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Studies of Disintegration and Recombination of Social Classes in Modern China
Zhu Guanglei
1998, (5):
12-17.
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Since 1980s disintegration of social classes in china has become a common phenomenon in social life.The historic premises of this social disintegration are the so called “pseudo identity” and chaotic situations in which normal movemnt of social classes are not guided to appropriate channels,while the triggers of it were the start and primary development of economic and political reforms.During the course of social disintegration four major classes have emerged.They are:the basic class(workers and peasants),the rising class(enterprisers and people who work in country enterprises),the renewed class(people who are selfemployed or unemployed),and the marginal class(army men,university graduates,country intellectuals,and cadres in the countryside).The main features of this disintegration are as follows:existence of people with double social identities,strengthening of self-consciousness among people of all classes during the process of disintegration,the problem of “persistency of social status” being raised too early,uncertainty in position of “formal schooling” caused by the rapid pace of social disintegration,as well as the reduction of political difference and increase of economic difference among social classes.Positive influence of disintegration of social classes in China has given impetus to the transformation from“identity” to “contract” of the society,and promoted the process of democracy and construction of the legal system.
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