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The Middle Income Group in China and Russia

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Editors:
  1. Peilin Li

    1. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

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  2. M. K. Gorshkov

    1. The Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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  • Provides a comprehensive overview of middle-income group in China and Russia
  • Presents a comparison study in social development of China and Russia
  • Indicates that the expansion of middle-income groups plays an important role in promoting mass consumption

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-lv
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  2. Chronological Changes of Middle-Income Group in China

    • Chunling Li
    Pages 1-15

  3. Trajectories of the Middle Class’s Evolution in Modern Russia

    • N. E. Tikhonova, A. V. Karavay
    Pages 17-35

  4. Analysis of Employment Structure of Middle Income Group: 2006–2015

    • Lei Fan
    Pages 37-49

  5. Employment and Work of Middle Income Groups

    • V. A. Anikin
    Pages 51-67

  6. Variations in the Income and Education of the Middle Income Group in China

    • Feng Tian
    Pages 69-85

  7. Middle Income Groups: The Correlation Between Education and Material Well-Being

    • P. M. Kozyreva, A. I. Smirnov
    Pages 87-108

  8. Consumption and Lifestyle of the Middle Income Group

    • Di Zhu
    Pages 109-128

  9. Consumption and Lifestyle of the Middle Class

    • Svetlana V. Mareeva
    Pages 129-147

  10. Intergenerational Mobility of Middle Income Group in China: A Perspective from Household Registration and Education

    • Peng Lu, Xiaoguang Fan
    Pages 149-165

  11. Intergenerational Mobility of Middle Income Groups and the Role of Family in This Process

    • Y. P. Lezhnina
    Pages 167-182

  12. Social Insurance of the Middle Income Group in China

    • Yi Zhang
    Pages 183-195

  13. Social Security and the Risk Resistance Capacity of Middle Income Groups in Russia

    • P. M. Kozyreva, A. I. Smirnov
    Pages 197-221

  14. The Analyses of Objective Social Status and Subjective Identification of Middle Income Group in China—Also on the Construction of the Subjective Identified Olive-Shaped Society

    • Yan Cui, Yongliang Huang
    Pages 223-234

  15. The Identities of the Middle Class

    • N. V. Latova
    Pages 235-249

  16. Values and Social and Political Attitudes of the Middle Income Group

    • Wei Li
    Pages 251-272

  17. Social Values of Middle Income Group

    • N. N. Sedova
    Pages 273-293

  18. Social and Political Participation of Middle Income Group in China

    • Yan Cui
    Pages 295-313

  19. The Level of Social and Political Activities Among Middle Income Groups in Russia

    • Yu. V. Latov, V. V. Petukhov
    Pages 315-335

  20. The Rise of the Middle Income Group in China—Take the Megacities Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou for Example

    • Yelin Yao, Haidong Zhang
    Pages 337-348
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About this book

This book includes a series of papers that mainly discuss the proposition of “double middle-income traps.” It analyzes various perspectives of middle-income groups of Russia and China including employment, education, consumption, mobility, social insurance, social values and identity, social and political participation. This book further indicates that the expansion of middle-income groups plays an important role in promoting mass consumption, maintaining continuous and stable economic growth, and overcoming the double middle-income traps. The middle class and middle-income group generally owns higher economic capital and cultural capital and is proved to be the main strength in expanding consumption by many empirical studies. However, the middle class and middle-income group has currently encountered hindrance to upward mobility, life quality, social security and class identity, which prevent the expansion of the middle-income group and improvement of social structure.  Through comparing the middle-income groups of these two countries, this book gives us a panoramic view of their social and economic condition. Successfully combining theory and concrete practical guidelines, the book offers a valuable resource for all those active in this dynamic field. The book is important for students, scholars, researchers and professionals in economic and social science fields. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

    Peilin Li

  • The Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    M. K. Gorshkov

About the editors

Li, Peilin is an Academic Member of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He now serves as Vice-president of CASS. He earned his Ph.D. at University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) in 1987. He has published and edited many articles, books, and essay collections, in Chinese, English, and French, on social stratification and mobility (particular Chinese domestic migrant workers) and economic sociology (particular Chinese State Enterprises). He is also hosting several large projects, including “Chinese general social survey”, one of largest and earliest national sociological survey since 2006.

Gorshkov, Mikhail K., Director of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (former Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences), renowned for his investigations in social philosophy, sociology of mass consciousness and sociology of public opinion, methodology and methods of sociological research, sociology of youth, sociology of identity, sociology of social inequalities, sociology of Russian everyday life, etc.



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