Family Ties and Peso Signs: Challenges for Career Counseling in the Philippines

The article's 1st section provides an overview of the historical development of career counseling in the Philippines from an economic‐political perspective. The 2nd section raises current challenges and concerns, highlighting the need for a career counseling model that would address, among other things, Filipinos' valued characteristics of close family ties and desire for economic progress.     

Spatial Variations in Church Burnings: The Social Ecology of Victimized Communities in the South*

Abstract In recent years, church burnings in the South have attracted a great deal of attention. Many commentators have charged that they are a product of strained race relations throughout the South, and particularly of severe racial tensions in Southern rural areas. In this study we evaluate these claims. We begin by mapping the spatial coordinates of recorded church burnings from 1990 to 1997, and find that church arsons indeed are concentrated in the South. Church burnings, however, are a more urban phenomenon than popular media accounts would suggest. Our analysis then explores the influence of contextual factors (population and locale, racial composition and inequality, so‐cioeconomic conditions, local religious ecology, and patterns of reported crime) on church burnings in counties located in the study region. Logistic regression models confirm that church arsons are most likely to occur in small metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) and non‐MSA counties containing a city of at least 10,000 residents. Church burnings also are especially likely in counties with a higher percentage of black residents, a larger number of churches relative to the rest of the state, and a higher arson rate. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for future research and public policy.     

Relations Between Measures of Irritability and Contingency Detection at 6 Months

The hypothesis that irritability and contingency detection are negatively correlated was examined in thirty‐one 6‐month‐old infants. Observation and maternal report‐based assessments of irritability were correlated with both a criterion score and a continuous score of contingency detection. Results indicated that greater irritability in infants was associated with lower contingency detection scores. Discussion focuses on identifying processes by which the 2 constructs may be associated.     

Adolescents' and Mothers' Understanding of Children's Rights in the Home

Adolescents' and mothers' understanding of children's self‐determination and nurturance rights was examined in the context of the home. In individual interviews, 141 sixth, eighth, and tenth graders and their mothers responded to hypothetical vignettes in which a child story character wished to exercise a right that conflicted with parental practices. For each vignette, participants were asked to judge whether the story character should have the right in question and to provide a justification for their decision. Generally, eighth and tenth graders were more likely than their mothers to endorse requests for self‐determination and less likely than their mothers to support requests for nurturance. Mothers of tenth graders were more likely to support requests for self‐determination and less likely to favor adolescents' request for nurturance in the home than were mothers of sixth and eighth graders. In terms of reasoning, adolescents and mothers were more likely to consider the individuals' rights when discussing self‐determination situations, whereas nurturance situations elicited responses pertaining to participants' understanding of familial roles and relationships. Furthermore, mothers' reasoning about childrenà s rights reflected sensitivity to the developmental level of their children. The findings are discussed in terms of previous research on the development of children's understanding of rights and adolescent autonomy.     

对开拓中医药成人高等教育潜在市场的思考

我国的成人高等教育 ,在实现从计划经济到市场经济转变后 ,出现了前所未有的竞争场面。作为行业性很强的中医药成人高等教育 ,要想生存和进一步发展 ,必须在积极参加市场竞争的同时 ,根据自身的优势和特点 ,从社会发展的高度 ,大力开拓潜在市场 ,努力寻找中医药成人高等教育的发展空间     

积极财政政策与扩大高等教育供给

长期以来 ,我国高等教育存在的最突出、最根本的问题是投入问题。无论是宏观背景从计划体制到市场化改革 ,还是从控制规模的精英教育到连续扩招的大众化推进 ,包括高校收费制度改革 ,我国高等教育投入和经费困扰的基本状况没有重大改变 ,这种现象长期化存在本身 ,表明高等教育的投入严重不足问题 ,不应仅仅归结为“财政压力”和认识问题。客观上 ,这种机制障碍 ,已经成为一种制度性约束。作者在我国已经连续五年实施积极财政政策的背景下 ,从改善和扩大供给的角度 ,探讨在根本解决高等教育投入不足的公共财政体制性改革之前 ,运用作为非正式制度变迁手段的财政政策 ,面对加入WTO后的高等教育国际竞争挑战 ,利用国债资金 ,调整支出结构 ,阶段性、分层次、集中加大对高等教育的公共财政投入 ,全方位改善高等教育的长期供给 ,拉动消费需求 ,促进经济增长     

从GATT到WTO--全球多边贸易体系的发展

建立一个调整世界各国贸易关系的组织 ,以便在比较宽松的环境下开展国际贸易 ,是世界各国的共同愿望。经过战后近半个世纪的艰苦努力 ,从GATT到WTO ,在循序渐进的过程中 ,形成了当今比较完整的国际贸易体系     

经络黑箱方法研究及意义

经络的特异实质结构至今尚未探明 ,但已初步研究掌握了经络现象的规律性。古代和现代对于经络的研究常有黑箱方法的一些最基本特征。现代系统科学的黑箱方法 ,不是直接考察经络的内部结构 ,而是利用外部观察和试验来考察经络系统的输入输出及其动态过程 ,研究经络的功能和特性 ,探索其结构和机理的科学方法。现代经络黑箱方法的研究 ,也为经络诊断和治疗提高了精确性和有效性 ,并为经络的实质结构研究奠定理论和技术基础     

论党的第三代领导集体对邓小平理论的坚持和发展

以江泽民同志为核心的第三代领导集体 ,紧紧抓住建设有中国特色社会主义的“一整套发展战略” ,将“正在做”的建设有中国特色社会主义的新的实践经验系统地总结为战略指导思想 ,再升华为理论观点 ,这是党的第三代领导集体坚持和发展邓小平理论的一个重点 ,也是其一大特点 ;在社会主义历史阶段 ,党指导社会主义现代化建设和改革开放的发展战略 ,是“三个代表”的集中体现