A Study On The Impact Of Family Capital On The Class Identity Of Youth Group

As a subjective perception,class identity is also a subjective reflection of the objective social stratification structure,which is closely related to social harmony and stable development.When previous studies explored the impact of various objective factors on class identity,they mostly started from four analysis paths: structural status theory,historical and cultural theory,state-centered theory,and elite instigation theory.Under the "family standard" Chinese society,family and individual are particularly closely connected,with the social reality of reform and opening up and the acceleration of social mobility,based on the current social development status,this paper takes the youth group,the backbone of social development,as the research object,and introduces family capital into the framework of class identity analysis.Based on the six-period data of China General Social Survey(CGSS)from 2010 to2017,this paper divides the family capital into four dimensions,through statistical analysis to explore the impact of family capital on the identification of youth group,and to examine whether this impact has changed with social change,and based on the gender perspective and the situation of urban-rural dichotomy,this paper examines the gender heterogeneity and urban-rural heterogeneity of this impact respectively,In addition,in order to examine the expectations of the youth group for their own class status in the future,the future class identification expectation is used as a dependent variable to examine the influence of family capital on it.Finally,combined with the important status of education in Chinese society and the social reality of education popularization and university enrollment expansion,the individual education level is used as a moderator variable to examine whether there is a moderating effect.The study found that family capital has a significant positive impact on the class identity of the youth group,the richer the family capital,the higher the class identity level of the youth group;From 2010 to 2017,the influence of family capital on the class identity of the youth group has changed over time.Specifically,the role of family economic capital in promoting the class identity of the youth group has decreased.However,the role of family social capital and family political capital in promoting class identity has increased;There are gender differences in the impact of family capital on the class identity of youth group.Compared with female youth,family economic capital has a stronger impact on the class identity of male youth;There is no significant difference in the effect of family capital on the identity of the youth class between urban and rural youth;Family capital has a significant positive impact on the future class identity expectations of young people,that is to say,young people with rich family capital not only have higher class identity at present,but also have more optimistic expectations of their own status in the future;The education level has no moderating effect on the influence of family capital on the youth group’s class identity,that is,the role of family capital in promoting the current class identity of the youth group has not been weakened as expected with the increase of educational level,and the education level of the individual plays a moderating role in the influence of the family capital on the future class identity expectation of the youth group,higher levels of education can weaken the positive impact of the family capital on the future class identity expectations of the youth group.The research results show that the decline of the traditional family structure and the advancement of the individualization process have not completely separated the class identity of the youth group from the family,and the ascribed factors still have an important impact on the class status cognition of Chinese youth,even in the future will continue to affect the status of youth identity for a long time.Although there is no significant difference in the impact of family capital on the class identity of urban and rural youth under the Urban-Rural Segmentation,the heterogeneity of this influence in gender still exists.At the same time,education as an important way of social class transition has not weakened the positive influence of family capital on the class identity of youth group.It can be said that the effect of education on the promotion of individual class status is not as obvious as in the past,but the significance of education for the promotion of social status in Chinese society still exists,a high level of education enables young people to have a positive expectation of their future social class status.Reforms should be further deepened,the social mobility mechanism should be improved,the class monopoly caused by the ascribed factors should be reduced,and the class identity structure of the youth group should be optimized.This can better play the role of the youth group as the mainstay of social development,thereby promoting the sustainable and healthy development of socialist modernization.