The Empirical Research On Identity And Political Participation Of The Peasant-worker In The Factory

Political participation is an important method for Chinese citizens to be the master of their own country and the necessary requirement to develop the socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics.That Chinese citizens do the democratic election,democratic negotiation,democratic decision-making,democratic management and democratic supervision in an orderly manner shall benefit the development and perfection of socialism with Chinese characteristics,facilitate the national governance system and the modernization of governance abilities.Currently,those peasant workers in cities have become an important part of China's industrial workers.Their effective political participation is good to protect and maintain their interests,help them join the urban life.Besides,it also stabilizes the national security and builds a more harmonious society.However,since they have double identities(i.e.new industrial worker and peasant),they are trapped in the dilemma of identity recognition and their political participation is affected.This paper targets “peasant-workers in factories” as the study object,applies literature research,participatory observation,questionnaire survey and in-depth interview methods to discuss about the identity recognition and political participation from the perspectives of social capital and field theory,as well as the influences of identity recognition on the political participation.The research results are described as follows.Firstly,in general,compared with the identity of worker,peasant-workers in factories prefer the identity of peasant.Specifically,the identity recognition of peasant-workers in factories is being diversified.It's distributed from high to low as listed: mixed identity recognition,strong peasant-identity recognition,imbalanced identity recognition,strong worker-identity recognition.Secondly,the level of their political participation is relatively low.Moreover,their political participation inunities is the highest,which is followed by their political participation in hometown,while the political participation in media is the lowest.Thirdly,as demonstrated by the regression analsysis of political participation,the identity recognition of those peasant-workers has significant influences on their political participation.Specifically,the political participation in media is significantly and negatively affected by the peasant-identity recognition.The political participation in hometown and media is significantly and positively affected by the worker-identity recognition.Identity recognition is an important precondition of political participation.To facilitate the orderly political participation of peasant workers,their identities should be reshaped through the subjective construction and system construction,helping them transform from “myself in village” to “myself in cities”.Secondly,the consciousness of their political participation should be improved to guarantee the participation channels and promote the orderly political participation,thus,continuously developing the democratic politics and facilitating the restructuring of socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics.