Contextual identity experiencing facilitates resilience in Native American academics

This article discusses the socio-cultural dynamics that interact with ethno-racial identity experiencing in a previously under-researched group. A qualitative interdisciplinary study with 40 Native American academics from 28 mainstream universities across the U.S. served as a case example with findings that contrasted with historically influential theoretical frameworks postulating identity confusion and conflicts at the intersection of one’s mainstream education and profession versus one’s ethno-racial community grounding. Instead of feeling pressure to identify with only one worldview, the contextual, dynamic identities associated with the inclusive and flexible self-concept of tribal participants allowed them to in turn take advantage of two divergent cultural meaning systems pertaining to their distinct socio-cultural contexts. These shifts were experienced as not endogenous but rather exogenous variables, which did not cause the historically theorized issues. Participants felt their tribal identities instead facilitated meaningful integration of the existing incongruences, which resulted in unexpectedly resilient subjective experiencing.     

The Myth of the Computer Hacker

The seriousness of computer hacking is not exaggerated, it is far worse than that. The computer hacker has attained the status of myth; society associates all computer crime with a mythical perpetrator that bears no resemblance to reality. This paper will argue that in the early stages of the myth the computer hacker was regarded as a highly skilled but mentally disturbed youth who has an unhealthy association with computers. The new reality of electronic commerce resulted in pressures that culminated in the computer hacker becoming regarded as a dangerous criminal. A thorough analysis of the statistics will demonstrate that the majority of computer intruders are neither dangerous nor highly skilled, and thus nothing like the mythical hacker.     

海伍德对政治学核心概念的独到分析与诠释——《政治学核心概念》评介

《政治学核心概念》是一部在国外政治学界有广泛影响的著作。在这部著作中,海伍德强调了政治概念的特殊重要性并对此进行了独到的解释;探讨了政治概念在实际应用中存在的特殊问题并进行了有深度的分析;对"规范性概念"和"描述性概念"进行了富有启发意义的区分与阐释。该书不仅展现了作者在政治概念界定与诠释上的学术专长与独到之处,也体现了作者在政治学知识再现与传播上尽量贴近读者与学生的教师情结与风范。     

探析宪政合理性

宪政的合理性,主要取决于宪政价值诉求中的合理性。何谓合理,不同国度、不同时代,有不同理解。本文力图通过分析宪政的价值构造内涵,为中国实行合理化宪政提供理论参考。     

价值多元化视阈下大学生核心价值认同危机与重构

中国社会正处于一个急剧转型时期，人们的生活方式发生了极大变化，出现了许多认同危机，特别是核心价值认同危机。然而，核心价值认同是关系到社会安定和发展的一个重要的心理和文化因素。大学生是推动社会前进的重要力量和潜在力量，因此，考察大学生核心价值认同危机的表现形式，分析产生核心价值认同危机的原因，提出以社会主义核心价值体系重塑大学生价值认同对构建社会主义和谐社会具有重要的现实意义。     

“善治”中的教育构建——亚里士多德《政治学》解读

亚里士多德在《政治学》中,构想了善治下的教育制度,将人的美好生活方式、城邦善治与教育融合在一起,据此出发将教育作为国家的重要公共事业,同时设定了自由教育的精神和传统,确立了体、德、智和谐全面发展的教育观念。这些教育思想不仅代表古希腊教育发展史上的最高成就,而且对西方教育发展产生了深远的影响。     

Communicating Global Activism

Many observers doubt the capacity of digital media to change the political game. The rise of a transnational activism that is aimed beyond states and directly at corporations, trade and development regimes offers a fruitful area for understanding how communication practices can help create a new politics. The Internet is implicated in the new global activism far beyond merely reducing the costs of communication, or transcending the geographical and temporal barriers associated with other communication media. Various uses of the Internet and digital media facilitate the loosely structured networks, the weak identity ties, and the patterns of issue and demonstration organizing that define a new global protest politics. Analysis of various cases shows how digital network configurations can facilitate: permanent campaigns; the growth of broad networks despite relatively weak social identity and ideology ties; transformation of individual member organizations and whole networks; and the capacity to communicate messages from desktops to television screens. The same qualities that make these communication-based politics durable also make them vulnerable to problems of control, decision-making and collective identity.     

文艺学方法论的同一性、民族性与当代性——马克思主义文艺学当代发展思考之三

文学是人类存在的家园,解读文本是文艺学方法论的核心.中西方文艺学方法论的同一性即以社会和历史为视角,破译语言的能指和所指,考察读者的接受;民族性即中国重整体审美与感悟,西方重客观分析与体系建构;当代性则是多元性与开放性.马克思主义文艺学就是在这种格局中获得新的更大的发展.     

An Australian history of the subordination of midwifery

This paper analyses the history of the subordination of midwifery to medicine and nursing. With the important exception of Evan Willis’ work on medical dominance and Annette Summers’ work on the takeover of midwifery by nursing, other histories of Australian midwifery have taken a neutral approach to issue of power and control. The aim of analysing this period is to identify the strategies of power that were used to subordinate midwifery. With increased consciousness of how power has operated in the past, midwives and woman of today can be more empowered when seeking to promote normal birth and midwifery models of care.Concepts of ‘power’, ‘the state’ and midwife are defined and discussed. A summary of the decline of midwifery and the rise of obstetrics in Europe and the United Kingdom (UK) gives a background against which to understand the Australian experience. The historical account given here draws to a climax by focussing on the period 1886–1928. It was during this time that medicine forged an alliance with nursing and achieved both legal and disciplinary control of midwifery. Knowing how this was done is important because it helps us to recognise the power strategies that are currently being used by medicine. This is helpful when planning how these strategies might be matched or countered by contemporary woman and midwives when seeking to promote normal birth and midwifery models of care.     

欧洲一体化进程中的欧洲认同论析

欧洲认同是欧洲各民族在和平、平等与相互尊重的基础上对现有民族认同的超越,主要涉及欧洲文化认同、欧盟公民身份和欧盟外交与防务认同等层面。欧洲认同的形成既是欧洲一体化的重要组成部分,也是推动一体化发展的有力手段,它有利于解决欧洲一体化发展的合法性问题,弥补一体化功能主义道路的不足,培养公众对欧盟的归属感,缓和欧洲的民族矛盾,提高欧盟在国际事务中的地位和影响力,为欧盟东扩提供基础和动力。欧洲认同的发展应着眼于未来和各民族的共同利益,打破一体化发展僵局,实现欧洲整体善治。