Prof. Weiguo Zhang
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Prof. Weiguo Zhang Ph.D., Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands - 1998 |
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Biographical Overview: Dr Weiguo Zhang specializes in social demography, and sociology of families. His work primarily focuses on rural area of China, looking into the relationship between national population and economic policies and individual livelihoods. His research has covered a variety of topics including Chinese “one-child” policy and fertility, domestic adoption of children, welfare of childless elderly, economic and political participation of women, and marriage and family dynamics.Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1998. |
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Recent Courses Taught: SOC300 Quantitative Analysis SOC312 Population and Society SOC321 Survey Research Methods SOC492H5 Independent Research SOC6005H Social Change and Development: Chinese Society |
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Selected Publications: Zhang Weiguo and Liu Guiping. 2007. “Childlessness, Psychological Well-being, and Life Satisfaction among the Elderly in China.” Journal of Cross Cultural Gerontology 22(2): 185–203. 2007. “Marketization, Democratization, and Women’s Participation in Village Election in Contemporary Rural China: A Study of a Hebei Village.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 28(2): 1-28. 2007. Marginalization of Childless Elderly Men and Welfare Provision: A Study in a North China Village. Journal of Contemporary China 16(51): 275-293. |
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Research Interests: Dr Zhang’s primary research interest is to understand social change, particularly the roles of societal institutions and individual behaviour in social change, and how social change affects the nature of people’s lives. Drawing upon empirical research, he examines, on the one hand, how macro state policies, mediated by societal institutions, influence individual behaviour, and on the other hand, how individual behaviour reshapes the characteristics of the society in which they live. Dr Zhang’s early study focused on Chinese fertility behavior under the changing context brought about by market re¬forms and the “one-child” family planning policy that began in rural China in the late 1970s. His study employed an institutio |
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