明代社会流动性初探

本文从官方的户籍控制,人口的分化与等级制度的解体,以及客籍、附籍的出现诸方面,对明代中期以后的社会流动性进行了考察.文章认为,明代社会是一个具有相当流动性的社会.社会流动的形式,既有地域之间的人口流动,又有社会阶层之间的流动,而这种社会阶层之间的流动,又包括向上与向下两种流动方式.社会流动的加剧,则显示出晚明社会正好处于一个转型时期.

A preliminary study of social mobility in the Ming Dynasty

This article focuses on the controls of the census register from the government and the disintegration of the population and the social estate system,and the appearance of the nonnative and transient population(keji,fuji)and concludes with an analysis of social mobility in late Ming China.The author think that there was a social mobility trend in the society.The form of social mobility included the population mobility between the different region and the mobility between the social stratum,and social mobility of upward and downward.There was becoming a social change in late Ming Dynasty.