On The Social Status Of Migrant Workers From The Perspective Of Cultural Capital

Economic capital, social capital and political capital are scarce of migrant workers looking for itself in the process of social mobility from bottom to top, always difficult to get higher social status. They most always after after many professional flow presents a horizontal flow and even the social mobility of down, hard to realize their own social status. The main reason is caused by the shortage of migrant workers cultural capital, cultural capital affect migrant workers employment competitiveness and influence of peasant workers’ occupational status promotion, thus affect the higher social status of migrant workers.Based on the empirical investigation of chongzuo city D village, from the perspective of cultural capital, researches the status quo of migrant workers social status found that migrant workers body form of cultural capital is very lack of objective form of cultural capital are scarce, institutionalized cultural capital possession situation is not optimistic, in general the number of migrant workers have cultural capital is low and the quality is not high also, migrant workers cultural capital is lack. But cultural capital affects the occupational stratification of migrant workers, migrant workers in professional and professional flow process, cultural capital has become an important tool to expand and improve the social status of migrant workers. Factors influencing the upward social mobility of migrant workers including diploma certificate, language expression ability, culture ability, skills, etc. these are the main content of the cultural capital of migrant workers social status. Research found that the higher the cultural capital of rural migrant workers, the high social status, the more significant effect on their social status, and possess the cultural capital of rural migrant workers, the more likely it is to form upward social mobility, the more higher social status. Cultural capital of migrant workers social status in China has a strong explanatory power, has a significant effect. But the lack of migrant workers cultural capital led to his professional low competitiveness and low ability to adapt, restricting the competitiveness improvement of their career, hindered the development of their social status.Migrant workers to break through its own cultural capital accumulation of obstacles to complete the shift towards modernization and needs of migrant workers not only personal efforts, also need to provide favorable conditions for the migrant workers group in society.