Race, Risk, and the Emergence of Gender Boundaries: Kids Crossing Boundaries in Summer Camps

My study explores how children established and crossed gender boundaries in four recreational settings with different racial compositions and patterns. Children generally marked boys' gender boundary crossing as more deviant than girls' crossing. However, the amount of gender salience structured into each setting and the salience of race in each setting affected campers' perceptions of the risks from gender boundary crossing and, thus, their strategies for crossing. My findings suggest that the perceived race of the actor may be less important than the race of the audience. Also crucial are the ways in which race category membership gives meaning to gender boundaries and to gender deviance in a particular situation.     

试论希腊神话和中国神话的差异及其影响

本文通过对希腊神话和中国神话的详细对比分析,阐述了希腊神话和中国神话的差异及其实质,以及其对社会的重要影响.同时指出在现代社会中,我们应吸取西方文化中的精华部分,以促进文化和文明的进一步发展.尤其在外语教学中应加强文化教育,以促进跨文化交际.     

论言语行为中的性别差异

文章对言语行为理论作了概述,介绍了A ustin及其学生Searle对言语的行为理论的贡献;并对语言使用中的性别差异进行了分析,着重指出了在言语行为三大分类中“言内行为”中存在语音、词汇和句法等方面的性别差异。在此基础上揭示了产生这一现象的生理、心理以及社会的根源,最后指出了重视性别差异现象在英语教学中的意义。     

分歧共识展望--10余年来国内全球化理论研究述评

由于主客观方面的多种原因，我国学者对全球化若干问题和理论观点的认识存在诸多分歧：全球化是客观的自然过程，还是主观的意识形态；全球化是单一的经济全球化，还是政治、文化、社会等整体的全球化；全球化是趋同化、一体化、单质化，还是多样化、民族化、异质化；全球化是物的全球化，还是人的全球化；等等。不同思想、观点相互碰撞、交锋，在争议中逐渐达成了一些基本共识：全球化至少经济全球化是一种客观存在；全球化是一种动态的过程；经济全球化不可避免地对世界政治、文化和社会生活产生影响；全球化具有主客观性：全球化过程内在地充满着矛盾；全球化是机遇与挑战并存，利益与弊端同在；现实的全球化是不公平的；等等。正确认识我国全球化理论研究中存在的问题，有利于明确下一阶段的努力方向。     

Religious affiliation and the family

The process of religious affiliation is mediated by institutions such as the family, which provide a network of ties to the public sphere. Variations in the likelihood of those with no religious affiliation in high school (N=900) becoming church members by the time they reach 30 are explained in terms of a combination of individual attributes, such as educational and spatial mobility, and changes in structural location, such as the transition to marital and parental status. Panel data from the Career Development Study show that women's chances of affiliation are more affected than are men's by parents' religious homogamy, getting married, and having children.     

Some Notes on Workplace Equality Renewal in the Swedish Labour Market

In 2001, Swedish authorities imposed a new obligation upon all firms with ten or more employees to undertake annual wage surveys, ‘workplace equality audits’ in which it is possible to ascertain, remedy and prevent unwarranted wage differentials and other unfair employment terms between men and women. An important implication of the new system, called ‘workplace equality renewal’ (självsanering), is that, at the level of the firm all Swedish employers must explain what they mean by work of ‘equal value’ as opposed to ‘different value’. This article discusses the practical pros and cons of the new system, and considers how the surveys can be used in research into the present state of gendered work division. A main finding is that the introduction of this new legislation in the long run might change the Swedish industrial relations system as well as the preconditions for many companies’ human resource management policies. Yet, neither the governmental agencies involved nor the parties’ confederate organizations have been able to clarify what the issue is really about to the single, small business employer or to the local trade union branches. Many employers find any interference, whatever it may be, threatening and trade unions have not realized the potentialities of the system from an employee perspective, potentialities connected to the fact that companies are now more or less forced to make transparent their wage policies at large.     

Parent‐Adolescent Involvement: The Relative Influence of Parent Gender and Residence

The 1995 wave of the Add Health study is used to investigate the relative influence of parent gender and residence on patterns of parental involvement with adolescents. Adolescent reports (N =17,330) of shared activities, shared communication, and relationship quality with both biological parents are utilized. A multidimensional scaling analysis reveals that parent gender explains most of the variance in parent‐adolescent involvement, with residential status playing a secondary yet a fundamental role in accounting for these patterns. Resident mothers who do not live with adolescents’ biological fathers engage in the broadest range of activities with their children. Unpartnered resident fathers display patterns of parenting that are as similar to mothers as they are to other fathers.     

The Division of Household Labor in Germany and Israel

We compare the patterns of household division of labor in Germany and Israel—two countries that share key elements of the corporatist welfare regime but differ in their gender regimes—and evaluate several hypotheses using data from the 2002 International Social Survey Program. Although time constraints and relative resources affect the division of household labor and women’s housework in both societies, we find that in Germany the gender order of household labor is more rigid, whereas in Israel the spouses’ linked labor market status exerts distinctive effects. We also find significant relationships between gender ideology and the division of household labor. We discuss the theoretical advantages of approaching the comparative study of gender inequality from the vantage point of family and gender regimes.     

Married women's resource position and household food expenditures in Cebu,Philippines

This study analyzes how married women use their access to and control over economic resources to increase household spending on food. Using data from Cebu, Philippines, where child malnutrition is high, this study finds that the more income women earn and control, the more households spend on food. Women's control over their income is particularly important for increasing food expenditures in the poorest households. In richer households, women who earn little of their own income also use spouse income transfers to increase food expenditures. The findings from this study suggest that in a developing country setting, improving women's economic status so that they earn and control more household resources can increase household spending on goods that benefit children.     

收费公路运营效率测度及时空分异研究

收费公路行业内部债务治理与外部减税降费均要求收费公路运营降本增效。为了探析收费公路运营效率水平及其空间分布格局,使用SBM模型测度了2014—2020年29个省份收费公路运营效率,进而采用泰尔指数和Moran's I指数分析了其时空分异特征。研究认为:收费公路运营存在着效率较低且在时间维度上没有明显增长的趋势,在空间上存在发展不平衡问题,收费公路运营效率的区域差异主要来源于区域内部差异,区域内差异的贡献率平均达到81.578%; 收费公路运营效率具有空间正相关性,呈现出显著的“高-高”集聚和“低-低”集聚的空间特征,运营效率较高的省份对相邻省份具有正向溢出效应。研究表明,各省针对相邻省份或最近省份的运营效率现状,结合自身的比较优势探索产业升级或者物流发展模式,充分发挥相邻省份的经济发展和产业集聚对本省收费公路运营的辐射带动作用,推动建立起收费公路跨区域合作运营机制。