论中国古代“见仁见智”的批评差异性

中国古代文学欣赏和批评都注意到差异性问题 ,与西方提出“一千个读者有一千个哈姆雷特”一样 ,也提出了“仁者见仁 ,智者见智”的理论命题。这种“见仁见智”表现为批评着眼点不同、方法和技巧不同、对对象选择角度不同、结果不同以及批评的相对性上。差异性形成的原因有对象的不确定性和主体构成的多样性以及文学的自律性和他律性等因素。这是形成文艺创作和批评多样化的重要因素     

Forecasting Accuracy of Alternative Techniques: A Comparison of U.S. Macroeconomic Forecasts

This article introduces and discusses a new measure of the relative economic affluence (REA) between income distributions with different means. The REA measure D is applied to the U.S. white and black household income distributions of 1967 and 1979. The measure D shows that the REA of the white households with respect to the black households decreased from 1967 to 1979. This conclusion contrasts with those obtained by applications of distance or quasi-distance functions. It is shown in this study that REA measures and distance functions address different and relevant issues. An REA measure deals with the relation “more affluent than” and defines a partial strict ordering over the set of pairs of income distributions—that is, the relation is asymmetric and transitive—whereas a distance function accounts for the dissimilarity between distributions without imposing an ordering relation and hence fulfills the symmetry property.     

Employment Among Current and Former Welfare Recipients: A Literature Review

ABSTRACT

The primary goal of welfare reform is to move recipients from welfare to work. Several factors influence the employment of welfare recipients. The purpose of this content analysis is to offer a comprehensive understanding of employment characteristics and important personal, family, and employment characteristics that either promote or deter employment among current and former welfare recipients. Social workers need a comprehensive understanding of these factors in order to design policy and social work interventions. This article is a content analysis of the results of empirical research studies. Implications and recommendations are offered based on the review of empirical research on current and former welfare recipients.     

Does trust increase willingness to pay higher taxes to help the needy?

The article studies the causal effect of trust on the willingness to pay higher taxes to help the needy in a sample of 29 countries of Eastern and Southern Europe, and the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. It is hypothesized that interpersonal trust leads to a greater willingness to pay taxes to help the needy since (i) trust increases the likelihood of helping strangers; (ii) trust fosters solidarity and cooperation when working to solve common problems in society; and (iii) trust reduces suspicion with respect to the perceived misuse of redistributed money. Three key findings are that the more people trust each other, the more they are ready to support the welfare state; the effect of trust on welfare state support holds even in a contextual environment characterized by rather lower levels of trust and relatively underdeveloped systems of redistribution; and higher individual‐level trust fosters tax morale and helps deter tax evasion.     

评杨东莼的《本国文化史大纲》

杨东莼的《本国文化史大纲》是我国一部较早的唯物的文化史著作。本文着重分析了杨著唯物的文化及文化史观 ,并对其运用马克思主义“五社会形态论”进行文化史分期加以探讨 ,同时指出杨著在文化史研究上的意义及其理论构架上的缺陷     

Tales of transition: self-narrative and direct scribing in exploring care-leaving

Direct scribing is a technique that transforms oral discourse into written text, basically by typing oral material verbatim . It was developed in practice with youth in child welfare care and adapted for research data collection. The technique flattens the power imbalance in the interview situation and between oral speech and written text, supports self-reflection, democratizes the ownership of written material, is potentially empowering, and is an efficient means to produce high-quality text. The origins in practice are reviewed and a research application is discussed in detail. Thirty youths aged 18/19 from child welfare constructed self-narratives about how they conceptualized and managed the adolescent transition, and collaborated with the researcher in analysing the narrative as a story. Each interview was direct scribed and printed copy given to the participant. Participants were introduced to direct scribing by completing a questionnaire presented on a note-book computer, and some took part in a gender-specific group discussion as a final data-collection event, which was audio-taped and transcribed. The value of direct scribing and self-narrative in this research project and possibilities for other applications are discussed.     

Disciplinary research agendas and institutional arrangements for evaluation research

An evaluation agenda for social work to strengthen the research foundations for practice requires more replication, an extension of the range of outcomes it is possible to study and a narrowing of the gap between research, policy and practice. Enlarging understanding of social work's political functions and its relationship to welfare entails research programmes, strongly rooted in the social sciences, which include analysis of community interventions, social work's regulating and mediating functions, and exploration of the personal and social circumstances of those who achieve success and well-being despite their vulnerabilities and limited life chances.Universities, independent research institutions and social work agencies are the necessary locations for this substantial and diverse agenda.     

论环境污染转移现象下的耕地保护策略

环境污染越境转移是近年来我国耕地减少、质量下降的根源之一,探讨环境污染转移下的耕地保护策略是极为必要和急需的。技术性的解决之道固然重要,但更需要制度性的消解策略。耕地的合理利用与保护应运用宪法、法律的手段加以改进,要从国际法的层面寻找相应的策略。     

与国际贸易有关的动物福利壁垒问题研究

随着国际交往的日益频繁,许多国家尤其是发达国家已经将动物福利理念引入到了国际贸易领域,将动物福利与国际贸易紧密联系,世贸组织规则中也有明确的动物福利条款,其对国际经济贸易的影响逐渐增大。动物福利作为一种新型贸易壁垒对我国畜禽产品、中药、服务业、水产品、化妆品和皮毛的出口贸易均产生了不可低估的影响,因此政府和企业应采取相应措施从容应对。     

论网络外部性下移动通信技术的选择

通过对网络外部性理论进行分析，对网络外部性（Network externality）以及梅特卡夫定律（Metcalfe’s law）简述，在Katz、Shapiro等学者对网络外部性研究的基础之上引入效用函数，并着重以移动通信技术的选择为例，以效用函数为核心建立简单的数学模型，从消费者、运营商、政府三个方面综合分析，最终近似得出移动通信技术选择的可行性区域，旨在为我国移动通信业的持续发展，提供一种思维角度和方法。