Study On Peasants' Political Identity In China During Social Transformation

Political identity is a sense of belonging to the political awareness and emotion,which is closely related to people's psychological activities.In different historical periods,not only the standard of political identity but also the different member of the political subject identity is quite different.Contemporary China is in a transition from a planned economy to a market economy,the traditional society to the transition of modern society,social contradictions and conflicts continuing to accumulate,and the interests and values of social members tending to multiple during the constant changes.In China,peasants are the largest group in the whole society.The political identity of peasants is not only related to the stability of rural social politics,but also an important foundation of the legitimacy of the CPC.It is based on the problem of peasant political identity during the period of social transformation as the research object.First of all,this paper describes thebackground and significance of peasants' political identity during the social transformation,shows the related research in domestic and foreign presently,clears ideas,methods and proposes innovation.Secondly,it is defined the peasant political identity on the basic of the theory of political identification,then the “state-society” analytical framework and the unity of political identification theory are analyzed in theory,points out the problem of the relationship between state and society,the essence is the national power and the penetration and influence between social rights,and the state power and social rights of variables is not only the cause and resolve the root cause of social contradictions,is also a core issue of political identity investigation,the principle of dialectical unification relations laid a theoretical basis for this paper,study peasant political identity.Again,this paper discusses the changes of Chinese rural society during the period of social transformation,this paper on discussion the social transformation will inevitably affect peasant political identity: that is social transformation on the one hand,peasant political identification subject from “people” to “citizens” identity transformation,on the other hand,promoted the political modernization of political identification object.Then on the basis of a large number of real materials,not only from the performance of the peasant political identity dimensions namely peasant political cognition,political emotion,political attitude and political participation,analyzes the positive aspects of peasant political identity during the period of social transformation,discusses the performance of peasant political identity weakened at the same time.Again,to use the “state-society” analysis framework,this paper expounds the effect factors of peasant political identity construction during the period of social transformation “interests-system-value”,this paper discusses the influence of various structural elements in intrinsic relations for peasant political identity.It points out that not only the government-led management node can't effectively protect the interests of farmers,and rural social organizations also can't better providing guarantee organization for farmers to implement and maintain their own rights and interests.Not only the defects of the system of rural current is one of the important reasons,peasants are treated unfairly and lack of participation and influence the rural system and democratization and scientific process of decision making.Not only at the grass-roots level government and party organizations in the construction ofmainstream ideology in the rural areas,there is not better to play a leading role,and less on the basic spiritual and cultural life of the people,which makes rural mainstream ideology construction in difficulties.Finally,from how to improve the peasants' political cognition,cultivating political emotion,the political attitude and standardize the political participation and so on,it puts forward the measures to strengthen the peasant political identity for farmers' sense of belonging during the period of social transformation,the communist party of China win the important solid legitimacy foundation,and realize the social and political stability in the end.The paper may be innovative in the following areas.First,according to the theory of political identity and the “state-society” unified research framework as the theoretical basis,it is used the research perspectives and methods of the “political sociology” as a new attempt to study of the problem of peasant political identity.In this paper,on the basis of political identification theory,the research of peasant political identity during the period of social transformation in the field of national and social interaction.It is put peasant political identity problems caused by social transformation of rural transformation in the context of social change with such a “political-sociology research perspectives and methods”,which is beneficial not only for expanding the content of research on peasant political identity and vision but also in seeking a reasonable tension between state power and social rights to highlights in the research of peasant political identity theory rationality and value rationality character for avoiding the simple political science research and experience of sociological study one-sidedness and abstractness,to follow the principle of facts and value of the reasonable balance in order to explore the path of enhanced peasant political identity.Secondly,the research content of the peasants' political identity is expanded,and a general mechanism model for enhancing the political identification of peasants is preliminarily constructed.Namely management modernization,peasants' political participation in the government institutionalization and state ideology,normalized construction of spiritual civilization: “modernization together,righteousness and simultaneously,governing and using together”.The author puts the political identification theory and the “state-society” and unified analysis framework on the relationship between power and right,and points out that the reconstruction of relation between state and society during the period of social transformation is the adjustment of the dialectical relationship between state power and social rights and processing,which is not only the cause the resolve the root cause of social contradictions,is also a core issues of political identity investigation,the unity of both laid a theoretical foundation for the study of peasants' political identity.Based on this theoretical framework,the author analyzes the influence the internal relations of peasants' identity,emphasizes the social justice in enhance the important role of peasant political identity.At the same time,the author builds a strengthen peasant political identity system of countermeasures on how to improve the peasants' political awareness,cultivatethe peasants' political emotion,the peasants' political attitude and the standard of peasants' political participation,which is not only the development to research the peasants' political identity but also tries to develop the further research.