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Chaxugeju: The Differential Mode of Association - 中欧社会论坛 - China Europa Forum

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In this chapter, Fei Xiaotong addresses the problem of selfishness vis-à-vis each person’s service to, and responsability for, the public welfare, i.e., the problem of the line between the group and the individual. He claims that, in Western societies, individuals form organizations, whereby each organizations has its own boundaries defining who is part of the organization and who is not, and the relation of each individual to the organization is the same. All members in an organization are equivalent. He calls this an “organizational mode of association” (tuantigeju). In China, on the contrary, each individual is claimed to be surrounded by a series of concentric circles, produced by one’s own social influence. Each web of social relations has a self as its center. Each circle spreading out from the center becomes more distant and at the same time more insignificant. Everyone’s circles are interrelated, and one touches different circles at different times and places. On different occ

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