Things will change from time to time, but human being is the main constituent forever. The principal of existence and development of any social community will be carried out with the awareness of individual ideology and the fulfillment of the community determination, especially depend on the adaptability and transformation that step forward with the elapse of time. Bad adaptability or improper transformation will be difficult to transfer the traditions into modernization, the result will be either underdevelopment or dead with deformity, both of which can hardly have a satisfaction accomplishment. The purpose of this article is to explore how Taiwan adapt to the trend of modernization as a typical Confucian community, and how the members of the community form the consensuses to fully grasp the opportunity of adaptation and transformation to set up a brand new ¡§Confucianism Civil Society¡¨. The dissertation construct with five chapters as follows: Chapter I is introduction for the main concerns of the research, the extent of the research, writing structure, and a thorough analysis of the core ideal of philosophy of Confucian community. Chapter II describes the figure of Confucian traditional community to investigate into its merits and demerits according to the writing structure of the Chapter Da Tong in the Book of Rites. Chapter III examines the real conditions in Taiwan during the powerful governmental era under Martial Law by means of three mainstream ideologies from the western liberalism. Chapter IV observes that disorders are increasing in Taiwan area due to the conflict between Eastern and Western ideology after the removal of Martial Law in Taiwan from a view of communitarianism. Reflection upon the above-mentioned, the author looks forward to rebuild a main stream culture and value ideology which integrate Eastern and Western, penetrate traditional and modern, and connect modern and post-modern. In conclusion with the statements of the Eastern and Western sages, Chapter V outlines the mechanism of ¡§Confucianism Civil Society¡¨ out of the expectation of the author.

How does Chinese society define the class and stratum? Why do the classified methods and the standards of the class and stratum take place? The thesis primarily concentrates on studying the class and stratum in Chinese society. Reviewing class and stratification concepts, the reexamination of theories and the establishment of analytical framework, the thesis claims that the classified methods of the class and stratum are usually motivated by political purposes. That is to say, new class and the stratum categories derive from the alternations of political purposes. Hence, in addition to assisting readers to understand how Chinese class and stratum are classified, the result of the research can also predict the future development of class and stratum in Chinese society by means of the reformation of politics, economy, and the society.

none

In nowadays, the corporate social responsibility (CSR) plays one kind of social function. The corporate social responsibility means that the corporations use their resources to satisfy all the related people and the morals. Coming to 21st century, people start to request corporations to do more except their professional activities with high CSR standards. After 1949, mainland China (People Republic of China) run planned economic system and didn¡¦t allow any private economies. China government set up state-owned enterprises to produce and distributed all commodities. The state-owned enterprises had to undertake not only the commercial economic responsibility but also the social responsibility. The state-owned enterprise had to take care all the employees¡¦ families from birth to death. After the economic reform, private corporations and transnational enterprises developed rapidly. But like other developing country expanded their economy, people don¡¦t pay attention to CSR until they were aware their living environments were destroyed. The domestic corporations started to do something for the employees, customers, environment, and public welfare.

No description available.

Thesis (M.A.) - Simon Fraser University, 2005. / Theses (School of Criminology) / Simon Fraser University. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph.D.)-Radboud University, Nijmegen, 2008. / With title page and summary in Dutch. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thesis (M. Journ.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-39).

Thesis (M.A.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. / Thesis advisor(s): Gordon McCormick, Hy Rothstein. Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-85). Also available online.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 1970. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-88). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.