Social Exclusion And Passively Acceptance: Study Of Social Security About Peasant Workers

This thesis mainly aims at reviewing the social security issue of China's peasant workers against the background of the speeding up urbanization process and the various policy reforms focusing on peasant workers.The rooted dual system arrangements of urban-rural social security labels peasant workers as 'farmers', which causes the group of peasant workers to form an deviated understanding of their own rights of social security and ignore their due rights. The system internalizes people's awareness. The peasant workers recognize the identity the identity label, as they have no awareness and ability to protect themselves. As a sequence, their awareness of rights becomes weaker. Conversely, the recognition of the identity label becomes an excuse for policy makers and relevant profiteers to strengthen this kind of system arrangement. As a result, the group unconsciousness of social security rights causes the continuation of peasant workers' being excluded collectively. This thesis tries to study and find out the group exclusion process, how the social mechanisms among it consolidate each other, as well as the cause of peasant workers' group unconsciousness. In addition, the thesis explores what effective measures the government and society should take to improve the existing structure arrangements, what strategies should agents themselves adopt to arouse the peasant workers as the objective group of the system to become more aware of their right awareness, change their living status and the whole society's understanding about them so as to maintain the basic rights and interests of peasant workers who are equal citizens.With the establishment of the system introduced by the government aiming at protecting peasant workers, the implementation of peasant workers' insurance in some areas, and together with the peasant workers' increasing awareness of their rights and interests, the cycles which consolidate each other are developing in the direction of improvement. However, the eliminating process is very hard to finish only with force of the regional laws and regulations as well as the individual migrant worker. To achieve this goal, three factors must be combined: the systems must be adjusted, the agents' subjective awareness must be awakened, and behavioral rules must be changed. Among the three, the most significant one is systematic social exclusion which is the locomotive driving social exclusion. As a result, it should be reformed and innovated systematically from the perspectives of the holistic and long-term benefits of our society.The first and second part of dissertation comment on the history of social exclusion withits relative theory and the system of social security, and put forward the research questions, method, significance and analytical structure. The third part analyses the status quo of the peasant- worker's social security, and distracts the peasant- worker's requirements and understanding about the social security which is the main point of question from this article. This paper emphasizes the peasant- worker's vision who is the target group of this system. In addition, it also introduces the agent direct experience. From the theory of social exclusion, the fourth part of it describes the form of social exclusion system to peasant workers and the process of them passively acceptance. It takes Bourdieu's theory of "habitus" and Giddens's theory of duality of structure as the basic theory to study the interaction of social structure and personal motility (personal factors have played an important role in affecting the occurrences and continuance of social exclusion in psychology and behavior), and analyses the causes of lacking in peasant-worker's social security from this kind of interaction. With the combination of the target groups and system-formulating, the most important the principle is to protect peasant workers basic survival conditions and can encourage them to work hard actively , and to establish sustainable low-standard and variable system which every peasant worker can participate. It is the...