Maid-in-Singapore: representing and consuming foreign domestic workers in Singapore cinema

The Maid, a Singapore-made horror film featuring a foreign domestic worker as its protagonist, was released in 2005 to very favourable reviews in the local press. The critical audience generally used the film to praise the development of the local film industry while ignoring the social commentary of the foreign domestic worker experience in Singapore. This paper aims to address this lack of commentary on the issues and circumstances surrounding foreign domestic service in The Maid. Doing so reveals a multilayered representation of order in Singapore based firmly on ethnicity and class, where the images of foreign maids are dramatised, reconstructed and consumed in various discursive forms by various social agents.     

通过课堂互动减少大学校园里的偏见和歧视

偏见和歧视是社会心理学中的两个概念,在学习过程中,采用课堂讨论这种互动方式,使同学们跳出书本内容的局限,从知识的概念、社会现实中的表现、产生的原因、如何减少偏见和歧视这四个方面去理解和探索,师生共同探讨减少偏见和歧视的方法,可达到减少大学校园里同学之间存在的偏见和歧视的效果.     

基于复杂网络和语言信息的交互式大规模群体评价方法

针对现有基于语言信息的交互式群体评价方法大多仅适用于中小规模群体的情况,提出一种新的基于复杂网络和语言信息的交互式大规模群体评价方法。首先,将评价者视为网络节点,并依据节点之间的距离构建复杂网络;其次,设计节点紧密度和子群紧密度,并确定节点权重和子群权重;再次,定义群体稳定性指标和群体满意度指标,并以此来判断交互终止和确定阶段权重;最后,在节点密度算子和节点加权算子的基础上,分别对单轮群体意见和多轮评价结果进行集结。文末通过一个实际例子验证了所提方法的有效性与合理性。实例分析表明,该方法能够较为全面、准确地集结交互式大规模群体评价意见,且其结果的满意度亦较为理想。     

W.E.B. Du Bois and Filipino/a American exposure programs to the Philippines: race class analysis in an epoch of ‘global apartheid’

The article highlights the ongoing relevance of W.E.B. Du Bois for the global analysis of race and class. Engaging scholarly debates that have ensued within the educational subfields of critical race theory (CRT) and (revolutionary) critical pedagogy, the article explores how a deeper engagement with Du Bois’s ideas contributes theoretically and methodologically to these two subfields. Of particular focus is Du Bois’s conceptualization of a ‘guiding hundredth,’ which he forwarded as a corrective to his ideas of a ‘talented tenth.’ The article also offers a case study analysis of the film Sounds of a New Hope, which documents a hip hop exposure program to the Philippines. The case study draws upon Du Bois’s ‘guiding hundredth’ for a twenty-first century context as a Filipino American cultural worker utilizes hip hop to articulate, analyze, and alter the lived experiences for Filipino/a Americans in a global diaspora.     

溯寻与误读——芥川龙之介的近代中国之行

1921年3月到7月,日本作家芥川龙之介来到中国,试图以从中国古代文化典籍中获得的印象为参照,寻找对应物,追溯“中国情趣”。但当亲眼目睹到落后停滞的现实状况,原本满怀期待的芥川感到极大的失落,对近代中国产生了误读,甚至轻视、排斥。这一现象的产生有着深层的历史和文化原因,在大正时期的日本作家中具有一定普遍性。     

亚里士多德的“新中间阶级论”与当今社会稳定

本文以亚里士多德论述的中产阶级是社会稳定的主要力量的观点为依据，通过史论结合、理论联系实际的方法，全面阐述了当前中国社会构成的现状，中产阶级与社会稳定的关系，并提出了保持中国社会稳定的基本对策：扩大中产阶级比重，实施充分的就业政策，健全再分配机制，对特殊困难群众实施特殊帮扶政策。     

关于分圆域Q(ζ_p)类数的第一因子的行列式表示

设p是奇素数，是分圆域K＝Q（ζp）类数的第一因子。本文运用代数方法证明了：可表成p／2p-2γp与一个元素均为±1的（p-1）／2阶行列式的乘积，上述公式Carlitz和Olson的经典结果。     

Conservatism of the Accident Sequence Evaluation Program HRA Procedure

This paper presents a limited assessment of the conservatism of the Accident Sequence Evaluation Program (ASEP) human reliability analysis (HRA) procedure described in NUREG/CR-4772. The data for this study are derived from simulator examination reports from the NRC requalification examination cycle for nuclear power plant operators. The ASEP procedure was used to estimate human error probability (HEP) values for critical tasks, and the HEP results were compared with the failure rates observed in the examinations. The ASEP procedure was applied by PNNL operator license examiners who supplemented the limited information in the examination reports with expert judgment based upon their extensive simulator examination experience. Comparison of the average of the ASEP HEP values with the fraction of the population actually failed and demonstrated that the ASEP HEP values are larger (conservative) by a statistically significant average factor of two. Partitioning of tasks into subgroups based on the ASEP HEP values and comparison of the subgroup average ASEP HEP values with observed subgroup failure rates showed little or no conservatism for small ASEP HEP values, but considerable conservatism for larger ASEP HEP values.     

Families in the Life Course: Interdependency of Roles,Role Configurations,and Pathways

Families are central in the unfolding life course. They have both internal and external dynamics that reflect and characterize the modern life span, and a life course perspective has particular utility for understanding the role and implications of families for individuals and society. The purpose of this paper is 3‐fold. First, we offer a family life course perspective that delineates core concepts of roles, role configurations, and pathways, specifies the links between them, and highlights the importance of linked lives and structural context. Second, we elaborate a latent class approach for modeling the multilayered dynamic interdependencies that characterize modern family life. Third, we provide an empirical example by considering the timing of childbearing, teen parenthood, and its place in the transition to adulthood using women's data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (N= 2,191). We conclude by discussing further avenues of family research that are enhanced with a life course approach and complementary latent structure methodology.     

Syntactic variation and beyond: Gender and social class variation in the use of discourse‐new markers1

The paper explores the relations between syntactic variation and the large‐scale social dimensions of gender and social class. It argues on the basis of an analysis of the marking of discourse‐new entities in interview speech that syntactic variants may frequently be involved in sociolinguistic variation, but indirectly, as just one of a broad set of choices that includes forms drawn from other components of language besides syntax. The analysis shows that although there is no sociolinguistic variation in the use of the strategies speakers use to mark discourse‐new information, there are significant social class and gender differences in the use of Noun Phrases that are not marked. Whilst acknowledging the risks of generalising on the basis of large‐scale social categories, an interpretation of these differences is suggested in relation to findings from previous research that suggest differences in the interactive style of different gender and social class groups. The paper discusses some implications of the analysis for the fields of language variation and change, and pragmatics.