The Studies On The Farmers' Group Cooperation In The Context Of The Change Of Relationship Between State And Society

The state-society theory is one of the most important paradigms in the field of contemporary China research. Its core is the never-ending interactive relationship between state and society centered on the CIVIL SOCIETY theory. This essay is exactly based on this to study the changing China rural group cooperation, academically and practically. The basic proposition of this essay is, using a term borrowed from Weber, that there is an elective affinity between the new times cooperation and the new state-society relationship. The "new times" here means the reciprocal win-win relationship between state and society, transcending the traditional way of dichotomy thinking. The "elective affinity" means the two do not cause each other, but they tend to vary together. The non-involution and voluntary rural group cooperation is beneficial to the birth and growth of a harmonious state-society relationship, which is not the traditional zero-sum conflict game: each develops and booms without sacrificing the other.This essay gives a detailed illustration of the forms and reasons of involution cooperation during Mao-times, attempting to verify the subterranean state-society relationship. By resorting to a case study in the central part of Anhui province of China and at the meantime avoiding the fallacy of "reductionism", the author attempts to improve the typification of this quantitative research concerning cooperation. At the end of this essay, the author expounds the cooperation characteristics of the HRS(the house responsible system)times by the comparison of Pre-HRS times with HRS times, paving the way for the conclusion of the benign interaction between state and society defined at the opening part of this essay.