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. |
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Norman Stockman. Acknowledgements. When people ask me how as a rogue sociologist I became interested in China, I tell them a rambling, picaresque story, if they can be bothered to listen. Among the cast of characters is Stan Rosen, a ...
... sociologists and other social scientists who have conducted the research on which the generalizations and ... Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Ding Jinhong of the Institute of Population Research, East China ...
... sociology, anthropology, economics or political science without encountering China. In the English-speaking world (which must provide the main readership for this book), and elsewhere too, this situation is changing. In North America ...
... sociology, for example, China appears, if at all, under certain specific headings, such as family life, population ... sociological and anthropological investigations. It is based on the conviction that there are good reasons for ...
... sociology, is certainly not everything. The development of sociological theory and research has responded more to the patterns of geopolitical and cultural domination than to the size of populations or territories of given societies ...
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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 | |