President Invites You For Lectures--Zheng Yefu Discusses Daily Life

Mr. Liu Xincheng, President of Capital Normal University invited the famous Professor Zheng Yefu with the sociology science department of Peking University to give a lecture Sociology Reflections on Daily Life on March 19. The activity was hosted by the President secretary Mr. Li Qiang. Professor Zheng is an old friend in the normal education field.
Professor Zheng elaborated his sociology reflections upon four daily life fields, namely feeding, clothing, housing and traveling, and how to explain different problems and situations in daily life from the sociology point of view. Mr. Zheng put his lecture into 3 catalogues: firstly, consumers seem to have freedom in their consumptions, but their activities actually are inevitable consequences of business campaigns initialized by businessmen elaborately; secondly, after the basic clothing and feeding needs are met, the sense of happiness from different human beings is considerably different from each other; thirdly, human body structure does not change greatly in modern times than in old times, but social environment changed tremendously. Therefore, modern people shall encourage daily life that has spiritual alikeness with our ancestors, and should not adopt their life styles blindly. The lecture by Professor Zheng expressed great meanings with small things, which has humorous styles and makes people contemplate. After the lecture, Professor Zheng answered questions from active audience students one by one.
Professor Zheng Yefu was born in Beijing in 1950, who studied in Beijing Normal College in 1978. Zheng passed examinations for the Graduate School with the Chinese Academy of Social Science in 1979 and was awarded a Master s Degree in Philosophy in 1982. Professor Zheng joined in the Sociology Department with Denver University of USA for academic researches during 1985 to 1986, and was awarded a Master s Degree in Sociology then. Zheng worked for Beijing Academy of Social Science, China Academy of Social Science, People s University of China and Peking University. He was once the host to CCTV programme Oriental Child and the producer to Tell It Like It Is.