Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Mobility and Attained Social Position

项目负责人：Melvin L. Kohn合作负责人：Yin yue单位：约翰霍普金斯大学项目名称：博士论文研究方向：社会流动与获得的社会地位摘要：本研究项目以中国大多数社会学研究中缺失的城乡流动人口为研究对象，对社会流动和社会结构中地位与人格的关系这两个基本社会过程进行理论解释。本文将探讨以下问题：高度工业化国家发展的一般社会流动模式能否直接适用于农村向城市移民？我们应该重新考虑哪些方面，如何修正现有的模型，以便更全面地理解农村人口向城市流动的过程？是人吗？是在当前制度背景下的社会结构中的当前位置，还是在影响其个性的社会结构中的初始位置，还是两者兼而有之？农村出身会对人们产生永久性的影响吗？S后来的性格？进城农民工的社会结构与人格有何关系？这种关系与城市出身的人的关系不同吗？为了回答这些问题，我们将使用本研究的数据、中国综合社会调查的数据以及Kohn及其合作者在2006年由美国国家科学基金会支持的一项调查的结果和数据，对流动人口与其他适当人群进行比较分析。数据收集将在中国北京进行。将采用地图抽样和正常随机抽样相结合的方法来发现这些农村到城市的移民，并进行定量调查和深入的案例研究。这项研究的结果将通过会议论文和学术出版物传播。这一提出的研究将刺激学者？他有兴趣对中国大多数调查中代表性不足的农村到城市移民进行定量研究。它将为学者和政策制定者提供一个机会，让他们重新思考那些没有包括这部分城市人口的研究结果和结论的局限性。本文的研究结果可以帮助学者和政策制定者更好地了解中国城市流动人口，并帮助他们制定政策来克服对农村流动人口的歧视，这是转型中国最重要的社会问题之一。

PI: Melvin L. Kohn Co-PI: Yin YueInstitution: Johns Hopkins UniversityTitle: Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Mobility and Attained Social PositionAward Number: Abstract:Focusing on rural-to-urban migrants, who were missed in most sociological studies conducted in China, this research project will assess theoretical interpretations of two fundamental social processes: social mobility, and the relationship of position in the social structure to personality. The following questions will be explored: Could the general social mobility models developed in highly industrialized countries be applied directly to the rural-to-urban migrants? What aspects should we reconsider and how should we revise current models to understand the mobility process of rural-to-urban migrants more comprehensively? Is it people?s current positions in the social structure under current institutional setting or their initial positions in the social structure that affects their personalities, or both? Will rural origin have permanent effects on people?s later personality? What are the relationships of social structure and personality for rural migrants to cities? Do such relationships differ from those of people who have urban origins? To answer these questions, comparative analyses will be conducted between the migrants and other appropriate populations, using data of this study, data of China General Social Survey, and the findings and data of an NSF-supported survey conducted by Kohn and his collaborators in 2006. The data collection will be conducted in Beijing, China. A combination of map-sampling and normal random sampling procedures will be used to find these rural-to-urban migrants, and both quantitative survey and intensive case study will be conducted. Results from this research will be disseminated through conference papers and academic publications. This proposed research will stimulate scholars? interest in doing quantitative studies of rural-to-urban migrants who are generally underrepresented in most surveys in China. It will offer scholars and policymakers a chance to rethink the limitations of findings and conclusions from studies that failed to include this segment of urban population. The findings of this research may help scholars and policymakers better understand the migrant population in urban China, and help them in making policies that can overcome discrimination against rural migrants, which is recognized as one of the most crucial social problems in transitional China.