Abstract:

The book comprehensively analyzes the overall situation of Chinese social harmony and stability, and the impacting factors, which is based on the large-scale survey in 7061 sample in 2006; and introduces The distribution of the income and wealth, class structure changes, the status and political attitudes of the middle class, the existing state of peasant workers, poverty groups, as well as conflicts of interests. For policy makers and researchers, this book provides a detail and accurate data, and has an important theoretical and practical significance.

 

Contents: 

Introduction the new building of a harmonious society is the great practice

I. The new stage, new features, new problems of Chinese development

II. The new progress of the theory about a harmonious socialist society

III. The system of the theory about a harmonious socialist society

IV. The Western theory of social construction

V. Building a harmonious society under the guidance of the scientific concept of development

VI. The ideas of accelerating social reform

 

Chapter I macro-background analysis, framework and methodology

I. A change in social structure: the macro-background

II. The basic framework of the social harmony and stability

III. Survey methodology and data

 

Chapter II the basic situation of current social development

I. The overall judgment of the social harmony and stability

II. The distribution of wealth and consumption gap

III. Pressure and social problems

IV. Fair sense, identity of classes and perception of conflicts

V. Supply of public goods and network of social support

VI. Challenges of integrating social value

 

Chapter III the impacting factors of the awareness of social harmony and stability

I. Methods and variable

II. Analysis of impacting factors of the social harmony and stability awareness

III. Analysis of impacting factors of personality and family life awareness

IV. Analysis of impacting factors of sense of security, fairness and conflicts

V. Analysis of impacting factors of government’s evaluation

VI. Conclusions and discussion

 

Chapter IV the distribution of income and wealth

I. From the egalitarian to a wide gap of distribution: Review on the literature

II. The income distribution, construction and gap

III. The distribution, construction and gap of family property

IV. The construction of a gap between distribution of income and property

V. Conclusions, discussion and policy recommendations

 

Chapter V the change of social class structure

I. Several description of the current class structure in China

II. The analysis paradigm of class structure

III. Measurement of Chinese current class structure

IV. Social attitudes of Chinese various social strata

V. Conclusions and discussion

 

Chapter VI the inequality of social stratification, human capital and income 

I. Analysis of income inequality’s background

II. The distribution of income between different classes

III. The proportion of the class income in total revenue

IV. The impact of human capital, class location on income distribution

V. Research conclusion and policy recommendations

 

Chapter VII the size, identity and social attitudes of the middle class

I. The concept of middle-class

II. The definition, measurement and scale of the middle class

III. The social recognition of middle-level and its formal factors

IV. The main factors of the middle class’ social attitudes 

V. Conclusions and discussion

 

Chapter VIII the strength and political attitudes of the middle class

I. Is the middle class a "stabilizer" or machine of "change"

II. The new middle class and the elderly middle class

III. The political attitudes of the middle class

IV. The recognition of middle-level and its impact factors

V. Conclusions and discussion

 

Chapter IX the economic status and social attitudes of peasant workers

I. The economic status of peasant workers: income, working hours and social security

II. The social attitudes of peasant workers

III. Explain to peasant worker’s positive social attitudes

IV. Conclusions and discussion

 

Chapter X analysis of poverty groups

I. Problems and methods

II. The identification and scale of the poverty groups 

III. The depth, strength and anti-poverty efforts of urban and rural poverty

IV. The features of urban and rural poor population and the impact factors

V. Conclusions and discussion

 

Chapter XI contradictions of interests and conflicts

I. The recognition of interests conflict and its impact factors

II. Multiple analysis of factors impacting the awareness of interests conflicts 

III. The interests division and conflicts between social groups

IV. Case analysis of interest conflict between social groups

V. Conclusions and discussion

 

Closing remarks main findings and policy recommendations

I. The main findings and basic conclusion

II. The policy recommendations to promotion of social harmony

 

References

 

Appendix to the questionnaire

 

Postscript