Working mothers and sons’ preferences regarding female labor supply: direct evidence from stated preferences

We investigate the argument that men who are raised by working mothers develop a preference that is favorable toward working women and, consequently, are more likely to have working wives. We test this hypothesis using the Japanese General Social Surveys 2000–2003. We directly examine the responses to the opinion survey’s questions regarding appropriate gender roles. The estimation results indicate that men raised by full-time working mothers are less likely to support traditional gender roles. Those men are also less likely to believe in the negative impact of a mother’s working on her children’s development.      

Quality_Family Deployment: A New Perspective in Determining Priority Importance for Improving Work Performance in Organization

Determining priority importance is a matter of concerns among the organization to improve their performance. One of the important aspects that should be considered by the organization is management of human resources, comprising of members who have their own family life. In this paper, we deliver a new perspective for organization to provide priority importance for their members with respect to family matters in order to inculcate the sense of belonging in the organization. To be effective in considering family matters in the organizational policy making, closer look of family characteristics are required. The idea of translating several family characteristics as quality variables and applying the quality function deployment (QFD) method to these variables could present a new way of improving the decision making in the organization by considering the process of decision in the family. Quality function deployment for family (QFDF) produces a friendly interpretation of a highly complex and intangible matters around family life; thus, making the assessment of a family easier. QFD is applied on the data gathered from a questionnaire survey based on 1,213 families in West Malaysia, Malaysia. Twelve variables are identified as voice of family, where seven of them are found to have the highest priority of importance. These variables could also be translated into quality variables in the context of organization, the strategy of improvement for the family could be interpreted as strategy for improvement in the organization. Furthermore, the results of this study provide suggestion to improve actions for managing human resource. In the discussion, three most high ranked variables from both perspectives of family and organization are considered.     

Happiness is not Enough: Cognitive Judgements as Indicators of National Wellbeing

The European Social Survey, on which this issue of the journal focuses, is a 30-nation multi-funded survey series measuring attitude change. Started in 2001, it is characterised by unusually high standards of sampling and data equivalence. Its data are made available on-line with equal access to all, and have already attracted over 20,000 users. Many papers, articles and books based on the ESS have already appeared. But none has yet employed the data—whether alone or with other sources—to derive indicators of citizens’ cognitive judgements of their society. A recent EC grant is enabling the authors to fill this gap, covering topics such as trust in national institutions, tolerance, social cohesion, social trust and fear of crime. The aim is to be able to monitor changes over time in the distance between what citizens believe their society ought to be in these respects and how they actually perceive it to be.

人力资本与社会资源获得:东北国企的实证分析

在东北社会变迁和体制改变的大背景下,东北老工业基地人力资本和人力资源的社会效应问题比较突出。在实证数据分析的支持下,东北国企干部与职工的人力资本对特定社会资源的摄取呈现出不同的效果,展现了人力资本的差异性作用。基于干部和职工的比较分析,认识到东北老工业基地人力资本对社会资源摄取的差异性作用,可以促进东北老工业基地不同职业群体的和谐发展。     

农村女性流动打工经历对其家庭经济地位的影响

本文利用调查数据,对是否外出打工及不同类型打工地的农村女性家庭经济地位差异进行对比,考查在资源因素与文化规范变迁的多重影响下,不同的打工经历对农村女性家庭经济地位的影响及其发展变化。     

民间信仰的情感维度与村落公共生活的整合——以桂北村落为考察对象

桂北村落以"天地国亲师"为崇拜对象的传统民间信仰把集体仪式嵌入到村庄的日常生活中,不断在人们情绪高昂的时刻唤醒内心深处的亲情,人们在子孙绵延的情感之链中寻找安身立命的基础,祖先与子嗣在阴阳两界之间互相支持,而兄弟与村友成为在同一块土地上延续永恒的同道者。通过以丧礼为代表的情感宣泄机制,人们直觉到村庄共同体的存在,并产生出宗教般的神圣感。这种信仰型塑了全体村民对于村庄的深切认同与情感依恋,使得他们在村庄公共生活中甘心付出,并主动承担责任。     

论少数民族地区非物质文化遗产的保护性旅游开发——以柳州融水苗族系列坡会群为例

非物质文化遗产主要指的是流传民间文化艺术的表现形式或文化空间,存在于居民的日常生产生活中.是他们习以为常的民间活动.但现代化快速发展的社会环境,既对非物质文化遗产造成了一定的冲击,同时也让人们看到了它的另一种价值,作为一类具有旅游价值的文化资源而存在,故而对其进行旅游开发意义重大.本文在详细论述了融水苗族系列坡会群的发展沿革及其文化内涵的基础上.针对当前其发展现状问题,提出了进一步推动融水苗族系列坡会群保护性旅游开发的对策建议.     

方位地名景观与居民的归属意识

南海九江方位地名景观刻录着九江人的归属意识。它诞生在鱼花专营的霸气和儒林之乡的雅气中,鼎盛于经历了省辖九江市（1926-1928年）和县辖九江市（1928-1936年）的历史荣耀之后。研究九江方位地名与居民归属意识的联系,至少可以给我们提供以下启示：首先,在地名这种知识秩序中,包含着人们的心理现实;其次,地名与人们的心理现实是一种互动的关系;再次,地名景观是活的化石,在其生命运动中,蕴藏着丰富的关于地域和居民的文化信息。     

孔子人论的再解读

孔子的人论是儒家人论的根基。孔子提出:"仁者,人也。"确定了儒家人论与其所开创的"仁"学的密不可分的关系。本文尝试从"仁"得以产生的两大基石、"仁"的人性内涵、孔子的做人之道及成人之教等方面论述孔子人论的主要内容,并归纳出其人论的重要历史意义。     

延边地区经济增长的动因分析

延边地区工业经济相对落后,区域内缺乏大型龙头企业,经济增长具有其特殊性。通过运用柯布一道格拉斯生产函数分析延边地区各生产要素对经济增长的贡献度,就可以看出延边地区物质资本的投入对GDP的贡献度大于劳动投入,劳动投入产出系数较高说明延边地区经济增长较多地依赖劳动的投入,主要依靠劳动密集型产业的支撑,因此。延边地区产业结构需要调整。