Integration Of Rural Social Order Between Institutional Norm And Non-Institutional Norm

With social transformation and reform,especially the rural reform,as the background,this dissertation focuses on the transformation and the reconstruction of current rural social order.The central point of view of this dissertation is like the following:through sub-institutional integration, the conflicts between institutional order and non-institutional order can be effectively dissolved.Thus the stability of rural society can come into being.Chapter one discourses systematic norm and rural social order.In this dissertation,"Zhidu" refers to institution instead of system.From its very nature,as the fundamental governance method of nation,institutional norm represents national embodiments.From its establishment and origin, institution can be put into three categories:normative behavior standard,constitutional order and institutional arrangement.From a historical perspective,the contemporary rural institution originated from the national institution of new China,or in another word,socialism system of the people's commune.During the course of reform,along with the transformation from planned economy to marketing economy,rural institution is changing to a modern one as well.At the end of this chapter, it comes the conclusion:the rural institution not only has the positive function,but also has the negative function.Chapter two discourses the relation between non-institutional norm and rural social order.Being considered as opposite to the institutional norm,non-institutional norm is a general designation of all the other norms that can't be accepted into the realm of institution.It is more like a negative description of institutional norm than some kind of norm.From its origin,non-institutional norm originated from traditional rite,habit and the rule of family for example.Therefore it has consuetudinary characteristics.Due to the reviving of small-peasant economy and living pattern of village,the rural non-institutional norm emerges as a revival of tradition.Such fact agrees with the living praxis of current Chinese rural society,at the end of this chapter,it comes the conclusion:rural non-institutional norm has positive and negative effect on rural social order.Chapter three is about the praxis of rural institutional norm and non-institutional norm.That is, institutionalization and non-institutionalization of rural social order.In this part,rural institutionalization refers to the process during which rural institutional order gradually produces and functions than to the systemization and routinization of rural social norm.As the basic governance method of nation,the institutionalization of rural social order mainly represents the institutional arrangement of nation in the rural society.The mechanism that drives rural social order to the state of institutionalization mainly contains:the mechanism of power,of service and of rationalization.From the perspective of national governance,the dominance of the institutionalization of rural social order represents like this:non-institutional norm is being put into the state of peripherization.As a result of such dominance,the negative effect of rural institutional norm will be exaggerated,and rural social order will be very likely to be in a mess.Corresponding to the institutionalization of rural social order,the non-institutionalization of rural social order refers to the process during which rural non-institutional norm gradually produces and functions.From the origin of it,the non-institutionalization of rural social order firstly represents as the revival of household and folks tradition.Different from the mechanism of institutionalization, the non-institutionalization of rural social order holds the mechanism of self-identity and mechanism of ethics.From inside the rural society,the dominance of the non-institutionalization of rural social order represents as the boycott and ruining of the non-institutionalization norm to its counterpart. Similar to the dominance of institutionalization of rural social order,the dominance of non-institutionalization of rural social order will arouse plenty of problems.Chapter four discourses the integration of contemporary rural social order.Firstly,through taking the theory of neo-modernization and neo-concept of transformation into this research,the author brings up the idea of sub-institutional integration by interlinkage.Next,from the aspects of peasant's action,the role of standouts in village and the position of the grass-root in the countryside, the author discourses the drive of sub-institutional integration of rural social order.Finally,from the coming of sub-institutional norm,sub-institutional integration by interlinkage of rural social order has two fundamental pattern of praxis:changing custom and the operation of institution.In conclusion,the interlinkage of rural order is the product/result of the transformation of rural social order.Under the interlinking circumstances,rural social order is in the state of sub-health. However,as institutional norm and non-institutional norm are gradually inosculating under the influence of interlinkage,a stable civil society will come into being.