Wang nan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Sociology, M.A. Supervisor

Male, born in January 1982, Han nationality, native of Changli, Hebei Province. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Sociology, School of Sociology, China University of Political Science and Law, and supervisor of master students. His main research areas are classical sociological theory, early modern Western social theory, film and social culture.

Courses: Foreign Sociological Theories, History of Western Social Thought, Seminar on Sociological Theories, Modern Society in Classical Literature and Film and Television.

From September 1999 to July 2003, he studied at the School of Economics, Peking University, where he received a Bachelor's degree in Economics.

Monographs.

Labor and Property: a Study of John Locke's Thought, Shanghai: Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore, October 2014

Liberty and Education: The Educational Philosophy of Locke and Rousseau (co-author), Beijing: Life-Reading-New Knowledge Books, September 2012, reprinted in 2019.

Papers.

"The State of Nature and Political Society: John Locke's View of Modern Society," in Social Theory Series, No. 2, The Foundations of Commercial Society, edited by Qu Jingdong, Beijing: Commercial Press, November 2020.

"Natural Law and Tolerance: Locke's Standpoint of Faith and Its Modern Significance", Xuehai, No. 5, 2020.

"Secrets of the Sun", Reading, No. 9, 2020

"The Civic Phantom", Reading, No. 4, 2020

"Weeping Killing Hearts", Reading, No. 2, 2020

"Subversion and emptiness: the dilemma of subjectivity in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Hamlet", Society, no. 1, 2020

"Tradition and Crisis in the American Social Sciences: a Review of Dorothy Rose's Origins of the American Social Sciences," in Tsinghua Social Science, Vol. 1, No. 1, July 2009

"The recognition and practice of value ideals: the ethical education of Max Weber", Society, Issue 6, 2018

"Durkheim's Suicide Theory and the Moral Crisis in Modern Society", Scholastic, No. 2, 2018

"Durkheim’s: moral original and modern trends - taking the suicide type as a clue", Society, No. 6, 2017

"Moral Personality in Modern Society - On Durkheim's Thought of Moral Education", BJU Education Review, No. 4, 2016

"Labour as Self-Governance - A Brief Analysis of John Locke's View of Labour", Academic Exchange, No. 8, 2015.

"Dancing with the Devil", Reading, No. 7, 2015.

"The Legislator and the Law of Nature -- A Review of Nud Harkonsson's The Science of the Legislator", in Social Theory Series, No. 1: "Turgen: Society and the State", edited by Dui Jingdong, Beijing: Commercial Press, December 2014.

"The Science of Values - Weberian Social Science Methodology Revisited", Society, No. 6, 2014.

"'The Past Trilogy' and the American Dream - Reading The Leone’s Past", Reading, No. 8, 2013.

"Individual Property and Common Wealth - A Reading of Locke's 'On Property' in the Second Treatise of Government", History of Social Thought, No. 3, 2013.

"Property as a Natural Right -- Locke's Doctrine of Natural Law", in Enlightenment and Its Limitations, edited by Luo Weidong and Chen Zhengguo, published by Zhejiang University Press, December 2012.

"Nurturing Liberty - A Reading of Locke's Philosophy of Education", in Locke and the Democratic Society (Ideas and Society No. 8), published in December 2012.

"Parsons and Democratic Society - A Review of Uta Gerhardt's Parsons Academic Thought", Sociological Research, No. 4, 2010.

"Adam Smith's view of society: a natural order derived from human nature", Sociological Research, No. 6, 2006.

"Humanity and Nature in the Thought of Adam Smith" Social Theory No. 4, June 2008

"The Body of the State and the Natural Social Nature of Man: A Review of Joseph Cropsey's The Body of the State and the Body of Scripture." In Thought and Society, Fifth Series, Modern Politics and Morality, Shanghai Sanlian Publishing House, 2006.

Scientific research projects.

Project leader of the National Social Science Foundation of China: "Research on Political Sociology and Social Governance in 18th-19th Century Britain" (18BSH002).

National Social Science Foundation of China (13FJL005), "Labor and Property: A Study of John Locke's Thought".

University-level humanities and social science research project: "Virtue and Profit - A Study of Early Modern Western Business Social Theory" (Leader)

Translation.

The Origins of the Social Sciences in the United States, by Roth.

On Humanistic Education, by Vico.

Globalization and Inequality: Topics of Conceptualization and Explanation, by Glenn Thorburn, translated by Qin Fangming and Wang Nan, Sociological Research, No. 3, 2003.

Jing Tiankui, Editor-in-Chief, Introduction to the Original Works of Sociology, Higher Education Press, April 2007.

Honours.

2016，Fourth China University of Political Science and Law Outstanding Research Achievement Award for Young Teachers.

2015，Society Magazine 10th Anniversary Rising Star Author Award

2013,  The second Shiheng Young Scholar and was awarded the honorary title of "Shiheng Scholar".

Lecturer at the University of Politics and Law of China for school-level courses of excellence

Member of the Young Academic Innovation Team, China University of Political Science and Law