1800s: Martineau · Tocqueville · Marx · Spencer · Le Bon · Ward · Pareto · Tönnies · Veblen · Simmel · Durkheim · Addams · Mead · Weber · Du Bois · Mannheim · Elias In the People's Republic of China, the study of sociology has been developing steadily since its reestablishment in 1979 (it had been previously banned by communist authorities as a bourgeois pseudoscience).
The Westernization Movement and the subsequent development of national capitalism have made China's economy gradually modernized.
[1] According to the research content, the main representative works of the Kui Ge period can be summarized as follows: Agriculture, "Lu Village Farmland", "Study on the Small Farmer Economy in Er Village"; other traditional industries, "Yi Village Handicraft Industry"; Commerce, "Yucun Land and "Business", "Kunchang Workers", "Gejiu Miners", "Inland Women Workers"; Minority Society, "The Pendulum in the Border Area of Mangshi"; Traditional Society, "Under the Shadow of the Ancestor: Chinese Culture and Personality"; Political Society, "Huacheng City Grassroots Administration" "Chenggong Grassroots Power Structure".
[4] Sociology became a subject of academic interest in China in the 1920s,[5] and in 1947 sociologist Fei Xiaotong published a book, From the Soil, that sought to establish a framework for detailing Chinese society and its moral and ethics.
[6] Sociology was seen as a politically sensitive discipline, and was replaced in the role of primary social science state adviser by economics.
[6] In recent years, with socio-economic policies such as the socialist harmonious society, sociology has been coming back to graces with Chinese policymakers.
The history of communication and development can only be a unipolar academic standpoint based on Western sociology.
As the main academic journal of Chinese sociology, it has published 82 issues so far, and published more than 1,000 academic papers and survey reports, most of which are important and outstanding achievements of sociological scientific research in the past ten years, reflecting China from one aspect.
[16] Chinese sociology, since its reestablishment in 1979, concentrates on applied, policy-oriented, empirical research, to justify its support by the state.
[6] A notable example of the use of sociology by state planners was the impact of works by Fei Xiaotong on the policies of industrialization and urbanization of the rural countryside.
[5][6] In 2003, a large Chinese General Social Survey program (中国性别平等与妇女发展 [zh])has begun.
[6] On the other hand, there is a notable lack of theoretical research in Chinese sociology, as it is still looked upon unfavorably by the state.
[17] Under the leadership and auspices of Professor Lei Jieqiong, the "Study on Marriage and Family in Five Cities in China" began in 1983.
[18]"Study on Marriage and Family in Five Cities" is one of the key topics of the Sixth Five-Year Plan of National Social Science.
"Random Talk" uses profound and simple methods to integrate family sociology knowledge into history and real life, and introduces relevant knowledge and theories by analyzing various family phenomena in history and real life.
[22] In economically developed areas, birth control and "giving a child is good" have become a conscious behavior of women of childbearing age.
In addition, there are also studies on the massive transfer of agricultural surplus labor caused by rural reforms.
The "migrant labor wave" in the late 1980s attracted widespread attention in sociology, and a large number of results have emerged.
For example, the book "Population Mobility and Urbanization in Contemporary China" edited by Gu Shengzu and Jian Xinhua published by Wuhan University Press in 1994 is for rural areas.
To compare social processes from different stages and make more scientific inferences, soon after the restoration of sociology, Fei Xiaotong began to trace Jiangcun.
In 1993, he published Shen Guanbao's "A Quiet Revolution: Industry and Society in Southern Jiangsu's Rural Areas", which put Jiangcun into a macroscopic view of social changes and examined Jiangcun's social, economic, and cultural changes.
These results will reflect the thoughts and opinions of sociologists on small-town research, and explore the core issue in small-town research—the rise of the township and village enterprises, and the industrialization of rural areas, agricultural modernization, township industry, and cities at a deeper level.