CRC Annual Lecture: Professor Whyte: "Is the Social Volcano Still Dormant?"

The China Research Center's Annual Lecture

Professor Martin K. Whyte John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Harvard University

"Is the Social Volcano Still Dormant? Trends in Chinese Attitudes toward Inequality"

Professor Whyte examines the continuities and changes in attitudes toward inequality and justice over time based on two China national surveys. Recent survey work has focused on attitudes toward further marketization, including the global financial meltdown, to see if these trends have made Chinese citizens more or less critical of the market-based inequalities within which they now live. His recent book is Myth of the Social Volcano (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010).

Date: Thursday, April 10, 2014; 6:30 p.m. sign-in & networking; 7:00 p.m. program; this event is free and open to the public; pre-registration is respectfully requested via this link at Eventbrite.

Location: Georgia State University, Buckhead Center, Tower 200; Room 548. Directions available here.

Martin K. Whyte has been a Professor of Sociology at Harvard since 2000. Previously, he taught at the University of Michigan and George Washington University. His research and teaching specialties are comparative sociology, sociology of the family, sociology of development, the sociological study of contemporary China, and the study of post-communist transitions. Within sociology, Whyte’s primary interest has been in historical and comparative questions—why particular societies are organized the way they are and how differences across societies affect the nature of people’s lives. Whyte is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Association for Asian Studies, the Sociological Research Association, the Population Association of America, and the National Committee for U.S. China Relations.

This event is co-sponsored with the World Affairs Council and the Asian Studies Center, Georgia State University