Study Of The Western Minority Community Development In Social Transformation

Fundamentally, our country is in the process of social transformational, that is, from the rural society to the industrial society, from the traditional society to the modern society. Especially for the western minority communities, they will confront the challenges of the social transformation in long periods. Under the influence of the globalization-modernization, the western minority communities are transforming to the modernization in all aspects, such as structures of production, life styles, people's traditional cultures, etc. The western minority communities' transformation is in a dilemma. On one hand the communities are losing the advantages of agrioulture-nomadic and traditional culture resources, one the other hand, the communities are trying to join the center society, in which process they will confronts some blocks in the languages, customs, culture and so on. In the situation, this article is concerning the following questions such as where to go? how to choose between the tradition and modernization? Is there a third road surpassing the traditional community and the modernization community? etc.Through the case study, the article describes and analyzes both the dilemma and the advantages of the western community transformation, taking the social resources exchange theory as the angle of sight to explain the western minority community development. The author points out that the western minority communities should not and could dot reject the modernization, on the contrary, they should take it as an opportunity. But, during the process of the community development, the modernization should be moderate and reasonable based on the minority...