Social Support Networks Of Rural Labor Force

This research paper, based on the theory of social interaction, utilizing the method of network analysis through the case survey in the JingWenwu Village in the town of BiShidu of Ezhou city in HuBei province, for the first time concentrates on the developing tendency of social supporting network of the work force in the rural area of China. The research focuses on probing into the general character of the social supporting network of the work force in the rural area in China. And through the analysis of group differences reflected, on the social network, by the work force in different groups with different professional role in the present rural area, this research gives the prophecy of the evolving tendency of the social supporting network of the work force in the rural area in China. The thesis is divided into four parts:The first part expatiates the focus of attention, purpose, significance, innovation, feasibility, research idea and research methodology of the paper.The second part, through the five aspects of the scale of the social supporting network, relation constitution, compactness degree, convergence and diversity, describes and analyses the general character of the social supporting network of the work force of the rural area, and roots out that the social supporting network of work force in rural area in China is in the process of slow and gradual transform. The traditional social supporting network of peasant has already taken on the characteristics of diversity and abundance in some extent.The third part, through controlling the factor of the differentiation ofthe professional role, makes the otherness analysis on the social supporting network of the work force hi the groups with different professional role. Thus it discovers that comparing to the group of agricultural work force, the social supporting network of the group of industrial and commercial work force is much more complicated and multiplied with greater social avail.The fourth part, on basis of the summary of the thesis's conclusion, forecasts the developing tendency of the social supporting network of the work force in the rural area and points out the innovation direction of modern social network.