Chinese Journal of Sociology ›› 2011, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (4): 29-48.

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Civility Construction in the Diverse Identification of Community Power

Author: Min Xueqin, Department of Sociology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University     

  1. Author: Min Xueqin, Department of Sociology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University
  • Online:2011-07-20 Published:2011-07-20
  • Contact: Author: Min Xueqin, Department of Sociology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University E-mail:minxueqin@nju.edu.cn
  • About author:Author: Min Xueqin, Department of Sociology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University
  • Supported by:

    The project is supported by Mininstry of Education 2009 Humanities and Social Sciences Fund (09YJA840019

     

Abstract:

To observe and analyze the civility construction focused on community is necessitated by the 30year developmental history of the urban community power executed through singlecentered residential committees in transition to the current coexisting multiple organizations. Community dwellers express civility through selecting community administrators, protecting community rights, and resolving community problems. Based on the random samples from Beijing, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Shenyang, and Xining, the relationships between urban residents’ diverse identification with various organizations in the community and their civility construction were examined using multipleregression and structure equation model analyses. Diverse identification with community power was found to be influential to civility construction as compared with economic, social, and individual factors, showing that future community development will become an indispensible factor to more clearly affect civility construction.

Key words: community power , diverse identification , civility , construction