【主讲】梁平汉 副教授 (西南财经大学)
【主题】Persistent Anti-Intellectual Views among Old Sent-down Youth- A Legacy of the Cultural Revolution
【时间】2013年5月16日 (周四) 15：30-17：00
【地点】上海财经大学经济学院楼801室
【语言】中文
【摘要】Does the political movements in modern China have any persistent impact on the individuals who experience it? This paper uses China General Social Survey 2006 to empirically examine the impact of the Send-down experiences on social trust. We use Principal Component Analysis to extract the trust level toward different social institutions. We document that individuals who have been sent down do not exhibit any significantly different general trust level. However, we find out that those "Old sent-down youth" (laosanjie) significantly distrust the intellectuals and experts, and this distrust is not affected by social status, education attainment, etc.. The traditional view about socialization and cultural transmission could not convincingly explain this result. Therefore, this paper suggests that the distinct experience of the Red Guard of the old-three-generation leads to the persistent distrust towards intellectuals, and proposes an explanation based on group identity formation and cognitive dissonance.
