The Exemplary Society
Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China
Series: Studies on Contemporary China;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 March 2000
- ISBN 9780198295235
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages532 pages
- Size 242x162x34 mm
- Weight 908 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The Exemplary Society examines traditional and modern Chinese beliefs about education, discipline, and social control. It describes the Chinese attitudes towards criminality, sex, youth culture, and other `disorders' of the modernization process. The resulting quest for social control through an exemplary educative and disciplinary society is analysed in this pathbreaking study.
MoreLong description:
In modern China, technocratic utopias go side by side with moral panics. The modernization process is seen as creating the `disorders' of criminality, sex, and modern youth culture. The official answer to disorder is an exemplary societyan educative and disciplinary society where `human quality' and model behaviour is advocated. Modern Chinese society, however, resists being reduced to the exemplary discipline of its social engineers, and strategies of `lying' and resisting control are routine.
This pathbreaking study analyses traditional and modern Chinese beliefs about and reactions to education, discipline, human improvement, and social control. Although these reactions to modernity have a Chinese colouring, they are not exclusive to the Chinese culture. By describing the terra incognita of China, The Exemplary Society also describes something about ourselves.
This valuable study draws on a rich variety of Western and Chinese language sources listed in a comprehensive bibliography. There is also an invaluable glossary of Chinese terms (including characters) for those wishing to carry out further reading in this field. Although the volume is grounded in sociological studies, it also makes an important contribution to the wider field of Chinese studies. It would be an appropriate and thought-provoking book for many postgraduate courses and should be of interest to all those with a serious interest in China.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Memories and Dreams of Social Order
Memories: Construction and Structures of Tradition
Dreams: Technocracy, Social Engineering, and `Human Quality'
Part II: Education, Society, and Morality
Socialization, Moral Education, and `Moral Science'
The Educational Method: A Sociological Interpretation
On Models and Modelling
Part III: Norms, Disciplines, and the Exemplary Order
Discipline and the Exemplary Norm
The Disciplinary Techniques of Evaluation
`Human Quality' Frozen into Files
Part IV: Modernity, Deviance, and Danger
Manifestations of Deviance and Modern Dander
`Never for the First Time': `Premature Love' and Social Control
Crime, Juvenile Delinquency, and Deterrence Policy
Part V: Theatre and Simulation
The Ways of Lying: Concluding Remarks on the Erosion of Control
