Week 6

Question 1

1989 crisis recap

Answer 1

Question 2

1989 crisis — effect on social classes

Answer 2

Question 3

The collapse of the socialist economy

Answer 3

Question 4

Restructuring the public sector (from 1994)

Answer 4

Question 5

Social consequences: the end of the old working class (the collapse of the socialist economy)

Answer 5

Question 6

Today labour is largely commodified (the collapse of the socialist economy)

Answer 6

Question 7

Ambiguous change in the status of land

Answer 7

Question 8

China as a globalized society (the collapse of the socialist economy)

Answer 8

Question 9

Ambivalent changes in moral values (the collapse of the socialist economy)

Answer 9

• Being rich is a goal
• Rising inequality
• Eduaction/meritocracy
• Consumerism
• Urbanization with the loosers of the collapse of the socilist economy being left behind in the countryside

Question 10

How to define market socialism ?

Answer 10

Question 11

How to define market socialism as a form of capitalism?

Answer 11

Question 12

The elite (social stratification)

Answer 12

Question 13

The middle class — social stratification

Answer 13

Question 14

The lower class — social stratification

Answer 14

Question 15

Reproduction: a false impression of change — social stratification

Answer 15

Question 16

Diversification of ownership and state control — economic structures

Answer 16

Question 17

Is the Chinese market socialism a model?

Answer 17

Question 18

Two models of enterprise management

Answer 18