Chinese economic reform is marked by an ideological and factual change from egalitarianism to“let some people get rich first”. How do Chinese people perceive the emergence or the change in social inequality? How can...Chinese economic reform is marked by an ideological and factual change from egalitarianism to“let some people get rich first”. How do Chinese people perceive the emergence or the change in social inequality? How can we explain their differences in perception of social stratification?I review two main theoretical approaches on the emergence of class-consciousness. The first one is structural approach ,the second one is dynamic approach that focuses on the impact of relative changes in socioeconomic status on class-consciousness. Logistic regression analysis shows that people who experienced relative deprivation of economic, power, or cultural resources, are more likely to perceive the society as stratified than those who are in relatively advantaged situations. Therefore, I conclude that the second approach is better for explaining people’s perception of social stratification in the transformation-era urban China. A byproduct finding from the statistical results suggests that the transition to market economy may increase economic return to cadres on individual level while relatively decrease economic return to power organization on institutional level.展开更多
With social transformation,social strata disunite increasingly, benefit groups become more complicated, profession prestige deviates from income and the gap between the poor and the rich enlarges. As a result,social t...With social transformation,social strata disunite increasingly, benefit groups become more complicated, profession prestige deviates from income and the gap between the poor and the rich enlarges. As a result,social tension strengthens. The defect of institution design and the flaw of institution execution block the way from settling social tenseness, which results in increasing crime rate. The anthor points out that criminal phenomena come from the social tenseness, which is not settled, in social disunion.展开更多
文摘Chinese economic reform is marked by an ideological and factual change from egalitarianism to“let some people get rich first”. How do Chinese people perceive the emergence or the change in social inequality? How can we explain their differences in perception of social stratification?I review two main theoretical approaches on the emergence of class-consciousness. The first one is structural approach ,the second one is dynamic approach that focuses on the impact of relative changes in socioeconomic status on class-consciousness. Logistic regression analysis shows that people who experienced relative deprivation of economic, power, or cultural resources, are more likely to perceive the society as stratified than those who are in relatively advantaged situations. Therefore, I conclude that the second approach is better for explaining people’s perception of social stratification in the transformation-era urban China. A byproduct finding from the statistical results suggests that the transition to market economy may increase economic return to cadres on individual level while relatively decrease economic return to power organization on institutional level.
文摘With social transformation,social strata disunite increasingly, benefit groups become more complicated, profession prestige deviates from income and the gap between the poor and the rich enlarges. As a result,social tension strengthens. The defect of institution design and the flaw of institution execution block the way from settling social tenseness, which results in increasing crime rate. The anthor points out that criminal phenomena come from the social tenseness, which is not settled, in social disunion.
