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Research On The Influence Of Peasant Workers' Social Mobility On Their Human Consumption

Posted on:2019-10-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X J WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2417330572464081Subject:Sociology
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In such a large country of human relations as China,both its own development and family development are inseparable from relations.Human consumption is a medium for people to establish relations.From the sociological point of view,human consumption is a process of paying others in the form of material objects or money based on human feelings.It has the function of contacting and building relationships.Since the 1980s,a large number of migrant workers have left their homes and migrated to cities,which has increased farmers'income and improved people's quality of life.In traditional society,human consumption is the nature of villagers' expression of true feelings and mutual help.Peasant workers' social mobility has broken their traditional human consumption,making human consumption no longer a simple act,but more complex.The human consumption of migrant workers shows the characteristics of imbalance of exchange,improvement of industrial relationship,increase of types and frequency.Even some people use"human feelings" to consume,which not only increases the expenditure of migrant workers on human consumption,but also increases people's spiritual burden.Foreign scholars studied the exchange of gifts at first.In recent years,domestic scholars have studied the human consumption of migrant workers in China based on the results of relevant research in foreign countries.At present,there are some research results,but there are also some limitations in the study,and there are few systematic analysis using a certain theory.Although the social mobility of migrant workers has increased people's expenditure on human relations,because human consumption has existed for a long time in China,it is bound to have its existence significance,which deserves our in-depth consideration.This article is to explore why people are willing to participate in human consumption,since it has caused problems for migrant workers.In this study,based on the theoretical results of some scholars,the author tries to analyze the impact of migrant workers' social mobility on their human consumption through the field survey of H village in Liaoning Province,and try to comprehensively interpret the behavior of human consumption.In the market economy,people put interests first,and the pursuit of interests and material desire drive people to consume human feelings,resulting in a complex network of social relations.The analysis of social exchange in the process of human consumption of migrant workers is of great significance both in theory and in reality.The core part of this paper is based on the theory of social exchange,analyzing the impact of migrant workers' social mobility on their human consumption from different perspectives.This paper analyses the change of migrant workers' concept of human consumption from survival to development from three aspects:the choice of exchange objects,"giving-return" to "investment-income" and the nature of exchange.The lack of available resources leads to the weakening of emotions and the enhancement of instrumental purposes in the process of exchange among migrant workers.The second reason is the influence of the value orientation of the peasant workers' human consumption.Based on the theory of cost and reward,because in the process of exchange,people will weigh the cost and reward,and strive to make the reward greater than the cost.This paper analyses what values affect the human consumption of migrant workers,and how these influences strengthen these concepts,and probes into the value of human consumption from the perspectives of ethics and social attraction.Thirdly,it is the impact on the situation of human consumption and exchange.In the process of social exchange,there exists the risk that the recipient will not return.The reason why people choose to exchange lies in the existence of trust mechanism.Only the balance between trust and exchange can promote human consumption to play a positive role.Next,it discusses that face factor provides possibility for exchange,and the pursuit of face promotes people to actively participate in human consumption.The last is the influence of exchange process and structure.This paper mainly discusses the human consumption from the bottom to the top caused by the difference of individual social status in the process of migrant workers going out to work.Human consumption is the basis for migrant workers to seek help to nurture the network of relationships.Through different network of relationships,migrant workers can obtain social support,thus providing security for their lives.Based on the above demonstration and analysis,the author draws the conclusion that the change of migrant workers'human consumption behavior reflects the process of social development.As a part of people's daily life,human consumption is inevitable to change with the development of society.Family economic status is the most direct factor affecting the human consumption of migrant workers,and the expenditure of migrant workers for human consumption is proportional to family economic income.At the end of the article,we think deeply about the future development trend of migrant workers'human consumption:firstly,the scale of human consumption will continue to expand;secondly,the degree of intimacy between people will decrease;finally,migrant workers' human consumption will still follow the principle of differential pattern.
Keywords/Search Tags:peasant-worker, human consumption, social exchange
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