Human Well-Being in Chinese Cities |
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Authors: | Frey R Scott Song Fengxiang |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506 2. Hansas Health Institute, Topeka, KS, 66612
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Abstract: | Does human well-being vary substantially across regions within China and, if so, what forces have contributed to this variation? There are four macro-social change theories that shed light on this question: modernization theory, dependency/world-systems theory, state theory, and human ecology theory. No known study has examined all four theories simultaneously or used recent data. We fill this gap by reporting the results of a study examining the effects of industrialization, foreign penetration, state investment, and population growth (as well as several control variables) on the urban variation of three alternative forms of human well-being in China during the late 1980s. Results provide support for both state theory and human ecology theory, but they provide little or no support for modernization theory and dependency/world systems theory. Implications of the results are discussed. |
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