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The Relevance of China's Transformation for Contemporary Sociology

China's rapid social transformation recapitulates processes that occurred in an earlier era in Europe and North America, and which gave birth to the discipline of sociology. Research on contemporary China therefore provides a rare opportunity to revisit and rethink the founding ideas of the discipline and its radical, liberal, and conservative traditions.