我的爱情,他的猪肉卷

反打哈欠当作一种体操,最喜欢的运动是打个盹,如果铺上一块布可以做沙发用,称体重的时候体重计说一次只能上一个人。这是谁?不对,不是加菲猫,这是我的家猪。 家猪年已33岁,1971年生。身高180(穿着鞋子),体重180(净重),眼睛曾经很大,现在勉强可以看出那部位是眼睛。鼻子高挺,多肉,据说这样鼻子的人     

一碗冒菜的天下

从7000元借款到数百万资产．从成都街边的“苍蝇馆子”到遍布全国的品牌店．且听朱林夫妇来讲这一碗冒菜的故事。     

法律是万能的吗？——对“邻里关系”立法的一点看法

社区杭州市两会期间的一份人大代表提案——建议为“邻里关系”立法——被媒体视为“标新立异”。据报道:“对于这个全国首创的建议,承办部门和有关社会学专家都给予了很高的评价。”然而紧接着,一些媒体也刊登了不少持不同意见者的文章。于是,这项立法建议在热闹了一阵之后最终归于沉寂。今天在这里重提这一曾经的新闻热点,是想更深层次地探讨一些问题,因而出了个大题目——法律是万能的吗?这样做当然也有其针对性。窃以为现在国人有一种倾向:在我们的社会经济生活中,哪里有问题、有矛盾,最常见的建议就是“立个法”。当然首先应该肯定的是…     

对维吾尔语toy、bala二词的词源考证

根据维吾尔语各个不同历史时期的各种文献对toy和bala二词的记载,对它们的语义进行了分析、考证,揭示了这两个词的语义的历史演变过程。     

家务劳动的社会价值

新华社最近有一篇题为《照顾爹妈儿女还能领到钱》的报道很值得一读,因为这篇报道所描述的上海市普陀区长风街道的“自助式居家养老”模式,也许预示着中国社会对家务劳动在观念上和相应的政策措施上的一大进步。这就是,承认家务劳动的社会价值,并由社会给予家务劳动者适当的劳动报酬——在一些发达国家,这被称为“社会工资”。在中国,家务劳动素来被认为是绝对的家庭琐事——婆婆妈妈、琐琐碎碎,在所有的劳动中,可以说是最不上“档次”的。同时,因为家务劳动的受益者是劳动者自己及家属,所以被认为与社会无关。当中国人谈到家庭妇女甚至家庭…     

Cohort shifts in the timing of births in Ghana

A comparison of cohorts of ever-married Chanaian women suggests evidence of a fertility transition beginning among younger women and select subgroups. Ghana's crude birth rate declined from a high of 50/1000 population in 1970 to 38.8/1000 in 1985. To ascertain whether marital fertility is now being controlled through conscious attempts to lengthen birth intervals, World Fertility Survey data from 1979-80 on the timing of births among different birth cohorts were analyzed. It was hypothesized that, as a result of the influence of Western values that stress independence from parents and the introduction of compulsory education, cohorts of the mid-1950s and 1960s would be more likely to postpone childbearing, more active in the modern sector of the economy, and more accepting of modern contraceptive usage for birth spacing than women in the 1930-39, 1940-49, and 1950-59 cohorts. For the 1940-49 cohort, it took 10.8 months for 25% to have a birth following 1st marriage, 18.7 months for 50% to have a 1st birth, and 27.4 months for 75% to complete this step. By comparison, these figures for the 1955-64 birth cohort were 9.9, 16.7, and 20.5 months, respectively. The significantly shorter (p 0.01) interval between marriage and 1st birth found among younger women in part reflects rising age at marriage; mean age at 1st marriage was 17.9 years for the 1940 cohort and 21.6 years for the most recent cohort. After the birth of the 1st child, recent cohorts were more likely to wait longer for the 2nd birth. For women born in 1950-64, it took 21.8, 36.7, and 44.6 months for 25%, 50%, and 75%, respectively, to reach parity 2. This pattern of lengthened birth interval beyond the 1st birth was apparent at all parities in the youngest cohort and indicates increasing acceptance of contraception among those who have come of age during a period of rapid social change.     

Family roles and female mortality differentials across cultures: an inquiry of cultural adaptation in industrialization

The relationship between family support systems and female mortality in Chinese and American cultures is studied using 1980 official data from Taiwan and the United States. The differences in female mortality by marital status support the hypotheses that Chinese families provide greater support for older than younger females, and that the emphasis on filial piety in Chinese society provides more support for the elderly by Chinese than American children.     

An analytical paradigm for the analysis of national inmigration patterns

This study proposes and demonstrates an analytic paradigm based upon a substantive categorization of a set of inmigration correlates. It exemplifies the notion of categorizing, analyzing according to the categorization, and subsequently discussing the phenomenon in more depth. The paradigm has 2 steps: 1) the variables are categorized according to the cells resulting from the intersection of a preferably small number of nominal dimensions and 2) the data are analyzed, directly anchored in the prior categorization. The data used is Israel's 1983 census macro-data gathered from the Central Bureau of Statistics for the Israeli towns with populations of at least 5000. The authors defined 6 variables as push variables and 4 as pull variables. Results of the regression employing push variables show that 4 variables accounting for 72% of inmigration were found to significantly predict inmigration: 1) unemployment, 2) percentage of Asians-Africans, 3) town size, and 4) religiosity. Within the pull classification, the regression analysis reveals that 2 of the 4 variables explain 31% of the inmigration variance: 1) educational level (26%) and 2) income (5%). The 1st regression analysis on the 2nd dimension shows that the percentage of Asian-African origin and town population size account for 32% of the immigration variance. In the 2nd regression analysis, unemployment explains 48% of the inmigration variance and educational level explains 8%. In the 3rd regression, only home crowding explains a significant amount of the immigration variance (19%). Results of a multiple regression analysis show that unemployment level, percentage of Asian-Africans, population size, and level of religiosity account for 72% of the inmigration variance. Thus, the characteristics of a town inmigrating (push variables) are demographic, economic, and social. However, the attractive features of a town are only economic. Among all economic factors, unemployment is primary. In addition, not only are both percentage of Asians-Africans and population size significantly deflective of inmigration, but each also plays a separate and independent role.     

The accuracy of population censuses in the United States

Methods that have been used or suggested to improve the accuracy of the U.S. census are reviewed. The author notes that self-completed questionnaires yield better results than those completed by census enumerators. The use of sample surveys carried out as part of the census process is described.     

Age patterns of marital fertility: revising the Coale-Trussell method

"This article revises the Coale-Trussell method for analyzing data from the World Fertility Survey by proposing and testing alternative log-linear and log-multiplicative models. The models, in one form or another, represent the structural constraint underlying the Coale-Trussell method on the variation in the age pattern of human fertility. With a Poisson distribution assumption for the number of births, several parameters of the models are simultaneously estimated via maximum likelihood. It is shown that the new approach can be adopted whenever fertility limitation is compared across multiple populations or subpopulations."