Social change in contemporary China
Subtitle: C.K. Yang and the concept of institutional diffusion
By: edited by Wenfang Tang and Burkart Holzner.
Contributors: Tang, Wenfang, 1955-; Holzner, Burkart.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Pittsburgh PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780822942979; 9780822959335
Subjects: Yang, C. K., -- 1910-; Social change -- China; Organizational change -- China; Culture diffusion -- China; China -- Social conditions; China -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-311) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The diffusion of institutions in contemporary China / Wenfang Tang; title: C.K. Yang : sociology in China and the encounter of civilizations / Burkart Holzner; title: Institutional restructuring, organizational integration, and the Chinese revolution : C.K. Yang's theory of social system change / Chong Chor Lau; title: A sociological paradigm in the study of Chinese religion : C.K. Yang's Religion in Chinese society / Ambrose Y.C. King and Lizhu Fan; title: New institutions in practice : migrant workers and their mobilization of the labor law / Isabelle Thireau and Hua Linshan; title: Social capabilities and Chinese economic growth / Thomas G. Rawski; title: Institutional change and income inequality / Zhanxin Zhang; title: Categorical sources of income inequality in urban China / Wang Feng and Tianfu Wang; title: Local response to a global agenda : changing state-education relations in mainland China / Ka-ho Mok; title: Chinese diffused and institutional health care and global change / Rance P.L. Lee; title: When a house becomes his home / Deborah S. Davis; title: Family social capital in urban China : a social network approach / Yanjie Bian, Deborah S. Davis, and Shaoguang Wang; title: When to give and why : intergenerational transfer of resources in urban Chinese families / Jieming Chen; title: Local community and communal solidarity in rural China / Cho-yun Hsu.