On The Relationship Between Formal Institutions And Informal Institutions In Rural Society

Along with our country transferring form traditional society to modern society, some traditional factors of the traditional society have been unable to meet the needs of modern society, they must be improved, for example in rural society—burial funeral customs. Take the illegal burial of rural society as a case in this paper. Through analysis and describing the social environment in which the illegal burial happen and the action of behavior subject, find that in the rural public space, rural people and rural governing elites who involve the illegal burial select and act from its interests. Just because of their selection and action contributed to compromise between formal institutions and informal institution.In public rural space, formal institutions such as laws and regulations produced legalized pressure in rural public space by means of formal way and informal way. Under legalized pressure, people abandoned the traditional funeral ceremony; Chose to bury the dead secretly at night, and this behavior got generalized development by consciously or unconsciously imitation and demonstration. Facing the new behavior, rural governing elites had taken control measures; Facing this kind of behavior got generalized development, rural governing elites showed ambition; Out of their own interests rural governing elites finally chose the existence of illegal burial. Just under the choices and actions of rural governing elites and people, the formal institutions and informal institutions formed mutual compromise.Acquiescence behavior of rural governance elite is the outstanding performance of formal institutions compromising to informal institutions; The interests’pursuit of rural governing elites is the dynamical mechanism of formal institutions compromising to informal institutions; Formal institutions can not play a good role is the result of formal institutions compromising to informal institutions. The deformalisierung of informal institutions is the outstanding performance of informal institutions compromising to formal institutions; Legalized pressure of formal institutions is the dynamical mechanism of informal institutions compromising to formal institutions. In addition, the compromising between formal institutions and informal institutions make the countryside society form stealth type countryside order, this kind of order is illegal and unstable.