U.S.-China Cooperative Research (Sociology): Status Attain-ment in a Chinese Urban Area

这是杜克大学社会学教授南林与天津市社会科学院社会学研究所所长潘云康中国为期两年的合作项目。它将建立在1985年在中国的第三大城市天津进行的初步研究的基础上。它是由美国国家科学基金会和天津社会科学院联合主办的。调查人员将对2,000名年龄在18岁至60岁之间的在职男女进行抽样调查，试图确定中国人是如何寻找和找到工作的。这些人自1949年(中华人民共和国中国成立)以来进入劳动力大军。调查人员认为，对中国人来说，进入“合适的”工作单位比找到“好”工作更重要。“正确”的工作单位往往在国有部门，由中央政府直接管辖。被称为集体部门的其他较低级别政府下属的工作单位往往不那么有声望，因为它们支付的工资更少，晋升更少，附带福利更少，相对于国有工作单位的权威也更小。调查人员将检验以下假设：(1)男性比女性更有可能进入国家部门和工作单位，(2)在进入国有部门时，男性比女性更有可能得到家人(父母和亲戚)的帮助；(3)男性比女性更有可能通过家庭关系找到社会关系进入国有部门。这项研究将加深我们对当代中国社会社会关系的理解，当代中国社会正在经历快速的经济和社会变革。它还将有助于在不同的社会和文化中进行比较(例如，与北美和欧洲国家进行比较)，以了解人们如何在事业上取得成功。。U2。

This is a two.year collaborative project between Nan Lin, Professor of Sociology, Duke University, and Pan Yunkang, Director of the Institute of Sociology of the Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences, Tianjin, China. It will build upon a preliminary study conducted in 1985 in Tianjin, China's third largest city. It is sponsored jointly by the NSF and the Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences. The investigators will try to determine how Chinese search for and find jobs by conducting a sample survey of 2,000 presently employed males and females between the ages of 18 and 60 who have entered the labor force since 1949 (the founding of the People's Republic of China). The >investigators have assumed that it is more important for the Chinese to enter into the "right" work units than to find "good" jobs. The "right" work units tend to be in the state sector, under the direct jurisdiction of the central government. The work units under other, lower.level governments, called the collective sector, tend to be less prestigious because they pay less, have fewer promotions, have less fringe benefits, and have less authority relative to the state.owned work units. The investigators will test the following hypotheses: (1) males rather than females are more likely to enter into the state sector and work units, (2) males are more likely than females to be helped by their family (parents and relatives) than females in getting into the state sector, (3) males are more likely than females to find social connections through family ties to enter into the state sector. The study will increase our understanding of social connections in contemporary Chinese society, which is undergoing rapid economic and social change. It will also help make comparisons across different societies and cultures (e.g., comparing with North American and European countries) as to how people move ahead successfully in their careers. . U2.