On Culture Change Of Rural Migrant Population A Case Study Of Lubu Village

Billions of peasants standing at the threshold of industrial civilization-a major issue for the social science to solve at the latter half of the 20th century. As for China, being an agricultural country, such issue appears even more arduous and urgent. In the transition from tradition to modern, Chinese society is undergoing a transformation from agricultural population to non-agricultural population, rural population to urban population and peasants to workers. And this transformation is closely related to social mobility.Rural migrant population is not only the product of the social structure transformation, but also the main body of it. As the result of interaction among economy, politics, culture and institution, Chinese rural migrant population embodies the unique characteristic of Chinese society in transition. Hence, Chinese rural migrant population is a group of great research value. Based on the previous research works, the thesis, a case study, discusses the interrelationship among culture, social structure, institution, agents and their acts from the perspective of cultural sociology.The first part of the research explores the origin of the rural migrant population-the solidified rustic China, so as to demonstrate the cultural mode before the change. This part mainly focuses on how Chinese traditional culture and rural culture interact with economic development and social structure to fix the peasants upon the farmland. Moreover, internalization of the culture concept reinforces their land-attached mentality. All of these further occlude Chinese social structure. The second part gives the analysis of the social background-modernization and social transformation, in order to reveal the social mechanism of the culture transition from the perspectives of economy and social structure. The third part highlights the modernity experiences, which are the core of the culture change. It studies the functions and the effect such experiences brought upon the levels of individual, community and society to show its significance in the process of social modernization. The fourth part probes into the culture conflict rooted in theculture transition. It analyzes the root of the conflict and its impact on the society. The last part comes to the conclusion that the migration of the rural population is of culture value. From the land-attachment to the migration is the consequence of the social change and much more of the culture change. In migration the rural population not only change and refresh their culture conception through the modernity experience, but also experience the sharp conflicts. During such process culture plays a kind of power which is built up upon the economy and social structure and reflects them, but it also has the retraction as an independent power. The economic development has caused social structure transformation which gives rise to the opportunities and possibilities for rural migration. Nevertheless, as a kind of drive force, the culture change promotes such action and finally turns into a certain inertia to modify people's behaviors from the bottom of their spiritual world. The social conditions and the individuals cannot be fundamentally changed unless the transformation of social structure goes with the culture change. Therefore, the large-scale rural migration is the result social structure transformation, but a movement of idealistic and cultural change as well.