Fei Xiaotong compares the social structure between China and the West from the relationship between group and self, and thinks that the western society is a well-defined group structure, and so is the relationship between group members. Western society is based on individuals, and the relationship between people seems to be a bundle of firewood, a few sticks of firewood, a few sticks of firewood, and a few sticks of firewood, in order and in a group state.
However, the social structure of rural areas in China is a pattern of difference order, with "self" as the center and full of flexibility, and the boundaries between group and self, public and private become very blurred.
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Mr Fei Xiaotong used the social structure analysis method commonly used in sociology to analyze the traditional society in China. Before Mr Fei, the French sociologist Durkheim used the concepts of "organic solidarity" and "mechanical solidarity" to distinguish traditional society from modern society.
In order to distinguish the traditional society from the modern society in China more accurately, Mr. Fei put forward the concepts of "differential order pattern" and "group pattern", among which "differential order pattern", especially Mr. Fei's original creation, has been accepted by international sociologists.
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