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Social Transition And Lifestyle Changes Of Miao In Xijiang During Modernization

Posted on:2013-02-09Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z Z FeiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119330371480656Subject:Sociology
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As one of the themes in our era, Modernization is the starting point, and the foothold of the current academic study, and also the important research propositions. During the modernization due to the reform and opening up after more than 30 years, China have been in the social transition period, and the academic field also put forward the theory of social transformation to summarize these change picture. In the process of modernization, the social transformation in border, ethnic minority and tourism culture development areas have some typicality and particularity, where these local people's lifestyle changes have been revealed by the perspective of the science and technology products of daily life.There is the qualitative research method used in the thesis, through the field survey including the participant observation and the depth interview, research materials have been collected. The paper has taken the Xijiang as a case, to these local people in middle-aged as respondents, and has thought that the urban mobility of Miao and rural tourism development in Xijiang has been known as an important factor of the modernization. These local people's lifestyle changes and the different aspects of theory problems due to these changes have been analyzed through the perspective of the cell phone; as a result the question of rural social transformation and development during the modernization has been discussed.There has been some clips in the process of modernization in Xijiang described in the first part, aiming to draw two important influence factors to the local social life changes, namely Miao urban mobility and rural tourism development, and pointing out the question about the future of the Xijiang;There has been seven aspects of lifestyle of Miao in the second part, which have taken Miao urban mobility and rural tourism development as the basis, and taken the process of Miao domesticating cell phone as logical clues, and from different sides answered the questions regarding modernization and the theory of modernity;Finally in the third part, I have taken the theory of social transformation as the foundation, and got together theory problems extracted from different aspects of social life changes, further thinking the question of rural social transformation and development during the modernization.The basic conclusion:1. Miao urban mobility and rural tourism development have become the main power to local social life changes; 2. Mobile phone gradually has come into Xijiang and taken participate in a series of lifestyle changes; 3. Through the influence of Miao urban mobility, rural tourism development and cell phone, the social life changes have deduced the modernization of Xijiang and the modernity of Miao. Based on this, the theory of social transformation has been discussed.
Keywords/Search Tags:Modernization, Social Transformation, Social Changes, Xijiang Miao, MobilePhone
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