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Development Of Civil Society In China - Current Situation, Problems And Prospects

Posted on:2010-09-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y F HouFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360275458568Subject:Marxist philosophy
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Civil society is not only an important theoretical research in Marxism historical materialism but also an important practical problem in the process of advancing the construction of socialist democratic politics in China.The report of the 17th Representative Conference of the Communist Party of China point out that we should strengthen the education on the awareness of the citizen's obligations, establish the idea of the socialist democracy and the rule of law, freedom and equality, fairness and justice, and support the people's organizations such as Trade Union, the Communist Youth League, the Women's Federation, etc. to carry on the work according to the law and each rules respectively and to participate in social management and public service so as to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests, which clear out the basic route to develop socialist democratic politics democratic politics, ie., we should give fully play to the role of civil society on the basis of improving the awareness of the obligations of citizens, and develop socialist democratic politics to build the socialist state with an adequate legal system according to law, which is needed to foster socialist civil society in the question from it. So, civil society is both a front question and a hot question in social concern and the dissertation carry on a systematic discussion on China's civil society's development.The dissertation includes mainly four parts, ie., the introduction, the citizen social theory trace to the source, the history and current situation of China's civil society development and the prospect forecast of China's civil society development. The introduction part mainly introduces the cause of the title selected, the theoretical and realistic meaning of the research, the current situation on western civil society, the current situation on China's civil society development, the research approach and logic of the dissertation.The first chapter carries on the theory to trace to the source to civil society, which introduce the historical background that civil society appears, the historical gradual progress of civil society concept of the main theory of representative figure including Aristotle, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Middle Ages, Rousseau, Ferguson, Thomas Paine, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Marx, Parsons, Antonio Gramsci, J·Habermas, Jean L Cohen, Andrew Arato, etc., and analyzes the different definition on civil society and give own understanding on civil society, and point out the essential feature and function of civil society and point out the historical necessity of civil society development.The second chapter analyzes the history and the current situation of China's civil society's development, which introduce the historical background of China's civil society's development, point out the key element to influence China's civil society's development. The establishment of market economy is a foundation of citizen's social development, from the society begins to display its independence and becomes important strength of controlling resources according with the market economy's setting up, which impact on personal existence and make the social independent field greater and greater. The market economy's appearance impels the separation of the society of political country and citizen, which have offered the condition for autonomy of citizen's society and has presented independent civil society field. Civil society demand the development of democratic politics implements autonomy and the development of civil society has promoted the democratization of decision and have facilitated the citizen's participation, make the transparency of politics improve a lot, thus strengthened the citizen's political acceptance. The flourishing development of the non-government organization promotes civil society's development and the development of the Chinese non-government organization makes the socialist society move towards citizen's society's becoming necessity of history. Civil society is a democratic society which stresses every citizen regarded as the individual, every citizen's rights and interests, demand, and respect the citizen's will and value.The third chapter is the prospect forecast of China's civil society's development from the aspects of improving the socialist market economy system, strengthening the construction of socialist democratic politics, making and improving the relevant laws and regulations, making great efforts to train the socialist awareness of the obligations of citizens, expanding stratum's proportion of medium-sized income of our country, supporting and encouraging citizen's social organization to develop, popularizing the network promotes several respects such as citizen's social development to look forward to China's civil society's development.
Keywords/Search Tags:Market economy, State and the society, civil society's development
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