Basing on a comparison between Marx and Weber on social stratification,the author provides an empirical study on Shanghai social strata with a multiple stratification analysis.The work focuses on a framework of occupa...Basing on a comparison between Marx and Weber on social stratification,the author provides an empirical study on Shanghai social strata with a multiple stratification analysis.The work focuses on a framework of occupational status including such dimensions as power,wealth and status position and so on.The author reveals that there are five great social strata with hierarchy in Shanghai:the top group composed mainly of leading cadres,private enterprisers and agents of foreignbusiness;the second group composed of clerks in all sorts of institute;the third group composed of professionals;the forth one with trade and business persons as main body;the last one composed of workers,farmers and attendants.In respect of social interaction,social network and life style,there are substantial differences among these occupation groups.Social mobility within them is basically some kind of structural mobility.The mechanism of social resource allocation is firstly through power,then capital and labor.The author also deals with the matter of Chinese middle class and civil society.展开更多
This paper explores the continuality of effects of work unit in intergenerational mobility in urban China based on a 1996 survey data from Wuhan city. Statistical findings suggest that the sector, rank, and size of pa...This paper explores the continuality of effects of work unit in intergenerational mobility in urban China based on a 1996 survey data from Wuhan city. Statistical findings suggest that the sector, rank, and size of parents’ work unit have significant effects on that of their children’s first work unit since 1978, and this intergenerational inheritance of work unit is becoming more and more significant even after 1986 when dingti and neizhao policy was abolished. It also shows that through all history periods (1949-1966, 1966-1976, 1977-1986, and 1987-1996), despite of its increasing effects on occupational status, education has only relatively limited effects on the entrance to work units compared with that of parents’ work unit. The authors conclude that the effect of work unit on social mobility has not declined, on the contrary, it is, together with education, continuously playing a role in urban Chinese citizen status attainment.展开更多
This article focuses on the study of attitudes toward social inequality in urban China. The study based on a sample survey conducted in Changchun city. Indicators in the questionnaire are designed to measure three typ...This article focuses on the study of attitudes toward social inequality in urban China. The study based on a sample survey conducted in Changchun city. Indicators in the questionnaire are designed to measure three types of social inequalities including income inequality, housing inequality and health care inequality. Chinese attitudes toward social inequality are explained in a refined model.展开更多
文摘Basing on a comparison between Marx and Weber on social stratification,the author provides an empirical study on Shanghai social strata with a multiple stratification analysis.The work focuses on a framework of occupational status including such dimensions as power,wealth and status position and so on.The author reveals that there are five great social strata with hierarchy in Shanghai:the top group composed mainly of leading cadres,private enterprisers and agents of foreignbusiness;the second group composed of clerks in all sorts of institute;the third group composed of professionals;the forth one with trade and business persons as main body;the last one composed of workers,farmers and attendants.In respect of social interaction,social network and life style,there are substantial differences among these occupation groups.Social mobility within them is basically some kind of structural mobility.The mechanism of social resource allocation is firstly through power,then capital and labor.The author also deals with the matter of Chinese middle class and civil society.
文摘This paper explores the continuality of effects of work unit in intergenerational mobility in urban China based on a 1996 survey data from Wuhan city. Statistical findings suggest that the sector, rank, and size of parents’ work unit have significant effects on that of their children’s first work unit since 1978, and this intergenerational inheritance of work unit is becoming more and more significant even after 1986 when dingti and neizhao policy was abolished. It also shows that through all history periods (1949-1966, 1966-1976, 1977-1986, and 1987-1996), despite of its increasing effects on occupational status, education has only relatively limited effects on the entrance to work units compared with that of parents’ work unit. The authors conclude that the effect of work unit on social mobility has not declined, on the contrary, it is, together with education, continuously playing a role in urban Chinese citizen status attainment.
文摘This article focuses on the study of attitudes toward social inequality in urban China. The study based on a sample survey conducted in Changchun city. Indicators in the questionnaire are designed to measure three types of social inequalities including income inequality, housing inequality and health care inequality. Chinese attitudes toward social inequality are explained in a refined model.
