Attitude and risk: Exploring the relationship

The attitude and risk constructs each enjoy prominence in marketing research. Attitude is conceptualized and widely accepted as a construct predicated on beliefs. Risk shares the same conceptual underpinning, for risk is predicated on expectations, itself a beliefbased concept. The idea of two constructs predicated on beliefs presents a possible conceptual overlap between the two constructs depending upon the nature of these beliefs. No research, however, has investigated the two constructs in such a beliefs similarity context. Thus, this research explored the proposition that in situation-specific instances risk may share a number of beliefs in common with attitude and, as such, is not to be viewed as a construct separate from attitude, but as an integral, inherent component of attitude formation. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Dark tourism and the cadaveric carnival: mediating life and death narratives at Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds

Death is universal, yet dying is not. Consequently, within contemporary secularised society, the process of dying has largely been relocated from the familiar environs of the family and community to a back region of medical and death industry professionals. It is argued that this institutional sequestration of death has made modern dying ‘bad’ against a romantic portrayal of a death with dignity, or a ‘good’ death. Moreover, the structural analysis of death reveals issues of ontological security and mortality meaning for the Self. This paper, therefore, adds to that analysis, and specifically examines the construction of mortality meaning within the context of dark tourism – that is, the act of travel to sites of death, disaster or the seemingly macabre. Particularly, the research interrogates the Body Worlds exhibition – a touring attraction of real human corpses – as a reflective space to mediate mortality. In doing so, this paper concludes that dark tourism is a new mediating institution that allows the Self to construct contemporary ontological meanings of mortality and to contemplate both life and death through consumption of the Significant Other Dead.     

米兰

用手思考的城市罗马,Caput Mundi,所谓世界之都、永恒之城、所有道路殊途同归的地方。城市的记忆是罗马人的生活原点。上千年的古迹,日日鲜活地存在于罗马人的起居生活中,于是,罗马的设计从手中的一根针线,到整个城市格局,始终都不能摆脱对这个城市的历史记忆。不受机械化生产的影响,回归创造物件最原始的功能需求、取材实验、质地纹理认识、工具、工法,一连串用手思考的过程,让我们在罗马,找到了手工的尊严:在整个社会每日千万只手的日常操作中,无论制作者或使用者,无论是衣服、珠宝、游艇还是已经渐渐远去的胶片电影,我们都能在其中看到对生活之美的精神追求。     

Random shocks in a simple growth model

The variables in my earlier paper [4] oscillated around smooth paths and did not exhibit the irregular movements characteristic of economic time-series As illustrated in this note, irregularities make their appearance if a random term is introduced into the model, and the results provide another confirmation of Wicksell's conjecture that random shocks serve to maintain cycles which would otherwise die away.