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Yue Yin. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-106). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Abstract --- p.i ; Acknowledgements --- p.iii ; Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter II. --- Literature Review --- p.6 ; The Poor in the Market Transition --- p.6 ; Political Impacts in Collective Era and Beyond --- p.8 ; Cultural Capital´ة Effects on Stratification in Western Countries --- p.13 ; The Analysis on Habitus: Szelenyi's Researches in Eastern Europe --- p.18 ; The Transfer Mechanism of Cultural Capital --- p.22 ; The Poverty Cycle: Lewis's Culture of Poverty --- p.28 ; Chapter III. --- Methodological Design --- p.31 ; Chapter IV. --- Before 1978,the Idol of Collectivism --- p.33 ; Influences from Parents' Generation --- p.36 ; Occlusive Living Circumstance and Personality --- p.40 ; Insensitive to Education --- p.42 ; Satisfaction with the Lives --- p.46 ; Distributed Education Chances and Good Job Positions --- p.49 ; Send Down Recommendation to Colleges --- p.51 ; Big State-Owned Factories and Good Job Positions --- p.57 ; Work In the Factories --- p.60 ; Value Attached to Hard Work --- p.61 ; Lack of Confidence and Impetus --- p.63 ; Ineffectual Intercommunication --- p.66 ; Limited Horizon --- p.70 ; Chapter V. --- After 1978,Under Marketization --- p.75 ; Reformation of Enterprises and Its Effects on My Interviewees --- p.76 ; The Unconsciousness to the Coming of Crisis --- p.77 ; Good Working Ability? --- p.82 ; After Lay-off --- p.85 ; Chapter VI. --- The Next Generation --- p.87 ; Chapter VII. --- Discussion --- p.92 ; Chapter VIII. --- Appendices --- p.98 ; Chapter IX. --- References --- p.100

The author suggests that the multilayered concept of secularization should be understood as the dezideologization of culture, religion, nation, language. economy, opening the space for democratic decision-making in the European Union, & consequently the space for politics with the capacity for collectively binding decisions in the democratically generated pluralism, & not in the historically generated pluralism of the old Europe. Secularization originally meant the transfer of clergy (priests or monks) from regular to secular thereby making them secularis or laypersons. Since the Westphalian Treaty of 1647 the word secularization has meant the transfer of ecclesiastical property to civil possession or use. Secularization means a strict separation of the church & the state. It also means a secular implementation of Christian postulates of universal equality of equals among equals. Today, the concept of secularization is used metaphorically as dezideologization i.e. as the criticism of state forms such as fascism and communism which possessed only ideological & not democratic legitimacy. In that sense the thesis of the cultural or spiritual unity of Europe as its legitimizing grounds is undemocratic as it replaces & conditions democracy with a vague concept of culture or spoken communication. References. Adapted from the source document.