Author: liu xian, research fellow, research centre for the study of china's specialist socialist thoughts in the new era of the jinping era of national defence
Sociology is a discipline that studies social relations and patterns of social functioning and is an important part of philosophical social sciences. The decision of the chinese communist party (cpc) to further deepen reforms and promote china's modernization, adopted at the twenty-third plenary session of the party, states that “the chinese system of autonomous knowledge of philosophy and social sciences should be built”. General secretary xi jinping stressed that “there is a continuous development of socialist political economics and sociology in china”. Speeding up the construction of china’s autonomous sociology knowledge system requires anchoring the key term “china’s autonomy” and moving forward and deepening along the logic of “self-reliance-self-empowerment.”。
Based on self-reliance
Autonomy is first and foremost a question of position. China's autonomy means observing, recognizing and addressing all issues related to china in china's own position. Our country is a socialist country led by the chinese communist party, a party of the people, a party for the happiness of the chinese people, a party for the revival of the chinese nation, and a party for the advancement of humanity and the world. This determines whether the “china position” is the people's position. In china's autonomous sociological knowledge system, “peoples” have a fundamental and fundamental place and role, and people are above all theoretical foundations, values and practices。
According to general secretary xi, “social work is an important part of the work of the party and the state, and it is a matter of the long-term administration of the party and the long-term security of the state, of social harmony and the well-being of the people”. This is both a high generalization of the importance of social work and a scientific guide for building china's autonomous sociology knowledge system from the standpoint of the people. The construction of china's autonomous socialist knowledge system necessarily requires that the people's position be taken to highlight the people's nature of this knowledge system, ensuring that it is a knowledge system from, for and for the benefit of the people, that it is a knowledge system that preserves the common interests of humankind and is consistent with the historical trends in the development of human society。
There is value in theory, there is a value base behind every theoretical form, and there is a value core in every thought. While western bourgeois scholars have been branded as “peoples”, “peoples” are mere slogans, actually defending the interests of particular classes or interests behind them. On the other hand, the chinese people have their own ideological weapons in their hands and have always taken the historic initiative of answering china's questions and leading china's practice, thus opening a new horizon. According to comrade mao, “when china's fate is in the hands of the people themselves, china will shine on the earth with its glorious bright lights, as the sun rises in the east”. At that time, he was determined to study chinese sociology in order to find a way out for china, which was in the middle of the storm. His mentor, malinovsky, had commented: “dr. Faye, a young patriot in china, not only fully sensed the current tragedy in china, but also noted the bigger problem, whether it was westernization or extinction, of his great homeland.” today, the great renaissance of the chinese nation is taking place at a critical time when the ship is moving more rapidly and the road is steeper, and in the face of a complex international and domestic situation, we must stand firm in our people's position, insist on developing chinese socialism under marxism, and insist on building socialism for modernity, serving the people, consolidating the strategic wisdom and ideas of the parties and the people and becoming an intellectual product of our own creation. China's autonomous sociology knowledge system must be built on the fundamental point that “china's problems must be solved by the chinese themselves in the light of china's basic national conditions.” the focus should be on observing, analysing, studying and solving the general phenomenon and problems of social development in china during the new era of china's social development, on the basis of the marxist approach, on the subject's status as a subject of the people, on the basis of respect for the people's initiative, on the basis of the wisdom and strength of the people, and on ensuring that the new ideas that we have put forward in the field of social science will continue to meet the growing needs of the people for a better life and will be adapted to the theoretical demands of comprehensive human development and social progress。
With confidence
Autonomy requires a sense of autonomy as well as a spirit of autonomy. In this sense, “china's autonomy” is to assert cultural self-confidence, to carry on china's lives for thousands of years and to achieve spiritual independence。
General secretary xi said, “why can the chinese people survive and continue to develop in the centuries of history? An important reason is the spiritual pursuit, spirituality, spirituality and connection of our nation.” from the standpoint of spirituality and culture, china's autonomous sociology knowledge system is built so that it can trace its roots from the treasures of chinese culture, extract its essence and extract its energy, so that the sociology knowledge system can be brought into line with china's excellent traditional culture and so that it can highlight the passion of the “china heart” and the vast “national spirit”. In the new era, general secretary xi jinping made the chinese-style socialism a major judgement “from the development of chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years”, arguing that china's excellent traditional culture is the “root” of the innovation theory of our party. We build china's autonomous sociology knowledge system, and we need strong cultural confidence in chinese socialism rooted in and inherited from chinese civilization。
“how old is china, how big is civilization, the foundation of our confidence and the source of our strength.” china’s native sociology does not originate in europe during the industrial revolution, it is not a product of the “west school easter” but rather goes back to the troupe created by china’s early zhiolzhiko. It has a rich and well-structured body of ideas that embraces social groups, social organizations, social stratification, social control, social change, and so forth. It highlights the aspirations of people, families, governance and civil society. Such a valuable resource of thought as the backbone of chinese sociology is our cultural confidence. China’s knowledgeable men, from the beginning of western sociology into china, realized that hyenas were ancient chinese sociology. For example, the “group” and “social” “mixed in the middle-west” translates spencer's theory of sociology into a “group science motto”. Today, we learn to learn from western sociology, first and foremost from the roots of my sense of ownership, to find and establish the cultural fundamentals of chinese sociology in the distinctive system of thought of the chinese nation, to break down the inertia of western centralism in understanding and positioning sociology, and to avoid introducing and replicating western science in its entirety as a resource to be used for autonomous innovation. China's sociology researchers should, in their capacity as faithful heirs to china's good traditional culture and promoters of excellence, pass on the intellectual and cultural resources of ancient chinese sociology, clarify why traditional chinese sociology and marxist sociology “compatibility” with each other's “achievements” and use marxistism to activate the living factors of traditional chinese sociology and promote its creative transformation and innovative development. At the same time, learning from the strengths and virtues of the sociological knowledge system created by other nations, and promoting china's autonomous sociology knowledge system in the context of integration, has long been new and well-established, creating new social studies that have shaped history and reconnected with western and central china。
It's about being strong
“we can only understand under conditions of our time, and to what extent these conditions have reached.” neither the idea of autonomy nor the spirit of autonomy, based on the very existence of society, can exist beyond time and history and is a reflection of practice over time. The construction of an autonomous sociology knowledge system in china is ultimately rooted in chinese practice. The practice of china in the new era is essentially the practice of powerful states。
The secretary-general of xi jinping stated that “the comprehensive promotion of the construction of a strong nation and the revival of the nation through china's modernization is the central task of the new march party and the state of the new era and is the greatest politics of the new era”. The accomplishment of this central task is a great undertaking by the ancients and no similar reference is provided by other countries. Building an autonomous sociology knowledge system in china will require building on the basic national conditions of the new era of china, from the practice of the powerful to that of the powerful, building the advanced sociology knowledge system needed for the party and the people to autonomously advance the nation-building and national renewal。
In recent times, chinese experts and scholars have studied deep-culture sociology, insisting that it be rooted in chinese soil, seeking knowledge, stepping down on chinese soil, paying attention to china's problems, raising china's experience, and demonstrating chinese wisdom, creating an academic expression in the sociology field that is fundamental to chinese culture and theoretically original. Since time immemorial, china's first philosophies of the cosmology, the world, society and morality have been internalized in the national ethos and spiritual veins of those who followed. They have insisted on a combination of theoretical research and chinese practice, making the academic results developed into a home-grown theory of chinese valor and roots. The generation and generation of sociologists, using in-depth field sociological research methods, have promoted new concepts, new expressions and new theories of sociology with chinese characteristics, such as the “100 village survey” and the “china integrated social survey” and the “china family tracking survey” and have created a “sequence pattern” “social structure theory” and “social functioning theory”。
Chinese sociology is the doctrine of open development and will evolve as “the most ambitious and unique practical innovation in the history of mankind” and become richer with “the most extensive and profound social change in the history of our country”. The secretary-general of xi emphasized that “the leap of theory is not reflected in the rhetorical resonance, nor in the logical self-conciliation, but, ultimately, in the answers to practical questions and in the direction of practical development”. For the present and the coming period, we must build an autonomous sociology knowledge system in china, starting with the reality of what our country is doing, focusing on what we are doing, on the great practice of chinese modernization as a mineral-rich study, and through a comprehensive and in-depth study that sheds light on the profound changes that have taken place in the social structure, social relations, social attitudes and social behaviour patterns, particularly as a result of rapid developments in the emerging field, and draws up new theories of rationality and outlines new practices of a regular nature. Since the 18th congress of the party, the party's central centre, with comrade xi at its core, has placed social work at the forefront, and general secretary xi has made a series of important statements about why and how to strengthen social work, and has produced a series of new ideas, ideas and opinions that have led to an important statement on social work by general secretary xi, whose core content has been “one by one”, which marks a new level of awareness of social work patterns in the party and provides us with a framework for building china's autonomous sociology knowledge system. We would like to be guided by the important statement of secretary-general xi jinping on social work. We would like to make great efforts to develop chinese-style socialist sociology. We would like to build a system of disciplines, academic systems and languages of our own to make it more compatible with the changing trends and characteristics of china's social structure. We would like to explain better the internal mechanisms of social development in china. We would better promote the development of chinese society。
