Understanding Chinese SocietyJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013年7月8日 - 280 頁 This new book provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the main features of Chinese society. Drawing on a wealth of material, the author offers a fresh understanding of a unique society that has undergone continuous transformation and upheaval throughout the twentieth century. Understanding Chinese Society looks in all its richness at the society with the largest population on earth. In order to explore long-term change and continuity, the book examines China from pre-revolutionary times to today's rapidly modernising society, although the focus is on recent change. Particular attention is paid to China's cultural traditions and hierarchical relationships in familial and wider social settings, and their fate in the modern world. Successive chapters investigate changes in the relations of rural and urban sectors of society; in the structure of families; in political and economic power; in cultural hegemony, education and the media; and in patterns of social inequality. A final chapter asks whether Chinese society is becoming more complex and differentiated in the course of modernisation and considers recent debates on the growth of civil society and democratisation. This book will be indispensable for anyone studying Chinese society, Asian societies and comparative sociology. |
搜尋書籍內容
第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 61 筆
... Group which has been in existence since 1989. Ever since the group's first public meeting, held fortuitously on 6 June 1989, and crammed with visiting Chinese students and scholars distraught at the news emanating from Beijing, the ...
... groups in society; those whose chances in life were injured or restricted by social forces could in principle hope and struggle for liberation from those social forces. This opposition, between a functionalist (or 'positivist ...
... Group 1989). None the less, the reconstruction of specialized sociology has proceeded apace, and the published output of Chinese sociologists is now very considerable, covering a wide range of empirical research areas as well as ...
... group and society in Chinese culture. Are Chinese assumptions about individual and society as distinctive as is often claimed? How should traditional Confucian social thought be interpreted in sociological terms? Has the Communist ...
... groups and classes. How successful was this project of cultural transformation? What are the main cultural tendencies in the recent era of greater liberalization and exposure to global culture outside China? Chapter 8 examines the ...
內容
Rural and Urban in China | |
Individual and Society in China | |
Continuity and Change | |
Economic and Political | |
Cultural | |
Changing Patterns of Social Inequality | |
The Differentiation of Chinese Society | |