising has arguably permeated contemporary sport consumption in many countries. Advertisements build narratives that represent situations and characters that normalize betting behaviour and raise public concerns regarding their detrimental effect on vulnerable groups. Adopting a grounded theory approach, the present study examined a British sample of sports betting advertisements (N = 102) from 2014 to 2016. The analysis revealed that individual themes aligned in a single core narrative, constructing a dual persuasive strategy of sports betting advertising: (i) to reduce the perceived risk involved in betting (with themes such as betting with friends, free money offers, humour, or the use of celebrities) while (ii) enhancing the perceived control of bettors (including themes of masculinity and sport knowledge). In addition, new technological features of sports betting platforms (e.g. live in-play betting) were used by advertisers to build narratives in which the ability to predict a sports outcome was overlapped by the ability of bettors to use such platforms, equalizing the ease of betting with the ease of winning. Based on the data analysed, it was concluded that the construction of a magnified idea of control in sports betting advertising is a cause for concern that requires close regulatory scrutiny.     

Identifying the Drivers of the Exceptionally High Rates of Lethal and Racially Biased Violence by Police in the United States Requires Geographically Resolved Data and Analysis

This essay serves as a response to Hirschfield's (2015) article, “Lethal Policing: Making Sense of American Exceptionalism,” published in the December 2015 issue of this journal.     

房地产宏观调控对不同经济发展区域的影响——基于安徽、浙江两省的分析

2003年以来,我国政府在对固定资产"投资过热"几大行业加大宏观调控力度之后,又对"逐步过热"的房地产市场相继出台了包括土地使用、金融、交易、房价一系列调控政策,目的是促使我国房地产行业更加健康、有序发展。这些政策在具体实施过程中,各地会因经济不同而产生不同的影响,而这又会反作用于市场,进而产生正、负双面的效应。为证明这一点,仅以浙江、安徽两省为例来予以分析,并在此基础上得出一些结论。     

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。     

河南城镇化进程中的犯罪问题研究

河南省城镇化实施中心城市带动战略,对犯罪形势变化将产生深刻的影响:犯罪率将呈现先升后降最终稳定的态势;流动人口犯罪、青少年犯罪、女性犯罪、职务犯罪等将会激增;各种类型犯罪在短期内都会大量增加;一些社会管理控制相对薄弱的"边缘地带"有可能成为犯罪孳生地。河南省应实行综合治理的犯罪防控战略。     

关于中国人口控制问题的商榷

中国人口占世界人口1/5,是世界人口最多的发展中国家。中国政府把计划生育政策定为基本国策,并取得了举世瞩目的成就。中国人口基数过大,人均耕地远小于国土面积与中国相当的美国,加上其他不利因素,经有关专家组研究,中国最大环境人口容量为16亿。又经预测,按现行中国人口政策,到2030年前后中国人口将达到16亿。中国人口控制喜忧参半,仍十分严峻,且任重而道远。因此,讨论了中国人口控制的成就和问题,并提出了若干建议供参考。     

数控技术课程教学浅探

通过对当前机械制造业发展状况的分析,说明机械类专业开设数控技术课程教学的必要性。同时针对我院数控技术课程教学过程中存在的问题,提出新形势下提高数控技术课程教学质量的途径和方法。     

网络社会问题与控制

网络社会问题是当今社会日益严重的全球性问题.网络社会问题的类型有:网络犯罪和网络黑客、网络色情、信息化污染、网络沉溺、信息垄断与两极分化等等.网络社会问题具有以下特征:全球性、高技术性、主观认定上的文化差异性、后果控制的艰难性.根据这些特征,网络社会问题的控制要诉诸技术、法律、道德和人文观念的力量.     

近代中国电信管理体系变迁考述

近代中国电信管理体系随政局战事变幻,社会经济发展而赓续推演。全面抗战前及战争时期中国的电信组织历经形成、发展和演变,此中行政当局对于电信事业的管控和监察工作,以及在电信队伍的建设和培育及人事规范方面做出的努力,对近代中国电信管理体系的嬗变进程产生了深远影响。通过这些维度洞悉近代中国电信事业的变迁理路及发展规律,俾期为当代国家电信事业建设提供理论参考与历史借镜。