The Middle Class:to Be Named Or To Be Dropped

Residential welfare is the foundation throughout one’s lifetime. The saying ’welfare begins from house and end in house’ is spread in northern European countries such as Sweden and Norway. The importance of residential welfare is evident. Compared with the big meaning of the residential welfare, the realities is not so certain and clean to the middle class in China.Housing has been a big issue to the public in current China. Everyone has authorized the right to living decent. And it also has been a blueprint of housing policy. The government has paid great effort to put the dream into reality. The level of the conditions of housing has been better as the advancing of commercialization of housing. In general, the high income group can benefit from the policy of commercialization of housing directly, and the lower class can get the support from the social security system of housing, then the middle class has been ignored from the nowadays housing policy. The middle class has been the in-betweens in the policy framework.It is considered that the middle class would be killed by the house in the public. To be dropped seems to be the destiny for the whole middle class. The paper is keen on the residential welfare of a certain and typical group of the middle class. Trough the methodology of social stratification, the author wants to find out the essence of the residential welfare to the middle class and think of the road to promote the residential welfare for the urban middle class.How to define the middle class and how to choose the certain group as the representative of the middle class have been the first group for research. On the basis of the social stratification the word "middle class" has been used instead of the "middle income group". Because the word of "middle class" has the profound and lasting meaning and it will exactly come up to the theme. Then the teachers in universities in certain city have been the best group. On the other hand the word "residential" rather than the word "house" can be much better to match the word "welfare". Because the meaning of welfare is broadened and the tendency of its common-will expansion is clearer."Residential welfare" can hit the point than "housing security".The design of the research has been followed when the definition of the key words is explicit. The design of the research had the characteristic of positivistic sociology. Every step may be the key to the initial assumption. During the course of research the author can get the first data of the condition of residential welfare of and the satisfaction toward current housing policy of the sample. Trough the data the author can explain the constructional relationship between the agent of middle class individuals and the residential welfare; probe the essential trait of residential welfare of middle class by the analysis of the career identity and the social class identity; observe the influence of the current housing policy to the middle class in different scales; form the logistic model of the residential satisfaction of the middle class and afford the suggestion to elevate the level of residential welfare in the end. The secret worry at the promotion of residential welfare and the phenomenon of the multigenerational transmission of residential welfare are also covered in the course of the whole study.Residential welfare satisfaction degree of the middle class will influence the identity to the career. Better residential welfare is a premise to the development of one’s career. Class identity is indirectly influenced by residential welfare satisfaction trough career identity. In general, the identity of middle class will be shocked by residential welfare. Identity crisis may spread out and the structure of the society may be unstable.The conclusion of the paper is that the essence of the residential welfare of middle class is a type of occupational welfare. Residential welfare for middle class is based on a high level among the whole constituents of occupational welfare. The middle class in China get the promotion of residential welfare mainly through their career. The most important contribution of the paper lies in the practical method to view the residential welfare. Using the analysis of social stratification to know the residential welfare of a certain group can also be a good example to study the residential welfare of the whole society. Just like a beam of light casts on the residential welfare study, the method and the process can be broadly used in the sequential studies.