Gender differences in willingness to compete: The role of public observability

A recent literature emphasizes that gender differences in the labor market may in part be driven by a gender gap in willingness to compete. However, whereas experiments in this literature typically investigate willingness to compete in private environments, real world competitions often have a more public nature, which introduces potential social image concerns. If such image concerns are important, and men and women differ in the degree to which they want to be seen as competitive, making tournament entry decisions publicly observable may further exacerbate the gender gap. We test this prediction using a laboratory experiment (N = 784) that varies the degree to which the decision to compete, and its outcome, is publicly observable. We find that public observability does not alter the magnitude of the gender gap in willingness to compete in an economically or statistically significant way.     

Coalition for a Healthier Community: Lessons learned and implications for future work

The Coalition for a Healthier Community (CHC) initiative was implemented to improve the health and well-being of women and girls. Underpinning CHC is a gender-based focus that uses a network of community partners working collaboratively to generate relevant behavior change and improved health outcomes. Ten programs are trying to determine whether gender-focused system approaches are cost-effective ways to address health disparities in women and girls. Programs implemented through coalitions made up of academic institutions, public health departments, community-based organizations, and local, regional, and national organizations, are addressing health issues such as domestic violence, cardiovascular disease prevention, physical activity, and healthy eating. Although these programs are ongoing, they have made significant progress. Key factors contributing to their early success include a comprehensive needs assessment, robust coalitions, the diversity of populations targeted, programs based on findings of the needs assessments, evaluations taking into consideration the effect of gender, and strong academic–community partnerships. A noteworthy impact of these programs has been their ability to shape and impact public, social, and health policies at the state and local levels. However, there have been challenges associated with the implementation of such a complex program. Lessons learned are discussed in this paper.     

关于高等学校德育的几点思考

在高等教育改革中德育是相对滞后的,过去德育的意识形态性过于突出,且效果也不理想.德育最起码的要求是道德,要重视德育的文化内涵才能不断提高德育水平.必须坚持爱国主义是德育的主旋律,同时德育内容要适应日益国际化的中国对年轻一代素质的新要求.     

吾有志在丘壑--论辛弃疾的园林审美意识和人生态度

辛弃疾起义南归之后,与山水园林结下了不解之缘,他游览过许多湖山胜景,建造了自己的第宅园林,并创作了大量的与山水园林有关的词篇.他以多彩的笔墨描绘了自然山水和庭园风光,表现出崇尚自然、虚淡的审美意识,并在一定程度上抒写了随遇而安、超然放旷的人生态度.     

A sociolinguistic application of Bakhtin's authoritative and internally persuasive discourse

Through the use of two central Bakhtinian concepts, authoritative and internally persuasive discourse (word), this paper examines the tension between the ideology of linguistic hegemony as a source of power in the Greek public sphere and the condition of language shift faced by the Albanian‐speaking communities of modern Greece. I argue here that a cautious application of these two notions, which are relevant to linguistic ideology, can reveal crucial aspects of two processes: that of subordination to and that of questioning of the dominant linguistic ideology by local Albanian‐speaking communities. Thus, in language shift contexts, it is possible that no simple relations obtain that place social agents in unquestionable and easily predictable positions. Such an approach proves useful for the sociolinguistic study of threatened language communities.     

翻译:意识形态的建构、解构、重建与解读

翻译不仅是语言之间信息转换的文化活动,而且是一系列复杂的思维活动。意识形态以不同的语言形式隐藏在语篇之中,以各种隐蔽方式潜移默化地影响着作者写作、译者翻译以及读者解读文本。本文拟以批评语言学为主要方法论,强调翻译中语言分析和社会分析相结合的重要性,同时主张翻译研究应以语篇为单位,特别注意考察作者、译者、读者在翻译过程中的三元关系及其在意识形态的建构、解构、重建和解读过程中的作用,以便弄清翻译的本质并有效地解释那些"不忠"的现象。     

辗转在“漂”与“游”之间的精神独行者漂泊意识对萧红小说创作的影响及其形成动因

纵观萧红的一生,漂泊是她无法逃脱的命运,漂泊感也就成了她终生化解不开的情结.由此产生的漂泊意识浸润在她众多的作品中,成为她表现生活的独特视角,因而成就了萧红小说在女性文学史乃至现代文学史上无可替代的独特地位和恒久的艺术魅力.究其形成的原因,又是与萧红童年的生活环境、所处的文化背景以及民族危机紧密相关.本文就是从以上三个方面具体阐释漂泊意识与萧红小说创作的内在联系.     

新制度经济学的意识形态理论及其启示

意识形态理论是新制度经济学制度变迁理论的分析工具之一。新制度经济学认为,意识形态是减少提供其他制度安排的服务费用的最重要的制度安排。在中国由计划经济体制向市场经济体制转轨过程中,借鉴新制度经济学的意识形态理论,建构有中国特色的社会主义意识形态理论,发挥意识形态在制度变迁和经济增长中的作用,具有重大的现实意义。     

试论谭平山在“一大”前后的思想和活动

本文就谭平山“一大”前后研究和宣传马克思主义,建立和发展广东党的组织;创办学校、培养干部,建立工会组织,发展工人运动;建立社会主义青年团,推动青年运动的发展等几个方面作了论述。     

Children's gender- and age-based categorization in similarity and induction tasks

The present studies examined children's and adults' preferences for gender- or age-based categorization using similarity and inductive inference tasks. Four-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adults looked at pictures of people and decided which of two was more like a target (similarity condition) or which shared a novel age- or gender-related property with the target (inference condition). Age or gender-based matches were possible. The results are consistent with previous findings that gender-based classification decreases with age. However, they also demonstrate that children use gender more for judging similarity than for making inferences about novel properties. Distinct patterns emerge from the two tasks: 6-year-olds and adults in both conditions categorize more by age than gender; 4-year-olds categorize by gender more than age in the similarity task, but by age more in the induction task. Only adults differentiated by property in the inference condition. These findings suggest that the salience of gender categories cannot entirely be attributed to their inductive potential. Gender has a salience beyond what would be predicted by its power for directing novel generalizations.