Abstract：The activists refer to the key minority among common folks who are willing to actively engage in collective activities for the common good or public interest. Since the mid-20th century, the activists in China's revolution and construction process has gradually become a topic for academic research. Foreign scholars have studied them from the perspectives of politics, sociology and political economy, but they have not made it an independent topic. Domestic scholars have gone through four stages and adopted three modes in terms of research strategies and narrative devices: symbol-definition, behavior-process and historical textual research. The literature from the 1950s to the early 1980s was characterized by strong political propaganda, which conveyed the political orientation of the ideological planning and social spirit of the time to the activists. Since the mid-1980s, right-oriented activists and autonomy-oriented activists have been regarded as a structural fact and political phenomenon that cannot afford to be ignored in grass-roots communities in the process of reform. At the same time, the role of activists in previous revolutionary movements becomes a research topic of historical politics. On the whole, the research process of activists gets increasingly diverse in disciplinary background, localized in stance, and empirical in methodology. The comprehensive research on the existing theoretical issues and relevant knowledge of activists, on one hand, responds to and refines the mass line theory and social mobilization theory, on the other hand, shows “Chinese characteristics” of the changes in grass-roots politics and social governance in the past century.
唐娟. 群众积极分子研究：进路、知识谱系与研究策略[J]. 《深圳大学学报》（人文社科版）, 2021, 38(3): 29-37.
TANG Juan. Study of Activists: Development Process, Theoretical Genealogy and Research Strategies. , 2021, 38(3): 29-37.
2021, Vol. 38 
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