Can Property Values Capture Changes in Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from a Stated Preference Study in Italy and the United Kingdom

Hedonic models are a common nonmarket valuation technique, but, in practice, results can be affected by omitted variables and whether homebuyers respond to the assumed environmental measure. We undertake an alternative stated preference approach that circumvents these issues. We examine how homeowners in the United Kingdom and Italy value mortality risk reductions by asking them to choose among hypothetical variants of their home that differ in terms of mortality risks from air pollution and price. We find that Italian homeowners hold a value of a statistical life (VSL) of €6.4 million, but U.K. homeowners hold a much lower VSL (€2.1 million). This may be because respondents in the United Kingdom do not perceive air pollution where they live to be as threatening, and actually live in cities with relatively low air pollution. Italian homeowners value a reduction in the risk of dying from cancer more than from other causes, but U.K. respondents do not hold such a premium. Lastly, respondents who face higher baseline risks, due to greater air pollution where they live, hold a higher VSL, particularly in the United Kingdom. In both countries, the VSL is twice as large among individuals who perceive air pollution where they live as high.     

林语堂编译中国版“灰姑娘”《叶限》之独特审美价值探究

林语堂编译的系列英文作品体现了其独特的审美价值，值得深入研究。The Chinese Cinderella正是他“求美”翻译风格的部分呈现。仅从切斯特曼模因模式中的明晰、真实、理解和信任等四个方面来探究，林译的审美价值便可略见一斑。译者不泥古文，不落俗套地致力于对美的发扬传递，使《叶限》变身为中国版《灰姑娘》，成就了译文跨文化传播的强大生命力。     

中美高考作文体现的文化差异及其思考

中国高考和美国SAT考试作为两国最具代表性的、最为重要的人才选拔考试,具有悠久历史,在最具有文化特征和价值观体现的作文考试方面特点突出,体现出鲜明的文化差异。不同的政治、经济和文化背景造就了SAT和高考中迥异的作文考试风格,从命题形式、内容和评价都具有鲜明的文化特质。通过分析中美高考作文,窥探中美文化差异,这在人才培养国际化的主流趋势下,将提供有益参考。     

互动论视角下大学生社会主义核心价值观培育路径

近年来,如何在大学生中培育和践行社会主义核心价值观成为社会和学界的焦点问题。目前仍有部分学生存在着价值观功利化、实用化的问题。美国和新加坡的教育实践证明,互动式、一体化的教育模式对于在大学生中普及核心价值观具有重要的作用。结合中国实际,可从以下几方面着手:坚持"三全"育人的教育理念,推进内隐式互动教育策略,倡导对话式互动教学,开展分层次、分阶段教育活动。     

论社会主义核心价值观的大众化路径

社会主义核心价值观要转化为社会的群体意识和大众价值的自觉引领与追求,贵在增强科学性、重在落地生根、难在持久深入。为此,要构建科学传播机制、整合文化精神内核、夯实制度规约保障、激发示范引领动力,让社会主义核心价值观在大众化中凝魂聚气、自觉弘扬、强基固本、持久深入。     

Practitioners' perceptions and decision‐making regarding child sexual exploitation – a qualitative vignette study

There has been intense controversy about the appropriate response to child sexual exploitation, with debates in the UK particularly hinging on the meaning of consent and coercion. For professionals with a duty to safeguard young people from child sexual exploitation, a key site of tension is how to avoid limiting young people's experience of agency without placing them at risk. Drawing on new qualitative research findings from a vignette study designed to trace professional perception and decision‐making, this paper argues that practitioners' perceptions regarding what counts as consent are refracted through conceptions of age and choice. However, many initial perceptions of agency and its links to age were modified through the interview process. This has implications for how supervision should operate. These topics raise issues of the need for practitioners to have nuanced conceptions of consent in the context of manipulation.     

Developmental Trajectories of Social Justice Values in Adolescence: Relations with Sympathy and Friendship Quality

This study examined developmental trajectories of social justice values (SJV) in a representative sample of Swiss adolescents (N = 1258) at 15 (Time 1), 18 (Time 2), and 21 years of age (Time 3). SJV and friendship quality were measured via self‐reports. Sympathy was assessed via self‐ and mother‐reports. Latent class growth analysis revealed three developmental trajectories of SJV: high‐stable (80 percent), moderate‐decreasing (17 percent), and low‐increasing (3 percent). Adolescents with low levels of self‐ and mother‐reported sympathy were more likely to be members of the low‐increasing than the high‐stable or moderate decreasing trajectory groups. Adolescents who reported low levels of sympathy and friendship quality at 15 years of age were more likely to be members of the moderate‐decreasing trajectory group than the high‐stable trajectory group. Results are discussed with respect to the potential significance of sympathy and friendship quality for understanding the development of SJV during adolescence.     

激发社会文化活力探析

文化活力是社会活力的重要组成部分和现代社会的重要标志,具有内在性、深层性,并且最能体现社会活动主体超越性和创造性的本质特征.生命力、凝聚力和创造力是衡量和反映社会文化活力的最主要参量.激发文化活力是社会主义现代化建设的题中应有之义.胡锦涛总书记在十七大报告中明确把"激发全民族文化创造活力,提高国家文化软实力"作为重要的文化发展战略.文章试图就如何激发文化创造和发展活力从理论上进行初步探讨,从而给予当前的社会主义先进文化建设以理论支撑和论证.     

Varieties of Childhood Bullying: Values, Emotion Processes, and Social Competence

Understanding the nature of bullies and bullying is of considerable theoretical and practical importance. We offer a commentary on a recent debate on this topic between Sutton, Smith, and Swettenham (1999a, 1999b) and Crick and Dodge (1999). In this commentary, we first summarize the main points of the debate, including alternative views of bullies as social inadequates versus Machiavellian schemers. Then we clarify some unresolved issues concerning the nature and limits of social competence and the roles of values in both social competence and in bullying. Finally, it is argued that variations in children's emotion processes, such as emotionality and emotion regulation, also may underlie some of the individual differences that have been found in empathy, social information processing, and in reactive ('hot-headed') and proactive ('cold-blooded') aggressive and bullying patterns.     

构建全球化时代中的国际社会核心价值观

全球化促使了国际社会的相互依存达到了前所未有的程度。国际社会各成员之间经济、政治、文化都处在相互接触、碰撞之中。各种价值观念的冲突在所难免，但价值冲突并不必然导致国际社会的混乱和动乱，相反导致了各种价值观念的趋同与融合。在融合过程中，最根本的就是各主体价值观的相互认同与有机结合，最终形成国际社会核心价值观。