中世纪阿拉伯-伊斯兰文化对西方文明的贡献述评

中世纪的阿拉伯世界以其雄武之势兼纳了东地中海古文明以及亚洲远地文明，创造了辉煌的阿拉伯——伊斯兰文化。而同期西方由于日耳曼人的野蛮冲击和基督教会的肆意破坏，古典希腊罗马文化实际上已荡然无存。正是通过阿拉伯人的翻译，西方才得以知道自己老祖宗的遗产，并从阿拉伯——伊斯兰文化里获取了自然科学、人文社会科学、艺术等营养，感觉到压力，最终得以迅猛发展。     

The density of social networks moderates effects of intergroup contact

This study tests how the density of the social network in which intergroup contact takes place might affect the extent to which contact improves intergroup attitudes. Having contact with more outgroup members in dense social networks, in which everybody knows each other, may reinforce contact's positive effect. In this case, outgroup contact is shared with ingroup members, which suggests positive ingroup norms toward the outgroup. Alternatively, more contact in denser networks may improve intergroup attitudes less because density may increase subtyping or reduce the salience of ethnic group memberships. These competing hypotheses are tested among white American adults in a nonprobability online sample (N = 305) and in a representative national sample (N = 1270). In both studies, contact is associated with more positive attitudes toward racial outgroups but the positive contact effect is weakened if that contact takes place in a denser social network.     

自我的盲点:"傲慢与偏见"

“傲慢与偏见”是人类个性价值的两种偏执的自我取向。在《傲慢与偏见》中,简.奥斯丁通过一个爱情故事在行为理性方面对“傲慢与偏见”的阐释可谓深入浅出。“傲慢与偏见”产生于人类自我意识的盲点。在个体交往中,自我的盲点导致了个体实践行为的模糊性和混乱性以及危机感。简.奥斯丁从女性视角所具有的人文厚度,从日常意义上,对这人性中的两大弱点的关注不仅表现在情节的设置上,而且表现在男女主人公的话语上。     

爱情与金钱的搏弈--《傲慢与偏见》中婚姻观剖析

<傲慢与偏见>是英国女作家简·奥斯汀的著名代表作,在这部作品中作者通过四对青年人的婚姻故事,表现了金钱与爱情在婚姻中的作用.阐释了作者的婚姻观金钱与爱情在婚姻上都很重要,但爱情在成就美满婚姻上的作用要远远大于金钱.     

Cheating or cheated? Surviving secondary exit exams in a neoliberal era

Cheating on exams is a rampant and highly developed practice among youth in the Arab world, often involving elaborate networks, advanced technology and adult authorities. Rather than viewing cheating as mere laziness or immorality, this article interrogates the social meanings of cheating by comparing the practices and discourses of cheating on high-stakes high school exit exams – the tawjihi in Jordan and the Baccalauréat in Morocco. Using informal networks to obtain higher grades, and thereby better futures, cheating is one way youth contest the putative meritocracy of the state to reclaim a sense of control over their lives. Ironically, cheaters develop twenty-first century skills of collaboration, networking and creativity outside the school in order to evade the nation’s formal system of educational sorting. We argue that cheating illuminates the declining effectiveness of the public school in the nation-building project and the simultaneous emergence of the outcomes-oriented ‘neoliberal student’.     

《傲慢与偏见》中达西感动伊丽莎白的爱情要素

《傲慢与偏见》中达西感动伊丽莎白,促使伊丽莎白克服对其产生的偏见并逐渐爱上他,最后与之牵手于婚姻殿堂的重要原因,是达西对伊丽莎白深深的爱,用弗洛姆爱情理论来剖析,则是其表现出来的关心、责任、尊重和了解。     

文学语篇中的非礼貌探微——以《傲慢与偏见》人物对话为例

交际中的礼貌一直受到学者们的重视,无论是对自然话语中的礼貌现象,还是文学话语中的礼貌问题的研究,都取得了丰富的研究成果。而交际中的另一种现象——非礼貌却被关注得较少。文章从非礼貌言语角度,以《傲慢与偏见》人物对话为例,试图探究非礼貌策略在对文学作品人物塑造、情节发展、引起冲突等方面的作用,为名著欣赏提供一个新视角。     

National nostalgia: A group-based emotion that benefits the in-group but hampers intergroup relations

Social psychological research on nostalgia has mainly considered this emotion at the individual level rather than the group level. The current paper proposes that group-based nostalgia for the nation (i.e., national nostalgia) is likely to be related to a positive in-group orientation and a negative out-group orientation, because it fosters an exclusionary and essentialist sense of national identity that is based on ancestry and common descent (i.e., ethnic national identity). This prediction was tested in three survey studies. Study 1 was conducted among a broad sample of the native Dutch population, and demonstrated that national (and not personal) nostalgia is positively related to national in-group identification and out-group prejudice. Study 2 replicated the findings of Study 1 among a nationally representative sample of the native Dutch population, and provided support for the mediation by ethnic national identity. Study 3 replicated the findings of Study 2 and additionally demonstrated that national nostalgia positively predicts tendencies to protect national in-group identity, via a stronger sense of ethnic national identity. These findings demonstrate the potential of group-based nostalgia to have positive and negative consequences for group dynamics at the same time.     

Threat and Prejudice against Syrian Refugees in Canada: Assessing the Moderating Effects of Multiculturalism,Interculturalism, and Assimilation

A survey experiment (N = 529) was used to test the moderating effects of intergroup ideologies (assimilation, multiculturalism, and interculturalism) on the relationship between social dominance orientation (SDO) and expressions of prejudice under conditions of intergroup threat. Moderated multiple regression analyses suggest a multicultural integration frame moderates the relationship between SDO and feelings toward Syrian refugees in Canada when the target outgroup is portrayed as a source of intergroup threat. This moderating effect was unique to the relationship between SDO and feelings toward Syrians and did not extend to other correlates of prejudice including beliefs in zero-sum group competition or a multicultural ideology, nor did it extend to more general measures of prejudice (i.e., attitudes toward immigrants or evaluations of intercultural contact). Findings suggest the prejudice-reducing effects of a multicultural integration narrative affect group evaluations and functions by targeting beliefs in social dominance, rather than zero-sum group competition or ideological support for cultural diversity. The results offer insights into the prejudice-reducing potential for two alternative integration narratives that are institutionalized in Canada.