Answering a Call for Service: An Exploration of Family Communication Schemata and Ethnic Identity's Effect on Civic Engagement Behaviors

This study explored whether family communication schemata, in tandem with ethnic identity, predicted civic engagement behaviors. The study revealed several significant and positive relationships: among the family communication schemata and civic engagement, between ethnic identity exploration and ethnic identity affirmation, among family communication schemata and ethnic identity exploration, and between ethnic identity affirmation and civic engagement. A path model was used to demonstrate that expressiveness and structural traditionalism, two family schemata, predict ethnic exploration which in turn predicts ethnic affirmation which leads to one type of civic engagement, membership in formal groups.     

明末清初秀才资格考试的物质支出——以话本小说资料为例

明清之际获得秀才资格的好处，学人谈了很多，如吴晗在《明代的科举情况和绅士特权》中就指出可以享受免役等特权（收入《灯下集》，三联书店，1960年版）。但获得秀才的投资却鲜见人研究，学人不得已涉及这个问题时，要么语焉不详，要么泛泛而谈。这种现象的出现和史料有很大关系。前者的资料在史学典籍中保存较多，研究起来不成问题；后者在史学典籍中保存较少，     

说“贱名好养”

翻开记录中古中国民间社会样态的走马楼三国吴简或是敦煌北朝隋唐五代写卷,就会发现民众在起名字上的不拘一格。走马楼吴简《嘉禾吏民田家莂》记载了不少以动物或“奴”“黑”等带有贱名性质的名字,比如邓狗、朱狗、谢狗、邓鼠、李鼠、谢牛、谢羊、胡秃、邓黑、潘黑、文黑、谢奴、田奴、王奴等。