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The Hidden World: A Research On The Life Vest And The Life Meaning Of Xiangnan Shuicun Women

Posted on:2011-11-19Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360305992046Subject:Sociology
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Taking south Hunan Shui Cun as the case village, with the different age stages of women as the research object, this paper discusses the rural women's life with meaning world belongs and their significance world.Under the objective conditions of the exogamy and the system of living in the husband's home, woman's anaclisis status and the bystander role, has decided the belongingness regarding them special significance. Only in stability of sense of belonging, under the premise of security and belonging, rural women can be able to experience life meaning and value of life.The paper launches follows two clues of the master line and the vice-line. The master line is women in different stages of the life of different expression and the pursue, that is four aspects namely dwells, keeping a foothold, to find a place to live, to recognize and develop one's being four stratification planes. The woman has the different security sense and the sense of belonging experience in the different life stage, this kind of experience relates closely with her father, or the husband, son's condition in together.Therefore, the paper's master line also follows the logical vein of "obeying the father when not married, obeying the husband after married, and obeying the son if the husband perishes". That is, when the woman is the daughter, they depend on the father to obtain the seniority of surname of the family and the qualifications of the village "dwell", obtains the sense of belonging and the life experience; After getting married, they depend on the husband to get "the foothold" to be surnamed in the husband village, thus obtains the village security sense and the sense of belonging, and depends on the husband to experience own existence significance; After perishing husband, the son is woman's dependence, is the woman security sense and the sense of belonging origin, and to all rural women, only then complete the continuity of a clan, they can be able to depend on the son "to find a place to live" in the husband village; When the woman is old and the descendant circles the knee, they have completed the lifetime task, also realized the life "to recognize and develop one's being", and completed the final belongingness in the descendant preparing the funeral for her. Thus, the woman crosses for a lifetime with calm, safe and meaningful. Otherwise, each stage has the problem, can disturb or destroys the woman to search the belongingness and the significance.The paper's vice-line is the relations between the woman and the maternal home, the family and the acquaintance society. In the master line, woman each stage has auxiliary by this vice-line. The woman must obtain the belongingness, so they must find the appropriate position and acting appropriate role in the relational structure of "the husband's family's home (family)-the acquaintance society-maternal home (family)". Only then, they can obtain the tertiary safeguard in the maternal home, the husband's family's home and the village acquaintance society, so to obtains the full security sense, the anticipated feeling, the sense of belonging. According to the paternal line and the exogamy principle, the woman is requested to belong to the surname family and the husband village, if woman's position has not suspended or the role has not acted, also will not have these experiences.Based on this, the present paper constructed the pattern of the farmer to experience the significance of "the belongingness system-continuity of a clan", thought that the family, the village was not only the unit to meet the farmer function need, moreover was farmer's spiritual belongingness, the rural women obtained the life significance experience through the belongingness. The ethicality crisis appears in the current countryside, the true root lies in the disintegration of the traditional ownership system, the farmer significance world changing lies in the abandon of the traditional belongingness, the rural women is integrated to the capitalism market system which is giant, not equal, and to lack the safeguard and the sense of belonging.
Keywords/Search Tags:Rural women, clan, village, life belongingness and significance world, "historical feeling" and "local feeling"
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