Overview
- Highlights the institutional and historical factors shaping the development of Chinese sociology
- Demonstrates the state's central role in shaping the Chinese sociological community by charting the flow of material, organizational and symbolic resources
- Argues that while state-building projects are beneficial for the institutionalization of sociological knowledge, their impact on intellectual diversity and creativity is more ambiguous
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Sociology Transformed (SOTR)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- Chinese sociology
- American sociology
- institutional approach
- state-building
- globally circulated knowledge
- classical sociology
- Marxist sociology
- modernization theory
- social stratification
- gender studies
- post-positivism
- sociology of consumption
- globalization
- indigenization
- professional sociology
- public sociology
- history of sociology
- sinicization
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“Chinese Sociology is an essential analysis of the development of the discipline on mainland China, adding to the existing literature on Hong Kong and Taiwan with a historical imagination informed by an institutional perspective. Drawing thoughtfully on the best current work in the sociology of ideas and knowledge, Chen Hon-Fai manages to think comparatively and sociologically about mainland Chinese sociology while also highlighting the contributions of the most important Chinese scholars and their distinctive ideas, findings, research programs and institution building successes and challenges.” (Neil McLaughlin, Professor of Sociology, McMaster University, Canada)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chinese Sociology
Book Subtitle: State-Building and the Institutionalization of Globally Circulated Knowledge
Authors: Hon Fai Chen
Series Title: Sociology Transformed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58220-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58219-5Published: 06 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58220-1Published: 27 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-5023
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5031
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 149
Topics: Sociological Theory, Historical Sociology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, History of China