Impacts of Contemporary Social Ideological Trend on the Formation of College Students’ Core Value and Solutions

Abstract

The contemporary Chinese social ideological trend is characterized by fluidity, reality, activity and comprehensiveness, which reflects interest and demands of certain stratum, class or social group. In an era of information explosion, with various social ideological trends in west countries swarming into China, certain influence has been brought to the formation of college students' core value. As a forward position for the generation and spread of ideology and culture, institutions of higher education should vigorously encourage and example some positive and advanced social ideological trends to uphold socialist system and socialist ideology; as for those wrong ideological trends spread among college students, we must distinguish them and educate students to keep away from them. We must guide contemporary social ideological trends with Marxism to cultivate youth with firm belief in Marxism, lead college education, practice and campus culture construction and eliminate negative impacts of social ideological trends on college students with various social ideological trends guided by socialist core value system and find an effective way help cultivate college students' socialist core value and carry out practice of socialist core value. Overview of several social ideological trends in contemporary China Old left-wing ideology The major expression of the old left-wing ideology is taking class struggle as central task. Its main characteristic is resisting the criticism on Mao Zedong's mistakes in old age and criticism on Cultural Revolution and criticizing the comprehensive restoration of capitalism in China since the reform an opening up. It deems that planned economy is undeniable and considers some problems in China are resulted from reform and opening up. New left-wing ideology The obvious difference between the old left-wing ideology and new left-wing ideology lies in that its followers mainly concentrate in universities and colleges and the old left-wing ideology and its followers are some closed minded people in vulnerable groups. The new left-wing ideology is mainly affected by western contemporary new left-wing ideology and proposed that there are serious problems in the polarization between the rich and poor and corruption problems. Some scholars pointed out that the new-left wing ideology is a disease itself instead of a prescription.