略述凉山彝族传统家庭生产技能教育

生产技能教育是体现凉山彝族社会传统家庭教育的经济功能的主要特征之一,是教育直接作用于人类社会生产和经济生活的具体表现。这种技艺传授方式,至今仍为凉山彝族地区乡村农民家庭教育所广泛沿用,成为彝族地区经济发展、社会进步的重要手段之一。     

家庭价值观结构、代际变迁及其影响因素

对中国家庭价值观核心结构、核心家庭观念的代际变迁及其相关影响因素的研究表明,中国家庭核心观念包括孝道观、男性中心观和家庭本位观3个方面。除了男性中心观呈现明显的"代际"下降趋势外,孝道观和"家庭本位观"基本没有出现代际差异。这表明在传统农业文明和现代工业文明的双重影响下,中国家庭核心价值观认同表现出一定的选择性。从中我们既看到人们对传统价值观的坚持,又能看到现代家庭观念的发展。     

从豪强宗族到文化士族——东汉马氏研究

豪族向士族的转变是汉晋社会变迁的一个重要历史事实,东汉乃转变的重要契机。扶风马氏本以军功而贵,至东汉为皇权笼络成为外戚豪族,在东汉经学兴盛、皇权对豪族的压制政策以及皇权有意对四姓小侯的经学培养大背景下,逐渐由一个豪强宗族转变成文化士族。马氏家族的文化化透露出东汉豪族社会向魏晋士族社会转变的个中信息。     

关于中国人口控制问题的商榷

中国人口占世界人口1/5,是世界人口最多的发展中国家。中国政府把计划生育政策定为基本国策,并取得了举世瞩目的成就。中国人口基数过大,人均耕地远小于国土面积与中国相当的美国,加上其他不利因素,经有关专家组研究,中国最大环境人口容量为16亿。又经预测,按现行中国人口政策,到2030年前后中国人口将达到16亿。中国人口控制喜忧参半,仍十分严峻,且任重而道远。因此,讨论了中国人口控制的成就和问题,并提出了若干建议供参考。     

Entrenchment in publicly traded family firms: Evidence from the S&P 500

Family involvement in corporate governance through ownership, management, and board membership presents a unique dilemma for understanding the strategic impetus and costs of entrenchment decisions. The presence of shared family ties and the family-centered goals of firm principals call to question the applicability of extant agency arguments regarding the nature and antecedents of managerial entrenchment. Exploring this, we develop and test a model of family firm-specific determinants (i.e., family ownership and family's involvement in management and governance) of entrenchment in publicly traded firms by drawing upon principal-principal agency theory. Findings of the empirical analysis of family owned S&P 500 firms suggest family firms are motivated to entrench managers when doing so supports the pursuit of family-centric goals. However, the extent to which entrenchment supports such goals varies at different levels of family ownership.     

Unravelling Memories of Family Separation Among Sri Lankan Tamils Resettled in Australia, 1983–2000

Abstract

Using life story interviews with 10 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees resettled in Australia, this article shows how family separation in experiences of civil war and resettlement produce long-lasting and emotional memories of fear and determination. The findings explore how young Tamil people gave meaning to family when they interacted with key individuals and negotiated cultural practices in different spaces. Moreover, intergenerational family narratives emerged as a key practice through which Tamils preserved the family identity. The analysis demonstrates how and when family separation can manifest in personal memories to reveal stories of agency and resilience. A critical engagement of the past can help to better understand concepts of childhood in relation to family and family separation in war affected diaspora communities.     

Why do Asian Americans academically outperform Whites? – The cultural explanation revisited

We advocate an interactive approach to examining the role of culture and SES in explaining Asian Americans' achievement. We use Education Longitudinal Study (ELS) 2002 baseline data to test our proposition that the cultural orientation of Asian American families is different from that of white American families in ways that mediate the effects of family SES on children's academic achievement. The results support our hypothesis, indicating that: (1) SES's positive effects on achievement are stronger among white students than among Asian-Americans; (2) the association between a family's SES and behaviors and attitudes is weaker among Asian-Americans than among Whites; (3) a fraction of the Asian-White achievement gap can be accounted for by ethnic differences in behaviors and attitudes, particularly ethnic differences in family SES's effects on behaviors and attitudes. We find that Asian Americans’ behaviors and attitudes are less influenced by family SES than those of Whites are and that this difference helps generate Asians’ premium in achievement. This is especially evident at lower levels of family SES.     

Parental divorce, sibship size, family resources, and children’s academic performance

Using data from 19,839 adolescents from the National Education Longitudinal Study, this study investigates whether the effects of parental divorce on adolescents’ academic test performance vary by sibship size. Analyses show that the negative effect of divorce on adolescent performance attenuates as sibship size increases. On the other side of the interaction, the inverse relationship between sibship size and test performance is weaker in disrupted than in two-biological-parent families. Trends of such interactions are evident when sibship size is examined either as a continuous or a categorical measure. Finally, the observed interactions on adolescents’ academic performance are completely explained by variations in parental financial, human, cultural, and social resources. In sum, this study underlines the importance of treating the effect of parental divorce as a variable and calls for more research to identify child and family features that may change the magnitude of such an effect.     

Transformed generalized linear models

The estimation of data transformation is very useful to yield response variables satisfying closely a normal linear model. Generalized linear models enable the fitting of models to a wide range of data types. These models are based on exponential dispersion models. We propose a new class of transformed generalized linear models to extend the Box and Cox models and the generalized linear models. We use the generalized linear model framework to fit these models and discuss maximum likelihood estimation and inference. We give a simple formula to estimate the parameter that index the transformation of the response variable for a subclass of models. We also give a simple formula to estimate the r$r$th moment of the original dependent variable. We explore the possibility of using these models to time series data to extend the generalized autoregressive moving average models discussed by Benjamin et al. [Generalized autoregressive moving average models. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 98, 214–223]. The usefulness of these models is illustrated in a simulation study and in applications to three real data sets.     

从灶神赫斯提亚崇拜看希腊人的家庭观和生殖观

希腊语表示“家庭”这个词的意思是“环绕圣火的人”或是“同一烟火下的人”,其意思是组成家庭的人就是那些被许可崇拜同一家火并祭祀同一祖先的人。因此家庭不是男女双方两性关系的结合。而是由灶神赫斯提亚联系起来的一家人,赫斯提亚是希腊家庭的组织原则。另外,希腊人的思想中一直莆绕着纯粹父系遗传的梦想,故而创造了“技子是炉灶中的一块烧焦的木柴”的王室神话以及大地生人的“地生人”神话,进而产生了“男人是种子,女人是地,孩子在母亲的子宫中生长,就像庄稼在撒下种子的土壤中生长一样”的思想。而孩子生下后的“十日礼”则彻底抹去了在母亲的鲜血和肚腹中出生的事实,同时也把妇女完全排除在城邦公民权之外。