The Exemplary Society: Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China

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Oxford University Press, 2000 - 516 עמודים
In modern China, technocratic utopias go side-by-side with moral panics. The modernization process is seen as creating the "disorders" of criminality, sex, and modern youth culture. The official answer to disorder is an exemplary society, an educative and disciplinary society where "human quality" and model behaviour is advocated. Modern Chinese society, however, resists being reduced to the exemplary discipline of its social engineers, and strategies of "lying" and resisting control are routine.

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Construction and Structures of Tradition
17
Technocracy Social Engineering
50
Morality regularity and constraint
96
an exercise in moral science
110
A Sociological Interpretation
127
On Models Modelling and the Exemplary
169
The Disciplinary Techniques of Evaluation
243
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254
Premature Love
354
Crime Juvenile Delinquency and Deterrence Policies
377
Concluding Remarks on the Erosion
411
Bibliography
443
Select Glossary
485
317
499
355
506
366
513

Human Quality Preserved in Files
287
Bureaucracy and the art of knowing people
297

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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.

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