Parenting,Uncertainty, and Expert Advice: How Privileged American Families Work with Private Counselors in Their Children's College Race

This article uses privileged families who hire Independent Educational Consultants (IECs) as an instance to examine how privileged parents collaborate with individuals whom they consider educational experts to support their children in the college race. We argue that advantaged parents' anxieties about their children have created a market for IECs who provide expert advice in order to mitigate the uncertainties that these parents experience and to manage various goals that they want to achieve at an important turning point in their children's lives. Drawing primarily on interviews with parents who work with IECs, we introduce the concept of “collaborative cultivation” to analyze the processes whereby advantaged parents rely on the expertise and expert status of private counselors to cope with their and their children's vulnerability in the college race while at the same time preparing their children for the unknown future. The parental method of “concerted cultivation” reveals how elite parents rely on individuals they perceive as experts to establish “bridges” between their own social worlds and the academic worlds that appear to beyond their control. This bridging labor points to the myriad cultural beliefs enacted to justify the child‐rearing goals that privileged parents wish to accomplish by working with IECs.     

借鉴澳大利亚经验努力促使我国房地产市场软着陆

2008年全球性经济危机爆发以来,全球房地产市场受到较大影响。澳大利亚政府采取一系列措施,稳定本国房地产市场。如通过制定非常严格和规范的审批、建造程序防止房地产市场的爆炒;通过控制开发商取得购房款的速度,影响开发商开发周期,以控制房地产市场风险;实施宽松的移民政策,保障在经济萧条时房地产市场外来需求的补充;制定优惠的贷款政策,促进房地产发展;倡导国民制定合理的购房计划等。根据我国当前房地产市场的现状,借鉴澳大利亚房地产调控经验,努力促使我国房地产实现软着陆。     

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。     

我国新型农村养老保险制度的SWOT分析

文章从新农保的“新”字入题,试图借鉴管理学SWOT研究分析方法,从我国当前新型农村养老保险制度发展所面临的发展机遇、环境挑战、自身优势以及存在的问题四个方面内容展开探讨,并在此基础之上,从优化制度运行环境与制度自身完善两个方面对如何推动“新农保”制度建设提出了对策和建议。     

河北省文化产业视域中的少儿综合素质教育

文化的产业化发展给中国文化教育事业提出了许多值得思考的问题.具有河北文化传统和文化特色的少儿综合素质教育,在河北文化产业发展中居于什么地位?具有何种职能?拥有怎样的发展机遇?本文以文化产业的理论视角,从少儿综合素质教育与文化教育生产力、当代科技、文化资源、文化市场四个方面,初步提出了发展少儿综合素质教育的新思路.     

宋代传统民俗文化中娱乐体育的商品化

宋时期城市的繁盛,素为研究者注目。从体育的角度去看,其体育的发达也堪称是中古代城市之冠。本文从商品经济与体育市场化的关系入手,展示了宋代市民体育娱乐活动的市场形态与商业化经营。体育娱乐市场的新兴在中国体育史上具有阶段性意义。     

明末到民国时期康区宗教性集会与集市之关系考察——以甘孜镇为例

宗教性集会是藏传佛教传统文化的重要内容,既有宗教和文化娱乐的功能,还具有经济功能--为剩余产品的交换提供时空条件.这样,借助宗教性集会形成藏区集市.文章以甘孜镇宗教性集会、集市为例,简要探讨明末到民国时期这一时间段内,康区宗教性集会与集市的关系及其特点.     

高校物业管理改革趋势分析

提高教育投资效益,已成为决定一个高校展的关键要素.改革高校物业管理已势在必行,改革的总趋势是物业管理服务化;服务方式商品化;商品服务市场化;市场服务竞争化;竞争服务效益化;效益服务优质化.改革的过程是渐变,而非突变.     

深化户籍管理制度改革 进一步适应市场经济发展

改革开放动摇了传统户籍管理制度,市场经济发展要求建立城乡一体化的劳动力市场,在传统户籍管理制度基础上的修修改改已不能满足时代要求。因此,必须建立与市场经济发展相一致的全新户籍管理制度。     

Older workers’ employment in dynamic technology changes

Discrimination against older workers and the higher barriers for entrance to the workforce that these workers face are well documented in the literature. This situation becomes even worse when technological changes take place. In this paper the different responses of younger and older workers to those technological changes were analyzed, and it was revealed that older workers can be severely harmed when such changes occur. It was found that providing a subsidy for older workers could aid in reducing the unemployment among older workers, together with increasing growth of the economy and decreasing the inequality of income distribution.