Sociological Master Degree Papers from Three Universities
The Sociological Master Degree Papers from Three Universities has been published annually since 2003. Each year, eight outstanding theses are selected from nearly 200 Sociology graduates at Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Renmin University to be featured in this collection. Now in its 18th edition, this series has become a highly influential publication, serving as a valuable historical record that documents the development of Sociology and highlights the discipline's progress in China.
Shortlisted Papers:
Author | Thesis Paper | Advisor | |
2022 | |||
Yang Zhuo | The Vanishing "Corner": Writing Education and the World of Languages in a Rural Primary School | Zhu Xiaoyang | |
Fu Xiang | Physical Care and Ethics in a Nursing Home | Guo Jinhua | |
Wu Qiuting | Business and Public Good: How Private Hospitals Operate in the Market | Wang Mingming | |
2021 | |||
Wang Jingru | People Living in at the Countryside in an Era of Change: A Sociological Analysis of Shen Congwen's Narratives of Life in 1940s | Zhao Bin | |
Chen Tianhe | "Owners" or "Shareholders": Examining the Shift in Management and Workers' Understanding of Ownership During Local State-Owned Enterprise Reform Through Equity Restructuring | Sun Feiyu | |
Chen Jieying | The Imagination of "Nation/Family/People" and "New Woman" in the New Life Movement | Zhou Yun | |
2020 | |||
Chen Yingtong | Bride Price Payment Practices Under the Influence of Traditional and Modern Societal Changes | Lu Huilin | |
Ren Chunxu | A Sociological Study on the Development of the Home Textile Industry in Xu Village | Zhou Feizhou | |
Xia Jieyi | The Formation of Fan-Driven Cyberbullying and Countermeasures | Tong Xin | |
Zheng Ken | Emotions, Algorithms, and Digital Capitalism in the Era of Live Streaming | Zhu Xiaoyang | |
2019 | |||
Chen Yingjiao | Insights, Aspirations, and Breakthroughs: A Qualitative Study on Rural Education in Jiuzhai Town | Lu Huilin | |
Xie Hongyu | The Establishment of the Industrial System in Northeast China: An Analysis Based on a Mining Area in Northern Manchuria From 1945 to 1952 | Sun Feiyu | |
He Qifeng | Family-Run Businesses and Economies of Scale: A Study on Production Pattern in Poverty Alleviation Industries | Zhou Feizhou | |
Wang Tingting | An Analysis of the Reasons Why Female Migrant Workers Return to Their Hometowns for Flash Marriages | Ren Qiang | |
Xiong Zhiying | The Social Construction Behind Ancestral Halls: An Ethnographic Study of a Case of Religious Renaissance | Gao Bingzhong | |
2018 | |||
Chen Zhong | A Study on the Phenomenon of "Abandonment" in Rural Basic Education | Lu Huilin | |
Han Litao | Chinese Banking Institutions of Draft Banks and National Finance | Zhang Jing | |
Peng Liye | A Study on the Diffused Religion of Tea | Yu Changjiang | |
Yu Penghan | Suburbanization and Intergenerational Ethics in Family Decision-Making | Zhou Feizhou | |
2017 | |||
Dong Yanfeng | Active and Passive Participation: The Phenomenon of Proxy Voting in Village D Elections | Zhang Jing | |
Tang Yuanchao | Identity Seeking and the Formation of Social Order: The Clan Society of the Yi People in Liangshan and Its Structural Changes | Ma Rong | |
Yu Huifang | How Cooperative Organizations Integrate into Rural Society: A Case Study of Puhan Community in Yongji, Shanxi | Zhao Bin | |
Zhang Yue | Who Enrols in Peking University? Exploring the Mechanisms of Family Cultural Capital's Influence on Children's Academic Achievement—A Case Study Based on Family Educational Interactions | Qian Minhui | |
2016 | |||
Chen Xuesong | The Integration of "Righteousness" and "Profit" in "Da Sui": A Study on Villagers' Mutual Financial Assistance from the Perspective of Solidarity Economy Theory | Ma Fengzhi | |
Zhang Long | The Nankai Sociology Experimental Class (1981-1982) | Zheng Yefu | |
Zhang Yaomin | Exploring Technological Control of Temporary Work by Tech Organizations: A Case Study of Uber "Partner Drivers" in Beijing | Liu Aiyu | |
Zhou Hang | Will Resistance Occur? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Factors Influencing Collective Resistance to Para-Xylene (PX) Projects | Liu Neng | |
2015 | |||
Chang Changchang | Changes in Intergenerational Relationships in Rural Families During Urbanization: An Empirical Study Based on County A in Central Shandong | Lu Huilin | |
Li Ke | Membership Rights: A Study of the 'Rural Collective Economic Organization Members Database' in Nantong, Jiangsu | Zhou Feizhou | |
Wang Dawei | Mutual Aid and Reciprocity in Village Community: A Study of the Mutual Aid Organization in Village G, Fujian Province | Ma Fengzhi | |
Shao Zhushuai | Modern Cultural Invention: The Inclusiveness and Vitality of Vietnam's Cao Dai Religion | Gao Bingzhong | |
2014 | |||
Cao Yapeng | Indicator Shift: A Study on Chongqing's "Land Ticket" System | Zhou Feizhou | |
Chu Wenlu | A Case Study of Sent-down Youth Returning to Beijing | Zheng Yefu | |
Jin Yi | The Fight Over the History of Ju | Li Kang | |
Aynur Kama | Uyghur Wedding Ideals and the Reality: A Case Study of Yacun | Gao Bingzhong | |
Wu Lunjing | Domination and Resistance: Migrant Workers in Mobile Work Environment—A Case Study of Spatial Practices of Workers in Factory F | Lu Huilin | |
2013 | |||
Chen Wei | The Choice Between Factories and Workshops: The Politics of Production for Garment Workers | Liu Aiyu | |
Feng Lu | Rural Industrial Privatization, Dependent Social Relations, and the Change in Village Power Dynamics | Yang Shanhua | |
Huang Chengping | Identifying Subsistence Allowance Beneficiaries in an Acquaintance Society: An Empirical Study of Xiang Village in Southeastern Anhui | Wang Sibing | |
Jiang Yan | The Labor of Supermarket Sales Promoters: Voluntary Informal Employment Under Multiple Employers | Tong Xin | |
Wang Jianying | March 8th Red Banner Pacesetter | Zheng Yefu | |
Xu Zongyang | Understanding Human Sentiments: An Alternative Approach to Efficiency—A Case Study of Processing On Order in Jinyun County, Zhejiang Province | Wang Hansheng | |
2012 | |||
Bao Chengliang | The Meaning of Home: The Mixed Feelings of Migrant Workers Navigating Urban and Rural Life—A Case Study of Migrant Worker Families in Village L on the Outskirts of Beijing | Lu Huilin | |
Liu Dongxin | The Sound of Drums: The Formation of a Cultural Practice Community that Transcends Village Boundaries | Gao Bing Zhong, Zhou Yun | |
Wang Dongjie | Overtime Labor Issues Under Legal and Normative Standards: An Empirical Study on Overtime in the Textile and Garment Industry | Liu Aiyu | |
Wang Shaochen | New Broom Sweeps Clean: A Study on Local Political Order During the Qing Dynasty | Zhou Feizhou | |
2011 | |||
Huang Kejie | The Intertwining of Modern and Traditional: A Comparative Study on Mate Selection Criteria and Marriage Views of Chinese and German University Students | Qin Mingrui | |
Kong Chunxia | The Role of News Media in Protecting the Rights of Disadvantaged Groups: A Case Study of Migrant Workers with Pneumoconiosis | Lu Huilin | |
Wang Yun | The Implementation of "Project-Based" Approaches and Unequal Participation Among Youth: A Case Study of Youth Social Participation in "Project A" | Ma Fengzhi | |
Xu Congying | A Study on Family Assets Relations in the Process of Farmers Moving to Apartments | Zhou Feizhou | |
Gulzeypa Yililasi | National and Ethnic Identity of Students in Xinjiang Class: A Study of the Xinjiang Class at Beijing Luhe High School | Ma Rong | |
2010 | |||
Li Geng | Community Integration Through the Lens of Marginalised Traditions: A Study Based on Age Groups and Household Structures in Dai Villages of Xishuangbanna | Zhu Xiaoyang | |
Wu Jiao | A Study on Occupational Diseases Among Migrant Workers: The Case of Workers in the Shenzhen Construction Demolition Industry | Lu Huilin | |
Tang Ning | Class 6 of Grade 10 at a Demonstration School | Zheng Yefu | |
Zhang Huiqiang | Worker Networks and Factory Management: A Study of the Garment Manufacturing Industry in Southern China | Li Shiding | |
2009 | |||
Li Nan | Village Dissolution: The Practice as a Process | Zhu Xiaoyang | |
Lian Jiajia | The Survival Dynamics of Migrant Workers in the Construction Industry: Labor Control and Resistance Under the Subcontracting System | Lu Huilin | |
Zhang Jieying | Marginalized Yet Free: The Work, Life, and Sense of Subjectivity of Waste Collectors | Lu Huilin | |
Lei Ke | A Thoroughly Empirical Approach to the Issue of Social Order: Garfinkel's View on Social Order | Li Kang | |
Liu Zhennan | The Mystery of Having Both a Son and a Daughter: Kinship Relations Among the Zhanli Dong People | Cai Hua | |
2008 | |||
Cha Tingting | The Alienation of the Commutation System and the Construction of Prison Order: An Empirical Study of YCB Prison in Anhui Province | Liu Neng | |
He Cuihong | The Decline of Hakka Walled Villages and Traditional Interpersonal Relationships | Zheng Yefu | |
Sheng Zhiming | From "Residential Complex" to "Community": A Case Study of YF Residential Area in Beijing | Wang Hansheng | |
Wei Ke | What Drives Their Persistence? A Study of Direct Selling Organizations from the Perspective of Social Identity | Fang Wen | |
Yang Tiantian | Reconstructing Organizational Order Following Leadership Succession: An Examination of Strategic Actors and Power Relations in Company D | Qiu Zeqi | |
2007 | |||
Bian Guodong | Local Consumption: An Economic Anthropology Study of Consumption Among Mongolian Herders in the Bayanchagan Region | Wang Mingming | |
Tong Sujuan | Exogamy: An Alternative Form of Marriage | Zheng Yefu | |
Zhang Shaozeng | The Story of Camels and People in Alxa: An Ethnography of Total Social Facts | Gao Bingzhong | |
Zhao Huixin | The Construction of the Xiaogang Model | Wang Hansheng | |
2006 | |||
Jiang Qin | Non-Agricultural "Loophole Exploitation" Economy and Farmer’s Survival Strategies During the People's Commune Period: A Case Study of Village N in Eastern Zhejiang | Yang Shanhua | |
Liao Qinying | The Structure of Transactions: A Case Study of the Zhongguancun Computer Market | Wang Hansheng | |
Wang Jing | Longitudinal Study of Houjiaying: Family and Village Society | Ma Guoqing | |
2005 | |||
Song Jing | The Transformation of Public Authority in Villages: The Socio-Political Results of Rural Economic System Reforms —A Case Study of Village in Southern Jiangsu | Yang Shanhua | |
Xu Xuelian | The Gender of the Naxi People | Cai Hua | |
Zhang Min | What Defines a Christian? A Study on the Identity of Christian Communities in Wenzhou, Zhejiang | Zhang Jing | |
2004 | |||
Liu Zhenye | The Interaction Mechanism Between Organizational Information Technology Systems and Organizational Structure: A Case Study of Tsingtao Brewery | Qiu Zeqi | |
Shen Jing | The Practical Logic of Collective Property Rights in Rural China: An Empirical Study of a Village in Central Sichuan | Wang Hansheng | |
Zhang Xiang | Signals of Trust: An Analysis of Informal Financial Contract Forms — A Case Study of the Post-Reform Informal Financial Market in Wenzhou | Li Shiding | |
2003 | |||
Yao Yingran | Sufferers: The Emotional Experience of Women in Ji Village During the Land Reform | Yang Shanhua | |
Li Yi | Between Rationality and Legitimacy: The Journey to Legalization for School for Migrant Workers' Children | Wang Hansheng | |
2002 | |||
He Guangxi | Reluctant Voluntarism: Charitable Donations as Social Participation—An Analysis of Individual Charitable Donation Behaviour in Four Cities | Ma Rong | |
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