Focus Groups: Contributing to a Gender-Aware Methodology

A focus group is an open group interview from which research hypotheses can be derived. It enables economic research to step down from its narrow theoretical assumptions and to embed research questions in a life context. It also can contribute to strong objectivity and when done in women's groups and/or on gender issues, focus groups can contribute to a feminist methodology. Experience from a focus group by the author held in Africa has indicated how diverse and enriching economic notions can become, when discussed in a group, before the research has started.     

SEN,ETHICS, AND DEMOCRACY

Amartya Sen's ethical theorizing helps feminists resolve the tensions between the claims of women's particular perspectives and moral objectivity. His concept of "positional objectivity" highlights the epistemological significance of value judgments made from particular social positions, while holding that certain values may become widely shared. He shows how acknowledging positionality is consistent with affirming the universal value of democracy. This article builds on Sen's work by proposing an analysis of democracy as a set of institutions that aims to intelligently utilize positional information for shared ends. This epistemological analysis of democracy offers a way to understand the rationale for reserving political offices for women. From a political point of view, gendered positions are better thought of as an epistemological resource than as a ground of identity politics v - v that is, of parochial identification and solidarity.     

Economists, value judgments, and climate change: A view from feminist economics

A number of recent discussions about ethical issues in climate change, as engaged in by economists, have focused on the value of the parameter representing the rate of time preference within models of optimal growth. This essay examines many economists' antipathy to serious discussion of ethical matters, and suggests that the avoidance of questions of intergenerational equity is related to another set of value judgments concerning the quality and objectivity of economic practice. Using insights from feminist philosophy of science and research on high reliability organizations, this essay argues that a more ethically transparent, real-world-oriented, and flexible economic practice would lead to more reliable and useful knowledge.     

也论“合法性”不是民事诉讼证据的基本特性

“合法性”究竟是不是民事诉讼证据的基本特性，诉讼法学界一直争论不休。本文立足于证据的基本含义、民事诉讼法的有关规定和我国司法实践的具体情况，对此进行了认真检讨，并就证据合法性独立存在的价值给予了客观的、实事求是的评判。     

论道德权利与道德义务视野下的会计信息真实性原则

会计信息真实性原则一直是会计学界和伦理学界学者研究的热点。本文从道德义务与道德义务之间、道德义务与道德权利之间的关系角度来分析把握真实性原则。提出道德义务冲突时行为选择的依据,并提倡从社会的角度解决会计信息虚假这一道德失范现象。     

目的论观照下的中文旅游宣传资料的翻译

Nord的翻译失误分析模式认为文化差异、译语文化规范、交际目的等因素都会造成翻译失误。为了提高中文旅游宣传资料的翻译质量,在翻译中译者要重视培养四种意识:读者意识、文本意识、跨语篇意识、跨文化意识。     

Discussion of ‘Is the objectivity of internal audit compromised when the internal audit function is a management training ground?’

This article provides a critique of the Rose, Rose, and Norman (2013) article. It focuses on four issues: (i) whether institutional details have been appropriately captured; (ii) whether experiments are an appropriate method to answer the authors' research question; (iii) whether the authors' hypotheses should predict an interaction; and (iv) whether the authors have relied on the appropriate theory.