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Tradition And Transformation:Yesterday, Today

Posted on:2004-11-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S Y MoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2156360122460407Subject:Marxist philosophy
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The renew of village clansmen in contemporary China is already the fact without question. How to treat the renew and its performance of the village clansmen, relates not only to people's attitude towards village clansmen, but to their attitude towards the country and the farmer, and to their cognition and confidence of China country's modernization.Base on the framer cognition and under the guide of professor Wang xiangjun, my tutor, I have inquired and researched the village clansmen, and as the result, I wrote the paper, taking the example of MoShi clansmen of Ningtan town, Bobai county. This work is under the guide of Marxism and relevant theories of sociology.The paper consist of five parts, except the preface and the concluding remarks.In the preface, I will briefly present the big background of the social transformation of our country. Then, I also briefly describe some conditions of Ningtan town, Bobai county, and MoShi clansmen.In addition, for the sake of describing the outline of the full paper, I will explain the analytical frame of this paper. In the first part, I will define the concepts'clansmen'and 'village clansmen', and point out the meaning of the research.First, clansmen and small village clansmen are defined as: clansmen is a social group, that originated from a common ancestry, press principle of male blood relation a life time department to establish , exist a certain organization from with have the activity of the clansmen color, and have got a kind of internal approbation and exterior boundary. The small village clansmen then points the clansmen that active in the nature small village and administration village.The next in order, indicate to research small village clansmen will have the positive and realistic meaning on recognizing the social construction of current village and observing the relations between social modernization and country modernization.In the second part, proceeded to investigate the tradition small village clansmen. First, analyzed the construction characteristic of the traditional small village clansmen: have strong economic foundation, complete organization and system and strict discipline The next, exposed the reasons that the small village clansmen have existed in our traditional country, for the long-term, including: the first, for the sake of the maintenance exiting and development of the clansmen; the second, the way small village agriculture produces have existed over a long period; the third, the maintenance by the Confucianism by the feudalism ruling class. Finally, point out the influence function of the traditional small village clansmen, main for: (a) Maintaining the existence and development of clansmen; (b) The dual function of maintaining and breaking local social order; (c) Deliver the social culture.In the third part, study the small village clansmen in contemporary, point out its renew and its affect and function, compare with traditional small village clansmen, the contemporary small village neither have the organization and system, and as well have not the strict domestic discipline and rule. It is consistent with the development of our society. Renew of small village clansmen in contemporary China, one is because of putting the household management of land system into practice, and the realistic productivity level of our Country is still lower. Two is because of the constringency of the national power to village community cause the relaxing of control. Three is because that society guarantee in the large village region losing; four is because of the dropping of village spiritual civilization. The small village clansmen influence to our society, primarily include: the first ,break or support the local social order; the second, promote the development of local order; the second, promote the development of local economy; the third, affect the grass-roots political power, and village people autonomy.In the fourth part, compare the contemporary small village clansmen with the traditional small village clansmen, point...
Keywords/Search Tags:clansmen, small village clansmen, tradition, transformation, modernization
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