“黄金大米”：风险时代技术理性的失范与规约

对"黄金大米"事件起因与事件进程的解读表明,它不只是阐释一个新的科研失范案例,其深层次的认识根源在于技术理性的单向度发展,其社会面向则凸显了技术理性与社会理性之间的分歧与断裂。在风险社会的时代背景之下,寻求规制技术理性泛滥的守则与方法在路径选择上不应囿于理性概念的纯粹思辨,而应立足于社会的审视与反思,透过风险意识启蒙、公共对话与道德法治的规约,促使技术角色合理回归,弥合技术理性与社会理性之间的深深裂痕。     

论新世纪报纸时评的勃兴

随着新世纪报纸时评的勃兴,新闻学术界开始关注报纸时评,有关报纸时评的文章散见于各新闻学术刊物或媒体版面上。但这些文章,多是对报纸时评个案或某一方面进行研究,全面而系统研究的文章尚未出现。论文不是从书本出发,也不是从理论到理论,而是着重于对新世纪报纸时评实践进行全面而深入地考察,归纳和概括了报纸时评勃兴的表现,阐述了报纸时评勃兴的历史渊源,并分析了新世纪报纸时评勃兴的现实原因。     

感觉的双重意义--德勒兹美学的一种诠释

文章深入分析了德勒兹的《感觉的逻辑》 ,阐明了感觉的逻辑就是“事件”本身的逻辑 ,进而分析了感觉的双重含义 :作为事实层面的感觉和作为可能性的感觉 ;并结合前者分析了传统美学的缺陷 ,结合后者论述了德勒兹的“无器官的肉体”概念即表明了肉体自身的开放与综合的状态。最后结合传播学理论引申了其感觉综合理论的意义     

试评我国公共卫生管理的相关政策

文章评析了《突发公共卫生事件应急条例》的主要内容具有的理论与实践意义;结合社会突发公共卫生具体事件,揭示出我国当前公共卫生管理中存在的问题及根本原因,是主体责任的缺失;在理论上,从生命与人权的高度赞颂了党和政府对人民生命健康的关怀及社会的文明进步。     

Does a House Divided Stand? Kinship and the Continuity of Shared Living Arrangements

Shared living arrangements can provide housing, economies of scale, and other instrumental support and may become an important resource in times of economic constraint. But the extent to which such living arrangements experience continuity or rapid change in composition is unclear. Previous research on extended-family households tended to focus on factors that trigger the onset of coresidence, including life course events or changes in health status and related economic needs. Relying on longitudinal data from 9,932 households in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), the analyses demonstrate that the distribution of economic resources in the household also influences the continuity of shared living arrangements. The results suggest that multigenerational households of parents and adult children experience greater continuity in composition when one individual or couple has a disproportionate share of the economic resources in the household. Other coresidential households, those shared by other kin or nonkin, experience greater continuity when resources are more evenly distributed.     

谣言流通视角下国企改制过程中的群体性事件研究

在国企改革过程中,以群体性事件为代表的新问题频频出现。对这类事件发生、发展的研究以及相应的预防与处置办法的探析,有利于改革的深化与社会的和谐。谣言流通理论从＂问题的重要性＂和＂信息的暧昧性＂两个角度提供了研究此类问题的新思路与视角,特别是为政府和企业提供了有针对性和操作性的方法与建议。     

文化修养对体操类竞技运动员艺术表现力的价值研究

艺术表现力是体操类竞技项目参赛制胜的重要因素之一,提高运动员的艺术表现力有助于运动员竞技水平的发挥。运用文献资料法、问卷调查法等对运动员艺术表现力及文化修养进行研究,揭示文化修养在提高运动员艺术表现力中的作用,从而指导训练实践。     

Endogeneity and permeation in an organizational communication network

Face-to-face conversation has been shown to be influenced by features that ensure comprehensible and linear conversation (“endogeneity”), and attributes of its potential participants, such as organizational position or contextual role, that “permeate” these endogenous effects. A direct comparison of both features is rarely studied, however, due to methodological challenges it presents. In addition, conversation is increasingly taking place in new mediated forms, such as emails and social media. It remains to be seen if social dynamics observed in face-to-face conversation transfer to these new media forms. Using an email network among individuals during a military exercise, we use relational event modeling to determine whether social norms of communication dominate conversation flow in this medium and to what extent individual attributes affect the flow of messages to and from those in the organization. Though email communication does not require immediate response, we find that immediate-response turn-taking dynamics occur anyway; though emails are only visible to sender and recipient(s), we observe a “Matthew effect” in the communication sequence (i.e., those who receive many emails receive even more in the future). Finally, these dynamics are only marginally affected by measured individual attributes (e.g., military rank, situational awareness), suggesting the primacy of “endogenous” conversation dynamics in this network. We thus find that many previously-observed social dynamics in face-to-face conversation carry over to the new form, despite practical differences between the two types. This study is only one of a handful that directly compares endogeneity and permeation in a communication network.     

Customer negative events and employee service sabotage: The roles of employee hostility,personality and group affective tone

Abstract

In the service industries, customer negative events towards a service provider, such as unreasonable demands or low-quality interpersonal treatment, might trigger service sabotage behaviours by the employee in response. Mitigating the problems associated with customer negative events is therefore an important issue for both practitioners and researchers. In the present study, we incorporate the perspectives of affective events theory into our research framework to clarify the mechanisms and boundary conditions of the customer negative event–service sabotage relationship in the context of face-to-face service. Specifically, we theorize and examine whether customer negative events lead to employee service sabotage through emotional reactions of the service worker (i.e. state hostility) and whether their personality traits (i.e. extraversion and neuroticism) and the work unit context (i.e. group affective tone) moderate this process. The sample was composed of 195 hairstylists and 61 managers from 61 hair salons in Taiwan. The results of hierarchical linear modelling showed that hairstylists' state hostility mediated the negative event–sabotage relationship. In addition, hairstylists' neuroticism and the affective tone of the unit moderated the relationship between negative events and state hostility, which in turn predicted service sabotage. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings are also discussed.     

Analysis and Treatment of Self-Neglectful Behaviors in Three Elderly Female Patients

ABSTRACT

Three cases of self-neglect in elderly female patients are presented. Ranging in age from 84 to 92, subjects suffered from chronic, non-terminal illnesses, and engaged in such behaviors as refusal to eat, non-adherence to a prescribed therapeutic regimen, and extreme social withdrawal. One lived in the community and two resided in assisted living facilities in Louisville, Kentucky. Initial interviews strongly suggested that the patients' engagement in self-neglect was an inappropriate yet purposeful response to aversive events or other negative stimuli. Goals of treatment were to (1) identify specific factors which precipitated patient use of potentially life-threatening behavior, and (2) employ behavioral methods of intervention in response to the identified precipitators. Outcomes were moderately positive. Behavioral interventions reduced engagement in self-neglectful behaviors for each of the participants to a clinically significant degree. Positive results were maintained during the three-month period following treatment termination.