The abject single: exploring the gendered experience of singleness in Britain

Abstract

This paper explores the gendered experience of singleness in Britain through a theoretical and empirical understanding of the abject. Drawing on the writings of Judith Butler, we argue that singleness is culturally pathologised as an abject ‘other’, a liminal state which renders the legitimation of the single subject unintelligible. Through 14 active interviews with British singles, we demonstrate how our participants negotiate their marginal status vis-à-vis the marketplace and the broader society that continue to uphold heterosexual partnership as a normative form of intimacy. Our data uncovers persistent and powerful gender stereotypes of how singles ought to organise their lives and conform both to social, as well as market-driven pressures. We therefore highlight research gaps in the experience of singleness and critique the heteronormative framework that remains dominant, yet concealed, in gender research.     

新型农业经营主体培育的几点解析——以胶州市为例

新型农业经营主体的培育是构建现代农业经营体系的必然选择。家庭农场、农民专业合作社和农业企业等多种形式的新型农业经营主体优势也逐渐凸显,表现出发展速度快、经营方式灵活以及辐射带动明显的特点,成为中国现代农业发展的中坚力量。通过对胶州市家庭农场、农民专业合作社和农业企业等形式的农业经营主体调查分析,指出应规范制定发展规划、完善扶持力度、创新土地流转制度和注重品牌服务等举措,同时还应加大扶持力度,规范土地流转制度,强化规范管理以及发展社会化服务等方面来培育新型农业经营主体。     

老年残疾人家庭支持政策研究述评

随着人口预期寿命的延长和现代社会风险程度加剧,老年残疾问题日益凸显。在我国机构照料和社区照料供给严重不足、且老年残疾人对照料服务支付能力低下的基本国情下,家庭照护成为老年残疾人照料的主要方式之一。然而,随着家庭规模缩小与家庭结构改变,家庭对于老年残疾人的照护能力逐渐削弱。老年残疾对家庭成员的生活产生很大影响,老年残疾加剧了老年人残疾人对家庭的依赖程度。因此,如何完善老年残疾人家庭支持政策以提升家庭照料能力,完善家庭保障在社会保障体系中的积极作用,已成为当前社会政策需要面临的紧迫问题。本文试图从老年残疾人家庭政策的概念界定、发展状况、现阶段存在的问题、对策建议这几个方面,对国内外学者关于老年残疾人家庭支持政策的相关研究进行梳理和评析。     

“三权分置”制度下农村大学生土地权益保障研究

因户口、职业、经常居住地非农化以及集体义务难以履行等原因,农村大学生的集体经济组织成员权受到质疑甚至否定,导致其土地权益易被侵害。调查结果表明,在“两权分离”制度下,农村女大学生上大学前未分得承包地的比例高于男大学生,农村男大学生上大学后土地权益受侵害与户口迁移正相关,农村女大学生上大学后土地权益受侵害与年龄正相关,经济较发达地区的农村大学生土地权益受侵害的可能性较高。在“三权分置”制度下,应明确在校农村大学生的“集体经济组织成员”身份和“农户家庭成员”身份,即在校农村大学生应与其他村民平等地享有分得承包地的权利、平等地享有土地承包经营权的各种收益,并与其他家庭成员平等地享有承包土地的各项权益;在承包期内（包括延长期）,无论农村大学生的身份怎样变化,只要其还是中华人民共和国公民,发包方都不能强制收回其土地承包经营权;同时,要“确地到人、确权到人”,切实保障农村大学生流转土地经营权后获得应有收益,并充分保障上大学前未分得承包地的农村大学生的合法土地权益。     

HODGES-LEHMANN EFFICACIES FOR LIKELIHOOD RATIO TYPE TESTS IN CURVED BIVARIATE NORMAL FAMILIES

For hypothesis testing in curved bivariate normal families we compare various size a tests by means of their Hodges-Lehmann efficacies at fixed alternatives, in particular when these tests have equal optimal asymptotic power in the local Pitman sense. The locally most powerful tests and the likelihood ratio tests for the curve are both Pitman optimal, but the latter turn out to have higher Hodges-Lehmann efficacy. All the tests considered here, including the locally most powerful tests, are likelihood ratio tests against suitable (possibly enlarged) sets of alternatives, the curve itself being an important special case of such a subset. In passing we illustrate a general result in Brown (1971) concerning Hodges-Lehmann optimality obtained by enlarging the model.     

Corporate Governance and Performance in Publicly Listed,Family-Controlled Firms: Evidence from Taiwan

Using a multi-industry dataset of 228 firms listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) this paper analyses the effects of ownership structure and board characteristics on performance in large, publicly traded firms that are controlled by founding families. After taking account of possible endogeneity problems, we do not find that family control is associated with performance measured in terms of accounting ratios, sales per issued capital, earnings per share and market-to-book value. However, share ownership by institutional investors, and foreign financial institutions in particular, is associated with better performance. Our results indicate that board independence from founding family and board members’ financial interests have a positive impact on performance.     

河南艾滋病村驻村调查笔记

通过对艾滋病村和受艾滋病影响群体状况的直接观察和解释,揭示艾滋病疫情对当地社会经济发展、人民生活和社会稳定所造成的负面影响。政策建议:(1)为了避免更大的灾难,政府应当把遏止艾滋病作为“科学发展观”和“人口与发展战略”的一个组成部分,以便进一步动员各方面资源参与艾滋病的防治工作。(2)国家人口和计划生育系统应当全面介入国家的艾滋病预防。     

儒家学说对传统婚育观念和家庭伦理关系影响探讨——兼论对儒学几个观念的理解和再释

讨论了在中国传统思想文化领域居于主导地位的儒家思想和学说对中国传统婚育观念和传统家庭伦理关系、妇女地位的影响,就儒家的“仁”与“礼”、“忠”与“孝”、“富”与“教”几种观念以及儒家提倡的和谐观与阴阳观发表了独到的见解和认识。     

Leader–member exchange and follower creativity: the moderating roles of leader and follower expectations for creativity

We examined leader and follower expectations for creativity as moderators in the relationship between leader–member exchange (LMX) and follower creativity. The results of a survey among 193 leader–follower dyads from two high-tech companies in mainland China show that LMX positively relates to follower creativity, and that leader and follower expectations for creativity moderate this relationship. Specifically, the relationship between LMX and follower creativity is positive and significant when either leaders or followers, or both leaders and followers, set high rather than low expectations for creativity, with the highest level of follower creativity observed when leaders and followers congruently hold high creativity expectations. In contrast, the LMX–follower creativity relationship is blurred when leaders and followers congruently hold low expectations for creativity. We discuss the relevance of these results from theoretical and professional perspectives.     

Does Domestic Intimate Partner Aggression Affect Career Outcomes? The Role of Perceived Organizational Support

Drawing upon the conservation of resources theory, we developed and tested a moderated mediation model linking domestic intimate partner aggression (IPA) to job performance and career advancement. Our model posits that the indirect relationship between IPA and career advancement via in‐role performance and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) is moderated by perceived organizational support (POS). Overall, multisource and multiwave data obtained from two independent samples of employed women from the Philippines supported our predictions. Specifically, results suggest that: (1) IPA was negatively associated with supervisor‐rated in‐role performance and OCBs; (2) there was a stronger negative relationship between IPA and in‐role performance and OCBs for employees with low as opposed to those with high levels of POS; and (3) the conditional indirect effects of IPA in predicting supervisor‐rated promotability and actual promotion via in‐role performance and OCBs were stronger under conditions of low as opposed to high POS. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.