Børge Bakken

The Exemplary Society

Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China

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Produktbeschreibung

This pathbreaking study analyzes traditional and modern Chinese beliefs about and reactions to education, discipline, human improvement, and social control. Although these reactions to modernity have a Chinese coloring, they are not exclusive to the Chinese culture. By describing the terra incognita of China, The Exemplary Society also describes something about ourselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 921g
• ISBN-13: 9780198295235
• ISBN-10: 0198295235
• Artikelnr.: 22944668

Autorenporträt

Børge Bakken is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen. He has previously been Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oslo and Research Fellow in the Norwegian Research Council.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Memories and Dreams of Social Order
1: Memories: Construction and Structures of Tradition
2: Dreams: Technocracy, Social Engineering, and `Human Quality'
Part II: Education, Society, and Morality
3: Socialization, Moral Education, and `Moral Science'
4: The Educational Method: A Sociological Interpretation
5: On Models and Modelling
Part III: Norms, Disciplines, and the Exemplary Order
6: Discipline and the Exemplary Norm
7: The Disciplinary Techniques of Evaluation
8: `Human Quality' Frozen into Files
Part IV: Modernity, Deviance, and Danger
9: Manifestations of Deviance and Modern Dander
10: `Never for the First Time': `Premature Love' and Social Control
11: Crime, Juvenile Delinquency, and Deterrence Policy
Part V: Theatre and Simulation
12: The Ways of Lying: Concluding Remarks on the Erosion of Control