A Critique of Modern Social Life and Construction of Social Order inContemporary China(PDF)
《南京师大学报》（社会科学版）[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2016年04期
- Page:
- 80-
- Research Field:
- 【社会理论与实践】
- Publishing date:
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- Title:
- A Critique of Modern Social Life and Construction of Social Order inContemporary China
- Author(s):
- NING Lin
- Keywords:
- capitalism; modern society; social order; spirit of craftsmanship
- PACS:
- -
- DOI:
- -
- Abstract:
- An examination of the effects of social mobility，the ruling of the elite and hierarchical socialorganization on the modern western capitalist countries shows that the modern western society is plagued bythe following problems：“the talent and specter of uselessness” and baseless knowledge help form the so-called“spirit of craftsmanship”；all has been turned into the mundane and lifeless data；and any pursuit of individualinterests and preferences in spiritual life and aesthetic taste has been marginalized. Therefore，it can be saidthat people are living a vacuous life lacking values and a solid foundation. This leads to the epidemic of thesplit between people’s spirit and personality in modern western society. Facing these problems，the“ theoryof a new page” was advanced for us to fulfill the following purposes：through examining the modern life，tochart the course of the new life in modern society and establish a new position in the value system for modernlife；to get rid of the orientation for exploring people’s internal and external abilities；to define the boundariesof various forms of exchanges and rise above the“ technological society” and“ technological economy” andthen above the liberal Smithian model and the military Weberian model. In so doing，the anxiety，fear andnihilism troubling modern people can be deconstructed，the once-deserted belief in life and existence restoredand a new sense of happiness constructed. Only when the cause for the symptoms of the new capitalist cultureis recognized and analyzed critically，can we understand and overcome the historical limitations of modernsociety and find a path to self-emancipation.
Last Update: 2016-07-15