The Change Of China's University Students' Values, Since The Reform And Opening Up

With the transformation of Chinese economic system and social structure, a trend of diversification has been growing in the field of social values since reform and opening up. For the university students in the transitional period of Chinese society, it is very easy for them to accept new things and social changes, formulating new concepts of value. Therefore, college values education encounters a great many new situations and problems that unexpected. Taking the theme of strengthening the values education of college students, this paper tries to explore the values changes of college students from the perspective of values morphology.According to Marxism, social beings determine social consciousness. Values are the basic principles and views that people hold about all kinds of things and phenomenons, which changes with the social and historical conditions as well as its objective environment. Since reform and opening up, the basic characteristics of changes in values morphology is from "unitarianism" to "pluralism", the structure of which is characterized by the organic unity of "unitarianism dominates and diversities coexist". In values structure, it is characterized by the change of orientation, goals and evaluation criteria; changes of university students in values morphology is the result of social transformation, opening up, educational reform and so on; contemparary values of university students are of a dynamic, hierarchical, and diversified trend. Taken socialist core value system as the guidance, by strengthening the social orientation of public opinion and deepening college education in ideological and political theory, specific measures should be taken to strengthen the construction of campus culture, leading the healthy development of values in contemporary college students.