The Peasant Family Of China:Function Change And Government Intervention

The theme of this paper is the interactive relationship between the changes of peasant family function and the government intervention. Through this research, the author tries to reveal the dynamic mechanism and the basic way of government intervention from the perspective of functional changes of peasant families, and try to construct a theoretical model which is different from the past about the government and peasant families’interaction.This paper choose the dragon village as a field research area, and also pick up some peasant families as the focus of investigation (refer to Chapter1.A large extent, the contents of this paper are initially derived from the interviews with these peasant families. Based on the theory of multiple family function, The logic of this thesis is "reproduction-production-consumption-Support-education ".In the aspect of reproductive function, this paper focuses on the discussion of the dual nature of government intervention:on the one hand, government efforts to control the growth of fertility impulse, reproductive function in a long-term weakening of the state; on the other hand, in the face of internal demand of improving Fertility quality, the government through the " delivery of revolution "and immunization timely intervention to peasant families’fertility process (refer to chapter2).In the aspect of production function, This paper focuses on the discussion of the peasant family production transformation process from land constraints to the labor constraint. In this process, whether it is the concentration of land or the socialization of production, all reflect the weakening of peasant family production function and the growth of a series of Public demand/social risk. In the face of public demand/social risk, the government through a variety of production support policies involved.(refer to chapter3)In the aspect of consumption function,this paper argues that the contemporary Chinese peasant are increasingly into a true sense of the consumer society, and Produced a large number of public demand, such as The public rely, pressure monetary expenditure and consumption safety etc. with the expansion of rural consumption, These public demand/social risk are more and more intense, thus the government security put forward higher requirements, which put forward higher request to the government (refer to Chapter4)In the aspect of family support function, This paper discusses the current situation and the pressure of rural elderly. At present, China’s rural filial piety is weakening, and the family support is in trouble. With the weakening of family support function, the elderly and the government action against possible support crisis(refer to Chapter5).In the aspect of family education function, this paper discusses the process and the causes of the weakening of the function of family education. And the corresponding is, National Education (Education) began to go into the country, and gradually replace the family education function(refer to Chapter6).The conclusion of this article is:traditional Chinese peasant family’s function is complete, the vast majority of farmers social needs (reproductive, production, consumption, support, education etc.) basically can be satisfied in the family, dependence on external society is very small, the government intervention demand is low; however, with the establishment of the people’s Republic of China especially since80’s of the last century, Chinese family function takes on a weakening trend, the needs of farmers more and more difficult to be satisfied in the family, dependence on external social increased significantly, and spawned a series of public demand/social risk, the public demand/social risks have prompted the government to intervene more in-depth to the daily life of farmers.(refer to Chapter7).Based on the above results, this paper puts forward the theory of a new mode of government and farmer interaction, namely adaptive government intervention model. Adaptive government intervention model has three basic elements:(1) follow the farmers departmentalism principle of government intervention, the farmers’ demand as the starting point;(2) autonomic and voluntary government intervention of individual farmers in the process;(3) the government and the interests of farmers compatibility, farmers are the beneficiaries of government intervention, and the government responded with a political identity. Adaptability of government intervention model is a completely different new theory mode from the traditional mandatory government intervention model, it reconstructs the interactive relationship between the government and farmers, provides a unique perspective to our understanding of government behavior more comprehensive.