摘要
在世界各地的现代化进程中,阶级阶层的变动尤其是中产阶级的兴起和壮大是一个具有普遍意义的现象。十九世纪的美国、欧洲社会是如此,二十世纪包括中国在内的东亚社会也是如此,中产阶级的兴起已经成为后现代语境中的一个世界性话题。本文以东亚现代化和中国的改革开放为背景,分析了中国中产阶级的发生和社会构成,提出中国中产阶级不仅是工业化和现代化的产物,更重要的是社会转型的结果。因为当代中国社会的政治特点,使得中国中产阶级在政治上的后卫性和消费上的前卫性尤为明显。最后,我们还从中国的经济发展、社会结构和意识形态诸方面入手,探讨了中产阶级的成长和中国社会的未来。
In the process of modernization, changes in class and social stratification, especially the rising and increasing of middle class, have been a universal significant phenomenon. Societies of America and Europe in the nineteenth century were in this way, so do Eastern Asian countries and China during modernization, reform and opening-up respectively. This paper analyses emergency and social structure of the middle class in China, and points out it is not only a product of industrialization and modernization, but also an important result of social transformation. Owing to traits of modern Chinese politics, middle class in China is evidently a vanguard in consumption and a rearguard in politics as well. At the end of this paper, the author also discusses the relationship of the rising of middle class and future of Chinese society according to economical development, social structure and ideology.
出处
《江苏社会科学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2002年第6期37-45,共9页
Jiangsu Social Sciences
关键词
中产阶级
社会转型
社会功能
middle class
social transformation
social function
