Study On The Urban Poverty Under The Perspective Of The Structuration Theory:Differentiation And Analyzation

Normally,the study on urban poverty in the academic world is based on the ideal of the 'Social Fact' from Emile Durkheim.The focuses of their debates refer to three dimensions----whether the urban poverty is the fact,whether the urban poverty is the social fact,and whether the urban is the pathological social fact.We can use an instrument to differentiate and analyze this question,which is the structuration theory of Antony Giddens.This paper uses the FGT model to describe the transition of urban poverty rate and poverty gap from 1989 to 2016 with CFPS data.And it illustrates the urban poverty rate in nowadays is about 10 percent also with a decline tendency.We can propose a hypothesis which is the cause of the urban poverty is related to ones lower 'Structuration Level'through the deduction of the Giddens 's structuration theory and use it in the explanation of Chinese urban poverty.The 'Structuration Level' consists of four elements,which are'structural regulation','structural resource','personal resource',and\personal awareness'.The paper construct a structural equation model based on the CFPS 2016 cross-section data.Its exogenous latent variable is personal economic relative deprivation,and the endogenous latent variable is personal ' Structuration Level'.After that,a conclusion can be proposed which is the lower personal ' Structuration Level' can resulted to the higher personal economic relative deprivation.Finally this paper chooses the Kunshan city to do case study and draws the conclusion above again.At the same time,this paper shows that the proper method of anti-poverty is the positive intervening.From the anti-poverty policies in Kunshan city,we can draw some experiences and reflections of four aspects,which are surface and point,bottom line and development,flexibility and rigidity,cash-government-finance and service-society-multivariate.