Patriarchal Clan And Factions In The Rural Community

In the day of vigorously promote socialist new countryside-construction and rural community construction, it is an unavoided problem that how to treat the various organizations and traditions in the "quiet revolution" during the social changes of rural society. it is one of them that rural community based on the patriarchal clan and faction, it runs through the village governance.This article is based on the fieldwork of jiang village in jiaodong, taking the patriarchal clan and faction for inspection targets, through the inspection of "dominant" and "hidden" activities of the patriarchal clan to reveal the decline of the patriarchal clan. Through the thick describe of the changing process of clan factions, political factions, mutual assistance factions and wage factions. Pointing out that the factions are diverse and deep into all aspects of rural life.The village elite are the key power in the interactive process of the patriarchal clan, faction and rural community. The elite build or use the patriarchal clan and faction in order to achieve the participation of the governance in the rural community. The village's status, concepts and awareness is changing constantly during the process of the management of elite. Elite-led faction has the positive function of democratization and negative function of split.On the bases of the above inspecting and analysis ,the article points out that the inner reason in the evolution of patriarchal clan and faction is the society change. Consideration on the objective influence and practical needs, the patriarchal clan and faction should be standardized and regulated inorder to find an utilize the the practical organization resources.Under the rebuilding of rural community organization, People should break away from the thought mode of "omnipotent state", have tolerance for the self-organized group such as patriarchal clan and faction,The self-organised group should have relatively independent survival space. It should be realised that self-governance organizations contribute to reduce the cost of state management,all the recourses which are advantaged to the organizations 'vitality in Chinese rural countryside must be widely used.