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The Trend Analysis Of China Urban Communities Class

Posted on:2008-10-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J H MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360215952932Subject:Sociology
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This thesis focuses on the hierarchy of social community. Firstly, I make a summary of the foreign theories related with this topic. Then, the background, developing process and direction of native researches on this topic are also summarized. On the basis of these summaries, I analyze the background and actuality of Chinese social community hierarchy. To be specific, the market promotes high Occupational Differentiation of modern urban society. The traditional Social units keep Shrinking and disassembling, and the filtering effect of Housing market induces multi-beneficiaries. People pursue personal benefits through competition, which makes people with similar economic activities gather as a community. In this community, differentiation happens in housing pattern and living area. People from different estates have distinct housing position in the city. So the social members sharing similar characters occupy one particular community, and this gathering makes the public facilities and service of this community show difference from other communities. The results of social community hierarchy are the insulation of living spaces. Rich people live in the community with good views and advanced public facilities. Other estates, especially poor estate, live in relatively awful conditions. This community differentiation represents the differentiation of social members, which causes social confliction. among different estates.Tendency of social community hierarchy differentiation associate closely with the housing market. Nowadays, this trend is still not unclear in villages and towns. However, in the city the gathering of people from certain estate in certain area has become common phenomena. The similarity of Community members'housing selection makes the community intrinsically homogeneous. Hierarchy representing the difference among communities has shaped. Market economy provides soil for the growing of community hierarchy. Because the rapid development of social economy promotes community hierarchy differentiation, the main body of community can be differentiated as Property owner, foreigner, and local White-collar and blue-collar workers. This induces dramatic difference in social needs of different social estates. The needs of different community main bodies induce the appearance of the different kinds of communities, such as quality housing, villa and western Property Management. A good case in point is Shanghai. The construction and exploiture of Shanghai enter the phase of rapid development after Reform and open policy. As the population move in and economy develops fast, International capital enters, which makes the profession of people differentiate greatly.The gap between rich and poor, the running of housing market make the estates with different incomes can freely chose their living area. Homogeneity in one community and Heterogeneity Isolation among communities is characterized as social community hierarchy differentiation. Through Case Interviews of 20 people, differentiation of registered permanent address and profession are investigated. The research methods are Case Interview and Qualitative Analysis.Through the investigation of interview objects, the analysis of Chinese city community hierarchy differentiation is listed as follows: 1st. Homogeneity if community members and differentiation of social members share the same tendency; 2nd. Polarization of community hierarchy is obvious. The experience of western countries including USA, Sweden and England is also introduced. Respectively, they adopt policies of Guidance of Multi-culture, intervention of government and guide of welfare planning. By listing these experiences, recommendations from both micro- and macro-point of view are put forward for community hierarchy differentiation of China. In order to realize the ineluctability of community hierarchy differentiation, relative policies of government and society is also needed to control the management. Planning of community should include Material environment, Social service and Spiritual culture. While considering the problems and need of the residents, we should not only realize the effective rationing of community resources, but also achieve the sharing and supplementary among different communities. First, we should consider the high Homogeneity, similar social status and the absence of power structure of community members in a Homogeneous hierarchy community. We should promote the residents'enthusiasm and make them equally participate in social decision-making and other events. Through these ways, self-government of community residents can be realized. Second, we should realize that different communities could share similar needs of public services, which may cause the waste of resources by providing service repeatedly. Communication among communities is essential to avoid the waste. Through integrate the market in different communities and exploit the service objects, we can not only fulfill various needs of community members, but also promote the formation of industrial management. In this way, we can guarantee the reasonable distribution of public resources; realize Complementarities, Reciprocity and Symbiosis of Function; and promote the stabilization and development of society.
Keywords/Search Tags:Communities
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