Purpose:This study provides an overview of the changes and developments of the sociology of education in China as it enters the new era as well as its future outlook.Design/Approach/Methods:This study combed and analy...Purpose:This study provides an overview of the changes and developments of the sociology of education in China as it enters the new era as well as its future outlook.Design/Approach/Methods:This study combed and analyzed research in the field of the sociology of education in China during the period from 2012 to 2022 on three issues—educational fairness,rural education,and educational reform-to clarify the field's research characteristics and trends.Findings:In the new era,scholarship on the sociology of education has shifted to focus on achieving high-quality education,modernization,and digitization as new avenues for promoting educational fairness,rural education,and educational reform.As a result,research on the sociology of education in China has employed broader perspectives,adopted a more reflexive approach toward research objects,and embraced more humanistic values.OriginalityValue:This study compiles research on the sociology of education in China in the new era and identifies that the field is moving toward a highly integrative approach.The findings provide useful references for learning and understanding the sociology of education in China.展开更多
Within the sphere of contemporary social sciences,the terms“modernity,”“post-modernity”and“globalization”have penetrated,as the core concepts,into various fields of social sciences in a logical way.In constituti...Within the sphere of contemporary social sciences,the terms“modernity,”“post-modernity”and“globalization”have penetrated,as the core concepts,into various fields of social sciences in a logical way.In constituting the concept of“modernity,”sociology of education develops the educational theory,as sociological theory does,into a“grand narrative”and“foundationalist”theory;the contribution of post-modernity is pluralism and self-examination in an attempt to transcend modernity.Globalization,a kind of expanded modernity,makes education sociologists broaden their perspective from single and traditional“nationality,”“society”and“nation”to an international society and even to the global society,which has broken through the research paradigm of modernity with ethnocentrism,anthropocentrism and Euro-centrism.These changes have required urgent constitution of the conceptions and theoretical frameworks of sociology of education to be applied on a global level.展开更多
文摘Purpose:This study provides an overview of the changes and developments of the sociology of education in China as it enters the new era as well as its future outlook.Design/Approach/Methods:This study combed and analyzed research in the field of the sociology of education in China during the period from 2012 to 2022 on three issues—educational fairness,rural education,and educational reform-to clarify the field's research characteristics and trends.Findings:In the new era,scholarship on the sociology of education has shifted to focus on achieving high-quality education,modernization,and digitization as new avenues for promoting educational fairness,rural education,and educational reform.As a result,research on the sociology of education in China has employed broader perspectives,adopted a more reflexive approach toward research objects,and embraced more humanistic values.OriginalityValue:This study compiles research on the sociology of education in China in the new era and identifies that the field is moving toward a highly integrative approach.The findings provide useful references for learning and understanding the sociology of education in China.
文摘Within the sphere of contemporary social sciences,the terms“modernity,”“post-modernity”and“globalization”have penetrated,as the core concepts,into various fields of social sciences in a logical way.In constituting the concept of“modernity,”sociology of education develops the educational theory,as sociological theory does,into a“grand narrative”and“foundationalist”theory;the contribution of post-modernity is pluralism and self-examination in an attempt to transcend modernity.Globalization,a kind of expanded modernity,makes education sociologists broaden their perspective from single and traditional“nationality,”“society”and“nation”to an international society and even to the global society,which has broken through the research paradigm of modernity with ethnocentrism,anthropocentrism and Euro-centrism.These changes have required urgent constitution of the conceptions and theoretical frameworks of sociology of education to be applied on a global level.
