College-bound friends and college application choices: Heterogeneous effects for Latino and White students

Friends are among the most influential social forces affecting adolescent behavior, yet little work has focused on the influence of friends on the decision to apply to college. Using data from the senior cohort of the Texas Higher Education Opportunity Project, we employed propensity score matching with sensitivity analyses to investigate links between having college-oriented friends and applying to college. We found that college-oriented friends increased the likelihood of applying to any college and to 4-year colleges, both for White and Latino students. However, Latino students benefited less from college-oriented friends compared to White students. Our findings suggest that college-choice models should more directly account for the influence of friends in applying to college, taking account of racial and ethnic differences, and future research should explore why Latino students benefit less.     

Whitewashing the nation: racist jokes and the construction of the African ‘other’ in Greek popular cinema

This article explores representations of race in three Greek popular films of the 1970s and 1980s. The portrayal of African characters in these films is antagonistically positioned in relation to the dominant, ‘whitewashed’ Greek national narrative which relies on the nineteenth century idea that Greece is the progenitor of European civilization. Often masquerading itself as ‘just a joke’, the discourse of these films narrates the African Other as lacking in terms of culture, intelligence and beauty – the three central categories upon which the idea of the ‘white supremacy’, according to Cornell West, is historically constructed in modernity. Tightly woven with this idea (largely introduced in Greece by the leading European powers), these films enunciate explicitly colonial viewpoints in a country that was neither a colonial power nor at the geopolitical center of the European project. The article argues that the racialized representations of these films are an effect of appropriating the Eurocentric idea of historicism, where the ‘progress’ and ‘backwardness’ of groups and nations are measured according to how effectively they perform the values of modernity.     

A Statewide Parenting Alternative Sentencing Program: Description and Preliminary Outcomes

ABSTRACT

The Washington State Legislature created the Parenting Sentencing Alternative in 2010, authorizing a substitute to total confinement for parents of minor children. The Alternative is designed to strengthen family bonds and improve parenting skills to encourage successful reintegration. An overview of the Alternative’s history, design, and implementation is presented, followed by preliminary results from an impact evaluation. A case study of a successful participant is presented, and implications for the findings are discussed.     

不忘初心：基于央视宣传片百年政党多模态形象建构研究

央视形象宣传片《我是谁》是中国共产党建党95周年以来的首部公益广告,具有重要的时代意义和研究价值.结合视觉设计语法、评价理论和“宣传片”的图像、文本和声音语料建立“宣传片”多模态形象诠释框架,探索“宣传片”建构党的形象的过程与范式.研究发现:一是“宣传片”图像的再现意义体现接地气的创意理念,互动意义展现与受众间的平等权势关系,构图意义揭示青年群体是目标受众的精准定位;二是“宣传片”文本重点建构人际意义的协商语义,从客观视角而不是主观情感刻画党员群体爱岗敬业的务实作风和百年政党一心为民的赤子之心;三是“宣传片”音乐、旁白等声音能够有效增强受众全方位了解党的形象塑造,从而尽快接受党为人民服务的不变“初心”.     

视觉权力反抗下的艾米丽

《献给艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》引起了很多研究者的兴趣,但是,是谁以及为什么献给艾米丽一朵玫瑰花却没有定论。从视觉权力的角度分析这一问题,指出艾米丽作为个体的“被看者”在面对“看”所代表的集体权力时,表面采取了顺从,实际运用了最强烈的反抗,扭转了“看”与“被看者”的不平等关系,从而赢得福克纳的一朵代表敬意的玫瑰花。     

视觉文化:广告女性形象的看与被看

广告女性形象的看与被看是一种复杂的视觉行为和视觉文化。从观看的行为来说,女性形象看与被看的模式呈现为女性形象被男性观看,被女性观看,甚至是女性的自赏。无论广告中女性形象是在场还是缺席,是真实地存在还是由男性的虚拟而存在,女性形象出现的目的就是被看。由于男女两性在生物特征和社会特性方面的不同,观看的行为方式和观看的文化意味有着显著的区别。男性通过窥视行为,放大女性的性征,并过滤掉女性美的其他成分,将女性视为满足自己潜在欲望的性符号,女性被男性性化。女性通过审视行为,激发起因缺失而引起的焦虑,将广告女性幻化成生活的指导者和楷模,将女性美化。     

工程车辆液力变矩器与发动机匹配的研究

对工程车辆中液力变矩器与发动机匹配的原则、评价指标和评价方法进行了分析研究，并结合工程车辆中使用工况比较复杂的装载机，进行了液力变矩器与发动机匹配评价的实例分析．     

我国老年人长期护理研究知识图谱分析

利用可视化分析软件CiteSpace,对从中国知网数据库中截取的1999—2019年CSSCI与核心期刊797篇文献进行文献计量分析;通过关键词共现、时区视图及突现图,构建我国老年人长期护理研究的知识图谱,展示近20年来我国老年人长期护理研究的研究热点、演化路径及研究趋势等。总体来看,我国老年人长期护理研究稳步推进,研究成果日益增多,研究内容不断深化;高校是长期护理研究的主力军,但学者间、研究机构间的合作较少,当下尚未形成较严密的学术研究网络;相关研究具有较强的时代性特征,且在很大程度上受到政府政策的驱动和引导;研究的本土化与精细化趋势较明显。     

先锋小说中的词语超常搭配现象探微

先锋小说是20世纪80年代的一个重要的文学现象。以先锋小说中的词语超常搭配现象为研究对象,初步分析了先锋小说中的词语超常搭配在主谓结构、偏正结构、动宾结构、并列结构这四种句法结构中的体现,从而从一个侧面展现出先锋小说语言实验的特点。