Cultural power in Chinese higher education institutions: Its definition and dimensions

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10.2991/icsshe-15.2015.82How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cultural power, Chinese colleges, definition, dimensions

Abstract

Colleges in China enjoy the reputation as the light of the society in that they are the important source of power pushing social development and human civilization progress. As well, college is the location in which cultural power exists and disseminates. Literatures since 1990s with regard to topics in cultural power and its impacts in modern Chinese higher education institutions (i.e. four-year colleges) were identified in China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database (CNKI). By reviewing these works, we concluded that collegiate cultural power is fostered in certain social and historical environment as well as in the process of establishing college, and it plays a significant role in developing college, boosting regional development, and impelling social progress. In addition, we broke collegiate cultural power down into four dimensions, and internal relationships among four dimensions were examined in the end, aiming at facilitating understanding of how four dimensions interact with each other.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jun Lu
AU  - Hongqing Heng
AU  - Yang Yang
PY  - 2015/12
DA  - 2015/12
TI  - Cultural power in Chinese higher education institutions: Its definition and dimensions
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 324
EP  - 328
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsshe-15.2015.82
DO  - 10.2991/icsshe-15.2015.82
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