中国大城市新建中产阶层化现象的供给端解析

中产阶层化是一个多元、复杂、变化的社会空间重构现象。作为我国大城市中产阶层化的主流模态,新建中产阶层化是由政府和资本力量主导,通过拆建实现的社区建成环境改善和社会结构跃升现象。以南京内城为例,分别从政府经营城市、资本循环增值和资源非均衡配置逻辑解读新建中产阶层化的驱动机理,进而从城市空间嬗变、社会阶层分化和被置换群体利益剥夺等方面探讨新建中产阶层化的多重效应,随后在分析中产阶层化模式将由“拆建型”向“侵替型”演进的趋势下,提出未来中产阶层化研究应更多强调供给与需求等多视角的互补与融合,构建符合中国特色的中产阶层化理论模型,并引导中产阶层化社会空间实践走向更加公平与可持续。     

论中国中产阶层的政治参与

中国在传统上是一个农业社会,阶级分化与对立不严重。改革开放以来,随着经济市场化与所有制多样化步伐的不断加快,中国的阶级阶层结构出现了前所未有的变化。在中国传统的产业工人和农民之外,出现了一个新的中产阶层,或者说出现了一个中等收入群体,且这一群体日益壮大,因此关于中国中产阶层的政治参与问题的分析就成为新时代的需要。分析该问题,我们首先面对的是中国中产阶层是否具有阶级或阶层意义上的群体问题、中产阶层在政治参与中会有什么样的选择和举动、中产阶层的政治参与对当前的社会稳定的作用。     

城市中产阶层化研究进展回顾及未来展望

本文在回顾中西方中产阶层化的基础上,总结归纳中产阶层化的基本特征,强调中产阶层化具有周期性及时空性,从古典经济学角度、城市文化以及全球化角度对中产阶层化的理论流派进行研究,分析得出中产阶层化的主要研究内容包括:对中产阶层化的界定、中产阶层化的形成机理、过程、影响以及政府作用的研究,对中国中产阶层化研究未来进行展望,率先明确中国存在中产阶层化时空共轭性;中产阶层第一波普遍性等假设,并指出第二波的中国中产阶层化只有可能发生在某些特大城市中;在中国中产阶层化过程中,要正确处理好原住居民的动迁问题及后续的空间隔离问题。     

中产阶层化过程中的女性社会空间建构研究

20世纪60年代以来,中产阶层化现象逐渐得到学术界的关注。随着女性主义研究和社会运动的兴起,基于女性主义视角的中产阶层化研究日益得到众多地理学者的注意。本文希望将建构主义理论与女性主义地理学研究相结合,将之纳入一般化中产阶层化研究框架之内,继而构建女性主义视角的中产阶层化研究理论构架,以便进一步补充、完善一般中产阶层化理论体系。     

广州市中产阶层日常活动的时空间特征

本文在对广州36个中产阶层聚居区881个中产阶层工作日与休息日活动日志问卷调查的基础上,运用时间地理学相关方法,探讨中产阶层日常活动的时间分配、空间分布和移动性特征。研究发现中产阶层工作日活动节奏清晰,休息日活动破碎化,工作日工作和休闲时间居多,休息日休闲和社交时间为主,不同属性的中产阶层工作日与休息日时间分配存在差异;此外,中产阶层"近家型"非工作空间特征明显,工作日与休息日活动空间分布集聚度最高的是核心商业区;以私家车和步行为主要的日常出行方式,"少次、多目的"的出行结构突出,日常活动空间移动能力较强。上述中产阶层的时空间特征与中低收入者存在明显不同。研究有助于揭示中产阶层的日常生活规律,为提高城市社会经济活力和完善城市精细化管理提供参考。     

边缘化新白领的中产阶层化研究:内容、理论构架与未来

随着国际金融海啸后社会经济矛盾的地理大转移,广大新兴市场化国家内城市新白领阶层的社会经济生境边缘化趋势不可避免。边缘化的新白领必然导致其中产阶层化历程的异化,与常规的中产阶层化特征、机制与社会空间后果相异。本文将新白领及其边缘化中产阶层化机理纳入中产阶层化一般化研究之内,继而构建新白领中产阶层化研究理论构架,以便进一步补充、完善一般中产阶层化理论体系。最终,希望为"十二五"以来面临新转型的中国大城市内城再城市化、更新和转型提供一些发展引导思路。     

“脆弱”的生活想象

过去的30年,中国社会的变化与发展,几乎是跨越式的。私人拥有岛屿,在90年代之后,居然成为现实,据说它已成了富豪阶层,甚至于中产阶层的一种追求和想象。     

大城市中产阶层化与商娱场所的空间结构

自上个世纪70年代随着发达国家"后工业社会"转型以来,中产阶层化现象成为西方发达国家城市问题与空间规划方向的重要研究方面之一,发展至今日,中产阶层化成为了一种全球化的社会与空间现象(Bell,1999)。娱乐作为一种文化现象,可以反映国家生产力水平的高低,是与每个人的生存质量息息相关的领域。因而有关文化休闲娱乐场所的微区位研究也逐渐引起了中外地理学界和社会学界有关学者的极大兴趣。从城市社会空间结构的角度探讨中产阶层生活方式及其消费(娱乐消费)与娱乐场所形成的中产阶层化现象等的社会空间结构。     

刊中人

法国中产阶层的恐慌在法国,中产阶层指年收入在1.4-4.1万欧元之间的人群,约占总人口的50%。此外,法国目前大约有700万人生活在国家所定的贫困线下,即月收入不到700欧元,占人口的13%左右,另外还有3%的人年收     

社会阶层化与城市社会空间的发展及其与城市娱乐业的(空间)关系

基于学术界共识的后工业化大城市社会空间中产阶层化的理念,本文首次提出社会阶层化的概念并指出社会阶层化主要研究在社会阶层的生活行为扩散和变化规律下,所构建的城市日常居住社区体系和日常生活行为场所体系的时空模式,以此探讨城市社会空间结构的变化。研究认为不同城市发展阶段其对应有不同主导阶层的社会阶层化空间结构。进一步从解构城市社会空间结构的演化动态角度,研究不同社会发展阶段下,社会阶层化与城市娱乐产业的对偶空间结构关系。     

Drifting Along or Dropping into Homelessness: A Class Analysis of Responses to Homelessness

Abstract: Prominent assumptions about street homelessness and how it should be addressed originate primarily from middle class domiciled worldviews. This article draws on interviews with 58 street homeless people to develop a typology for explaining different forms of homelessness resulting from differences in class of origin. The concepts of social distance and abjection are used to illustrate how class politics manifests in street homelessness and in responses to this issue. Many of our homeless participants referred to two broad groupings of homeless people who display distinct experiences and cultures in their daily lives on the streets. Drifters are people who do not experience homelessness as a sharp disjuncture from their previously housed life. Street homelessness is a continuation of the hardships of their lower class backgrounds. Droppers are people who have “fallen” on hard times and aspire to return to mainstream middle class lifeworlds. Differentiating between these two groups provides a space for defamiliarizing dominant understandings of, and current generic responses to, homelessness and foregrounds the need for reorienting services to better meet the needs of drifters.     

灵宝西坡遗址家猪的年龄结构及相关问题

本文根据河南灵宝市西坡遗址仰韶文化中期家猪的年龄结构,探讨中原早期复杂社会中心聚落的家畜饲养策略。猪的年龄结构表明,西坡聚落很可能为自给自足的家猪饲养与消费模式。专业化的动物生产、分配和消费可能在西坡这样的早期复杂社会中还没有出现。从自给自足到专业化的家畜饲养策略的变化,很可能发生在后来的与日益发展的政治、经济和社会复杂化密切相关的社会历史阶段。     

新中农崛起后中共阶级政策的调整

土地改革后中国农村社会结构最突出的变化是,大多数贫雇衣上升为新中农,农村普遍出现了中农化趋向.新中衣的崛起及农村社会结构的变化,引起了中共中央的高度重视,经过时新中农这一阶层的定性分析,中共在制定合作化运动的阶级政策时,将新中农中间的下中农作为依靠对象,而将其中的上中农列为团结对象.本文主要依靠1950年代大量调查报告、工作汇报及其他文献资料,对土改后新中农的崛起及农材中农化趋势进行细致考察,揭示社会结构变动时中共阶级政策的深刻影响,借以说明土改后党的阶级政策不断调整的合理依据及其调整中的利弊得失.     

The Production of Commons and the “Explosion” of the Middle Class

Abstract: This paper builds on the author's previous theoretical work on the role of processes such as enclosures, market discipline and governance. It discusses the middle class in terms of a stratified field of subjectivity within the planetary wage hierarchy produced by these processes. It discusses the thesis that the middle class, qua middle class, will never be able to contribute to bring about a fundamental change in the capitalist system of livelihood reproduction. The production in common centered on middle class values—however historically and culturally specific they are—is always production in common within the system. Our common action as middle class action, whether as consumers, workers, or citizens, reproduces the system of value and value hierarchy that is the benchmark, the referent point for our cooperation. The paper then discusses some of the implications of the conundrum faced by those who seek alternatives: there will be no “beginning of history” without the middle class, nor there will be one with the middle class.     

"斯迈尔斯神话":19世纪英国社会对工业家起源的认识

"斯迈尔斯神话"是19世纪英国社会关于工业家起源的普遍认识,即认为在工业革命中涌现的工业家们大多是践行了"自助"原则的"自我塑造者"。这种认识的产生和流传既有一定的社会现实基础,也与工业家阶层有意识的"创造"和"宣扬"分不开。对工业家的起源所进行的计量史学研究发现,他们主要来自中等阶级,而不是劳工阶级,从而揭示了"神话"的可信性。作为一种社会认识,"斯迈尔斯神话"是中等阶级为工业财富寻求合法性辩护的意识形态工具,对19世纪英国社会其他阶层的观念和英国的现代化进程也产生了深刻影响。     

新中农的崛起:土改后农村社会结构的新变动

土地改革后,中国农村社会结构发生了重大变动,其中最突出的现象是大多数贫雇农上升为新中农,农村普遍出现了中农化趋向,农村社会结构从“下边大上边小”的“宝塔式”结构,转为“中间大两头小”的“纺锤形”结构,这种社会结构变动对中共阶级政策产生了深刻影响。     

LIFE‐CYCLE CHANGES IN CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR: AGE‐SPECIFIC AND REGIONAL VARIATIONS*

ABSTRACT: While research conducted over the last two decades has pointed to the important role played by household consumption in regional economic models, little attention has been directed to the consumption impacts associated not only with income changes, but also life‐cycle changes. Using Japanese data, this paper explores some of the implications of life‐cycle changes on consumption behavior using a modified AIDS (Almost Ideal Demand System) estimation system. Testing is directed to differences in age‐specific consumption behavior and the potential differences in consumption by age and province.     

Unpacking the ‘Emergent Farmer’ Concept in Agrarian Reform: Evidence from Livestock Farmers in South Africa

South Africa has historically perpetuated a dual system of freehold commercial and communal subsistence farming. To bridge these extremes, agrarian reform policies have encouraged the creation of a class of ‘emergent’, commercially oriented farmers. However, these policies consider ‘emergent’ farmers as a homogeneous group of land reform beneficiaries, with limited appreciation of the class differences between them, and do little to support the rise of a ‘middle’ group of producers able to bridge that gap. This article uses a case study of livestock farmers in Eastern Cape Province to critique the ‘emergent farmer’ concept. The authors identify three broad categories of farmers within the emergent livestock sector: a large group who, despite having accessed private farms, remain effectively subsistence farmers; a smaller group of small/medium‐scale commercial producers who have communal farming origins and most closely approximate to ‘emergent’ farmers; and an elite group of large‐scale, fully commercialized farmers, whose emergence has been facilitated primarily by access to capital and a desire to invest in alternative business ventures. On this basis the authors suggest that current agrarian reform policies need considerable refocusing if they are to effectively facilitate the emergence of a ‘middle’ group of smallholder commercial farmers from communal systems.     

Refinement and Respectable Consumption: the Acceptable Face of Women's Smoking in Britain, 1918–1970

This article examines British women's magazines and the insights that they can provide into the relationships between social class, gender and respectable feminine consumption. The discussion focuses on magazine representations of women who smoked cigarettes in the years between 1918 and 1970 with particular attention to the period up to 1950. Magazine images reveal the visual parameters of respectable smoking for women between 1918 and 1970 and the centrality of refinement to respectable consumption. However, while respectable smoking was always visibly associated with refinement, the absence of working‐class smokers 1918–1970 suggests that smoking was visibly inconsistent with refined and respectable working‐class femininity.