Class Culture Clashes And Integration

In the circumstances of the greatly changes of our social structure, the traditional analysis methods of social stratum structure and stratum relations can' t adapt to these changes wholly. Academic circles once introduced and used several new analysis methods. Among them are two common methods which are the analysis method of interest communities and the analysis method of stratum.Yet, people haven' t paid enough attention to stratum relations from culture angle for a long time in the past. It provides us a complete angle to study stratum relations from culture angle.From sociology point of view, the stratum culture means different symbols through which people reveal and determine their status. The symbols consist of material products and spiritual products and stratum consciousness and value concepts and behavior modes so on. The stratum culture is the multiple embodiments of stratum consciousness and value concepts and behavior modes so on, which come from the economic and political legal benefits that stratums strive to get.The characters of the stratum culture include the nature of classification and the nature of distinction and the nature of conflict and the nature of taste and the nature of circulation and the nature of stability. The main functions of the stratum culture comprise social stratification, social orientation, socialization, distinction, reproduction of stratum relations and the development of legal system, etc. The stratification mechanisms of the stratum culture are production mechanism and consumption mechanism and media mechanism and inheritance mechanism.Different stratum has different stratum culture. The conflicts of stratums centralize and embody in the conflicts of stratum culture presently; the harmony of the stratum cultures is an important factor in constructing socialist harmony society. The conflicts of stratum cultures not only embody in subjective aspect, structural aspect, dramaturgic aspect and institutional aspect; but also embody in the upper stratum and the middle stratum and the working stratum and the farmer stratum. The conflicts of stratum cultures also embody in the division of social stratum and the dualistic stratum structure between the urban and rural areas and the poverty polarization between the rich stratum and the poor stratum. The main reasons for the conflicts of the stratum culture consist of social transformation, the defect of the stratum structure, the diversity of stratum benefits, the imperfect of institutions and lack of agent, etc.The conflicts of the stratum culture make it necessary to integrate the stratum cultures. The integration objective of stratum cultures is to construct harmony stratum relation system. To integrate stratum cultures, we should understand correctly the nature of the conflicts of the stratum culture, and draw lessons from western developed countries, and abide by the principles of cooperation, sharing, coordination, and justice. The main means to integrate stratum cultures comprise benefit integration, value integration, institution integration, structure integration and agent integration, etc...