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Social Control in China A Study of Chinese Work Units

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By Victor N. Shaw

ISBN: 0-275-95599-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95599-1

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304 pages, figures, tables

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/30/1996

List Price: $125.00 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Endorsement From Gene Kassebaum, Professor of Sociology
The University of Hawaii: This book repays reading. It raises important questions and provides an intelligent synthesis of ideas, a strong command of the materials, and a bold analysis of the sociology of everyday life in China.
Endorsement From Gary T. Marx, Professor and Chair
Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder: A comprehensive and richly informed study of the basic organizational unit of Chinese society. The book offers both description and prescription and should be of interest to anyone concerned with social control and contemporary China.
Endorsement From Maurice N. Richter, Jr., Associate Professor of Sociology
State University of New York at Albany: The work unit has been a central feature in the system of social control developed after 1949 in the People's Republic of China. This book describes in detail the way work units operate. It will be valuable reading for anyone interested in the functioning of modern Chinese society, and for anyone interested in problems of social control more generally.

Description: China is in the midst of dramatic economic and social reform--reform that may well suggest a long-term developmental trend toward modernization and democracy. This evolution in the structure of Chinese society means that the authoritarian social control system in China must change if loss of community ties, dislocation, and social disintegration are to be avoided in the coming years. This book provides a blueprint for the social architecture of China and offers an argument for how change in the essential structure of Chinese society must be implemented. Shaw's investigation of work units--the building blocks of contemporary China--pinpoints them as the primary sites of social control and as the most important components of any efforts at reform.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Social Control in Chinese Work Units: The General Structure and Process
Chinese Work Units: A General Survey
Social Control in Chinese Work Units: Introductory Highlights
Conceptual Framework and Research Design
The Forms of Social Control in Chinese Work Units
Control through Ideology
Control through Residency
Control through Confidential Records
Control through Civil Reward and Penalty
Control through Administrative Disciplining
Control through Quasi-Justice
Control through Para-Security
Control through Mass Vigilance and Inclusion
Interrelations of Different Forms of Social Control
The Foundation of Social Control in Chinese Work Units
Political Legitimization
The Economic Foundation
The Cultural Underpinnings
The Controllees Reaction toward Social Control in Chinese Work Units
Resistance and Specific Reactions to Different Forms of Social Control in Work Units
A General Evaluation of Chinese Work Units
A Comparison with the United States
A New Theory of Social Control
The Challenge and Change for Chinese Social Control
The Impact of Reform: Main Initiatives
The Demands of Modernization and Democratization
Outlooks for Future Chinese Social Control
Conclusion
References
Index

LC Card Number: 96-2204

LCC Class: HN733

Dewey Class: 303


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