Formation of a Middle Class? Social Cohesion in Rural Morocco

中产阶级的形成？

• 批准号: 491807768
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Jörg Gertel
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Geographie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/491807768?language=en
• 关键词: Formation; Middle; Class; Social; Cohesion

The proposed project deals with processes of social formation in rural North Africa. Knowledge about rural areas in this region has been largely inadequate to date, as evidenced in particular by the reappraisal of recent protest movements in North Africa, which often had their starting point in marginalized provincial towns. In this project, the encounter of neoliberal globalization processes with agricultural livelihood systems will be examined with regard to social transformations. In particular, the effects on the cohesion of society will be examined. The focus is on an agro-pastoral community on the northern slopes of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco: the municipality of Asni. For the local society, whose members were largely homogeneous until the 1970s and made their living predominantly as farmers and mobile livestock keepers, fundamental and diverse processes of societal differentiation have since emerged, giving rise to new forms of work, investment, interactions, and institutions. Three guiding questions structure the study: (1) What processes of distinction take place in this rural area? (2) To what extent are new lifestyles and milieus forming, manifesting themselves in new middle-class structures? (3) Is upward social mobility necessarily accompanied by socio-economic polarization? The project is part of a longitudinal historical investigation. It builds on its own 20 years of preliminary work, while the research of the Moroccan cooperation partners goes back to the 1980s and the first available study on the community is almost one hundred years old (1928).

拟议的项目涉及北非农村的社会形成过程。迄今为止，对该地区农村地区的了解在很大程度上是不充分的，特别是对北非最近的抗议运动的重新评估证明了这一点，这些抗议运动往往是从边缘化的省级城镇开始的。在这个项目中，新自由主义全球化进程与农业生计系统的相遇将在社会转型方面进行审查。特别是，将审查对社会凝聚力的影响。项目的重点是摩洛哥阿特拉斯山脉北坡的一个农牧社区：阿斯尼市。直到20世纪70年代，当地社会的成员基本上都是同质的，主要以农民和流动牲畜饲养者为生，此后出现了基本的、多样化的社会分化过程，产生了新的工作、投资、互动和制度形式。三个指导性问题构成了本文的研究结构：(1)这个农村地区发生了怎样的分化过程？(2)新的生活方式和环境在多大程度上形成并体现在新的中产阶级结构中？(3)社会向上流动是否必然伴随着社会经济两极分化？该项目是纵向历史调查的一部分。它建立在自己20年的初步工作的基础上，而摩洛哥合作伙伴的研究可以追溯到20世纪80年代，关于该社区的第一个可用的研究几乎有100年的历史（1928年）。