Respectability,morality and disgust in the night‐time economy: exploring reactions to ‘lap dance’ clubs in England and Wales

The night‐time economy is often described as repelling consumers fearful of the ‘undesirable Others’ imagined dominant within such time‐spaces. In this paper we explore this by describing attitudes towards, and reactions to, one particularly contentious site: the ‘lap dance’ club. Often targeted by campaigners in England and Wales as a source of criminality and anti‐sociality, in this paper we shift the focus from fear to disgust, and argue that Sexual Entertainment Venues (SEVs) are opposed on the basis of moral judgments that reflect distinctions of both class and gender. Drawing on documentary analysis, survey results and interview data collected during guided walks, we detail the concerns voiced by those anxious about the presence of lap dance or striptease clubs in their town or city, particularly the notion that they ‘lower the tone’ of particular streets or neighbourhoods. Our conclusion is that the opposition expressed to lap dance clubs is part of an attempt to police the boundaries of respectable masculinities and femininities, marginalizing the producers and consumers of sexual entertainment through ‘speech acts’ which identify such entertainment as unruly, vulgar and uncivilized. These findings are considered in the light of ongoing debates concerning the relations of morality, respectability and disgust.     

Intergenerational Exchanges of Middle‐Aged Adults With Their Parents and Parents‐In‐Law in Korea

The authors investigated patterns of support exchanges between Korean adult children and their parents and parents‐in‐law, gender differences in these patterns, and implications of children's marital quality for exchange patterns. Data were from a nationally representative sample of married adults (N = 920, age 30–59 years) with at least 1 living parent and 1 living parent‐in‐law. Latent class analysis was applied to 12 indicators of exchanges (financial, instrumental, emotional support given to and received from parents and parents‐in‐law). Five classes of exchanges were identified, 3 showing balanced patterns of exchanges with parents and parents‐in‐law across three types of support and 2 classes with unbalanced patterns (e.g., giving instrumental and financial but not emotional support). The findings revealed variability in intergenerational exchange patterns, with a mix of patrilineal traditional and balanced patterns. Significant associations of exchange patterns with adult children's marital quality suggest the importance of balanced exchanges with parents for marriage.     

Model Selection Information Criteria in Latent Class Models with Missing Data and Contingency Question

Latent class analysis (LCA) has been found to have important applications in social and behavioral sciences for modeling categorical response variables, and nonresponse is typical when collecting data. In this study, the nonresponse mainly included “contingency questions” and real “missing data.” The primary objective of this research was to evaluate the effects of some potential factors on model selection indices in LCA with nonresponse data.

We simulated missing data with contingency questions and evaluated the accuracy rates of eight information criteria for selecting the correct models. The results showed that the main factors are latent class proportions, conditional probabilities, sample size, the number of items, the missing data rate, and the contingency data rate. Interactions of the conditional probabilities with class proportions, sample size, and the number of items are also significant. From our simulation results, the impact of missing data and contingency questions can be amended by increasing the sample size or the number of items.     

改革开放以来中国知识分子的社会流动和阶层结构

改革开放以来,中国知识分子的社会流动广泛而迅猛,主要从劳动生产率较低和经济效益较差的地区、行业和单位,流向劳动生产率较高和经济效益较好的地区、行业和单位.到目前为止,知识分子阶层主要由专业型知识分子、公务员型知识分子、经理型知识分子、业主型知识分子、中介型知识分子、自由职业型知识分子、个体户型知识分子等七个群体构成.改革开放以来知识分子社会流动的发展和阶层结构的变化,对中国的经济发展和社会进步产生了重大而深远的影响.我们需要采取切实的措施,趋利避害,使知识分子的社会流动和阶层结构变化更好地为实现社会主义现代化服务.     

“经济主义政治模式”语境中的“阶级”概念——一种政治哲学解读的尝试

理解阶级概念必须紧紧地抓住其唯物主义的方法论特质,才能够更准确地切入历史唯物主义政治哲学对于西方传统政治哲学的超越。马克思并不在＂纯粹哲学＂的层面或者＂纯粹科学＂的层面来制服以资本为基本建制的资本主义社会形态,而是将理论的聚光点打在资本主义的社会关系之上,这将唯物与阶级、阶级关系的存在论、阶级政治＂面向事物本身＂的政治属性等质性内在地凸现了出来。     

生态困境之“原罪”与“类意识”的深层觉醒

生态困境不仅是自然生命系统的困境,同时是人类生存的困境和人的精神意义世界失落的困境.遗忘了"类本质"的人类必定会陷入动物本能式的思维模式,导致"自然观"的误置、"科技观"的歧途与"人性观"的偏差.借用基督教"原罪"的理念,现代人类如果要获得最后的"救赎",必须运用生态智慧驾驭对自然的"控制力",通过道德关怀范围的扩展和"类意识"的深层觉醒,推动道德的进化,在追寻生命"自由"之境的过程中谋求人与自然的生态和谐.     

On a tobit–Birnbaum–Saunders model with an application to medical data

The tobit model allows a censored response variable to be described by covariates. Its applications cover different areas such as economics, engineering, environment and medicine. A strong assumption of the standard tobit model is that its errors follow a normal distribution. However, not all applications are well modeled by this distribution. Some efforts have relaxed the normality assumption by considering more flexible distributions. Nevertheless, the presence of asymmetry could not be well described by these flexible distributions. A real-world data application of measles vaccine in Haiti is explored, which confirms this asymmetry. We propose a tobit model with errors following a Birnbaum–Saunders (BS) distribution, which is asymmetrical and has shown to be a good alternative for describing medical data. Inference based on the maximum likelihood method and a type of residual are derived for the tobit–BS model. We perform global and local influence diagnostics to assess the sensitivity of the maximum likelihood estimators to atypical cases. A Monte Carlo simulation study is carried out to empirically evaluate the performance of these estimators. We conduct a data analysis for the mentioned application of measles vaccine based on the proposed model with the help of the R software. The results show the good performance of the tobit–BS model.     

网络极端情绪人群的类型及其政治与社会意涵——基于中国网络社会心态调查数据（2014）的实证研究

本文以社会化媒体的用户为中心,以用户的网络极端情绪表达为切入点,考察中国社会化媒体空间中的群体类型,并探讨各群体的客观背景特征,以及各群体的政治态度和网络表达行动。对中国网络社会心态调查数据（2014）的潜类分析表明,我们可以根据微博用户表达的极端情绪将其划分为“酱油众”“冷漠族”“铁血爱国派”“愤世嫉俗派”和“民粹主义者”五类群体。其中,“民粹主义者”具有一定的“草根左派”色彩,“铁血爱国派”具有某种“亲体制左派”的色彩,“冷漠族”则倾向于“温和右派”,“愤世嫉俗派”倾向于“激进右派”。就政治态度而言,“愤世嫉俗派”对体制的态度最为负面,“民粹主义者”对政府的信任度最低,而“铁血爱国派”对体制的态度最为正面,对政府的信任度最高。就网络行动而言,“民粹主义者”使用网络暴力和参与在线抗议的可能性都最高,其次是“愤世嫉俗派”和“铁血爱国派”。文章最后指出,对互联网用户极端情绪的研究是理解中国网络社会的重要窗口。     

Neural Mechanisms of Trace in Chinese Topicalized Constructions

语迹理论是生成语法框架下所提出的重要理论假设,但这种理论假设正确与否,句法表征中是否真正存在没有语音形式的语迹,必须得到与语言相关的脑神经机制的实验验证。本研究在生成语法理论背景下,利用高时间分辨率的事件相关电位技术,以汉语话题句为研究语料,考察了汉语语迹的神经机制问题。实验结果表明,在汉语话题句的加工过程中所诱发的持续负波、动词位置的负成分以及句末位置的P600成分,均反映了句首话题成分移位后会在原有位置留有语迹,二者之间存在句法依存关系。根据实验结果,我们认为,语迹在汉语话题句中有其神经机制,语迹理论假设的合理性能够得到大脑神经机制上的证明。同时研究也从神经机制的角度逆向证实了汉语话题句是经由移位生成的句法结构。     

On the Rounded Integer-Valued Autoregressive Process

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in modelling integred-valued time series. In this article, we propose a modified and generalized version of the first order rounded integer-valued autoregressive RINAR(1) model, originally introduced by Kachour and Yao (2009 Kachour , M. , Yao , J. F. ( 2009 ). First-order rounded integer-valued autoregressive (RINAR(1)) process . Journal of Time Series Analysis 30 ( 4 ): 417 – 448 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). Indeed, this class can be considered as an alternative of classical models based on the thinning operators. Using a Markov chain method, conditions for stationarity and the existence of moments are investigated. Least squares estimator of the model parameters is considered and its consistence is established. Finally, we describe the price change data using a model of the new class.