Australian National University
2022 Semester 2
SOCY2023 Contemporary Chinese Society: Inequality and Social Stratification
Syllabus (Updated in Sep, 2022)
Week 1 – Introduction to the course; China’s modern history in a nutshell
Week 2 – Family, Marriage, and Kinship
Week 3 – Household Registration System, Internal Migration, and Rural-Urban Inequality
Week 4 – Education System and Educational Inequality
Week 5 – Socialist and Post-Socialist Economic Transitions
Week 6 – Class and Social Stratification
Week 7 – Mid-Semester Break
Week 8 – Mid-Semester Break
Week 9 – Income and Wealth Inequality
Week 10 – Gender Inequality
Week 11 – Population Issues I: Family Planning Policies and Sex Ratio Imbalance
Week 12 – Population Issues II: Fertility Decline, Population Aging, and Beyond
Week 13 – Social Norms and Public Opinion
Week 14 – Understanding Contemporary Chinese Society from Historical and International Comparative Perspectives
2022 Semester 2
SOCY2023 Contemporary Chinese Society: Inequality and Social Stratification
Syllabus (Updated in Sep, 2022)
Week 1 – Introduction to the course; China’s modern history in a nutshell
Week 2 – Family, Marriage, and Kinship
Week 3 – Household Registration System, Internal Migration, and Rural-Urban Inequality
Week 4 – Education System and Educational Inequality
Week 5 – Socialist and Post-Socialist Economic Transitions
Week 6 – Class and Social Stratification
Week 7 – Mid-Semester Break
Week 8 – Mid-Semester Break
Week 9 – Income and Wealth Inequality
Week 10 – Gender Inequality
Week 11 – Population Issues I: Family Planning Policies and Sex Ratio Imbalance
Week 12 – Population Issues II: Fertility Decline, Population Aging, and Beyond
Week 13 – Social Norms and Public Opinion
Week 14 – Understanding Contemporary Chinese Society from Historical and International Comparative Perspectives