Benefit "Mobility":Differentiation And Cooperation In Traditional Rural Society

In the traditional period,village water conservancy facilities are usually governed by elite governance subjects such as the country,squires,and gentry.However,although an ordinary village along the Yangtze River did not adopt this management method,it can also achieve the construction of village water conservancy facilities.In the course of the investigation,the author found that the farmers in the village were divided into different groups.Although these different farmer groups have different interests and different demands for the construction of water conservancy facilities,in the process of building water conservancy facilities,the differentiated farmer groups can reach consensus and form cooperation.Through collective action to achieve an effective supply of public goods such as water conservancy facilities.In order to clarify how differentiated groups of farmers can reach cooperation and form collective actions.The author chooses the specific case of river bank construction in the village’s water conservancy facilities for analysis.Taking village farmers as an entry point to explain how to carry out differentiation within the village and investigate the specific event of the differentiation of farmers’ groups in the construction of river embankments.Start from the behavior motivation and psychological activities of various farmers participating in the construction of water conservancy facilities.Analyze and describe the behavior choices and inner activities of the rural households divided by the village during the construction of the river bank.Through analysis,it was found that there was limited differentiation among farmers within the village during the traditional period.The differentiated farmers’ groups share the interests,mutual benefits and mutual assistance.Taking this as an opportunity,in the process of constructing river embankments,interest flows were formed through interest replacement and incremental benefits,which ultimately enabled differentiated groups to reach cooperation and form collective actions.In addition,the "acquaintance logic" in the local society in the traditional period also played an important role in the collective action to promote the formation of a collective action.