Research On The Political View Of Contemporary University Students

“Who to be cultivated” and “how to cultivate people” are the fundamental andstrategic issues which must be well solved in the socialist education of China.University students’ political view is closely related to the growth direction of thetalented, and is related to the future development of socialism with Chinesecharacteristics. Since the reform and opening, the research on university students’political view has always been a basic subject of ideological and political education, afresh topic whenever it is mentioned, and also an advancing topic with the times.This dissertation, using the basic principle of Marxist political theory as thetheoretical foundation, learns from the useful contents in western political theories andabsorbs the ethical and political thoughts of ancient Chinese political culture. Throughthe theoretical research and empirical analysis, the dissertation outlines the developmentmomentum of university students’ political view after the founding of China, carries onan overall, systematical, dynamic, comprehensive and integrated research oncontemporary university students’ political view. From the four dimensions―thepolitical attention, political cognition, political emotion and political belief, itpanoramically pictures the development of contemporary university students’ politicalview after the mid-1990s, providing useful guidance for the contemporary universitystudents’ political education.The dissertation consists of four parts, which is divided into seven chapters.The first part, namely chapter one “introduction”, which is the foundation of theresearch on university students’ political view, introduces the origin of the research,theoretical value and practical significance. From Multi-disciplinary and historical angle,it analyzes and comments the domestic and foreign scholars’ theories and researchesabout university students’ political view. And it sets forth the basic thoughts, maincontents, the innovation and researching methods of this study.The second part, including chapter two “the theoretical foundation and idea forreference of the university students’ political view” and chapter three “the hierarchicalstructure and historical development of contemporary university students’ political view”, is the academic basis and basic theoretical research of university students’political view. It focuses on analyzing and expounding the theories in Marxist politicalview, which can play a direct leading role in guiding the dissertation, especiallyanalyzes the rich development and history of Marxist political view which is pushed bythe communist party of China after the founding of China, discussing the beneficialcontents about the western political view and the Chinese ancient political view. On thisbasis, using the generalized political theory as the cornerstone, the dissertation gives thedefinition of contemporary university students’ political view, interprets its connotation,discriminates the related concepts and carries on the diversified analysis on the structureof political view. It puts forward the four-dimensional structure of contemporaryuniversity students’ political view: political attention, political cognition, politicalemotion and political beliefs, providing researching paths for the empirical analysis andpractical investigation on contemporary university students’ political view.The third part, including chapter4“the analysis on the present situation andcorrelative characteristics of contemporary university students’ political view” andchapter5“the empirical analysis and revelation on theoretical model”, is the empiricalstudy of university students’ political view.On the basis of four-dimensional structureand the survey data, it uses SPSS and other statistical software on social science to carryon the Omni-directional and multi-angle statistical analysis on the survey data since1997. With the data and charts, the overall status, development trend and regularitycharacteristics of four major components (political attention, political cognition,political emotion and political beliefs) of contemporary university students’ politicalview have been vividly shown. According to Marxism theory on the environment, andthe relationship between education and university students’ political view, this partargues to build theoretical structural model. By equation analysis with the aid ofstatistical software “LISREL”, it explores the operational mechanism of contemporaryuniversity students’ political view.The fourth part, the foothold of the research, includes chapter six “the educationalguidance of contemporary university students’ political education” and chapter seven"conclusion". On the basis of the situation analysis and the regularity revealing in theprevious sections, the part proposes constructive comments to enhance the effectivenessof university students’ political education: to adhere to the Party leadership, to adhere to the dominant position of Marxism theory education, to strengthen the real leading rolerational patriotism education, and to expansion of the space for the social practice of thepolitical theory education, especially enhance virtual university students social practice.Finally, in conclusion part, it sums up the main points of this dissertation, discusses itsprofessional position, function and value of the research, points out the existingdeficiencies and limitations at present, carries out on the direction, content and design inthe future.