| China is experiencing profound changes in social system and social structure at the present. It is a process with resources redistributed and old pattern of interests redefined. During the fore-and-aft thirty years of1978, the rich and poor live side by side in condition of growing disparity, during which some members fall into disadvantaged group. Gradualism in economic transition was based on rural-urban divide and overstress industry at the expense of agriculture; economic globalization makes China capital-seeking and weakens the importance of labor, especially that of surplus rural labor. Under the background of globalization and China’s economic transition, migrant workers in China are involved in three major economic relations, namely, hukou system, labor relation and family-contract land renting system. However, they are all at disadvantages among three relations. At the same time, institutional discrimination and right insufficiency lead to the inheritance and long existence of migrant workers’unfavorable position. And even their basic labor reproduction is in danger. Upon this, we wonder that if they feel anxious and unfair, and what their social attitudes are like.Applying the data of CGSS2006, we make a occupational stratification of migrant workers, and then study the social attitudes of each class, including their trust in government’s information, consciousness of conflict and consciousness of taking action against inequality. The results show that migrant workers’social attitudes are optimistic on the whole considering pains they suffer, which is in accord with existing literature. But some migrant workers at the bottom of the society are suspicious of governments’information. However, when it comes to conflicts and fighting for the injustice, they are conservative. The area, income inequality, conflict experience, and self-recognized class level are significant to explain the social attitudes of migrant workers. |
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