| It is well known that the discipline of sociology was classified into two fundamental categories of "social statics" and "social dynamics" by Comte,Auguste even at the beginning of establishment.Later,many sociologists basically followed and carried on the research tradition of "social statics" and developed the tradition,making it become a mainstream sociological research tradition gradually.Contrarily,"social dynamics",acquiring less favor of sociologists,failed to develop synchronously and "was held up" in research for a long time.Till to the mid-20th century,the Western world met social problems emerging in an endless stream,which broke the yearning for "static" society held by people for a long time and gradually drove the sociological circle to form the historical sociology with "social change" as the research focus.In recent 30 years,the whole China has experienced a great change through reform.The reform,starting from economic field,has been expanded to all political and social aspects due to continuous spillover of the benefits,and attracted attentions of domestic and foreign scholars,who have joined in the research on social change of China one after another,and offered a series of works.Most of the researches,however,only look at which social factors are changing,but fail to in-depth explore what the direction of the social change is,what the internal and external power are and what the power source for the change is.Xinjiang,far in western frontier of China,started the reform late but is now booming in various fields.With the background of birth and growth in Xinjiang,and having witnessed great change of Xinjiang from the reform,the author develops strong interest in research on the change.Therefore,combining regional characteristics of multiple ethnic groups in Xinjiang,this paper takes "Kazak People in Xinjiang" as the research object to mainly explore change of their social life over the past 30 years.In order to better demonstrate situations of social life change of Kazak people in Xinjiang,this paper,based on the ultimate goal that social change is for seeking"happy life",through establishing "living state-quality of life" coupling relations,and relying on quality of life research perspective and specific method,carries out measurement and analysis of situations of social life change of Kazak people in Xinjiang over the past nearly 30 years.Specifically speaking,this paper,proceeding from four living states of "living as man","living sensibly","living on dignity" and"living a life of sufficiency",designs four corresponding indexes of "subsistence index","intelligence and knowledge index","dignity index" and "development index",under which ten specific measurement fields are designed and specific indicators are determined,to build the quality of life indicator system of Kazak people in Xinjiang.Meanwhile,the author also takes advantage of various statistics collected and specific indicators of the indicator system to describe magnificent views of social life change of Kazak people in Xinjiang by stages,with a view to better understanding basic direction of the change.At the same time,the paper also compares quality of life of Kazak people in Xinjiang with overall living standard of Xinjiang,so as to highlight the level of the change.This paper draws the following conclusions:(1)In the 30 years of social change,the quality of life of Kazak people in Xinjiang has kept improving steadily overall,but with slight difference in all aspects compared with other groups;(2)Social life change of Kazak people in Xinjiang is not a single linear process but presents more complex internal relations,more diverse forms and increasingly complex operation mechanism of the whole social life;(3)For development of Kazak people in Xinjiang,it is needed to enhance top-down design and build multi-level policy support and security systems under the basic idea of following "balanced focuses on economic development and cultural protection",so as to comprehensive move ahead with development of Kazak communities;(4)The Kazak People Quality of Life Indicator System structured in this paper plays certain role of reference for research on quality of life of ethnic minorities in China.Finally,this paper conducts reflection and discussion on the basis of the author' s personal experience and subjective feeling during the doctoral study,from perspectives of multiple contradictions in building quality of life indicator system and domestic quality of life and from aspects of sociologists consciousness and sociological imagination,etc.,with a view to driving better progress of follow-up researches.To sum up,quality of life is an important measure of value to weigh how a country or region develops healthily.Under the new normal of economic development and the reform entering deep-water zone,research in this paper is maybe able toprovide useful reference for continuously improving quality of life of ethnic minorities... |
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