文化品牌与民族地区文化产业发展

文化品牌既是商品的标志,也是人与人基于商品而构建社会关系的符号表达。需求与消费的意义只有放置在一个社会框架之下才能被理解的事实,使得品牌在赋予品牌消费者社会地位及文化身份的同时也对品牌自身进行了定位。文化品牌的建设是民族地区文化产业发展方式转换的重要基点。民族文化品牌不仅具有保障消费者权益及文化拥有者权力的作用,而且还具有使人类多元文化在全球化背景中并置,并促使不同民族间的社会交往在更加平等的层面上进行的意义。     

让艺术插上思想的翅膀——读任蒙的文化散文

任蒙是中国当代文坛比较活跃的诗人和散文作家,近十年来,其文化散文具有较强的思想震撼力量。任蒙具有精神寻根意识,敢于直面现实,感受基层,超越局限,在把握审美对象时深谙唯物辩证法,能够从正反两面解剖所写的对象;其文化散文在把握整个历史运动的基础上超越了短视的"世论",穿透了"混乱"的历史表象,无论是对历史的批判,还是对现实的观照,都达到了深厚的人类悲悯情怀和强烈的批判意识的高度统一,在肯定人的价值的同时彰显了人的精神价值,是诗、史、思的结晶。     

中国文化软实力建设:必要性、瓶颈和路径

增强国家文化软实力绝非单纯从文化角度来考虑文化问题,而是中国社会经济发展的战略构想。中国是一个文化资源大国,但并不天然就是文化软实力大国。资源要成为实力,还需要有一个转化过程和国家的转化能力。长期以来,中国缺乏把文化资源转化为文化软实力的能力,这已成为中国文化软实力建设的瓶颈性因素。解决这一瓶颈的关键,是要克服文化自负导致的文化保守主义和文化自卑导致的历史虚无主义倾向,这样才能实现中华民族的文化自觉和文化自强。为此,当今中国仍然需要重新整理国故,然后才能传承国粹,并在此基础上对文化进行时代化的创新。文化创新必须坚持科学发展观,以建设社会主义核心价值体系为核心,以塑造国家品格为目的。     

Knowledge and beliefs about national development and developmental hierarchies: The viewpoints of ordinary people in thirteen countries

Scholars and policy makers have for centuries constructed and used developmental hierarchies to characterize different countries. The hypotheses motivating this paper are that such social constructions have been circulated internationally, are constructed similarly in various countries, and follow the social constructions of elite international organizations, such as the United Nations. This paper uses data from 15 surveys in 13 diverse countries to study how developmental hierarchies are understood in everyday life. Our research shows that most people have constructions of developmental hierarchies that are similar across countries and are similar to the developmental hierarchies constructed by the United Nations. These findings suggest that developmental hierarchies are widely understood around the world and are widely available to ordinary people as they make decisions about many aspects of life.     

文化信仰与商帮治理:明清时期晋商、徽商比较制度分析

历史比较制度分析与新制度经济学理论能够较好地解释经济现象的历史演变规律。我国明清时期以晋商和徽商为代表的商帮模式,集中体现了中国式商业文化的特征。分析这两种商帮模式的不同,可以帮助我们有效了解文化信仰对商帮治理的不同影响,进而对当前企业治理模式的构建提供参考。     

传统文化向现代文化转型的经验与启示——从近代土耳其的世俗化改革与文化转型谈起

近代土耳其在凯末尔主义的指导下开展了一系列以废除苏丹制和哈里发神权制度,实行政教分离为宗旨的世俗化改革,完成了传统文化向现代文化的转型,从而使土耳其从政教合一的伊斯兰国家转变为世俗的现代民族国家,从传统的伊斯兰文化转向现代欧洲文明.土耳其在近代的发展历程,宗教政策方面的曲折的实践经历,也为我们当前新疆社会转型提供了许多宝贵的启示和借鉴经验.     

论文化自身的矛盾性

文化是一个矛盾体,文化自身的矛盾性就充斥在文化的存在和发展之中。从文化的演化方向角度看,文化发展既有进化,也有退化;从文化的空间展现角度看,文化通常表现为优化和劣化两种趋向;从文化进化论的立场看,文化存在先进与落后之分;从文化的价值评析角度看,文化的代价与效益并存。文化绝不是一种和谐的自我封闭的整体,而是充满了最为激烈的内部矛盾。人类只有在承认文化自身矛盾性的基础上,理性分析和正确解决文化矛盾,才能自觉地实现文化的大发展和大繁荣。     

Cultural sensitivity in the delivery of disability services to children: A case study of Japanese education and socialization

This ethnographic study examined beliefs about disability and related socialization and educational practices at a Japanese elementary school. Disability is a universal issue affecting child welfare and educational systems around the world. Yet, relatively little sociocultural research has focused on non-Western children with disabilities. This limitation restricts our understanding of the extent to which and how cultures vary in their responses to disability, and the impact of these variations on children's development. Public schools in Japan recently implemented formal special education services for children with “developmental disabilities,” a new category used by educators to refer to “milder” difficulties in children's acquisition of social and academic skills, for example, learning disabilities, ADHD and Asperger's syndrome. This transition created a dilemma for educators: blending new requirements of providing individualized support with traditional Japanese socialization and educational practices of raising and educating children within peer groups. Participant observation, in-depth interviews, and longitudinal case studies of children with developmental disabilities addressed culturally- and developmentally-sensitive practices employed by educators. Educators were sensitive to stigma, involved peers in supporting one another, created home-like classrooms, guided children towards voluntary cooperation, and provided support and guidance to parents. Broad implications for the design of culturally-sensitive disability services are discussed.     

Gympie’s country music Muster: Creating a cultural economy from a local tradition

This paper provides an historical analysis of the National Country Music Muster, a country music festival held in a forest outside of Gympie, a town in rural southeast Queensland, Australia, between the period 1982 and 2006 (the first twenty-five years of the event). This article analyses the origins of the Muster, demonstrating how local events are often developed as a result of regional traditions and assets, or ‘countryside capital’ (Garrod et al., 2006). While this countryside capital was used to develop the Muster, this paper will demonstrate the event created its own capital, which the Gympie community has then utilised. The Muster has enabled the development of community capacity in three key ways: community not-for-profit groups have received increased income through participation as volunteers at the Muster; collaborative efforts between groups have developed senses of community on site; and the Muster has fostered social capital development by encouraging volunteer groups to work on site, all of which, of course, ensures the Muster continues to operate. Additionally, the Muster has provided the impetus for the creation of two country music focused cultural institutions in Gympie, as well as several spin-off events, which seek to capitalise on the increased traffic through town during the Muster period. Each of these institutions and spin off events has helped embed country music within Gympie’s cultural economy. Further, they provide a clear demonstration of a rural community actively and creatively deploying its cultural capital in order both to buttress itself against fluctuations in the town’s fortunes and to assert a locally relevant country identity.     

当代中国青年的文化认同问题

当代中国青年的文化认同问题,可以从历史的、社会的、心理的等多维视野和知识学架构来把握。青年事实性文化认同中的差异和矛盾以及建构性认同中的关系性特征是当前青年文化的重要议题,当代中国的青年文化认同是多层次、多维度的,并不存在各种青年群体共有的、贯穿诸领域的实质性认同。