Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
The Paradox of Middle-Class Attitudes in China: Democracy, Social Stability, and Reform
This article explores the seemingly paradoxical attitudes of the Chinese middle class towards democracy, social stability, and reform. Using fieldwork data from Ningbo, this article shows that a group of objective, middle-class individuals can concurrently display high levels of support for democratic principles and low levels of participation in real-life socio-political events. Being generally confident in China’s social stability, these individuals have little to no desire for significant democratic reform, or indeed any reform that occurs outside the purview of the state, as it is considered destabilising. By highlighting the distinction between how these members of the middle class respond to generic democratic concepts, real-life socio-political affairs, and the idea of democratic reform, this article argues that the Chinese middle class are aware of what “should be,” what “could be,” and what “is,” which lends their socio-political attitudes a paradoxical appearance. (author's abstract)
- ISSN
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1868-4874
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 169-190
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 45(1)
- Thema
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Politikwissenschaft
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
China
Mittelschicht
Wertwandel
politische Einstellung
Wert
Wertorientierung
soziale Stabilität
Demokratisierung
politische Reform
Reformbereitschaft
Einstellungsforschung
Ostasien
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Miao, Ying
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wo)
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Deutschland
- (wann)
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2016
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-9509
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Miao, Ying
Entstanden
- 2016
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