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From Basic Needs To Social Interactions-the Research Of Dinner Party In China

Posted on:2009-03-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F PeiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360278969769Subject:Sociology
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Through the perspective of sociology, the author analyzes systematically the dinner party interaction phenomenon in China,combining correlated theories and former scholars' fruits. Due to influence of traditional culture, modern lifestyle and the long lasting social background of "Gain in the dinner party", dinner party fulfill attendants' needs of emotional contact and social business, as the most popular measure of Chinese people nowadays.Based on the historic process of the origin and evolution, and analysis of dinner party at present times, combining drama theory, symbol interaction theory, social conflict theory and social capital theory, the author reveals the cause of dinner party interaction phenomenon, the stucture and roles of dinner group and the institution of perpose execution of attendants in dinner party. From the perspectives of symbolic capital theory, social network theory, social exchange theory and social conflict theory, this dissertation analyzes the positive functions of dinner party to society and individuals: to promot social resources exhange, broaden social netwoek, accomplish the shaping and reproducing of symbolic capitall; And the negative function: waste of resources, dinner party dependence, damage to body and mental health, and corruption encouragement. Last but not the least, from the perspective of structural functionalism theory, this dissertation uncovers the important integration function of dinner party as the most popular social interaction method in china to entire structure of society, and points out the vital importence of dinner party interaction which promots individuals' socialization in practical activities using the concepts of field and habitus.As an exploratory research of dinner party interaction phenomenon, the author complete this dissertation by adopting the method of case study and taking data analysis as a supplement, due to the rare critical achievements of former scholars and the highly social complexity and exlusiveness of dinner party. This may cause the preciseness loss of statistics deduction of conclusions, but will gain the profundity and penetrating force of qualitative study in the building process of sociological theory.
Keywords/Search Tags:dinner party, dinner group, dinner party interaction, dinner party sociology
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