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Folk Belief And Social Integration In The Region

Posted on:2017-05-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L C CaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2347330491456649Subject:Sociology
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Folk religion is an important part of Chinese traditional culture, it has a strong vitality in rural societies, especially in the nearly thirties, as the country blanking force in rural areas, folk beliefs violent activity recovery, and is becoming a trend. Thus, through the study of folk beliefs of rural society, to fully explore the significance of folk beliefs and rural communities collusion, to better understand the rural society, promoting better integration of rural society.With the development of society, rural society is gradually breaking the complacency of the state, the occurrence of extensive contacts with the outside world. In this process, with the rapid changes in the social structure in rural areas, social culture, the era of top-down planning system of mandatory integration model can not play the original integration, gradually disintegrate, and new integration mechanisms not yet been established. Due to the lack of integration, leading to the current rural social existence many social problems, such as lack of social morality, social trust is low and indifferent relationships, etc., therefore, an urgent need to find new rural social integration of forces to maintain social stability in rural areas. Durkheim thought integration, the common moral and collective emotions are the key to maintaining social stability, and in China's rural society, rooted in the historical practice of the people, reflect the collective wisdom of the people not only carries the folk beliefs of the people moral values, embodied people's collective emotion, and in the process of revival, people are given a new meaning, in a broader sense associated with people's lives. Based on this, this paper attempts to explore contemporary social environment, how to promote the integration of folk beliefs of rural society.Research will be placed in a specific folk beliefs villages studied folk beliefs and cultural background of the village is the current mainstream academic research ideas. Therefore, we selected the village as H investigation sites, and folk religion activities H Village systematic study, and participated in different subjects according to their beliefs, the village folk belief into faith activities H activity of the individual, clan faith faith Events, organization, beliefs village four types of activities, the specific activity is to explore how these four beliefs action to integrate these two mechanisms to integrate institutional integration and identity, and promote social integration villages. The research shows that the concept of the people, the folk belief activities are not just a simple belief activity, while it is a living tool, a code of ethics, an emotional bond, a symbolic sign. It is not only in the world of faith among the people, but also into people's daily life, and people's lives are intertwined, mutual influence, in different forms and to promote the integration of village society.
Keywords/Search Tags:Folk beliefs, social integration, village
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