Newly compiled Sociology

Author: Hou Li
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Publish Date: 2001-01-02
Features: Cultural quality education for college students is an important part of higher education and a key component of the spiritual civilization construction in institutions of higher learning. The comprehensive quality of the new generation of college students will directly impact the national quality and spiritual civilization development of our country. Providing comprehensive cultural quality education for college students and striving to cultivate talents who possess broad scientific and cultural knowledge, as well as sound moral cultivation and a high cultural taste, is a crucial task for higher education institutions. Strengthening cultural quality education for college students is an inevitable requirement of education that "faces modernization, faces the world, and faces the future." Modern science and technology and cultural development share two common characteristics: a stronger trend toward integration and a deeper convergence of scientific and humanistic spirits. These characteristics demand that higher education break away from narrow specialized education models and transition toward comprehensive quality education. From now until the early 21st century, China will complete the shift from a planned economy system to a socialist market economy system and transform its economic growth model from extensive to intensive. These fundamental transformations also place new and higher demands on comprehensive quality education for college students, requiring higher education institutions to explore new models for comprehensive quality education.
This series of textbooks is primarily intended for teaching humanities courses in science and engineering universities. It can also be used as a textbook for humanities courses in agricultural, forestry, medical, and pharmaceutical universities, as well as other higher education institutions. Based on the characteristics of the target audience, the content and depth of the textbooks differ from both humanities and social science professional textbooks and popular humanities and social science readings. Instead, they concisely and clearly introduce certain social science disciplines and their achievements to college students.
Additionally, this series of textbooks incorporates the latest achievements of spiritual civilization construction in Guangdong, which has served as a pioneer in reform and opening-up, reflecting the characteristics of Lingnan culture and the fusion of mainland culture with that of Hong Kong and Macao. As a result, it stands out among similar textbooks in China.