IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/anname/v402y1972i1p15-25.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Recent Changes in Chinese Society

Author

Listed:
  • Donald R. Deglopper

Abstract

Changes in the structure of Chinese society in this century can be summarized in terms of a great increase in the size of productive units and a consequent decrease in the number of such units. Today, most Chinese are wage earners who live and work within the framework of large, bureaucratic organizations. Personal life is not only more secure than in the past, but more predictable and susceptible to rational planning. There are differences in income and and opportunities between organizations. An individual's standard of living and chances for mobility depend primarily on which organization he works for. Since the Cultural Revolution there has been a drive for increased equality and solidarity within organizations, along with pursuit of the goal of organizational self-reliance and self-sufficiency. If these goals are achieved, the result will be a society composed of autonomous cells. But problems of entrance into organizations and inequities among organizations and regions remain. These problems may be expected to generate further changes in the structure of Chinese society.

Suggested Citation

  • Donald R. Deglopper, 1972. "Recent Changes in Chinese Society," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 402(1), pages 15-25, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:402:y:1972:i:1:p:15-25
    DOI: 10.1177/000271627240200102
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000271627240200102
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/000271627240200102?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:402:y:1972:i:1:p:15-25. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.