The Reorganization Of Tujia Rural Social Relations Under The Influence Of WeChat

With the penetration of social media into daily communication in rural areas,the entry of each social media,from telephone,QQ to WeChat,has brought great changes to rural social relations,not only at the communication level,but also at the social structure level.The rural social relationship is a reflection of the rural social order.The new media and the market economy's occupation of the rural society has affixed more and more modern symbols to the rural social relationship,and the change of the rural social relationship has imperceptibly reshaped the rural social order and structure.This paper combines the phenomenon of "Weddings or funeralst" helping with WeChat in qingganglin bay village of Tujia ethnic group to explore the influence of WeChat on the rural social relations of minority ethnic groups,and then thinks about the reorganization of these influences on the rural social relations.Along the research train of thought,the author uses the participatory observation and depth interview two research ways,in order to get firsthand material,combination of data and theory,the article will WeChat hit,with blood,geopolitical and form of the traditional rural social relationship,and its relationship with most representativeness of the phenomenon-"funerals" together to carry on the analysis,study:WeChat has changed the way villagers socialize in qingganglin bay.In the past,the rural society was an acquaintance society created by blood and geographical relations.Now,under the impact of the new media WeChat,it is more and more open and modern,presenting the characteristics of"semi-acquaintance society".Villages in ethnic minority areas do not fully accept the invasion brought by the new media as described in the "magic bullet theory",but the impact is more like the silent infiltration of things.After the popularization of WeChat,people's communication mode has changed from the previous village head small gathering,going from house to house,to the present WeChat group has a building up of the way of talking,circle of friends comment and thumb up.WeChat,to a certain extent,enables qingganglin bay villagers to run the four social relations of blood,geography,business relationship and strangers in parallel,which is different from the traditional pattern of difference.WeChat weakens traditional rural social relations.Rural social relationship is with cultural change and change of rural society,villagers QingGangLin bay on the one hand,through the market culture erosion,follow the wave of social steep profits,and the influence of traditional culture on the other hand,follow the tujia local folk customs,and so they will have in sigh WeChat weaken rural social relations and immersion behavior,this kind of contradiction.Traditional social relations by modern factors become weakened,even under the modern multiple interests overlap guidance,construction of social relations is still dominated by interests,human as the core,so although WeChat constructed a new type of social relations in rural social kinship relations in present more and more important role,but blood ties especially in close relations is the main part of the current rural social relations.The behavior structure of this paper is divided into five chapters:The first chapter is mainly composed of three parts,the first is to discuss the reason and significance of the topic,the second is the research overview of rural social relations,and the last is some overview of the research process.The second chapter is the basic information of qingganglin bay village and the use of WeChat.The third chapter mainly reflects the characteristics of rural social relations in "Weddings or funerals" from three aspects of blood,geography and industrial relationship,and demonstrates the influence of WeChat on social relations in qingganglin bay village through empirical analysis.The fourth chapter mainly discusses the changes of rural social relations under the influence of WeChat and analyzes the possible causes of the changes.The fifth chapter is mainly the demonstration of the research results and the summary of the lack of research.