Analysis Of Farmers' "House Growing":Based On The Field Theory

With the rapid development of urbanization, the demand for farmland is more and more, leading to more and more land-expropriated farmers. The farmland which farmers rely on is expropriated. The houses are demolished. In the process of the requisition,land-expropriated farmers take many behaviors. "House growing" is one kind of important form. It is necessary to understand land-expropriated farmers' "house growing" behavior.This paper selects land-expropriated farmers' "house growing" behavior as the research object. The author uses the unstructured interview method to obtain information and adopts the Bourdieu's field theory as the analysis tools. First of all, the paper analyzes the farmer's main practice fields, namely acquaintance community field;Secondly, this paper analyzes farmers' coping behavior, namely "house growing", when the force of requisitioning lands and demolishing house has impact on acquaintance community field; Again, this paper analyzes farmers "house growing" ' capital; Finally,the paper analyzes the targets of the farmers' "house growing" behavior.The basic conclusion of this study: the farmers' "house growing" behavior happens when the force of requisitioning lands and demolishing house has impact on acquaintance community field, through mobilizing their capital, the farmers practice "house growing" behavior, so as to change or maintain their own capital and the position occupied by the present domain. Farmers mainly mobilize their economic capital and social capital, so as to enhance their power. By "house growing" behavior, farmers mainly want to achieve these goals, namely to increase the economic capital and to maintain or increase the symbolic capital.In acquaintance community field, the motivation of farmers' "house growing" is complex and rich. The farmers' "house growing" is not a personal behavior which hasnothing to do with others, on the contrary, the farmers' "house growing" is under the influence of other farmers, and the impact and constraints which farmers internalize is unique to the field itself. Therefore, we cannot only regard the farmers' "house growing" behavior as a personal profitable behavior which has nothing to do with others, or just as "the weapon of the weak" which farmers cast individually in order to survive. Farmers' "house growing" behavior affected by economic logic and face logic together, and the two kinds of logic have impact on the acquaintance community field' position which farmers want to change or maintain.