2009 Vol.29

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    Economic Crisis is an Opportunity to Impel Social Structures for Accommodation
    Lu Ming
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 1-6.  
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    The Global Financial Crisis and State Autonomy
    Liu Chunrong
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 7-12.  
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    The “Financial Tsunami” and the Change in the Chinese Social Policies
    Huang Xiaochun
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 13-17.  
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    The Mad Transformation: Sociological Thoughts on the Emergence of Nazi in Germany
    Yuan Hao
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 18-23.  
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    Can Social Crises Be Prevented in an Economic Crisis——The “Plaza Agreement” and the Economic Recession in Japan in the 1980’s

    Yang Zeng
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 24-29.  
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    The Impact of the Financial Crisis in the 1990’s on Korean Society
    Zhang Haidong;〔korea〕 Li Zailie
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 30-36.  
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    When Formal Laws and Informal Norms Collide: Birth Control Policy and Lineage Networks
    Peng Yusheng
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 37-65.  
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    The core in the kinship system in China is ancestor worship and the idea of carrying on the family name through procreation. These cultural norms are in direct confrontation with the birth control policy in contemporary China. On the one side are the familyplanning laws backed by the powerful and unyielding state apparatus; on the other side are the ancient reproductive norms supported by reviving lineage networks. Even though the state has succeeded in reducing the overall birthrates dramatically, analyses of villagelevel data have shown that villages with strong kinship ties tend to have a higher birthrate. The study demonstrates how informal social networks can bend the iron bars of the formal institutions.

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    Village Democracy, Roles of Village Cadres, and Their Behavioral Strategies
    Sun Xiulin
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 66-88.  
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    The discussion of village cadres’ roles and their behavioral strategies has always been a very important issue in sociology, especially since democracy got practiced in rural China. Has there been any change in the village cadres’ roles since? In their daily governance, how are their roles determined and their behavioral strategies practiced? To answer these questions, not only is indepth field work needed but also serious empirical analysis. Using the data from a sixprovince survey, this paper quantitatively analyzed the effect of village democracy on the village cadres’ roles and behavioral strategies. The empirical results showed that the practice of village democracy significantly reduced village cadres’ concern for state tasks but increased their concern for community tasks. This means that village cadres’ role leans toward that of a spokesman on behalf of community interests.

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    Contested Terrain:Social Transformation Seen in the Process of Resolving Labor Disputes by a Local Government
    Zhang Yonghong
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 89-108.  
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    Based on the fieldwork studying the process of resolving labor disputes by PS District government in Southern China, this paper presents a concrete case of the implementation of the Labor Contract Law passed in 2008. The author has found that since the Law took effect, the district government has transformed its permissive role toward an intervening one, and that the district government has purposefully lowered the execution standard of the Law to prevent possible social instability. The author argues that the ineffective enforcement of the labor contract system is the result of the interaction among several interlocking social processes, for example, the organizational environments of the local government, changes in the relationships between the district government and the community, the industrial upward transformation, etc. The author’s research shows the importance of the local background, historical processes and concrete institutional conditions in understanding the ongoing social transformation in China.
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    Guanxi or Social Capital
    Zhai Xuewei
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 109-121.  
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    Since its introduction to the sociological academia in China, the concept of social capital has such a great impact that many scholars claim it to be a method or a framework for studying and explaining Chinese social networks. However, many issues become covert when the two concepts of social capital and guanxi are merging. By comparing the extent of their abstractness, compatibility, and social types, respectively, this paper argues that guanxi studies are rooted in familyoriented society, whereas socialcapital studies are rooted in civil society. The two differ in individual choice, membership qualification, public or private interests, participation action, and citizenship. This paper also discusses their respective direction for extended research.
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    Social Mobility and Migrating Workers’ Social Networks
    Zhang Yunwu
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 122-141.  
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    The investigation of the social networks of the people who had migrated into Xiamen revealed the impact of social mobility on social networking. The main findings include: Those from rural areas showed a larger gross volume of social networking and bigger social networks with neighbors and countrymen than those from urban areas, although the persistence of their social networks appears to be weaker than that of the latter’s; the distance of mobility correlated positively with the volume of social networking with countrymen; compared with those who had moved into higher social strata, people in lower social strata had a larger volume of social networking that was more homogeneous; number of years staying in Xiamen correlated positively with the volume of networking with relatives, persistence of the network, and occupation homogeneity; increased years of education facilitated the formation of networks with colleagues, fellow students and friends, and thus led to wider networking and better selection but weaker network persistence; the upward political mobility resulted in an increased gross volume of networking as well as the number of relationships with neighbors, fellow students and countrymen, which enhanced the homogeneity of their networks. These findings have indicated that the existing theories of foreign scholars have their limitation when applied in China. This can be attributed to the deep internalization of the kinships and regional relationships formed in the long agricultural society, the differences of the social structures between rural and urban areas, the characteristics of social mobility, the inconsistency between population urbanization and life urbanization, and the unique sociohistorical culture in China.
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    From “Shuren Society” to Weak “Shuren Society”: A Social Network Analysis of the Interpersonal Interactions Among Villagers in a Mountainous Region, South Anhui Province
    Gou Tianlai;Zuo Ting
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 142-161.  
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    The theory of “shuren society” has been applied widely, but it has gradually become stereotyped due to the absence of indicators for measurement. This study used the method of social network analysis to recheck the strong ties and weak ties in the interpersonal interactions in a natural village in a mountainous region, South Anhui Province. It was found that the social networks among the villagers in the natural village depended upon indirect connections; that there were many isolated individuals in the networks with strong ties but with high risks of rupture in the entire network system; that isolated individuals virtually did not exist in the networks with weak ties, hence lower risk of rupture in the entire system. Under such circumstances, even living in natural villages, it was still relatively hard for the villagers to get to know one another really well. In this study, this social characteristic was conceptualized as weak shuren society.

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    Perception and Insight: Phenomenological Sociology in the Practice of Research
    Yang Shanhua
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 162-172.  
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    The most important significance of phenomenological sociology for the practice of qualitative research is an active attitude of cognition determined by the internal principles of phenomenology. Once this active attitude of cognition is carried out, it will bring a revolutionary change in our research as well as educating and training our students. Such cognition is accomplished through perception and insight in the practice of research; as a result, the acquired understanding and interpretation of the meaning of the phenomenon are relatively good in depth and accuracy; hence everyday life becomes the main target of research: Everyday life is the center of the life world. Furthermore, the life world that consists of social actors (including the subjectivity created by them) and the environment in which social actors live can be called a world of meaning to some extent.
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    Another Pattern of Manufacturing Consent: The Usual Practices of Coordinating LaborManagement Relations in Company G
    You Zhenglin
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 173-196.  
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    This paper first reviews, respectively, Burawoy’s and Walder’s viewpoints of manufacturing consent. It then describes the usual practices of coordinating labormanagement relations in Company G——referred to as another pattern of manufacturing consent by the author. The paper goes on to analyze the main reasons for this pattern’s practical existence from the angles of the employees and the employer. The paper concludes with a discussion of two problems hidden in the pattern.

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    Major Topics of the Western Sociologists’ Concerns in 2007:An Overview of American Journal of Sociology
    Ma Xuefeng
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (1): 197-223.  
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    The Logic of the Financial Crisis and Its Social Consequences
    Sun liping
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (2): 1-29.  
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    China’s current economic problem has developed in the context of America’s financial crisis, but it is basically a traditional economic crisis of overproduction resulting from the difficulty with the transition from the time for living necessities to the time for durable goods. The financial crisis originated from the U.S. has just triggered a breeding crisis of overproduction in China; reasonably, the problem of America is not necessarily the same as the problem of China. What China is facing now is characterized of a traditional economic crisis of overproduction, which is the prerequisite for analyzing China’s problems and discussing the social consequences of this economic crisis. China’s problems mainly reflect the tangible economy and their extending effects on society. In this condition, the important task for us is to utilize the current economic crisis to create conditions for a successful transition from the time for living necessities to the time for durable goods so that a real transformation of developing modes is accomplished. At the same time, China should construct its social security network as a filtration mechanism to either insolate or slow down the effects of an economic crisis on society.

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    Why Hasn’t China Moved toward ConsumptionDirected Society? The Strategy of Low-Cost Development and the Transformation Predicament in the Process of Modernization
    WANG Ning
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (2): 30-52.  
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    he global economic crisis resulting from the USA’s financial crisis in 2008 is also a heavy blow to China’s economy. For the first time this crisis has let the Chinese people experience in such a profoundly way the negative effects of underconsumption by the majority of the low and lowermiddle classes. In its essence, the problem of insufficient domestic consumption demands is related to the fundamental problem of the social class structure. For a long period, China’s institutional arrangements are in support of a productiondirected society rather than a consumptiondirected society, and China is not prepared yet to move toward the latter. What accounts for the persistence of the productionoriented society is the strategy of lowcost development. This paper examines and reflects on the logic and the consequences of such a strategy, and concludes that, in the era of overproduction, with geographical expansion of the market approaching to its maximum, China has entered the stage of social expansion of the market. In so doing, China must adjust the social class structure, give up the productionist view of human resources, treat the laborer not only as a productive factor but also as consumers or a consumer market, and thus push the productiondirected society toward a consumptiondirected society.

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    Cost  Analysis and Managerial Decision Making in the Household Industry :the Plastic Industry in Baiyangdian as n Example
    LIU Yu-Zhao
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (2): 53-78.  
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     In studying the household industry, there are two classic models: Chayanov’s “farm household model” and Becker’s “household production model”. This paper reports the findings of a case study on the action logic in the cost analysis and managerial decision making in the plastic industry in Baiyangdian, Hebei province. To the families in the household industry during industrialization, the imperfect productionelements market and the unique organizational property of the household industry have not only made production decisionmaking inseparable from consumption decisionmaking but also have subjected the two to the influence of the household structure that is related to the family life cycle even when only general commodities are produced for the market. 

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    Recognition of the Rural Female Self:A Feminism Research of Enshi TujiaLung Village
    CUI Ying-Ling
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (2): 79-98.  
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     Traditional feminists believe that women’s self is the “otherness” without subjectivity. Modern feminists point out critically that women’s self has subjectivity although in essence it is the rational subjectivity reflective of their various survival “strategies”. Based on the field study of the women in Enshi TujiaLung Village, this paper proposes the idea of “emotional subjectivity constituting the female self”. Emotional subjectivity has two characteristics of inclusivity and exclusivity. Its meaning is also twofolded: Women make special contributions to the social solidarity and integration in the rural areas via their care for others’ lives and their help to the less fortunate for no or little profit; and women make contributions to the social changes in the rural areas via their noncalculated, spontaneous activities out of emotion that are not in accordance with the accustomed rituals or rules.  

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    Consensus of Justice by the Civil: Analysis of the “Estate Inheritance Case of Ye Yuzhen”
    ZHU Tao
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (2): 99-111.  
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    Within the twodimensional framework (the state and the civil) in the legal order, Huang Zongzhi’s “practical view” and Zhang Jing’s “profit distribution view” represent the two explanatory perspectives on the civil dimension. This paper focuses on the recognition of justice by the folk using the “Estate Inheritance Case of Ye Yuzhen”. Both the state and the civil agree on the abstract principle that “justice means the consistency between rights and obligations”,but disagree when it comes to the concrete contents of obligations, showing a conflict in the understanding of individual obligations and family obligations. This paper reviews the historical changes in the widows’ estate inheritance rights since Ming and Qing Dynasties to reveal where agreement and disagreement exist in the perception of justice by the state and the civil. The paper finally points out that, on the civil dimension, “recognition of justice by the civil” has been neglected as an explanatory perspective and that this perspective should be added in the process to achieve the legal order.

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    Cumulative Heterogeneity:Differentiation of Older Adults from the LifeCourse Perspective
    HU Wei
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (2): 112-130.  
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    Taking the lifecourse perspective, the author conducted indepth interviews of older adults to gather their past life information from their narratives. This paper attempts to analyze the interweaving of the individual’s life course and societal changes with an emphasis on the individual’s agency and the temporality of the life course, as well as the internal mechanisms for the constant differentiation in this process. This study has shown that aging is a process of continuous accumulation and differentiation along the dimension of time. The order of the factors for accumulation has a very important impact on the differentiation among the individuals. Accumulation is a product of the lifecourse capital interacting with the lifecourse risks, and it is a dynamic process of the individual’s agency interacting with social structures. Changes of social policies have a decisive impact on the cumulative process. 

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    An Exploration and Analysis of the SubGroup Structures Among RuralUrban Migrant Workers:Based on the Study of Social Support Networks
    YUE Zhong-Shan, DU Hai-Feng, LI Shu-Zhu, Marcus W. Feldman
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (2): 131-146.  
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    Applying the NewmanGirvan algorithm to the data from “Shenzhen RuralUrban Migrants Survey” in 2005, this study identified the subgroups in the ruralurban migrant workers’ social support networks, analyzed their number, size, and cohesiveness, and discussed the roles of occupational ties, lood bonds and location bonds in these subgroups. The current study obtained the following findings: Ruralurban migrant worker’s social support networks were clearly characterized of their subgrouping; the cohesiveness of their social support networks varied by sex and occupations; there were significant differences in the cohesiveness between the tangible, the emotional, and the social networks; mixedsex networks showed lower cohesiveness than singlesex networks; manufacture workers’ groups varied more in cohesiveness, whereas construction workers commonly formed more coherent groups; occupational ties played an important role in bonding manufacture workers, whereas location was the major bond to connect construction workers although there were signs for the role of their occupational ties. 

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    Work Units’ Ownership Forms and Differences in Utilizing Social Networks for Jobs:An Empirical Study of the Migrant Peasant Workers in the Pearl River Delta
    XIA Lei
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (2): 147-161.  
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    Scholars at home and abroad who are studying the market transition in China have been focusing on the effects of marketization in China as well as in work units of different ownerships on the labor market. The present empirical study of the migrant peasant workers in the secondary labor market found that, with the occupational mobility increased, there was no decrease in these workers’ utilization of their social networks in their job hunt. They relied upon their ascribed kinship networks to a lesser degree but increasing their use of newlydeveloped social networks during their job changes. This study also found that the marketization differences among the work units of different ownerships affected the migrant peasant workers’ choice of jobhunting methods. Those entering the work units with a higher degree of marketization were more likely to get their jobs through the market channels, whereas those entering the work units with a lower degree of marketization were more likely to depend upon their social networks for jobs.

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    A Two-Tier View of “Relation” and “Structure”:An Empirical Study of the Relationship Between the Social Network and Job Performance
    YAO Jun
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (2): 162-178.  
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    Social networks have become an important influencing factor of job performance at the nonindividual level. Many studies have focused on the influence of an organization’s internal structure on job performance but overlooked the influence of the social networks at the external level of the organization. The current survey of the realtors in the real estate business explored the different impacts of “relational” and “structural” social networks on job performance and analyzed the theoretical basis to account for the differences.

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    Setback Experience, Human Capital, Enterprise System, and Urban Workers’ Perception of Social Injustice: An Investigation of Ten Enterprises
    LUO Zhong-Yong, WEI Jian-Wen
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (2): 179-198.  
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    The investigation of the cognition and judgment (i.e., social injustice perception) of 921 workers in 10 enterprises that differed in ownership forms found that urban workers had an overall strong impression of social injustice, including  economic injustice, physiological injustice, and social injustice, in a descending order in terms of potency. Setback experience, human capital and enterprise system all had some effects on workers’ social injustice perception. To be more specific, setback experience accounted for, to some extent, workers’ perception of economic injustice, social injustice, and physiological injustice; enterprise system for economic and social injustices; and human capital for social and physiological injustices.

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    he Impact of Conjugal Resources on Rural Women’s Expectation of Housework Division in the Context of Leaving Home for Employment in Other Places: A Survey in Juchao of Anhui Province
    LI Liang, YANG Xue-Yan
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (2): 199-214.  
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    Using the data from the survey on the rural inhabitants in Juchao of Anhui province by the Institute for Population and Development Studies of Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2005, this paper analyzes the impact of conjugal resources on rural women’s expectation of housework division when they leave home for employment in other places. The findings suggest that those who have had such work experience are more likely than those who have not to expect their husbands to share housework. The impact of women’s income and education on their expectation of nontraditional housework division was significant. The interaction between the work experience and conjugal resources indicates that, as the constraint of traditional gender norms weakens, the women’s work experience has augmented the effects of their educational resources relative to their husbands’ on their nontraditional expectation of housework division; however, the work experience did not enhance the effects of such women’s earnings.

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    An Overview of the Papers Published in the Important Journals in Western Sociology in 2007
    MA Rong
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (2): 215-222.  
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    Can a Falling Leaf Tell the Coming of the Autumn? Making Sense of Village Elections in a Township and in China
    ZHOU Xue-Guang
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (3): 1-23.  
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    Based on ethnographic research on village elections and related episodes in a township in Northern China, this study offers close observations and sensemaking of the processes that contributed to the success, especially in terms of procedural fairness, in carrying out village elections in this town in 2006. Focusing on the shifting role of the township government in this process, I argue and demonstrate that the observed success resulted from the interplay among multiple, often disparate processes, events in distant areas, and unintended consequences of state policies, some of which had evolved over more than a decade. This recognition points to the importance of local contexts, historical processes, and institutional specificity in understanding the ongoing societal transformation in China.

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    Embedded Games and the Supply Structure of Public Goods: A Case of Village
    WANG Shui-Xiong
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (3): 24-51.  
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    The government and market are usually thought of as the two major providers of public goods. However, behind them are the two fundamental logics: the technological logic and the institutional logic. These two logics are usually interwoven. The government and social mechanisms are typically dependent upon the institutional logic, which differs from the governmental factors. Within the institutional logic, “social factors” can open up varying possibilities for the supply of public goods. Embedded games serve as the core mechanism derived from the various factors organized by the institutional logic. This mechanism presents itself in different models as a function of different internal and external organizational and interpersonal relationships, such as the patronizing model, pigs’ payoffs model, and correlated game model. The supply of public goods in the rural areas has rarely been examined from the villagers’ perspective in research; therefore, the aforementioned mechanism is hard to be shown clearly. Based on the observations of the bridge building/repairing and the drinking water projects in Village Wang, this paper has clearly revealed this structural issue in the public goods supply in the rural areas of current China. This topic can also lead to a discussion about the market and social issues.

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    XING Hong-Wen, LI Yin, ZHANG Hu-Xiang
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (3): 52-73.  
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    Transformation, Privatization, and End of Geography:Bauman’s Theory of Postmodern Space at the Center
    HU Miao-Sen
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (3): 74-100.  
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    The space of modernity is idealized, and it formulates a grid in which words and objects correspond geometrically on the principle of purifying space. Utopianism is embedded in Bauman’s thoughts in every step of its development. The attributes of modern spacetemporality find expression in the derealization, locality, and ultimacy, which characterizes Bauman’s thoughts. Starting from analyzing power, Bauman furthers research on freedom. He sees society as of a pyramidal structure. The prison is a battlefield where space and temporality contest with each other. With the advent of postmodern society, modernity undergoes a transformation from solid to liquid. After the end of geography, temporality and speed function as signs of power, while space is depleted of its significance. Globalization intensifies localization. Politics loses its control of economic capital. The public sphere is open to a continuous encroachment of the private sphere. As a result, the community is broken, and multiculturalism starts to constructs new segregated spheres.

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    From Dualism to Duality: On Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Viewpoint
    LIU Yong-hua
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (3): 101-132.  
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    Bourdieu opposes the approach that regards society as the entity of the matter structure, thinking that this structure is sensational and touchable; he also opposes the approach that regards society as the representation and the will, thinking that these are present in subjective perceptions. In other words, he opposes the approach to searching for the existence of society in the dualistic models in terms of the society and the individual, the matter and the spirit, or the structure and the action. In this way, the point about society in Bourdieu’s social theory regards society as an organic body constructed by its actor and its culture. This particular social viewpoint is based on his interpretation of doxa. The field and the habit constitute the existential duality. By means of this, Bourdieu has launched materialist anthropological analysis.

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    The Consensus and Differences of Three New Political Concepts
    GUO Tai-Hui
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (3): 133-145.  
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    Giddens, Beck, and Bauman, forming the threehorsed chariot in the Western social theoretical world since the 1990s, have reached a reflective consensus separately from the perspectives of emancipatory politics, defected decision, or order pursuit: The inherent political paradoxes in Western modernity are becoming more overt in the age of globalization and will be replaced by some new political forms. They each have depicted the new future of life politics, subpolitics, and republic politics. The main differences in the three concepts are: Giddens investigates the dilemma and future of modernity from the paradox of Enlightenment rationality; Beck reveals the increasing risks in contemporary society from the antinomy of Science, and Bauman criticizes the modernity problems from the vision of Antirationalism. Their differences on the basis of consensus have produced complementary relations between Giddens’ nationstate standpoint, Beck’s cosmopolitan methodology, and Bauman’s postnationstate vision. This is a triangle prism for us to think about the contemporary Western modernity problems.

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    Measuring the Social Network Capital in the Chinese Sociocultural Context
    WANG Wei-Dong
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (3): 146-158.  
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    To measure the social network capital, this paper proposes a measurement model composed of network size, network zenith, network range, network variety, and network density. This measurement model was tested with the CGSS 2003 and 2006 data using the structural equation modeling method. Good validity and reliability were obtained when this model was applied in the Chinese sociocultural context. Also, the Chinese NewYearGreeting Network was proven to be a valid instrument to measure the social network capital of the Chinese people.

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    The Value of Life, the Arousal of the Life Energy, and the Institutional Security: Multidimensional Reflections upon PostCatastrophe Social Work
    GU Dong-Hui
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (3): 159-166.  
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     The Catastrophe Victim Culture and the Involvement of Social Work
    ZHANG Yu-
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (3): 167-175.  
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    Relational Obligations, Trust, and Work Relationships: Retrospection on the Ethics in the PostCatastrophe Social Work Practice 
    ZENG Qun
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (3): 176-182.  
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    Retrospection on the Indigenous Practice of “Professional” Social Work: PostCatastrophe Reconstruction as an Example
    ZHANG Yu-Lian
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (3): 189-196.  
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    Equal Cooperation: Examining the Partner Relationship between the Government and Social Work Service Organizations during the PostCatastrophe Reconstruction
    ZHU Xi-Feng
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (3): 189-196.  
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    Culture, Psychology, and Clinical Skills: Exploring PostCatastrophe Clinical Social Work
    GAO Jian-Xiu
    Chinese Journal of Sociology    2009, 29 (3): 197-202.  
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