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Towards A Professional Sociology On China, Xiaogang Wu
Towards A Professional Sociology On China, Xiaogang Wu
Xiaogang Wu
This article identifies two internal tensions that Chinese sociology has constantly encountered since the discipline was reestablished in 1979: public versus professional and indigenization versus internationalization. I argue that professionalization is a necessary and crucial step to achieving unity in the study of social changes in contemporary China and to contributing to general knowledge in the discipline of sociology.