The epidemiology of schizophrenia among Caribbean-born and first- and second-generation migrants in Britain

The study of migrants in their new environments is often a useful means of investigating environmental influences on health. Migrants have been found to develop higher rates of mental illness compared to their counterparts who remain at home. These deleterious effects of migration have been attributed to selection factors and stressful life experiences. Migration from an agricultural and traditional society to an urban industrial society where value systems can be demanding, often leads to role strain and role conflict. These kinds of incongruities are the beginning of a series of stressful experiences that contribute to poor health/mental health status. The extent to which one experiences stress is dependent on a number of factors. First, it depends on the perceived difference between home and the new environment. Second, it depends on the cultural homogeneity of the new environment, that is, the extent to which the migrant is readily assimilated into the new culture or is able to maintain a traditional lifestyle by living in an ethnic enclave, and the psychological resources available to successfully access services in the new environment. This paper examines the rates, incidence, and prevalence of schizophrenia found in Caribbean-born immigrants to Britain, and first- and second-generation people of Caribbean background born in Britain. It is argued that Afro-Caribbean people in England are overrepresented in the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Factors that may contribute to this finding range from unemployment, social disadvantage status, social adversity, racism in the health and criminal justice systems, and misdiagnosis.This paper was completed when the author served as Distinguished Visiting Professor-William Patterson College, Wayne, New Jersey.     

小学英语课堂分层教学模式初探

分层教学模式是深化课堂教学改革的重要途径之一。从个别差异和因材施教理论入手,阐述了分层教学模式在小学英语课堂当中的可实践性,并以合作小组的运用、评价分层作为其中的催化,对分层教学模式的运用进行了初步探讨。     

法社会学中的个体角色与和谐社会的法治构造

和谐社会是成千上万优秀个体角色组成的,社会规范下的个体角色的认知与责任是构建现代和谐社会的基础。优秀的个体角色的形成,是构建和谐社会的法治基础。个体角色对权利、义务认知,个体角色的道德观念和行为准则是对社会规范、社会习俗的尊重。法律规范社会化下的个体角色,实质上是塑造与社会公共权利机关所确定的社会规范相适应的自我。个体角色彼此之间都是一面镜子,相互反映着对方的自我,任何一个个体角色都可以从其他角色的态度中来认识自我。个体角色彼此之间又都在无形中相互影响、起着率先垂范的作用。     

中国古代词选的承传

中国古代词选的承传,主要体现在三条线索中:一是分调选编的承传;二是分类选编的承传;三是分人选编的承传。古代词选的承传,为词作选本发挥欣赏、批评与文献传播的多方面价值产生了积极的作用。     

对建筑类型学及其方法论的浅识

类型学是一种分析建筑的方法,通过对建筑类型学的不同发展阶段的研究、认识,可以使建筑设计师对特定历史的文化生活与真实的环境条件进行分析,从而设计出类似于已往而又不同于以往建筑形式的理想建筑。     

祖先崇拜与人类主体地位的觉醒——以《诗经》为中心的考察

《诗经·商颂》与《诗经·大雅》中带有史诗因素的祭祀祖先的诗歌,集中体现了商、周部族对自己始祖的歌颂,以及对人类自身价值的发现和尊重,反映了这一时期人们主体意识的进一步提高——由自然主体转变为社会主体,有了明确的"类"意识。但这种意识是是群体的,因为,这时的个人还没有能力离开集体独立生存,也就不可能产生个体意识。     

Division of Labor,Gender Ideology,and Marital Satisfaction in East Asia

Using data from the 2006 Family Module of the East Asian Social Survey (N = 3,096), this article examines associations of marital satisfaction with divisions of housework and gender ideology in four East Asian societies: urban China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Compared with Japanese and Korean married women and men, Chinese and Taiwanese spouses were more satisfied with their marriage and had more egalitarian divisions of housework, but simultaneously they held less egalitarian gender ideologies. Multivariate analyses showed that relative share of housework was negatively associated with marital satisfaction for Japanese and Korean men and for Korean and Taiwanese women. Egalitarian gender ideology was significantly associated with lower marital satisfaction only among Taiwanese women. In addition, the negative association between housework and marital satisfaction was more pronounced for Taiwanese women who espoused more egalitarian gender ideologies. The authors discuss how differences in macro‐level social contexts explain these cross‐society variations.     

道德教育个性化的当代解读

揭示道德教育个性化的当代语境,运用马克思主义个人观,分析道德教育个性化的真实内涵,进行道德教育个性化的架构,以期实现道德教育个性化的应有价值。     

宁波创新型城市建设与人才支持体系研究

人才是创新型城市建设的根本,人才的集聚、流动、结构、对人力资本的投资以及制度安排都将影响创新型城市的建设。宁波市目前存在人才集聚能力较弱,人才储备的后续力量不足,流动性不强,技术创新能力较弱,人才所在的部门和单位间缺乏合作等问题,应从优化城市环境、促进高新技术产业集群的发展、制定人才分层政策、大力进行制度创新等方面来加强人才工作,支持创新型城市建设。     

论马克思“重建个人所有制”的逻辑前提

理论界对马克思“重建个人所有制”理论争论已久,观点多样,如“生产资料论”“消费资料论”“生活资料论”“个人财产论”“股份制论”等,但是很少专题考察“重建个人所有制”的前提条件.廓清它是“什么样社会”里对“什么样的个人”的重建,是解决此问题的必要逻辑前提.这对中国特色社会主义的理论建设具有十分重要的现实意义.