The Impact Of Social Mobility On Class Status Identification Deviation In China

The study of social class is always a comtinuous theme in the field of science sociology. As one part of this theme, class status identification deviation has become an increasing concern of the scholars. Scholars also propose some theories on the formation mechanism of class status identification deviation, like structural determinism, relative deprivation, identification fragmented. From the perspective of social mobility,we use the data of Chinese General Social Survey(CGSS) 2010 and focuses on Chinese urban and rural residents. This paper establishes multiple linear regression models to exam the relationship between social mobility and class status identification deviation. Also, this paper compares the diffierent impact of social mobility between Chinese urban and rural residents.Firstly, based on latent class analysis, we construct a uni-dimensional measure for objective status and status identification deviation. We find that Chinese residents' subjective status identification has a large deviation and the deviation has a tendency to move towards the center. Secondly, this paper analyses the impact of social mobility on class status identification deviation. We find that compared to horizontal mobility, people who has a intergenerational occupational upward mobility or intergenerational educational mobility overestimate their social status and people who experience the intergenerational downward mobility have no significant differences. This conclusion efficiently support Lipset's asymmetry effect. Statistical findings also reveal that the perceived upward social mobility is positively correlated with overestimating social status. Finally, we compare the diffierent impact of social mobility on class status identification deviation between Chinese urban and rural residents. Regression analyses demonstrate that the effects of intergenerational occupational mobility, intergenerational educational mobility and perceived mobility both differ between urban and rural residents.