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Making the Social Work: toward a Functionalist View of Social Governance.
- Source :
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Journal of Chinese Political Science . Sep2019, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p495-512. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This paper is situated in the normative discourse on the society building in China, seeks to go beyond the various ideological discourses, such as the liberal, the socialist, and neo-Confucian approaches, and develops a functionalist view of social governance. The functionalist approach maintains that the political vision is to build a Chinese-style "active society" that rises above the "under-organized society" of traditional China and the "over-organized society" of contemporary China simultaneously. An active society has three principal sociopolitical functions: inhibiting "state fetishism," and defending the public sphere to promote the legitimation of state power; resisting "market society," creating a market (re-)embedded in society and ensuring nonmarket supply of public goods; and rising above "the differential mode of association" (chaxu geju), accumulating social capital and nurturing civil virtues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10806954
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Chinese Political Science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 137992664
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-018-9582-3