NENU held the 2nd Symposium on “Theory and Reality of Marxist Sociology” in Changchun on October 17, focusing on the development of an independent knowledge system for Chinese sociology. Chang Qing, Deputy Party Secretary and Vice President of NENU, and Zhang Yi, Director of the Institute of Social Development Strategy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and President of the Chinese Sociological Association, attended the opening ceremony and delivered remarks. The opening ceremony was chaired by Professor Meng Xiansheng from the School of Marxism at NENU, and the event drew more than 100 experts, scholars, and faculty and student representatives from CASS, Renmin University of China, Jilin University, and other research institutions and universities.
The symposium comprised three frontier sub-forums, addressing, respectively, the theoretical construction of Marxist sociology and its Chinese practice; digital capitalism and the restructuring of labor order; and everyday life practices, cultural production, and the remaking of subjectivity amid social transformation.
(From News Center, translated by Fu Yingying, revised by Chen Yanxu)
