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Social Change in Contemporary China : C. K. Yang and the Concept of Institutional Diffusion.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (335 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822973065
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social Change in Contemporary ChinaDDC classification:
  • 306.0951/09045
LOC classification:
  • HN733
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1. Introduction: The Diffusion of Institutions in Contemporary China - Wenfang Tang -- Part I: C. K. Yang and His Theory of Institutions -- 2. C. K. Yang: Sociology in China and the Encounter of Civilizations - Burkart Holzner -- 3. Institutional Restructuring, Organizational Integration, and the Chinese Revolution: C. K. Yang's Theory of Social System Change - Chong Chor Lau -- 4. A Sociological Paradigm in the Study of Chinese Religion: C. K. Yang's Religion in Chinese Society - Ambrose Y. C. King and Lizhu Fan -- Part II: Public Institutions -- 5. New Institutions in Practice: Migrant Workers and Their Mobilization of the Labor Law - Isabelle Thireau and Hua Linshan -- 6. Social Capabilities and Chinese Economic Growth - Thomas G. Rawski -- 7. Institutional Change and Income Inequality - Zhanxin Zhang -- 8. Categorical Sources of Income Inequality in Urban China - Wang Feng and Tianfu Wang -- 9. Local Response to a Global Agenda: Changing State-Education Relations in Mainland China - Ka-Ho Mok -- 10. Chinese Diffused and Institutional Health Care and Global Change - Rance P. L. Lee -- Part III: Family and Community -- 11. When a House Becomes His Home - Deborah S. Davis -- 12. Family Social Capital in Urban China: A Social Network Approach - Yanjie Bian, Deborah S. Davis, and Shaoguang Wang -- 13. When to Give and Why: Intergenerational Transfer of Resources in Urban Chinese Families - Jieming Chen -- 14. Local Community and Communal Solidarity in Rural China - Cho-Yun Hsu -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Examines Chinese institutional change in education, religion, health care, economics, labor, family, and local communities in the post-Mao era. The essays are based on the pioneering work of sociologist C. K. Yang, and his institutional diffusion theory.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1. Introduction: The Diffusion of Institutions in Contemporary China - Wenfang Tang -- Part I: C. K. Yang and His Theory of Institutions -- 2. C. K. Yang: Sociology in China and the Encounter of Civilizations - Burkart Holzner -- 3. Institutional Restructuring, Organizational Integration, and the Chinese Revolution: C. K. Yang's Theory of Social System Change - Chong Chor Lau -- 4. A Sociological Paradigm in the Study of Chinese Religion: C. K. Yang's Religion in Chinese Society - Ambrose Y. C. King and Lizhu Fan -- Part II: Public Institutions -- 5. New Institutions in Practice: Migrant Workers and Their Mobilization of the Labor Law - Isabelle Thireau and Hua Linshan -- 6. Social Capabilities and Chinese Economic Growth - Thomas G. Rawski -- 7. Institutional Change and Income Inequality - Zhanxin Zhang -- 8. Categorical Sources of Income Inequality in Urban China - Wang Feng and Tianfu Wang -- 9. Local Response to a Global Agenda: Changing State-Education Relations in Mainland China - Ka-Ho Mok -- 10. Chinese Diffused and Institutional Health Care and Global Change - Rance P. L. Lee -- Part III: Family and Community -- 11. When a House Becomes His Home - Deborah S. Davis -- 12. Family Social Capital in Urban China: A Social Network Approach - Yanjie Bian, Deborah S. Davis, and Shaoguang Wang -- 13. When to Give and Why: Intergenerational Transfer of Resources in Urban Chinese Families - Jieming Chen -- 14. Local Community and Communal Solidarity in Rural China - Cho-Yun Hsu -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

Examines Chinese institutional change in education, religion, health care, economics, labor, family, and local communities in the post-Mao era. The essays are based on the pioneering work of sociologist C. K. Yang, and his institutional diffusion theory.

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