An Assessment of Citizenship

The citizen is the foundation of civil society. Therefore , the measurement of citizenship will help to interpret the political and social behavior of the Chinese people in the contemporary world and to classify them, so asto forecast their behavior as well as the track of their changes .But who counts as citizen in China？What are the key psychological dispositions or characteristics of Chinese citizen? The goal of the current research is to provide an alternative theoretical framework for assessing the concept of citizenship in China from social psychological perspective , which consists of two dimensions:(1)The degree of concerning public affairs ;(2)the degree of dealing with the conflict between public and private interests by means of contractual right. Based on the two dimensions, four prototypes were distinguished :(1)High public and high contractual orientation , as typical citizen behavior;(2)high public and low contractual orientation , as typical subject behavior;(3)low public and high contractual orientation , as typical businessman or consumer behavior;and (4)low public and low contractual orientation , as typical traditional Chinese in-group member (zijiren)behavior.This paper also reports the reliability and validities of the measurement .

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