A Research On City Farmer Workers' Social Stratum Consciousness

Farmer workers class is a special class in Chinese social stratification, and the impact of farmer workers class to economic and social development should not be overlooked.Based on the social stratification perspective, we emphasize on farmer workers' Social stratum, consciousness from. a subjective dimension. We define the Social stratum consciousness as the subjective approval of the certainly objective social class as well as right consciousness and social mobility consciousness in this foundation. Farmer workers' social stratum approval is including in social rank in approval and household register status approval. Farmer workers' right consciousness the sense of participation including the economical right consciousness and politics. Farmer workers' social mobility consciousness refers to the manner of the farmer workers class to the upward social mobility possibility.The results of research showed: 1) farmer workers class is a class shared common consciousness. Farmer workers class has a more unanimous approval in the social rank and the household register status, has certainly "hugs the group" consciousness.2) Farmer workers class has the strong right request. Farmer workers class not only has the more intense right request in the economic aspect, moreover has the more intense right request in the political participation. In the political request mainly displays for the hope to have farmer workers Deputies to the National People's Congress.3) Farmer workers class overall holds the trust manner to the society. On the one hand farmer workers class has the disaffection at the certain degree to the present situation on the other hand they hold the positive anticipation to the future. We think that the government should attach great importance to the farmer workers .The measures are listed as follow.Firstly, the government should guide the establishment of organizations of the farmer workers because it is the organizational guarantee for the farmer workers' rights. It balances the different interests in society thought farmer workers' organizations. Secondly, the government should renew politicï¼›system to guarantee the rights to participate administration. Thirdly, government should improve the social security system to suite the characteristics of farmer workers.