The Social Change and Cultural Construction in Taiwan District

• Main Authors: Chang Shu-Lun, 張樹倫
• Other Authors: 沈六
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1998
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74329662861953163871

博士 === 國立師範大學 === 三民主義研究所 === 86 === Transition is an inevitable phenomenon that inheres in human society. One ofthe dynamics of transition comes from the creativity and invention inherent inthe society; another results from the extrinsic cultural diffusion. The maindynamic that contributes to the dramatic social and cultural transition of Chinain modern times is the influence of the foreign western culture. Since Taiwanlocates in the marginal district of China and it had been ruled by severalforeign cultures like Spain, Holland, Japan, its main dynamics of socialtransition comes from the outside stimulation. Moreover, because there is agreat distance between the foreign culture transition and the original culturein a society, the transition tends to cause a lot of maladjustment and theproblems in society in the transition and substitution between the new and theold. Therefore, in facing the shock of the western culture that bears thecharacteristics of strong organic control and the position of superiority,Taiwan especially encounters with a difficult situation of "double breaking awayand establishment." Consequently, the society is more easily unbalanced. After transferring to Taiwan, the government accentuates in developingthe modern construction. Therefore, the society had been transformed from thetraditional agricultural society to the commercial society and now it furthermoves toward the mode of informative society. Under the government''s variousplanned economic construction, the living standard of the citizen have beenimproved with the increase of the national income. Nevertheless, thegovernment''s over emphasis on the economic construction also leads to theimbalance of cultural development: despite the fact that the society ismaterially abundant, the mentality of the society becomes void and barren. Beingconscious about the seriousness of the whole event, the government alsohighlights the importance of cultural construction in recent years. The thesis is divided into seven chapters and twenty-two sections. Thefirst chapter is Introduction. It first states the importance of the researchproblem, then suggests the motivation and the purpose of this research. Definethe definitions of the relative terms and describe the research methods andsteps. The second chapter discusses the theories of social change. I discuss theindicators, the elements, the types and the theories of social change. The thirdchapter discusses the social and cultural transition in Taiwan society. With theaid of various indicators, I probe into the facts of social and culturaltransition of Taiwan society in social, political, economical and psychologicalaspects. The fourth chapter further discusses the problems and the difficultiesthat occurred in these transitions in political, economical, educational andpsychological facets. Chapter five is about the cultural constructions inTaiwan. I discuss the cultural construction works in Taiwan district in eachstage. The sixth chapter is about the perspectives of Taiwan culturaldevelopment and constructions in the contemporary society. Here, I would analyzethe primary problems that cultural construction would face and the itsperspectives. The seventh chapter is Conclusion and Suggestion. Here, I wouldinduce the discoveries of the study, present the conclusion and offer thepractical ways for the works of cultural construction from now on.