Abstract
Based on historical data, particularly government policy documentations and news reports, this paper explores the development of social organizations (NGOs) in China from the historical institutional perspective. First, I review the development of social organizations in China since 1949, particularly in the past two decades. Second, I demonstrate the important social changes brought by social organizations. Finally, I explore how the institutional environment affect the development of social organizations. I argue that the institutional environment provides both impetus and restrains for the development of social organizations in China. Nevertheless, social organizations in China not only try to adapt to but also try to shape institutional environment. The implication of this study is that we need to understand the agency of social change in its relationships with the institutional environment.
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Xun WangFull Professor, Director of China Studies, Director of Child & Family Certificate Program, Sociology, Institute for China Studies, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Wisconsin, United States
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Social Organization, China Studies
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