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I have a lifelong habit of being exposed to new things. During my Doctoral studies, I took courses in Community Sociology, Social Psychology, Statistics and Communication, in addition to the required courses. At that time, there was a teacher who taught Statistics but had nothing to do with Sociology and as a result, I took good advantage of his mastery at Statistics and learned a lot of statistical methods from him to apply them to my sociological research. Besides, as I had a background in journalism, I also enjoyed the courses taught by some teachers who were doing research in communication and media. I always try to expose myself to different aspects of learning. Whereas some scholars focus only on the same field of study as they did when they were students, my interests are expansive, trying always to get in touch with new things and fields, then sticking to those that interest me most with further in-depth research.
This oral account has been checked and approved by Prof Lin Nan. I hereby give him my thanks.
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Everett M. Rogers (1931–2004) was one of the most prominent contemporary American scholars in communication, as well as a renowned sociologist, author and teacher. Prof Rogers established himself as an authority in contemporary communication by being a key pioneer in the development of this area. He successively taught at Ohio State University (1957–1963), Michigan State University (1964–1973) and the University of Michigan (1973–1975), and subsequently became Janet M. Peck Professor of International Communication at Stanford University (1975–1985) and Walter Annenberg Professor of Communication at USC Annenberg (1985–1993). He also taught as a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá (1963–1964) and at the University of Paris in France (1981). He was also nominated as President of the International Communication Association (1980–1981) and a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California (1991–1992).
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In recent years, Prof Lin Nan’s areas of research include: research on social capital in China’s urban labour market, research on job-seeking processes in American cities, comparative research on wedding banquets in Chinese cities (including Hong Kong and Taiwan regions) (co-authorship), and research on the transformation of rural enterprises in China. His published books include Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and Action (2001); Social Capital: Theory and Research (2001); Production and Returns of Social Capital: Evidence from Urban China; Social Capital and Its Institutional Contingency; Building a Network Theory of Social Capital: Theory and Research (1999). His academic ideals are well revealed in these works.
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Nan, L. (2023). Establishing Principle and Discipline with an Integration of the East and the West. In: **aohong, Z. (eds) The Reconstruction of Chinese Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8198-2_3
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