From Subject To Citizen’s Political Culture Transformation

Traditional Chinese political culture has a long history. Amongthem, the political culture of subject has a dominant position intraditional political culture, whose negative effect hinders theprocess of modernization in China. although from the perspective ofthe academic, the economic, political, cultural and social foundationof political culture of subject has changed, and this concept of"subjects" has been eliminated by times, it always directly affectspeople’s political psychology, political ideology and political beliefs,indirectly influences the modern citizen’s political behavior, andrestricts the development of China’s modernization process as theculture has a profound influence, strong penetration, relative stabilityand conscious stretches.Today’s society is one where we work hard for the sake of ourdream and we work hard to achieve well-off dreams. With the task infront of us, we will soon realize the dream of our stage, struggling tobuild a well-off and modernized society, and we will make our Chinesedream come true. What kind of culture does modernization processneed? What kind of people does modernization need? What kind of human psychology, consciousness and public faith? Can Subjectsculture take on this task? These are a series of problems worthy ofour thought. The political culture of subject is formed on the basis ofthe small-scale natural economy foundation, the political basis of theautocratic monarchy system, the social base of patriarchal clan andthe Confucian culture, and it is the major form of Chinese traditionalpolitical culture. Its characteristics can be summarized as: kingshipfirst, ranking, patriarchal clan laws, rule of man, attachment, zeroparticipation, etc. What we need is the culture in which everyone canactively participate, in other words, the civic culture.For the understanding of civic culture, different people havedifferent kind of view. And each has its own uniqueness andpersonality. Different role has different results. This paper analyzesthe characteristics of civic culture from the perspective of thestructure of civil political culture, and learns the civic culture fromthe angle of psychological level, ideology level, and the belief level onthe basis of the research about civic culture of the older generation.These three levels are a in a sequence from low to high, and they arean organic whole which restrains each other, promotes each other inthe real political cognition process. Its characteristics can besummarized as: participation, identity, democracy, equality, the ruleof law, freedom, justice, patriotic, legitimacy, etc. We study the specific content of transformation from the political culture ofsubject to civic political culture on the basis of this research: from thekingship to human rights, from attachment to freedom, from rule ofman to rule of law, from the government standard to democracy, frompeople-oriented to humanism, from ethics to contract, from blind torational, from collective to individual, from social estate to equality,from obscurantist policy to inspiring people, from the obligation topower, from dictatorship to negotiation, from indifference toparticipate, from centralization to decentralization, and from closedto open. On the basis of this we analyze what kind of person, whatkind of psychology, and what kind of spirit our country citizen politicalculture needs. What kind of resistance is encountered in theconstruction of civic culture? Where does this resistance come from?What do we do? We specify the direction we need to work on to theconstruction of civic culture under the perspective of modernization.