Risk perceptions in a resource community and communication implications: emotion, stigma, and identity

Communication targeting resource communities, sites of potentially damaging industries such as forestry, mining, and logging, requires an understanding of risk perceptions among residents living within these communities. Among concerns facing these communities is social stigmatization, an actual or feared negative psychological experience associated with living in a community with an undesirable industry. This study of a coal-mining resource community was conducted with the purpose of exploring a range of perceptions associated with ongoing exposure to a resource industry, including the experience of social stigma. This study used focus group interviews with stakeholders to highlight the personal voices of the resource community experience. A model of stakeholders' perceptions of industry risks and benefits is introduced, and important distinctions between hypothetical risk perceptions and perceptions of resource community stakeholders are explored. Implications for communicating with resource communities are also discussed.     

依法治校背景下的高校程序性制度建设

随着高校与教职工、学生之间因行政处理、行政处分而产生的纠纷日益增多,高校程序制度建设的诸多问题逐渐浮出水面。本文从阐述依法治校的含义及其实现要件入手,论证了程序性制度建设之于现代高校管理的重大意义。并提出了要在坚持行政公开和行政听证原则的基础上,构建完整科学的高校程序制度体系的建议。     

Adopting Commodities: A Burkean Cluster Analysis of Adoption Rhetoric

Despite legal recognition of adoptive families as legitimate families, research suggests that adoptive families face societal stigma because of their adoptive status. Although the research clearly identifies this stigma, the interesting question involves why this stigma persists. Researchers acknowledge that language surrounding adoption is negative but do not pursue what that language is or where it appears. This article seeks to determine how the public discusses adoption. I analyzed 3 newspapers and 11 magazines published over 10 years using cluster analysis to uncover the clusters that infuse adoption meaning; this article addresses the cluster of the commodification of adoption.     

Lesbianism and Later Life in an Australian Sample: How Does Development of One Affect Anticipation of the Other?

Parallels have been drawn between the transition to a homosexual identity, in a heterosexist environment, and the transition to an aged identity, in an ageist environment. It has been claimed that successfully managing the stigma of one transition provides an individual with coping mechanisms that generalise to the other. The current study investigates this claim in the light of the effect of transitional issues peculiar to lesbians. Quantitative data were gathered on attitudes to being lesbian, on attitudes to being old, and on the relationship between the two. Qualitative data were gathered on the factors contributing to successful management of a lesbian identity, and on the factors contributing to actual or anticipated successful aging as a lesbian. Empirical and anecdotal evidence was found for the notion that successfully managing a lesbian identity was indeed a factor that contributed to positive anticipation and experience of later-life aging.     

Issues Related to HIV Stigma in Nepal

ABSTRACT

We conducted a qualitative study to understand and describe experiences of people living with HIV and AIDS with regard to HIV-associated stigma in Nepal. The study has revealed four key themes associated with HIV stigma: a hierarchy of stigma (sexual transmission and women stigmatized more than injecting-drug transmission and men); exclusion and rejection (denial of care services, rejection from family); death as a form of punishment (untimely death is seen as a punishment for something done wrong in the past); and Mumbaiya disease (caught from working in “other places”). Cultural contexts are the best ways to understand HIV stigma in Nepal along with socially and culturally established gender roles. This study has confirmed that stigma manifests at different levels: individual, social, and structural, with denial and rejection being a key mechanism of stigma.     

以德治国与高校师德建设

本文阐述了师德建设的基本要求和开展师德建设的途径、方法。     

旅客出行选择的机理研究

从旅客选择运输方式的微观视角分析出行时间价值的内涵:时间、经济和感受,进而结合特定出行主体分析出行时间价值的构成与出行利益的相关性:完全经济相关、完全经济不相关和部分经济相关,并通过出行时间价值和出行利益相关性分析旅客出行选择的机理:依据出行时间价值和出行利益相关性两个因素区分出六种不同旅客群体出行时对运输方式的一般选择。     

企业经营者激励机制研究

对企业经营者有效的激励方式,分为物质激励和精神激励两大类物质激励包括工资激励、奖金激励、年薪制、股票收入激励等;精神激励包括工作激励、目标激励、荣誉激励等.建立企业经营者激励机制就是要根据不同激励方式的特点,结合我国的实际,把不同激励方式进行有机组合,才能实现对企业经营者的有效激励和约束.     

论监狱管理体制的改革

我国现行监狱管理体制是计划经济时代的产物,很不适应当前政治、经济、社会形势的要求,必须进行改革.应建立统一的国家监狱管理体制,明确监狱机构体系的归属,确立监狱机构体系三位一体,这是建设法治国家的必然要求,有着重要的现实意义.     

团队管理的价值取向与效能发挥

面对经济全球化、信息技术发展高速化、企业竞争日趋激烈的市场环境,企业团队管理已成为现代企业管理的主流模式。该文对团队管理的价值取向及其困境进行了分析,并以系统论的结构功能原理为理论依据,提出了团队管理效能发挥的一些措施。