2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Research on Establishment Process of People's View to Professions and Professional Ethics in Contemporary China: Focusing on the Highly-Educated
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16530352
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Kinjo Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
HINO Midori Kinjo Gakuin University, College of Contemporary Society and Culture, Associate Professor, 現代文化学部, 助教授 (00367632)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2006
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| Keywords | profession / meaning of professions / view of professions / professional ethics / sociology / international information exchange / China |
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| Research Abstract |
This research is to discuss how highly educated people's view of occupation and occupation ethics is being constructed in contemporary China where the employment system has largely changed since reform and open-door policy. Based on Kunio Odaka's three elements of occupation as an analysis framework, I conducted a basic examination on highly educated people's view of occupation and occupation ethics. Through the whole process of research, Dr. Lu Feiyun, associate professor of Shanghai commodity economic university, worked with me as overseas joint researcher and she bore principal role in a series of research which was executed in Shanghai city. Eventually, this research report includes six articles, five of which were presented at a debriefing session we held at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics on December 23, 2006.
Findings obtained through this research are as follows. First, respondents seriously considers "the maintenance ability among" living" the occupation three elements, while consciousness of "contribution to completion society of social role" is not clear. Instead, inclination to "development", "growth" is conspicuous. Apparently these concepts mainly mean individual aspect, thus it is safe to say their view of occupation implies individualistic factor. Second, when paying attention to a notion of jingye or "being devoted to one's work", our respondents' interpretation for jingye spirit has two aspects; it highly emphasizes individual independence of being jingye, and it includes both primordial motive and utilitarian motive of the notion. This conflicts with conventional ideological education by CCP that has been emphasizing "individualism vs. collectivism" dichotomy, implicating that it is difficult to penetrate jingye spirit through this set of ideology.
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Research Products
(2 results)
