Tenants in Revolution The Tenacity of Traditional Morality

Thaxton, Ralph A.

doi:10.1177/009770047500100304

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“…The majority of the population was not as explicit in denouncing the traditional age stratification system. Instead, their frustrations were vented as a backlash against unwanted foreign intrusion and against the misuse of property by capitalistic landowners (Thaxton, 1975;Lewis, 1976). This backlash, which eventually culminated in the Communist Revolution, was a response to the prevailing social and economic structures unwilling or unable to respond to the miseries of the masses (particularly after the Nationalist Revolution during the mid-1920s and the Japanese invasion of 1937).…”

Section: The Aged In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Modernization and the Status of the Aged in China: Decline or Equalization?

Cherry

Magnuson-Martinson

1981

The Sociological Quarterly

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Most models of modernization propose that the status of the aged declines with technological and economic development. These models usually conceptualize the lowered status of the aged as a residual or latent consequence of modernization. Rarely do they address age stratification as a political issue, and they fail to differentiate between subgroups of the aged. We compare accounts of the cultural and structural context of the aged before and after China's socialist revolution, giving particular attention to the role of the family, the state, and technological factors in social change. Technological development and urbanization have not been extensive, and a decline in the traditional authority of the aged has paralleled educational advances and a demographic transition. Government family policies and China's labor-intensive economy facilitate the interdependence of age groups and sex roles. These observations suggest current models of the status of the aged should be revised to incorporate conceptualizations of age and sexual stratification and the role of governmental policies in directing social change.

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Section: The Aged In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%