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《美国社会与文化》旨在帮助英语专业学生和英语读者了解美国社会与文化的概貌。同时,学生通过阅读课文、完成各种练习,可达到提高英语水平的目的。
《美国社会与文化》凝聚全国英语专业教学指导委员会主任何其莘教授数十年教学、科研及教材编写经验,是何其莘教授的又一次自我超越。
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《美国社会与文化》凝聚全国英语专业教学指导委员会主任何其莘教授数十年教学、科研及教材编写经验,是何其莘教授的又一次自我超越。
汇集众多中美名家的经验与智慧,吸收国际先进理念,全书旨在提升本土教学水平。
本书打破以功能为主的传统教材编写模式,充分考虑当前教学实践,创新教学方法和手段,突破文化特征,培养学生人文素养和文化意识。
作者简介
王建平,中国人民大学外国语学院英语系教授、博士生导师,世界美国学会(ASA)理事; 中华美国学会理事; 美国研究联络会(ASN)理事。研究方向:美国文学与文化、当代西方文化批评。著有《当代西方文论》,《全球化与世纪之交的中美关系》,《美国战后中国学》等。
目录
Chapter One System of Government
Chapter Two The Co titution and the Amendments
Chapter Three Political Parties and Interest Groups
Chapter Four Campaig and Electio
Chapter Five The Federal Judiciary
Chapter Six Domestic Economy
Chapter Seven Social Welfare
Chapter Eight Immigration and Dive ity
Chapter Nine Race and Ethnicity
Chapter Ten Religion and Religious Beliefs
Chapter Eleven Education
Chapter Twelve Print Media
Chapter Thirteen Electronic Media
Chapter Fourteen The Film Industry
Chapter Fifteen History of the United States (1776-1945)
Chapter Sixteen American Foreign Policy
Appendixes Selected Documents of American History
References
精彩书摘
As the United States press enters the twenty-first century, it faces an uncertain future.Newspapers represent a shrinking portion of the U.S. media dollar, with broadcasting gaining ground daily and the Internet representing a tremendous, unknown factor in the race for the media dollar in the next century. Convergence, the buzzword of media seminars in recent years,offers newspapers both new opportunity and a radically different way of thinking about and covering the news.
As the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, proved, the United States media will not stay comfortably isolated from the problems of the rest of the world. The demand for international news is as high in 2002 as it ever has been, and news organizations are facing a new realization that they have an obligation to report compelling stories about the rest of the world—not just
to boost readership, but because readers have a need to understand the world around them. The proportion of international news found in newspapers continues to climb, and journalists continue to search for new ways to tell their stories.
Newspapers remain in many ways the same medium they always have been,concerned with providing their readers a mix of local, national, and international news, tempered with light relief in the form of columns, features, and comics. But more and more newspapers are finding it necessary and useful to fulfill their obligations to their communities by becoming more vocal in their editorial columns, calling on their readers for ideas and participation in seminars and other media-run events, and spending more time analyzing and explaining the news, instead of just reporting it. As the world becomes more complex, newspapers face a greater challenge to explain that world and to guide readers through it in an intelligible fashion. Newspapers in the next century will become much more than clearinghouses of information. They will become guides totheir communities and once again become strong voices in the leadership of their communities and their nation.
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