Rural Governance:An Iconic Concept of Rural Sociology in China
Refining iconic concepts is one of the effective paths to accelerate the construction of Chinese characteristic philosophy and social sciences,and to construct China's independent knowledge system.Starting from the perspective of problems,the historical context of the development of the concept of rural governance is laid out as the longitude,and the latitude of what,why,and how to do is extracted.This article discovers that rural governance is an iconic concept formed by the Chinese rural sociology and even the Chinese social sciences academic community in the long-term exploration process of solving Chinese problems based on China's practice.On Chinese academic significance,rural governance is a comprehensive knowledge system that continuously explores the construction of rural social order and promotes rural social development.Rural governance is essentially not a single concept,but rather exists as a collection of concepts.At each historical stage,rural governance is composed of specific conceptual categories that refer to what,why,and how to do.In the study of tradition,rural governance in the sense of"things"has rich connotations.During the more than 30 years after the reform and opening up,from village autonomy to rural governance,the transformation and coexistence of"things"and"words"are fully deminstrated.After entering the new era,rural governance in the construction of a good society deeply reflects the integration of words and things,which has not only become a knowledge paradigm shared by the rural sociological community,but also a standardized universal policy language in official documents of the Party and the state.