New Leisure Space: The Organization, Consumption And Re-Construction Of Commercial Chamber Of Mordern City

Since the end of 1970s'reform and opening to the outside world, China gets into a new vitality and vigor.the society, the system and system transformation and innovation prompted the Chinese economy, culture and society developing quickly all-round, city have also shown cohesion and vitality unprecedented. The chamber based on the urban development, and it is a space for people's leisure consumption and communication. The chamber belong to the public space places, one of the important function of it is providing good communication space, it is carrier of the regional subculture , and extensions from "home" or "job site",it is newborn things of the commercial and industrial development, having strong flexibility and inclusiveness, Club has become the focus of city construction of China, become the important means of what molding city's image, displaying the history and culture of city, promoting the city development. Club build value platform of the exchange of feelings and leisure and relax for the people, in a sense, club is also a "new class salon", in addition to emotional and interpersonal interaction, and of course have the social value and significance inevitable.Through the analysis field of the city chamber, The thesis specific analysis the commercial chamber of modern urban from the emergence and social change , to the structure, organization, consumption, interpersonal relations, social functions of the chamber by the angle of organization sociology. This thesis is based on L chamber in M district of Shanghai as the object of investigation, by the research means of questionnaire, interview , literature search and observation, obtained the corresponding survey data.The commercial chamber of modern city has formed a urban culture obviously. As an independent business building space form, its most distinct feature is a integrative space with all the commercial basis ,such as the business center, gym, leisure, entertainment, education of new service facilities, or compose a multifunctional functional place with housing community all together. It embodies the image and grade of city and is the culture carriers of modern urban. Compared with the traditional hall, ancestral temple ,Commercial chamber have the big difference whether the space ,function or consumption .This thesis studies the emphasis on the commercial chamber. In general, commercial chamber have the characteristics of the professional, commercial, organization, and contractual, exclusivity, purpose, membership, etc. As a consumer field, it includes two form (or space form) clubhouse: namely business chamber and residential chamber. Business chamber could be called public clubhouse, just as its name implies, it mainly provide services for business operations. It is the modern city chamber which means do not depend on specific residential environment, and can exist and develop in the city's commercial zones. Residential chamber is the matching service facilities of community with the developing residence commercialization gradually, it is the public space and place which suppling the service to the residential residents, and providing comprehensive services of the unified management , including the building itself and public services facility of material and spiritual life around the community environment.The main functions of the commercial chamber is consumption space. As a consumption field, Commercial chamber is a space which based on consumption and contacts for media and main activities, and supply a place to mutual communication, leisure and entertainment for its membership. Commercial chamber promote the contacts and enhance the cohesiveness of chamber through all kinds of activities. Through researching the practical logic of the leisure consumption of the actor of chamber, we found some high homogeneity, whether consider the education level, professional, wealth, incoming etc, they all belongs to the middle class. In this consumer field of chamber, the actors feel honour and glory because of becoming a member, and takes it as a status symbol. Through the consumption they construct and maintain their middle class status, meanwhile, formed a group identification and segregation– distinction form the other non-members through the membership and leisure consumption.As the specific consumption field, Commercial chamber provide the collective and contacts place for the people whom have the same or similar value, interest, background in leisure consumption ,and it is the important space of collective and contacts field in the contemporary context. Commercial chamber is the cultural carrier of modern city, and also bring more humanized service and the strong sense of belonging for its members. It is a kind of organization carrier with economic flow, called, communication, coordination, standard and management , the particularity of the commercial chamber is it can providing a social communication space for formed certain social groups and have certain social identities class. Commercial chamber expand the group communication and the contact scope, enhance many social function in limited space field, supply a good foundation for social coordination, communication and control, so it has cohesion, processing, integration culture function. Commercial club provides a good narrative field for the construction of social identity.This thesis mainly divided the textual structure into chapter 7. The first chapter is the introduction section , it introduces comprehensively the origin of main research, the research background and the significance, reviewed the research achievements of the domestic and overseas scholars in consumption. Since the second chapter to the sixth chapter is the text of this study, these chapters is the core of this study which overall expatiateing and discussing. such as: the second chapter describes the space theory in detail, and introduces emphatically the research ideas, methods, the core concept and the case; In the third chapter, we analyzed the social vicissitude of chamber, and expatiates systematically the form of chamber by the history and logic method; The fourth chapter explain the concept, classification ,attributes and functions of modern city chamber. Chapter 5 analyze the business chamber and residential chamber which is two forms of the commercial chamber through relevant the data ad information which obtained by the investigation, and discuss essence of leisure consumption of commercial chamber and consumer groups through analyzing the characteristic of leisure consumption and actors features and consumption logic. The sixth chapter explore the commercial chamber and its essence of sociological characteristic deeply by the means of studying the organizational structure, operational mechanism, the function, culture of the chamber and interpersonal and the social network; On the basis of the preceding chapters, chapter 7 bring forward the reconstruction of the modern city commercial chamber through describing the present situation and development of chamber.