Li Peilin is a senior researcher, doctoral supervisor and director of the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His major academic research interests are social development, sociology of organization and industrial sociology. His key works include Another Invisible hand: the Transformation of Social Structure (2005), Twelve Lectures on Harmony Society (2006).
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This book’s contents have covered the creation and development of sociology in China since modern times, the evolution of Chinese society since modern times, the family and marriage, the patriarchal clan and the family, the community and the civil society, the organizing process and the institutional arrangements, the social stratification, the sexual distinction and sex, the generation relationship, the education and fairness, the race and tribal group, the social network and social capital, the political sociology, the mass media, the culture, the religion, the migration and the social movement, the population vicissitude, the urbanization, the technology, the globalization, the medical services, the aging, the poverty, the crime, the group acts, the resources and the ecological environment, the risk society, and the social construction, and so on. It is important work of sociology since nearly 30 years
