国外社会升级研究进展及对中国的启示

社会升级研究的兴起源于经济全球化带来的经济升级不能产生相应的社会升级,是对联合国2030可持续发展目标(SDG)之"体面劳动与经济增长"目标的响应.为弥补国内地理学偏重经济升级而忽视社会升级的研究不足,本文系统梳理了国际上社会升级研究的主要进展,对其概念、理论基础和主要研究议题开展了分析.认为当前社会升级研究方兴未艾,...

A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ON SOCIAL UPGRADING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA

The rise of social upgrading research has been stimulated by the emerging fact that economic upgrading driven by economic globalization failed to concurrently bring about social upgrading. It is also an academic response to the goal of Decent Work and Economic Growth as the 8^th one of the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goal. Much attention has been paid to economic upgrading in domestic geographies with rare concern on social upgrading. To fix this gap and promote social upgrading research in China, this paper reviews the research on social upgrading in international academic communities by examining its concept, theoretical basis and key research topics. It is argued that although the current research on social upgrading has been in the ascendant, the key question on how social upgrading can occur has not been fully theorized. The paper concludes by discussing implications for social upgrading research in China, calling for the research on regional patterns of social upgrading, geographical coupling processes of social upgrading factors, and informal workers. Efforts need to be invested to explore institutional arrangements helpful for social upgrading to solve the problem of uneven development in the process of economic marketization in China.