Research On The Construction Of Community Public Life Under The Embedding Of State Power

Since the reform and opening up,with the development of market economy and mass media,the advancement of urbanization,and the disintegration of the "unit system",the public life of urban communities in our country has shown a declining trend.Community people have gradually become atomized individuals.Communication is becoming more and more alienated,and the feelings of neighbors tend to be indifferent.This has aroused the concern and worries of many experts and scholars,who are pondering whether they can build a community-like public life while the economy is developing rapidly.The author systematically thinks about how this organized and disciplined community public life is formed and sustained development through field investigation of the community singing class in X town of Shanghai,which is also the origin of this paper.The survey found that state power has an important influence on the construction of community public life.Therefore,how to embed state power into public life and realize the construction of community public life is exactly the research question of this article.This paper,taking Shanghai X town community singing class as the research object,using qualitative research method,is given priority to participation observation,and through in-depth interviews and literature analysis methods,from the perspective of the relationship between state and society,focusing on the X town community singing class represented by the community public life case study to analyze the way of state power constructing community public life.The article focuses on the analysis from the following aspects:the embedded path of state power;The reaction form of neighborhood committees and citizens to the embedding mode of state power;the state power's effective embedding in public life and the generation mechanism for the sustainable development of community public life.To this end,the author conducted a 2-month field survey in the singing class of X Town in Shanghai,conducting in-depth interviews with 20 neighborhood committee singing classes in 2 communities and contacting with nearly 50 interviewees,writing more than 100,000 words in a research diary.Reveal the practical logic of how state power is embedded into public life to realize the construction of community public life.Research findings:State power and society construct community public life together.According to the investigation,in the real context of our country,state power has an important influence on the development of community public life.It constructs community public life in the interaction with community people,and state power plays a dominant role.The establishment of community singing classes and the development of art groups will also have an impact on the development of community public life in X town.The current community public life is the result of the construction of the state and the society.This construction is dominated by the state,and the impact of society on public life is relatively small.State power is embedded in community public life through four dimensions.Through material resources,political themes,formal system and organizational system,the state has realized the embedding of power,which is in line with the public life interests of the community people.In the process of embedding state power,residents' committees and community members have also shown a variety of response patterns to express their interests in public life,including competition and games;integrate into political themes;establish informal norms and daily singing classes.However,under the management of the national organization system,the community people generally show a trend of active adaptation and integration.The generation mechanism of public life in the embedded community of state power.The reason why this kind of power embedded can realize the continuous development and effective realization of community public life is as follows.on the one hand,the construction of community public life follows the principle of universal interest,and realizes the mutual construction of the state power system and the community of social interests.On the other hand,the realization of social unity reproduction has also enhanced the effectiveness of the embedding of state power.