Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph ›› 2018, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (6): 108-120.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2018.06.013

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On the Cultivation and Development of Social Organizations in Contemporary China: From Structural Analysis to Process Interaction

WANG Xiang-min1, LI Xiao-yi2, XIAO Yue3   

  • Online:2018-11-15 Published:2018-11-26

Abstract: Beyond the research scope of sociology and management science, the cultivation and development of social organizations has become an important perspective to observe the political trend in today's China. It is definitively significant to review it from the aspect of politics and map the remarkable directions and variables of it. There are four analytical frameworks available now:social centralism, state centralism, market centralism and co-governance theory. The first three, which are based on the structural analysis of "state-society-market", have been widely used, while recently co-governance has become the main research method, which emphasizes the process interaction of the subjects and the orientation of social autonomy. Actually, only by incorporating the issue of social organization into the overall process of China's political and social transformation can a relatively cautious conclusion be possible with a systematic and comprehensive analysis. It is significant to establish an analytical framework that fosters and balances the four elements of state, market, society and party, and identifies their roles, boundaries, effective linkages and interactive mechanism.

Key words: social organization, cultivation and development, state, society, structural analysis, process interaction