Society as a Factory
Maoist approach to Social Sciences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9646702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Krishna Prakash Gupta |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 36-57 |
| Publication date | 1972-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | China Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-4455 • E-ISSN: 0973-063X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000944557200800307 |
| OpenAlex | W1979387662 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Social Sciences in modern China are transformed from purely academic disciplines into strategic studies of manipulated change. In this transformation, social scientists are no longer professionally trained elites but voluntary workers engaged in the 'sacred' task of implementing Maoist policies and programmes. The process of change involves substantive restructuring of curricula, research methodology and goals of social science education. In its totality, it is neither a Marxist-Leninist experiment nor a Soviet-type socialistic reform. The Maoist approach has to be understood strictly in terms of its Chinese context. It reveals dilemmas of continuity and change, relative to the higher-order structure of Chinese values. These dilemmas persist in the current 'revolutionary reforms" of social sciences. This paper is part of a larger research project on Higher Education in China
China · Context (archaeology · Curriculum · Economic system · Economics · Factory (object-oriented programming · Marxist philosophy · Pedagogy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Social change · Social science · Social transformation · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1974 - 1988 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |