11th Empirical Research Workshop of Organizational Sociology Held in Zhejiang University
11th Empirical Research Workshop of Organizational Sociology, organized by Dept. of Sociology, Local Government and Social Governance Research Center and Ronald Coase Center for the Study of the Economy, Zhejiang University, was held on 5th and 6th, July in Zhejiang University.
More than 60 well-known experts and scholars from University of Chicago, Stanford University, Beijing University, Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Renmin University of China, Sun Yat-sen University, Jilin University, Shanghai University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology were present at the workshop and exchanged their views on the theories and methods of organization studies, enterprise organizations, project systems and local governments, grassroot governance, social organizations and networks, conflicts and social administration, etc.
Professor Zhao Dingxin of Recruitment Program of Global Experts at Zhejiang University, and tenure from Dept. of Sociology at University of Chicago delivered a speech on “Significance and limitations of mechanism explanation on organization studies”, which illustrated the significance and limitations of “mechanism” explanations in social sciences based on the meaning of mechanism in natural sciences and the explanations of “mechanism” in physics and biology. Professor Zhang Jing from Dept. of Sociology at Beijing University made a keynote speech on “Connections between individuals and public institutions”, which maintained that the disconnection between individuals and public institutions in the public system of grassroot society is the major cause for the political emotions in the grassroot society. Professor Zhou Feizhou from Dept. of Sociology, Beijing University depicted the features of new urbanization vividly in two concepts: “Farmers going upstairs” and “capital alloted to the countryside” and he held that our urban and rural integration and new countryside construction both reflected the relationship between the nation and farmers.