麦克利兰需要理论对高校引进高层次人才的启示

戴维·麦克利兰(David Mc --Clelland)需要理论是人力资本研究中的经典理论。高等院校引进具有高成就需要的高层次人才是办学的关键。在具体的人才引进工作中,要善于发现具有高成就需要的高层次人才;着力营造人才实现高成就的环境;高度重视高成就需要者的归属需要和权力需要。     

忧患于天地之间的“思想织物”——评王大卫的长篇纪实游记《天地无极》

长篇纪实游记《天地无极》的作者王大卫以缅怀洛克半个世纪以前的献身考察的事迹为初衷,并沿着洛克当年的路线一一探寻和思考,再加上千万年不变的自然山川与“百年不变”的“人文生态”,使得两条以时间为界的单线归并成了一条以空间为缘并纵贯全书的深沉复线,叙写如行云流水,在过去、现在和未来的情境撞击中生发出多少随缘、随观、随感、随思、随想的心灵火花,有如不同色彩的横线来回穿梭于这块“思想织物”之上,让读者思考着多少世纪以来一直在缓慢地改变着思想颜色的伟大运动在不远的将来仍将继续么?是否会出现倒退、阻碍进步、甚至毁弃已经取得的成就呢?在全球化语境下的忧患意识充分地显示了一位知识分子作家所拥有的时下愈益难能可贵的正直品格。     

国际体育产业中的运动员代言——以贝克汉姆为例

随着世界逐渐成为地球村,体育组织开始针对不同的客户群体拓展其市场和扩大球迷人数。贝克汉姆,一位拥有高调的婚姻生活和众多媒体关注的英国足球明星,由于代言过许多产品,因而成为研究当前国际体育产业中运动员代言趋势很好的案例分析素材。本文结论提供了一些关于影响运动员代言成功因素的见解。     

《大卫·素朴儿历险记》及续篇中的乌托邦群体

本文对《大卫·素朴儿历险记》及续篇中的乌托邦群体的相关问题进行论述。     

David Cameron,the politics of doublethink and contemporary discourses of disability in the United Kingdom

The expiry of the Coalition Government has prompted analyses of its track record regarding disabled UK citizens. While others have adeptly reviewed the government’s actions in the policy arena, this article considers the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition in terms of its construction of, and influence on, political discourses surrounding disability in the United Kingdom. This is important because language has the power to shape material realities.     

Fatherless Families

Abstract

In Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and Emile or On Education, the eighteenth century political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau raises several questions concerning the relationship of men to families. He claims that families in the state of nature lacked fathers and suggests that attaching men to the more primary mother-child unit continues to be a problem in civil society. I argue that Rousseau's model of the sentimental family grew out of his concern with integrating men into families. In comparing Rousseau with two contemporary authors, David Blankenhorn and David Popenoe, I show that both eighteenth- and late-twentieth-century strategies for resolving the problem of fatherless families require a gendered division of labor that preserves and promotes gender inequality. While contemporary advocates of the gender-structured family, such as Blankenhorn and Popenoe, make some concessions to the feminist demand for greater gender equality, they are in truth part of a long tradition that bases its ideal of family on the subordination of women to men.     

The work process setting and situational contexts based on socially distributed cognition: an interactive,cognitive and social proposal of analysis

To carry out an ethnographic study on the work process in the sterilization unit of a hospital in Catalonia (Spain), we found the socially distributed cognition approaches of Hutchins and Kirsh useful. However, these approaches lack sufficient explanation on three important issues: (a) the pragmatic criteria for identifying and delimiting a relevant unit of analysis and therefore the setting and contexts of the work process; (b) the mechanisms and results of reciprocal influences between these levels of analysis; and (c) the relation between these levels. Therefore, we added several new elements to these approaches, in addition to Layder's model of contexts with some important modifications, with the aim of offering an interactive, cognitive and social proposal of analysis that clarifies these three issues, allowing a more exhaustive and broader empirical analysis that captures better the ‘social’ dimension embedded in the work processes.     

UK Government Communication: The Cameron years and their ongoing legacy

This paper chronicles in detail, analyses and draws conclusions about the development of the UK Government Communication Service (GCS) from the election of the Coalition Government led by David Cameron in May 2010, to his resignation following the referendum vote to leave the European Union (EU) on 23rd June 2016. Looking at the radical changes introduced within a historical context, the paper also provides a conceptual model of Government communication from the point where it became a recognisably government-wide service in 1956 to the period under examination.The methodological approach to this paper is qualitative using case study as the main method. A variety of data collection methods were used: ethnographic, including non-participant and participant observation, in-depth, semi-structured interviews with six senior managers in the Government Communication Service (GCS), five senior operational managers and two external experts. This primary research is supplemented by secondary sources including the academic literature and Government papers most of which are in the public domain, but some of which the author had privileged access to.Context is provided through an overview of the challenges facing the UK Government in the recent past and currently, a brief literature review and background on the philosophy and origins of Government Communication in the UK along with changes in the civil service more broadly. Then the structural and operational changes introduced During the Cameron years are presented. These changes, their impact and implications are discussed in context and conclusions drawn. A novel historiological, conceptual model of four chronological stages of UK Government communication presented and this, along with the detailed analysis of the Cameron years, is its original contribution.     

Comparing measures of homicide trends: Methodological and substantive differences in the Vital Statistics and Uniform Crime Report time series (1933–1975)

Several Uniform Crime Reports (FBI) and Vital Statistics (NCHS) homicide time series for the United States, 1933–1975, are compared with respect to (a) definitions and collection procedures used; (b) differences in estimating procedures; and (c) substantive differences that result from use of either series. Among the findings from this investigation are that: (1) the sampling procedures employed by the NCHS appear to be superior to those of the FBI; (2) the FBI time series most commonly employed by researchers is discontinuous prior to 1958 due to revision procedures which were instituted at that time. Analyses over time periods which began prior to this year should employ a more accurate FBI time series which is published by the Office of Management and Budget (1973). (3) The specific time period under study may lead to different substantive conclusions with different indicators; (4) the results of statistical analyses of structural equation models contained herein indicate that while the difference is not generally statistically significant, the deterrent effect of execution is consistently estimated to be greater with the Vital Statistics series. This finding has important policy implications if estimates of the number of lives saved by executing prisoners are projected and utilized by policy makers. (5) Neither series indicates serious problems of autocorrelation of disturbances with the exogenous variables employed here; and (6) use of either series for the period after 1949 appears to produce the same substantive results.     

Jewish fearless speech: towards a definition of Soviet Jewish nonconformism

ABSTRACT

The article proposes a model for analyzing the utterances of Jewish nonconformism in the late-Soviet Russian literature, based on Michel Foucault’s theory of fearless speech and Eric Gans’ theory of the origins of culture. The utterances of nonconformism transform an asymmetrical conflict into symmetrical nonvictimary relations, in which a new, supposedly real identity of a figure is revealed and mobilized for protest. These new relations are based on mutual recodification of different discursive configurations – political, moral, social, aesthetical, metaphysical, or mystical. The discussion will focus on the selected novels of Fridrikh Gorenshtein, Felix Roziner, and, in greater detail, David Shrayer-Petrov.