讲座题目：厚与薄：全球化影响与中国传统价值观念
主 讲 人：周怡 复旦大学社会发展与公共政策学院社会学系教授，博士生导师
主 持 人：徐秀丽 中国农业大学国际发展与全球农业学院院长，人文与发展学院教授
讲座时间：2025年4月16日（星期三）19:00-20:30
讲座地点：中国农业大学（东校区）新图书馆7318室
主讲人简介：周怡，现为复旦大学社会发展与公共政策学院社会学系教授，博士生导师。复旦-耶鲁文化社会学中心负责人，中国社会学会常务理事，中国社会学会消费社会学专业委员会副主任。曾任中国社会学会文化社会学专业委员会理事长 (2017-2022)。2004 年香港中文大学获博士学位， 2007-2008/2023-2024“哈佛-燕京”学社访问学者/合作研究。主要研究兴趣文化社会学、草根中国社会研究、质性研究方法。国家社科基金重大项目“现代社会信任模式与机制研究”(2011),“代际社会学视野下新生代价值观念与行为模式研究”(2019)首席专家;国家教育部重大攻关项目《文化社会学》(2024)主编/首席专家。
讲座介绍：全球发展不断出现国际间文化价值观念的冲突。综合多学科视角,在中西方价值体系差异的比较中，通过理论梳理及案例说明，探究全球化对中国传统价值观念的影响。研究提出，抽象哲学层面上的传统儒家思想在现当代中国社会确有直接与之对应的观念具象：自然观体系下的小农经济观念；人性伦理观之中的“家本位”观念；社会政治观体系中的权威主义观念。它们构成主导的中国传统价值观念也极富现代价值。借用政治文化视角进行厚-薄观念的区分后发现，价值观念亦呈“差序格局”，作为深层厚观念的中国传统价值观念，在宏观整体意义上是长期保持稳定而不随全球化发展而改变的；但由厚观念衍生的薄观念，则会在个体或微观群体的选择性意义上受到全球现代化的影响且发生流变。
Title: Thick and Thin: Traditional Chinese Values and Concepts in Globalization
Speaker: Zhou Yi Professor of Sociology, The school of social development and public policy, Fudan University
Moderator: Xu Xiuli Dean of CIDGA, Professor of COHD, CAU
Time: 19:00-20:30, Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Venue: Room 7318, New library, East Campus of CAU
Introduction to the Speaker: Zhou Yi is Professor of Sociology at Fudan University’s School of Social Development and Public Policy, and Co-Director of the Yale-Fudan Center for Cultural Sociology. She also serves on the Executive Council of the Chinese Sociological Association and was head of its Special Committee for Cultural Sociology from 2017 to 2022. She obtained her Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004, and was a Coordinate Research Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute during the 2007-2008 and 2023-2024 academic years. Prof. Zhou has been engaged in long-term research and teaching in the areas of cultural sociology, grassroots society in China, and qualitative methods. She has served as Principal Investigator for two Key Projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China: “Trust Patterns and Mechanisms in Contemporary Society” (2011), and“Value Systems and Behaviors of the New Generation from the Perspective of Intergenerational Sociology” (2019). She is also the chief editor and leading expert of the major project Cultural Sociology (2024), funded by the Ministry of Education.
Overview: Global development is constantly witnessing a clash of international cultural values. Through literature review and case studies from a multidisciplinary perspective, this study compares the differences between Chinese and Western value systems and investigates the impact of globalization on traditional Chinese values. This study suggests that traditional abstract Confucianism does directly have concrete applying concepts in contemporary Chinese society: the concept of small-peasant economy in the natural view system; the family-oriented concept in the human ethical view system; and the authoritarian concept in the socio-political view system. They constitute the dominant traditional as well as modern Chinese values. Employing the political-cultural perspective to make distinctions between “thick” and “thin” concepts, this study reveals that these values also follow the “differential mode of association”. “Thick concepts” (i.e., traditional Chinese values) remain stable and do not change with globalization. However, “thin concepts”, which are derived from thick concepts, change with globalization in the individual and micro sense.
