摘要
家庭是理解彩礼性质和彩礼变迁的重要变量。婚姻偿付理论和婚姻资助理论关于彩礼性质的解释存在形式主义的局限。事实上,彩礼嵌入在特定的家庭再生产模式中,并受到家庭动力学机制的具体规定。华南地区的联合家庭再生产模式是理解当地低额彩礼的结构性原因。这种家庭再生产模式具有低度代际支持、低度代内竞争和低度社区竞争等特点,强调联合家庭整体的文化认同,从而抑制了彩礼上涨的动力,维持了彩礼水平的相对均衡。联合家庭再生产模式具有相对独立性,它有助于抵消婚姻市场失衡导致的婚姻要价效应,进而低成本地实现家庭再生产。
Family is the important variable to understand the nature and the transition of betrothal gifts.The marriage payment theory and marriage endowment theory have some limitations of formalism about the explanation of the nature of betrothal gifts.In fact,the betrothal gifts has embedded in a particular mode of family reproduction,and has been stipulated specifically by family dynamics mechanism.The joint family reproduction pattern in southern China is the structural cause to understand the lower betrothal gifts.This family reproduction model has the characters of low intergenerational support,low competition in the generation and low community competition,and it emphasizes the whole cultural identity of joint family,thus refraining the impetus of rising the bride price and maintaining a relatively balanced bride price.Joint family reproduction pattern has relative independence.It helps to counteract the effect of marriage price which has been generated by the imbalance of marriage market and realize the family reproduction at a lower cost.
作者
李永萍
Li Yongping(Research Center for Rural Governance,Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
出处
《当代青年研究》
CSSCI
2018年第3期96-102,共7页
Contemporary Youth Research
基金
国家社科基金青年项目"婚姻价值变迁视角下的转型期农村离婚问题研究"的阶段性成果
项目编号:14CRK021
关键词
联合家庭
家庭再生产
宗族性村庄
低额彩礼
Joint Family
Family Reproduction
Patriarchal Village
the Lower Betrothal Gifts
