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The Marital Strategy Of Peasant Laborers In Cities' Transformational Period

Posted on:2009-06-12Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:D LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360245999292Subject:Sociology
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Taking the transformation of Chinese cities and countryside as the background ,the thesis focus on the conception of 'marrital strategy' about the peasant laborers. Practice is the basic living way of human beings, and the marriage strategy of the peasant laborers has a close relationship with their life surviving practice and the social background.The conception of 'marriage strategy' came from the Practical Theory of Bourdieu. His Practical Theory is about the basic question of the conception of Social Practice, such as where the actor is, how to practise, what kinds of practices can be used etc. That means what practical space, practical logic and practical tools are. Bourdieu solved three basic question on the conception of Socail Practice by bring in the conceptions of champ, habitus, capital and the relationships of them. Champ is the pratical space of actor, habitus is the practical logic, giving an answer on how actor pratices, capital is about the practical tools. At the same time of quoting from the classic theory of Bourdieu, writer gave a explanation and definition of this conception, also classified 'Marital Strategy' from the theory of reasonal choice and the standard of choosing a spouse. My thesis emphasized the dialectical relationship between the social transformation and marital strategy of the peasant laborers, which also means undering the background of social transformation the marital strategy of peasant laborers is deicided by the surviving and parctical living of themselves and it reflected the transformation of citied and countryside of our country at the same time.On the research method, qualitative reaserch is mainly used by case study while quantitative research is used like an assistant by qustionnaire. Factory S and Village P of County P in Shanghai were picked up as the objects of. case research in field. Simultaneously qustionnaire was used to get some basic imformation on marriage of peasant larborbers.The full text will be divided into 7 chapters structurally. The first chapter is the introduction, in which introducing the origin of this thesis, significance and the commentary of correlated documentes domestic and abroad.The second chapter gives an infinition and explanation of 'Marital Strategy', and explains how to use it into the specific research.The third chapter is about the live and practice of peasant laborers. The field investigation is introduced specifically in order to make readers have a deeper understanding on the objective practical life of the young peasant laborers in Village P of County P of Shanghai.The fourth chapeter is about marriage champ which also called marriage circle. Firstly it introduced the social circle of marriage champ. According to the objective living condition of the peasant laborers in cities, the marriage social circle of them must be in same stratum as they have been deeply influenced by the traditional conception of' Matched for Marriage' Although there are several daughter-in-law externally in Shanghai, writer takes it as a reciprocal need between the person concerned and the family, so it is neither ourmarry nor marriage with person who has a lower stratum. We usually thingk that the marriage distance of peasant laborers will be further as the larger of their social circle is being. But we found that the marriage distance of peasant laborers isn't extanding but reducing gradually. We got it by the way of comparing the marriage distance between the villages who got married befor the Reform and opening and the 1st, 2nd, new generation in the Village L, also including the marriage distance of the married and the prospect marriage distance of unmarried peasant laborbes of Factory S in Shanghai.The fifth chapter is about the marriage capital strategy of peasant laborers. The writer gave a infinition of the conception of ' capital'. Firstly on the natural capital factor of marriage, it introduced the change of marriage age and different requests of the companion' s appearance in different periods between the peasant laborers now and their farthers' generation of Village L and Factory S .Secondly, on the economical capital strategy, it introduced that the marriage cost of their farthers' generation was mainly spent on the expensive betrothal gifts and other expenditure of marrige, some poor family even choosed some special way to make children marry such as son-in-law by adoption or changing the daughters between two families to match two couples. The peasant laborers of new generation tend to the free love. Quite large of them don' t ask the family to pay for the expensive betrothal gifts but solve it by earning money themselves in cities. when they are having a love before marriage there will be some pre-cost, so there is a risk that the marriage doesn' t succeed althought the monney has been invested. It' s totally different because if the marriage does' t succeed in their farthers' times, the betrothal gifts will be returened.The sixth chapter is about love choice of the peasant laborers' marriage. Love comes from practice. Because of poor family, monotonous life, heavy physical labor, marry by matchmaker and the influence of the traditional conception, before Reform and Opening most of the married villagers are ' Fostering love after marrigae' . This kind of marrigae is relatively stable, and seldom leads to divorce by not getting on well with each other. The young peasant laborers of Village L and Factory S pay more and more attention to the importance of the affection factors in marrigae, tending to 'Fostering love before marriage' , and it leads to some phenomenons of divorce by not getting well with each other.The seventh chapter is the conclusion of the full test. Firstly it summarized the basic viewpoint of this thesis. The marriage strategy of the young peasant laborers objectively reflects the practical logic of their survival, living and debelopment. Although the social and regional circle of the peasant laborers' marrigage champ is enlarging relatively. They tend to get married later and emphasize the affection factors. However deciding by the status in cities and the city-country dual identity, their marriage still belongs to 'parallel marriage in same stratum ' .Then shortages of the thesis and the questions which need a further research are raised in this chapter. Writer suppoesed that Chinese household registation system will be hard to change for quite a long time, as the quick development of our country' s socioty and economic, city-county dual identity system will be reformed essentially, the society and economic of cities and countryside will be planed in whole and make them coordinate with each other,the external form and internal essence will tend to be same, and the marriage strategy of peasant laborbers is just the transition of this tendency, the time depends on the reformation of our country' s household registration system, the overall condiderable development of cities and countryside,and the conceptional change of peasant laborers coming into cities.
Keywords/Search Tags:social transformation, peasant laborer, marital strategy
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