With God on One's Side: The Social Geometry of Death Row Apologies

Apology is an increasingly prominent form of conflict management in many areas of social life. Yet there are few systematic studies of apology as a dependent variable. Analyzing the last statements of Texas death row prisoners, we find that the best predictor of apology is affiliation with God. Under traditional Western conceptions, God is an actor endowed with extraordinarily high status. Drawing on the theoretical paradigm known as pure sociology, we argue that death row prisoners who invoke God as a third party in their conflict thereby elevate their own status. Greater vertical closeness to the victim's side generates more social assertiveness and a greater willingness to apologize publicly. In addition, affiliation increases prisoners' relational closeness to God, enhancing their probability of adopting God's modern message of reconciliation. God's status has, however, declined somewhat over the past several centuries—a trend that helps to explain the modern religious emphasis on reconciliation over punishment, apology over defiance.     

由我国周边海域紧张局势引发的思考——其它海洋强国立法对我国的借鉴意义

近几年来,我国与周边国家围绕海洋权益的争夺日益激烈,突出表现在海域划界和岛屿归属问题上。在介绍国外海洋国家的海洋基本法以及相关配套法律制度的基础上,提出对我国的借鉴意义。我国应学习其它海洋强国的海洋管理经验,建立维护海洋权益、海上安全的安全体系,在研究国际海洋法和其它国家海洋基本法的前提下,结合本国海洋实际,尽快出台我国的海洋基本法,完善我国的海洋法律体系。     

国内西美尔研究九十年

自1920年国内首次从译介中接触西美尔到1921年国内学者的著作中首次出现关于西美尔的论述,国内西美尔研究已经走过90多年的历程,然而真正取得实质性成果却是在20世纪90年代之后。目前,西美尔的社会学、美学、宗教、哲学等思想以及西美尔关于现代性、都市、文化、时尚的论述都牵动着人们的兴趣。国内的西美尔研究正走向独立、全面和深入。     

Research by children

This paper draws on an international literature to consider ways in which children work as researchers. Children's and teenagers' activities at various stages of research projects, their levels of participation, and their use of a range of research methods are described, with a review of some of the problems and advantages of children doing research.     

将休闲游客纳入海洋保护区规划——以加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚地区的游艇研究为例

海洋保护区(MPAs)与海洋功能区划的社会目标和生态目标若要实现,必须得到利益相关方的理解。本文以游憩机会序列(ROS)和游憩冲突模型为基础,考察了加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚海洋保护区里面的游艇者。笔者在夏季对到访该地区的游艇者(n=543)进行了问卷调查。调查结果显示,游艇者对环境的偏好各异,证明应该以游憩机会序列为基础进行海洋保护区规划与海洋功能区划。站在游艇者这一群体的角度,他们最看重的是自然环境,帆船驾驶者比汽艇驾驶者更倾向于自然和安静的环境,而汽艇驾驶者则比帆船驾驶者更倾向于以建成设施和采掘活动为特征的环境。有些海洋活动则成为游艇者冲突的根源,包括私人船只、商业赏鲸船只以及贝类水产养殖。本文通过分析指出,有些冲突可以通过海洋功能区划解决,而另外一些最好是通过教育和沟通的方式。文末还针对海洋保护区的管理及未来的研究方向提出了建议。     

‘Running on sandcastles’: energising the rhythmanalyst through non-representational ethnography of a running event

ABSTRACT

This article conducts an analysis that is informed by rhythmanalysis and non-representational ethnography of a five-day seasonal running event – Etape Bornholm – that takes place on the Danish holiday island of Bornholm during the summer school holiday. Firstly, I argue that rhythmanalysis in practice pays lip service to biological rhythms and is insufficiently corporeal, mobile or sensuous. In contrast, I energise the rhythmanalyst by outlining a perspective where the rhythmanalyst literally listens to his or her heartbeat and internal rhythms. I address this sensuous paucity in rhythm studies by connecting it with non/more-than-representational theories and ethnographies. Secondly, I advance landscape studies, sport geography and tourist studies by examining runners’ bodily ways of practising and sensing landscapes during races. More broadly, this article contributes to ongoing debates in tourist studies on how tourists corporeally engage with and sense landscapes.     

大学师生关系的本真回归——“知道不知道”型师生关系的阐释

教育理论界,对于师生地位的探讨,有“单主体论”“双主体论”“主体主导论”“复合主体论”等观点。孙俊三教授把师生关系类型分为“老师知道,学生不知道”、“老师不知道,学生知道”、“老师知道,学生知道”、“老师不知道,学生不知道”四种类型,突破了对师生关系研究的二元对立的思维模式,这种崭新的视角体现了传统的教学相长、教育平等、自由教育,还体现了教师和学生生命之间的生生互动,让人耳目一新。通过教育学、生命理论、社会学、哲学等多维度对这种类型的师生关系进行审视,分析研究这种分类方法的现代意义。     

中国艾滋病问题的社会学建构

艾滋病问题不仅仅是一个单纯的医学问题,同时更是一个复杂的社会学问题,这已经成为国际及国内艾滋病防治及研究者的共识。从社会学的角度研究和开展对艾滋病的防治具有重要的意义。     

The sociology of Catholicism: A review of research and scholarship

This article seeks to review recent research and scholarship in the sociology of Catholicism, as well as focusing on areas needing greater attention. In taking stock of this literature, I identify institutional change, church-society interactions, institutional resources and influence, and the church as international actor as four key topics that have engaged scholarship. I review existing research under each, as well as highlighting gaps and blind spots that invite further inquiry of this specific religious group.     

What do we know about LGBQ+ college student academic experiences and outcomes?

In spite of recognition that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer+ (LGBQ+) young adults face challenges associated with their sexual identities, research on inequality in education has only recently begun examining their academic experiences and outcomes in college. Prior work has mainly focused on social and extracurricular experiences during college or academic outcomes among LGBQ+ students in K-12 settings. In this article, we review the growing body of social science literature on LGBQ+ college students' academic outcomes. A strength of our review is our integration of research on individual, interpersonal, and institutional characteristics and experiences that influence LGBQ+ student outcomes. In reviewing the literature, we identify a number of methodological and theoretical limitations, such as a lack of precision and consistency in defining and conceptualizing LGBQ+ identities and experiences and limited attention to intersections with race, class, and gender. We offer some solutions to these limitations and present a theoretical framework that promises to add clarity and further reliability to future research on LGBQ+ college student outcomes. We conclude by suggesting directions for future research.